Startups — Page 3
Companies to watch, momentum, milestones.
- EngineAI T800 takes head off another humanioid in secret fight clip
The X thread shows a damaged humanoid still standing, but the robot identity and event details are not independently verified.
- Austin Founder Launches Clare, an AI Desktop Assistant for People Overwhelmed by the Internet
The private-alpha product is designed to help less technical users navigate email, banking, web browsing, forms, video calls and other everyday online tasks.
- Columbia Embryo-Editing Study Pulls Nucleus Genomics Into the Ethics Fight
The Columbia-led work used base editing to alter PCSK9 and HBG in donated human embryos, with Nucleus Genomics' Nathan Treff listed as a co-author and safety questions still unresolved.
- Paul Graham says a current YC startup built an MRI machine in 101 days
The X post does not name the startup, but the claim points to a hardware-heavy bet inside the current YC batch.
- Navier founder Sampriti Bhattacharyya bets on the Maldives for 100 electric hydrofoil boats
JIH Global Investment plans a $100 million deployment, starting with five Navier vessels in 2026 and 95 more over time.
- floatingpoint is packaging supervised data and evals for vision AI teams
The AI data research lab says it builds off-the-shelf and custom datasets, benchmarks and long-horizon visual task environments for teams shipping vision-capable models.
- Alex Dolotov brings Tesseract Analytics' Open Terminal to retail investor research
Open Terminal combines SEC financials, news, filings, charts, AI Q&A, and SQL access, but Tesseract has not disclosed pricing or funding.
- Alpha School's $65,000 Manhattan pitch tests the line between AI school and homeschool center
WIRED reports MacKenzie Price and Joe Liemandt pitched wealthy parents on a $65,000 New York campus that the outlet says is not actually a school.
- Cloudflare brings VoidZero's Vite team in-house, adds $1M ecosystem fund
Cloudflare says it is investing in the Vite stack as web infrastructure, while the Vite team says governance, MIT licensing, vendor neutrality and Open Collective control are not changing.
- Uruky adds image search and URL rewrites to its paid private search engine
Co-founder Bruno is betting that privacy search can stay small, paid, EU-based, and deliberately free of AI assistants.
- Ursa Ag finds demand for a new tractor farmers can fix themselves
Doug Wilson says more than 1,000 farmers from about 30 countries contacted Ursa Ag after its low-tech tractor hit farm-show circles.
- 23andMe returns as nonprofit with a 100 million-user target
Bloomberg reports the DNA-testing brand is returning as a nonprofit with a much bigger scale ambition.
- High Torque Robotics brings Mini Pi Plus and Panthera-HT demos to ICRA 2026
High Torque Robotics says its robots are performing real-world tasks live at the conference booth as it opens hiring for the team.
- Neuracle's NEO brain implant wins China approval before Neuralink
The Shanghai startup's device is cleared only for a narrow group of spinal cord injury patients, but it moves invasive BCIs past trials.
- Dashlane says attackers stole some customers' encrypted password vaults
Dashlane says about 20 accounts were accessed after attackers brute-forced 2FA to register new devices and download vaults.
- Pacific Fusion tests a 440-gigawatt pulse on the road to a demo plant
The 440-gigawatt burst unlocked part of a $1B-plus Series A, but Pacific Fusion still has to scale the pulser before its demo plant.
- Jed McCaleb's Vast Space eyes Europe with French astronaut missions
The Long Beach aerospace company is leaning on Europe as a proving ground for McCaleb's post-crypto bet on private space stations.
- Debug pitches sterile male mosquitoes as a chemical-free attack on dengue carriers
The project says its Wolbachia-carrying males cannot bite and cannot produce offspring with wild females; its public pages do not detail field results or funding.
- ElevenLabs' reported $500M ARR puts government expansion in focus
Aligned News says the AI audio company has a Greek government partnership, but the ARR and Greece claims remain uncorroborated by public company materials.
- AgileX Robotics shows research platforms at ICRA 2026, backs WBCD Track 3 at Booth 87
AgileX Robotics says its hardware targets R&D use cases and is built for Cosmos 3 integrations the community is testing this week.
- Spanhove hacks Meta Ray-Ban Display for a Strava-powered ghost race while you run
The indie builder layered Strava GPX, pace coins, and sprint zones into a browser app that runs directly on the glasses, saying it works without a flagship phone.
- PromptArmor says ChatGPT for Google Sheets can exfiltrate entire workbooks via a single prompt injection
The AI risk team reports that OpenAI’s new Sheets add-on can be manipulated to run attacker scripts and steal data across an account, even with human approvals required.
- Emad Mostaque says the 'Sora team became robotics team,' linking to a Sam Altman post
The former Stability AI CEO posted a one-line claim and pointed to a Sam Altman post; no details or confirmation accompanied the note.
- Telli is hiring across engineering, design, and GTM
YC-backed Telli is opening roles as it scales its AI voice agent platform used by enterprises like Sky, with a fast-iteration culture and published principles.