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No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.
The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.
We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.
↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (14% of the score).
↓ Scored on 1 of 4 components — funding_recency, adoption, developer had no computable metric.
The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened
Unproven ≠ false — it means the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.
No single number decides. Layers can disagree — that's the point. New to this? →
And a few of them like Air, they raised $50 million to vet the tools that agents use.
VentureSignalScore 37.9/100 for air, composed from 1 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.79 for 30% signal coverage
| Component | Weight | Normalized | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| funding_magnitude | 0.3 | 0.4796 |
funding.round.amount_usd 2026-10-14 artifact ↗ An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.
A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.
No reported round and no SEC filing on record — no financing date is established.
| Attribute | Value | Kind | Source | Observed | State | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common_name | Air | observed | intelligence.claims | 2026-10-01 | normalized | 0.90 |
community.hn.max_points | 2544 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-09-26 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.max_points | 0 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 50 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-09-26 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 0 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [] | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-09-26 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39526057", "title": "Airfoil", "points": 2544, "created_at": "2024-02-27"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2024-02-27 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
funding.round.amount_usd | 50000000 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-14 | normalized | 0.50 |
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd | 50000000 | derived | calc | 2026-10-14 | derived | 0.50 |
score.venture_signal | 37.9 | derived | calc | 2026-10-14 | derived | 0.26 |
sector | emerging | derived | calc | 2026-09-28 | normalized | 0.50 |
signal.attributed_claims | 1 | observed | intelligence.claims | 2026-09-26 | parsed | 0.90 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M4XSSM94KA3EN4MF26HJN4GE", "signals": [{"quote": "And a few of them like Air, they raised $50 million to vet the tools that agents use.", "stance": "neutral", "confiden | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-14 | promoted | 0.50 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "podcast", "title": "Who’s the sheriff in AI’s wild west? (Equity Live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026) — air", "source_id": "01M4XSDM01DP45NDPHD7P2AZN3-m-9fe430e5274621be", "extract_ref": "artifa | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-14 | normalized | 0.95 |