Entangl (YC S24)

We welcome YC company Entangl (YC S24) and Shapol M to the portfolio! Great things to come and we are excited to be a supporter.

Y Combinator's Summer 2024 Demo Day just wrapped up, and these founders are turning heads! Bonus pick at the end. No surprise that AI is at the core. Here are my top picks from TechCrunch's list: 1. Entangl (YC S24) - Automating engineering design, starting with datacenter design. - Detects errors and suggests a detailed step-by-step solution. - Already has deals with AWS and Vodafone. - Founded by Shapol M. & Antanas Žilinskas 2. Lumen Orbit (YC S24) - Solar-powered data centers in space. - This makes you wonder what we could do here on Earth!? - Extreme moonshot, yet it already has customers. - Founded by Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden & Adi Oltean 3. Spaceium Inc. (YC S24) - Builds automated space stations to refuel and repair spacecraft. - Secured $86.1M in contracts + $230M in the pipeline + $1B in letters of intent. - Big vision→ Help humanity to become multi multi-planetary species - Founded by Ashi Dissanayake & Reza Fetanat 4. Exa Laboratories - Making reconfigurable chips for AI - Offers superior speed and energy efficiency (over traditional GPUs, TPUs, and LPUs). - 28x more efficient than NVIDIA’s H100s. -Founded by Elias Almqvist & Prithvi R. 5. Oway - Rideshare freight platform for trucks - Automatically coordinates and sells unused space in trucks - Reduces shipping costs by ~50% - Founded by Phillip Nadjafov 6. Theseus - Develops unjammable drones. - Drones are game-changers in warfare. - Founded by Carl Schoeller, Ian Laffey & Sacha Lévy *** Not on the list, but on my radar from the W2024 batch: 7. K-Scale Labs - Humanoid robots to handle boring or tedious tasks. - Building the world’s first open-source, general-purpose humanoid robot. - Founded by Benjamin Bolte, Paweł Budzianowski & Matt Freed. 8. Marr Labs (YC W24) - Making AI-voice agents that are indistinguishable from humans. - Founded by Dave Grannan and Han Shu co-founded Vlingo, the speech tech behind the first Siri app. - Vlingo was acquired for $225M. It’s impossible not to get excited about these! The future’s a blank page, no better time to start building! How about you? Which one would you bet on? #ycombinator #startups #ai #space