Top startup launches for the week of August 22-31, 2026

Today, we're launching Ako: our AI teammate that completes work for you in Slack and WhatsApp. Ako works across your team, connects to all your tools and gets work done. Try: https://t.co/5wdxJ5rK4x You've heard this pitch before, so I'll cover the principles Ako is built https://t.co/bc4w7P75xe

Today we’re launching the @Inth I always wanted. Privacy shouldn’t become a fire drill when diligence starts. It should live in the codebase, on the website and in every PR. That’s what we’ve built. We spent months rebuilding Inth from the bottom-up, and I am so excited for it

Agents are no longer integrations. Introducing Clawbits, the agent native team chat where humans and AI agents work together as members of the same organization. Meet your new teammates https://t.co/JTmAhC39ua

Introducing Ambitious. Ambition is the word of the year. Every AI lab, product, and post is telling us to be more ambitious. So we took it literally. We built Ambitious — a new social network for ambitious people. Every line of code was written by AI. And we’re not stopping https://t.co/KhbyafBgvl

We just released the DSpark weights for Nanbeige4.2-3B (https://t.co/8lWoxcgYqI). https://t.co/lXqTqkCcez

UXUY Officially Launches 24-Hour U.S. Stock TradingU.S. stock spot trading and U.S. stock perpetual contracts are now live. Global asset trading is no longer limited by traditional market hours. From crypto to U.S. stocks, from spot to perpetual contracts, UXUY is bringing https://t.co/pG8r4FAOnK

We just raised Transmuter caps on Mainnet. Our current fixed-rate yields: ✦ USDC: 13.5% APR ✦ ETH: 5% APR Lock alAssets at today's rate and receive 1:1 underlying at maturity. Lock in fixed yield: https://t.co/P66JLjJhqz https://t.co/HymULMUAAf

Within the last 24 hours, we have launched and thoroughly tested 4 bridge routes connecting PulseChain with other blockchains: 1️⃣Sonic ↔ PulseChain assets 2️⃣HyperEVM ↔ PulseChain assets 3️⃣Cronos ↔ PulseChain assets 4️⃣Pharos ↔ PulseChain assets Together with @zkxwallet, https://t.co/9EblHekRtk

We have raised $150M in oversubscribed Series A funding at a $1B valuation to scale power-flexible AI data centers, and turn them into grid assets that will lower costs and increase reliability in their communities. 🔗https://t.co/jJQN7NPLeV https://t.co/4xedDjE7Db

introducing firecrawl keyless now your ai agents get started searching and scraping the web 100% free - state-of-the-art search accuracy (94.7% on simpleqa) - sub-3s scrapes, any page into clean markdown - no api key, no signup npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all --browser https://t.co/SNRhYUca5K

Introducing the Tamarind Model Router. You want to know which molecular AI model will work best for this specific input, not which model wins on average. Tamarind runs hundreds of scientific AI models, and picks the best tool for the job. https://t.co/rnwdeYbcKB https://t.co/gkc4GqQW7P

Introducing Almanac payments, powered by AgentCard. Your AI agent should never have access to your cards. It should have its own. Today, Almanac is partnering with @agentcardhq to let agents make payments and actually finish the work they started. Retreat, subscriptions, https://t.co/wO94c7y6jF