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1. 2026-08Polsia

   Sapiom — the spend-routing layer in Polsia's stack — raises a $35M Series A (Dragonfly lead; Anthropic among the backers). Press coverage credits its task-to-cheapest-model routing in Polsia's $1.2M → $100K bill cut, adding third-party corroboration to the founder-reported arc.

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2. 2026-08Egbe

   Says GLM-5.2 (Z.ai) now powers the majority of its AI co-founder's building workload — production requests and processed tokens up nearly 8× in a single month since the switch (self-reported, from a one-month-old base) — and joins the Z.ai Startup Program.

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3. 2026-07Polsia

   Self-documentary ('I Built a $250M AI Company. The Bill Is $1.2M a Month') reveals the unit-economics arc: monthly Anthropic bill climbed $500K → $1.2M, then dropped to ~$100K in June after moving routine workloads to open-source models on rented GPUs (Sciforium inference; Sapiom handling agent spend). Next move: a free tier. Figures founder-reported; independent analysts dispute the margin math.

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4. 2026-07Polsia

   WSJ reports 10,000 paying customers and ~$10M projected revenue.

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5. 2026-07Egbe

   Launches publicly: 'the first companies are already running on Egbe' (numbers not disclosed).

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6. 2026-06Atoms

   MarkTechPost feature: agents that build, deploy, and market your app.

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7. 2026-06Boardy

   Boardy Pro launch; ~$63B in capital introductions reported to date.

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8. 2026-05Polsia

   Raised $30M at a $250M valuation with zero employees — the AI reportedly ran much of the fundraise.

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9. 2026-05Polsia

   Approaching $10M annual run rate with one human.

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10. 2026-05Nanocorp

    Launched as Phospho's autonomous-company platform (Show HN); founder reported $193K ARR within 3 days.

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11. 2026-05ChainOpera AI

    Launched AI Trading Arena; integrated Lit Protocol's 'Vincent' autonomous trading agents.

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12. 2026-05Wordware (Sauna)

    Launched Sauna (sauna.ai) — rebranding around an always-on proactive AI assistant.

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13. 2026-05Base44

    Wix Q1 2026 earnings: Base44 surpasses $150M ARR.

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14. 2026-05Artisan

    Ava 2.0 general availability with self-serve onboarding and $300 free credits.

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15. 2026-05Payman

    Citizens State Bank (Colorado) partners with Payman to pioneer 'agentic banking'.

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16. 2026-05Le Baguette Indexfield experiment

    Explicitly inspired by the Guinndex: an AI voice agent named 'Brigitte' phoned French bakeries asking 'Combien coûte votre baguette tradition ?'. ~11,190 calls reached 5,173 bakeries across 146 communes (hung up on 1,400+ times); 1,638 prices retained. Average: €1.25; a third of bakeries charge exactly €1.30. Fun finding: cheaper baguettes correlate with better Google ratings. Out-of-pocket cost: ~€30. Most bakers never realized they were talking to a machine.

    lebaguetteindex.fr ↗Cybernews ↗Write-up (Substack) ↗
17. 2026-04Feltsense

    Claims ~10,000 'Founder Agencies' spun up within months (self-reported); launched Gutcheck diligence tool in beta.

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18. 2026-04RentAHuman

    Joins Y Combinator (Spring 2026 batch); reports 500K+ registered humans across 100+ countries and $20K MRR.

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19. 2026-04Egbe

    Pre-launch: founder tells the MIT AI Summit he has created 100 AI-run e-commerce startups 'on a few Mac minis and some cloud servers' (Boston Globe; founder-reported).

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20. 2026-04Medvi

    NYT front page: 'A $1.8 Billion Business Built With A.I. and a Payroll of Just Two' — financials verified by the Times; Sam Altman says it won him a bet. Backlash follows: Techdirt and Futurism dispute the framing, and Business Insider finds thousands of Meta ads fronted by fake AI doctor personas.

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21. 2026-03Polsia

    500 → 5,000 paying users in one month, driven by the 'Polsia raises its own round' stunt — the live dashboard at polsia.com/live showed the AI working on every customer company (user counts founder-reported).

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22. 2026-03Nanocorp

    Independent review reports ~190 companies founded per day — but disputes the revenue claims, finding just ~$264 cumulative revenue across all platform-created companies.

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23. 2026-03Cofounder

    Cofounder 2 research preview + Fellowship program for agent-run startups.

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24. 2026-03Base44

    Calcalist: Base44 hits $100M ARR nine months after the Wix acquisition.

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25. 2026-03Midjourney

    V8 Alpha: native 2K, 5x faster generation.

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26. 2026-03Medvi

    Class action filed in the Central District of California alleging its affiliate marketers sent spam with spoofed domains and falsified headers ($1,000 sought per email).

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27. 2026-03Guinndex — the Guinness price indexfield experiment

    Annoyed by a €7.80 Dublin pint, he built an AI voice agent named 'Rachel' (friendly Northern Irish accent) that phoned 3,000+ pubs across all 32 Irish counties asking the price of a pint of Guinness. 2,052 pubs answered; 1,000+ verified prices. National average: €5.95. Cheapest: €3.00 (Glynn's Bar, Dunmore); priciest: €10 (Temple Bar). Total cost: ~€200. Only a handful of publicans realized it was an AI — and at least one pub cut its price €0.40 afterward. Now runs as a crowdsourced 'living CPI for the pint'.

    guinndex.ai ↗Fortune ↗Vice ↗tech.eu ↗
28. 2026-02Feltsense

    Raised $5.1M seed led by Draper Associates for 'agentic founders' that build startups from zero.

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29. 2026-02Basis

    Raises $100M Series B at $1.15B led by Accel.

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30. 2026-02RentAHuman

    Launches and breaks the internet: 73K humans registered in two days; Wired profiles 'the first marketplace for bots to hire humans'.

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31. 2026-02Medvi

    FDA warning letter (Feb 20) for misbranding compounded semaglutide/tirzepatide — marketing implied FDA approval. Same month: men's health line launches and claims 50,000 customers in month one.

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32. 2026-01Polsia

    Reported running ~6,000 customer companies at $6M+ ARR (Henry Shi profile).

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33. 2026-01Atoms

    DeepWisdom rebrands MGX as Atoms; announces $31M raised (Ant Group, Cathay Innovation).

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34. 2026-01Delphi

    CEO calls 2026 'the tipping point for digital minds'.

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35. 2025-12Cofounder

    Announced Cofounder 1.5 and $8.7M seed led by Union Square Ventures.

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36. 2025-12Boardy

    Launches AI-led venture fund / scout network (Boardy Ventures).

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37. 2025-12Medvi

    First full year closes at $401M sales, 250,000 customers, 16.2% net profit — with two employees, seven contract account managers, and two contract engineers.

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38. 2025-10Caffeine

    DFINITY launches Caffeine publicly — production apps from natural-language prompts.

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39. 2025-09Cofounder

    Launched; thousands of users in the first week.

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40. 2025-09ChainOpera AI

    $COAI became the first project listed on Binance Alpha.

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41. 2025-08Midjourney

    Meta partnership to license Midjourney's 'aesthetic technology'.

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42. 2025-08Lindy

    Lindy 3.0 launch with Autopilot — autonomous computer-use agents.

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43. 2025-07Caffeine

    Early access opens after 'Hello, Self-Writing Internet' event; 15,000+ alpha users.

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44. 2025-06Base44

    TechCrunch: 6-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash.

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45. 2025-04Artisan

    TechCrunch: the 'stop hiring humans' startup raises $25M — and is still hiring humans.

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46. 2025-0311x

    TechCrunch: 'a16z- and Benchmark-backed 11x has been claiming customers it doesn't have'.

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47. 2025-01Boardy

    $8M seed led by Creandum — round largely negotiated by the AI itself (TechCrunch).

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48. 2025Delphi

    $16M Series A led by Sequoia.

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49. 2024-12Basis

    $34M Series A led by Khosla Ventures.

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50. 2024-11Wordware (Sauna)

    $30M seed led by Spark Capital; previously the #1 Product Hunt launch of all time.

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51. 2024-09Medvi

    Launches after a two-month, $20,000 build; 300 customers in month one, 1,000 more in month two.

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