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The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
Publisher description: From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
TechCrunch | Sep 13, 2026 | Marina Temkin, Dominic-Madori Davis
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Why it’s a fav: Power is in short supply and local communities are increasingly opposing the buildout of new data centers. Why it’s a fav: Traditional AI chips burn massive amounts of energy during inference, fetching model weights from memory. Why it’s a fav: The founders of this company want to build a city on Mars.
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