Startups — Page 9

Japan's Offers platform added Jev experience to profiles and employer searches across a network it says includes 40,000 professionals.

The bootstrapped founders plan an October consumer launch built around vertical discovery, sideways depth and a $6.99 monthly subscription.

Flock Safety, a 1,500-person surveillance technology company, expects significant interest and could turn to layoffs if too few employees leave voluntarily.

Harvard postdocs Deepankur Thureja and Gabriele Pasquale are turning photonics research into reconfigurable networking hardware for GPU fleets.

Rishabh Chanana and Chris Hailey built HALE 1.0 around lower-cost hardware, video pretraining and a first deployment wedge in hospitality.

Jaguar I-PACEs will begin manual driving in 2027 as Waymo works through regulation, monsoon weather and Singapore's labor transition.

YC's September 17th snapshot pairs smaller founding teams with more industrial companies and earlier revenue, without defining the revenue threshold.

Rohan Seelamsetty and his co-founders are building a data supply chain across existing businesses, with its largest access claims still unproven.

Garrett Langley's Flock Safety lost the city after a 2025 pilot exposed plate data beyond Boston despite an explicit sharing ban.

Pulley will cease operations after December 8th, 2026, with Carta offering a one-year price match and credits for unused subscriptions.

David Elskamp and Liam Webster are narrowing a broad camera-AI pitch into checkout loss software that pairs existing cameras with register logs.

The Rhode Island startup creates encrypted paths for approved tasks, then removes the routes, controls and keys when the work ends.

Lewis Bretts and Tom Mellor launched Telon in June; its 30-person team will configure models, build agents and train lawyers for shared customers.

Founder Eito Miyamura routed Grok commands through SealGate to a Flipper Zero, turning a chat prompt into infrared TV control.

Light Anchor founders Sangha Park and Chase Kim are using a shared agent platform to operate owned e-commerce brands, with Y Combinator, Krew Capital and ASQ backing the experiment.

Original reporting slowed this week as I prepared the apps for launch. The plan now is native mobile, real-time alerts and more investigations, not waiting for search traffic to return.

Founders Luis Manrique and Aamir Poonawalla want repetitive AI work to produce owned models instead of permanent frontier-model bills. First-party benchmarks show narrower gains, while named customers and pricing remain undisclosed; Dealroom reports a $125,000 YC investment.

In January 2026, Brumby raised a reported $1.2M pre-seed round; YC launch materials said it was onboarding early partners, while revenue, customer count and deployments remain undisclosed.

Founders Natalie Aresta-Katz and Ethan Shea built Regbase to retrieve rules, grants and government documents from poorly indexed, local and non-English sources.

The Munich startup says its platform reaches more than 6,000 sites, though its public figures do not separate simulations from live systems; TQ Ventures led the round.

The mobile QA startup published matching files and a detached commit naming three contributors who disappeared from Google's release.

Liniora says it connects project records, repositories, discussions and meeting transcripts, with AI search, pull-request analysis and workflow automation.

Dioxus will stay open source under Cognition's support while Jonathan Kelley and his engineers work on Devin's virtual machines, computer use, and testing.

The four-year Bridge award funds six new markets and security services for up to 100 selected DIU portfolio companies; the ceiling is not guaranteed revenue.