Next up on Nov 22: the #Robotics Challenge — the next event in the Afore Hacks series. This one’s for builders where #AI meets hardware. If you’re prototyping embodied agents, testing robotics concepts, or exploring what happens when intelligence meets the physical world, this

Most hackathons end with demos no one remembers. Ours end with term sheets. At our ‘A New Agent Hackathon’, 200+ builders gathered to ship autonomous agents, debug in real time, and learn from each other. Less pitch competition, more collaborative sprint with people who

@hyperspell was featured in forbes as one of the top startups to watch from @ycombinator's fall 2025 batch @maebert and I are building the memory layer for AI agents so they can remember, reason, and learn across company knowledge more to come

Congratulations @GammaApp and @thisisgrantlee and the whole team on continuous growth - a masterclass in staying extremely customer and product focused while surfing the AI tidal wave. To the next chapter!

Today, as shared by The New York Times, we’re announcing two things: >Our Series B at a $2.1B valuation led by @sarahdingwang at @a16z. >Reaching $100M ARR, profitably, with a team of just 50 people. That's $2M ARR per employee. PowerPoint was invented before the first website,

And a big thank you to our early investors for all the support along the way: @scriptcapital @southpkcommons @vas @amy @uncorkcap @localglobevc @carterkev @AforeVC @HustleFundVC @joulee @clairevo @blader @koomen @dsiroker @benln @bentossell @LorimerVentures and all of our

Master class in timing: While everyone panicked in 2022, @ceo_clickhouse played chess. He raised $250M at $2B valuation in 2021. When the market crashed and public competitors lost 70% of their value, @ClickHouseDB was sitting on $300M+ cash with zero revenue pressure. Then?

Plot twist from our #PreSeedSummit in SF: @ceo_clickhouse biggest career break came from getting rejected from every business school in 2002. He joined Salesforce 🚀 as a sales engineer instead. 23 years later, he’a building @ClickHouseDB using everything he learned scaling

The '996' debate misses the entire point. @mercor_ai’s CTO @adarsh_exe: "We don't mandate hours. The early team worked 7 days because they were obsessed." ⚡️His reality check on remote work? "Zero of my best ideas came from scheduled meetings. Every single one came from

CEO/Co-Founder @joshuareeves shared his playbook at our #PreSeed Summit for building @GustoHQ: → Zero paid marketing for Yr 1 → Turned down enterprise revenue to protect unit economics for supporting their ICP of SMBs → Made first 60 hires himself (Values > Skills) The SMB

Was able to scale our infra, no more waitlist! Try Paragon today:

Today, we are rolling out two features for Golpo (YC S25) that make creating explainer videos even faster and more personal. Voice narration lets you talk directly to Golpo. Instead of typing a script, you can simply speak your idea. Golpo automatically transcribes your

We built the first AI QA Engineer. We just deployed the best tool on the market when it comes to reducing slop and pushing quality. And it doesn’t even come close. Now in research-preview for growing startups.

“I RAN to Sohit's door -- What if we make an AI recruiter that helps every single patient know what to do when they try to enroll for clinical trials?!” That’s how Trân and Sohit went from Stanford classmates → cold-DMing pharma execs → getting flown out to Houston and Arizona

From raising one of the first dedicated #preseed funds to @crunchbase recognizing pre-seed as its own stage and @cartainc launching its State of Pre-Seed report — we’ve watched our mission to back founders at the earliest stage grow into a full-blown category. Last week, 400+

Our biggest competitor got acquired overnight. Billions in revenue 💰 were up for grabs. "Every single person in the company just walked in and felt the gravity of the situation. No one was concerned about role, scope, or title. The entire company was unified in capturing this

"It's a really tough sell for a 20-year-old with no job experience to convince someone to join a company. The people who actually do end up joining are just a little bit crazy." That self-selecting nature created something special ✨. His advice: "90% of a company's success

"Holy shit, we just struck gold 🔑.” Everyone thought AI data labeling was drawing boxes around stop signs. The reality? Models are bad at Rust. You need expert staff engineers to make them better. Three college kids breaking down a contract at 2am in a hot tub had the insight

Weeks of mental anguish. Should I drop out of Harvard? Then his co-founder asked: "How hard could this be?" He submitted the dropout papers 📝 that same day. Didn't tell his parents. "I didn't understand how hard it could be. It was way harder than the hardest things in my

Adarsh Hiremath compares his journey as CTO of @Mercor—which just announced its Series C at a $10B valuation—to racing a Ferrari while changing the wheels on the racetrack 🏎️🏁. "I've never worked a full-time job before. It's a perpetual stress test on every function of the