YC-backed AI engineers marketplace. Acquired by Index.dev 2026. Signal source: Google Alert — Y Combinator class, May 13 2026.

Modal Labs provides high-performance, scalable cloud computing infrastructure engineered for heavy AI workloads, featuring super-fast autoscaling and containers that boot instantly. The company is headquartered in New York and offers a developer-accessible cloud platform designed for AI and software development teams.

New Haven CT. Full-stack quantum computer using dual-rail encoding with superconducting cavities. IQT Summer 2024 investment. Yale spinout (Yale Quantum Institute). Dual-rail encoding enables improved error correction vs standard superconducting qubits. Series B $50M+ (2023).

New York NY. Ideas worth spreading. Annual conference + TED Talks platform. TED Fellowship program selects ~20 fellows/year — innovators, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs working on under-reported problems. Jon Gosier was TED Fellow 2009, TED Senior Fellow.Born in Monterey in 1984 and hosted there through 2009 (the origin of TED Talks) before moving to Long Beach and then Vancouver.