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Jammu Founder’s AI Startup Tilion Lands $500,000 From Y Combinator #EntrepreneurLoop #StartupUpdates https://lnkd.in/gPjjH3eP

Clueso Raises $10 Million to Automate Corporate Video Production Clueso has raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered video production platform for businesses. The round was led by Dharana Capital, with new investors Founders Future and Neotribe Ventures joining the company’s cap table. Existing backers Y Combinator and f7 Ventures also participated, bringing Clueso’s total funding to $12 million. More than 80% of the new capital came from existing investors increasing their commitments. GlobeNewswire Founded in 2023 by Akash Anand, Prajwal Prakash and Neel Balar, Clueso is building what it calls an agentic video platform for businesses. Its AI agents can understand products and workflows, navigate real software, capture the required footage, write scripts, generate voiceovers and motion graphics, and assemble the finished video. GlobeNewswire The bigger opportunity is keeping business videos updated. When software or processes change, Clueso can rerun workflows and refresh the corresponding video instead of forcing teams to recreate everything manually. The platform is already used by more than 1,000 companies, including Atlassian, Zendesk, Gainsight, Seismic and Ironclad. GlobeNewswire Clueso says customers have reported more than 5× productivity gains and an 80% reduction in video-production costs, while the company plans to use the new funding to scale enterprise sales, deepen its agentic technology and expand editing capabilities. GlobeNewswire Clueso is betting that the future of corporate video isn't simply AI-generated content, but AI agents that can create, edit and continuously maintain it. #Clueso #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #VideoTechnology #GenerativeAI #StartupFunding #SeriesA #EnterpriseAI #SaaS #BusinessNews

Adhira Tippur grew up in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, where her mom runs four dental practices, and spent much of her childhood after school answering phones and checking patients in at the front desk. She noticed that the team was always busy, yet follow-up calls to overdue patients and people with unscheduled treatment never seemed to get made. Those missed calls added up, and patients sometimes put off care they genuinely needed. That is what led Adhira and her three co-founders to build Kairos Health, which uses AI voice agents to call patients on behalf of dental practices, answer their questions and book appointments directly into the practice's scheduling software. The team spent last summer going door to door through hundreds of dental offices, and what they learned from dentists and office managers shaped the product. Kairos is now part of Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch. Adhira's focus now is getting Kairos into more practices across the country, especially multi-location groups. To women building startups, she says not to wait until you feel like the most qualified person in the room, and to get comfortable asking for things. In this Q&A with Founded by Women, she shares why she started Kairos Health, what hundreds of dental office visits taught her, and what is next after Y Combinator. https://lnkd.in/ge5e-GGj

🏆 hit the podium at screenpipe | YC S26 x 42 Paris. not use to being 2nd tho😆😆. anyways probably my best hackathon project yet im gonna use it everyday. i’ll update you guys with the trailer shoutout to my killer team Ylan N. Vincent ROUMANE Ismail EL HAMMOUMI great talks with Alyosha Saari 🇫🇮🇫🇷🇺🇸 Yassir Boudda Eliot Andres

Databuddy Analytics, an AI-driven analytics startup, has raised more than $560,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator, Maza Ventures and investors through the a16z Scout programme. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dHxUEJsB Databuddy, Issa Nassar, Tambi Jalouqa #FintechNewsUSA #Databuddy #StartupFunding #FintechNewsMedia

Databuddy Analytics, an AI-driven analytics startup, has raised more than $560,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator, Maza Ventures and investors through the a16z Scout programme. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dHxUEJsB Databuddy, Issa Nassar, Tambi Jalouqa #FintechNewsMedia #Databuddy #StartupFunding #FintechNewsMedia

Databuddy Analytics, an AI-driven analytics startup, has raised more than $560,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator, Maza Ventures and investors through the a16z Scout programme. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dHxUEJsB Databuddy, Issa Nassar, Tambi Jalouqa #FintechNewsMiddleEast #Databuddy #StartupFunding #FintechNewsMedia

Databuddy Analytics, an AI-driven analytics startup, has raised more than $560,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator, Maza Ventures and investors through the a16z Scout programme. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dHxUEJsB Databuddy, Issa Nassar, Tambi Jalouqa #FintechNewsQatar #Databuddy #StartupFunding #FintechNewsMedia

Databuddy Analytics, an AI-driven analytics startup, has raised more than $560,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator, Maza Ventures and investors through the a16z Scout programme. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dHxUEJsB Databuddy, Issa Nassar, Tambi Jalouqa #FintechNewsEgypt #Databuddy #StartupFunding #FintechNewsMedia

Databuddy Analytics, an AI-driven analytics startup, has raised more than $560,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator, Maza Ventures and investors through the a16z Scout programme. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dHxUEJsB Databuddy, Issa Nassar, Tambi Jalouqa #FintechNewsPakistan #Databuddy #StartupFunding #FintechNewsMedia

The biggest customer in web scraping is no longer a developer. It's an AI agent. Tavily sold for $275M upfront. Firecrawl raised $75M. Context.dev (YC S26) raised $9M on Monday. Oxylabs.io had a massive 130M USD investment recently. Together with Decodo, Bright Data, Nimble, ScrapeGraphAI, Datafuel and others, they all released an API for web agents. I've been in web scraping for 12 years. For most of that time these were separate markets. Proxies were one business. Scraping APIs were another. Search APIs and page-to-markdown tools were a third and a fourth. Now they're all focused on the same product: web data for agents. Each one got there from a different side. Tavily started with search and added extraction. Firecrawl started with scraping, then added search. Oxylabs pairs a search endpoint with a scraping one. Context.dev sells the whole thing through a single API. Source.ai, the parent company of Oxylabs and Decodo, says in its own press release that demand across its companies grew four times in one year. The reason it gives is AI agents. That's a lot of companies chasing one prize: becoming the default way an agent reads the web. I don't know yet who wins. It could be the cheapest search call, the best anti-bot, or the tool that already ships inside your agent framework. Which one is your agent calling today, and why?

Databuddy Analytics, an AI-driven analytics startup, has raised more than $560,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator, Maza Ventures and investors through the a16z Scout programme. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dHxUEJsB Databuddy, Issa Nassar, Tambi Jalouqa #FintechNewsSaudiArabia #Databuddy #StartupFunding #FintechNewsMedia

🇶🇦🇺🇸 Snoonu Acquires Y Combinator-Backed BiteSight to Expand Social Commerce in the Gulf Qatar-based super-app Snoonu has acquired BiteSight (YC W24), a US-based social commerce startup focused on video-driven restaurant discovery and food ordering. Founded in 2023, BiteSight built a platform connecting short-form food videos with restaurant discovery and online ordering. The startup recorded more than 150,000 downloads in the US and reached No. 2 in the US App Store’s Food & Drink category. Before the acquisition, BiteSight raised $1.5 million from Y Combinator, SurgePoint Capital and executives associated with Airbnb and Starbucks. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The deal will bring BiteSight’s content-driven technology into Snoonu’s growing digital commerce ecosystem, creating new possibilities for video-led food discovery and merchant engagement across the Gulf. For Snoonu, the acquisition reinforces its ambition to evolve beyond traditional delivery and build a broader technology and commerce platform with regional and international reach. What could social commerce mean for the next phase of digital food delivery in the Gulf? #Qatar #Snoonu #BiteSight #YCombinator #StartupAcquisition #SocialCommerce #VideoCommerce #FoodTech

Databuddy Analytics, an AI-driven analytics startup, has raised more than $560,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator, Maza Ventures and investors through the a16z Scout programme. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dHxUEJsB Databuddy, Issa Nassar, Tambi Jalouqa #FintechNewsUAE #Databuddy #StartupFunding #FintechNewsMedia

There is a massive misunderstanding among aspiring global entrepreneurs. Most people think a "startup" is just a small business designed for linear monthly cash flow. In Silicon Valley, elite founders operate under a completely different paradigm. They don't ask, "How can I make $10,000 this month?" They demand to know: "How can I solve a high-ticket problem so effectively that this venture scales to a $100 Million valuation in 36 months?" If you are ready to stop guessing and start applying the actual operational blueprints used by top Y-Combinator founders and venture-backed disruptors, my new book is officially live. "The American Startup Playbook: Build, Scale & Pitch Like a Silicon Valley Founder" covers: ✅ The 10x Value Perception Paradigm ✅ The AI MVP Architecture (Launch in 7 days) ✅ Product-Led Growth (PLG) & Virality Loops ✅ The 10-Slide Y-Combinator Pitch Deck Blueprint ✅ Delaware C-Corp & Global Operations Setup Stop building for linear growth. Step into the arena of exponential venturing. 📖 Secure your copy on Amazon Kindle: 👉 https://lnkd.in/gaT_nEc2 #StartupPlaybook #SiliconValley #VentureCapital #Entrepreneurship #B2BSaaS #Founders #BusinessGrowth #AmazonKDP

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀. Umar Munshi 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆: 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀. Munshi cofounded HASAN.VC to connect Muslim entrepreneurs with investors who understand their markets and values. Today, 70 angel investors back 40 portfolio companies across 10 countries, offering customers, mentors, operating experience and relationships as well as capital. His path to this point started early. He began building businesses at 18. In 2014 he cofounded an Islamic fintech venture builder with Ronald Wijaya, launching regulated platforms in five countries, including real estate crowdfunding for social housing in Indonesia. His work on GlobalSadaqah , a platform for zakat, sadaqah and waqf giving, reinforced a lesson he still applies: trust develops more slowly than technology, but it becomes one of a company’s most valuable assets when markets turn. That is the thinking behind camels, not unicorns, and the HASAN.VC podcast Camels vs Unicorns. Companies in tough markets cannot assume another funding round will cover weak fundamentals. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗔𝗦𝗔𝗡.𝗩𝗖 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿, 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿: Halal in substance, not just in branding. Founder quality, including resilience and honesty about what is not working. Business fundamentals, such as customer acquisition cost, retention and margins. Market size. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: Gobarakah , Malaysia’s first regulated Social Exchange according to the company. Healthpro.id , healthcare workforce operations in Indonesia, with monthly revenue up eightfold in 18 months. Hirix. , an AI native recruitment platform serving enterprise clients in four countries. Qara'a , AI for Qur’an learning, with more than two million downloads in Indonesia. MindNRobotics, robotics and IoT for Malaysian palm oil plantations. He also points to Takadao and MRHB.Network as Shariah compliant alternatives in insurance and finance. The longer term ambition is what he calls a Y Combinator for the Muslim world, with deeper follow on capital and expansion into MENA and South Asia. If you had to choose, would you back the founder with the bigger vision or the one with the stronger unit economics? Full story here: https://lnkd.in/dj2uGRvw #StartupMuslim #VentureCapital #AngelInvesting #MuslimFounders #HASANVC #Entrepreneurship

Congratulations. They said “interesting”... The demo works. The website looks expensive. Someone has asked for a deck. It’s starting to feel suspiciously like a business. But “interesting” can mean “I want this”. It can also mean “I have another call”. Y Combinator says, “Make something people want.” We can get from idea to working software remarkably quickly now. Working out what to build, and who wants it enough to change their behaviour, is still the difficult bit. Take two CFOs looking at your forecasting tool. One has a spreadsheet that works well enough. The other has just missed a cash forecast and has a board meeting on Tuesday. Same job title on your customer slide. Very different reasons to open their wallet.That buying moment deserves much more attention in validation. Three ways to find it: Find the “we need to fix this” moment. Talk to people who recently tried to solve the problem. Ask what finally made them act, what they tried and what it cost. “Tell me what happened last time” will usually teach you more than another tour of your demo. Put something at stake. Offer a small working solution, even if you deliver part of it manually. Ask for payment or a real piece of work to run through it. Notice what they’re prepared to commit. A paid pilot is useful evidence; it still leaves questions about repeat usage, delivery costs and whether you’re selling software or your personal attention. See what repeats. Find another customer facing the same situation. Test the same core offer and track what gets used when the problem comes back. Early hand-holding is normal. Having to reinvent the offer for every buyer tells you something worth investigating.This is why validation sits at the heart of whizzbangidea. We want founders to make better decisions about what to build and for whom, while there’s still time and money to change their minds.“Can we start on Tuesday?” is a much more useful conversation to reach than “send me your deck”. Just build it whizzbangidea ⚡

Guess what we pulled !! We at Google Developer Groups - VU are partnering with Graphify Labs (YC S26) a Y Combinator startup from USA for our Hacktoberfest HackDay hackathon and also we will be carrying out developer sessions, giveaways and also work on projects !!!!! The YC dream just got real for VU students and who said a student organisation from Pune can't collab with world's largest open source startup? Big thanks to Syed Fahad DevRel at Graphify for this opportunity!! Checkout Graphify's website: graphify.com #opensource, #project, #yc, #ycombinator, #community

The AI creator revolution is here! Building software products is now faster than ever, and Affinity Labs is launching them at record speed 🚀 Next week, co-founders Edoardo Ricci and Ahmed E. will share their journey from creative concept to an AI software development house with our host, Megan Ward of Aether Legals. 🎫 Book your ticket for the 28th of October here: https://luma.com/eua8h8hu Who is Edoardo? Edoardo is a second-time founder, having also previously led BD and Partnerships teams at startups backed by the likes of Y Combinator and Atomico. Now, as CEO of Affinity Labs, he leads sales, fundraising and hiring. Who is Ahmed? Ahmed is COO and co-founder of Affinity Labs. Before that, he worked at multiple early-stage startups in strategy and operations roles. He's worked with over a thousand creators via running a DTC brand. What is Affinity Labs? Affinity Labs partners with the world’s leading creators as cofounders to build, launch and scale creator-led software brands. They've just raised $2M from Fuel Ventures 🚀, Antler and a few high-profile creator-angels to double down on this mission and expand their product portfolio. 🙏 Special thanks to: Stephen Tierney and the CMS equIP for Start-ups team for hosting us at their stunning Cannon Street offices, and Matthieu Gervis of dealOS for helping us grow the community. See you all next week for another inspiring founding story!

Databuddy Analytics, the AI-driven analytics platform has raised $500,000 in Seed funding from Y Combinator as it launches its AI intelligence platform. With investment from Maza Ventures and through the a16z Scout program, Databuddy has raised more than $560,000 to date. https://lnkd.in/erzNq2kZ