Startups — Page 4
Companies to watch, momentum, milestones.
- 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.
- REO Trucks draws 12,173 reservations for a $21,500 pickup without a prototype
Founder Zach De Bernardi is using demand for a simple gas truck to recruit the suppliers, engineers and capital needed to build it.
- Startup Spotlight: Novo Space builds modular computers for satellite constellations
Co-founders Rodrigo Diez and Facundo Jorge are building modular flight computers designed to reduce repeated engineering work across satellite missions.
- Anthropic is rumored to be pursuing robot AI developer Physical Intelligence
Robert Scoble cited an unnamed investor and said the deal had not closed; neither side has announced a transaction.
- Saronic picks South Texas for $3.2 billion autonomous shipyard
The Austin defense startup plans Port Alpha at the Port of Brownsville after raising $1.75 billion at a $9.25 billion valuation.
- Sierra Space wins $798 million SDA contract for missile-tracking satellites
The 18-satellite award puts Fatih and Eren Ozmen's space company deeper into the U.S. military's proliferated low-Earth-orbit architecture.
- Motive Force uses Folk Computer to make the case for research funding
Oana Olteanu's July 10th essay casts Omar Rizwan and Andres Cuervo's paper-based system as a rebuttal to agent-startup sameness.
- Dexa pushes to revive Kroger drone delivery after BVLOS bottleneck
Beth Flippo says Dexa is again talking with Kroger after a 2021 pilot collapsed under costly line-of-sight rules.
- Reflect Orbital wins FCC approval for its first sunlight-beaming satellite test
Ben Nowack and Tristan Semmelhack can test Earendil-1, but the ruling exposes a regulatory gap around commercial light from orbit.
- Known and 222 are rebuilding dating around the actual date
Celeste Amadon, Asher Allen and Keyan Kazemian are betting Gen Z wants fewer feeds and more real-world introductions.