Cognee bets agents need memory, not bigger context — 27.6k stars and a $7.5M seed
Berlin's Cognee builds an open-source graph-plus-vector memory layer for AI agents, hit 27.6k GitHub stars by July 2026, and raised a $7.5M seed in February.
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2,000 게시된 사례 · 정기 업데이트Ligo's open-source AlphaFold3 bet: Show HN 314 pts in 2024, repo at 1.1k stars
Biotech startup Ligo reimplemented AlphaFold3 from DeepMind's paper and open-sourced code plus training, single-chain first; 314 HN points, 1.1k stars.
사례 읽기Xanh SM's all-EV taxi bet: 51.5% of Vietnam's tech-taxi market
VinGroup's Pham Nhat Vuong founded GSM in March 2023 to run Xanh SM, a pure-EV taxi fleet; 2025 revenue ₫17.4 trillion (+125%), 51.5% tech-taxi share.
사례 읽기Copia's rural-Kenya e-commerce bet: $120M raised, then 2024 liquidation
Copia bet rural Africans would leapfrog retail via local agents; 13M+ orders and $120M raised, but unit economics never closed and it liquidated in 2024.
사례 읽기Gaudiy's Web3 fan-economy bet: Sony and Bandai Namco put in ¥10B, MyAnimeList joins
Tokyo startup bets blockchain fan communities are entertainment's next economy; Sony + Bandai Namco invest ¥10B, publishers join via MyAnimeList's 19.5M users.
사례 읽기Turbo AI's student-notetaker bet: two dropouts, $750K, 5M users, profitable
Two 20-year-old college dropouts built an AI notetaker that hit 5 million users and eight-figure ARR on just $750K raised — profitable the entire way.
사례 읽기M-KOPA's pay-as-you-go bet: solar for off-grid Kenya, then 10M customers and first profit
M-PESA co-creator's 2011 bet: finance solar, phones, loans and insurance in daily micro-payments — 10M customers and a first profit by 2026.
사례 읽기Pixxel's hyperspectral bet: six Firefly satellites in orbit, $95M raised
Two BITS Pilani students bet 150-band hyperspectral imagery is Earth observation's next category; $95M raised, six satellites up by 2025.
사례 읽기Positron attacks Nvidia where GPUs waste memory, raises $230M before its ASIC ships
Founded by ex-Groq engineers, Positron built Atlas around memory bandwidth; Jump Trading measured 3x lower latency, then co-led its $230M Series B.
사례 읽기Nabla's ambient-AI bet: win doctors on notes, then become the software they use
Paris-founded Nabla bet clinicians would trust AI where they feel the pain — ambient notes first, then coding and agents; 85,000 to 100,000+ clinicians later.
사례 읽기Kobo360's Uber-of-trucks bet: Goldman-backed, then a 2024 collapse and Ozor buyback
Kobo360 bet an Uber-like trucking app could fix African freight; $79M raised, bank-debt spiral, all-but-shutdown by late 2024, then Ozor's buyback.
사례 읽기tl;dv's meeting-AI bet: 2M users, then 181,874 calls exposed
Cologne's tl;dv bet teams would let an AI bot record every call; by 2026 it had 2M users - and a Firestore hole exposing 181,874 meetings.
사례 읽기Legora's lawyer-copilot bet: Stockholm seed to $5.55B in three years
Swedish legal AI Legora (ex-Leya) bets lawyers trust AI grounded in their own data; $10.5M seed to $550M Series D at $5.55B, $100M ARR by 2026.
사례 읽기Cradle's AI-protein bet: $73M Series B, Novo Nordisk and J&J as customers
Amsterdam startup treats proteins as 'an alien programming language' for LLMs; $73M Series B (2024), 21+ customers including Novo Nordisk and J&J.
사례 읽기Satellites on Fire: teen-built AI spots wildfires 35 min before NASA; $2.7M seed
Argentine teens built a software platform fusing satellites, cameras and AI to spot wildfires 35 minutes before NASA; 55,000 users, $2.7M seed
사례 읽기FirstClub bets premium curation beats 10-minute speed; $255M valuation in 2 years
Ex-Flipkart SVP builds quality-first quick commerce for India's affluent; 1M orders, $255M valuation by June 2026
사례 읽기Rei do Pitaco bets on Brazil's 2023 betting law; wins one of 14 licenses, keeps scaling
Brazilian fantasy-sports startup Rei do Pitaco bet on the 2023 betting law, stayed out of the gray market, and became one of 14 licensed operators
사례 읽기Praktika's avatar-tutor bet: 1.2M learners in 100 countries, $35.5M Series A
A London startup bet English learners would rather talk to an AI avatar than grind gamified drills — 1.2M monthly users, ~$20M revenue by May 2024.
사례 읽기Zerodha's bootstrapped discount-broker bet: ₹4,283 crore profit and still no IPO
Two brothers put about ₹10 lakh into India's flat-fee broker, built it into the country's largest by revenue — and never took a rupee of outside capital.
사례 읽기Jiyue's robocar bet collapses: Baidu-Geely JV halts after ~14k sales in 2024
Baidu and Geely's Jiyue bet an AI-native 'car robot' would win China's premium EV market; after ~14k sales in 2024 it ran out of cash.
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