Co-Founder @SpateNYC (YC S18). Started Trendspotting at Google. BoF Future Voice. Tamagotchi record breaker. Hand model. That’s about it.
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Spotting trends was just the beginning; Vogue Business explores the insights that Spate is able to provide using machine intelligence.
🙏 @maghanmcd & #VogueBusiness!
Having lots of data isn’t really helpful for “listening to the customer,” which is why @spatenyc is so interesting. It measures the “consciousness of the internet” to inform clients what to make, and when. My latest for #VogueBusiness voguebusiness.com/technology…
For all those concerned that ai will kill taste... don't worry, affiliate networks on tiktok already did that.
Yarden Horwitz retweeted
Today we are excited to release Artios, a fully open source system for designing functional de novo enzymes.
Enzymes present a new frontier for de novo protein design models due to the challenge of coordinating precise chemistry, rather than binding a target.
Enzymes are life’s biological machines and by designing them we can truly start to engineer biology.
We believe these fundamental capabilities should be built in the open and shared with the community to progress science faster.
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Yarden Horwitz retweeted
. @ycombinator women had a WEEK:
- Knowtex (@CarolineCZhang + @Jocelynrice27) won a VA prime award;
- @saradu launched Ando with $20M;
- @kanjun launched Imbue Studio;
- @ekuyda shipped Wabi 2.0; @luanalopeslara made TIME100 Next.
More here: ycwomensalum.substack.com/p/…
Thanks for the roundup, @yarden!
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@ycombinator women leading innovation this week🚀
thanks @yarden & @byAnhtho for the contract shout-out!
. @ycombinator women had a WEEK:
- Knowtex (@CarolineCZhang + @Jocelynrice27) won a VA prime award;
- @saradu launched Ando with $20M;
- @kanjun launched Imbue Studio;
- @ekuyda shipped Wabi 2.0; @luanalopeslara made TIME100 Next.
More here: ycwomensalum.substack.com/p/…
Thanks for the roundup, @yarden!
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Breaking NEWS!
@knowtexai is Named Prime Awardee on @DeptVetAffairs $775 Million Contract - available to VA medical centers and clinics nationwide.
This is the largest public enterprise commitment to ambient #AI in #American #healthcare.
Honored. ❤️🤍💙
globenewswire.com/news-relea…
Is anyone selling insurance for agents yet... like, in case my agents one day decide to turn on me and destroy my life. Is there insurance for that yet?
Yarden Horwitz retweeted
Today, we're introducing idler – a frontier data research lab.
We've raised a $9M seed round, led by @0xalpo and @FrankieIsLost from @paradigm, with participation from @ycombinator, @LongJourneyVC, and angels including @marrc, @catheryn_li, @dcposch, @JanineLeger, @LynettCapital, @feross, and @nur_daulet_.
This funding helps us build the evals, benchmarks, and reinforcement learning environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to train and measure their models.
Yarden Horwitz retweeted
Every woman in my life who I've told about this product wants one
Pre-orders open today!
Everyone owns skincare products, but nobody knows what's actually working.
Today, @theantheaguo and I launch @lumeriaskin (YC S26) to end that.
The Lumoscope is a multispectral camera that clips onto your phone and scans your skin at home with the same light used in clinics, so you see what a mirror can't: a breakout days before it surfaces, and sun damage years before it shows.
Every scan is scored on hydration, redness, texture, and sebum, and it compounds into a record of your own skin. Lumi reads that history, connects flare-ups to causes you'd never suspect, and matches products to YOUR data, instead of a population average.
Preorders are officially open today at $199 only until Aug 16th. Starting today, skincare will no longer feel like guessing. ☀️
Yarden Horwitz retweeted
We applied to @ycombinator 30 seconds before the deadline, had 5 major typos we couldn't edit after, and watched people on X get interviews within days while we heard nothing (thought it was joever).
1 month later, I was booking a highly overpriced, last minute flight to be in SF for <24 hours to interview with @bosmeny and @borisjabes!
And now, we're more than 1 month into grinding out the S26 batch :)
F26 applications are due tonight. Apply, no matter how rough the application is or how late! You never know what kind of miracles happen overnight.
Attached is the 67th take of our founder video in my Berkeley dorm common room (had a resident ask why she heard the same script a million times across 4 days). Your journey can truly start anywhere :p
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We raised $72M from Sequoia/YC and hit 8-figures in ARR. Then we shut it all down & rebuilt the company from scratch.
Today we’re launching the new Mutiny: the first AI agent for GTM teams to create anything customer-facing, in minutes.
Comment "Mutiny" to get 3X free credits.
Yarden Horwitz retweeted
When Saga led @profound's seed, we expected huge things from @thejamescad and @dbabbs, but we couldn't imagine this level of success so quickly.
Every company in the world should be using Profound.
Today, @profound is excited to announce our $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by @lightspeedvp with participation from @sequoia, @kleinerperkins, @mattevantic, @saga_ventures and @spc.
When we started Profound 18 months ago, we had two fundamental beliefs about where marketing is heading:
1. Every company will care deeply about how AI talks about their brand.
2. Every marketer will use AI Agents to do their best work, faster.
Those beliefs are becoming reality faster than we imagined.
Now, we serve more than 10% of the Fortune 500 and are the number 1 leader on the G2 grid for AEO.
To double down on that momentum, we’re taking two big swings:
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: AI workers that take marketing teams from concept to execution.
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆: certifications and cohort-based learning for marketers who want stay at the forefront of AI marketing.
Reply with 𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧 for free access to one of our most popular agents. No account required and no strings attached.
Yarden Horwitz retweeted
BREAKING: We just raised $100M at @eightsleep to build the AI that finally fixes sleep.
For decades, sleep has been passive. You lie down, close your eyes, and hope for the best. We’re changing that.
Over 1B hours of biometric sleep data → distilled into fully autonomous AI that knows your body better than you do.
We will do this in two ways:
Step 1: Your personal Sleep Agent, running infinite nightly scenarios before they happen to deliver the most restorative sleep your body is capable of.
Step 2: Thousands of Longevity Twins simulating potential health outcomes based on your data to help you live a longer and healthier life.
Eight Sleep is becoming the operating system for sleep and longevity.
Human life will never be the same again.
Watch my full interview with @andrewrsorkin on @SquawkCNBC here
Yarden Horwitz retweeted
Today's launch is very exciting. It proves that even as the company grows, we continue to operate as a lean startup:
1) Pursue our mission of making the world sleep fit
2) Listen to our users (even the smaller segments who may be less vocal but are extremely satisfied with our product)
3) Deliver solutions to user problems
This is also personal. I get to bring to life products and features that will help women sleep better, across all stages of our lives. And we are starting today by tackling hot flashes during sleep.
Learn more at eightsleep.com/hot-flash
For too long, women’s sleep has been overlooked. And we decided to change that.
Today, we launch the Women’s Sleep Initiative, our long-term investment in understanding how women sleep and building features that actually work for them.
We started by fixing hot flashes and we built the first “fast cooling mode” for nighttime relief. And it works: with 8 out of 10 women finding relief within 10 minutes. A 97% user satisfaction score.
This is just the beginning. Now available on the latest version of the @eightsleep app and compatible with all Pod models.
Female founders, are you thinking about applying to @ycombinator?
The deadline just passed, but it might not be too late to get in! We’ll pair you with a woman founder from a previous YC batch who can help guide you through the application process.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Yarden Horwitz retweeted
Introducing @yuzu_labs: Cursor for Videos.
The average founder spends 8 hours a week making content.
A single agency video takes 5-7 rounds of feedback and 3-5 business days per round. That's 35 days before you ship PLUS the filming and editing time.
Now you can create unlimited inbound marketing videos in minutes with no agency needed.
Just your AI working 24/7 while you run your business.
We're innovating on the corporate stack so you can do more with less.
See it in action 👇
