Startups — Page 10
Companies to watch, momentum, milestones.
- Opal raises $10M and ships a new attention OS, says 1M daily users
The focus app says it has 1M daily users and 10M installs; the new Opal adds Opal Score and Autofocus as Schlenker frames attention as the AI era’s bottleneck.
- Minicor launches self-healing Windows automations so AI products can ship into legacy systems
YC-backed Minicor says its deterministic RPA plus recovery agent can run desktop workflows at scale, with SOC 2/HIPAA and Citrix support for regulated rollouts.
- Exclusive: RoboRank, the 'LeetCode for roboticists,' will open evaluation environments and run a public scoreboard
RoboRank, a LeetCode-like benchmarking project for robotics at roborank.dev, will separate and open-source its evaluation environments, target VLAs and world models, and harden sandboxed code execution so researchers can contribute tasks and models in the open.
- Replit backs Musixmatch Pro Musicathon, a global remote hackathon with $25k+ in prizes
The June 15-21 event is fully remote and supported by partners including ElevenLabs, Songstats, LALAL.AI, and Cyanite, according to Replit's post on X.
- Chert launches Twilio-for-iMessage API and GTM service
YC-backed Chert is pitching a single API for blue-bubble threads with SMS/RCS fallback and CRM integrations, and says it will run outbound as a service for teams.
- Zhao Tongyang's EngineAI starts 10,000-unit humanoid line; first T800s roll off Shenzhen base
XRoboHub reports the line is live at an integrated Shenzhen facility, but capacity timing and T800 specs were not disclosed.
- Rumor: Sam Altman backs Pharia Health, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) protocol startup
The company targets high-performing professionals, pairing FDA-cleared TMS with d-cycloserine and optional $200 per month maintenance sessions.
- WorkOS launches auth.md, an open protocol for agent signups
Michael Grinich unveiled auth.md with early support from Cloudflare and Firecrawl, giving apps a standard way to onboard AI agents without brittle browser hacks.
- One Nashville dad's open source camera stack is being cast as a Ring killer
In a thread on X, Nav Toor said Frigate, an MIT-licensed NVR app, offers no cloud, no subscription, and privacy by default, citing 32,057 GitHub stars.
- Superset is building an agent-first IDE on GitHub, wiring skills into the dev workflow
The public GitHub project under superset-sh is shipping agent skills, a Linear ticket draft flow, and editor UX tweaks, with 10.9k stars and nearly 2,900 commits.
- Jia Chen unveils Jam, a simple marketing interface for the agentic era
Jam claims 2,000+ companies, developers, and operators already using the tool, after starting as a side project that devtool founders paid thousands to access.
- Startup Spotlight: ThineAI opens iOS beta as ambiant memory app (aka for when you blackout)
Rai says ThineAI runs in the background to capture work and life context and return it on demand; early access is rolling out to iOS testers, with Android not live yet.
- Zach Dell's Base Power inks 40 MW residential battery deal with Austin Energy
Austin Energy will dispatch a 40 MW fleet of home batteries from Base Power for peak shaving and price spikes, while homeowners get whole-home backup.
- Flock Safety loses Bandera, TX contract as councilmember pushes internet and phone ban
After a 3-2 vote to cancel Flock Safety's LPR contract, a dissenting councilmember vowed to propose banning phones, internet, and cameras across the 900-person town.
- Railway says Google Cloud suspension triggered 8-hour platform-wide outage
The team says an automated GCP suspension cascaded past Google to knock every Railway workload offline until early May 20.
- Railway says Google Cloud blocked its account; users report production apps and databases down
Railway says it regained partial Google Cloud access and is working with support to restore workloads; at least one user reports app servers and databases down across projects; no ETA, with updates on X.
- Colossal claims shell-less artificial eggs hatched healthy chicks
The company frames the system as a step toward hatching giant birds like the South Island moa and says it could extend to broader wildlife conservation.
- SafeDep says Mini Shai-Hulud payload slipped into 317 npm packages
Researchers tie a 22-minute mass publish from a compromised npm account to the same toolkit seen in the recent SAP-related incident, with CI and AI tool persistence.
- Boston Dynamics posts Atlas carrying a mini fridge
A short X post frames Atlas as doing whole-body manipulation, shifting emphasis from acrobatics to moving real, awkward objects.
- Startup Spotlight: CancelFlow - Stripe cancel flows in under 10 minutes
CancelFlow's site now outlines an embeddable retention flow that reads from Stripe via your publishable key, applies outcomes in Stripe, and supports A/B testing and full customization, with a 14-day free trial.
- Roman Letters puts 7,049 late Roman letters in one English-language corpus
The site frames the West’s collapse and the East’s continuity through a browsable dataset and chaptered narrative drawn from thousands of late antique letters.
- XS is a new general-purpose language asking for feedback, shipping a playground on day one
The creator of XS says the language is at v1.2.15 and has a playground and docs live at xslang.org, inviting developers to try it and weigh in.
- Christoph Nakazawa ships Codiff, a local Git diff reviewer with an AI walkthrough
The macOS app lets developers review staged and unstaged changes locally, add inline comments, export to Markdown, and call an LLM with a -w flag.
- Grafana Labs says attacker accessed GitHub and downloaded codebase, declines ransom
In a thread on X, the company said no customer data was accessed, it invalidated the leaked credentials, and it will publish a post-incident review.