Startups
Stasht Turns Your Saved Posts Into a Map, Calendar, and Mild Accusation
Stasht organizes saved posts, screenshots, links, places, events, products, and reminders across mobile, desktop, and browser extensions.
Startups
Taktile Raised $110 Million So Banks Can Let AI Touch the Scary Buttons
Taktile raised $110 million to automate high-stakes banking and insurance decisions. The pitch is serious, the controls matter, and the weirdness tax is real.
Startups
LaunchPact Wants Product Hunt Founders to Stop Launching Into the Void
LaunchPact helps founders coordinate Product Hunt support through mutual launch pacts, verified upvotes, trust scores, and launch-day reminders.
Startups
Seltz Raised $12.5 Million to Build Search for Agents, Not Clicks
Seltz thinks AI agents need their own search engine, not another pile of blue links. Annoyingly enough, that may be one of the cleaner seed pitches of the month.
Startups
Cadence Raised $100 Million So Medicare Can Stop Treating Chronic Care Like a Calendar Invite
Cadence raised $100 million to turn chronic care into clinician-supervised AI logistics. The need is real, the economics are compelling, and the Medicare math is finally getting weird.
Boston Tech
Massachusetts AI Coalition Is Building a Winning AI Flywheel in Public
A positive check-in on the Massachusetts AI Coalition, Ryan Durkin's organizing work at WHOOP, and Boston's AI momentum.
Startups
Social Search Cannon Makes Reddit and X Research Less Like Tab Punishment
Social Search Cannon launches Reddit and X search packs from one query, helping founders and marketers do faster manual customer research.
Startups
Nearfield Raised $380 Million to Inspect AI Chips Before Physics Files a Complaint
Nearfield's $380 million Series D says the AI boom needs better chip inspection, not just louder compute spending. Serious technology, serious customers, very expensive precision.
AI
9 Sleeper AI Companies That Could Become the Next OpenAI, Anthropic, or SpaceX
A SiliconSnark list of sleeper AI companies that could become category-defining giants, from robotics and medicine to materials, mining, and math.
Startups
Odyssey Raised $310 Million to Turn Physics Into a Cloud Bill
Odyssey just raised $310 million to build AI world models, lean into AWS Trainium, and test whether simulating reality is a real business.
Boston Tech
Foundation Alloy Raised $22 Million to Turn Boston Metallurgy Into an Industrial Flex
Foundation Alloy raised $22 million on June 16 to scale MIT-born solid-state metallurgy in Massachusetts with a new facility and Japan distribution.
Startups
MyVibeCompanion Builds the AI Companion Quiz Before the Algorithm Starts Flirting
MyVibeCompanion turns adult AI companion discovery into a blueprint builder with affiliate disclosures, partner matches, and needed guardrails.