Fleek, a B2B marketplace for secondhand clothing wholesale, raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Burda Principal Investments with participation from eBay, FJ Labs, and H14. The company uses A…
Ollama raised $65M in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88M, and launched a cloud tier alongside its free open-source local AI tool. The company, used by 8.9 million …
Context.dev, a Y Combinator-backed startup, launched an API that uses LLMs to perform schema-driven web scraping, allowing developers to extract structured data from any website by defining a JSON Sch…
A Brown University economics professor found that nearly half his students likely cheated using AI on a take-home midterm, with scores averaging 96 percent, but when an in-person final was administere…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano presented evidence that students in his welfare economics class used AI to cheat on a take-home midterm, with grades plummeting when the final exam was held …
Y Combinator-backed Context.dev launched a unified API that bundles web scraping, brand data extraction, and screenshot capture for AI agents, replacing the need for developers to build custom data pi…
Jeff Morgan and Michael Chiang's Ollama raised a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88 million. The open-source AI developer tool, used by over 8.9 million develop…
Ollama raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million, as the open-model runner now serves nearly 9 million monthly developers. The company pl…
An analysis of Y Combinator's 2026 batch data reveals that 77% of 477 startups are based in San Francisco, signaling a re-concentration of AI startups in one city. The trend contradicts the remote-wor…
Weave Robotics, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by former Apple engineers, unveiled Isaac 1, an $8,000 home robot that folds laundry and tidies up. The wheeled robot, priced significantly lower …
Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis raised $3.2 million for their AI startup OmniAI, then scrapped it to build Monumint, a banking AI agent startup. The founders, who met as commercial bankers at CIBC, pivot…
Monumint, founded by Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis, has launched conversational AI agents for banks and lenders after pivoting from seed-backed OmniAI. The company now has 20 paying customers for its l…
CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed startup using generative AI to automate debt collection, is hiring a Founding Account Executive to help scale from $2M to $10M ARR. The company's AI agents outperfor…
Ollama, an AI platform that simplifies running open-source models locally, has reached 8.9 million developers and is used by 85% of the Fortune 500. The company raised $65 million in Series B funding …
A developer has compiled a list of six plugins that together form a complete engineering team within Claude Code, covering planning, front-end design, code review, security, memory, and a package of 2…
Metal, an AI-powered fundraising platform backed by a16z and Y Combinator, launches to help founders manage investor discovery, relationship mapping, and round tracking as a unified data problem. The …
Kevin Weil, former OpenAI executive and veteran tech leader, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a Seattle startup building reusable rockets. Weil, an early investor in the company, will help scale S…
Fleek, a London startup building AI infrastructure for the global secondhand clothing trade, raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Burda Principal Investments. The company uses a custom vision…
Mana Jampala, a 12-year-old founder in British Columbia, launched Voxa, an AI-powered receptionist that helps small businesses answer calls and manage appointments. The product, built using AI coding …
Stilta, an AI-powered patent analysis startup founded by former McKinsey consultants Oskar Block and Oscar Adamsson, raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company helps bus…