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Big news from our community: @coframe has raised $35M to build the living internet.

@joshpxyne (P24) and team help companies like Dropbox, Replit and Cash App improve their websites with AI that tests around the clock.

Congrats to everyone at Coframe! 🚀

Video: Coframe

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Ivan Dimov went through StartX Med with both Lucira, which went public on Nasdaq, and Orca Bio, now a $1B+ biotech unicorn.

Both started in a university lab. He tells @jayjparkmd (P25) why research alone wasn’t enough.

Full video: https://t.co/9E11JnqumO

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Read the paper: https://t.co/SjtJ8XgvIJ
Read press release: https://t.co/exvYMpZhUi

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Gold-standard evidence is rare in AI mental health.

StartX F24 founders @drxuanzhao, @JulieCachia and Tianyi Xie now have two randomized controlled trials behind Flourish Science. The latest is in Harvard Business School’s Working Paper Collection. 👏🥳

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Building something this rigorous takes the right people around you. Xuan, Julie and Tianyi are part of the StartX community: 3,000+ founders and 400+ mentors whose companies include 29 unicorns worth $200B+. As a Stanford-affiliated nonprofit, we take 0% equity and charge no fees

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Last call: StartX Fellows applications close this Sunday, Nov 1 at 11:59 PM PT. ⏰

Join the first-ever cohort and find your place inside Stanford’s premier startup community.

Apply 👉 https://t.co/EiyqEoqqGt

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Most students learn about startups from case studies. StartX Fellows learn from the inside. 🚀

Work with founders and VCs, own projects that ship, and build relationships years ahead of schedule.

Apply by Nov 1 👉 https://t.co/EiyqEopSQV

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"It feels like overnight we gained access to an incredible group of people who are a message away.”

@DanielTebes (F26), co-founder and CEO of Rizal AI, on the StartX community.

This is what happens when Stanford’s best founders help each other.

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See you Monday? 👋

StartX Fellows Info Session: Mon, Oct 26, 7 PM PT. Meet the team, explore the six tracks, and get your questions answered.

RSVP 👉 https://t.co/1LhmL3pwey

Apply by Nov 1 👉 https://t.co/EiyqEopSQV

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Vectorial AI just raised a $3M seed round to make user research as fast as building software 🚀

Congrats to StartX founders Jasmine Kaur, Rahul Garg and Taranveer Singh!

With Stanford-led funds in the round and the StartX community in their corner, they’re just getting started.

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Congrats to StartX alum Eli Goldstein and @SkyCoolSystems on making @CleantechGroup’s #50toWatch! 🎉

Their roofs stay cooler than the air with no electricity, by sending heat to space. Born in a Stanford lab, built alongside 3,000+ StartX founders, now at 30+ sites. 🌍

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📅 And if you wanna learn more first, join our info session on October 26 at 7 PM PT: https://t.co/1LhmL3q446

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StartX Fellows applications are now open! 🚀

A year inside Stanford’s premier startup accelerator: work with our team, own real projects, and meet founders and investors.

No startup experience needed. Applications close Nov 1, 11:59 PM PT.

Apply 👉 https://t.co/EiyqEoqqGt

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Clinicians loving your product ≠ a health system adopting it.

StartX mentor and Stanford Biodesign alum Emma Essock-Burns, PhD, shows how to spot adoption barriers early.

Bonus for founders: a free adoption assessment of your company. StartX cohort and alumni only 👇

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A decade of work on concussion diagnostics, and now a spot on TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 🧠

Congrats to StartX alum @oculogica and @rosinasam on SNAP: a 90-second sideline concussion test that needs no pre-injury baseline.

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📝 Register to join here: https://t.co/9T7THFzrGp

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CMS restricted Medicare contractors from using cloud AI. Two years later, one of them runs 10+ AI projects on its own hardware.

Two-time StartX founder Ivan Lee and his team at @datasaurai built them. He’s coming to StartX to share how to run private AI and keep costs down 👇

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@tanay_tandon @StartXMed @LDVPartners @pillsburylaw Selling into healthcare? Proving ROI to a hospital isn’t the same as proving it to a payer.

That was a big theme from Alex Efron (Sutter Health), Steven Green (Pillsbury) and Akhilesh Pathipati (Redesign Health), with StartX Med’s @jayjparkmd moderating.

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How does a blood-testing device built by a Stanford student become a $7B AI platform?

@tanay_tandon (Commure) and Elena Viboch (General Catalyst) unpacked it at DaVinci Café, co-hosted by @StartXMed with @LDVPartners and @pillsburylaw.

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The part that stuck with us: General Catalyst’s healthcare thesis goes as far as buying a health system.

And for Commure, M&A has been a big part of how it grew. Great conversation to steer, Denys-Michel de Larouzière 👀