Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund. Eight of them require capital, hardware, or both. The l…
The M1, an overhead rail-mounted robot that charges up to 10 vehicles per unit without human intervention, enters pilot deployment now and rolls out at scale in 2027, backed by Scania Invest and Capricorn Partners. There is a quiet irony at the heart o…
Five months after a beta launch in Tirana, before some of the world’s leading architects, the Austrian-Albanian startup has 60,000 users, hundreds of paying customers, and Plug and Play on its cap table. In November 2025, Synaps, a Vienna-based AI desi…
Founded by a former Atomico talent adviser, Dex charges employers agency fees only on successful hires, and has gone from zero to $1.8 million ARR in under six months of charging. Paddy Lambros spent two and a half years advising roughly 100 European s…
The London-founded startup wants to replace the entire construction value chain, from architect’s brief to move-in-ready building, using AI and a purpose-built on-site robot called the Mantis. Construction is the world’s largest industry by value and o…
True Anomaly’s Jackal autonomous orbital vehicles can manoeuvre near other satellites in orbit for inspection, space situational awareness, and, under Golden Dome, potential interception of ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Total funding now exceeds $…
3TS Capital Partners led the round with Grazia Equity and existing investors. 25,000 users, 85% daily wear rate, 500,000+ emergency calls handled. The company is building an AI companion for the watch to address loneliness in the hours when no family m…
The round brings total raised to €9 million. Investors from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify backed the seed. The platform operates as a headless API that lets AI agents query and pay for premium licensed datasets in real time, on a token-based model. C…
Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has no product, no revenue, and no public roadmap. What i…
The round amount is undisclosed. Backers include Nordic Makers, Emblem, the Lovable company itself, the Sequoia Scout Fund, and the Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund. Lovable CEO Anton Osika personally endorsed the team. Atech lets users describe a hardwa…