Y Combinator launches

Most AI video tools stop at prompting, but LTX goes a layer deeper. Introducing the new LTX Trainer. Train LoRAs and IC-LoRAs across video, audio, cross-modal, and reference-conditioned workflows from a single framework. Plus: • New agentic skill • Flexible conditioning • https://t.co/ee0wVZAcba

Kuli (@kuli_ai) is the AI coworker that gives marketers their time back and makes them 10x more efficient. It watches all videos on socials to find the next trend and gets work done. Already live at Fortune 100 brands, it plans and runs their campaigns with creators. Congrats https://t.co/ge62ESE2KN

AI agents will pay you to chat with them. When AI agents hit a wall, Humwork's (@humworkai) MCP server connects them to a verified domain expert in 30 seconds. Their experts include senior engineers, marketers, designers, and more. Congrats on the launch, @theyashgoenka and https://t.co/aAImHZ2pdx

Meet Standout: your personal Talent Agent It introduces you to your next role to escape the permanent underclass With AGI around the corner it’s time to do your life work RT and comment “Standout” for access — first opportunities in minutes (french accent not included in the https://t.co/fgofDkkwgp

AI is making marketers lazy. So we made the website do the work instead. Today, we're launching @ployai: the all-in-one marketing platform that turns your website into your hardest working employee. And we're coming out of stealth today with a $27M seed led by @ycombinator and https://t.co/9IO0ScRpQt

Introducing Respan AI Gateway. The world’s first AI gateway with built-in observability, evals, and prompt optimization. Access 1,000+ models through one endpoint, with the production layer teams need beyond routing. https://t.co/pFiEDKDxbn

It’s never been easier to design your dream house. Draw a shape. Define your rooms. Set your constraints. @DraftedAI generates complete floor plans, elevations, and 3D home designs in seconds. Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with https://t.co/15UwGKE5G3

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

Today we're launching Paxel: a free tool that analyzes your Claude, Codex, and Cursor coding sessions and gives you a profile of how you build with AI. It runs locally inside Docker, and your code never leaves your machine. Try it at https://t.co/HqSHneQSTQ https://t.co/ykmg52NLDR

Aster (@asterailabs) is building the autonomous research lab. They run thousands of AI agents in parallel to achieve 1000x speedups in autonomous research. Their lab just set a world record on ProteinGym in 30 minutes—and now they're automating open-ended research. Congrats on https://t.co/XAfcuGSoFA

Today we're launching Rivet, a tool that explores dozens of interfaces with you. - Start from your local agent - Connect your design references - See your directions in one place I want Rivet to help you try bold ideas and creative risks. ⚽ Demo here: https://t.co/rFa8KfsHlc https://t.co/tbJmN6lgoR

Nox Metals exists so America can build 100x more factories and technologically abundant industrial capacity in the West. We are announcing our $11.5M Seed round led by Hyperion, with participation from Palmer Luckey, Y Combinator, Jared Friedman, RoboStrategy, Operator https://t.co/JZS3sA378O

Today we're introducing Claude for sales. Just describe your ideal customer and Gojiberry instantly finds and contacts high-intent buyers. This is truly insane. https://t.co/PeD7baDKop

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

We told our agent to hack another agent. It found a way in. Then another. Then another. And we can probably hack your agent too. Today, we’re launching Respan Security. https://t.co/zRka87R38o

Bloom (@trybloomai) is the brand layer for agents. It turns your brand into infrastructure that any agent can call to produce on-brand assets. Congrats on the launch, @rincidium! https://t.co/0qDEfQ05QC https://t.co/f7Gm6bIL4E

We’re announcing a $38M Series A led by @a16z. 1 million hours of automated work behind us. Millions more ahead. The future belongs to the 100x operator. https://t.co/RuzoI36pGV

Today, we're launching Crosby Intelligence to push the frontier of legal AI forward. https://t.co/ia3NGm3390

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

The next big social platform won't start with photos or videos. It will start with games. https://t.co/EOEBWDUx2D is the TikTok for user-generated games: anyone can play, create, publish, and monetize. In 5 days, they hit 1M organic plays across 3,000 games. https://t.co/YGzxY58M3M

Telepatia has raised $42 million, including a $33 million Series A led by a16z. My father’s nickname was Telepatia. He was a doctor who passed away at 58 from a preventable cause. A few days after his death, ChatGPT launched. My first thought was that an AI Doctor would have https://t.co/QlL4K0MaNu

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

Thomas is a virtual human who starts, runs, and grows his own companies. His only goal is to make money. In only 2 weeks, he made $17k. Congrats on the launch, @madebythomasai! https://t.co/R3T0Kz37uc https://t.co/Zw41se65dn

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

Congrats to @kiwicopple, @AntWilson, and the @supabase team on their $500M Series F at a $10B valuation! Database launches on Supabase have grown 600% in the past year, with more than 60% of new databases launched by AI tools. Nearly 10 million developers build on Supabase https://t.co/0eLvOBxylL

Congrats to @TryLance on their $5M seed! Lance builds AI agents that run hotel operations, handling guest communication and executing the work behind the scenes. Hotels still rely on calls, radios, and manual coordination. Staff miss inbound calls, juggle requests across https://t.co/2oULZMCglR

Introducing Respan Evals 2.0: Automation. Most AI production issues don’t show up as errors. They show up as answers that look valid but are wrong, incomplete, unsafe, or off-brand. Respan now runs automated online evals on live production logs to catch silent quality failures https://t.co/DN8XYT6Rf3

Today we're launching @onestop_sh. $1,000 to the most-starred listing by Sunday at midnight (NYC). Send your agent → https://t.co/1qt0uCpD2W May the most thrifty agent win. https://t.co/JDKGvM8g2h

Congrats to @10x_Science on their $4.8M seed! They're building AI for molecular-level protein characterization, a process that today requires specialized scientists spending weeks or months manually interpreting complex data. Their platform delivers the same insights in minutes. https://t.co/JFao3JUVfW

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

Result (@tryresult) is an operating system for starting a business. It helps users go from an idea to building a product, incorporating their companies, managing finances, filing taxes, and marketing— all on a single platform. Result is where the internet makes money. Congrats https://t.co/2ITWvuCfSx

Introducing Tacit Labs: an applied research lab at the intersection of AI and biology. https://t.co/lBhghiTVtY

OpenWork (@getopenwork) is the open source alternative to Claude Cowork. Roll out AI compliantly across your non-technical org at scale. Use your existing agents, deploy on-prem, and use any LLM provider you want. They already have 14k stars on GitHub with over 150k downloads. https://t.co/bc90Z4EEZf

We built the fastest explainer video generator in the world. Introducing Simi: turn any prompt, doc, or idea into a complete whiteboard explainer video in seconds. It supports 80+ languages, so the same idea can be taught to audiences anywhere. AI video has gotten insanely https://t.co/VE0uIaCCqt

1/ Introducing https://t.co/FQ8sagSilF - now live on @Pumpfun Reinventing the trading interface All of Solana on one canvas Imagine any trade strategy with AI And generate an interface for it $ALGOPUB F6mbYSowWLoqX1G7qyc8xfggbr4VkwAjLdsPqmtcpump https://t.co/mAqAWVjeUh

Hub (@hubxyz) provides real-world training data to frontier AI labs and robotics. Human labor is half of global GDP. Almost none of it has ever been recorded. Hub opens access to it through a global network of contributors capturing hard-to-access data. Congrats on the launch, https://t.co/khJ8imWvSE

Today, we're introducing Claude for Prospecting. Just describe your ideal customers, and Gojiberry finds and reaches out to hundreds of them from a single prompt. Welcome to the next era of sales. https://t.co/HY63zehO6b

Foaster (@Foaster_ai) is building AI agents to replace consulting firms. They map how your company works, build your AI roadmap in days, and continuously guide adoption, upskilling, and execution. Congrats on the launch, @RaphaelDabadie and @alexcmbs17! https://t.co/NuMN5Ztn5J https://t.co/vommiCN61H

I joined Y Combinator with 14 users, building a dev tool for myself. Then @SaaiArora joined as CTO, and we started growing and shipping 2x faster. It forced us to rebuild product and infra from the ground up for teams, not solo devs. We are ending the batch with >300k agent https://t.co/nLzgogI6VA

Sazabi is a next-generation observability platform designed for fast-moving, AI-native engineering teams. If you're using Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, or Axiom today, you could be moving ten times faster with @sazabi. Congrats on the launch, @shcallaway! https://t.co/dpjfxXDxkR https://t.co/ZTqlV8Uu4T

Most voice AI falls apart the second a call gets complicated. @usebland is building the one that doesn't, and investors noticed. The company raised a $50 million Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, taking total funding past $100 million. Instead of renting third-party https://t.co/qVbG3jcLk4

Lamina Labs is building the fastest infra for explainer videos. The first product from @laminalabs, Simi, turns any prompt or document into a whiteboard-style explainer video in seconds, across 80+ languages, so anyone can explain anything clearly. Congrats on the launch, https://t.co/RDVbY9tiEo

Today we're launching Yapper Earn: get paid to make content for brands. Browse paid opportunities, submit videos, and get paid every time a brand accepts your content. Comment "earn" & we'll send you the link! (must be following @yapper_so) https://t.co/s0pamcbm4X

Soria is an AI Bloomberg Terminal built for sector-specialist investors, starting with healthcare. Agents aggregate hundreds of sources, monitor inflections, and alert investors in real time— and they're already live with major banks and hedge funds. https://t.co/IMtSSLkRhW https://t.co/eMQChDP3An

Klaimee (@klaimee_ai) is the insurance for your AI agents. They help your company deploy autonomous AI at scale, bridging the gap that cyber and E&O policies are excluding today. Congrats on the launch, @inesboutem & @JulsCaton! https://t.co/TFuXzWhuYG https://t.co/4UBxrWHzLl

Today, we’re launching Soren (backed by YC). Over the past few years, AI has transformed what humans can build, understand, and automate. But in many of the world’s most important sectors (finance, legal, and healthcare), the impact has remained limited. These industries rely https://t.co/A7tj1iriEk

Today, we're introducing ChatGPT for Explainer Videos. With just one prompt, Simi lets you generate whiteboard-style explainer videos that actually teach you something in seconds. On our fastest tier, your video is ready to watch in under 20 seconds. https://t.co/VEYGjo9xiH

Plena (@plena_health) is the AI OS for specialty medical practices. It runs the operations — referrals, fax, scheduling & collections — end-to-end so doctors can focus on medicine. In 8 months, they've grown 17x and crossed seven figures in contracted ARR. Congrats on the https://t.co/fM1OLjzoij

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

Gravy is building Agents for your money. @gravy_finance connects to your banks, investments, email and more to explain your money and automate your financial tasks. Congrats on the launch, @alitabba_ & @DevMaxC! https://t.co/MMJ1cr2KoE https://t.co/WryqUtsEUY

Intelligence Factory is building human intelligence for robots. They train general-purpose manipulation models on human demonstration data (vision, action, and touch), then deploy them in warehouses, grocery stores, and data centers. Congrats on the launch, @coldifl and Jalaj! https://t.co/nrXtU2ZqfH

Today, we're introducing Claude for Prospecting. Just describe your ideal customers, and Gojiberry finds and reaches out to hundreds of them from a single prompt. Welcome to the next era of sales. https://t.co/nmGtp3RjWo

Ara is the self-driving IDE. Instead of waiting for your next prompt, it ships features for you. @aradotso maintains self-improving memory across the app, Claude, and Codex. Congrats on the launch, @xadisingh & @svemyhre! https://t.co/EpakdCWbmH https://t.co/KOTJjdyhCm

tday (@designtday) builds marketing on autopilot for software companies— turning every shipped feature into demo videos, social posts, and graphics, so teams can market as fast as they build. Congrats on the launch, @cyruskellyadl, @s43stha & @David_l_mcd1! https://t.co/YVgxbnBO4G

Walter (@walterindustry) is an AI employee for the manufacturing back office. He logs into the same legacy ERP a factory already runs just like a human would, and takes over the manual work no one ever wanted to do. Congrats on the launch, @nikolas_keller, @lukaspostulka! https://t.co/ZhvmWMVTDi

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

Parrot’s (@tryparrotai) OS provides full context on estimates, parts, customers, insurers, suppliers, and payments, so their agents can physically call and communicate with real people to run the shop on autopilot. Congrats on the launch, @pbaek5699 & @Parrot_Liam! https://t.co/ROaBCD2q74

An AI just sold an insurance policy entirely on its own. @kinroai is the autonomous insurance brokerage. AI agents that quote, answer, and serve your insurance needs 24/7. Congrats on the launch, @corentin_hgt, @pierrealexai, & @parthfyi! https://t.co/fksvlEJKQs https://t.co/epfbiZwPJx

Colombian startups collectively raised US$46.6 million this week alone 🇨🇴 Major rounds include: > Telepatía AI (@Nicobot01 ): US$33 million Series A round > El Dorado (@eldoradoio , @stablecoing ): US$9 million Series A round > Braven: US$4.6 million Seed round Congratulations https://t.co/MADFDGEdQf

International sourcing is broken. @saudaraAI is fixing it. Saudara is an AI broker connecting US brands with vetted overseas factories. Real humans, AI-powered, 10x faster than traditional sourcing agents. https://t.co/x2CO77UnqJ Congrats on the launch, @edwardharyono_ and https://t.co/VY4Ki4IrzD

Are you missing out on the next 10x engineer? Saffron (@trysaffron) lets companies evaluate how well software engineers code with AI tools. Congrats on the launch, @roblukan, @kazumachoji and @_mjyao! https://t.co/0URb7qDi5S https://t.co/AZTcsJijjz

.@BentoLabsAI is the monitoring and learning layer for long-running agents. Their learning layer gives agents model-jump gains: Sonnet 4.5 went 42.2%→52.4% on TB2 (Internal). Congrats on the launch, @Abhinavv_soni & @kacppian! https://t.co/LTy5sslfni https://t.co/6E5ZGzh5eY

.@Salesgraph gives every rep a team of marketers, analysts, & strategists working 24/7 behind every opportunity. Automate context gathering, collateral, and strategy for sales teams. Every qualified opportunity becomes a high-touch strategic deal. Congrats on the launch, https://t.co/z0RK5XLf8N

Today, we are launching our research blog! We’ll use it for technical notes from our work building tools for enzyme and biomolecular design. Our first post is about The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds. TLDR: Please don't fold more sequences (1/n) https://t.co/MPC0G5mcKh

introducing Crosby Intelligence! while AI agents are new, human negotiation has been the backbone of society for thousands of years. the Crosby Intelligence branding is a simulation of the Gale-Shapley stable matching algorithm, instantiated with random preferences and solved in https://t.co/w74XAldMuc https://t.co/0ALOc4fWcp

50% of orders go to whoever quotes first. Yet industrial distributors hand-copy RFQs into 30-year-old software. Hexa is automating their sales and procurement workflows so they quote faster and win more bids. Congrats on the launch, @Ishaanx75, @MannPatira, and @AuriNayak! https://t.co/PntCr325rK

🏥 @TaigaBilling is the AI-native medical billing company for modern practices. They file claims with insurance and follow up on every single one until the practice gets paid so clinicians can focus on seeing patients. Congrats on the launch, @nandaguntupalli and @AdamWax3! https://t.co/u1WLT8wqFV

Memoir (@trymemoir_ai) is an autonomous marketing system for software companies, letting builders focus on building. It turns your code into demo videos and makes social posts in your own voice, automatically. Congrats on the launch, @MaanavA51108 & @ZhanJason179! https://t.co/71QDPOotJM

AICE is building a new generation of intelligent, autonomous underwater drones to defend maritime infrastructure. Cheap aerial drones have transformed warfare in the air. AICE believes the same shift is coming underwater. Congrats on the launch, @gregchomette & https://t.co/JXkX8WlwSi

Zolvo (@zolvo_ai) automates commercial lending back offices so firms manage reconciliation, collections, and monitoring at 80% lower operational cost per dollar. Congrats on the launch, Isabela and Tony! https://t.co/vY2rxKcUA0 https://t.co/ZOZQNwN9Oe

Autostep finds the repetitive work hiding inside your company, then helps you fix it. It context mines how your team works across emails, decks and reports. Then it proactively spawns agents on that context so the work never gets repeated again. Congrats on the launch, https://t.co/7HAJf1dN2s

.@with_sherpa turns more website visitors into customers by running experiments autonomously. Ryan used Sherpa to ship 40 website experiments in 30 days and lifted Lindy's conversion 30%. So they made a movie about it. Congrats on the launch @ethan_kinnan and @norbusonam! https://t.co/KZEGZoe9CE

Uno Wallet (@myunowallet) replaces Apple Wallet on iPhone and helps you pay with the right card every time. Add your cards, double-click to pay, and Uno picks the best one. Congrats on the launch, @RuleSaket & @MordiShadpour! https://t.co/2lH6wF6Haj https://t.co/HGTjZ2jEEt

.@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

playing out: ✅ Lighter announces agent trading features ✅ Robinhood launches agentic trading could be next: ⏳ $TIBBIR emerging from stealth ⏳ Tibbir gets listed on Lighter & Robinhood ⏳ Trust & Identity layer/KYA/reputation https://t.co/VyFQNwq5nG https://t.co/ZU3z3wNNy7

Wato (@watolabs) is building the collaboration layer for teams working with AI agents: shared knowledge, cloud agents, automations, and permissioned tools across the AI subscriptions companies already use. Congrats on the launch, @arihanxv & @rahulrejeev! https://t.co/ftRI0aUNMg

Asendia AI builds AI recruiters for staffing agencies and enterprise companies. It clones their best recruiters into AI agents that match, screen, and submit candidates 10x faster. Congrats on the launch, @LajmiRihab and @zormati_ba! https://t.co/2OHkrmBGLx https://t.co/I8j0pjHDKm

Wealor is building the AI-native platform for wealth managers— a centralized source of truth across wealth management, tax, and legal, with AI agents that automate operational work directly across legacy systems. Congrats on the launch, @Pierredpy72 and @KarimBOURI1! https://t.co/ZiLjYDNZWj

Cignara (@cignara_ai) automates sales and customer support for large B2C enterprises across voice + chat. Its AI agents go beyond FAQs to resolve issues, execute governed policy-bound actions, and surface retention and growth moments. Congrats on the launch, @nalingupta01! https://t.co/dR87kfHUKp

Introducing Crown, the world's first AI taste multiplier. Describe any creative idea and it builds dozens of finished versions in parallel, so all you do is pick the best one. We're entering a new era of creativity where the machine creates, and the human decides. https://t.co/i905TQlL7u

Introducing Osmaura (YC S26), AI agents that help corporate law firm partners find new matter opportunities. 🧵 If you want access to our tool, reply with “early access” and we’ll reach out to you! https://t.co/2i15x3VIpV

Maquoketa is building the intelligence layer for drone manufacturers and the US military, starting with a better guidance system. They triple the successful hit rate of one-way attack drones for one-fifth the vehicle cost. Congrats on the launch, @yeager620, @alejahern_, https://t.co/AQD3t8ISox

BREAKING: @noxmetals, the new-age Detroit metal supplier, has secured an $11.5M seed round led by Hyperion. The round also included Palmer Luckey, Y Combinator, Jared Friedman, RoboStrategy, Operator Collective, DTX, Alumni Ventures, and others. The company is redeveloping a

Refortifai is building Atrisa, agents for analog circuit design. It reasons hierarchically about your circuit, finds the right topologies for your specs, and does deep-dive debugging — all with awareness of parasitics, physical layout, reusability, and interference. Bring your https://t.co/dnSOETqZXZ

.@KugelAudio builds multilingual voice AI you can run in your own Kubernetes cluster. It handles 30+ languages and dialects naturally. Even phone numbers, emails, and mixed-language text — fully on-prem. https://t.co/Inec0ateC1 https://t.co/A4ZB9eA3Eu

Today, we're introducing ChatGPT for Explainer Videos. With just one prompt, Simi lets you generate whiteboard-style explainer videos that actually teach you something in seconds. On our fastest tier, your video is ready to watch in under 20 seconds. https://t.co/OAu70dKIu3