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Edra Is Teaching Enterprise AI the Part Everyone Forgot: How the Company Actually Works
Most companies bought smarter models before writing down how work really gets done. Edra’s $30 million bet is that the missing product is a living, auditable instruction manual - built from the tickets, messages and exceptions employees leave behind.
Posh Built the Operating System for a Night Out - Now It Wants to Pick Where You Go
The New York startup won organizers with faster payouts, built-in promotion and pages that keep the host in the spotlight. After processing $350 million in ticket sales, its next trick is harder: making the group chat choose a plan.
Tapped AI Tried to Be an AI Record Label. The Better Business Was Hiding in the Venue Spreadsheet
The New York startup began with a $50-a-month AI artist-services pitch, hit the cold-start wall of a two-sided marketplace, and rebuilt around a less glamorous asset: useful live-music data. Its most copyable idea is also its least theatrical - let one customer group improve the dataset for the next.
The VC Firm Betting the Next Big Market Is Simply Being Human
Human Ventures built a venture thesis around ordinary needs - health, work, money, attention and belonging. A decade in, its hybrid of capital, company-building and community offers a revealing answer to what an early-stage investor can still do that a spreadsheet cannot.
The $750 Million Bet on Everything Around the Barber Chair
SQUIRE stopped trying to be OpenTable for haircuts and learned to run the whole shop. A decade later, its software sits between the calendar, the card reader, the barber, and the customer.
Attack Capital
Attack Capital is a New York based, Y Combinator alumni founded AI venture studio and seed-stage fund. It builds vertical AI companies from scratch on a 30-day build cycle - spinning out products like OpenMic (AI phone agents), PowerDialer, and HealOS - while also giving accredited investors direct, diversified access to vetted YC startups. Founded by Thiel Fellow Kaushik Tiwari and Saumik Tiwari, it pairs a company factory with a fund.