Nine Startups Captured Wall Street's Attention at Y Combinator's Latest Demo Day, Investors Say >_ FEATURED

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Total Deployed $4.2B
Active Startups 312
Exits YTD 48

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  • >Vaultic$50M Series B
  • >Kernel9$21M Series A
  • >Fintra$8M Seed
  • >Nimbus AI$120M Series C

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Funding Rounds Six rounds · seed to series E
SEEDCerberus, WeGlobal AICerberus, WeGlobal AI$1.2MSERIES AAn Anthropic Insider'sAn Anthropic Insider's$8.5MSERIES BMark Wahlberg ComesMark Wahlberg Comes$24MSERIES CWhy Furo's FoundersWhy Furo's Founders$62MSERIES DFirst Roster ofFirst Roster of$140MSERIES EPocket FM DoublesPocket FM Doubles$310M
Product Launches Six releases · scroll the rail
AgentMesh 2.0AgentMesh 2.0Cohere LabsLAUNCH 09.02NEWFoldFrameFoldFrameNimbus AILAUNCH 09.05NEWPayLoopPayLoopFintraLAUNCH 09.08NEWDeepAuditDeepAuditVaulticLAUNCH 09.11NEWSwarm CISwarm CIKernel9LAUNCH 09.12NEWEchoDocsEchoDocsPocket FMLAUNCH 09.14NEW
Founder Arc Six founders · hover to straighten the card
A. ChenVaulticM. OseiKernel9L. NovakNimbus AIS. IyerFintraJ. DuvalCohere LabsR. KapoorEchoLabs
Signal Nodes Five signals · hover to light the network
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