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Foundry Robotics wants to build 'The Everything Factory' - one AI-driven line that assembles drones, robot dogs, and satellites without retooling. Full story on https://yespress.io/foundry-robotics?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Foundry Robotics: The Everything Factory
AI-first robotic assembly that aims to build anything - drones, robot dogs, satellites - without retooling. Founded by ex-Ghost Robotics and Scale AI robotics lead Adarsh Kulkarni.
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FunCraft bet on the 'unsexy' corner of mobile gaming - word puzzles - and turned it into 7M installs and $15M+ in revenue. Full story on https://yespress.io/funcraft?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
FunCraft: The Studio That Bet on the Unsexy Corner of Mobile Gaming
A 15-person remote studio turned overlooked word puzzles into 7M installs and $15M+ in revenue. Meet FunCraft.
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Gallus Detox turned withdrawal into a private suite with cardiac monitoring - and 87% of patients walk straight into aftercare. Full story on https://yespress.io/gallus-detox-and-recovery-services?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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General Galactic wants to run rockets on water. No, really - split it, burn it, or turn it to plasma. Full story on https://yespress.io/general-galactic?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
General Galactic: The Startup Trying to Run Rockets on Water
Split water, burn it, or turn it to plasma. Inside General Galactic
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Genetica built a DNA chip specifically for Asian genomes - because most genetic tests are trained on everybody but you. Full story on https://yespress.io/genetica-us?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Genetica: The DNA Chip Built for Asian Genomes
A saliva sample in, a 200-gene report out. Genetica decodes Asian DNA with a chip built for the population it actually tests.
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Genus AI turns one product catalog into thousands of on-brand ads - and pushes them to Meta, TikTok and Google automatically. Full story on https://yespress.io/genus-ai?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Genus AI - Ads That Look Designed, Generated by the Million
A Nashville-and-Vilnius company turning product catalogs into thousands of on-brand ads. 40M+ images a month, $11M raised, run by two brothers.
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ZOOT skipped the slots. It's building an arcade where Crash, Plinko and Mines pay out real cash prizes. Full story on https://yespress.io/getzoot?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
ZOOT: The Sweepstakes Casino That Deleted the Slot Machine
No slots. No table games. About 30 proprietary arcade titles you can play for cash prizes. Inside ZOOT
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A father couldn't find a treatment for his daughter's ultra-rare disease. So he co-founded a biotech with a Nobel laureate. Full story on https://yespress.io/grace-science-llc?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Grace Science, LLC - The Enzyme, the Daughter, and the Gene Therapy
A father couldn
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Great Many is turning hair loss from a taboo into a health category - PRP, FDA-cleared lasers and a telehealth arm, all in one studio. Full story on https://yespress.io/great-many?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Great Many: The Startup That Made Hair Loss a Health Category
PRP, FDA-cleared lasers, telehealth and a growth-factor serum - inside the $3.6M hair-growth company de-stigmatizing hair loss.
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GridMatrix turns the traffic camera you already own into a data scientist. Full story on https://yespress.io/gridmatrix?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
GridMatrix: The AI Reading Traffic Cameras Cities Already Own
Founded by ex-Apple and Amazon engineers, GridMatrix turns existing roadway sensors into live congestion, safety, and emissions data for cities, ports, and airports.
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Three Georgetown physics majors built a palm-sized sensor that spots drones from 3 km away - and their operators too. Meet Guardian RF. Full story on https://yespress.io/guardian-rf?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Guardian RF: The Palm-Sized Sensor Listening to the Sky
Passive RF sensors that emit nothing and see everything. Founded by three Georgetown physics majors, battle-tested in Ukraine, now guarding Vandenberg Space Force Base.
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Haiqu just raised $11M to make today's quantum computers actually useful - no fault tolerance required. Full story on https://yespress.io/haiqu?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Haiqu - Making Today
A hardware-aware quantum operating system for enterprise R&D teams. $11M seed, backed by Primary Venture Partners and Toyota Ventures.
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Hammerhead AI raised $10M to turn idle GPUs into money - without adding a single watt to the grid. Full story on https://yespress.io/hammerheadai-inc?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Hammerhead AI - The Startup Squeezing More AI Out of Every Watt
Reinforcement-learning agents that turn stranded data center power into AI-ready compute. No waiting for the grid.
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HAVERHILL: five generations of Rhode Island jewelers, now shipping your birthstone in 14k gold in about a day. Full story on https://yespress.io/haverhill?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
HAVERHILL - Personalized 14k Gold Birthstone Jewelry, Made to Order in Rhode Island
A fifth-generation family jewelry brand that builds your birthstone piece after you buy it - and lands on the Inc. 5000 three years running.
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Helios AI reads 500 billion climate data points so procurement teams stop getting blindsided by the next cocoa spike. Full story on https://yespress.io/helios-ai?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Helios AI - The Company That Saw the Cocoa Rally Coming
An avocado trader and an ex-Google engineer built the AI that forecasts food-supply shocks before they hit. Inside Helios AI.
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Hetal Retail turns everyday shoppers into a computer-vision sensor network for the retail shelf. Full story on https://yespress.io/hetal-retail?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Hetal Retail - Know Your Shelf, Drive More Sales
A crowd of shoppers, a mobile app, and AI that reads the retail shelf for about $2 a store. Inside the New York startup rewiring merchandising.
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A French roll-up quietly bought the iconic Hirsch access-control brand for $145M - now 14 companies fly one flag. Full story on https://yespress.io/hirsch-group-fka-vitaprotech?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Hirsch Group (fka Vitaprotech): The Roll-Up That Bought an American Icon
A French security specialist bought Identiv
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Hovr turns static hotel websites into interactive video - and claims 24:1 ROI doing it. Full story on https://yespress.io/hovr?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Hovr: The Interactive Video Layer for Hotel Websites
No-code interactive video that lives on top of hotel sites. Content in context, built for the moment a traveler decides to book.
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Two DOJ prosecutors quit to build the org that hunts traffickers where they operate. Meet the Human Trafficking Institute. Full story on https://yespress.io/human-trafficking-institute?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Human Trafficking Institute: The Nonprofit That Hunts Traffickers Where They Operate
Two former DOJ prosecutors built an organization that embeds experts inside justice systems to convict traffickers - and reads every U.S. federal case, every year.
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Hume Supernatural bet that 'natural' and 'actually works' don't have to be a trade-off. The deodorant category disagreed. Hume won anyway. Full story on https://yespress.io/hume-supernatural?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Hume Supernatural: The Deodorant That Feeds Your Skin
An attorney, a Sun Bum veteran, and a cosmetic chemist built the fastest-growing natural deodorant in retail - by refusing the trade-off between clean and effective.
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Ideaflow calls itself 'The Intelligence Amplification Company' - a notebook that thinks along with you as you type. Full story on https://yespress.io/ideaflow-inc?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Ideaflow - The Notebook That Thinks Back
An AI notebook that augments your intelligence as you type. Inside Ideaflow
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Illuminant Surgical wants to give surgeons x-ray vision - by projecting your insides onto your skin. Full story on https://yespress.io/illuminant-surgical?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Illuminant Surgical - Giving Surgeons X-Ray Vision
Skylight projects a patient
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One insole brand in 1989. Around 18 active-lifestyle brands today. Meet Implus, the quiet giant of the shoe-accessory aisle. Full story on https://yespress.io/implus?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Implus: The Quiet Giant of the Shoe-Accessory Aisle
One insole brand in 1989. Around 18 active-lifestyle brands today. Meet Implus.
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indify flagged Billie Eilish, Post Malone and Khalid before they were famous. Now it's a marketplace where artists get funded without signing away their souls. Full story on https://yespress.io/indify?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
indify - The Marketplace Rewiring How Artists Get Funded
It flagged Billie Eilish before the labels did. Now indify lets artists raise money, keep their masters, and keep control.
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The vLLM team just turned an open-source hobby that runs 400,000 GPUs into a company. Meet Inferact. Full story on https://yespress.io/inferact?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Inferact - The vLLM Team
The creators of vLLM built a company. It runs on 400,000+ GPUs, raised $150M seed at an $800M valuation, and keeps the code open.
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Insamo wants to turn injected biologics into pills - starting with membrane-permeable macrocyclic peptides. Full story on https://yespress.io/insamo?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Insamo - Turning Injected Biologics Into Pills
A Berkeley biotech designing orally available macrocyclic peptides that bind like antibodies. $12M seed from Playground Global, venBio, and Merck.
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Inspirit puts a physics lab inside a headset - and a Chromebook tab, so no school gets left out of VR. Full story on https://yespress.io/inspirit?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Inspirit - Immersive Learning You Can Walk Around Inside
270+ interactive VR models, zero logins, headset optional. How two Stanford researchers made immersive STEM learning boringly easy.
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8 out of 10 buildings don't have accurate floor plans. Integrated Projects is fixing that, one LiDAR scan at a time. Full story on https://yespress.io/integrated-projects?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Integrated Projects: Teaching Buildings to Describe Themselves
Scan-to-BIM in a browser. How Integrated Projects digitized 7,000+ buildings and 52M+ square feet - and why 8 out of 10 buildings still lack accurate plans.
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IP Author turns a two-day patent draft into a two-hour one. Claims, spec, abstract, diagrams - all generated by AI. Full story on https://yespress.io/ip-author?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
IP Author: The AI That Wants to Give Patent Lawyers Their Two Days Back
An AI-powered patent drafting and prosecution platform used by Qualcomm, ResMed, and Chevron. Founded 2023 in Fremont, CA.
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Istari Digital wants to certify an airplane before it's ever built. The Air Force just paid $19M to find out if it works. Full story on https://yespress.io/istari-digital?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Istari Digital: Certifying the Airplane Before It Exists
Will Roper left the Pentagon to connect the digital thread. Now Istari Digital is trying to certify an aircraft in software before it ever flies.
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