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New: @JampackAI is building automated account research, lead enrichment, scoring, personalized outreach, CRM hygiene, channel testing, and engagement syncing before adding a traditional revenue org.

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Corgi is an AI insurance carrier that just launched their own ETF.

Filing through Veles Securities with in-house EDGAR automation and a Series 7 wholesaling motion to RIAs. The comp set is now BlackRock.

The insurtech label was always too small.

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Kimpton AI just left stealth at YC Spring 26.

The founders ran systematic trading at Level III Capital after Goldman. They productized the internal research stack their old quant fund used to make money.

Their first real competitor is Bloomberg.

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New Intel: Corgi is launching its own ETF issuer (Corgi Strategies LLC, distributed through Veles Securities) with in-house EDGAR filing automation, iXBRL tooling, and a Series 7 wholesaling motion to RIAs. Comp set to BlackRock and State Street.

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New Intel: Decagon is building Voice Agent as a standalone product covering inbound support, proactive outbound, and call center integrations. Putting them on a collision course with Five9 and Genesys.

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New Intel: Atreides is standing up Copenhagen for Danish SECRET Azure landing zones and running UK-cleared Gloucestershire capacity in parallel. They just said out loud they won major European Defence programmes.

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New Intel: Manus is extending its cloud agent runtime from Linux into Windows and Android VMs. That unlocks desktop enterprise software automation (Office, SAP, Adobe) and mobile app task execution.

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New Intel: Wayve is standing up dedicated Robotaxi Operations in London and Tokyo with structured feedback loops between field and model teams.

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New Intel: AssemblyAI is staffing a Go-based LLM gateway team that integrates OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex, and Bedrock. The transcription company is quietly inserting itself into the LLM billing layer, where the real margin lives.

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New Intel: Humans& raised $480M at $4.48B with no product, no customers, and no public technical artifacts. The first launch has to justify the premium or the next round prices down, which would reset seed valuations across the agentic AI cohort.

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New Intel: Wispr Flow’s support load may become a scaling constraint if it keeps pushing from consumer dictation into Fortune 500 workflows. The Company is moving from personal productivity tool toward enterprise workflow layer, and support capacity may become the bottleneck.

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New Intel: Etched is hiring for RMA, 8D/CAPA, and Taiwan ODM work, which reads like a chip company moving from demo narrative to production reality. Moving from AI chip promise to manufacturing, customer support, and deployment readiness.

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New Intel: Abridge looks like it is turning ambient clinical documentation into a data business for pharma, payers, and federal buyers. Expanding from hospital documentation software into a clinical data platform with multiple buyer surfaces.

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New Intel: Phia is pulling data science talent from the TikTok and Pinterest pool, not the Honey and Shopify pool. Companies recruit against who they think they compete with. The public story is price comparison. The hiring pattern says social commerce.

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New Intel: Phia, the AI shopping app, is building its own internal ML platform rather than buying off-the-shelf infrastructure. For a 20-person company, that is either conviction that personalization is the moat, or a classic case of premature infrastructure investment.

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New Intel: Phia, the AI fashion price-comparison agent backed by Kleiner and Khosla, is quietly building a creator-driven content feed. The pitch was Honey for fashion. The execution is starting to look like Pinterest, which is a very different company to underwrite.

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New Intel: Upwind Security is building FedRAMP-ready release processes and opening a Japan technical presence, both ahead of any public announcement. Series A cloud security companies almost never do federal prep this early, so someone there sees a specific opening.

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New Intel: Upwind Security is building Windows kernel-level sensors and autonomous AI response agents, pushing into territory traditionally owned by EDR vendors like CrowdStrike. Most CNAPP vendors stay in their swim lane; Upwind is choosing not to.

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New Intel: Upwind Security is building out brand, AI platform, and threat research leadership in parallel. Usually precedes either a mega-round or a category-defining product launch within 12 months.

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New Intel: Risotto publishes ticket auto-resolution rates (55-60% at Gusto, 46% at Thinkific) that competitors mostly do not. Those numbers come from 18 months of resolved-ticket data at design partners, which is harder to replicate than the AI model underneath.