Discovered Materials, founded by Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, launched on August 12, 2026, with AI agents that propose new semiconductor materials and a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed wi…
Manufact, a San Francisco-based Y Combinator company, raised a $6.3M seed led by Peak XV to build a fullstack Model Context Protocol framework and zero-config cloud for deploying MCP servers and apps …
Alpaca, a developer-first brokerage, has seen monthly active API users grow nearly 4x over the past six months, driven by AI agents, and now manages $1.5 billion in assets under custody. The company r…
Alpaca Markets closed a $135 million funding round led by Peak XV on July 16, 2026, to build AI agent trading infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets. The developer-centric brokerage API …
Warp, an AI-native employee management platform, raised a $60 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing total funding to $85 million. The round closed in six days with participation from Peak…
Avataar.ai launched Varya, a 14-billion-parameter AI video generation model, offering video at approximately ₹0.50 per second. Cofounder Sravanth Aluru stated the model delivers quality comparable to …
Avataar AI, a startup selected for India's $1.2 billion India AI Mission, launched a new video generation model called Varya that is 10 times faster and 20 times cheaper than competitors like Veo and …