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 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEArticulate 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.
Ler o casoAjaib'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.
Ler o casoAtomarine 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.
Ler o casoHesai'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.
Ler o casoForward'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.
Ler o casoJoco, 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.
Ler o casoUpstash 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.
Ler o casoLangflow'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.
Ler o casoCaribou 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.
Ler o casoBasiGo 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.
Ler o casoDealism 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.
Ler o casoitch.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.
Ler o casoIronhack 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.
Ler o casoKreditBee'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.
Ler o casoQuobly 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
Ler o casoIsar 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.
Ler o casoEpic 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.
Ler o casoTruckSmarter'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.
Ler o casoComposio 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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