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

We just raised $7.5M to build the infrastructure for identity and fraud. The round is backed by @ycombinator, Orange Collective, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, and other incredible VCs and angels. AI is making fraud incredibly cheap to create: fake identities, fake businesses, fake https://t.co/WYWcOsdHmB

Varun Vummadi (@varunvummadi) is the co-founder of @GigaAI, which builds AI agents for customer support for some of the biggest companies in the world, including DoorDash, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the US, and a top-three global telecom provider. At Startup School https://t.co/FhCjjlXz1p

1/ Today, we're launching universal deposit addresses. Each user gets one persistent address that accepts crypto deposits across supported chains and automatically settles funds into the token your app expects. https://t.co/d4fRpNlDWf

Today, I'm incredibly excited to announce @withdefault's Series A led by @8vc and our new product. We spent the last three years building the tools and orchestration layer companies like @owner and @AirbyteHQ have used to build infrastructure across their go-to-market functions. https://t.co/4KsGztbfC1

today, we're releasing the API for Krea 2. now available in platforms like @fal or @ComfyUI, through agents like Hermes from @NousResearch, and with full support for Claude, Codex, or OpenClaw. learn how you can set it up 👇 https://t.co/R4jdyyTxQk

Introducing The Giga Roadmap. The first public roadmap of the milestones leading to the Giga Upgrade. Implementing the Giga Upgrade to the live network is an extraordinarily complex engineering task. Follow every step from here to Giga: https://t.co/HrHWzi56e8 https://t.co/RiHbyWBsQF

Today, we are launching Hosted Evaluations on the platform. Running evals is an infra problem: harnesses, sandboxes, hours of compute, hundreds of parallel runs. Running evals is hard. Until now. https://t.co/8RydFWZ7cC

New capabilities coming to Figma Make (Rolling out now in our Beta desktop app) → Bring your codebase to Make → Edit code with precise changes → Branch, commit, ship https://t.co/bWScGVmSnh

Perplexity Computer is now available inside Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Orchestrate across work with Computer directly in the side panel of your app to draft documents, model, build decks, and handle email. Available now: https://t.co/0itt5XcFRX https://t.co/oHf90rP4Xv

Tenet Industries (@industriestenet) is building low-cost, mass-producible defense systems, starting with strike drones. Defense primes are still building Bugattis and Ferraris. Tenet is building the F-150 for defense. https://t.co/XGoSOF7HOT

Introducing Project Luxo: a new initiative exploring how AI-generated video has crossed the uncanny valley. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared a series of short films with Hollywood executives, producers, directors, writers, actors and reporters. The response has been https://t.co/47TOMqzK4r

We’re working hard to launch @SilqueAI this summer. 🔥 We’ve already raised $3M in pre-seed round and packed Silque with amazing features. Now you can create animated product photography for your beauty, longevity and physical products. I’ve already been using it for client https://t.co/q5dZEskNoX

Today we're launching Simple Compute Market (SCM). The market is simple: agents find compute, negotiate, settle, and get access without a human driving every step. Open-source. Agent-driven. Public good. No token. No fees. https://t.co/HzifmLpWwT

Introducing Meshy 3D Agent 🚀 The world's first AI agent for 3D creation, now in Beta. Just chat — the agent will: 🧠 Brainstorm with you, pitching directions first 🎨 Generate visuals in batches, refined through chat 🧊 Turn your favorite into 3D — print, download, anywhere 📚 https://t.co/ztuPhZPba6

Introducing the Cosmos Coalition A new global initiative with NVIDIA and leading AI labs to build and open-source frontier world models for physical AI. Runway joins as a founding member, working alongside NVIDIA and a set of leading AI labs to build, share and accelerate world https://t.co/zWYwJuhS79

Today we are launching the inaugural version of Linear Diffs, our take on code reviews. Diffs is meant to enable product teams to accelerate shipping by making code reviews fast, focused, and in context. Code review has remained a painful bottleneck while the rest of building https://t.co/KzWeALocsv

Enjamb (@tryenjamb) puts AI agents across the entire drug program, from evidence synthesis to regulatory docs to statistical programming, cutting months off the path from preclinical to approval. https://t.co/kfq4DbjffL https://t.co/CLWjXVy6F5

Today @MeetArc announces our $10.76M Seed led by @a16z, with participation from @Adverbvc , Broadway Restaurant Group, and @unitedtalent. 200K US drive-thrus run on 1950s tech. Arc lets operators run them like modern digital channels: design the experience, A/B test upsell, see https://t.co/atTaiUGM0t

Introducing @TheRealStanLee on ElevenLabs. The voice of a legend is now available on the Iconic Marketplace and in ElevenReader. Crafted from professional recordings, Stan’s wit and warmth comes through exactly as you remember it. https://t.co/POOYIZiOwj

AI is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity. That's why we're launching Google AI Threat Defense today. Learn more about this automated security system designed to continuously monitor for and stop AI-powered threats before they can impact your business → https://t.co/6ZO4xeEMQc https://t.co/oSohpj6SBy

passive video has been the same for 100 years. this breaks it. reactor just came out of stealth and devs can already build on top https://t.co/yv2X7sXPeh

Today, we're launching 4 official partner skills on https://t.co/ZbU21ECKPE to improve agent capabilities: - Get an inbox with @agentmail - Make any payment with the @link CLI - Deep research people & companies with @ExaAILabs - Analyze product insights with @Amplitude_HQ https://t.co/67sD05lIoS

Jensen announced on stage at #COMPUTEX2026 that we'll be among the first cloud providers to bring up @NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, to help accelerate the era of AI factories. As part of NVIDIA's full-stack AI factory platform, Vera Rubin NVL72 is designed to run frontier and https://t.co/zzGvv9G1id

Street View imagery in Project Genie is rolling out to all eligible Google AI Ultra subscribers globally (18+). Try it in @GoogleLabs, tap the Maps pin, choose a place in the U.S., select a style, and start exploring → https://t.co/F9GPj8yvkp https://t.co/C2xkXl5x2d

Yesterday we released Aleph 2.0, our upgraded video editing model that lets you change exactly what you want while keeping everything else the same. Available inside our new Edit Studio, you can work with multishot sequences up to 30 seconds long at 1080p. Learn how to get https://t.co/shxAKJgUwb

Our customer @reactorworld just came out of stealth, and if you're building with world models or want to get started with them, this is big news. They've created exactly what developers need for the world model era: low latency, global scale, real-time setup with minimal effort. https://t.co/RZx4q0FvEr

Mapbox is expensive and runs on US infrastructure. Today we're launching Rijwind: the European alternative. Map tiles, geocoding and routing, hosted in 🇳🇱 The Netherlands. Privacy-friendly by default. More features coming soon! https://t.co/tGI5dIaKSm

Great walkthrough of our new Founder Starter Kit skills by the always-inspiring @jerrod_lew. Now available on Claude via the Pika MCP. https://t.co/UXExaVX27O

.@CentralComs builds AI agents for residential property management companies that automate maintenance coordination, leasing workflows, and back-office end-to-end, so management teams run more smoothly and earn more with the same team size. https://t.co/GTsqH8mq10 https://t.co/DKzJGyLPFp

introducing Moodboard Gallery. we added thousands of new moodboards in our gallery for you to explore and generate using Krea 2. we're also previewing "random" and "auto" – two new modes to select moodboards automatically for your generations. https://t.co/ygdX2NcjU2