Startup accelerator
“Halluminate, an SF-based developer of AI training environments for financial work, raised $30m in Series A funding.”
“Apollo Atomics, an MIT spinoff building pressurized water reactors, raised $31m in seed funding.”
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“It was Daniel Gross, who, if you know of Daniel now at Meta, he started the AI batch at YC back when we went through in 2017. And it was me and like five other companies and we got, you know, $100,000 in GPU credits.”
Source→“Fleek, a U.K. secondhand fashion marketplace, raised $25m in Series B funding. Burda Principal Investments led, joined by eBay, FJ Labs, H14 and insiders a16z, HV Capital, and YC.”
Source→“They even took the unprecedented step of acquiring an insurance carrier during their YC batch to make it happen.”
Source→“Acquiring a Regulated Asset *During* a Seed-Stage Batch Is Now a Viable Playbook”
Source→“The most dangerous startup failure mode isn't picking the wrong idea — it's failing to commit to any idea at all.”
Source→“This is a version of Paul Graham's well-known quote, that you should live in the future and then build what's missing.”
Source→“An AI-powered commercial insurance company from YC's Summer 2024 batch. Being the full-stack insurance company allows Corgi to underwrite any insurance line in any vertical with a fraction of the headcount of traditional carriers.”
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