Channel
@thestartupsvc
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
3,638subscribers
-31 since we began measuring on 27 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002190659753 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @thestartupsvc |
| Created | Between 1 June 2024 and 30 September 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 27 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 16 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/thestartupsvc |
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 14 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sept 2026, 11:38 | 3,638 | -5 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 06:18 | 3,643 | -5 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 06:40 | 3,648 | -13 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 09:46 | 3,661 | -11 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 00:53 | 3,672 | +2 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 02:43 | 3,670 | +1 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 07:00 | 3,669 | no change |
| 27 Aug 2026, 06:45 | 3,669 | first reading |
19 posts held, back to 24 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 19 posts for this entry, the most recent from 21 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 7 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
🔎LandSpace Lands Zhuque-3 Booster On its second flight, Zhuque-3 sent Hongqing Technology’s Honghu 03 satellite to orbit, then returned its first stage to landing legs on land. The first attempt ended in “anomalous combustion” near the pad. It was China’s first recovery of an orbital rocket booster to landing legs, and the first landing by a private Chinese company. The 66-metre rocket runs on oxygen and methane, w…
🤖 OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Agent Costs GPT-5.6 Luna scored 84.04% on BrowseComp, nearly matching GPT-5.5 at 84.36%. Its run cost $1.33 instead of $33.27, making the gap hard to ignore. For agent work, OpenAI recommends Luna and Terra for data extraction and document search. GPT-5.6 Sol on low reasoning also beat GPT-5.5 on high reasoning in one agent test. The bigger gain comes from the agent setup. GPT-5.6 can preserv…
“We all sit in the shade of trees that were planted by others. So it’s obligatory, I think, to plant a few trees ourselves, if we’ve had good luck.” Warren Buffett ✔️ @venture
Google went public 22 years ago today at a $23B valuation. It is up 18,161% since. ✔️ @venture
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Rich is about how much you make. Wealthy is about how much you keep and own. ✔️ @venture
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💸 Strategy sold Bitcoin to reduce its financing costs Strategy sold 1,638 BTC last week, about 0.19% of its holdings. The move sparked concerns that the company was abandoning its long-term Bitcoin strategy, but the numbers tell a different story. The company says its cost of capital is 10.8%, while its STRC preferred stock is currently yielding around 13.4%. Instead of holding Bitcoin, Strategy used part of the pr…
❕ Goldman warns up to $185B of forced selling could hit global stocks Goldman Sachs says systematic funds could sell up to $185 billion of global equities over the next month if markets keep falling. These funds, known as CTAs (Commodity Trading Advisors), don't react to news or earnings. They follow price signals. When key levels break, their models automatically reduce exposure. Goldman's base case points to $7.…
🎸 Arduino Robot Plays Your Guitar via Wi-Fi A Reddit user named MegCell built a robot that attaches to almost any guitar in about 3 minutes and plays it via smartphone control. It uses an Arduino to operate servos that press strings and strum, all housed in a complex 3D-printed frame around the guitar body and neck. The robot reads MusicXML files sent over Wi-Fi, so it can theoretically play any song with a digital…
🤖 Italian Startup Builds Robot with Sensor Skin Italian startup Generative Bionics created the robot Gene.01 covered in sensor skin that tracks touch, temperature, proximity, and force. This lets it detect humans before contact and adjust movements. Gene.01 learns by physical guidance instead of video. Holding its hand and moving it teaches the robot the right grip strength, solving a key challenge in humanoid robo…
Ⓜ️ Meta AI joins Threads private chats Threads added a private chat with Meta AI, letting users send posts, photos, or videos for one-on-one discussion. This feature was already on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp before arriving on Threads. In five countries, Meta AI also posts publicly in Threads feeds under @meta.ai. Users cannot block these posts, only mute them. The AI’s presence in feeds is permanent, unlike…
Showing the 12 most recent of 19 posts we hold for @thestartupsvc. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 16 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Startups VC” (@thestartupsvc), 3,638 subscribers as measured 16 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thestartupsvc.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.