DrDroid (YC W23), a startup building AI agents for platform and infrastructure teams, is hiring a product engineer. The company, backed by Accel and Y Combinator, aims to automate triage, debugging, a…
YC-backed Agentcard launched a rewards program on July 17th that gives users tokens for every purchase made with an Agentcard, adding a loyalty layer to its product that lets AI agents spend money onl…
Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, to scale Carebricks, a platform that lets health systems build and deploy their own clinical AI agents. The …
Y Combinator General Partner Ankit Gupta and Visiting Partner Francois Chaubard discussed world models as a promising solution to sample efficiency, one of AI's biggest open problems, in a Decoded epi…
Manufact (YC S25), the company behind the open-source mcp-use SDK with 10k GitHub stars and 8M+ downloads, is hiring a senior infrastructure engineer to build its MCP cloud platform, which is used by …
Adaptional, an AI-powered insurance claims review startup and Y Combinator S25 batch member, is hiring a Founding GTM Lead and a Founding Engineer in San Francisco, with salaries ranging from $140K to…
Traceforce (YC S26) launches company-wide security monitoring for AI apps, providing a lightweight binary and browser extension that gives security teams real-time visibility into AI agents and tools …
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, to deploy AI agents inside hospitals through its Carebricks platform. The startup grew revenue 20-fold…
Hadrius, a New York compliance software company, raised $27 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator and others, aiming to automate financial-servi…
Bunkerhill Health, a startup deploying AI agents to handle hospital tasks such as reducing wait times and paperwork backlogs, has raised $55 million in total funding, including a $25 million Series B …
Alpaca, a developer-focused brokerage infrastructure company, has raised $435 million in a funding round split between $135 million in equity and $300 million in debt to explore prime brokerage servic…
A new database from Startups.RIP tracking 105 Y Combinator founders shows that OpenAI and Anthropic are the top destinations for founders whose startups were acquired or shut down, with Sam Altman sti…
Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine-learning company for real-time recommendations and search, to accelerate live-shopping discovery. Shaped founder Tullie Murrell and nearly a dozen engineers and AI r…
DeepSeek's 75% price cut on its V4-Pro model, reported in May 2026, exposes a deeper problem for AI founders: agentic products consume tokens far faster than model prices drop, according to a VentureB…
Saturn Cloud founder Sebastian Metti announced a partnership on July 15 with YC-backed Lilac, adding Lilac's idle GPU network as a capacity provider for Saturn's token factory platform. The deal lets …
Emergent, an AI-powered coding platform founded in June 2025, has raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Creaegis with participation from Claypond Capit…
Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump from its $300 million valuation in January. The round was led by Crea…
Trainy, a Y Combinator company, migrated from Amazon RDS Postgres to ClickHouse Managed Postgres to reduce costs and make initial page loads up to 3x faster for its open-source experiment tracker Plut…
Ollama, a 14-person open-source AI infrastructure company, raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million. The tool, which lets developers run…
Agnost AI (YC S26) launched a platform that extracts user feedback from agent conversations to detect production failures and generate fixes. The tool works with any LLM or framework, offers a 2-minut…