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The latest Y Combinator news, : Warp raises $60M to automate HR workflows with AI agents.
12 stories mentioning Y Combinator since 14 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. Follow to see new ones on your front page.
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Warp raises $60M to automate HR workflows with AI agents
Warp, an AI-native HR platform founded by Ayush Sharma in 2023, closed a $60M Series B round, bringing total funding to $85M. The company focuses on automating payroll, tax compliance, benefits, and employee onboarding…
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Clueso raises $10 million Series A to automate business video creation
Clueso announced a $10 million Series A funding round on October 13, led by Dharana Capital with participation from Future, Neotribe Ventures, Y Combinator and f7 Ventures. The round brings the startup’s total…
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Halluminate raises $30 million Series A to build AI training environments for finance
Halluminate, a nine‑person San Francisco startup, announced a $30 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5 million. The company creates simulated training environments that benchmark and…
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Volantis raises $88M Series A to build photonic AI inference system
Volantis, a San Francisco semiconductor firm, announced a $88 million Series A on October 1, 2026, co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures. The round includes investors like John Doerr, VXI Capital, and angel…
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Profound and Athena AI differ in pricing, engine coverage, and credit models for AEO
Profound and Athena AI (AthenaHQ) are the two leading AI-driven answer engine optimization (AEO) tools, designed to track brand visibility in AI-generated answers across platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.…
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Soteris raises $8M to help insurers spot unprofitable policies with AI
Soteris, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding to address a persistent issue in the insurance industry: insurers often lose money on policies they cannot identify.…
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Numeral raises $100M Series C led by Insight Partners
Numeral, an AI-driven sales tax compliance platform, has closed a $100M Series C funding round led by Insight Partners. The company stated it will use the capital to accelerate product development, expand its offerings…
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Confido raises $55M Series B led by Insight Partners
Confido, an AI‑powered workflow automation provider for consumer packaged goods, recently raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners, with participation from Trenches Capital, Watchfire, Barrel Ventures, Footwork…
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Firecrawl raises $75 million Series B to expand web‑scraping platform
Firecrawl, a Los Angeles‑based startup that builds web‑scraping tools for artificial‑intelligence agents, announced a $75 million Series B financing. The round was led by Smash Ventures and included Y Combinator, Altos…
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More AI could be the answer to monitoring rogue AI agents, report says
Companies are increasingly handing complex, long‑running tasks to autonomous AI agents, but the speed and volume of those agents can outpace human oversight. The recent Hugging Face incident, in which almost 12,000…
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Langdock Reorganises Parent Company into German SE to Reduce US Dependence
Langdock, a Berlin‑based enterprise AI platform, has shifted its parent company from a U.S. holding structure to a German Societas Europaea (SE). The move, completed in early 2026 at a cost of several million euros,…
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Nvidia CEO Agrees with Trump: No AI Slows Ahead
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agreed with President Donald Trump that there will not be an AI slowdown. During a phone call, Huang supported Trump's stance by saying they would 'not let that happen.' The debate was part of a…
2 sourcesyahoo.combreitbart.com
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As of 22 October 2026: Warp raises $60M to automate HR workflows with AI agents. Warp, an AI-native HR platform founded by Ayush Sharma in 2023, closed a $60M Series B round, bringing total funding to $85M.