Skyris AI bets flying AI pet BOOBOO sells emotion; Xiaohongshu funds ¥12M seed
Skyris AI's BOOBOO is a speechless flapping-wing pet that reads mood; ¥12M from Xiaohongshu-linked investors (2025), CES 2026 crowds, ~$400 launch planned 2027.
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2,000 게시된 사례 · 정기 업데이트StairMed's brain-implant bet: China's first invasive BCI trial, then Alibaba's ¥500M
Shanghai startup StairMed completed China's first invasive brain-computer-interface clinical trial, then raised ¥500M led by Alibaba in 2026.
사례 읽기Lori Systems' African trucking bet: $120M peak valuation, $5M by 2025
Lori bet an Uber-style app could fix African road freight; it won Battlefield Africa, raised ~$30M, peaked at $120M, then shrank to a ~$5M bridge by 2025.
사례 읽기Kestra bets one orchestrator for data, AI and infra: $36M raised, 28k stars
French duo's open-source platform unified data, AI and infra workflows; 2B executions in 2025, 26k+ GitHub stars, $25M Series A in Mar 2026.
사례 읽기Inherent bets AI-native science needs new labs: ex-DeepMind team raises $50M
Ex-DeepMind researchers' London lab Inherent builds Faraday, an AI system for open-ended discovery; $50M seed led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures.
사례 읽기Perfect Day extended to $300M betting on a distributed producer network
Perfect Day bet a network of local, independent production partners — not its own factories — would let it flex supply with pandemic-era demand.
사례 읽기Last Energy's steel-cased reactor bet: $100M Series C, 5MW Texas A&M pilot due 2026
Bret Kugelmass's Last Energy raises $100M to build a 5MW pilot at Texas A&M and mass-produce 20MW PWR-20 micro-nuclear plants for data centers.
사례 읽기Zepto defers IPO after funds price quick commerce at ~$3B, not $7B
India's first pure quick-commerce IPO stalls: mutual funds value Zepto at ~$3B against a $7B private mark, so it pauses and raises pre-IPO at ~$4.5B.
사례 읽기Hike's WhatsApp-rival bet ends: $175M raised, a gaming pivot, then India's RMG ban
Hike bet an India-first messenger could beat WhatsApp, then that real-money gaming could fund a bigger vision; the 2025 RMG ban left it four months of runway.
사례 읽기Manabi Reader bets immersion reading can beat drills; one developer still ships it
A one-person Japanese reading app rebuilt offline-first in SwiftUI drew 105 HN points in 2023 and is still live in 2025, run without investors.
사례 읽기Bridge bet stablecoin rails would go legit: Stripe paid $1.1B, then came an OCC charter
Two Coinbase alumni sold compliant stablecoin plumbing; Stripe paid $1.1B for it, then regulators made it essential.
사례 읽기Tokamak Energy bets compact HTS-magnet fusion; Demo4 first to hit power-plant fields
Oxford's Tokamak Energy bet high-temperature superconducting magnets make compact fusion viable; in Nov 2025 its Demo4 full magnet system reached 11.8 T.
사례 읽기LISSOME bets Xiaohongshu comment mining can design hardware: R1 dishwasher tops category
Chinese startup LISSOME mined Xiaohongshu comments and co-created R1 with 1,200 families; the 28 cm dishwasher topped the category.
사례 읽기Signos bets FDA's OTC CGM category opens consumer weight loss; $20M Series B
Metabolic health app pairing CGM with AI coaching; rode Dexcom Stelo's 2024 OTC clearance and won its own OTC CGM clearance (2025).
사례 읽기Dayjob bets AI agents on existing ERPs can replace manual waste-truck scheduling
Ex-Deliveroo founder pivots from waste ERP to AI scheduling agents: 60-second route plans, 8%+ fleet gains, $496K ARR at YC launch.
사례 읽기Mastra's TypeScript agent-framework bet: GitHub viral, $13M seed, $22M Series A
Ex-Gatsby team builds an open-source TypeScript framework for AI agents, goes viral on GitHub, then raises $35M.
사례 읽기Talo's call-translator bet: PH #1 twice, then Palabra AI acquisition
Founded in 2024, Talo put an AI interpreter inside Zoom and Meet calls, hit PH #1 with 879 votes, and was acquired by Palabra AI in Nov 2025.
사례 읽기ExeVir Bio raised $27M to bet llama-derived antibodies could treat and prevent COVID-19
ExeVir Bio raised $27M to push its llama-derived nanobody antibody, smaller than human antibodies, into clinical trials against COVID-19.
사례 읽기Fuse Energy's source-to-socket bet: ex-Revolut founders, $5B, 300k UK homes
Two ex-Revolut executives vertically integrate UK energy - generation, trading, supply and app - reaching profitability, a $5B valuation and 300k+ households.
사례 읽기Rintin's WhatsApp-first B2B bet for Mexico's informal shops: $6.2M raised
Mexico B2B wholesale marketplace for informal micro-merchants: 50,000+ WhatsApp community, 12,000+ buyers, US$2M+ credit, US$6.2M Cometa-led round.
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