Athos Silicon winds down: Mercedes safety-chiplet spinout fails to raise
Mercedes-Benz spun out its safety-chiplet team as Athos Silicon in 2025; a year later the board dissolved the startup after fundraising failed.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEDexcom's OTC bet: Stelo turns the CGM from prescription-only into a $130M business
After FDA cleared the first no-prescription CGM in 2024, Dexcom sold Stelo directly to consumers and grew it past 500,000 users and $130M in 2025 revenue.
Ler o casoNuvocargo's bet: AI agents can automate the paperwork-choked US-Mexico freight border
The cross-border logistics startup rode nearshoring to a $250M valuation, bought an AI-agent startup, and now automates 70% of a load's touchpoints.
Ler o casoMiroFish bets simulated agent swarms can predict events; student project tops GitHub #1
A senior student's vibe-coded swarm-intelligence engine tops GitHub trending #1 and wins ¥30M from Shanda's founder within 24 hours of a demo.
Ler o casoGiskard bets EU AI Act makes model testing a legal duty; 5.5k GitHub stars
Paris startup turns an open-source LLM test library into AI Act compliance evidence; €1.5M seed, €3M EU/France grant, Banque de France and L'Oréal customers.
Ler o casoTuring Pharmaceuticals hiked Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 a tablet, igniting a firestorm
Turing bet insurers would pay a 55x hike on Daraprim, an old drug with no competition — and drew an 830-point, 450-comment HN firestorm.
Ler o casoElectric Hydrogen's 100 MW bet: first plant built, headed to Infinium's Texas e-fuels site
Natick startup (ex-First Solar CTO) bets green hydrogen gets cheap only at 100 MW scale; $380M Series C, first 100 MW plant built for Infinium's Texas e-fuels.
Ler o casoDeHaat's full-stack farm bet posts ₹369 Cr reported FY25 profit after 30% cost cut
DeHaat's bet: one platform for Indian farmers' inputs, advice and markets. FY25 revenue ~₹3,010 Cr, reported profit ₹369 Cr, Q1 FY26 net profit.
Ler o casoPoppi bet functional soda could go mainstream — and sold to PepsiCo for $1.95B
A farmers-market apple-cider-vinegar soda became Poppi, rode TikTok and two Super Bowls, and exited to PepsiCo for $1.95B within seven years.
Ler o casoTeachy bets AI lesson prep frees Brazil teachers: 1M users, R$40M Series A
Brazilian AI assistant that writes lesson plans, quizzes and grading for teachers — freemium, trained on national exam data, half its users abroad.
Ler o casoTraive bets AI risk models unlock Brazil's agri credit: BB round, 70k farmers
A Brazilian couple built Traive at MIT to score farm-loan risk with AI; 70,000+ farmers and ~$1B in credit later, Banco do Brasil and BASF VC are investors.
Ler o casoAstroscale's Space Scavenger Bet: ADRAS-J Completes First Commercial Debris Observation
Astroscale bet on space debris removal; ADRAS-J achieved first commercial close-proximity observation in 2024, and listing rose 51%.
Ler o casoFlock Safety's crime-prevention camera bet hits 50+ city cancellations
Flock Safety sells U.S. police and cities a networked license-plate camera service; ICE-sharing and abuse scandals have pushed 50+ cities to cancel
Ler o casoDelfa bets voice AI agents fix trial enrollment; $3.8M seed, 50+ trials
EF-co-founded London startup automates patient recruitment with voice AI agents; live across 50+ trials by Aug 2025 after $3.8M Air Street seed.
Ler o casoSafeBoda's safety-first bet; COVID forced pivot
SafeBoda professionalized Uganda's boda taxis, peaked at 25,000 bikes, then COVID pushed it into payments and B2B.
Ler o casoVoltAgent bets DESIGN.md files fix AI-generated UI; repo passes 112k stars
Refine's founders shipped an open collection of real brands' DESIGN.md files so AI agents stop guessing at design - 20k stars in 4 days, 112k by September.
Ler o casoHebbian Robotics bets open, versioned data pipelines unblock robotics
YC S26 duo open-sources HFlow, an SDK that turns messy robot recordings into versioned, quality-checked datasets — Launch HN Aug 31, 2026.
Ler o casoEnveda raises $4.9M seed to mine medicinal plants with AI toward a liver-fibrosis drug
Enveda Biosciences used machine learning to mine medicinal-plant chemistry for new drugs, raising a $4.9M seed toward a liver-fibrosis candidate.
Ler o casoGritt bets AI finally tames construction sites, retrofits equipment to build solar farms
Gritt retrofits construction gear with AI to install solar panels; its CMU-trained founders exited stealth with a $26M Series A led by Obvious Ventures.
Ler o casoCARS24's used-car bet: FY25 revenue down 10%, ₹543 Cr loss, 6–12 month IPO plan
CARS24 bet India's used-car market would consolidate around a full-stack player; FY25 gross revenue fell 10% to ₹6,233 Cr as it cut costs toward an IPO.
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