Acti's agentic-keyboard bet: PH #1 Jul 1 2026, 561 votes, $5.3M seed
Ex-Baidu Facemoji lead bets AI agents belong in the keyboard: a Gemini-powered iOS/Android keyboard executes plain-language Skills across every app
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2,000 게시된 사례 · 정기 업데이트Articulate ends 19 years of bootstrapping, takes a $1.5B round at $3.75B valuation
After growing purely on revenue since 2002, Articulate Global broke its no-capital rule during the pandemic and closed a $1.5B round led by General Atlantic.
사례 읽기Ajaib's bet on first-time investors grew 7M users and a $270M SBI round
Jakarta's Ajaib made stock investing as easy as e-wallets for first-time investors, reaching 7M users and a $270M SBI-led round.
사례 읽기Atomarine bets floating nuclear data centers can dodge grid queues and NIMBYs
Two MIT founders are towing data centers out to sea on standardized barges — gas-powered by 2028, nuclear by 2032 — with $4B in customer LOIs claimed.
사례 읽기Hesai's loss-funded lidar bet pays: Nasdaq IPO to Mercedes L3 and first profit
Hesai bet Chinese EV price wars would make lidar a standard ADAS sensor; years of losses bought scale, then 2025 brought first full-year profit.
사례 읽기Forward's AI clinic bet: $1B valuation, 5 CarePods, then a 2024 shutdown
Forward raised $600M+ to replace the doctor's office with AI clinics and self-serve CarePods, hit a $1B valuation, then shut down abruptly in November 2024.
사례 읽기Joco, sued by NYC as a Citi Bike rival, pivots to delivery e-bikes and turns profitable
NYC DOT sued Joco's docked consumer bikeshare in 2021; the pivot to gig-rider e-bike hubs with charging cabinets is profitable on $7.5M raised.
사례 읽기Upstash bets AI agents need fresh code docs; Context7 hits 20.9K GitHub stars in a quarter
Upstash's free Context7 MCP server injects current, version-specific library docs into AI coding prompts — the fastest-growing MCP repo of Q3 2025.
사례 읽기Langflow's visual-RAG bet: self-funded Logspace builds a 154k-star tool, DataStax buys it
Two Brazilian ML consultants self-funded a drag-and-drop builder for RAG apps; it went viral on GitHub and DataStax acquired it in 2024.
사례 읽기Caribou Biosciences drops both cancer programs and puts itself up for sale
The biotech discontinued its lymphoma and myeloma programs despite promising trials, cut most staff, and opened a review that could end in a merger or sale.
사례 읽기BasiGo bets 'pay-as-you-drive' e-buses can outrun diesel; Africa50 leads $42M round
Nairobi startup sells e-buses cheap and charges per kilometer, betting battery economics beat diesel in African cities; $42M round, 100 buses by late 2025.
사례 읽기Dealism bets 'vibe selling' AI agents beat chatbots; $15M angel round
Ex-Youzan COO Leo Huan's Singapore startup sells an AI agent for WhatsApp and Instagram that adapts persuasion to each conversation.
사례 읽기itch.io: a one-man open game storefront, bootstrapped to a million games and profits
Leaf Corcoran built itch.io as a self-serve indie game marketplace with creator-set commissions and no VC, and it quietly became profitable.
사례 읽기Ironhack bet coding bootcamps work best outside tech hubs, skipping New York and SF
Six years in, Ironhack raised $4M betting its edge was training coders in Mexico City and São Paulo, not saturated tier-1 tech hubs.
사례 읽기KreditBee's disciplined data-led lending: $280M unicorn round in India's funding winter
Tight AI underwriting earns capital in a downcycle: KreditBee's ~4-5% approvals and 93.5% on-time repayments draw a 3x-oversubscribed $280M Series E at $1.5B.
사례 읽기Quobly bets quantum runs on existing chip fabs; €115M Series A, first product due 2026
French silicon-qubit startup raises €115M to ship a cloud quantum computer by end-2026
사례 읽기Isar Aerospace's second Spectrum flight reached orbit, 18 months after the crash
After its first rocket fell into the sea in under a minute, Isar Aerospace came back to orbit with real payloads in September 2026 — a first for Western Europe.
사례 읽기Epic Systems built the US hospital software standard on $70K and zero venture capital
Judy Faulkner's basement EHR startup refused VC, IPOs and acquisitions for 46 years and grew to $5.7B revenue, used by 42% of US acute-care hospitals.
사례 읽기TruckSmarter's AI-dispatch bet ends in an unnamed acquihire and a 4-day shutdown
Free load board for 500,000 truckers bets on AI dispatch, sells its factoring unit — then an unnamed buyer shuts it down in four days.
사례 읽기Composio bets every AI agent needs a tool layer; $25M Series A, 49.5K-star repo
Composio gives AI agents 1,000+ pre-authenticated tools and auth, betting open source makes it the default connection layer for the agent boom.
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