Lynkvertx's V2G bet hits China's subsidy wall, then expands abroad
Lynkvertx bet China could commercialize vehicle-to-grid charging, but costly hardware and immature pricing pushed it to diversify abroad.
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2,072 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEArcBox bets coding agents need real microVMs — a Rust runtime goes trending
ArcBox Labs rebuilt the container runtime in Rust: disposable kernel-isolated microVMs for AI agents, about 3.4k GitHub stars by September 2026.
Leer el casoUnforgetful bets snoozers will pay to never lose a reminder
Marco Arment's $19.99-a-year app layers persistent, escalating alerts on Apple Reminders for people who keep dismissing tasks.
Leer el casoPassHub bets one AI hub can end travel agents' dozens of supplier systems
Brazilian travel-tech PassHub reaches 2,000 agencies in nine months, then raises a R$7.5M Parceiro Ventures round to become agents' single hub.
Leer el casoAxelrod bets hotel automation means agents driving the software hotels already have
YC S26's Axelrod Labs sells an agent workforce that operates hotels' existing PMS, POS and RMS by computer control - no APIs, no migration.
Leer el casoPrelint bets AI code needs a decision ledger: PH #1 with 548 votes, $1 per review
Prelint reviews every pull request against ADRs and past decisions to stop AI 'product drift'; PH #1 on 2026-07-29, $1 per review.
Leer el casoCardinal bets the YC network wins AI outbound: 40+ YC customers before W26 Demo Day
Two-time YC founders sell precision-outbound AI agents to fellow YC startups; Cardinal claimed 40+ customers, $80K+ MRR and a $5M raise by August 2026.
Leer el casoM Village's bet: co-living apartments become Vietnam's multi-brand hotel group
Ex-The Coffee House CEO Nguyen Hai Ninh's Modern Village Lifestyle raises $26M at a $121M valuation with 53 locations across Vietnam.
Leer el casoSpice AI bets open-source data acceleration, not ETL, will feed AI apps
Spice AI's Apache-2.0 Rust engine materializes and accelerates SQL from any source; the 2024 Show HN drew 177 points and the repo now shows 3.1k stars.
Leer el casoSmashing, Goodreads founder Otis Chandler's AI curation app, shuts down after 10 months
Chandler's $3.4M bet that community plus AI could curate the whole web died in April 2025: 'We simply didn't grow fast enough.'
Leer el casoDaki's bet: 15-minute groceries only pay off after the unicorn shrinks
Brazil's Daki hit US$1.2B in ten months, lost 40% in 2023, then retrenched to two metros and reached breakeven in 2026.
Leer el casoDSH-better-sidebar bets coding agents need an open sidebar base; 3.3k stars
omdsh-dev's DeepSeek Harness plugin opens its sidebar to third-party tabs and viewers through one API — 3.3k stars and 28+ ecosystem plugins in a month.
Leer el casoTracecat bets cheap open-source SOAR beats Splunk's $100k stack; 3.8k stars
Security automation born as a one-VM SOAR alternative, now agentic; 264-point Show HN in 2024, 3.8k stars by 2026.
Leer el casoOpen Brain bets every AI tool can share one persistent memory; GitHub hits 4.6k stars
Open Brain (OB1) is a self-hosted memory database and AI gateway so Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor share one brain; GitHub 4.6k stars by 2026.
Leer el casoInteguru bets LLMs can reverse-engineer internal APIs; YC W24 launch drew 218 HN points
YC W24 startup: open-source agent turns recorded browser traffic into code against platforms' internal APIs; 218-point Launch HN on 2024-10-29.
Leer el casoClawd on Desk bets a desktop pet beats watching AI agents run; repo hits 6.1k stars
Open-source desktop pet that watches Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 20+ agents — permission bubbles and phone alerts; 6.1k stars by 2026-09-04.
Leer el casoPerfios' decisioning-platform bet: ₹708 Cr FY25 income, ₹104 Cr profit, IPO ahead
A Bengaluru fintech SaaS that automates loan onboarding for 1,000+ institutions turned three straight profitable years into an IPO push and a group-CEO hire.
Leer el casoSouth Korea's iHW (아이에이치더블유) Bets on Analog Compute-in-Memory: KRW 52 Billion Series A
Veterans from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Intel founded iHW in June 2024, betting on power efficiency; its ACiM chip secured a KRW 52B Series A, totaling KRW 64B.
Leer el casoHivebotics' restroom-cleaning robot bet: US$6M Series A after 10,000 hours
NUS spinoff Hivebotics bets facilities operators will pay a robot to clean whole restrooms; Abluo hit 20+ sites, then a US$6M Vertex-led Series A.
Leer el casoRetell AI bets firms build their own voice agents: $4.6M raised, $50M ARR
Retell AI, a five-founder YC Summer '24 voice-agent API, turned ~$4.6M raised into $50M ARR and 50M+ AI calls a month by 2026.
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