Company Launch Tracker is a real-time feed for investors, founders, and tech enthusiasts who want to spot startups the moment they launch. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points and surface company debuts the instant they happen. These signals include founder “I’m excited to announce…” posts, company filings, job changes, product hunt launches, and early press mentions—all stitched together into a single stream of what’s new.

In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Bell Labs physicist with 18 patents builds early-warning sensors for water and industrial infrastructure

• Ex-Huawei computer-vision engineer builds low-cost radar seekers for counter-drone defense

• Ex-Gap and Salesforce designer builds an AI workspace for fashion teams

• Former Airbyte engineering manager builds a commercial-intelligence platform for animal health

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Hisham El-Halabi - Co-Founder & CTO at Vernius Systems

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Founding Engineer at Suave Money, Co-Founder & CTO at Sano: Photo Calorie Tracking, Co-Founder & CTO at Auctify, Computer Vision and Human Computer Interaction Research Engineer at Huawei

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Vernius Systems (YC S26) builds active radar seekers and ground radars for counter-drone defense, turning any interceptor into an autonomous, all-weather system that can detect and hit Shahed-class drones for far less than today’s six-figure seekers.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Defense Tech, Counter-UAS Radar | Team Size: 3

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Sunwoo Lee - Co-Founder at Wingman Law

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation Summer Associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Patent Litigation Summer Associate at Fish & Richardson P.C.

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Wingman Law (YC F26) is an AI-native personal injury law firm that runs AI agents across the back office — from intake through litigation — so its lawyers can build stronger cases faster against insurers.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Legal Tech, AI-Native Law Firm | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Yarik Graf - Co-Founder & CEO at SageneX Lab

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Founding Head of Product at Commod, Chief Product Officer at The Food Company, Founder & CEO at Bowlton (Acquired by The Food Company), Founder & CEO at Open Markets

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

SageneX Lab is a peptide drug discovery platform that works backward from a desired biological outcome to the peptide, target, and mechanism; its first focus is sarcopenia and age-related muscle decline, a market with no approved drugs.

HQ: United States

Industry: Biotech, Peptide Drug Discovery | Team Size: 2

Sambit Nayak - Co-Founder at CotonAI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Product Designer at Salesforce, Founding Product Designer at Darzy.ai, Technical Product Designer at Gap Inc.

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

CotonAI is an AI workspace for fashion teams that brings design, development, merchandising, and marketing into one platform, with fashion-specific models and brand context built in.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Vertical AI, Fashion

Anup Talwalkar - Founder at Polign

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Software Engineer at Google, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Software Engineer at Uber, Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services

Connect on: LinkedIn

Polign builds a memory layer that stores durable, searchable memory in a team’s own object storage, keeping serving nodes stateless so they can scale to zero while the data stays under the customer’s control.

HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Memory

Ben Church - Co-Founder & CTO at The Veterinary Intelligence Company

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Principal AI Engineer at GrowthX AI, Engineering Manager at Airbyte

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

The Veterinary Intelligence Company (VetIntel) turns fragmented data on veterinary practices, ownership, staffing, and technology into a commercial-intelligence platform that animal-health sales, marketing, and strategy teams use to enrich CRM, prioritize accounts, and plan territories.

HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States

Industry: Vertical SaaS, Animal Health Data | Team Size: 2

Boris Stefanov - Founder & Lead Engineer at Sentraxys

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree

Prior Experience: Director, Technology & Business Development at Miltope, Founder and Principal at Aisthon, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Alphion Corporation, MTS, Optical Networking Group at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Sentraxys develops sensing systems for water and industrial infrastructure that detect toxic gases, corrosion, and contamination early, giving operators visibility before small problems become failures.

HQ: Hellertown, Pennsylvania, United States

Industry: Industrial IoT, Infrastructure Sensing

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Company Launch Tracker is a real-time feed for investors, founders, and tech enthusiasts who want to spot startups the moment they launch. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points and surface company debuts the instant they happen. These signals include founder “I’m excited to announce…” posts, company filings, job changes, product hunt launches, and early press mentions—all stitched together into a single stream of what’s new.

In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-SpaceX, Astranis & Meta propulsion engineer builds autonomous aircraft ground systems

• Ex-Harper engineer (YCW25) builds AI that finds public-infrastructure contracts before they're published

• Former Amazon Prime Video marketing lead is building traceable AI governance for complex systems

• Ex-FIS innovation chief and 5x founder builds a governed preventive health platform

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Luke Yost - Founder & CEO at Oxcart

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: New Technology Initiatives Engineer at Meta, Lead Propulsion Responsible Engineer at Astranis Space Technologies, Propulsion Engineer - Starship Stage Components at SpaceX

Connect on: LinkedIn

Oxcart is building autonomous ground systems that help aircraft turn faster, safer, cleaner, and at lower cost.

HQ: San Francisco, United States

Industry: Aerospace, Ground Ops Robotics | Team Size: 3

Maximilian Lippert Velarde - Founder & CEO at Flocta

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: OpenAI Partner, Anthropic Partner, CEO and Managing Director of Velmoy

Connect on: LinkedIn

Flocta is an AI cost-efficiency layer that routes enterprise LLM tasks across open-source models to match frontier-model quality at 50-75% lower cost.

HQ: United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, LLM Cost Optimization | Team Size: 2

Jithin Sai - Co-Founder at MetalNxt

FounderDNA: Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Manager at Matex Technologies, Assistant Manager - claims and salvage disposal at US MURTHY & Co.

Connect on: LinkedIn

MetalNxt (SourzNxt) is an AI-powered B2B negotiation platform for India’s industrial materials market, connecting 1,300+ verified vendors and 500+ buyers with KYC-verified, escrow-secured price discovery for scrap and secondary materials.

HQ: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Industry: Industrial Tech, B2B Marketplaces | Team Size: 2

Matt Brennan - Co-Founder & CEO at Korrin

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Global Director, Enterprise Business Development at Apple, CEO & President at Spire, Founding Partner at Growth Engine Consulting, Co-Founder at Trellis AI

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Korrin helps enterprises run AI workloads with greater performance, efficiency, security, and control. Korrin combines purpose-built compute with proprietary software and optimization tools to dramatically improve the economics of AI at scale.

HQ: Los Gatos, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, ASIC Inference | Team Size: 2

Finn Lancaster - Co-Founder & CEO at Capveon

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Senior Member of Technical Staff at Harper (YC W25), Co-Founder & CTO at EQULS, Co-Founder & CEO at FinnedAI

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Capveon (YC F26) reads government budgets, board minutes, and capital plans to surface public-infrastructure projects while they are still forming, so manufacturers can get written into the spec and contractors can win the bid before it is published.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Govtech, Infrastructure Intelligence | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Thomas Sheehan - Co-Founder & Chief Architect at Person Health

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Co-Founder, CEO & CTO at RealBusiness AI, Senior Enterprise Architect at Banco do Brasil, Head of Innovation - Emerging Technology, Cloud & Architecture at FIS

Connect on: LinkedIn

Person Health is building a Preventive Health Operating System — a governed platform for earlier signal discovery, wellness-focused testing, and clearer follow-up pathways.

HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Industry: HealthTech, Preventive Health | Team Size: 12

Shannon Bruffy - Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer at IntentR

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Head Of Marketing - EU Prime Video at Amazon, Demand Marketing Lead - EU Beer, Wine, & Spirits at Amazon, Senior Product Manager - Music & Video at Amazon UK

Connect on: LinkedIn

IntentR is an AI platform for understanding, building, and controlling complex systems. Unlike traditional AI platforms that focus on execution alone, IntentR understands the "why" behind business operations and ensures AI systems continuously act in alignment with organizational goals.

HQ: Greater Tampa Bay Area, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, System Intelligence | Team Size: 4

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Company Launch Tracker is a real-time feed for investors, founders, and tech enthusiasts who want to spot startups the moment they launch. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points and surface company debuts the instant they happen. These signals include founder “I’m excited to announce…” posts, company filings, job changes, product hunt launches, and early press mentions—all stitched together into a single stream of what’s new.

In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Google & Box engineer builds a bereavement platform for grieving families

• 15-year commercial real estate veteran builds an AI real estate department for growing companies

• Ex-Mastercard & JPMorgan engineer builds a census-weighted virtual focus group

• Ex-Netflix, Notion & HubSpot engineer builds the operating system for auto shops

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Parth Kocheta - Founder at Velobyte

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Robotics SDE Intern at Amazon, Software Engineering Intern at Planted, Founder at Lucid Academy, Software Engineering Intern at Sanofi

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Velobyte builds full-stack tooling across the hardware-software boundary — edge AI, embedded systems, compilers, and hardware acceleration — so teams can ship high-performance systems without assembling deep expertise in every layer themselves.

HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Hardware-Software Co-Design | Team Size: 4

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Chaitanya Choudhary - Founder at Workers IO

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Advisor at Times Internet, Senior Product Engineer at Grit, Senior Product Engineer at On Deck, Senior Product Engineer at Fretello

Connect on: LinkedIn

Workers IO maps every scenario a piece of software can face in production and verifies each release against all of them in simulation, turning every failure into an exact, replayable run so engineering teams can ship at agent speed.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, Release Testing | Team Size: 3

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Sajad Mirzaei - Co-Founder at LumenUs Platform

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Founder at Canvas & Core Labs, Software Engineer at Google, Senior Software Engineer at Box, Research Assistant at University of Connecticut

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

LumenUs Platform is a bereavement platform that helps families navigate the months and years after losing a loved one, partnering with employers, hospices, funeral homes, and life insurers to support the families they serve.

HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Industry: Fintech, Bereavement Care | Team Size: 4

Ron Van De Sand - Co-Founder & CTO at Boomerent

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Co-Founder at notivo, Deputy Head of Research Group at Technische Hochschule Wildau

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Boomerent is the AI-powered real estate department for growing companies, continuously tracking lease costs, deadlines, and service-charge benchmarks across every location so a CFO doesn’t have to manage it on the side.

HQ: Wildau, Brandenburg, Germany

Industry: Proptech, Lease Management | Team Size: 2

Elliot Gardiner - Co-Founder & CTO at Mirror Panel

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Principal Software Engineer - Gen AI at Mastercard, Executive Director - SRE at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Principal Software Engineer - AI at Kustomer (Meta), Lead Software Engineer at Capital One

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Mirror Panel builds a panel of 2,000 census-weighted virtual respondents, calibrated against live focus groups, so brands can test ideas at survey speed without the up-to-38-point bias a single AI model can introduce.

HQ: New York, United States

Industry: Market Research, AI Simulation | Team Size: 2

Matthew Groll - Co-Founder & CTO at Mass Magnetics

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Member of Technical Staff at Draper, President at Columbia University Formula Racing, Intern at NASA

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Mass Magnetics (YC S26) turns recycled rare-earth scrap into high-performance, DFARS-compliant permanent magnets made in America — the backbone material for electric motors, sensors, and electronics that defense and aerospace manufacturers need domestically.

HQ: United States

Industry: Advanced Manufacturing, Rare-Earth Magnets | Team Size: 5

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Junaid Popalzai - Co-Founder & CTO at CarSignal

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Software Engineer at Notion, Software Engineer at Whatnot, Software Engineer at Netflix, Software Engineer at HubSpot

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

CarSignal (YC S26) is building the smart operating system for auto repair shops.

HQ: United States

Industry: Vertical SaaS, Auto Shop Software | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

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Company Launch Tracker is a real-time feed for investors, founders, and tech enthusiasts who want to spot startups the moment they launch. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points and surface company debuts the instant they happen. These signals include founder “I’m excited to announce…” posts, company filings, job changes, product hunt launches, and early press mentions—all stitched together into a single stream of what’s new.

In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Flodesk CEO launches a no-code platform with payments, subscriptions, and a database pre-wired for founders

• Ex-Intuit/Amazon/Adobe engineer builds an AI evidence loop that closes financial crime coverage gaps for banks

• YC-backed JHU grad builds predictive maintenance for power grid infrastructure

• Former Sands Capital launches an AI-native operating partner for owner-operated trade businesses

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Jake Kang - Co-Founder & CEO at Whitney AI

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founding Engineer at CloudCruise (YC W24), Software Engineer at Cognitiv, Software Engineer at Microsoft

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Whitney AI is the IDE for post-training - one workspace to find where an agent fails, encode institutional knowledge into evals, train models against them, and serve the result reliably in production.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, AI Evals | Team Size: 3

Kevin Hwang - Co-Founder at Talos

FounderDNA: Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Research Intern at UMBC Department of Information Systems, Undergraduate Student Researcher at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Talos (YC F26) builds a full-stack predictive maintenance solution for power grid infrastructure, aiming to catch failures on aging transmission and distribution equipment before they cause outages.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Industrial AI, Grid Infrastructure | Team Size: 3

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Sumeet Sahu - Co-Founder & CTO at Polarisk

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Principal Engineer at Intuit, Senior Software Developer Engineer at Amazon, Computer Scientist at Adobe

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Polarisk is a vendor-neutral evidence loop for compliance teams, using AI agents to measure how much financial crime a bank’s transaction, KYC, and sanctions monitoring is actually missing — then closing that coverage gap instead of just counting alerts.

HQ: Bengaluru, India

Industry: Fintech, Financial Crime AI | Team Size: 2

Nikhil E. - Founder at Clef

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: CTO at DealStack.ai, Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, Manager at Deloitte, Team Lead at Nokia

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Clef aggregates every business for sale from hundreds of listing sites into one platform with 120,000+ live deals, so buyers see the whole market instead of whatever single marketplace they happened to land on.

HQ: Canada

Industry: M&A Tech, Business Marketplace | Team Size: 3

Martha Bitar - Co-Founder & CEO at Stencil

FounderDNA: Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Co-founder & CEO at Flodesk, Director of Business Development at HoneyBook

Connect on: LinkedIn

Stencil is a no-code platform for building apps, tools, and paid memberships, shipping payments, subscriptions, and a database pre-wired before a founder’s first customer shows up.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: No-Code, Creator Tools | Team Size: 4

Aankit Roy - Co-Founder & CEO at Something

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: VP AI Engineering at GeoIQ, Head of Engineering at iMumz, Senior Software Engineer at OnlineTyari

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Something turns plain-English prompts into real-world AI agents, handling architecture, integrations, interfaces, and deployment so builders can move from idea to execution without boilerplate or glue code.

HQ: India

Industry: Developer Tools, AI App Builder | Team Size: 2

Topher Brewer - Founder at Goose Applied AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Partner & COO at Grit Capital Partners, Advisor at Discerning Capital, CMO & Senior Advisor at ABR Capital Partners, Director, Global Financial Institutions at Sands Capital

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Goose Applied AI is the first AI-native operating partner built for owner-operated trade businesses, giving contractors the kind of operational intelligence layer that used to live only inside private equity firms.

HQ: United States

Industry: Vertical SaaS, Trades Intelligence

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Company Launch Tracker is a real-time feed for investors, founders, and tech enthusiasts who want to spot startups the moment they launch. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points and surface company debuts the instant they happen. These signals include founder “I’m excited to announce…” posts, company filings, job changes, product hunt launches, and early press mentions—all stitched together into a single stream of what’s new.

In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Google engineering director automates property-tax appeals

• Stanford CS grad, Pear VC & Accel-backed, builds agentic procurement for hardware manufacturers

• Ex-Apple engineer (YC-backed) builds a live dependency graph for robotics teams

• YC-backed founder builds origination infra for $1B+ private credit funds

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Alex Levin - CTO & Co-Founder at Owlue

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Director of Engineering GPU and Co-Accelerator at Google, Staff Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services, Software Design Engineer at Intel

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Owlue is proptech infrastructure that automates the property-tax appeal lifecycle — from over-assessment detection to filing and resolution — for a market where over a third of US residential properties are over-assessed.

HQ: New York, NY, United States

Industry: Proptech, Property Tax AI | Team Size: 8

Neha Balamurugan - CTO & Co-Founder at Syntro

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: AI Researcher at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Founder, AI Product at Emerson Collective, Accel Leadership Fellow

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Syntro is the first agentic procurement platform built for hardware manufacturers, automating supplier discovery and management across the full hardware lifecycle.

HQ: United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Procurement | Team Size: 3

Key Investors: Pear VC, Accel

Darryl Luo - Co-Founder at Forward

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Lima AI, Software Engineer at SecuTech Solutions

Connect on: LinkedIn

Forward (YC F26) makes deal origination easy for private credit funds, already routing deals to funds like Hudson Cove Capital ($1.2B) and Camber Creek ($1B) from debt advisors and PE sponsors.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Fintech, Private Credit Infra | Team Size: 5

Key Investors: Y Combinator, NextGen Ventures, Startmate, Lyra Capital

Ayush Patel - Co-Founder at Osseus

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Software Engineer Intern at Apple, Software Engineer Intern at Sport BUFF

Connect on: LinkedIn

Osseus (YC S26) is an intelligent development platform for robotics that builds a live dependency graph across a team’s CAD, ECAD, and code, tracing how a hardware change ripples through mechanical, electrical, and software systems.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, Robotics | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Zahan Parekh - Founder at Gimic

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Software Engineer at Amazon, Software Engineer at Google, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - CS at Yale University

Connect on: LinkedIn

Gimic is a plugin for ITSM platforms that automates repetitive runbook tasks — deployment rollbacks, credential rotation, access requests — directly inside the tools engineering teams already use.

HQ: New York City, NY, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, ITSM Automation | Team Size: 3

Stan Kirdey - Founder at Clark

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Neon, Founding Team at Hark, Head of Post-Training at Inflection AI, Founder at Amplifier Health

Connect on: LinkedIn

Clark is an AI lab that builds frontier agentic AI doubling down on supervising super-intelligence and removing human bottlenecks.

HQ: Palo Alto, CA, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Agentic AI | Team Size: 4

John Capello - Co-Founder & CTO at Paystoric

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Chief Innovation Officer at Nasuni, VP Products at Tabblo, Consultant at McKinsey

Connect on: LinkedIn

Paystoric frees historical HR and payroll data from legacy systems, giving companies switching payroll platforms an all-in-one solution to securely store, migrate, and audit historical payroll records.

HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Industry: HR Tech, Payroll Compliance | Team Size: 7

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Google/Meta product exec builds evals for AI customer experience

• YC-backed founder undercuts AWS/Azure/GCP on GPU inference pricing

• 20-year AWS/Oracle/Microsoft veteran automates 409A valuation data entry

• YC-backed founder builds a benchmark arena pitting AI agents against each other

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

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Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Daniel Lewis - Founder at Worldcastr

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Founder at Summit Geospatial, Senior Data Scientist and Technical Lead at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), Co-instructor (Machine Learning for the Geosciences) at The University of Texas at Austin

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Worldcastr is a foundation model for physical development, built to forecast how the world — infrastructure, land use, the built environment — will change over the next 30 years.

HQ: New York, NY, United States

Industry: Deep Tech, Geospatial Foundation Models

Om Buddhdev - Co-Founder & CEO at Olam Labs

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Staff Engineer and Product Engineer at Latitude

Connect on: LinkedIn

Olam Labs (YC S26) measures how AI agents perform and behave in competitive, social environments, pitting them against a randomized pool of frontier LLMs in multiplayer games that test memory and social behavior over time.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Agent Evaluation | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Nora S. - Founder & CEO at Assay

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Partner at W.A.L, Head of Product at Google, Head of Product at Meta, Head of Product at eBay

Connect on: LinkedIn

Assay is the evaluation platform for AI-powered customer experiences, helping teams catch issues, stay on-brand, and drive better outcomes before and after agents go live.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, AI Evals | Team Size: 8

Jasen Mikels - Founder & CEO at Valuationz

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Associate Director, System Strategy at Brigham Young University, Principal AI Consultant at Ejentic, Advisory Board Member at PillPez, enterprise tech experience from AWS, Oracle, Microsoft

Connect on: LinkedIn

Valuationz automates the most time-consuming step in every 409A engagement, using AI extraction to turn client-submitted financial documents into an analyst-ready valuation model in under 10 minutes instead of 3–6 hours.

HQ: Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, United States

Industry: Fintech, Valuation Automation

Nilesh Lalwani - Founder at Stao

FounderDNA: Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Founder at CASH+ (A Personal loan App), Director at HNL ENERGY, Founder & CEO at bion

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Stao is building a stablecoin lending stack that lets fintechs and consumer apps offer unsecured onchain credit through a single integration, handling underwriting, disbursement, and collections end to end.

HQ: Singapore

Industry: Fintech, Stablecoin Lending Infra | Team Size: 2

Jaden Wang - Founder at OpenRelay

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Software Engineering Manager at Voltage Park, Lead Software Engineer at TensorDock

Connect on: LinkedIn

OpenRelay (YC S26) runs a distributed GPU cloud for production inference, offering hardware-agnostic, SLA-backed inference up to 90% cheaper than AWS, Azure, and GCP with automatic failover.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Cloud Infrastructure, GPU Inference | Team Size: 4

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Maryia Kayser - CEO at Coral Analytics

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: COO & CIO at Superlab Suisse, Head of Software Development at Nexxiot

Connect on: LinkedIn

Coral Analytics built a functional testing platform in Switzerland that exposes patient tumor tissue to real chemotherapeutics, giving clinicians and pharma teams evidence of which drugs actually work before a treatment decision is made.

HQ: Zurich, Switzerland

Industry: Biotechnology, Oncology Diagnostics

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Company Launch Tracker is a real-time feed for investors, founders, and tech enthusiasts who want to spot startups the moment they launch. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points and surface company debuts the instant they happen. These signals include founder “I’m excited to announce…” posts, company filings, job changes, product hunt launches, and early press mentions—all stitched together into a single stream of what’s new.

In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• YC-backed founder builds the agent-native messaging platform

• Ex-Goldman Sachs banker (prior exit to CVS Health) builds an AI ops layer for insurance agencies

• UCLA Biodesign fellow builds continuous seizure-risk monitoring

• a16z-backed Stanford MBA builds the AI operating system for freight forwarders

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Mith Paresh Patel - Co-Founder & CEO at Sila

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Co-Founder at Sai, Product Management Intern at JPMorgan Chase, Software Engineer Intern at Scale AI

Connect on: LinkedIn

Sila (YC W26) is building the agent-native messaging platform, creating new communication layers for team-agent, agent-agent, and agent-customer conversations as companies restructure how work happens in the AI era.

HQ: New York, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Agent Messaging | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Zachary Yu - Founder & CEO at Belvedir

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Founder at Traverse, Engineering at Mercor

Connect on: LinkedIn

Belvedir (YC S26) is the autonomous platform for training models, private inference, and continual learning.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Model Training

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Guido Haissiner - CEO & Co-Founder at Rumbo AI

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founding Partner LatAm at Silicon Valley, Botha Chan Entrepreneurship Fellow at Stanford University, Strategy, Planning & Operations Manager at Rappi

Connect on: LinkedIn

Rumbo AI is the AI operating system for freight forwarders, replacing the fragmented stack of email, spreadsheets, and carrier portals with a multi-agent system that quotes, books, and tracks shipments end-to-end.

HQ: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Industry: Logistics Tech, Freight AI | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: a16z, Honeystone Ventures, CRV

Liran Kogan - CPO & Co-Founder at Verdict Machine

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Product Lead - Blockchain Security at Check Point Software, Senior Product Manager at Payoneer

Connect on: LinkedIn

Verdict Machine (YC S26) is the AI firewall for companies moving money onchain, continuously mapping the wallets, tokens, contracts, and vendors funds touch and issuing a verdict on every transaction before it settles.

HQ: Israel

Industry: Cybersecurity, Onchain Compliance | Team Size: 4

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Ansh T. - Co-Founder & CEO at Rasyn

Prior Experience: Researcher at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Researcher at Biogen

Connect on: LinkedIn

Rasyn (YC S26) builds foundation models and agentic harnesses for chemistry workflows.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Chemistry Foundation Models

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Hayoung Ahn - Co-Founder at NeuroSense

FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Accelerator Fellow at UCLA Biodesign, Research Lab Manager - Bakkour Memory and Decision Lab at University of Chicago

Connect on: LinkedIn

NeuroSense combines wearable, clinical, and patient-reported data to help patients and clinicians understand seizure risk between appointments, starting with epilepsy.

HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States

Industry: HealthTech, Neurological Monitoring | Team Size: 4

Rafal Walkiewicz - Founder at AgencyOS Labs

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founder & CEO at Hella Group (acquired by CVS Health), CEO at WTW Securities (Willis Towers Watson), Investment Banker in Financial Institutions Group at Goldman Sachs

Connect on: LinkedIn

AgencyOS Labs is an applied-AI operating system for insurance agency operations, turning ad-hoc agency work into a governed system of instrumented workflows and automation.

HQ: United States

Industry: Insurtech, Agency Operations

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Meta FAIR researcher & KAUST professor builds the SQL layer for physical and visual AI

• Ex-Google Chrome testing lead builds validation & repair for AI-generated code

• EF-backed founder builds AI audit automation for CPA firms

• Ex-Meta AI Systems engineer & Jane Street Fellow builds the operating layer for food commerce

• And more…

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Prama Yudhistira - Co-Founder at Parameter

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Engineering at Codegen, DCGPU Software Intern at AMD, Software Developer (Databases) Intern at WebstaurantStore, Software Engineer Intern at Incident IQ

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Parameter (YC W26, formerly Hex Security) runs autonomous AI pentesting agents that continuously probe applications and infrastructure the way an offensive security engineer would, catching IDORs, broken access control, and cloud misconfigurations that scanners miss.

HQ: United States

Industry: Cybersecurity, Autonomous Pentesting | Team Size: 8

Key Investors: Y Combinator, Nexus Ventures, Inovia Capital

Mohamed Elhoseiny - Founder at Creativ AI

FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Assistant Professor at KAUST, Visiting Faculty Scholar at Stanford University, Visiting Faculty at Baidu USA, Postdoc Researcher at Facebook AI Research

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Creativ AI is building the SQL layer for physical and visual AI, turning raw video into a queryable knowledge base that teams, APIs, and AI agents can search in plain language.

HQ: Santa Clara, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Visual Data Search | Team Size: 4

Jason Arbon - Founder at Jank.AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Principal at IcebergQA, Chief Executive Officer at test.ai, Director of Product and Engineering at Applause.com, Engineering Manager at Google

Connect on: LinkedIn

Jank.AI validates and repairs the code changes AI coding agents generate.

HQ: United States

Industry: Developer Tools, AI Code Validation

Bruno Kiafuka - Founder at Lucerna

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Senior Software Engineer at Shopify, Software Engineer at Meta, React Native Developer at Morrow, Software Engineer at Bridge Labs

Connect on: LinkedIn

Lucerna is an AI-native software delivery platform that unifies feature management, observability, customer feedback, and release automation so engineering teams can build, release, and operate software from one place.

HQ: Ireland

Industry: Developer Tools, Software Delivery

Divyansh Sharma - Founder at Exo

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: AI Software Engineer at Aegis (YC X25), Coordinator at Technology Robotix Society, AI Software Engineer at Airaa, AI Engineer Intern at Obbserv

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Exo builds software for heavy industry — pipelines, refineries, critical infrastructure — that captures the tribal knowledge of an aging skilled workforce instead of trying to automate them out of the loop.

HQ: United States

Industry: Industrial AI, Frontline Knowledge Capture | Team Size: 2

Adib Belal - Founder at Sevo

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Research Engineer - AI Systems at Meta, Mission Engineer Fellow at NASA, Instructor at Stanford University, Software Engineering Fellow at Jane Street

Connect on: LinkedIn

Sevo is building the operating layer for independent food commerce, turning fragmented creator demand into structured supply, trusted ordering, and repeatable local markets.

HQ: New York City, United States

Industry: Foodtech, Local Commerce Infrastructure | Team Size: 5

Atul Patel - Founder at Tieout

FounderDNA: Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneurs First, Co-Founder at AdXpert.ai, Data Science Manager at PayU

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Tieout automates AI-powered audit workflows for CPA firms, starting with Employee Benefit Plan audits.

HQ: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Industry: Audit Tech, AI Compliance Automation | Team Size: 3

Key Investors: Entrepreneur First

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• AI-first genomics platform for personalized mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs goes live

• Former Snap engineer and YC W23 cofounder is building AI tools that plug into your EHR to run and grow your practice around the clock.

• Former NVIDIA autonomy architect and Green Beret is building offline, edge-deployed AI systems for contested environments

• US PCB manufacturing with 7-day turnaround for drone and defense teams goes live

• And more…

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Paul Steven Conyngham - Founder at Gamgee

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Cofounder at Core Intelligence Technologies, Director at Data Science and Ai Association of Australia (DSAi), Senior Data Scientist at Woolworths Group

Connect on: LinkedIn

Gamgee Technologies (YC S26) is building an AI-first genomics platform for personalized mRNA cancer vaccines, starting with dogs, connecting tumor sequencing through patient-specific manufacturing in a closed loop.

HQ: San Fransisco, California, United States

Industry: Biotech, Computational Genomics | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Adit Mittal - Co-Founder at Proxi

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Incoming Trading Fundamental Analyst Intern at Citadel Securities, Analyst at Llama Venture, TMT Pod Lead at Berkeley Investment Group, Co-Founder at MockStreetAI

Connect on: LinkedIn

Proxi is an AI customer-intelligence platform that listens to customers everywhere they talk, distills what they’re asking for, and keeps teams focused on building the right thing to prevent churn.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Customer Intelligence, Churn Prevention | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Pear VC, a16z Scout Fund, Mission Street Capital

Nikhil Kulkarni - Founder at Stable

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Co-Founder at Nucleus (YC W23), Software Engineer at Snap, Software Engineer Intern at Amazon

Connect on: LinkedIn

Stable provides purpose-built AI tools that integrate with your EHR and work around the clock to grow your practice and improve operational performance.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Health Tech | Team Size: 2

Carlos Hernandez - Founder at Downtrace AI

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Principal Engineer (Autonomous Systems) at 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Special Forces Green Beret at USSOCOM, Senior Solutions Architect - Autonomy at NVIDIA, Defense Innovation Scholar at Stanford Gordian Knot Center

Connect on: LinkedIn

Downtrace AI builds offline, edge-deployed AI systems for contested environments, providing the integration, mission engineering, and sustainment services national security and defense teams need to run autonomy without connectivity.

HQ: United States

Industry: Defense Tech, Edge AI

Johnny Doyle - Co-Founder & CEO at ProvenMetal

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at Syncra, Sector Manager - Energy & Utilities at Trinity Student Managed Fund

Connect on: LinkedIn

ProvenMetal runs the entire PCB build process in the US, getting boards back to drone and defense teams in seven days flat with no expedite fee and no rush pricing.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Hardtech, Defense Manufacturing | Team Size: 3

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Luis Moutinho - Co-Founder at iamsilicon

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Founder - CEO at NU-RISE, PhD Physics (FCT fellowship) at University of Aveiro, Invited Researcher at Berkeley Lab

Connect on: LinkedIn

iamsilicon is a fabless semiconductor company building certifiable safety silicon for autonomous machines.

HQ: Portugal

Industry: Deep Tech, Semiconductors for Physical AI

Shailesh Bhujbal - Founder & CEO at GeoClear

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Co-Founder at riTara.ai, Senior Manager - Software Development at Amazon, Sr. Practice Manager (Data Platforms, Analytics, IoT, Edge and Structured ML) at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Enterprise Data - Senior Software Development Manager at Fannie Mae

Connect on: LinkedIn

GeoClear issues tamper-evident evidence records that travel with AI-driven data actions, letting regulated and federal organizations verify — even offline — that an action followed approved policy.

HQ: McLean, Virginia, United States

Industry: GovTech, AI Governance

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Coinbase/Garner Health engineer builds the front door to men's preventive health

• Ex-Meta staff engineer automates playable ad production for mobile games

• Ex-Amazon/J&J/PwC analyst builds a "company brain" with conflict-aware memory

• UK founder builds efficient foundation models optimized for NVIDIA hardware

• And more…

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Ted Dziuba - Founder & CEO at Pylon Health

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Director of Engineering at Garner Health, Engineering Manager at Coinbase, Head of DevOps at EarnUp

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Pylon Health is building the front door to men’s preventive health, catching cheap-to-treat conditions like hypertension and metabolic disease before they become expensive, late-stage diagnoses.

HQ: Sacramento, California, United States

Industry: HealthTech, Men’s Health

Caner Gulluoglu - Founder at Orvind

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Staff Software Engineer at Meta, Software Engineer at Amazon, Software Engineering Manager at Compliance Solutions Strategies

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Orvind automates the production of playable ads for mobile games — work that normally takes an internal team weeks — and claims roughly 3x better conversion than standard video ads.

HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Industry: AdTech, Agentic Creative

Daniel Tobarra - Founder at Loop Machines

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Co-Founder at Mission Critical Consulting, Space Systems Architect at FOSSA Systems, Senior Space Systems Engineer at Spire

Connect on: LinkedIn

Loop Machines is an AI-native engineering platform for mission-critical hardware, centralizing test data and automating failure analysis across defense, space, robotics, and autonomy fleets.

HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Industry: Deep Tech, Hardware Observability

Tudor Iustin - Founder & CEO at Fabric AI

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Outlier, Machine Learning Engineer at Glovo, iOS Developer at Upwork

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Fabric AI is a UK foundation-model research and deployment company building efficient, open and commercial AI models optimized for NVIDIA hardware.

HQ: United Kingdom

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Foundation Models

Fayzulla Abdurakhimov - Founder at Neuron

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Business Intelligence Analyst at Amazon, Analyst at Johnson & Johnson, Data Analyst at Center for BrainHealth, Associate - Data Analytics at PwC

Connect on: LinkedIn

Neuron is a ‘company brain’ with conflict-aware memory that serves both individuals and their whole team, so humans and AI agents never work off stale information.

HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States

Industry: Enterprise AI, Knowledge Infrastructure | Team Size: 2

Vijayanand Kailash - Co-Founder & CEO at Clocknext

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Advisor, AI Innovation & Transformation at MediBuddy, Managing Director (Buyerstage) at Conquer, Co-founder and CEO at Buyerstage (Acquired by Conquer), Co-founder and CEO at Humbird AI

Connect on: LinkedIn

Clocknext is a pricing and billing stack built for agentic apps, letting companies monetize AI agents with credits, wallets, and usage-based billing.

HQ: Lewes, Delaware, United States

Industry: Fintech, Agentic Billing | Team Size: 4

Thomas Kaar - Co-Founder & Managing Director at Aionic Labs

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Visiting Student at University of Cambridge, Visiting Student Researcher at Stanford University, Software Engineer at Meta

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Aionic Labs is building time-series language models that turn complex operational signals from healthcare, energy, and finance into contextual understanding.

HQ: Zurich, Switzerland

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Time Series AI

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Former TikTok machine learning engineer is building insurance for the actions AI agents take on a company's behalf

• Repeat founder and former Amazon engineer is building AI-programmable PLCs to replace legacy ladder-logic industrial controllers

• Former Google engineer and Cornell Tech XR researcher is building a Duolingo-style AI tutor aimed at tutor-level mastery for any subject

• Former Atlassian senior engineering manager is building an AI operating system that turns lab knowledge, captured hands-free, into a searchable knowledge base

• And more…

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Kenneth Rhee - Co-Founder, CTO at Neuron Industries

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Founder/CEO at WorkIPO, Software Engineer at GOAT Group, Software Engineer at Amazon, Software Engineer at Medidata Solutions

Connect on: LinkedIn

Neuron Industries (YC S26) builds AI-programmable PLCs for industrial automation, aiming to replace legacy ladder-logic controllers with software-defined ones.

HQ: El Segundo, California, United States

Industry: Industrial Automation, AI Hardware | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Marko Pavlovic - Founder & CEO at Seyn

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Founder & Senior Advisor at MetaProp Labs, Vice President of Professional Services at Robin, Founder/CEO at Flow & Form (acquired)

Connect on: LinkedIn

Seyn maps how a company actually operates and turns that into an executable knowledge base its AI can act on, deploying within days at no upfront cost.

HQ: Croatia

Industry: Enterprise AI, Workflow Automation | Team Size: 3

Shehryar Saroya - Co-Founder & CEO at Agent Insurance

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Founder at Silicon Soul, Machine Learning Engineer - Video Recommendation Algorithm at TikTok

Connect on: LinkedIn

Agent Insurance (YC S26) is building insurance for AI agents, giving companies a way to cover the actions autonomous agents take on their behalf.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Insurtech, AI Agent Risk | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Willow Jarvis - Founder at Butterbase

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founder Fellowship at South Park Commons, Manager at GoDaddy, Teaching Assistant at MIT

Connect on: LinkedIn

Butterbase is a platform purpose-built for AI agents, letting teams fork production-ready CRM, intake, portal, and invoicing apps or build custom software in a single session, all resolving to one shared record.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, AI App Builders | Team Size: 4

Fernando Carrasco - Co-Founder at Mykel

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Co-founder & CTO at Inventa, Associate Partner - Expert on Data Science, Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning at McKinsey & Company

Connect on: LinkedIn

Mykel is an AI-native customer success platform that reads every customer signal, surfaces the next best action, and can act on it proactively while keeping the team in control.

HQ: Brazil

Industry: Customer Success, AI Analytics | Team Size: 2

David Lyon - CTO & Co-Founder at Bower

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian, Engineering Manager at Xero, Head of Operations at Boardcave, Head of Operations at CAVEWIRE

Connect on: LinkedIn

Bower is an AI operating system for scientific work that captures lab knowledge through voice, images, and video - including hands-free via Bower Smart Glasses - and turns it into a searchable organizational knowledge base.

HQ: Byron Bay, NSW, Australia

Industry: Enterprise AI, Scientific R&D | Team Size: 3

Cheng-Wei Hu - Co-Founder & CEO at Wondering

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Software Engineer at Google, Researcher (XR Collaboratory) at Cornell Tech, Software Engineer Intern at Amazon, Software Engineer Intern at Grindr

Connect on: LinkedIn

Wondering (YC S26) is building a Duolingo-style AI tutor aimed at tutor-level mastery for any subject, giving learners personalized, adaptive practice instead of generic drills.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: EdTech, AI Tutoring | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator (S26)

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Meta PhD researcher builds in-silico drug simulation for rare cancers

• Ex-Google/Apple infra vets de-risk GPU cloud capacity commitments

• YC-backed Tesla alum builds all-in-one banking for startups

• Ex-Amazon AGI Labs technical staff member builds open-source tools to help society understand the capabilities of AI and robots in the physical world

• And more…

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Aris Zhu - Co-Founder at Robocurve

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Member of Technical Staff, AGI Labs at Amazon, Robotics Engineer at yondu, Quantitative Investments Analyst at KKR

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Robocurve (YC S26) builds independent benchmarks and real-world evaluations for physical AI and robotics, giving labs and buyers an objective read on what a robot can actually do outside a demo reel.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Robotics, AI Evaluation | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator (S26)

Remi Salam - Founder & CEO at ClairInfra

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Director, Product Risk - Replenishment Products at Walmart Global Tech, Sr Manager - Infrastructure Product & Analytics at Google, Global Head - Data Center Sustenance & Optimization at Google, WW Supply Demand Planner at Apple

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

ClairInfra de-risks capacity commitments for GPU cloud operators, modeling what a data center’s actual topology can schedule so promised capacity matches what customers can really get.

HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Industry: GPU Infrastructure, Capacity Planning | Team Size: 2

Timothy Schoenharl - Co-Founder & CTO at Augmentics SCM

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: VP of Engineering - Intelligent Platforms and Supply Chain at HelloFresh, Senior Director of Engineering - Supply Chain Management Autonomation at Coupang

Connect on: LinkedIn

Augmentics SCM builds lot-level decision systems for regional perishables distributors, telling operators which inventory is at risk, the best disposition for each lot, and how to feed sell-through data back into tomorrow’s buy — replacing the spreadsheet-and-instinct process most distributors still run on.

HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Industry: Supply Chain AI, Perishables | Team Size: 2

Rishan Hemrajani - Co-Founder & CTO at CueBench

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, Summer Fellow at Jerome Fisher M&T Program, Co-Founder & Director (FBCL LibraryOfThings) at Fort Bend County Libraries

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

CueBench (YC S26) builds reinforcement-learning environments for frontier AI labs, giving teams a way to train and evaluate complex agentic systems.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, RL Environments | Team Size: 4

Key Investors: Y Combinator (S26), NVIDIA Inception

Subhash Chandra - Co-Founder at tOOrunt.ai

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: APAC gSM Lead at Google, Principal Delivery Manager at Google, Delivery Manager at Google, Sales Delivery Lead at Google

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

tOOrunt.ai builds the accountability layer for AI-written code, tracking who approved a change, whether it was reviewed, and whether there’s a record if something breaks.

HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Industry: Developer Tools, Code Governance | Team Size: 2

Amol Pant - Founder & CTO at Florin

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Perception at Orchard, Flight Simulation and Experimental Flight Testing at Boeing, Autopilot at Tesla, Autonomous Rover Project Lead at Space Technologies At California (STAC)

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Florin (YC S26) brings banking, payments, cards, and treasury into a single account built for startups, so founders can hold, move, and grow capital without stitching together half a dozen financial tools.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Fintech, Startup Banking | Team Size: 4

Key Investors: Y Combinator (S26)

Faith Ogundimu - Founder at Onkydra

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Bioinformatics Research Assistant at Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre, Breakthrough Cancer Research Scholar, Visiting Student Researcher at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Onkydra is an in-silico stratification workspace for rare-cancer drug development — drop in a target and it simulates how the drug would perform across a virtual patient cohort built from real, pooled patient data.

HQ: Dublin, Ireland

Industry: Biotech, Computational Oncology

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Meta research engineer and Apple ML scientist is building a self-improvement layer that turns AI agents' mistakes into permanent fixes

• After exiting Enigmatch to Clear Street, this fintech veteran is building a real-time ledger connecting equities, crypto, cash, and stablecoins

• Former SpaceX and Google engineer is building an automated claims recovery platform for autism therapy (ABA) providers

• A MediaMath staff engineer is automating procurement emails into execution for defense and auto manufacturers

• And more…

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Sahar Daraeizadeh - Co-Founder at QAILinks

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Sr Quantum System Architect at Microsoft, Sr Reseach Scientist - Quantum Full Stack Architect at Intel Labs

Connect on: LinkedIn

QAILinks is building the secure execution fabric for AI and emerging quantum systems, giving enterprises a trusted, auditable layer to deploy and validate autonomous workloads at scale.

HQ: Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States

Industry: AI Security, Quantum Infrastructure | Team Size: 3

Madhu Subbu - Founder at Logos Markets

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Head of Equity Finance & Treasury Technology at Clear Street, Founder & CEO at Enigmatch (acquired by Clear Street), Engineering Lead - Investigations at Chainalysis, Engineering Lead at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Logos Markets is a real-time financing layer connecting equities, crypto, cash, and stablecoins on one ledger, settling atomically across traditional and digital assets 24x7.

HQ: New York, United States

Industry: Fintech, Capital Markets Infrastructure

Hudson Griffith - Co-Founder & CEO at Prized

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Software Engineer at Suno, Founding Engineer at Gander, Software Engineer Intern at L3Harris Technologies

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Prized (YC S26) lets non-engineers build, deploy, and share secure internal tools with AI, connecting generated tools to real databases and SaaS systems inside a governed, permissioned workspace.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, AI App Builders | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Yi Lu - Co-Founder & CEO at Reflexio AI

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Research Engineer at Meta, Head of Machine Learning at Forethought, Adjunct Professor at University of Washington, Applied Machine Learning Scientist at Apple

Connect on: LinkedIn

Reflexio AI gives AI agents a self-improvement layer, turning user corrections and failed attempts into reusable behavioral fixes so agents get better at previously seen tasks over time.

HQ: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Agent Learning | Team Size: 2

Deepak Ravindran - Founder at Niko Assistant

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Founder & CEO at KiranaPro (AI agent for local commerce), Co-Founder of Innoz — the world’s largest offline search engine, Director of Partnerships at Verloop.io

Connect on: LinkedIn

Niko Assistant is a compounding memory layer for founders — a “company brain” that captures what’s actually real about the business so decisions build on accumulated context instead of resetting with every new tool.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Founder Tools, AI Memory

Harrison Miller - Co-Founder at Mend

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-SpaceX & Ex-Google engineer, Senior Software Engineer at A.Team, AI Backend Systems at Bespoke Labs

Connect on: LinkedIn

Mend recovers denied insurance claims for ABA (autism therapy) providers, a category where denial rates spike after a new center opens or a payer goes live.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: HealthTech, Claims Automation

Warren Ronsiek - Co-Founder, CTO at Supply Veins

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Staff Software Engineer at MediaMath, Founder at TaskTrace, Founder at BookMadeForYou, Economics (Honors) at UC Berkeley

Connect on: LinkedIn

Supply Veins turns buyer-supplier procurement emails into reliable, automated execution for defense and automotive manufacturers, saving purchasing teams roughly 4 hours a day and cutting order defects by 30% versus juggling email, spreadsheets, and ERP systems.

HQ: Miami, Florida, United States

Industry: Supply Chain AI, Defense & Manufacturing | Team Size: 5

Key Investors: Techstars

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Palantir tech lead brings AI to the workers' comp claims market

• Harvard Applied Math grad builds an AI decision co-pilot for executives

• Ex-Meta/Airbnb/Netflix infra exec builds cradle-to-grave AI factory ops

• Ex-Microsoft data scientist builds a governance layer for AI agents in production

• And more…

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Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Roland Jaloszynski - Co-Founder at Veltha

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Technical Lead at Palantir Technologies, Fullstack Software Developer at DAC.digital, Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Veltha (YC S26) builds decisioning infrastructure for insurance carriers and TPAs, turning workers’ comp claims into structured, citation-backed findings that give adjusters a defensible basis for every call.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Insurtech, Claims AI | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Abhinav Srivastava - Founder at Eidetix

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Co-Founder and CTO at Dealsense AI, Resident at The Residency, Founding Engineer at Coheso, Founding Engineer at Alphawatch.AI

Connect on: LinkedIn

Eidetix builds a persistent context layer for engineering teams, passively capturing the constraints buried in incidents, PR comments, and AI debugging sessions before that knowledge disappears with the next reorg or Slack thread.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, Engineering Knowledge | Team Size: 3

Lucas Baur - Co-Founder at Cerenovus

FounderDNA: Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Portfolio Manager at The Charles River Growth Fund, Course Assistant at Harvard University

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Cerenovus (YC S26) helps executives get evidence-backed answers to operating questions in minutes by mining a company’s own documents, replacing weeks of consultants and internal analysis.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Enterprise AI, Decision Intelligence | Team Size: 5

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Raveesh Motlani - Founder at FirstOps

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Chief of Staff at Enterpret, Data Scientist at Microsoft, Co-Founder at GlowPixel

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

FirstOps is a governance layer for AI agents in production, giving security and platform teams identity, access control, and audit trails across every tool call, MCP server, and agent action.

HQ: San Francisco, United States

Industry: AI Security, Agent Governance | Team Size: 2

Ananth Sankaralingam - Co-Founder at Chromie.dev

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Research Assistant at UMIACS, Software Engineer at LinkedIn, AI Engineer at Children’s National Hospital, Teaching Assistant at University of Maryland

Connect on: LinkedIn

Chromie.dev (YC S26) is the all-in-one platform to tackle government contracts with intelligence.

HQ: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States

Industry: GovTech, Automation | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Y Combinator

Tamanna Sait - Co-Founder & CEO at NEYON AI

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: VP Engineering at Crusoe, Engineering Director - Cloud Infrastructure at Airbnb, Engineering Director - Cloud Infrastructure at Netflix, GM - Infrastructure at Facebook

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

NEYON AI delivers cradle-to-grave deployment and operations for AI factories, giving teams a single automated layer to monitor and maximize throughput.

HQ: Redwood City, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure | Team Size: 4

Ivan Capalija - Founder at Veridil

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: CEO & Co-Founder at floflo.app, Head of AI at Microblink, Software Development Intern at Google

Connect on: LinkedIn

Veridil builds identity, compliance, and anti-fraud infrastructure for the AI era, letting teams customize KYC/AML workflows and cut fraud response from months to minutes.

HQ: Croatia

Industry: Compliance Tech, Identity Verification | Team Size: 2

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Gallop Oncology CEO is now developing small-molecule therapies for cardiovascular and inflammatory disease

• Former Atlas CEO (acquired by Remote) is building a debit card for AI agents (YC-backed)

• Former BlackRock quant developer pivots to healthcare, building social care funding infrastructure

• ReCode Therapeutics co-founder launches new venture building engineered tRNAs to suppress aging-linked mutations

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Luba Greenwood - Chief Executive Officer at Mwyngil Therapeutics

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: CEO, Board Chair & Co-Founder, Gallop Oncology at PureTech Health, Director, Board of Directors at Abcam, Founder & Managing Partner, Binney Street Capital Venture Fund at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Connect on: LinkedIn

Mwyngil Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class and best-in-class small-molecule therapies for cardiovascular, metabolic, and chronic inflammatory and immune diseases.

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Industry: Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals

Karen Serfaty - Co-Founder at Agentcard

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: CEO & Co-Founder at Atlas (acquired by Remote), CTO & Co-Founder at NILUS.online, CEO & Co-Founder at Palabra, Harvard alum

Connect on: LinkedIn

Agentcard gives AI agents a debit card, enabling autonomous agents to make payments directly.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Fintech, AI Infrastructure | Team Size: 2

Michael Torres - Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at ARTAN Bio

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: VP of R&D & Co-Founder at ReCode Therapeutics, CEO at CrossBridge Bio, Member at spARK Labs by ARK Invest

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

ARTAN Bio is developing engineered tRNAs designed to suppress mutations associated with aging.

HQ: Houston, Texas, United States

Industry: Biotechnology, Longevity Therapeutics | Team Size: 3

Van Mendoza - Co-Founder & CEO at Reflect Memory

FounderDNA: Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Staff Designer & Creative Director at TikTok, Principal Visual Designer at Google, Sr. Product Designer at Apple, Principal Visual Designer at Sony

Connect on: LinkedIn

Reflect Memory provides a shared memory layer for multi-model AI systems, giving teams and agents persistent, shared context across models, tools, and environments so intelligence compounds instead of resetting with every conversation.

HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Developer Tools

Neil Lunsford - Co-Founder & CEO at Treadr

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Quantitative Developer/Researcher at Parallax Volatility Advisers, Quantitative Developer at BlackRock, Software Engineer Intern at Tealium

Connect on: LinkedIn

Treadr is the closed-loop social care infrastructure for American healthcare, matching patients to programs and converting untapped funding into realized revenue for community care facilities.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: HealthTech, Social Care Infrastructure | Team Size: 2

Charles Zhou - Co-Founder, CTO at Sound of Molecules

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: PhD in Chemistry at The University of Chicago, PostDoc at Northwestern University, Principal Software Developer and Cloud/AI Tech Lead at Oracle, Senior Staff Scientist at Versicor

Connect on: LinkedIn

Sound of Molecules (SoMol) develops AI-powered tools that accelerate drug discovery using a waveform encoding of molecules.

HQ: Mountain View, California, United States

Industry: Deep Tech, Biotechnology | Team Size: 3

Mridula Sivanandan - Founder & CPTO at The Nimble Company

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Software Engineer at Meta, Search Relevance - Product & Engineering at Elastic, Product Engineer at Wise, Founding Engineer at Crio.Do

Connect on: LinkedIn

The Nimble Company is building an intelligence layer that connects what you already know and surfaces missed insights at the right moment, aiming to compound scattered information into sharper instincts and faster decisions rather than requiring manual filing and searching.

HQ: London Area, United Kingdom

Industry: Personal Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence | Team Size: 2

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Stanford MBA and YC-backed founder is building the AI operating layer that automates ordering, invoicing, and supplier workflows for consumer brands

• Former VP of Engineering at HyperTrack is building dedicated cloud laptops for coding agents

• J.P. Morgan alum and Apple AI strategy leader is building on-premise AI hardware for hospitals, pharma, and other regulated industries

• Former AWS automated reasoning researcher is building formal-verification infrastructure that checks AI-generated code before it ships

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Adwait Godbole - Co-Founder & CTO at Aretta AI

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: PhD in EECS at UC Berkeley, Automated Reasoning Researcher at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Formal Verification & Security Researcher at Intel Labs

Connect on: LinkedIn

Aretta generates production-ready code verified by the right mix of proofs, static analysis, and tests — so teams ship faster without sacrificing correctness.

HQ: Berkeley, California, United States

Industry: AI Developer Tools, Formal Verification

Luciano Juvinski - Founder at AuditKey

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Founder, CTO & CEO at Navegg (acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network), M.Eng. & Blockchain Teaching Assistant at Duke University, Chief Technology Officer at Fact Finance

Connect on: LinkedIn

AuditKey is building blockchain defense and compliance infrastructure for the stablecoin and privacy era.

HQ: Sao Paulo, Brazil

Industry: Blockchain Security, DeFi Infrastructure | Team Size: 2

Audrey Djiya - Co-Founder and CEO at Handled

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Co-Founder and CEO at Zimi (YC S24), Senior Product Manager at Duplo (YC W22), Strategy at Peloton Interactive, Stanford MBA

Connect on: LinkedIn

Handled is an AI operating layer for consumer brands that unifies fragmented systems into one platform for answers, automation, and execution. It lets teams query data conversationally and automates reordering, order processing, 3PL coordination, and invoicing.

HQ: New York, United States

Industry: B2B SaaS, AI Operations | Team Size: 6

Saurabh Das - Co-Founder & CTO at Starfolk

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: VP of Engineering & Head of Intelligence at HyperTrack, Chief Technology Officer at Silverleaf Capital Services, KPMG India Consultant

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Starfolk provides dedicated cloud machines for coding agents.

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Industry: AI Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure | Team Size: 2

Key Investors: Redpoint, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic

Tibor Pakozdi - Founder and CEO at AI.hr

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Data & AI Strategy Manager at Apple, Executive Director - M&A & Strategy at J.P. Morgan, Founder at Wysdome, Strategy & Operations Manager at Google

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

AI.hr builds on-premise AI hardware and private agent infrastructure for regulated, security-sensitive industries such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and hospitality. The platform pairs standalone hardware and private knowledge bases with reviewable agent workflows so operational data never leaves the customer’s environment.

HQ: Manhattan, New York, United States

Industry: Enterprise AI, AI Hardware Infrastructure

Jordan Ibe - Founder at Cova

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies, Co-Founder at BTH Trading, Software Engineer Intern at Uber

Connect on: LinkedIn

Cova (YC S26) is a home care agency that uses AI to increase caregiver pay while lowering rates for care seekers and improving care quality per visit.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: HealthTech, AI-Enabled Home Care | Team Size: 2

Nisha Adke - Founder at Gamma

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Transformation Manager at EY, Data Analyst at Progyny, Database Support Analyst at Hudson Alley Software

Connect on: LinkedIn

Gamma Cog measures real-time cognitive capacity through a wearable device, aiming to give users the same visibility into brain function that fitness wearables provide for the body.

HQ: Lisbon, Portugal

Industry: Health Tech, Wearables

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Meta Superintelligence Labs engineer is building an audio-alert layer that keeps developers in the loop on their coding agents

• Ex-Goldman Sachs banker is building digital coworkers that let operations teams scale without adding headcount

• Former Credit Suisse tech lead is building a Swiss agentic AI platform that surfaces traceable insight for private banks

• YC-backed founder is building end-to-end permitting software that automates local government review

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Aniket Deshpande - Co-Founder & CEO at Agent FM

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Software Engineer - Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta, Software Engineer at Adobe, Software Engineer at Oracle

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Agent FM surfaces important signals from coding agents — progress, blockers, failed tests, errors, and key decisions — as audio updates, so developers can stay in the loop without watching a wall of text.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools | Team Size: 2

Nathan Ricks - Co-Founder & COO at Velanir

FounderDNA: Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at DIY Solar, Venture Capital Associate at G2 Venture Partners, Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs, Private Equity Associate at AltaLink Capital

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Velanir lets operations teams scale their output without scaling headcount by adding digital coworkers that work, manage, and improve alongside the rest of the team.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Future of Work | Team Size: 4

Aidan Ng - Co-Founder & CEO at Verdant

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Business Analyst at Capital One, Venture Fellow at qodeo, Risk & Financial Advisory Intern at Deloitte

Connect on: LinkedIn

Verdant (YC S26) builds end-to-end permitting software for local government, helping applicants file compliant applications upfront and helping staff automatically review documents, flag issues, and draft reports.

HQ: Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Industry: GovTech, Software | Team Size: 2

Aragon M. Brettschneider - Co-Founder & CEO at Kaivo

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Founder & CEO at Astoria Succession Partners, Co-Founder & COO at Medical One Group AG, Technology Strategy Consulting at Accenture, Advisory Team at KPMG, Global Venture Development at Rocket Internet

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Kaivo is an AI-native travel booking platform to replace endless search with personalized booking. Kaivo’s AI agents prepare flights, timing, and trade-offs for one-click approval instead of manual search.

HQ: Malaga, Andalusia, Spain

Industry: Travel Tech, Artificial Intelligence | Team Size: 1

Rohit Talluri - Co-Founder & CEO at Primitive Labs

FounderDNA: Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Computer-Use Agents at Amazon AGI Autonomy Lab, Senior Worldwide Generative AI Specialist at AWS

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Primitive Labs is building tools to make human behavior a first-class primitive of software development.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence | Team Size: 3

Monirith Khieu - CTO & Co-Founder at Maredan

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Solutions Architect & Tech Lead at Credit Suisse, Head of IT at Quantica Capital AG, Java & PL/SQL Software Engineer at J.P. Morgan, Financial Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters

Connect on: LinkedIn

Maredan is a Swiss-based agentic AI platform for private banks and independent asset managers, surfacing traceable, context-aware insight across portfolios, markets, and compliance.

HQ: Switzerland

Industry: FinTech, Artificial Intelligence

Dylan Kelly - Co-Founder at Amorphic Labs

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Quantitative Trading Intern at UBS, Quantitative Trading Team Lead at Georgia Tech Trading, Summer Analyst at Balbec Capital, Undergraduate Researcher at Georgia Tech Financial Services Innovation Lab

Connect on: LinkedIn

Amorphic Labs (YC S26) builds outbound demo agents that research each prospect’s company, role, and pain points to deliver a personalized product demo automatically, increasing outbound conversion.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Sales Tech, Artificial Intelligence

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Bridgewater and BlackRock alum is building a compliance operations platform for manufacturers

• Former Discord machine learning engineer is building infrastructure for scaling autoresearch, backed by YC S26

• Former Zendesk GTM director and SAP executive is building a decision intelligence platform for security teams

• Ex-Google conversational AI architect is building enterprise AI solutions for maritime organizations

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Shreyas Becker - Co-Founder / COO at Katalyze AI

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Head of AI & Data Products, Manufacturing & Supply at Sanofi, Group Manager, Products at Neo Financial, Consultant at Boston Consulting Group

Connect on: LinkedIn

Katalyze AI is an AI-based optimization platform for biomanufacturing, offering an integrated, end-to-end solution from raw material optimization to traceability. The platform is flexible, letting biomanufacturers develop custom AI use cases or use pre-built modules.

HQ: United States

Industry: BioTech, Manufacturing AI | Team Size: 36

Beni S. - Co-Founder at Valent

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founder at Loop Vehicles, Senior Investment Engineer at Bridgewater Associates, Global Markets at BlackRock

Connect on: LinkedIn

Valent is a compliance operations platform for manufacturers, helping teams collect, validate, and maintain the documentation they need to move faster with customers, suppliers, and auditors.

HQ: New York, New York, United States

Industry: Compliance Tech, Supply Chain | Team Size: 3

Akshul Mittal - Co-Founder, COO/CPO at Emvo

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: AI Strategy & InfoSec Consultant at Deloitte, Data Science Strategy at Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Emvo provides sovereign infrastructure for enterprises to build, fine-tune, and deploy non-hallucinating AI agents within their own cloud environment, addressing the compliance barriers that prevent most enterprises from using public LLMs.

HQ: India

Industry: Enterprise AI Infrastructure, AI Compliance | Team Size: 10

Thomas Boser - Co-Founder/CTO at hiloop

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Discord, Founding Engineer at Crosswise Risk Management, Engineer at Reducto, Data Scientist – NLP at Sentropy Technologies (acquired by Discord), Data Scientist, Modeler at SoFi

Connect on: LinkedIn

hiloop (YC S26) is building infrastructure for scaling autoresearch.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: AI Infrastructure, Research Automation | Team Size: 3

Jackie Zhou - Co-Founder at FREDDi

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founding Partner at PolarStar Cybersecurity Group, Director, Global Strategic GTM Programs at Zendesk, Global Director, Customer Experience GTM at SAP Customer Experience, Strategic Sales & GTM at Data Theorem

Connect on: LinkedIn

FREDDi is a decision intelligence platform for security operations that turns signals from scanners, ticketing systems, and asset inventories into business-ready action.

HQ: United States

Industry: Cybersecurity, Decision Intelligence

Tushar Dublish - Founder at Vezel

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe, Software Developer at Microsoft, Founder at ActionSync, Co-Founder at LetsEcho

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Vezel is an AI extension builder for B2B SaaS, helping companies transform their products into extensible platforms where customers can build custom apps, dashboards, workflows, and AI-powered experiences using natural language — without waiting on engineering roadmaps.

HQ: India

Industry: Developer Tools, B2B SaaS AI

Guillaume S. - Co-Founder & CTO at InBridge AI

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Conversational AI Architect at Google, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pod, Senior Conversational AI Engineer at Quantiphi

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

InBridge AI partners with maritime organizations to modernize operations through enterprise AI solutions built for the industry’s specific challenges. The platform helps operators, ship managers, ports, and stakeholders manage operational knowledge, documentation, workflows, and compliance, improving decision-making and coordination between vessels and shore teams.

HQ: Canada

Industry: Maritime Tech, Enterprise AI | Team Size: 4

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In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Talabat CEO and Grab/Uber operator is building autonomous, driverless delivery networks to replace manual couriers

• Former Wells Fargo SVP of home lending is building an AI-native underwriting and capital markets platform for commercial real estate

• Former ServiceNow VP of Sales Operations is building the operating system for revenue teams

• Former HubSpot engineer is building benchmark-driven, deterministic search infrastructure for accurate, explainable AI search

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Finn Hefferon - Co-Founder & CEO at Sora Wealth

FounderDNA: Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Chief Operating Officer at Kamui Finance, Director of Product & Design at Stake, Product Lead - Serai at HSBC, Manager at Standard Chartered Bank

Connect on: LinkedIn

Sora is an AI-native private wealth firm for the modern era delivering more personal and proactive service than the traditional wealth management industry.

HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Fintech, AI | Team Size: 4

Aakar Khanna - Co-Founder, CEO at Truffle

Prior Experience: Head of Strategy & Operations at Kouper, Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs, Business Operations Associate at AtoB

Connect on: LinkedIn

Truffle (YC S26) is the first AI-native operating system built for hospitality venues — powering ordering, prep, and scheduling so restaurants, cafes, and bars run more profitably.

HQ: New York, New York, United States

Industry: Hospitality Tech, AI/Operations | Team Size: 2

Tomaso Rodriguez - Chief Executive Officer at CargoX

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University (see flags)

Prior Experience: Chief Executive Officer at Talabat, SVP - Head of GrabFood at Grab, Head of UberEATS Regional Operations (APAC0 at Uber

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

CargoX is transforming logistics by shifting from manual couriers to autonomous, driverless delivery networks, offering Autonomous Delivery-as-a-Service built for speed, scale, and reliability.

HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industry: Autonomous Delivery, Logistics Technology

Yahor Barkouski - Founder at Gia

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Engineering Lead at The Network, Founder at Plump (acquired), Senior Software Engineer at HubSpot, Engineering Lead at Superside, Senior Software Engineer at Scentbird

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Gia is benchmark-driven search infrastructure for accurate, explainable, deterministic AI search.

HQ: Poland

Industry: AI Search Infrastructure, Developer Tools

Heath Ackley - Co-Founder and CEO at NOAL AI

Prior Experience: SVP - Head of Home Lending Originations Transformation Oversight at Wells Fargo, Strategic Advisor at CircleLink, Interim Product Leader - Nationwide Bank at Nationwide

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

NOAL AI is an AI-native underwriting and capital markets platform purpose-built for commercial real estate.

HQ: Columbus, Ohio, United States

Industry: Commercial Real Estate Tech, AI/Underwriting | Team Size: 7

Tristan Munday - Founder & CEO at Muntri

Prior Experience: SVP Operations at Komodo Health, SVP Business Operations & IT at Cloudera, VP Sales Operations & Strategy at ServiceNow, SVP Operations at Talkdesk, VP Customer Operations at Medallia

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Muntri is the operating system for revenue — a single platform combining a deterministic, auditable revenue graph with governed AI agents, replacing 8–15 disconnected go-to-market tools.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Revenue Operations, B2B SaaS

Mathieu Rabaey - Co-Founder & Head of Product at SpectaCell

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Director Design & Manufacturing at Antelope Dx, Senior Hardware Engineer at Unchained Labs, Team Leader R&D Hardware at TRINEAN, Business Development Manager at Photonics Research Group (Ghent University - imec)

Connect on: LinkedIn

SpectaCell is pioneering a new generation of cell therapy analytics, combining breakthrough imaging technology, single-cell analysis, and AI to unlock biological insights previously unattainable at scale, with a long-term vision to become the global standard for functional characterization of cell therapies.

HQ: Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

Industry: Biotechnology, Cell Therapy Analytics | Team Size: 3

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Company Launch Tracker is a real-time feed for investors, founders, and tech enthusiasts who want to spot startups the moment they launch. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points and surface company debuts the instant they happen. These signals include founder “I’m excited to announce…” posts, company filings, job changes, product hunt launches, and early press mentions—all stitched together into a single stream of what’s new.

In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Director of VERSES' Intelligent Systems Lab is building world models that let robots adapt and learn during deployment

• Former professional handball player is building a performance intelligence platform that turns daily data into personalized coaching

• 25-year golf ball engineering veteran and former OnCore Golf CEO is building a sensor-packed smart golf ball

• Former CRO of RealWear and VP of global sales at Vuzix is building safety-certified smart glasses for industrial frontline workers

• And more…

Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀

🚀Recent Company Launches

Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.

Marcus Lima - Co-Founder & CEO at Torus

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Founder & CEO at Heimdal (YC S21), MSc Energy Systems Engineering at University of Oxford, Management Consultant at QVARTZ (now Bain & Co.)

Connect on: LinkedIn

Torus (YC S26) builds AI agents that read and cross-reference engineering documents — P&IDs, heat and mass balances, and spec sheets — to flag inconsistencies across a project’s specs, drawings, and datasheets in real time.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Engineering Software, Industrial Tech

Mike Jordan - Chief Executive Officer at CYNC Labs

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Chief Executive Officer at OnCore Golf, Chief Product Officer at RTI, SVP - Control & Entertainment at Snap One, Senior Engineering Manager at TaylorMade-adidas Golf

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

CYNC Labs is redefining golf technology with the world’s first premium smart golf ball, engineered to deliver real-time putting analytics and precision feedback in a regulation-size, tour-quality golf ball.

HQ: Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Industry: Sports Tech, Consumer Hardware, IoT/Connected Devices | Team Size: 5

Derrick Sawyer - Co-Founder & CRO at Optaric

Prior Experience: Chief Revenue Officer at RealWear, VP of Global Sales at Vuzix Corporation, Head of Sales NGDC at Dimension Data UKI, Senior Territory Manager (NEMEA, Global Accounts) at VMware/VeloCloud

Connect on: LinkedIn

Optaric is building next-generation enterprise smart glasses purpose-built for the frontline industrial and clinical workforce, designed to be safety-certified, prescription-compatible, and durable enough for a full shift.

HQ: London Area, United Kingdom

Industry: Industrial Hardware, AR/Wearables, Enterprise Tech | Team Size: 4

Nikos Dritsakos - Founder at Glen

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at SalesBop (acquired), Full Stack Engineer at Grapl, Member of Technical Staff at Composio

Connect on: LinkedIn

Glen (YC S26) provides an organizational memory layer for multi-agent teams, enabling persistent shared knowledge graphs with full provenance and access control across AI agents.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software | Team Size: 2

Rahul Bhati - Co-Founder at HILstart

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Mechatronics R&D Engineer at Aquila, Giants Mentor at Blackbird, Mechatronics & Electrical Engineering Intern at Halter

Connect on: LinkedIn

HILstart is bringing CI/CD to hardware: a small testing box, a web app, and an AI layer that let teams write tests, run them on real hardware, and have agents drive the test loop, without building the custom test infrastructure that typically takes a team a year to assemble.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States / Australia

Industry: Developer Tools, Hardware Test & Validation, Artificial Intelligence | Team Size: 3

Tim Verbelen - Co-Founder, CTO at The Blanket

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Director, Intelligent Systems Lab at VERSES, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer at Ghent University, Senior Researcher at imec, Research Engineer at iMinds

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

The Blanket builds active inference-based world models that let robots reason, adapt, and learn from experience during deployment, replacing brittle, pre-programmed skill sets with systems that can handle changing tasks and conditions.

HQ: Dendermonde, Flemish Region, Belgium

Industry: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence | Team Size: 4

Hampus Jildenback - Founder & CEO at Kin

FounderDNA: Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Marketing Director at Flower, Group Strategy at Trelleborg Group, Professional Athlete at SAINT-RAPHAEL VAR HANDBALL & LUGI Handboll

Connect on: LinkedIn

Kin is a performance intelligence platform that combines daily reflection with behavioral and physiological data to help people understand what’s driving their energy, mood, and performance, turning those patterns into personalized, actionable guidance.

HQ: Sweden

Industry: Wellness Tech, Personal Analytics | Team Size: 10

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