Top startup launches for the week of August 15-21, 2026

Origin, our code hosting platform, is now live. It's fast, easy to use, and deeply integrated with Cursor. Get started by syncing your repos from GitHub. https://t.co/aqRHavAOQg

Claude Academy is now live. Whether you're figuring out what AI is or already using Claude every day, there's a path that meets you where you are. The courses and tutorials are free and open to anyone at https://t.co/WRiSRAvK6l https://t.co/llx2W0VIIy

We've raised $700M at a $21B valuation from Jane Street, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, A16Z, Peter Thiel, BCV, and Blackstone. We're also excited to share that we've shipped our first rack to Jane Street. https://t.co/MFlF2xSw0B

Aaaaaaand we're live! https://t.co/ZElVA2hguv No ads. No API keys. No revenue sharing. Just outbid your competitors to rank #1 and consider marketing done for today 🚀 https://t.co/IEQff6xzdf https://t.co/SM5mGNPMuh

This is the moment. Club app is live everywhere iOS and Android, all platforms, all people, no exceptions. You waited, we built, now it's here. No more "soon." Stop scrolling and go download it, you're going to want to be here for what's next. https://t.co/kMEJd5NsmF

Building apps on https://t.co/ISbWbJTky7, iOS, and Android is now available on every SuperGrok and X Premium plan One prompt turns an idea into a published product with its own domain. https://t.co/5TxM2pP3V3

Pocket just crossed $100M in Annualized Run Rate. We went from $1M → $100M in just 7 months, making us the fastest YC hardware company to reach this milestone. There are now 270,000+ Pocket devices out in the world. https://t.co/DpGtsW7Zgp

Today we're introducing Okara AI CMO v2. Drop in your website and it deploys a team of faster and smarter agents to help you get traffic, and users. Try it now at https://t.co/O9HytqJXcV https://t.co/NkkhvcB0ot

Transparent backgrounds are now available in preview for GPT-Image-2 in the API. Generate reusable assets you can place on any background—for product imagery, graphic design, website mockups, and marketing campaigns. https://t.co/yRhBIYh8uP

Today, we raised a $13M series A to solve the GPU shortage Trillions are being spent on GPU CapEx while 80% of it sits idle The capacity already exists Virtualizing GPUs unlocks it Backed by Matrix, YC, and CEAS https://t.co/88zFVc96LC

DFlash 2 is here! Qwen3.8-27B at 70 tok/s on an M5 Max MacBook Pro. ⚡ Up to 4.6× the speed of autoregressive decoding, with the same output. This is the next generation of DFlash, seeded at Z Lab and upgraded at Inco AI. Get one more accepted token on every pass, for free! https://t.co/U014V3STIQ

You’ve seen us all over the timeline. Today we come out of stealth. AISC, the leading AI influencer network now at your disposal. Give your brand the lift off it needs. https://t.co/54Nq6RkXIk

GLM-5.3 from @Zai_org is now live on WorkBuddy. Set it as your preferred model and put it to work. https://t.co/Wk6TmlchrV

Announcing the Flop Network $FLOP is food for your AI agent https://t.co/rso5Ava3kb

OpenRouter is joining Stripe. We started OpenRouter with a simple mission: intelligence should be multi-model. Today, we are the largest AI marketplace & gateway, processing 10T+ tokens daily on 400+ models. Joining @Stripe gives us the opportunity to accelerate that mission. https://t.co/21T5zZWfDM

Today we're announcing $280M in Series B funding at a $2B valuation, led by our long-time investor and partner, Menlo Ventures. When we announced our Series A last May, most conversations I had about voice began with someone explaining why they doubted it. I don't have those https://t.co/hGeWkmNjKW

We just killed OpenRouter. AI routers made $100+ million last year charging 5% markups on every dollar. Today that ends. Introducing Straitly the world’s first AI gateway that charges 0% markup on your tokens. No Stripe or Credit Card processing fees. With one API key, you https://t.co/8D0gumGOKg

I'm super excited to share that we have raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation to build a LOT more AI compute capacity in orbit 🚀 Thanks so much to our supporters, including Manhattan West, who led the round, and new investors, @NVIDIA, @Cisco_Invests, @CedarCapital, Goanna Capital, https://t.co/APIYHbb7j2

Today we are welcoming @axisrobotics as the first token-based campaign on Kaito Katalyst. This is also the first campaign to run a referral multiplier. https://t.co/TwK0SHoIpm

We just open-sourced an entire marketing department. Introducing Marketing OS by Arcads. It does the work of your first six marketing hires. 📁 Marketing Department ┃ ┣ 📁 Head of Marketing ┃ ┣ 📁 Positioning ┃ ┣ 📁 Pricing ┃ ┗ 📁 Competitor Teardowns ┃ ┣ 📁 https://t.co/ju02kTGJIj

Introducing CoAnimator: The agentic animation studio Describe the video. Your agent scripts it, builds it, syncs it. You direct, approve, and iterate - all in chat. Professional videos in minutes, not weeks. https://t.co/sv6jXyioTv

1/ Lawyers and SPV managers are the only two professions that take little directional risk. Everyone else eats their own cooking. Today we are announcing our $6M seed for Foremark Legal, the world's first agentic, outcome-based consumer law firm🧵 https://t.co/eWx8kgDiSb

Today, we're launching Imagine Computer! Say what you want in plain words. Get the finished work back. - Real deliverables, not drafts to assemble - Remembers your style, so you stop re-explaining it - Every project builds on the last @Ahmed_abubakarr @abdullahvyro https://t.co/FL3tU6ISDC

Introducing the Axis Content Creator Program: The Katalyst for Physical AI Partnering with @KaitoAI, we are rewarding Axis lore writers with 0.25% of the $AXIS token, to be fully distributed at TGE. Epoch 1 is now live and runs until September 18th at 12:00 UTC. We appreciate https://t.co/pAG6h75FB2

introducing fanout, the everything learning app for engineers, curated by people building at the frontier. your career has no fixed curriculum. neither does fanout. become an ai researcher, a systems engineer, or find your own niche, fanout is a living archive of everything https://t.co/mDtc1AUZ2Q

Today we’re launching Court of Strangers. A new kind of online court for interpersonal conflicts and societal debates. People consider different perspectives and vote anonymously before seeing anyone else’s votes or comments. After voting, they unlock the verdict, demographic https://t.co/MNOa6jeDAk

We're excited to announce that Beldex has secured a new round of funding, led by @Sigma_VC and supported by leading venture capital firms. This investment will accelerate product development, ecosystem growth, and our vision of building privacy infrastructure for Web3. https://t.co/ng5Ty1Xiqi

Today we're introducing CrowdReply SuperAgent. The first agentic AI that ranks your brand in AI answers, all straight from your chat. Tell it what you want. It handles the diagnosis, the fixes and the ranking. https://t.co/5cN7XrcRzW

Cash App Pay is now available on MoonPay! eligible US customers can use their @CashApp balance to buy digital assets on MoonPay live today in the United States https://t.co/xf6SO0SjrL

Introducing Sai-Fi: an open source app that lets you talk to AI agent Sai through a pair of Meta Ray-Ban glasses. Sai is an autonomous computer-use agent. It can see the screen, move the mouse, type, and keep working even when you are away. We used Meta Ray-Bans for the first https://t.co/ev5LTAwQde