Startups — Page 13

Blue Water Autonomy secured one of six seats on a two-year contract with a shared $40 million ceiling; task orders will be competed among the awardees.

The YC S26 company is adapting coronavirus-era structural biology to target insect guts, with its first grower LOI and laboratory viruses produced.

Founder Ryan Merket says RuntimeWire has no revenue yet and is betting on developer-tool ads, job listings and sponsorships.

Johor authorities revoked NSO Malaysia's Forest City license on July 22nd; Kazakhstan's five-year memorandum gives Srinivasan a new government-backed venue.

Paul Graham wrote the July 2023 essay as a guide for ambitious work in any field. Its four-step framework still gives founders a useful test for choosing and exploring problems.

Chris Yu's Rivian spinoff says its $4,500 Launch Edition bikes will reach buyers from early August through September.

CEO Patrick Collison argues that AI agents favor ambitious, differentiated startups over narrow software wedges.

Founder Jatin Bains is taking the counter-drone developer public with Eric Trump as an investor and adviser and up to $251.7 million in gross proceeds.

Qian Li and Peter Kraft cut lock contention, transaction retries, and index churn, backing DBOS's case for simpler workflow infrastructure.

The two-person YC S26 company uses computer vision, voice AI and agents to manage costs across multi-unit restaurants.

Cameron Schiller's El Segundo foundry will develop flight hardware as Kratos scales engines for drones and missiles.

The YC S26 company wants to ship 75-100 MW compute barges by 2028, then replace gas power vessels with marine reactors.

Dimitris Koutentakis and Emile Germonpre target a gas-powered pilot by 2028, with marine reactors planned as a later swap.

Reuters says Intel has begun providing Atom technology to Amarjit Gill's RosaicLabs and aims to give the newly incorporated chip developer RTL code.

CEO Kyle Galbraith's critique follows Depot CI and Depot Code, extending Depot from build acceleration into the delivery stack.

The Long Beach startup enters a Space Force feasibility track that can lead to a Phase II prototype for contested-orbit missions.

Runlayer says a yearlong trial gave Rippling its complete source code and grew to thousands of users before an insider warned of an almost "1 to 1 copy." Rippling denies the claims.

CEO Philip Rowse warned users to change reused passwords and avoid firmware downloaded July 24th-25th while CubePilot verifies published images.

Superlogical reunites the HashiCorp co-founder with former colleagues around a terminal multiplexer funded by Notable Capital and Amplify Partners.

The YC CEO's case draws support from unicorn research linking founder age and industry experience with stronger startup outcomes.

Guillaume Verdon's hardware startup is building probabilistic chips and new algorithms rather than accelerating transformer math.

The Austin founders are courting clients and collaborators while a public deck says Camp Studios is raising a $3 million seed round.

The line followed an arena-sized Startup School and revives YC's oldest test: whether founders care about the work or the status.

Hunter Block built the planning marketplace from a Tahoe cabin, manual venue pages and a 10% commission model.