Startups — Page 7
Companies to watch, momentum, milestones.
- 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.
- Peter Steinberger spotlights OpenClaw policy conformance plugin
A repost on X points to a governance-focused add-on promising verifiable drift checks for the local, open-source agent.
- Doorfee surfaces on BetaList promising automated payments and roles for Discord
A brief BetaList entry points to a tool that links payments to Discord roles; beyond the tagline, the listing shares no docs, pricing, or product details.
- Jef Raskin on starting the Mac: an interface-first vision, in his own words
A Low End Mac interview surfaces how Jef Raskin sold Apple on the Mac, why he pushed simplicity, and the critiques he still had of the modern UI.
- Helios runs LIDAR-based plug-in solar math for any British address
The browser tool ray-traces LIDAR to estimate balcony solar yield and payback per address, reflecting UK rules like the 800 W cap and MCS export limits.
- Figure runs $100M employee tender, Brett Adcock says
Adcock framed the secondary as a retention and hiring tool as Figure pursues general robotics.
- 120k users, 325k+ designs: YC touts Drafted, an AI home design launch from Nick Donahue
YC says Drafted turns a hand-drawn layout and constraints into floor plans and 3D designs; the free app focuses on early-stage, single-level layouts. YC adds 120k users made 325k+ designs in the past month.
- Robot Startup Accused of Running Secret Airbnb Field Tests That Allegedly Damaged Rental Properties
A San Francisco resident says staff booked his house under false pretenses to test household robots, per a suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court, The SF Standard reports.
- Slate Auto sets June 24 to open orders for its low-cost EV
Bezos-backed Slate Auto will open orders on June 24 and targets first deliveries by year-end; final pricing is still under wraps.
- Visa backs Replit to explore agentic payments inside the IDE
Visa says 1,000+ employees already use Replit; the partners are testing Visa Intelligent Commerce and Trusted Agent Protocol inside Replit with no product announced yet.
- @SwipeWright teases a new 'Peer Re...' article type to fight ideological capture in science
In a repost on X with no link or details, the account says it is announcing a first-of-its-kind article type aimed at "saving science from ideological capture."
- Quick Services turns into a burn-fueled street fight as UC, Pronto, Snabbit, InstaHelp chase 25 lakh+ monthly bookings, per Rahul Mathur
In a thread on X, Rahul Mathur says the high-frequency services race is now a capital war, with UC leaning in despite unproven economics and visible burn.
- Webflow CEO Linda Tong restructures team to build an agentic web marketing platform
Tong says Webflow will focus on marketing teams that need more than a website, pairing AI agents with smaller, faster teams and offering severance to departing employees.