Top startup launches for the week of August 8-14, 2026

📢 🆕 Introducing Plum AI Secure. We're sure you're using AI for all sorts of automations in your workflow. Remember when I almost lost my job because an AI took over Plum's LinkedIn for a week? But that's just social media. What if your AI hallucinates during customer https://t.co/A2p30PfIkL

We raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV, with YC and GV tripling down. Blacksmith is now valued at $550M. We closed this back in March. CI volume is up 5-10% every week as codegen makes writing code easy and validating it the bottleneck. 6,000+ companies run CI on us. What's https://t.co/ybIIo7sGI4

Lightning is back. A recent outage exposed the risk of having so much depend on a single provider. We felt it, you too. We’re working to ensure this never happens again. Today we are launching Intents, a shared market interface for payments & exchange, built on Bitcoin. https://t.co/Zz2u2EX0b5

Introducing CABIN from PIP Studios. The world's first glimpse of PIP's new video platform. CABIN is the only AI product suite PIP will be pushing their roster through: Sony, Paramount, Amazon, Universal, Netflix, and more. The gateway is what PIP does best, localization. From https://t.co/ticagV49Lc https://t.co/zNQv4K6OAg

Surgeons don't wing it. Your AI agent shouldn't either. Introducing Procedures. You define the trigger, the steps, the branches, and when to hand off to a human. Your agent does the rest, exactly how you designed it. Live now on Chatbase. Contains graphic scenes. https://t.co/xz6rmBCzGm

Today, we are launching Ori Grok Build Run @xai new Grok Build harness directly on OpenRouter. Your credentials, your models, and your environment set up for you, on Grok Build $ curl -fsSL https://t.co/vROsUW01Hr | bash $ ori grok https://t.co/sASR0HxV2C

Introducing Ploid. The AI people search engine that allows you to find anyone you want with just one prompt. 3 billion people index so you get the results you want. https://t.co/aCPFUrth1d

Flutter 3.44.9 is now available on stable! 🚀 This resolves an issue where the Flutter CLI and tests would hang if an iOS app crashed during debugging. Check out the CHANGELOG for details here: https://t.co/9qzBdPbxG6

Introducing the GeoLibre R package! GeoLibre already runs as a desktop app, a web app, and a Jupyter widget. Now it runs in R too. The new geolibre R package is an htmlwidgets interface that embeds the full GeoLibre GIS in the RStudio Viewer, Quarto, R Markdown, and Shiny. What https://t.co/GrKK6Zn7NJ

Introducing VEED Multi-Shot Characters. Create AI videos with multiple camera angles. • Save hours of editing time • Keep viewers watching longer • Get 10X more realistic results 💥 FREE 500 AI credits in DM for the first 200 users who: – Retweet – Comment “VEED" https://t.co/gqbcuPBuL2

𝐖𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 ₹𝟔𝐂𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐕𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐈. At Vecton, we help financial institutions with their AI Transformation. This milestone is defining for us in many ways! https://t.co/j27kAPGtoL

Introducing captionrich. Edit your videos 10x faster with AI and our one click edit features. https://t.co/h7pnjZeMh3

𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗫 𝗛𝟯 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗕 🚀 MiniMax H3 is now running on our API with 3 modes. 🔓 Open weights 🔊 Native stereo audio 🖼️ Multimodal references 🎬 Up to 15s multi-shot video Now live on ModelsLab. 🎬 Text to Video → https://t.co/aTHaCa6BhP

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available in preview for desktop variants of these Linux distributions: • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS • Debian 13 • Fedora 43 and 44 Install with .deb or .rpm packages for x64 or ARM64. https://t.co/ldE9k0uL5z

Today we're announcing a major expansion of our global network infrastructure in the Americas with three new subsea cable systems: Alisios, Canoa, and OlaLuz. These new cable systems will form Americas Connect, alongside a new branch for the Firmina cable, and previous

Introducing the Seeds Program 🌳 Every grove starts with a seed. This one flourishes with yours. The Seeds Program is live, and it is built for every GROVE holder who takes an active role in the protocol's governance through delegation. Tend the Grove. https://t.co/XuCRR1pUuz https://t.co/B85InHMSv0

Long before the door opens, it already knows it’s you. 💰MY AI PET has raised $2.6M in Seed funding, backed by @ambergroup_io, @ViaBTCCapital, @tbvxyz, @BASICSCapital, and @ICC_Venture 🚀Agents are stateless. We are building the state layer. Most AI agents today work the exact https://t.co/i8xXiEF8sq

Today, River Markets announced an $8.5M seed round led by @HaunVentures We’re building the prime broker for prediction markets, giving professional trading firms unified execution and risk across venues. Thanks to @FortuneMagazine and @c_grigera for covering what we're

today we introduce a beta of Krea in Slack. expand your team’s creative work with the latest AI models and an agent that adapts to your preferences. try it now at krea . ai https://t.co/q2HnRuU2VE

📢 DeepSeek V4 Official Release Is Now Live on https://t.co/JerjymcZyf! We’ve fully upgraded DeepSeek V4 across Web Chat and API to the latest official V4-Flash-0731 and V4-Pro-0813 releases. Model IDs and API endpoint configs remain unchanged—no action required! Key https://t.co/h9gOmB8Ewk

Numo is now mobile-first. Contribute from anywhere with new video tasks, audio tasks in more languages, and faster withdrawals. Live today on iOS and Android ↓ https://t.co/kZTpoRPbTi

CoinFello, a powerful AI agent for onchain actions and strategies, has launched its new Fello 2 agent on @Monad Describe any onchain action in plain language, approve it, and the agent does the rest https://t.co/c30x8lumht https://t.co/kja2bGRBOj

Today we're launching sensitive data redaction in Mastra observability! Automatically strip out your users’ PII from agent traces: https://t.co/wDK8w7XXsx

Agentic AI is moving pretty fast right now. But for me, the interesting question isn't how fast can it generate a video? It's how much of the actual creative process can it understand? And Agent Two from @invideoOfficial has shown time and time again that it can not only speed https://t.co/tvUX4pL0b8 https://t.co/ASjc8OkRZw

Code review should be more than just checking the diff. Ito builds your app, runs the PR, and shows you exactly what broke. Ito is now live on Product Hunt. A useful tool for developers who want to catch real issues before merging. #Ito #ProductHunt #DevTools #CodeReview https://t.co/2p3oZs5VX7

Today we’re launching MeebCo Labs, our R&D division focused on experimenting with Meebits and MeebCo IP in new playgrounds outside our traditional mandate. Labs will be our onchain playground, adjacent to but separate from official Meebits lore. A place to try new ideas, create https://t.co/f7yM1xjQ1c