How a Y Combinator food-delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store: BiteSight is a food-delivery app that lets users watch videos of food before ordering. It also lets customers see what their friends have ordered and bookmark places to try out. Read More |
Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Francisco startup — he's also serving his 11th year in prison: A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody. Read More |
Eight months in, Swedish unicorn Lovable crosses the $100M ARR milestone: Less than a week after becoming Europe's latest unicorn, Swedish vibe coding startup Lovable has now crossed the $100 million annual recurring revenue mark. Read More |
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| Figma's Dylan Field will cash out about $60M in IPO, with Index, Kleiner, Greylock, Sequoia all selling, too: Figma is allowing existing shareholders to sell more stock than the company will in its IPO. Read More |
This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won't get acquired: In a red-hot acquisition market, the CVector founders answer this key question in its first conversation with prospective customers. Read More |
Astronomer CEO resigns following Coldplay concert scandal: Andy Byron, the startup executive at the center of an extraordinary social media furor, has resigned as CEO of data operations startup Astronomer. Read More |
This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents: Mixus' AI agent platform not only keeps humans in the workflow, it also allows those humans to interact with agents directly from their email or Slack. Read More |
Former Y Combinator, a16z experts hold invite-only summit for founders: An invite-only startup event hosted by former YC and a16z staff will help founders learn to pitch press and run their own social media. Read More |
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| Anduril alums raise $24M Series A to bring military logistics out of the Excel spreadsheet era: Rune Technologies raised $24 million to advance deployment of TyrOS, AI-enabled predictive software for military logistics that can run on the ground without internet connection. Read More |
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