Great Question, a YC W21-backed customer research platform, is hiring full-stack Product Engineers based in Canada to work remotely. The company says the hires will help rebuild core parts of its product around an agent-first approach, with engineers owning problems end-to-end from customer conversations through production. Great Question previously raised a $13M Series A led by Inovia and counts ServiceNow, Brex and Canva among its customers.
ycombinator.com
· 2026-10-03
An Entrepreneur contributor describes building a real estate technology company by ignoring common startup advice, including warnings that the market was too crowded. The team instead targeted the top 1% of agents, bootstrapped to $1 million in revenue before accepting outside investment, and later raised a Series A despite investor skepticism.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-02
Berlin-based startup Restate has closed a $20 million Series A round led by Singular, with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Capital One Ventures. The company, which builds infrastructure to make multi-step software workflows resilient to crashes and network failures, has recently signed several six- and seven-figure customer contracts, including with coding platform Replit. Restate built its own storage, replication and redundancy systems rather than relying on an external database, according to co-founder Stephen Ewen.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-30
Vals, a startup founded in 2024 by former Palantir intern and Stanford student Rayan Krishnan, has raised a $40 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, following an earlier seed round from 8VC and Bloomberg Beta. The company aims to replace outdated academic AI benchmarks, which it says fail to keep pace with rapidly improving models, with more rigorous evaluation methods.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-19
Comp AI, a startup building AI agents to automate security and compliance tasks like drafting policies and gathering audit evidence, announced a $34 million Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures. The company was founded by Lewis Carhart, Claudio Fuentes, and Mariano Fuentes, who previously ran a workflow startup called LeapAI that they shut down after failing to find a sticky use case. Their frustration with the tedious SOC 2 compliance process while scaling LeapAI directly inspired Comp AI's product.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-17
Cymphony, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based startup, raised a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, pushing its valuation above $100 million after a previously undisclosed Sequoia seed round. The company builds a 'workforce graph' that gives security teams visibility into which employees, AI agents, and other non-human identities can access sensitive systems and data.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-09
Poseidon Aerospace, co-founded by David Zagaynov and Parker Tenney, has closed a $60 million Series A round led by TQ Ventures ahead of the first pilotless test flight of its cargo aircraft Egret, expected by year-end. The round also drew new backing from Hanwha Asset Management, G Squared and JAWS, plus continued support from Starship Ventures, Draper Associates and Drover Ventures, building on an $11 million seed raised last year.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-08
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