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Your AI agent's biggest bug isn't the model. It's the plumbing.
Hatchet runs 170M tasks a day across 1,000+ projects, each starting in ~25ms. Fresh $5.7M seed from two ex-YC CTOs.
@hatchet_dev, founder @abelanger5
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300,000 combat missions.
That's the track record behind UFORCE's $700M Series A at a $6B valuation.
Most defense startups pitch prototypes. @uforce_global is selling allies a drone stack proven over Ukraine, at under $5,000 per effect.
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A barge the size of a city block. Anchored offshore. Packed with AI chips and cooled by the sea.
That's Atomarine's pitch. A $19M seed led by Y Combinator, a gas-powered pilot by 2028, nuclear power ships after that.
No land fight. No grid queue.
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$28B traded in under two years.
@fomo made a social feed the trading app:
625K users in June. 3.2M by November.
$94M raised from Benchmark, Index and USV.
Cofounder @paulerlanger's bet: the next trader opens a feed, not a terminal.
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A $50M seed. For a number.
Index Industries is building a daily U.S. Home Price Index, then the rails to tokenize it so investors can trade housing without buying a house.
Lightspeed led. CEO @JReedRosenthal was Polychain's president. @Index_inds
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The worst part of a colonoscopy is the night before.
Boston Medical Sciences wants AI to do the prep instead. Its software digitally strips residue from CT scans, no laxatives, then flags polyps.
$37.6M Series B. Already in the FDA's TAP pilot.
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The hardest robot buyer in America won't let your data leave the building.
Nidus built for them: AI that steers standard arms through wire-harness assembly in defense plants, on-prem.
$1M+ booked in 4 months. $30M raised, Kleiner led. CEO @jsealynyc
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$120M raised. Founded last year.
Daylight's AI agents now run threat detection and response for LastPass, Miro and Lovable. Humans only get the hard cases.
Goldman led the $80M Series B. @DaylightSec, CEO @hagaishapira
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Your AI agent found the shoes, picked the size, filled the cart.
Then it choked at checkout.
Agentcard owns that last click: your card sits in a vault, the agent never sees the number, you approve with Face ID.
$8M seed. @agentcardhq @keyserfaty
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They built Microsoft's data engine. Now they're competing with it.
Four Kusto veterans just launched @edelbyte_io with $70M raised in a single day.
The bet: AI agents query far more data than people do, and today's stacks can't afford it.
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An insurer, a defense prime, and Aurora's CEO all backed the same startup.
Edge Case Research doesn't build self-driving trucks. It builds the proof they're safe.
Its Guardian platform makes safety continuous, not a one-time audit. @EdgeCaseRes
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She ran a high-frequency trading fund. Now she sells the data to everyone else.
Databento: $100M at a $1.1B valuation, 39 employees, no sales team.
Five of the six biggest frontier AI labs are customers, per @DatabentoHQ. CEO: @christinaqi.
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Your supplier's price is just an opinion.
Atmospheric AI modeled 50,000 factories to compute what plastic resin should cost, and the carbon baked in.
$10.1M seed led by DBL Partners. CEO @RoeeGoldberg wants buyers doing the math, not taking the quote.
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One researcher. $10M of compute. 3.5 months.
That's how Mirendil says it trained its coding model from scratch.
Now @mirendil has a $1B Series A from Kleiner and Clearlake to sell the agent platform. CEO @bneyshabur is ex-Anthropic and DeepMind.
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A former Kleiner partner lived the autism diagnosis wait as a parent.
So he built the fix.
Frontera Health, from FBN co-founder @ad42878: AI reads therapy video at 30 fps and helps halve diagnostic report time.
$32M seed. Lux + Lightspeed.
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Jam the GPS. The drone still knows where it is.
That's the wedge for @se3_ai, a TUM computer vision spinout, already shipping thousands of systems.
CEO Lukas Köstler (@KoestlerLukas, ex Tesla Autopilot) just closed a $30M Series A led by Accel.
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Drone builders buy propulsion in four pieces.
Vertiq sells it as one: motor, speed controller, sensors and firmware in one module. Its 81-08 G2 was the first motor-and-ESC combo listed on DIU's Blue UAS Framework.
Seed stage, about $4.26M raised.
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Forget water. Cool the AI chip with a laser.
Maxwell Labs turns chip heat into light. Solid-state: no pumps, no coolant loops. Sandia National Labs is fabricating the devices.
$5.2M Series A, about $10.7M raised so far. @mxllabs
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$0 to $10M run rate in five months.
5 trillion AI tokens a month.
20+ compute sites, 4 continents.
Up to 20% off the inference bill.
OpenRelay sends each request to the cheapest chip that fits. $10M seed for @OpenRelayInc and co-founder @jadenswang.
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The most urgent alarm in a hospital isn't always a patient's.
Canopy makes a wearable panic badge that tells security exactly where a nurse is. WellSpan reported 66% fewer violence-related injuries in a year.
$22M Series B. @Canopy_Works
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