How businesses began, found their footing and faced what came next.
The full archive, in the appThe smart-ring startup's first national-scale deployment: a two-year MOU with Abu Dhabi authorities to validate its biological-age model across the UAE.
Read the caseAn ex-Prime Video US VP launched a video shopping app for beauty on mobile and Roku, betting live-plus-recorded content converts US shoppers.
Read the caseHero Electronix's smart-home brand runs AI models free on ₹2,500 cameras, sells subscriptions on top, and expands from security into appliances (interview).
Read the caseTwo chemistry PhDs built on-equipment GPU agents that spot pinhole-sized production flaws and answer engineers' root-cause questions in minutes, not days.
Read the caseThe Lagos-born vehicle-finance unicorn gave drivers full ownership of ₦35B in cars as it left Nigeria, its home market, five weeks after Uber pulled out.
Read the caseMeta's new lab shipped two proprietary frontier models but withheld the stronger one from the API, reserving it for paid Muse Code subscribers.
Read the caseOmar and Zane Sabre put their savings into a premium phone case to pay a tuition bill — $1.7M revenue in year one, $10M within two years, no outside money.
Read the caseA failed gift purchase in Bali became an AI commerce platform: $3.5M seed from a16z speedrun and NTT Docomo, 70+ customers, 64% pilot conversion.
Read the caseAn MIT lab spinout engineered patentable hair molecules, made Jennifer Aniston an investor rather than a rented face, and sold to Unilever's Prestige division.
Read the caseThe Academy of Economic Opportunity: 30 LinkedIn employees in a free 14-week founder school since September 2026, with public expansion planned but unpriced.
Read the caseA retired founder licensed Hirosaki University tech to enrich lithium-6 for fusion fuel breeding, pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield.
Read the caseIn a Masters of Scale interview, founder Alyssa Ravasio recalls how angry emails about full campgrounds turned a directory into a supply-creating marketplace.
Read the caseThe startup wants to recycle a blast furnace's CO2 exhaust back into carbon monoxide, cutting coke use and emissions while saving iron makers $14 per ton.
Read the caseThirteen days after unveiling Argon to approved cyber defenders, Google opened the flagship model to all at half Claude Opus 5.5's price — until Nov 30.
Read the caseThe salon software unicorn raised $44M at $1.15B and renamed itself Genius AI to run the back office of every practitioner business, not just salons.
Read the caseThe IT service platform is acquiring the SaaS-management leader so IT can track AI consumption to the token, attribute it to teams, and set limits.
Read the caseDe Beers India's diamond brand launched its own stores in September 2025, starting retail from zero — and early bill values doubled the plan.
Read the caseSteph Hon quit sports marketing in 2019 to make premium refillable travel capsules; Cadence now sells at Nordstrom and MoMA with a 60% repeat purchase rate.
Read the caseAn ex-Raytheon engineer built a countertop device that scans skin tone and dispenses a week of custom-mixed foundation for $295; 40,000 people are waiting.
Read the caseAn architect who waited two decades for the technology incorporated Blueprints AI in 2025; its v2 turns a sketch into code-checked blueprints.
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