Startups — Page 14
Companies to watch, momentum, milestones.
- Abby Care reaches eight states by turning family caregivers into paid employees
Founder Havi Nguyen's Medicaid know-how has helped Abby Care reach eight states, $15 million in 2025 revenue and a reported $225 million valuation.
- Rise Reforming joins YC to turn wastewater biogas into chemicals on-site
The Chicago founders pivoted from plastic waste and are building a containerized pilot at a wastewater plant that is expected to go online in 2027.
- On Deck co-founder Julian Weisser launches $100,000 solo-founder program
On Deck co-founder Weisser is applying his fellowship experience to a three-month San Francisco cohort with mentorship and a $100,000 grant for each selected entrepreneur.
- Figure grants robots visitor passes, unlocking full door access across campus
Brett Adcock announced on X that Figure's autonomous robots now carry visitor badges that let them open any campus door.
- Soar AI launches MCP interface for no-fee flight booking
Soar AI says its Model Context Protocol interface gives AI agents access to market-rate flights, no-fee booking, and x402 payments.
- Wiseday says Apple rejected its update over paper-planner screenshots
Wiseday's developer says App Review applied an on-screen metadata rule to a product designed around a printed daily page.
- Patreon cuts 93 jobs as Jack Conte flattens management
Jack Conte says Patreon's growth remains steady, but the creator platform is cutting 93 jobs to lower costs while preserving its discovery push.
- Figure reportedly manufactured its 1,000th humanoid robot in San Jose
The unconfirmed milestone would nearly triple Figure's official April count as Brett Adcock pushes humanoid robotics into factory-scale production.
- Willow launches voice dictation platform that targets zero edit rate
The startup says its AI combines speech recognition and context awareness to deliver text ready to send without corrections.
- New tool Ask Poth lets SaaS teams query a single customer graph across multiple platforms
Founder Matthew Wong introduces Ask Poth, a tool that unifies data from HubSpot, PostHog, Pylon and Granola into a single customer graph.
- Travis Kalanick’s Atoms Raises $1.7B to Build a Physical AI Empire
Fifteen transport engineering posts are based in San Francisco, where Atoms requires office employees onsite five days a week.
- Augmental launches VOX skin-worn microphone for private dictation
The device captures whispers and loud speech while sitting on the user’s skin, with programmable shortcut buttons.
- Hologram runs Elixir in the browser and seeks sponsors for local-first apps
Bart Blast shipped four feature releases in 2026, but the next phase depends on replacing expiring milestone funding with company sponsors.
- ivWatch secured a sole-supplier NHS route for continuous IV monitoring
The GBP 8 million framework began February 16th, giving Gary Warren's Virginia medtech a procurement route while Trust purchases remain undisclosed.
- Airglow launches Chrome extension for custom YouTube, Gmail and Spotify controls
Ramazan Rakhmatullin's Chrome extension uses APIs and reverse-engineered HTTP requests to add custom features to YouTube, Gmail and Spotify.
- Fei-Fei Li says robotics simulation startup SceniX joins World Labs
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li announced that SceniX, built by a team of ex‑Google researchers, will partner with World Labs for robotics simulation.
- RuntimeWire founder recounts addiction, betrayal and a career rebuilt through code on The Pedro Frias Show
On The Pedro Frias Show, tech investor Ryan Merket traces his path from teenage reverse engineering and addiction to Facebook, Reddit, AWS and Comal Ventures.
- Curb opens Flow network so taxi fleets can add demand without switching systems
Amos Tamam's Curb is using GoRide data from Washington to recruit demand and technology partners across the US, UK and Canada.
- Giada De Laurentiis pushes Giadzy from online pantry into grocery stores
The Food Network veteran is personally checking store placement as Giadzy tries to turn an online audience into repeat retail demand.
- Y Combinator and Together AI Launch Dedicated GPU Cluster for Startups
The accelerator and AI platform partner to give early-stage companies improved access to scarce compute resources, a critical bottleneck for model training and scaling.
- Dispatch targets 2027 flight for a refurbishable orbital return vehicle
The two-person YC startup plans to carry 30 kilograms, replace the heat shield after landing and fly the primary spacecraft again.
- 10 US space startups moving from funded hardware to operational missions by 2027
Launch, orbital logistics, satellite production and lunar mobility companies face a year of costly, measurable execution tests.
- LlamaIndex backs You.com's live-data agent hackathon with builder credits
LlamaIndex, Jerry Liu's document-agent startup, is one of 11 partners supporting the July 24th event at San Francisco's AWS Builder Loft.
- Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one entered a smoke-covered fire scene
The software fix tests Jesse Levinson's ground-up autonomy bet as regulators press robotaxi operators to handle emergencies like human drivers.