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PixelCrew
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PixelCrew

PixelCrew Investment Report Category: AI-assisted interface design and front-end production Company Stage: Public alpha pixelcrew Founder or Founders: Dmytro Zaporozhets is identified as co-founder and CTO in a Dnipro VC managing partner’s launch statement; the identit…

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Higgsfield API
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Higgsfield API

Higgsfield Investment Report Category: AI media generation — multi-model creation platform for creators/brands, plus a newly launched unified developer API across 50+ image and video models Company Stage: Series B; valued at $5.4 billion (August 2026) Founder or Founde…

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Resurf
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Resurf

Resurf Investment Report Category: Local-first personal knowledge management / digital library Company Stage: Early commercial; described as a bootstrapped indie project Founder or Founders: Deep Lakhani Headquarters: Montréal, Canada Funding: Not publicly disclosed Bu…

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ABrush
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ABrush

ABrush Investment Report Category: Generative-AI creative software and Photoshop workflow automation Company Stage: Early commercial / early access Founder or Founders: Ivanna Pogrebniak; other co-founder(s) not publicly identified Headquarters: Cyprus; operating roots…

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Modeinspect
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Modeinspect

Modeinspect Investment Report Category: AI design tool / design-to-code collaboration (developer tools) Company Stage: Seed (founded 2024) Founder or Founders: Martin Antos (CEO), Slavomir Glinsky, Denis Laca, and Adam Pavlisin — the same four-person team previously fo…

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ChatGPT Images 2.5
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ChatGPT Images 2.5

ChatGPT Images 2.5 Investment Report Category: Generative AI image creation and editing; multimodal API Company Stage: Late-stage private company Founder or Founders: OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman and o…

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Causal
Artificial Intelligence

Causal

Causal (causal.so) Investment Report Category: AI-powered spatial canvas / digital whiteboard for planning visual creative projects Company Stage: Pre-seed / just-launched solo-built product Founder or Founders: Rameen Sharif (solo maker; identity sourced from Product …

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Stitch AI by Dynamic Mockups
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Stitch AI by Dynamic Mockups

Stitch AI by Dynamic Mockups Investment Report Category: AI-assisted embroidery digitizing and e-commerce product-visualization software Company Stage: Early-stage, commercial product; classified as “Scale-up” by Katapult Founder or Founders: Luka Filipović; Miloš Medi…

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Doop
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Doop

Doop Investment Report Category: Design tools / AI agents — open-source multiplayer design canvas for humans and AI agents (MCP-native) Company Stage: Pre-revenue, free open beta (public since August 22, 2026) Founder or Founders: Kevin Goedecke (solo founder; also fou…

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Video Agent by Fotor
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Video Agent by Fotor

Video Agent by Fotor Investment Report Category: AI video creation and motion-graphics software Company Stage: Established private company; post-Series B Founder or Founders: Tony Duan; public founder information is limited Headquarters: Chengdu, Sichuan, China Funding…

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Topview Motion Studio
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Topview Motion Studio

Topview Motion Studio Investment Report Category: AI video creation, motion design, and marketing-content automation Company Stage: Series A; Motion Studio is an early product release Founder or Founders: Jensen Wu and Albert Chen Headquarters: Singapore Funding: $14 m…

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Spline V2
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Spline V2

Spline V2 Investment Report Category: Browser-based collaborative 3D design and interactive experience platform (Design Tools / AI) Company Stage: Growth-stage private SaaS, ~6 years old, post–Series A Founder or Founders: Alejandro Leon, CEO (YC W21); a COO/co-founder…

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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Investment Report Category: Generative AI; multimodal video generation and editing Company Stage: Product within publicly traded Alphabet; not a standalone startup Founder or Founders: Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin; Gemini Omni …

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Play with Putty
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Play with Putty

Play with Putty Investment Report Category: Collaborative AI app building ("vibe coding") — Design Tools / AI Company Stage: Internal research experiment at Google Labs (Alphabet Inc., NASDAQ: GOOGL) — not a standalone company Founder or Founders: Not publicl…

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Screenify Studio
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Screenify Studio

Screenify Studio Investment Report Category: Prosumer productivity software — Mac screen recording and product-demo production with AI automation Company Stage: Bootstrapped indie product (no evidence of any funding or incorporated entity) Founder or Founders: "Br…

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MiniMax Design
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MiniMax Design

MiniMax Design Investment Report Category: AI-native creative production platform Company Stage: Public company product Founder or Founders: Dr. Yan Junjie Headquarters: Shanghai, China Funding: HK$4.82 billion gross Hong Kong IPO in January 2026; July 2026 equity plac…

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Shape
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Shape

Shape Investment Report Category: Agentic IDE and visual software-development tools Company Stage: Pre-seed / product launch Founder or Founders: Nathan (full legal name and biography not publicly verified) Headquarters: Not publicly disclosed Funding: No public financ…

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Superflow AI
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Superflow AI

Superflow AI Investment Report Category: AI QA agents / website feedback & review SaaS (agency tooling) Company Stage: Seed (product of Velt, YC W22) Founder or Founders: Rakesh Goyal (Founder & CEO) Headquarters: San Francisco, California Funding: $2.7…

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FluidDocs CLI
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FluidDocs CLI

FluidDocs CLI Investment Report Category: AI-native documents / developer tools / sales-enablement SaaS Company Stage: Pre-seed / early commercialization Founder or Founders: Nishant Aggarwal and Ricardo Pacheco Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States; e…

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Remix
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Remix

Remix Investment Report Category: Developer/design collaboration tooling — AI-assisted product experimentation on production codebases Company Stage: Pre-seed (bootstrapped or undisclosed; no funding announcement found) Founder or Founders: Hesham Ghandour (solo founde…

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