Two Indian founders, Naman Bansal and Shreyans Jain, have closed a $1.3 million seed round for Manicule, an AI startup in San Francisco.
Y Combinator and Broom Ventures co-led the round, with angel investors also participating. Manicule helps software firms appear in AI recommendations, with clients such as Supermemory, PromptLayer, Bright Data and Courier. Bansal, the CEO, began working with global tech firms at 13, and Jain, the CTO, started coding at 14.
The new money will fund engineering hires, automation upgrades and enterprise services.
Sachin Tendulkar has taken a non-controlling stake in Recykal, the Indian waste management technology firm.
His investment extends the $23 million round Recykal closed in June. The company will use the money to strengthen its tech platform, expand its Deposit Return System for packaging waste, and grow internationally.
Recykal's goal is to change the habits of a billion people, and Tendulkar said he was drawn in by how technology tackled a daily problem.
SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion across two AI supercomputing campuses, one in Texas and one in Arizona.
The Texas facility at Starbase, estimated at over $24 billion, will sit on about 444 acres near Brownsville and generate its own power off the public grid. The project has already created over 3,000 construction jobs.
The roughly $50 billion Arizona campus in Cochise County could scale up to 6 gigawatts, though it still needs county approvals. The Starbase city commission will weigh a property tax break for the Texas project on December 9.
