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October 21, 2025


Artifact

A Collaborative, AI-native IDE for Hardware Engineers

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Artifact Wants to Be the IDE That Hardware Engineers Actually Deserve

Software engineers got GitHub, VS Code, and Cursor. Hardware engineers got... spreadsheets and PDFs. Artifact is building a collaborative IDE for electrical systems design, and they've already got Boom Supersonic and K2 Space as customers. This team built avionics for hypersonic aircraft. They know exactly what's broken.

Operand

Operand Bets That AI Can Run Your Business Strategy

Most AI analytics tools generate dashboards. Operand wants to generate decisions. Three college dropouts from Dartmouth and Cornell are building AI systems that handle pricing, forecasting, and allocation for retailers and manufacturers. The pitch is less 'here's your data' and more 'here's what to do with it.'