Topic: founder background
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Ex-Scale AI CTO Launches AI Agent to Solve Big Data's Biggest Problem
Isotopes AI launched with a $20 million seed investment, introducing Aidnn, an AI agent that allows business users to interact with data using natural language queries from various sources. The company was co-founded by Arun Murthy, a big data veteran from Hadoop and Hortonworks, who identified t...
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20-Year-Old Dropouts Built AI Notetaker Turbo AI to 5M Users
Turbo AI, founded by 20-year-old college dropouts, has rapidly grown to five million users and eight-figure annual revenue, adding 20,000 new users daily while remaining profitable. The platform originated from the founders' personal struggles with note-taking in college and now uses AI to genera...
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19-Year-Old's AI Memory Startup Supermemory Wins Backing From Google Execs
Supermemory, founded by 19-year-old Dhravya Shah, is developing a sophisticated memory solution to enable AI applications to retain context across interactions, addressing the challenge of AI's lack of long-term memory. The platform functions as a universal memory API that processes multimodal da...
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Superpanel Secures $5.3M to Automate Legal Intake with AI
Superpanel, an AI platform for legal intake, has secured $5.3 million in seed funding co-led by Outlander VC and Field Ventures to support its expansion and development. The platform was founded by Julien Emery and Dingyu Zhang to automate client communication and document handling, acting as a d...
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Ex-Microsoft & Uber Founder Raises $3M for Neobank Munify, Backed by YC
Munify is a neobank founded by Khalid Ashmawy to address the slow and costly process of sending remittances to Egypt, inspired by his personal frustrations with high fees and delays. The company has secured $3 million in seed funding and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2025 cohort, offering instant,...
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Young Founders Raise $5M to Decode Online Behavior with Vision AI
A new startup called Human Behavior uses vision AI to analyze user session replays, providing deeper insights into engagement and behavior without extensive manual coding. The company was founded by three young entrepreneurs who quickly raised $5 million in seed funding from notable backers like ...
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French AI Giant Mistral Nears $14 Billion Valuation
Mistral AI is reportedly closing a €2 billion funding round that would value the company at $14 billion, making it one of Europe's most valuable tech firms. The Paris-based startup, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, specializes in open source language models and its consumer AI cha...
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Ex-Nvidia VP Builds China's GPU Star: Moore Threads
Moore Threads Technology is a Beijing-based GPU developer founded by a former Nvidia executive, representing China's push for technological self-reliance in AI computing hardware. The company's IPO was approved in just 88 days, highlighting strategic support for domestic chipmakers and aiming to ...
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Nothing Raises $200M from Tiger Global for AI Device Launch
Nothing secured $200 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $1.3 billion and bringing total funding to over $450 million, with strong investor backing. The company has achieved over $1 billion in total sales, shipping 5.1 million devices, and is focusing on AI integration and expandi...
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Rulebase: The AI Coworker for Fintech, Backed by Y Combinator
Rulebase is a fintech startup focusing on back-office automation, using AI to streamline compliance, dispute resolution, and quality assurance in financial institutions. Founded by Gideon Ebose and Chidi Williams, the company secured $2.1 million in pre-seed funding and has achieved significant c...
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Google Ventures Doubles Down on Blacksmith Just 4 Months After Seed Round
Blacksmith, a startup specializing in continuous integration and delivery optimization, has secured a $10 million Series A investment led by Google Ventures, following strong early traction and rapid growth. The company differentiates itself by using high-performance, gaming-grade CPUs, which it ...
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Harvard Dropouts Launch AI Glasses That Record Everything You Hear
Halo X smart glasses, developed by former Harvard students, use AI to record, transcribe, and display real-time information, aiming to enhance cognition with features like instant answers and infinite memory. The glasses, priced at $249 and backed by $1 million in funding, prioritize discretion a...
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Simular's AI Agent Can Run Your Mac or Windows PC
Simular has raised $21.5 million to develop an AI assistant that directly controls a computer's OS by moving the cursor and typing, unlike browser-based agents. The startup uses a hybrid method where a human guides the AI to establish a workflow, which is then converted into deterministic, repeat...
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Paris AI Startup Gradium Raises $70M in Seed Funding
Gradium, a new Paris-based AI startup, has launched with $70 million in seed funding to provide developers with realistic and responsive synthetic voices for applications. The company specializes in ultra-low latency audio models and launches with multilingual support, aiming to serve a global ma...
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Redwood Materials Lays Off 5% of Staff After $350M Funding
Redwood Materials is laying off about 5% of its workforce, impacting several dozen of its 1,200 employees, shortly after raising $350 million in Series E funding that increased its valuation to $6 billion. Founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, the company recycles battery materials to recover ...
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Alloy Unlocks Data Management for Robotics
Robotics companies face a major challenge in managing the immense volume of data—up to a terabyte per day per robot—generated by automated systems from cameras and sensors. Alloy, a Sydney-based startup, provides specialized data infrastructure that uses natural language queries and custom rules ...
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Atlassian Buys DX for $1B to Boost Developer Productivity
Atlassian has acquired developer productivity platform DX for $1 billion, its largest purchase to date, to enhance engineering efficiency with powerful analytics tools. DX was founded to provide meaningful productivity insights without making developers feel monitored and has grown rapidly, servi...
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Anchor's Founders Launch Oboe: AI-Powered Learning App After Spotify Exit
Oboe is an AI-driven learning app created by the founders of Anchor, allowing users to generate custom educational courses on any subject with a simple prompt, aiming to democratize knowledge creation. The platform uses a multi-agent architecture to quickly produce tailored courses in various for...
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Ex-Google X Trio Raises $6M to Build Your AI Second Brain
TwinMind is an AI-powered app that captures ambient speech to build a personal knowledge base, operates entirely offline, and recently secured $5.7 million in seed funding. The app distinguishes itself by running unobtrusively in the background on mobile devices, offering real-time translation an...
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FirstClub's Premium Strategy Defies India's Speed Obsession, Hits $120M Valuation
FirstClub has achieved a $120 million valuation by prioritizing quality over speed, securing $23 million in Series A funding led by Accel and RTP Global. The startup targets India's top 10% of households with curated, exclusive products and a personalized shopping experience, resulting in high av...
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UAE's Huspy Secures $59M Funding for European Expansion
Huspy, a UAE-based proptech startup, secured $59 million in Series B funding to expand its home-buying platform across the Middle East and Europe, building on its earlier $40 million Series A round. Founded in 2020, Huspy digitizes home searches and financing, capturing 30% of the UAE mortgage ma...
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Black Forest Labs Secures $300M at $3.25B Valuation
Black Forest Labs, a German AI image generation startup, raised $300 million at a $3.25 billion valuation to accelerate R&D, signaling strong market confidence. The company, founded in 2024, has gained prominence as its technology is used by major firms, including powering image generation for El...
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This $30M Startup's Dog Crate-Sized Robot Factory Learns by Watching Humans
MicroFactory has developed a compact, tabletop manufacturing system with dual robotic arms that learn from human demonstrations for precision tasks like circuit board assembly. The startup, founded by Igor Kulakov and Viktor Petrenko, was inspired by their manufacturing challenges and uses a non-...
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Cavela Raises $6.6M to Slash Pre-Tariff Manufacturing Costs
Cavela, an AI-powered sourcing platform, secured $6.6 million in seed funding to help businesses automate supplier discovery and negotiation across over 40 countries, addressing challenges from shifting global trade policies. The platform uses AI agents to handle the entire supplier search proces...
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Why Okapa's $300 Water Bottle Costs So Much
Okapa's $295 water bottle positions itself as both a luxury status symbol and a hygiene innovation, using materials from medical and aerospace industries to justify its premium price. The bottle features eight years of R&D, over 10,000 prototypes, and 70+ patents, with a founder experienced in lu...
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5 Pivots to Profit: How a YC App Hit 300K Users & $1M ARR in 6 Months
Candle, a social app for couples and close friends, rapidly grew to 300,000 users and over $1 million in annual recurring revenue by pivoting from a failed AI shopping tool based on user feedback and a viral TikTok video. The app differentiates itself by focusing on strengthening existing relatio...
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Egypt's TradeHub Closes, Returns Investor Funds After Missing Market Fit
TradeHub, an Egyptian B2B startup, has shut down after failing to achieve product-market fit and returned all remaining investor capital, just 18 months after raising $1.4 million in pre-seed funding. The company initially operated as a cross-border marketplace for exports but pivoted to a B2B sa...
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Paid AI raises $21M seed to bill clients only for results
Manny Medina's new startup Paid has raised $33.3 million in total funding, achieving a valuation over $100 million, with its seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Paid introduces a results-based billing platform for AI agents, allowing developers to charge clients based on the tangible v...
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NFDG Backs Composite's Cross-Browser Testing Tool
Composite is a cross-browser automation tool designed to help professionals save time by automating repetitive digital tasks across platforms like Chrome and Safari, distinguishing itself from single-environment AI browsers. Founded by former Uber product manager Yang Fan Yun and Charlie Deane, t...
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Neon App Pays Users to Record Calls & Sells Data to AI
Neon Mobile, an app that pays users to record their phone calls and sells the audio to AI companies, has rapidly risen to the number two spot in the U.S. Apple App Store's Social Networking category. The app records only the user's side of conversations unless both parties are Neon users, a strat...
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Unlock Your Codebase with Macroscope: AI-Powered Bug Fixing
Macroscope is an AI-driven platform that automates codebase management, bug detection, and provides natural language insights for engineering teams and product leaders. Founded by former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour, the tool integrates with GitHub and other systems to analyze code and...
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Prezent Secures $30M to Acquire AI Services Firms, Starting with Founder's Other Company
Prezent has raised $30 million to pursue acquisitions, starting with Prezentium, enhancing its enterprise AI presentation platform and expanding its client base in the life sciences sector. The company differentiates itself by focusing on large corporate clients and embedding presentation enginee...
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The Prompting Company Raises $6.5M to Boost Product Mentions in AI Apps
Consumers are increasingly using AI assistants like ChatGPT for product discovery and shopping recommendations, creating a major opportunity for brands to capture new digital traffic. The Prompting Company, backed by $6.5 million in seed funding, helps businesses optimize for AI discovery through...
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LangChain Hits $1.25B Valuation as Open Source AI Agent Startup
LangChain has reached a $1.25 billion valuation after raising $125 million in a funding round led by IVP, with participation from new and existing investors. Originally created in 2022, it gained popularity by simplifying the development of applications with large language models and secured earl...
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