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

An early beta of Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows is now available for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. Through this early beta, we will improve the model and product based on your feedback. Try it at https://t.co/bpTHpjivWD https://t.co/Rlg4qMLkrv

We raised $1M dollars to reinvent how people read. Introducing Mark II - a $159 AI bookmark. Thread below https://t.co/eL0XsyRlgC

Today we’re launching the OpenAI Deployment Company to help businesses build and deploy AI. It's majority-owned and controlled by OpenAI. It brings together 19 leading investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators to help organizations deploy frontier AI to production

Introducing Daybreak: frontier AI for cyber defenders. Daybreak brings together the most capable OpenAI models, Codex, and our security partners to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software. A step toward a future where security teams can move at the speed https://t.co/AGfXhmJb5E

We’re launching @JudgmentLabs today and announcing $32M in funding. As AI agents take on more of the work that creates economic value, they generate massive amounts of production data: the clearest record of how they behave with users, software, and the real world. Judgment https://t.co/SGk8IPpTIZ

Introducing Libra AI, the SOTA super agent that amplifies your work, enabling you to bring your best everyday. Your work life will never be the same starting today. > Libra understands all your data and context like a human teammate > Takes actions on your behalf > Replaces the https://t.co/UXuKQQyfDc

Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Cursor! It's 2.5x the speed at 6x the cost. For most tasks, we recommend using the standard speed.

BIG one for devs today. Introducing the Notion Developer Platform: - Notion CLI, ntn (Notion in your terminal) - Workers (run code on Notion's infra) - Database sync (any data source into Notion) - Agent tools (build any workflow) - Webhook triggers (trigger Notion from any app) https://t.co/7QEKetrWWf https://t.co/gCv71844gQ

We're announcing our $50M Series B led by Benchmark. Founders Fund and Human Capital are tripling down in the round. We gave Benchmark a sneak preview of our upcoming GA release. They saw the future of sales. We had a term sheet 2 hours later. The future of sales is Monaco. https://t.co/9zbto6C2Lg

Today marks the beginning of a new era. Introducing: Cowboy Space Corporation. We are building orbital infrastructure for the AI era: a fully integrated system of rockets and satellites designed to deliver high-performance compute and optical data transmission directly from https://t.co/Q3mLDX58x1

Introducing Templates in ElevenCreative. Ready-made creative workflows. Upload your input, pick a template, get a finished asset - product shots, mockups, style transfers, character sheets, and more. https://t.co/8nrf7jQV2Y

We raised $6M to bring the future of filmmaking into your hands. Today, the premiere of our first Flick Residency Film Series is now live. 14 filmmakers. 13 films. All made on Flick. Founded by filmmaker @ZoeyZ1004 and Instagram Stories founding engineer @RuiCromwell . Backed https://t.co/Ub0L2xqGo8

Introducing Ponder: the agentic video editor. It’s a new paradigm for filmmaking, where powerful creative agents and humans collaborate to tell world-class stories. We're also announcing our $2.5M pre-seed, led by Liu Jiang from Sunflower (@seedtosunflower), with @Joshuabrowder https://t.co/n5jSO7SZMH

Rolling out today as a preview on iOS and Android in all supported regions. Support for connecting your phone to the Codex app on Windows is coming soon. https://t.co/jGNH2CUXih

Stitch raised a $25M Series A, led by @a16z, with continued backing from Arbor, COTU, Raed, and SVC. Grateful to our customers, who trust us with the systems that run their business. Financial institutions still run on infrastructure that should have been left behind 20 years https://t.co/XgvVqdNKK6

We’ve raised $12M to hire the next generation of filmmakers at TrueShort! Led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures and participation from Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks), Ravi Nandan (A24), Scott Belsky (Behance), General Catalyst, and more Here’s the story 👇 https://t.co/7fiX5mLVU1

Ardent (@ArdentAI) let's you clone any Postgres DB <6s at TB scale so coding agents can test their code and engineering teams can ship fast without fear of taking down production. It's already being used by dozens of teams like Supermemory and Surface Labs with 10TB+ of data https://t.co/YYqaWDQOGj

Cursor is now available in Microsoft Teams. Mention @​Cursor in any channel to delegate tasks to an agent or pull information from Cursor into Teams. https://t.co/dasXpc8rgC

Introducing Agent Orchestration in Notion 🎼 Imagine a Decagon ticket routes to your coding agent, which proposes a fix and loops your team in to approve. That’s no longer a dream. Now, anyone can work with agents in Notion, not just engineers. https://t.co/Tx1lnBEYIp

Introducing Code Intelligence. Give Linear Agent controlled access to your codebase and turn repositories into shared product context your whole team can use. https://t.co/6PRTDmSihU

At #Knowledge26, our CEO Jensen Huang and @ServiceNow Chairman and CEO Bill McDermott unveiled the next chapter of enterprise AI. Through Project Arc and Vibe Coding, we are integrating the NVIDIA AI Factory into the ServiceNow platform to turn complex intent into seamless https://t.co/pY6OZfvMuN

🎁 Introducing GenClipboard. Copy anything. Paste it anytime. Totally free. We've been using it inside Genspark for months. Today, we're sharing it with everyone. Everything you copy, kept and searchable: - Text, links, passwords, and code - Images and screenshots - Scroll https://t.co/MhWADTmaO5

Actor has raised a $4M seed round. I am excited to show a snapshot of what our deployed robot models can do in the real-world. We're incredibly grateful to be supported by investors from Eniac Ventures, Hyperion Capital, Hummingbird VC, 2048 Ventures, Nova Fund, Vanderbilt https://t.co/Gwo5rpdeNu

✅ #1 requested dev feature shipped: Markdown API! In the last year, we shifted our focus and launched many of your top asks like: - Database views API - Personal access tokens - Notion MCP is 91% more token-efficient - Root page creation - Database locks for read-only - https://t.co/jsofLJZEPX

Krea 2 is the first of many upcoming releases towards making AI feel like a true creative medium. raw, flexible, unopinionated, and unconstrained. https://t.co/SYuEU6dNp0

Novella raised $21M to give insurance brokers super-powers. We’ve spent the last two years working with insurance brokers and carriers to answer their one question - how will AI impact my job? Today, we’re sharing the answer: https://t.co/XJnkuMt7vc

Introducing: the Notion Developer Platform. Sync any data. Build any tool. Orchestrate any agent. All in Notion. https://t.co/RPgmC52qhb

Effort levels are now available to all users on usage-based Bugbot and can be configured from your Bugbot dashboard. Learn more: https://t.co/t6Gob8hEup

Need document parsing that stays fully local and private? 👀 Meet liteparse-server, a self-hostable, open-source HTTP server for parsing documents and generating screenshots from PDFs, Office files, and images. ✅ 100% self-hosted ✅ Private by default ✅ Open source ✅ Built https://t.co/nYe2VYroBX

In addition to a rich set of rigorously validated, out-of-the-box connectors in Gemini Enterprise, we introduced support for Bring Your Own Model Context Protocol (BYO-MCP) to Gemini Enterprise. More on tailoring the AI experience to your specific enterprise workflows ↓