Founder stories ranged from former Vannevar engineers building defense robotics, to a software-only satellite startup and a Ticketmaster Verified Fan veteran, to a Singapore engineer named Jensen Huang who drew viral traffic.
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Founders on AT Pulse covers operators, strategy & lessons. The desk has published 11 stories tagged Founders across 2 daily editions, from November 12, 2026 to November 13, 2026, citing 98 linked references. The most frequent original sources are Tech.eu, This Week in Startups, and Business Insider · Startups. Stories here most often overlap with Funding, Valuations, and Ecosystems.
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Founders are writing company.md files for VCs' AI screening agents, while Tyler Shultz warns that quick, meeting-based diligence repeats mistakes made with Theranos.
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Video analysis · Funding
Satlyt runs Google's Gemma on orbiting satellites to diagnose faults and shrink downlinked data after $8M seed
Satlyt, a software-only startup that recently raised an $8M seed, runs a quantized Google Gemma model on satellites already in orbit to diagnose onboard faults and shrink downlinked data, a first step toward pooling many operators' spacecraft into orbital compute.
Valuations
ByteDance Plans Up to $6 Billion Share Buyback From Investors at About $400 Billion Valuation
ByteDance plans to repurchase up to $6 billion of shares from existing investors at roughly $400 billion, about 20% above last year's buyback level but far below the $600 billion-plus that buyers reportedly offered for a founder's stake this year.
M&A
Peter Sarlin's PostScriptum Takes Majority Stake in Finnish AI Deployment Firm Brillian
PostScriptum, the founder's office of Silo AI co-founder Peter Sarlin, has bought a majority of Brillian, a 2024-founded Finnish firm that helps companies put AI into daily operations.
Founders
Singapore founder named Jensen Huang says Nvidia CEO's resignation drove traffic to his AI startup
A 24-year-old Singapore software engineer who shares Jensen Huang's name says joking LinkedIn posts about the Nvidia CEO's November 12 resignation went viral, sending about 5,000 visitors to his AI startup Lycana's website and converting some into paying subscribers.
Funding
Nidus Raises $30M Pre-Seed and Seed, Led by Costanoa and Kleiner Perkins, for Defense Factory Robotics AI
Founded in March 2026 by former Vannevar hardware engineers, Nidus fine-tunes existing AI models on private, teleoperated factory data and runs them on robots defense manufacturers already own.
Funding
Helix raises $6.2M pre-seed led by Chicago Ventures, with Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus as adviser
Voice-verification startup Helix raised a $6.2 million pre-seed round led by Chicago Ventures for an on-device spoken challenge that checks a user is human and estimates age, arriving ahead of New York's SAFE for Kids age-assurance rules taking effect January 2027.
Video analysis · Founders
Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi says founders now send VCs a company.md file for AI screening agents
Some founders now send VCs a company.md, a markdown summary meant for AI screening agents, alongside the pitch deck, Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi wrote.
Video analysis · Funding
Mercor raises $750M Series D at a $20B valuation and pitches evals to enterprises
Mercor's $750M Series D, which includes an employee tender, values the AI training-data company at $20B. That is double the price it set in October 2025.
Video analysis · Founders
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that AI investors are repeating Theranos-era diligence failures
Tyler Shultz helped expose Theranos.
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