Common Paper, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company, is on a mission to do for sales contracts what Y Combinator’s SAFE did for early-stage fundraising: replace bespoke, lawyer-heavy documents with a shared standard that everyone in the ecosystem can recognize and trust. The company builds standardized, open-source agreements for commercial transactions, and is betting that […]
FlyCode, a Y Combinator Summer 2022 company, is building the retention layer designed specifically to stop subscription businesses from losing revenue to failed payments. Every subscription business, from the largest SaaS platforms to the latest consumer streaming services, loses a surprising amount of revenue to a deeply unglamorous problem: the payment that simply does not […]
Large enterprises have spent two decades pouring money into customer support — building sprawling teams, layering on ticketing platforms, and funneling everything through chat widgets and help-center articles that still leave customers frustrated. Amsterdam-based Fini is making a simple, pointed claim: most of that work can be done autonomously by AI agents, and the software […]
Bitstack, a Y Combinator Summer 2022 company, has taken a small idea, rounding up spare change into bitcoin, and turned it into something much more ambitious: a bitcoin-native neobank for Europe. Founded in 2021 by Alexandre Roubaud and Kabir Sethi, Bitstack started as a simple savings app and has since evolved into a financial platform […]
Peoplebox.ai is trying to do something most HR tech companies only gesture at: rebuild the entire talent stack from the ground up around AI. Founded in 2018 by Abhinav Chugh and Alagu M, the San Francisco-based company joined Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 batch and has since grown into an AI-native platform used by more than […]
Invofox, a Y Combinator Summer 2022 company, believes that turning invoices and business documents into structured, reliable data should no longer be every software company’s problem; it should be a single API call. For decades, the humble invoice has been one of software’s most stubborn opponents. Invoices arrive as PDFs, scanned photos, email attachments, bills […]
Flair Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is betting that the next wave of productivity in real estate and mortgage lending will come not from better CRMs but from autonomous agents that handle the communication workflow itself. Real estate and mortgage lending are two of the most communication-intensive industries in the economy. Every transaction generates hundreds […]
Typewise, a Y Combinator Summer 2022 company, has spent the last several years building an answer to one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI: getting customer service right in production. Brand voice, safety, compliance, system integrations, and the sheer variety of customer intent all conspire against generic copilots. Typewise has built an AI-first customer […]
Slidely AI, a Y Combinator Summer 2022 company, takes a different approach to the presentation problem: it lives inside PowerPoint and behaves like a consultant who actually reads the deck. PowerPoint is one of the most unfairly maligned pieces of software in the modern enterprise. Whatever knowledge workers say about it, they still live in […]
Careforce, a Y Combinator Fall 2024 company, is tackling a coordination crisis in healthcare with a distinctive pitch: AI workers purpose-built to help healthcare organizations find, call, and schedule more patients. Healthcare organizations across the United States are buckling under a crisis that has little to do with medicine itself. Patients fall through the cracks […]
Pierre, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company, is building a new, opinionated git platform designed for the way modern software teams actually work. Founded in 2023 by Jacob Thornton and Ian Ownbey, the company is rethinking code hosting, code review, and continuous integration from the ground up, with small, focused teams and AI-augmented workflows at […]
PrimeVault, a Y Combinator Summer 2022 company, is building what it calls the all-in-one digital asset and stablecoin platform for enterprises and financial institutions. As stablecoins move from crypto curiosity to serious financial infrastructure, the companies issuing, holding, and moving them are running into a familiar problem: enterprise-grade tooling has not caught up with enterprise-grade […]
Metal, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company, is betting that the entire fundraising workflow is due for an AI-native rebuild. Fundraising has always been one of the most information-asymmetric processes in business. Founders scramble to identify which of thousands of investors might actually fit their stage, sector, and geography. Growth-stage executives piece together LP relationship […]
Speedy Labs, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company, is taking aim at a financial problem that quietly drains billions of dollars from manufacturers and distributors every year: the opaque, spreadsheet-driven world of rebate management. Founded in 2023 by Jatin Mehta, Ranti Dev Sharma, and Ayush Jasuja, Speedy Labs offers an AI-powered platform that helps industrial […]
BENGALURU, INDIA – April 2026. Clueso is redefining how modern teams create engaging video and documentation. The San Francisco and Bengaluru-based startup, founded in 2023 by Akash Anand, Neel Balar, and Prajwal Prakash, turns any input, whether a screen recording, a PowerPoint, a document, or even a simple prompt, into polished videos and step-by-step documentation in minutes. […]
Superglue, a Winter 2025 Y Combinator company, is attacking one of the least glamorous and most fragile layers of the modern enterprise stack: the brittle SQL scripts, cron jobs, and one-off connectors that quietly run most day-to-day operations. Founded in 2024 by Adina Goerres and Stefan Faistenauer, the four-person team is building an open-source platform […]
CambioML, a Y Combinator Summer 2023 startup now operating under the brand Energent.ai, is taking direct aim at one of the most frustrating realities of modern office work: the vast amount of manual, repetitive effort that sits between knowledge workers and their best output. The company is building what it calls an “AI teammate,” a […]
Yenmo, a Y Combinator Winter 2024 company, is offering a third door to the tens of millions of Indians who have diligently built up portfolios of mutual funds and stocks and face a familiar problem the moment they need cash. Their options are both bad: liquidate the investments they have spent years compounding, or take […]
When OpenAI, N8N, Mapbox, Mixpanel, Nokia, and Grafana all lean on the same startup to answer their users’ technical questions, something interesting is happening beneath the surface of the AI hype cycle. That startup is kapa.ai, a Summer 2023 Y Combinator company founded in 2023 by Emil Soerensen and Finn Bauer, and it has methodically […]
Metoro, a Summer 2023 Y Combinator company, is building an AI site reliability engineer designed to carry the operational load for teams running on Kubernetes. Kubernetes has become the default control plane for modern production software, but it has also become the single largest source of operational complexity most engineering teams face. When something breaks, […]
San Francisco, CA — The first generation of AI coding assistants proved that language models could write code. The next generation is about something harder: agents that can work inside real codebases for long-running, multi-step engineering tasks without getting slow, expensive, or unreliable. Morph, a Y Combinator Summer 2023 company based in San Francisco, is […]
Alex, a Y Combinator Winter 2024 company, is betting that an AI recruiter can do that first conversation not just faster, but better, and the company’s early momentum suggests a lot of employers agree. The first real filter in most hiring processes is still a phone screen: a harried recruiter, a candidate balancing their calendar, […]
Onyx, a Y Combinator Winter 2024 company, is building the open-source AI chat layer designed to solve one of the most persistent problems in modern work: inside every company is a mountain of knowledge that nobody can find. It is scattered across Google Drive, Slack threads, GitHub repos, Confluence pages, Salesforce notes, Notion wikis, and […]
Draftaid, a Y Combinator Winter 2024 company, is building what it describes as “GitHub Copilot for CAD” — the world’s first generative AI for CAD manufacturing drawings, turning hours of manual drafting work into seconds. Every product that is manufactured — from construction to aerospace, automotive, durable goods, and electronics — relies on engineering drawings. […]
sync., an AI lipsync tool for video content creators and a Y Combinator Winter 2024 company, is drawing industry attention as it scales operations following its accelerator cohort. The company’s mission is to make video as fluid and editable as a word document — letting creators record once, revise at will, and post, without re-recording […]
Infinity, a Bengaluru-based fintech and Y Combinator Winter 2024 company, is rebuilding the cross-border payments experience for Indian SMBs and startups from scratch — and investors are taking notice. For the legions of Indian SMBs and startups that earn revenue overseas, every cross-border transfer has historically meant the same painful trio: opaque foreign exchange spreads, […]
Alai, a Winter 2024 Y Combinator company, is making the case that the presentation itself is overdue for reinvention. As knowledge workers increasingly measure their weeks in slide decks, the company — founded in 2023 by Anmol Sood and Krishna Gupta — has built an AI presentation tool designed around a simple promise: bring your […]
VideoGen, a Summer 2024 Y Combinator-backed startup, is taking on one of the most universally painful problems in content creation: making professional video is hard, slow, and expensive. Founded in 2023 by Anton Koenig and David Grossman, VideoGen lets anyone generate professional, copyright-free videos in seconds using AI — a proposition that has already won […]
Roark, a Y Combinator Winter 2025 company, is betting that the difference between a novelty and a trustworthy product comes down to rigorous, automated testing — and it is building the platform to make that possible. As enterprises race to deploy voice agents for customer support, sales, and operations, a quieter problem has surfaced behind […]
Instinct, a Winter 2025 Y Combinator company, is betting that lunar access can look a lot like LEO access if someone is bold enough to engineer for it. For two decades, the story of space has been the collapse of the cost to low Earth orbit. Reusable launch vehicles, rideshare missions, and a new generation […]