Factory has acquired @Mentlio

Foundry has acquired @AveaRobotics. @aryind_ and @vikramvadrevu are deeply technical and customer-obsessed and working together (as an early customer) was easy. Data collection and inference at scale power our factories and that makes Avea a natural fit. Welcome aboard!

10 days out. we are writing a few more checks via @_LeapYear_. looking for very early. In the last two years, we have been first check for 90%+ of investments

10 days out. we are writing a few more checks via @_LeapYear_. looking for very early. In the last two years, we have been first check for 90%+ of investments

In July, 5 more teams joined LeapYear 2026. This year, we've had 2000+ builders apply and we've funded ~1% of applicants. @_LeapYear_ is a first-believer fund for students, dropouts, & new grads. In the past 2 years, we’ve funded 58 teams. 90%+ were pre-revenue at application and collectively, they have gone on to raise $70+ million in follow-on capital.

Your team is spending more on AI than you can explain. Today, we’re launching @Mentlio (YC S26). We turn AI coding spend into a measurable unit: cost per PR, reuse, and downstream quality, benchmarked against industry. We also cut waste without touching your prompts, via cache hits, less context bloat, and auto-routing. On Terminal-Bench 2.1, our local router kept 98.93% of Fable 5's accuracy at 24.9% lower cost on Claude Code. If you’re spending real money on tokens, see your real AI ROI: mentlio.com/intro

We just killed OpenRouter. AI routers made $100+ million last year charging 5% markups on every dollar. Today that ends. Introducing Straitly the world’s first AI gateway that charges 0% markup on your tokens. No Stripe or Credit Card processing fees. With one API key, you can access 142+ models from than 20+ providers. Straitly auto handles handles provider failures via intelligent re-routing achieving a 99.98% success rate while still optimizing for cache hit rates. To celebrate our launch we are giving up to 30% off your first $10k (yes, $10,000) of token spend, plus $100 in free credits upfront. If you are an ambitious builder who's spending lots on tokens we want to hear from you! Comment below what you're building + highest usage model, then head over to straitly.ai and fill out a form with your @x username.

Agents f*ck up. We raised a $2.3M pre-seed to warn you before it’s too late

Real estate does not have an AI problem. It has an infrastructure problem. @RealPact (YC S26) is building the intelligent transaction infrastructure for real estate, automating paperwork, deadlines, and coordination from the first conversation to closing. @ycombinator

Launching Pluto (YC) - an AI voice agent that helps professionals get discovered. Pluto learns your story in 10 minutes, makes you discoverable to AI agents, and connects you with the right people. 18K+ people. 100+ companies. Your career needs an agent.