Startups — Page 2
Companies to watch, momentum, milestones.
- Ex-Life360 directors from Zenly lineage ship Anywhere, a social map agents can edit
Charly Delaroche and Marc McCole, both ex-Life360, are in YC Fall 2026 with a social map that lets AI agents read, edit and be undone.
- Fern launches a simulation platform that needs three robot demos to replace hardware evals
Robert Xu and Amit Yadav's two-person YC startup says three teleop episodes are enough to build a simulation, and one customer has run 900,000 simulations.
- Replay says its QA tool found more than 900 bugs in 40 promoted apps
CEO Brian Hackett says Replay QA found the bugs in apps promoted by app-building tools and traced them to root causes agents can act on.
- CoreWeave bonds fall to new lows after Texas elects data-center skeptic
Michael Intrator built CoreWeave by financing GPU capacity ahead of demand. Bond investors are now pricing the Texas permit risk in that model.
- PC Deal Check grades prebuilt PCs against the cost of their parts
Built by former IT professional Adam after a missed purchase, PC Deal Check grades listings against dated component estimates.
- Replit announces first Asia office in Tokyo with SMFL as enterprise anchor
Replit co-founders Amjad Masad and Haya Odeh joined SMFL president Tetsuro Imaeda at a Tokyo press conference on November 4th, 2026, as the partners expanded their enterprise plans for Asia.
- Orbital Matter printed a half-meter beam in open space and deployed a solar array
Jakub Stojek and Robert Ihnatisin's Replicator-2 printed a rigid beam in open space and deployed a solar array, testing their proposed workaround for rocket fairing limits.
- Overstory links grid risk models to utility work and spending
Led by CEO Fiona Spruill, Overstory is linking outage and wildfire predictions to utility work and records of risk reduction.
- Bear turns 10 after starting as three friends' spare-time notes app
Shiny Frog's Markdown notes app reaches a decade since its November 2016 launch, with Bear Web's full release still undated.
- Agent37 says a $249 Vercel sandbox should cost $4.76 a month
Krishnaprasad priced a month of 2 vCPU compute at $4.76 against $121 to $249 at rivals, using gVisor density on Hetzner and OVH hosts instead of hyperscalers.
- Justin Sun seeks sanctions against World Liberty Financial over late UAE citizenship disclosure
Sun says the Trump-linked crypto firm waited months, and through an arbitration fight, before revealing ownership ties that could end his federal case.
- Inversion introduces Zenith flight computer to steer Arc through Mach 20 reentry
The Los Angeles startup says Zenith will run Arc from Mach 20-plus reentry to parachute landing, after Ray reached orbit in 2025 but never attempted reentry.
- Startup Spotlight: Kaaro builds AI agents for railroad paperwork
Second-generation railroaders Sai Surisetti and Gautham Venkateshwaran left Toma to build Kaaro. Kaaro's Speedrun profile says it is working with CPKC, building with Gulf & Ohio Railways and in late conversations with CN.
- Startup Spotlight: Subtrace brings DevTools-style inspection to backend requests
Adhityaa Chandrasekar and Sachin Sridhar built Subtrace, a BPF-based request inspector designed to give backend teams visibility without code changes.
- Neuralink's Blindsight has no public trial record while rival vision implants publish patient data
Musk calls the implant ready from an engineering standpoint, Neuralink still lists future trials, and Cortigent and PRIMA have the published participant results Blindsight lacks.
- RuntimeWire plans to give a reader a $6,950 NVIDIA DGX Spark for signing up
The page offers one factory-sealed unit with 128 GB of unified memory and 4 TB of storage, free entry tied to a RuntimeWire account and newsletter signup, and up to 25 bonuses for verified referrals ahead of a proposed December 1st, 2026 draw.
- Neuralink reports iPhone calls using its investigational speech implant
Neuralink says a 72-hour sprint at VOICE participant Kenneth's home produced Bloom phone-call integration and other communication prototypes.
- A/SIDE keeps the feed free and charges $20 a year for the archive
Adeel Ahmad's Saint Paul studio Lab 1908 offers A/SIDE with mutual connections, encrypted new chats, public code and a free 30-day history window.
- Monumental says its robots laid every brick in Almere, curves and lettering included
Monumental CEO Salar al Khafaji says robots placed every brick in the Almere building, including curved walls and lettering, with 15 more houses planned.
- Startup Spotlight: PreMan wants proof an agent's work actually landed
Alspencer Omondi turned a February 7th hackathon win into PreMan, a speedrun company now co-led by Korin Aldam-Tajima that tests APIs and checks agents' work. This profile follows a16z speedrun SR007, whose residency ended on October 11th, 2026 after Demo Day on October 6th.
- Aven says its new mortgage can close in seven days, appraisals permitting
Sadi Khan's Aven is applying its HELOC underwriting stack to 30-year purchase loans in ten states, with an open-end structure Fannie and Freddie will not buy.
- Startup Spotlight: Risely's agents drove 32-fold outreach productivity in Arizona pilot
After the University of Arizona reported a 32-fold rise in outreach productivity, Risely co-founders Shahryar Abbasi and Sadia Saifuddin are building agents for work across campus systems.
- NVision partners with HyperLight to test molecular qubits on photonic chips
NVision CEO Sella Brosh is moving a single-molecule research result toward hardware integration, with an on-chip demonstration targeted by the end of 2026.
- Startup Spotlight: Elimentary says its agents cut one private-capital operations task from 20 hours to 30 minutes
Elimentary CEO Yogesh Gorjilla is applying his credit and fintech experience to private-capital back offices. TresVista separately reports a reconciliation with more than 500 checks completed in under 30 minutes, followed by an hour of human sign-off.