Christopher Golda

VGP @YCombinator.
Investor @Apex_Satellites, @Benchling, @Coinbase, @Ollama, @PierreComputer, @Resend, @Stoke_Space, @Supabase, @UseCorgi, more

[Opal @opalelectronics]

the table.
an update on opal electronics.

https://t.co/91eGxO5qV6

[Christopher Golda @golda]

@DanielleMorrill verjus or four kings

[Christopher Golda @golda]

@raphaelschaad Fixed

Harvey > Legora
Kalshi > Polymarket

[Serena Ge (Datacurve) @serenaa_ge]

Opus 4.8 results are now on DeepSWE. Thanks for your patience. We wanted to it to be thorough and here are our findings.
Deep dive on the results will drop in the coming days.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Empathy loop: think about the user and what they want, and give them it

Conviction loop: believe you will create something of value for that user, even if most people think you won't

[Christopher Golda @golda]

@diqitally pigeon is everything

[nico laqua @nico_laqua]

We raised another $106M at a $2.6B valuation since announcing our last round three weeks ago.

Corgi has grown exponentially in the past couple of months, but we're only just getting started transforming one of the largest sectors in the US economy: insurance.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

This is the new standard for engineering evals

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Arlo Industries builds passive sensor networks that track drones and missiles in 3D. No radar, no emissions, no single point of failure. The sensing layer for Air Defense.

Congrats on the launch, @DeoArlo!

https://t.co/qjrbSiGHST

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Alchemize (@TryAlchemize) is building the first AI-native customs brokerage, giving importers real-time regulatory clarity and shipment clearance in minutes instead of days.

Congrats on the launch, @samuelsfu & Robert!

https://t.co/guaYKLmP2l

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Limrun (@limrun) provides the infrastructure to leverage your favorite cloud agents for mobile development too. Today, we provide remote XCode, IOS & Android Simulators to Replit, Rork, Momentic AI, and many more.

Congrats on the launch, @muvaff!

https://t.co/JKJEQrzI40

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Allowance (@useallowance) lets AI agents safely make purchases using one-time virtual cards with built-in guardrails for things like travel booking, price tracking, reservations, and e-commerce checkout.

Congrats on the launch, @dasmersingh!

https://t.co/pIluz2fSs5

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

This is how performant PR review could be. On any forge. Pierre is showing us that the only thing holding that back is a skill issue. Excellent ship here! They’re on fire!

[Sam Altman @sama]

i am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build.

openai offered to invest $2M in tokens into every startup in the current yc batch.

happy building!

[Ludo @ludogranger]

Announcing @LeadbayAI $4.3M to kill everything you're doing with sales.

Corgi, Deel, L'Oréal recently told us: "We found in 10 min on Leadbay what we couldn't in 6 months with Clay and a GTM agency."

Leadbay qualifies the millions of data-signal-scarce companies nobody could find before.

This is how it works:

[Flick @flickartHQ]

We raised $6M to bring the future of filmmaking into your hands. Today, the premiere of our first Flick Residency Film Series is now live.

14 filmmakers. 13 films. All made on Flick.

Founded by filmmaker @ZoeyZ1004 and Instagram Stories founding engineer @RuiCromwell . Backed by @trueventures , @GVteam , @ycombinator (@garrytan , @golda ), @lightspeedvp, @pioneer_fund, Formosa Capital, @OliveTreeCap , and N1.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Surtr (@surtrdefense) is building ParallaxOS, the open operating system for drone defense. Any sensor, one unified threat picture, AI fire control. Built on open standards so partners own their integrations and customers own their data.

Congrats on the launch, @cam_fiore & Anshul!

https://t.co/uhIHF7L5hv

[Stew Fortier @stewfortier]

Every person has a story to tell, and AI can help them tell it.

We're seeing this firsthand at @typedotai. We now serve writers ranging from NY Times bestsellers, to top 10 podcasters, to nearly 10k passionate independent authors.

We've been ~doubling revenue each quarter and active subscribers now spend 7+hours/week in our editor.

So we made this video to honor the intensely creative people we serve. Here's to the storytellers :)

[David Bau @davidbau]

NetHack is one of the most complex and longest-lived open source programs ever written, and after 46 years, v5.0 shipped today.

https://t.co/ICEyakS6T5

And ... it is a VERY cool large codebase to work with in the LLM era.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Light Anchor (@lightanchor_ai) builds fully autonomous e-commerce brands at the speed of compute.

Today, Light Anchor operates one flagship brand and multiple experiment stores, all run by AI agents on a shared platform that compounds with every new brand launched. The vision is thousands of consumer businesses, operating with little to no human intervention.

Congrats on the launch, @sanghaya1 and @chasingjohnn!

https://t.co/5VxToM0aBX