Startups — Page 11

Venkat Sakamuri's 10M-row test found a 48 kB BRIN index touching 28 times more heap pages as cumulative updates rose from 1% to 5%.

Jordan Bramble's defense-first nuclear startup will own and operate the reactors, with payments tied to technical milestones and operation targeted for 2028.

Actinide says its Texas-built electromagnetic separator enriched natural uranium to 15.38% uranium-235 - HALEU - and produced it as a solid, potentially skipping a missing industrial step in America's nuclear-fuel buildout.

Risklytics, the YC-backed brokerage, uses AI for intake, then puts licensed humans between frontier-tech founders and policy forms.

Reuters reports that Yang Zhilin's Beijing lab is seeking a share of K3-related service revenue as it turns a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model into an enterprise cloud offering.

The MIT-trained serial entrepreneur turned caregiving research and two years beside his wife in senior care into a voice-first health band.

David Venegas says the YC-backed system cuts metabolic effort by 30% to 45%, runs 12 hours and has completed 100-plus field tests since May.

Pacific Fusion broke ground in Albuquerque on a demonstration machine designed to produce more fusion energy than the energy stored in its capacitors.

DHS says the fee would raise $8.8B a year, while its own analysis finds a significant hit to 76% of affected small employers.

Co-founder Aaron Levie joked that the producer's praise was enough to retire on after two decades building Box.

The YC S26 radar startup skipped its batch program, field-tested seeker hardware and is using wartime procurement speed to raise capital.

Cameron Wood and Adin Schmahmann will stop maintaining core IPFS software and public infrastructure on September 30th.

VIDRAFT's Min-sik Kim is running a 122-day contest that gives agents an MCP interface and scores each market against 20,000 simulated random traders.

The YC startup has a chamber prototype; its first large-scale cloud-clearing flight is targeted for 2027.

Sasha Bagrov is raising pre-seed capital to expand an iOS marketplace built around parent approvals, verified job owners, escrow payments and live location sharing.

Teddy Haggerty's Robo Inc. plans a 66,000-square-foot Long Island plant after FCC restrictions blocked new foreign-produced robot models from receiving the US equipment authorization required for import or sale.

A dashboard shared by founder Jay V showed 301,018 active accounts and 14.6% growth, giving OpenCode a sizable paid base beyond its free agent.

Nour Zahzah and Yousef Helal's YC S26 startup, Vendo, lets users generate views, automations and micro-apps inside existing software, leaving vendors to govern what the generated software can do.

PromptBase founder Ben Stokes built Zoneless after PromptBase paid more than $9,400 a month to send marketplace sellers through Stripe Connect.

The humanities graduate paired operating experience with two co-founders and built an AI platform around the unglamorous work between contracts and cash.

Founder TL Lim chose a long production pause over steep price increases as DRAM and eMMC costs squeeze Pine64's community hardware model.

Founders can avoid gateway fees with Ramp Router, but OpenRouter offers 500+ models, wider compatibility, global access and stricter default privacy.

Coco Robotics is serving participating Little Caesars restaurants in Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami through DoorDash and Uber Eats, with downtown San Jose next.

Distributed Sun contributed a GW-scale pipeline and operating assets; the announcement gives no cash round, valuation or outside investor.