Sorce's Tinder-for-jobs bet: AI applies for you; 25k interviews, 100M social views
Swipe-right job app whose AI agent fills application forms; 25,000+ interviews facilitated and 100M+ organic social views, while critics call it parasitic.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEiMod Structures bet $11M Goldman money on classrooms delivered 98 percent finished
A Vallejo prefab startup raised its first institutional round to ship modular classrooms at $250-300 per square foot into California's school overcrowding.
Ler o casoMamo bet UAE SMEs wanted one finance OS instead of bank workarounds
Mamo grew from a wallet idea into UAE SME payments, cards and expenses, crossing AED 1.2B in processed volume.
Ler o casoICEYE's SAR microsatellite bet: Aalto spin-off to €10B sovereign intelligence
Two Aalto students shrank radar satellites below 100 kg to image Earth through cloud and darkness; seven governments now buy their sovereign systems.
Ler o casoLilium's eVTOL jet bet: $1.5B raised, zero deliveries, twice insolvent by 2025
Lilium raised ~$1.5B for regional electric jet taxis, listed via SPAC, won 780+ orders, then went insolvent in 2024 and 2025 with zero deliveries.
Ler o casoCarevision bets a phone camera can replace clinic visits for cardiometabolic screening
Jordanian startup turns any phone camera into a 60-second cardiometabolic risk scanner; 500 Global/Sanabil grad now anchored by 2080 Ventures.
Ler o casoSiCepat bets last-mile delivery for small sellers wins Indonesia: $170M Series B
Indonesian courier SiCepat raised a record $170M Series B in 2021 by betting that serving small social-commerce sellers beats chasing only big platforms.
Ler o casoPublora bets agents, not humans, are who social tools should serve
Publora rebuilt its human scheduler as an agent-first API and MCP layer for 10 networks; the June 10 PH launch took #1 day with 597 upvotes.
Ler o casoModular's open AI-infra bet: Qualcomm's $3.9B all-stock buyout
Modular bet Mojo and a unified runtime could replace fragmented AI infrastructure; Qualcomm agreed to buy the startup for ~$3.9B in stock in June 2026.
Ler o casoTenSixteen Bio launched betting a decade-old mutation biomarker was ready to build on
Ex-Forty Seven co-founder Mark Chao launched TenSixteen Bio with a $40M Series A to turn CHIP, a blood-mutation biomarker, into earlier disease treatment.
Ler o casoPolar Night Energy's sand battery scales from 8 MWh pilot to the world's largest
Two Finnish engineers built the first commercial sand battery in 2022; by 2025 a 100 MWh unit heats a whole town, with a 250 MWh grid project next.
Ler o casoStoreClaw's agentic-commerce bet: AI that executes, not advises — PH #1 Day and Week
LA startup StoreClaw bets cross-channel merchants will hand store ops to AI agents that execute; launched May 2026, PH #1 Day and Week, thousands of merchants.
Ler o casoKatinat bet aesthetics could win Vietnam's coffee wars; 10 stores to 120+ in five years
A design-first Saigon cafe chain rode TikTok virality from 10 stores to 120+, then got burned twice: a tone-deaf typhoon fundraiser and waits of 45 minutes.
Ler o casoEllo raises $15M for an AI reading coach that listens to kids read aloud at home
After pandemic reading losses, Ello built a tablet app whose speech recognition listens to children read and bills parents $24.99 a month for five books.
Ler o casoGuideline's flat-fee 401(k) bet ends inside Gusto after 2025 acquisition
Guideline sold small businesses software-run 401(k)s for a flat per-employee fee; payroll giant Gusto bought its longtime partner in 2025.
Ler o casoJeff Dean and Google veterans launch Discovery Loop to automate scientific experiments
Google's most senior AI and systems researchers — Dean, Ghemawat, Le, Vinyals — left to automate the experimental loop with frontier models and massive compute.
Ler o casoStoke Space's full-reusability bet: Nova assembled, $1.34B raised, launch late 2026
Fully reusable two-stage Nova is assembled for a late-2026 debut; Stoke has raised $1.34B and is seeking ~$1B more at a ~$9B valuation.
Ler o casoLeona Health bets a WhatsApp AI copilot fixes LatAm doctor chaos; a16z leads $14M seed
Ex-Rappi COO Caroline Merin's AI copilot tames doctors' WhatsApp inboxes: $14M seed led by a16z, live in 14 countries.
Ler o casoT2 bets Japan's driver shortage forces Level 4 truck freight by fiscal 2027
Tokyo startup T2 raised another ¥5B to turn Japan's trucker shortage into a business: Level 4 autonomous trunk-line freight, targeted for fiscal 2027.
Ler o casosmol machines 2026: shipping a whole Linux VM that boots in under 200ms
YC Spring 2026 startup smol machines boots hardware-isolated Linux microVMs in under 200ms, packable into one .smolmachine file; its Show HN drew 499 points.
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