Top startup launches for the week of August 1-7, 2026

Hadrian is announcing our $1.37B Series D - watch below for a comprehensive update on our plans to reinvest billions to meet generational demand for Factories-as-a-service & Opus, our physical AI platform for factory autonomy — as well as full stack munitions production, advanced https://t.co/ATRzPVWWKY https://t.co/4YO0C7eSHk

Today We’re Launching @slashymail Slashy is the new era of email, the era where everyone gets their own assistant. By the time you open Slashy at 9am, it has already: - Sorted the important emails from the noise - Drafted replies that sound like you, not slop - Flagged the https://t.co/xT0tPnYjnD

Today, we’re extending our RL stack beyond individual agents to multi-agent systems. You can now express arbitrary agent interactions and train them. https://t.co/cKBHB430f4

Introducing Honen Turn your company context into interactive courses that self-improve over time We partnered with NVIDIA to bring AI literacy to 250,000 learners Try for free at https://t.co/2GHZYHF9aR https://t.co/s1RNM9s9kV

Many companies will announce a factory by standing in suits and shoveling some dirt. That always seemed strange to me, so we built the factory, got it running, and now we’re ready to announce it. We've raised a $1B Series D at a $13B valuation to expand to more homes, and https://t.co/lEan7ejdvs

Today we’re launching MiniMax Code 2.0. Rebuilt on the open-source @pidotdev Pi Agent framework, MiniMax Code 2.0 delivers a smoother, more reliable experience across everyday conversations, office work, and long-running complex tasks. Here’s what’s new https://t.co/efu3mVDM5e

Today we're launching Genome Intelligence — explore your genome with the latest AI models, without handing them your genome. With Genome Intelligence: - Explore blood results, diagnoses, medical records, and more alongside your genetics. - Get the latest genetic research as https://t.co/H2h8fNzLMm

Congrats to @pablorpalafox, @PaarupLuis, @javipalafox, and @HappyRobot (S23) on their $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation! They build AI agents that run the phone calls, emails, and scheduling behind enterprise operations. They proved the platform in logistics and are now https://t.co/fJfVxiYLwZ

We just raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation led by Prysm Capital and co-led by @eurazeo. 🦄 Two years ago we deployed one voice agent in a US freight broker. Today, we’ve deployed a full platform in over 150 enterprises globally across supply chain, energy and https://t.co/Yed6mvQcmb

Today, we're launching Notetaker! It takes notes on your meetings and gets the details right. Now you have: - Real names on your final transcript, not "Speaker 1" and "Speaker 2" - A "What did I miss?" button that catches you up when you join late - Clean summaries with https://t.co/5LsLaxTItd

Introducing Kamino Institutional Yield. Purpose-built on-chain vault infrastructure connecting real-world, institutional credit markets with on-chain users. Commodity Yield, the first vault built on this infrastructure, is now live. Initial deposit capacity: $25M USDC. https://t.co/kIGr6XfSy4

Big day for Convex! First, we raised $57M led by @insightpartners, with participation from @a16z, @sparkcapital, @TheEtnaLabs, and @justinkan. Read more on our blog: https://t.co/vqQrh9YO88 🧵

Introducing Mintlify Index: the first publisher-direct search layer for technical knowledge, built on Mintlify’s ecosystem of more than 200,000 orgs. In our benchmark against Context7, agents using Mintlify Index finished tasks at twice the speed, and with 9% higher factual https://t.co/8hrS4GoGvC

Today we're launching Claude for motion graphics. One skill turns it into a full design team: Describe a video: animated graphics, kinetic type, sound design come back Say "different palette" or "slower cuts": it re-renders on the spot, no keyframes Point it at a video you https://t.co/V108eglutm

Today we're introducing Naise: Your 24/7 AI Teammate for Marketing. Just drop your website link, and Naise instantly audits your brand, spots marketing gaps, and deploys various AI teams like Social Media, Influencer Marketing, and Public Relations to run autonomously. Our AI https://t.co/fPassn7W5M

We are thrilled to announce Dow Protocol’s $10.5 Million Seed Round, backed by @mhventures, @Maple_block, @animocabrands, @ArcaneGrp, @HSKChain, Essentia Partners, and Quartet Group. Dow Protocol builds the novel PayFi RWA structure for e-commerce working capital to reach https://t.co/Z9NA2O67nJ

Today we're coming out of stealth with a $10.75M seed co-led by @generalcatalyst and @a16z with support from @mainobjectvc , @xyz_vc , and @upfrontvc. Global internet data moves the same way it did 30 years ago. 95% of intercontinental data runs through subsea cables that take a https://t.co/WRcxrX9c8A

Today, we're launching Armature Evals - Agent evaluations for MCPs and CLIs! Agent evals are non-negotiable. MCP and CLI evals should be too: run them across all the harnesses and models your users bring. https://t.co/uqco35DZNa

Today we’re introducing Deck Feedback Widgets A React & Node-based SDK that enables your team to collect customer feedback on all new features you ship. → Create a feedback widget in the UI, MCP, or API → Add the "deck-io/feedback" NPM package to your new feature → Collect https://t.co/eMrqSz7nSa

announcing @AmbrookAg's $30M series B, led by lachy groom. instead of a fundraising video, we typed up a letter - if you're curious, give us your address (link in thread) and we'll send you some snail mail. like our customers already know, some good things take time. https://t.co/MZr6PURVvK

Big news! We are excited to announce our $310 million Series B financing, led by @khoslaventures, with continued support from Andreessen Horowitz (@a16z) and @Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and new participation from Greenoaks, Halo Fund, Pax Ventures, StepStone Group, BHP https://t.co/5Vhlt99exv

Thank you to @WSJ for covering the launch of Base Core and our $1B Series D. The U.S. is undergoing a foundational shift in energy demand, and traditional power generation can't scale fast enough to meet it. Meeting demand this fast calls for new technology that works alongside https://t.co/fGxiZuXVtP

Vangrid has raised $9M. Thank you to our partners, supporters, and stakeholders for the conviction. LLMs hit the text data wall. The next frontier is Physical AI and autonomous systems are starving for real-world spatial ground truth. Satellites can't see sidewalks. Corporate https://t.co/jvDBk3ITnw

Introducing Rixven. We build AI systems, software infrastructure, and developer technology for safer, more reliable digital operations. Technology, considered. https://t.co/pPIbfSbvXG https://t.co/qrGUzeZipZ

We’ve raised $5.2M to build the default AI assistant over text. Most AI assistants understand your email inbox. They don’t understand you as a person. Pally is the first AI assistant with access to your personal iMessage and WhatsApp inboxes. That means it understands the https://t.co/P6zdpFEk9w

Today, we're announcing a multi-year partnership with @Google to power the next generation of self-accelerating AI! Mirendil will scale its training, inference, and AI research workloads on @googlecloud 's AI Hypercomputer — drawing on both TPUs and full-stack NVIDIA AI Infra. https://t.co/Wn9KbpF5zv

Introducing Honen Turn your orgs context into interactive courses that learners actually complete Built for training your company at scale and keeps content up to date We partnered with NVIDIA to bring AI literacy to 250,000 learners Try for free at https://t.co/zxoFDywGZU https://t.co/PJnheDSDkM

Healthcare built for real life requires a complete reinvention of the current experience. Not an add-on feature or a retrofit. Starting today, we’re launching a fundamental reimagining of what it means to get people closer to feeling great. @wearehers weight loss members are https://t.co/sxhfonUzaL https://t.co/fNRSOyeDen

We just launched @TareBioInc (@ycombinator S26)! 🚀 We make personalized or population-level vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks. We’ve already cured cancer in mice and will vaccinate our first patient within the year.

We raised funding at a $1M valuation. Now, we’re building in public. https://t.co/tqy021f6GI