Author: devcuration

Every startup story says something about timing. OurPetPolicy says something about discipline. Founded in 2021 and operated by Landlord Tech, Inc., this Boise-built company did not come out swinging with fireworks or chest-thumping headlines. It came out solving a problem most people complain about but few actually fix. Pets live with people. Rentals often act like they do not. That gap quietly drains revenue, trust, and time. OurPetPolicy looked at that mess and decided inefficiency was optional. Logan Miller runs the business side with the calm of someone who respects systems more than slogans. Cody Miller builds the technology like…

Moddule shows up like a clean signal in a room full of static. Supply chain visibility is a $23B problem hiding in plain sight, and mid-market freight forwarders are still duct taping answers together from spreadsheets, inboxes, and half talking systems. Companies lose 6 to 10% of revenue to disruption, yet the tools meant to fix it were built by people who never moved freight. The math never worked. The operators always paid. Moddule exists because Hans Elmegaard got tired of watching that tax compound. After 25+ years inside A.P. Moller Maersk, DSV, Panalpina, Agility, and Scan Global Logistics, the…

@Initialized Capital did not walk into September 2011 trying to cosplay venture capital. @Alexis Ohanian, @Garry Tan, and @Harj Taggar walked in with $7M, operator scars, and a problem with the system. Too many serious builders were being filtered out by pedigree theater. Too many real companies died because the founder did not look familiar. The name was not branding fluff. Initialized meant first commit, before traction, before permission, before consensus. Alexis Ohanian brought lived experience from turning Reddit into a cultural utility. Garry Tan brought product instinct and the software backbone of Y Combinator, from Posterous to Bookface. Harj…

The room didn’t feel like a meetup. It felt like a checkpoint. Lower Manhattan in January has a way of sharpening people. The cold strips away pretense. So does a funding environment that has been unforgiving for half a decade. When roughly fifty founders, operators, and investors gathered inside Fabrik NYC on January 7th for Lawrence Krubner’s Startup Salon, nobody showed up for hype. They showed up because something in the old playbook is no longer working, and everyone knows it. Krubner understands this instinctively. He didn’t frame the night as networking. He framed it as community. Fabrik itself was…

Builder Series networking responds to a quiet collapse in early-stage trust. While NYC closed $3.2B in seed funding across 520+ deals last year, founders are lonelier than ever. The pipes for capital widened. The pipes for trust collapsed. Algorithms promised efficiency and delivered silence. 30 second conversations. LinkedIn confetti. No memory, no follow up, no real friction. The cost shows up in the data and hides in the rooms where companies are supposed to begin. That pressure is what The Builder Series: New Year, New Builders, Real Connections responds to on January 15, 2026 in New York City. Dylan Oriundo…

The internet has started deciding who exists without asking permission. While teams still debate rankings and traffic reports, AI platforms now act as the first layer of discovery. ChatGPT answers instead of linking out. Perplexity summarizes instead of scrolling. Google’s AI Overviews determine relevance before a human ever clicks. Visibility has shifted from pages to presence, from rankings to relevance. That shift explains why Gotavi Pulse early access launches today and why this moment carries real weight. What Gotavi Pulse Is Gotavi Pulse is a new product from Gotavi, the New York based business orchestration platform founded by Shai Stern.…

Vibrant Therapeutics just locked in a $61M, and this is not background noise for the biotech crowd. Founded in 2019 by Dr. Luquan Wang, also known as Dr. Larry Wang, the company operates between Guangzhou and Cambridge, a geographic choice that mirrors its mindset. Global by default, intentional by design. When a GenScript co-founder decides to build again, the industry tends to stop multitasking. Dr. Luquan Wang did not arrive here by chasing trends. From Schering-Plough, where he contributed to the discovery work behind Zetia, to co-founding GenScript, his career has been about precision over volume. Vibrant was born from…

Applied Brain Research did not materialize out of a pitch deck and a caffeine spike. This company traces back to 2013, deep inside the University of Waterloo, where Dr. Chris Eliasmith spent more than a decade doing something unfashionable in tech: studying how brains actually work before trying to commercialize intelligence. That work produced the Neural Engineering Framework, Nengo, Semantic Pointer Architecture, and a conviction that AI should think locally, not phone home for permission. That long arc bent into an oversubscribed seed round of over $3.6M, led by Two Small Fish Ventures. Eva Lau joins the board, bringing a…

March 2024. San Diego. A crew that already sold one precision medicine dream to Merck for $10.8 billion decides retirement is overrated. Mirador Therapeutics shows up with over $400 million in Series A capital and a very specific memory of what it takes to win in immune-mediated disease. Mark C. McKenna does not do nostalgia plays. After building Prometheus Biosciences into a category-defining precision story, he brings the band back together to chase unfinished business. Same city, sharper tools, bigger data, less patience for guesswork. Fast forward not even two years and Mirador Therapeutics stacks another $250 million in a…

There is something poetic about a company named Synchrony showing up right when respiratory care needs better timing, better rhythm, and a lot less noise. Synchrony Medical did not emerge from a pitch deck fantasy or a conference room fever dream. It was conceived in early 2020, in the middle of a global respiratory crisis, inside Sheba Medical Center and the MEDX Xelerator, where clinical reality has a habit of humbling theory fast and separating ideas from outcomes. The founders did not come to play startup cosplay. Anat Shani, CEO and co-founder, brought more than a decade of wearable medical…