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AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion. This just five…
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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year
As AI makes coding dramatically faster, the next big challenge in software development is testing and validating all…
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Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate
Y Combinator’s famed CEO Garry Tan told a SXSW audience that he’s got “cyber psychosis” and is barely…
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Science Corp raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market
While most of the venture world has been chasing AI deals, Max Hodak — the co-founder and former…
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YC startups can now receive investment in stablecoin
All startups accepted into YC will soon have the option to receive their seed checks via stablecoins, crypto…
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Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech
Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they’ve mostly…
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These 21-year-old dropouts raised $2M to build Givefront, a fintech for nonprofits
The last decade is filled with examples of fintechs that have reshaped how U.S. businesses manage money. Brex…
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Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers
Aircraft startup Boom Supersonic said Tuesday it will start selling a version of its turbine engine as a…
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YC-backed Poly relaunches as a cloud-hosted file storage with AI search
One of the most common use cases to have come out of new-age AI models is to power…
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Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
Two teenage founders walked into Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham’s backyard with an idea no one in agriculture…