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The Lagos-based firm and one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors is targeting a final close of $75 million for its second fund.

The AI health companion unifies data from wearables and habits across sleep, fitness, and nutrition into personalized insights for users.

YC-backed The Prompting Company helps customers get recommendations from AI. It is also partnering with NVIDIA on "next-generation" search.

The idea of memory for AI isn’t new, but it’s quickly becoming a critical battleground.

Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan, two 20-year-old college dropouts, are behind Turbo AI, one of the fastest-growing AI notetaker tools.

Dubai-headquartered Spiro is growing quickly with e-motorbikes and a battery-swapping network designed for Africa's needs.

1001, the startup founded by an ex-Scale operator, raises a $9 million seed round led by CIV, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital.

This YC HR startup grew its revenue 10x to close a $12M Series A just a year after raising $4M in seed, buoyed by its AI-native capabilities.

In less than a decade AAF has backed startups with exits totaling $2 billion, it says and is doing so through an unusual VC model.

How French investor Gabriel Jarrosson grew from posting on YouTube to raising a fund that backs YC companies exclusively.

While building AI for food supply chains may sound unglamorous, Burnt argues that decades of failed tech rollouts have left operators skeptical of “tech tourists” with no industry experience. 

How these founders, while in YC, pivoted from a shopping app to build Candle, a consumer app that helps couples and friends grow closer.

YC has introduced a new application track, Early Decision, designed for students who want to start companies but don’t want to drop out.

Rulebase is building AI “coworkers” to review customer interaction, keep fintechs compliant, and take the grunt work out of back-office ops.

Rulebase is building AI “coworkers” to review customer interaction, keep fintechs compliant, and take the grunt work out of back-office ops.

Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI coworker for fintech

Founded by a 20-year-old and two 22-year-olds, Human Behavior uses vision AI to give companies a real understanding of how people use their products.

Khalid Ashmawy found it hard to send money home while studying in Europe. Now, he’s launched a startup to help other Egyptians with the same problem.

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup, has raised $9 million to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand across Nigeria and Ghana.

When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate