Y Combinator S25 Companies
Startup Batches
Welcome to our interactive overview of Y Combinator’s Summer 2025 batch. Below, you’ll find a sortable, filterable table that currently showcases over 150 portfolio companies.
Each row details:
- Company name and sector (spanning B2B SaaS, Consumer, Healthcare, Drones, Infrastructure, Finance, Legal, Productivity, Social, and more)
- Funding stage to help you gauge maturity and runway
- YC Partner assignment (e.g. Brad Flora, Gustaf Alströmer, Jared Friedman, Tyler Bosmeny, Harj Taggar, Ankit Gupta, Eric Levine, Jon Xu) for insight into mentorship and domain expertise
Use this table to:
- Explore Y Combinator’s current investment focus, spotting which industries and technologies are gaining traction
- Identify promising directions by filtering sectors or funding stages for your own market research or strategic planning
- Quickly find founder contacts for networking, partnership, or investment outreach
Dive in now to track updates in real time, uncover market trends, potential collaborators, and the next wave of disruptive startups — all in one centralized view.
- Company Website
- noxmetals.co
- One-Liner
- AI-powered aluminum plate supplier
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- heyblue.com
- One-Liner
- ChatGPT-powered voice assistant for iPhone
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- getpaloma.ai
- One-Liner
- Embedded AI software for manufacturers
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- upliftai.org
- One-Liner
- Pakistani language AI voice models
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- therealroots.com
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- Matched friendship groups for women 21+
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- luminalai.com
- One-Liner
- Fastest AI inference cloud service available
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- freyavoice.ai
- One-Liner
- AI voice agents for enterprise calls
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- getburnt.ai
- One-Liner
- AI agents for food distribution
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- aventindustrial.com
- One-Liner
- AI agents for industrial commerce
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- veritusagent.ai
- One-Liner
- AI agents for consumer lending services
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- outrove.ai
- One-Liner
- Autonomous AI recruiter for hiring workflows
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- noso.so
- One-Liner
- AI agents for field service teams
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- vulcan-tech.com
- One-Liner
- AI-powered legal technology platform for government agencies
- Employee Count
- 1-10
- Company Website
- spotlight.realty
- One-Liner
- AI-powered NYC realty brokerage
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- interfere.com
- One-Liner
- Self-healing production visibility for shipped software
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- munify.ai
- One-Liner
- Borderless banking for cross-border payments
- HQ Country
- Egypt
- Company Website
- rowflow.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-driven conversational data collection platform
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- tecto.ai
- One-Liner
- Y Combinator-backed AI governance platform
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- duranium.co
- One-Liner
- Metal reactor tech for U.S. independence
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- perspectiveshealth.ai
- One-Liner
- AI for behavioral health approvals
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- modelence.com
- One-Liner
- Full-stack AI app builder for production apps
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- magnetictax.com
- One-Liner
- AI tax prep for CPA firms
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- fleetline.ai
- One-Liner
- AI dispatch engine for trucking fleets
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- clodo.ai
- One-Liner
- Planet-scale AI people search
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- stagewise.io
- One-Liner
- Open source agentic IDE for developers
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- useflywheel.ai
- One-Liner
- Remote excavator control for construction
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- vibecodego.com
- One-Liner
- Mobile app for coding on the go
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- usejuxta.org
- One-Liner
- Universal Positioning System for precise location tracking
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- okibi.ai
- One-Liner
- Natural-language AI agent builder
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- dscribeai.com
- One-Liner
- 3D vision AI for bulk inventory tracking
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- onkernel.com
- One-Liner
- Browser infrastructure for web agents and automations
- Product Description
- Kernel is a platform that provides browser infrastructure for web agents to access the Internet in the cloud. Their unique approach allows …
- Company Website
- reacherapp.com
- One-Liner
- AI affiliate manager for TikTok Shop brands
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- certus-ai.com
- One-Liner
- Restaurant voice AI for phone orders
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- hera.video
- One-Liner
- AI motion designer for branded videos
- HQ Country
- Germany
- Company Website
- notte.cc
- One-Liner
- Browser infrastructure for AI agents
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- pally.com
- One-Liner
- Privacy-first AI unified inbox
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- locatahealth.com
- One-Liner
- AI referral management for primary care
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- pleom.com
- One-Liner
- Agentic business intelligence for company data
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- convexia.bio
- One-Liner
- AI agents for drug sourcing and diligence
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- sigmanticai.com
- One-Liner
- AI agent for chip design
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- opennote.com
- One-Liner
- AI notebook for notes, videos, quizzes
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- sira.team
- One-Liner
- AI workforce management for hourly teams
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- f4.dev
- One-Liner
- GD&T analysis software for engineering drawings
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- withmetis.ai
- One-Liner
- Enterprise agent learning and evaluation layer
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- tryeden.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-driven email marketing for personalized campaigns
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- altur.io
- One-Liner
- Voice AI agents for debt collection
- HQ Country
- Mexico
- Company Website
- pares.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-native real estate services firm
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- avelishealth.com
- One-Liner
- AI claims auditing for health plans
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- nautilus.co
- One-Liner
- Car wash platform for sales and memberships
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- humoniq.ai
- One-Liner
- Voice AI travel support and operations
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- palace.so
- One-Liner
- AI-driven investment monitoring platform for private equity
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- floot.com
- One-Liner
- AI app and website builder for non-coders
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- alaradental.com
- One-Liner
- Dental supply comparison and ordering platform
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- getsocratix.ai
- One-Liner
- Autonomous AI analysts for fraud teams
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- gominimal.ai
- One-Liner
- AI customer support agents for e-commerce
- HQ Country
- Netherlands
- Company Website
- risely.ai
- One-Liner
- Agentic AI for higher education campuses
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- omnara.com
- One-Liner
- Command center for coding agents
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- knowlify.com
- One-Liner
- AI video agency for business explainers
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- autosana.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-native E2E testing for mobile apps
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- tryapril.com
- One-Liner
- AI voice assistant for email and calendar management
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- getirongrid.com
- One-Liner
- Robotics and frontier hardware venture
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- finto.de
- One-Liner
- AI platform for automated invoice processing
- HQ Country
- Germany
- Company Website
- motives.ai
- One-Liner
- AI qualitative research with 48-hour reports
- HQ Country
- United Kingdom
- Company Website
- rellingsystems.com
- One-Liner
- Models trained on raw video experience
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- hyprnote.com
- One-Liner
- Open-source AI notetaker prioritizing privacy
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- novaflowapp.com
- One-Liner
- AI data analyst for biology labs
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- perseusdefense.com
- One-Liner
- Counter-UAS micro-missile defense systems
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- phases.ai
- One-Liner
- AI agents for clinical trial oversight
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- solvatechnology.com
- One-Liner
- AI for insurance claims outcomes
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- albacore.inc
- One-Liner
- Mass-producible long-range drone submarines
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- goriff.com
- One-Liner
- Personalized children’s storybooks with AI
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- trymohi.com
- One-Liner
- AI monitoring and optimization platform for agents
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- mimos-ai.com
- One-Liner
- AI agents for automated search marketing solutions
- HQ Country
- United Kingdom
- Company Website
- nozomio.com
- One-Liner
- Applied AI lab for context engineering
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- vibeflow.ai
- One-Liner
- Prompt-to-app workflows with owned code
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- comena.ai
- One-Liner
- AI agents for B2B order intake
- HQ Country
- Germany
- Company Website
- normalfactory.com
- One-Liner
- Hardware certification software for compliance
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- ghosteye.ai
- One-Liner
- Human-layer security testing platform
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- trychannel3.com
- One-Liner
- Agentic commerce API for product discovery
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- epicenter.so
- One-Liner
- Local-first open-source apps with shared memory
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- candytrail.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-driven sales coaching for in-person retail
- Founding Year
- 2025
- Company Website
- embedder.dev
- One-Liner
- Developer tools for embedded software engineers
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- useflai.com
- One-Liner
- AI workers for car dealerships
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- b12-labs.com
- One-Liner
- AI chemical synthesis platform
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- fulcrumresearch.ai
- One-Liner
- AI research lab scaling human intent
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- trace.so
- One-Liner
- AI orchestration layer for modern teams
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- ironledger.ai
- One-Liner
- AI charge cards for real estate accounting
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- doe.so
- One-Liner
- AI workforce for enterprise work
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- louiza.ai
- One-Liner
- Simulative biology platform for advanced research
- Employee Count
- 1-10
- Company Website
- parachute-ai.com
- One-Liner
- Governance infrastructure for clinical AI
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- riverbanksecurity.com
- One-Liner
- AI-native continuous penetration testing services
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- kalinda.ai
- One-Liner
- AI vetting engine for mass tort firms
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- stellonlabs.com
- One-Liner
- Tiny AI models for edge devices
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- bootloop.ai
- One-Liner
- AI firmware engineering for hardware teams
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- nexa.farm
- One-Liner
- Implantable cattle monitoring microchips
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- inductionlabs.com
- One-Liner
- AI agents for computer automation
- Employee Count
- 1-10
- Company Website
- cocreate.so
- One-Liner
- AI post-production workflow for editors
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- slashy.ai
- One-Liner
- AI designed for enhanced productivity and task automation
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- wedge.health
- One-Liner
- Operating system for healthcare AI agents
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- careswift.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-powered EMS documentation and compliance solution
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- digpangolin.com
- One-Liner
- Secure access platform for application delivery
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- kestroll.com
- One-Liner
- AI-powered media asset management platform
- Employee Count
- 1-10
- Company Website
- tesora.ai
- One-Liner
- Frontier AI for actuaries
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- deepawareai.com
- One-Liner
- AI-powered robotics solutions for data centers
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- joinsidekick.com
- One-Liner
- AI-powered workflow automation platform with natural language interface
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- withkeystone.com
- One-Liner
- AI-driven software maintenance for developers
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- deepgrove.ai
- One-Liner
- Efficient edge AI models for devices
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- useskope.com
- One-Liner
- AI legal agents for law firms
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- ondeckai.com
- One-Liner
- Visual intelligence without labeled data
- HQ Country
- Canada
- Company Website
- alterai.dev
- One-Liner
- Unified zero-trust authorization for AI agents
- HQ Country
- Estonia
- Company Website
- imprezia.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-native ad network for conversations
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- getlilac.com
- One-Liner
- OpenAI-compatible inference on idle GPUs
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- tryjanet.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-native ticket triage and management system
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- cyberdesk.io
- One-Liner
- Self-learning Windows computer-use agent
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- qualify.bot
- One-Liner
- AI voice technology for commercial loan brokerage
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- usepanels.com
- One-Liner
- High-quality audio datasets for Voice AI
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- herdora.com
- One-Liner
- AI that optimizes performance at hardware speed
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- nuntius.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-driven communication solutions for businesses.
- Employee Count
- 1-10
- Company Website
- orangeslice.ai
- One-Liner
- AI GTM workflows for sales teams
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- monarcha.ai
- One-Liner
- AI geospatial intelligence for maps
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- designarena.ai
- One-Liner
- Crowdsourced AI design benchmark
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- effi-gov.com
- One-Liner
- AI-powered voice solution for local government
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- bitrig.app
- One-Liner
- AI-driven app development on mobile devices
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- uselark.ai
- One-Liner
- AI native billing platform for complex pricing
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- topological.com
- One-Liner
- Physics-based CAD optimization models
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- datafruit.dev
- One-Liner
- First agentic DevOps engineer for operations
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- contextfort.ai
- One-Liner
- Security controls for AI browser agents
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- zeroeval.com
- One-Liner
- AI-driven evaluation platform for agent improvement
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- vernerobotics.com
- One-Liner
- Physical AI robots for fulfillment workflows
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- pharmie.app
- One-Liner
- AI-powered pharmacy assistant for operational efficiency
- Employee Count
- 201-500
- Company Website
- theliva.ai
- One-Liner
- Human audio datasets for voice AI
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- trypond.ai
- One-Liner
- Message API for AI applications with privacy controls
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- tryghostship.dev
- One-Liner
- AI agents for autonomous bug detection
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- tryshor.com
- One-Liner
- Fast, affordable global payroll and EOR platform
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- golpoai.com
- One-Liner
- AI-powered content creation for audio and video
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- async.build
- One-Liner
- Open-source dev tool for AI coding and task management
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- lanesurf.com
- One-Liner
- AI freight brokerage for carrier sourcing
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- joingaus.com
- One-Liner
- AI investment analyst for informed decision-making
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- blank.bio
- One-Liner
- AI RNA models for precision oncology
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- truthsystems.ai
- One-Liner
- AI governance and compliance browser agent
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- agentmail.to
- One-Liner
- Email inbox API for AI agents
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- traceroot.ai
- One-Liner
- Self-healing observability for AI agents
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- mangodesk.com
- One-Liner
- YC-backed RL environments for AI evals
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- promptingcompany.com
- One-Liner
- AI visibility for software products
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- acrely.ai
- One-Liner
- Enterprise voice agents for on-prem deployments
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- dedaluslabs.ai
- One-Liner
- Persistent Linux machines for AI agents
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- closera.com
- One-Liner
- AI shopping agent for online stores
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- browse.dev
- One-Liner
- Agentic browser with 96.5% WebVoyager accuracy
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- getasap.asia
- One-Liner
- 8-hour inventory delivery for retailers
- HQ Country
- Singapore
- Company Website
- mypingoai.com
- One-Liner
- AI language practice partner for real conversations
- Employee Count
- 1-10
- Company Website
- rid.me
- One-Liner
- Sell items effortlessly through text and photos.
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- syntheticsociety.ai
- One-Liner
- Synthetic users for QA and UX testing
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- cactuscompute.com
- One-Liner
- On-device AI with cloud fallback
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- withnixo.com
- One-Liner
- Ops platform for forward deployed teams
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- serafis.ai
- One-Liner
- Narrative intelligence for investors
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- wayline.com
- One-Liner
- AI phone operator for real estate
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- ambral.com
- One-Liner
- AI account manager for enterprise revenue
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- fluidize.ai
- One-Liner
- AI-driven simulations for scientific research
- HQ Country
- United States
- Company Website
- useautumn.com
- One-Liner
- Open-source billing layer for AI startups
- HQ Country
- United Kingdom
- Company Website
- stormy.ai
- One-Liner
- AI employee for creator campaigns
- HQ Country
- United States
Company | Company Website | One-Liner | HQ Country | Employee Count | Founding Year | Product Description | Industry | YC Page | Founders | Total Money Raised | LinkedIn Profile | GitHub URL | YC Partner | AI Category | Go-To-Market Strategy | Founder Roles [click People view for details] |
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AI-powered aluminum plate supplier | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | NOX METALS supplies cut-to-size aluminum plate from Detroit, including 6061, 7075, 7050, and 5000-series alloys. The company pairs instant quoting with proprietary workflows named Nox Nest and Gondor, and it also lists by-request Inconel and stainless steel. Its site emphasizes mill certs, full trac | Industrials, Manufacturing, Robotics | 1 person Zane Hengsperger, Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | – | – | – | ||||
ChatGPT-powered voice assistant for iPhone | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | Blue makes a voice assistant for iPhone that completes tasks inside apps after spoken instructions. The site and YC profile describe it as a smart dictation keyboard and a small USB-C dongle paired with an iPhone app. Blue is backed by Y Combinator and lists a pre-seed round on LinkedIn. | Consumer | 2 people Omar Abdelaziz, Co-founder & CEO Farhan Hossain, Founder | USD 500,000 | – | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 2 | AI-native | Blue's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). The company emphasizes early access and exclusivity, launching with a limited number of units (500) to create demand and generate interest among potential users. This approach focuses on engaging customers directly with the product, sources: 1 | – | |||
Embedded AI software for manufacturers | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Paloma builds custom AI-native software for manufacturing companies. It combines embedded engineers and ops experts with operational diagnostics, then delivers tools that connect fragmented ERP, spreadsheet, and email workflows. The company says its software replaces manual operations with systems t | B2B | 3 people Maria Zhang, CEO and Co-Founder Alex Avnit, CRO and Co-Founder Kaiwen Song, CTO and Co-Founder | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | Paloma's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). The company emphasizes features such as "billing on autopilot" and "predictive revenue insights," which enhance user experience and drive customer engagement. This approach suggests that Paloma focuses on integrating with existing sources: 1 | – | ||||
Pakistani language AI voice models | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | Uplift AI builds speech generation and speech understanding models for Pakistani languages. Its site presents a browser-based Creator Studio and API access for developers building voice applications. The company says it makes voices that sound like Pakistan and offers free prototype building. | B2B | 2 people Hammad Malik, CEO Muhammad Bin Sabir, Co-Founder | – | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Uplift AI employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on user engagement through their Creator Studio and Developer API. Their go-to-market tactics include providing an easy-to-use platform that allows users to quickly launch voice applications, with a strong emphasis on flexible pricing p sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 | 1 person Zaid Qureshi, Co-Founder & CTO | ||||
Matched friendship groups for women 21+ | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | RealRoots matches women 21 and older into small local friendship groups based on age, neighborhood, life stage, and lifestyle. It runs a six-week series with seven experiences, guided conversations, a private group chat, and one-on-one matches. The company also offers a free rematch guarantee if a m | Consumer, Social | 2 people Dorothy Li, CEO Tara Kappel, Co-founder & CPO | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-adjacent | RealRoots employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy that focuses on user engagement and community building among women seeking friendships. Their go-to-market strategy includes key tactics such as guided conversations and curated group experiences, which are facilitated through their mobile app. T sources: 1 2 3 | 2 people Dorothy Li, Founder Tara Kappel, Co-Founder | ||||
Fastest AI inference cloud service available | United States | 11-50 | – | Luminal specializes in compiling AI models for high-speed, high-throughput inference. Their unique approach involves compiling models into zero-overhead GPU code, enabling efficient serverless endpoints. This innovation allows users to pay only for the resources they consume, optimizing costs and pe | B2B, Infrastructure | – | USD 500,000 | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||||
AI voice agents for enterprise calls | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Freya builds AI voice agents that handle inbound and outbound enterprise phone calls in multiple languages. The product supports training, fine-tuning, testing, deployment, and policy controls, with CRM, telecom, and IVR integrations. The website says it targets corporate calls and cites 50% cost sa | Fintech | 2 people Tomas Nepala, CEO & Co-Founder Ahmet Tunga Bayrak, CTO & Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | Freya Voice A.I. employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on demonstrating the product's capabilities through personalized demos and real-time scenarios. Their go-to-market approach emphasizes customer experience, encouraging potential clients to "Experience Freya in action" and schedul sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI agents for food distribution | United States | 1-10 | 2023 | Burnt builds AI agents for food distribution companies. The product automates order management, procurement, credit control, and workflow oversight across teams. The site says the company was founded by food operators with multi-generation experience in seafood, spice, and restaurant supply chains. | B2B, Supply Chain, Logistics | 1 person Rhea Karimpanal, Co-founder | USD 500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | Getburnt employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach. The company focuses on automating order management for food distributors, emphasizing the capabilities of its AI technology to attract customers. Their marketing tactics include promoting the ease of use of their prod sources: 1 | 1 person Joseph Jacob, Co-Founder & CEO | ||||
AI agents for industrial commerce | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Avent builds AI software for distributors and suppliers that automates quote-to-cash work. The platform combines knowledge search, quote generation, inbox handling, order entry, and voice workflows around industrial commerce data. YC lists the company as active, based in San Francisco, and founded i | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Avent's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). The company focuses on automating order processing and enhancing customer engagement through AI-driven solutions, which allows them to streamline operations for industrial distributors. Key tactics include reducing administrative w sources: 1 2 | – | ||||
AI agents for consumer lending services | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Veritus specializes in AI agents tailored for the consumer lending industry. Their technology integrates seamlessly into the lending process, enhancing customer service and compliance. This approach allows businesses to scale operations while maintaining regulatory adherence and improving customer s | Fintech, Credit, Lending | 3 people Joshua March, Co-founder & CEO Joey Stein, Co-founder & CTO David Schlesinger, Co-founder & CSO | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Autonomous AI recruiter for hiring workflows | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Outrove builds AI recruiting workflows that handle sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer-stage hiring steps. The product presents AI interviews that run natively on Zoom and Google Meet, with video, audio, pauses, filler words, and body-language cues. Crunchbase describes the company as a pri | B2B, Recruiting, Talent | – | USD 500,000 | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 2 | AI-native | Outrove's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). The company focuses on automating the hiring process through AI-driven recruiting workflows, which allows potential customers to experience the product's capabilities directly. They offer a demo to showcase how their solution can sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI agents for field service teams | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Noso builds AI agents for field service companies that handle technician notes, follow-ups, and scheduling by text or phone. The site says the system automates 95 percent of technician tasks, syncs with CRM and ERP systems, and routes complex requests such as financing, approvals, and special cases | Industrials | – | – | – | – | – | AI-native | – | – | |||
AI-powered legal technology platform for government agencies | – | 1-10 | 2025 | Vulcan Technologies is a leader in AI-driven legal technology. Their innovative approach simplifies complex legal frameworks for government agencies and institutions. This enables clearer understanding and more efficient regulatory processes for constituents. | B2B, Legal | 3 people Tanner Jones, CEO Chris Minge, Co-Founder Nathaniel Branscum, Founding Engineer | USD 500,000 | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | Vulcan Technologies employs a go-to-market strategy that is primarily product-led growth (PLG). Their approach focuses on partnerships with government agencies and regulatory bodies, utilizing their innovative AI legal technology to streamline complex regulatory processes. Key tactics include:
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AI-powered NYC realty brokerage | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Spotlight Realty is a New York-based, AI-powered real estate brokerage serving sellers, landlords, buyers, and renters. Its website says it combines AI workflows with human support for listing, tenant screening, showings, offers, and closing. The company says it is backed by Y Combinator and positio | Real Estate | 2 people Raymond Allie, Co-Founder Aryan Sharma, Co-Founder, COO | USD 500,000 | – | – | AI-native | Spotlight Realty employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, leveraging AI technology to enhance the real estate selling process. Their go-to-market strategy includes key tactics such as a streamlined "4-minute intake process" for listing properties, AI-powered targeting to reach qualified buyers, sources: 1 2 3 | 2 people Raymond Allie, Co-Founder Aryan Sharma, Co-Founder, COO | ||||
Self-healing production visibility for shipped software | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Interfere is a New York software company founded in 2025 and listed as a YC S25 startup. It provides production visibility for engineers, product managers, and designers, with real-time issue detection, root cause analysis, and incident collaboration features. The company shows SOC 2 Type II work in | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | – | – | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | Interfere's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). This is evident from their website, which emphasizes user engagement through options like "Join waitlist" and "Get a demo." These features suggest a self-service model aimed at attracting users to their automated bug detection sources: 1 | – | ||||
Borderless banking for cross-border payments | Egypt | 11-50 | 2025 | Munify provides multi-currency accounts, USD virtual cards, non-custodial wallets, and global money transfers for individuals and businesses. The company also offers infrastructure APIs for payouts, pay-ins, and card issuance, with a U.S. account available without residency. Munify says it recently | Fintech | 2 people Khalid Ashmawy, Founder & CEO K. Subalakshmi, Founder | USD 3,000,000 | – | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | non-AI | – | – | |||
AI-driven conversational data collection platform | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | RowFlow transforms traditional forms into natural conversations across various communication channels. Their approach eliminates rigid forms, allowing for intelligent interactions that feel like chatting with a helpful assistant. This innovation leads to higher completion rates and more meaningful d | B2B, Operations | 2 people Jack Bubes, Co-founder Alec Olesky, Co-founder | USD 500,000 | – | – | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-native | RowFlow's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG), focusing on transforming traditional forms into natural conversations across various communication channels such as SMS, WhatsApp, email, and Slack. Their key tactics include utilizing AI to enhance user engagement and improve da sources: 1 | – | |||
Y Combinator-backed AI governance platform | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Tecto builds AI governance software for regulated enterprises that need to discover, monitor, and control AI tools and agents. Its product suite includes AI Control Room, Mission Control for AI, and Tecto Detector, which detects, redacts, and replaces PII and SPI using pattern recognition and contex | B2B | 2 people Niosha Afsharikia, Co-founder & CEO Roksana Baleshzar, Co-founder & CTO | USD 500,000 | – | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Metal reactor tech for U.S. independence | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Duranium develops novel reactor technology for cleaner, cheaper production of critical metals in the United States. The company describes its process as modernized carbochlorination metallurgy that recycles byproducts into feedstock and creates a coproduct. Its site links the technology to titanium, | Industrials, Manufacturing, Robotics | – | USD 500,000 | – | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | non-AI | – | – | |||
AI for behavioral health approvals | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | Perspectives Health builds AI tools for behavioral health and addiction providers. Its Reclaim product audits charts, flags documentation gaps, and prepares utilization review packets before payer deadlines. Its Scribe product drafts ASAMs, biopsychosocials, progress notes, and other clinical docume | Healthcare, Healthcare IT | 2 people Eshan Dosani, Co-Founder Jesse Tabak, CTO / Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | Perspectives Health employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on automating administrative tasks for mental health professionals through their AI-driven clinical documentation tools. This approach allows clinicians to streamline their documentation processes, enhancing efficiency and ena sources: 1 | 2 people Eshan Dosani, Co-Founder Jesse Tabak, CTO / Co-Founder | ||||
Full-stack AI app builder for production apps | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Modelence is a full-stack AI app development platform that ships production-ready web apps from prompts. Its framework includes authentication, database, monitoring, and deployment features built into one production-oriented system. The company reports a seed round of US$500,000, 865 LinkedIn follow | B2B, Infrastructure | 2 people Aram Shatakhtsyan, Co-Founder & CEO Eduard Piliposyan, PhD, Co-Founder & CTO | USD 1,050,000 | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | Modelence employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy as its go-to-market approach. This is evident from their focus on enabling developers to build production-ready AI applications significantly faster, leveraging built-in features such as authentication, database management, and LLM connectivity. sources: 1 | – | |||||
AI tax prep for CPA firms | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | Magnetic is an agentic AI tax preparation platform for 1040 returns at CPA firms. It scans client documents, extracts fields, processes intake, handles messy multi-document cases, and writes directly into tax software. Every return is reviewed by a U.S.-based EA or CPA before delivery. | B2B, Productivity | 1 person Patrick Fay, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | Magnetic employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach. The company focuses on automating the tax preparation process for professionals, emphasizing user experience and efficiency. Key tactics include offering a demo of their AI-powered platform, which allows potential cus sources: 1 2 3 4 | 1 person Patrick Fay, Co-Founder | ||||
AI dispatch engine for trucking fleets | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Fleetline builds an AI dispatch tool for trucking and fleet planning teams. Its dispatch engine ingests load, driver, and ELD data, then simulates billions of planning scenarios to choose an assignment plan. The company says the product can improve revenue, utilization, and planning speed for fleet | B2B, Supply Chain, Logistics | – | USD 500,000 | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Planet-scale AI people search | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Clodo is an AI people discovery platform for sourcing, recruiting, and go-to-market teams. It searches live web data and proprietary datasets in natural language, then ranks and enriches matching profiles with verified contact details and signal context. The company reports 1.2 billion searchable pr | Real Estate, Construction, Housing | 3 people Sid Rajaram, Founder Arnav Verma, Founder Rithvik Chuppala, Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Open source agentic IDE for developers | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | stagewise builds an open source agentic IDE for software development workflows. It combines coding agents, app previews, and Git workflows, and supports models from multiple providers. The company says it is building the infrastructure layer for AI-native web development. | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Glenn Toews, Founder & CEO Julian Göttze, Co-founder & CTO | USD 500,000 | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | Stagewise employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy as its go-to-market approach. This strategy is evident in their emphasis on features that enhance user experience, such as real-time modifications and smart suggestions for improvements. By allowing users to visually build app frontends directly sources: 1 | 3 people Julian Götze, Co-Founder & CTO Nicklas Scharpff, Co-Creator, Maintainer Lara Mhethawi, Lara Mhethawi at Selbstständig | |||||
Remote excavator control for construction | United States | 1-10 | 2023 | Flywheel AI sells systems for remotely operating excavators on construction projects. The company says its software lets crews control multiple machines or sites and monitor operator performance. Its public materials frame the product around site safety, predictable costs, and using fewer operators. | Industrials, Manufacturing, Robotics | – | USD 500,000 | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Mobile app for coding on the go | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Vibe Code Go is a mobile application designed for professional coding. It allows software engineers to code from anywhere, integrating seamlessly with existing workflows. This innovation enables developers to work flexibly and efficiently, transforming the coding experience. | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | – | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Universal Positioning System for precise location tracking | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | Juxta specializes in a Universal Positioning System that enhances location accuracy across various applications. Their innovative approach integrates multiple data sources to provide real-time positioning solutions. This technology significantly improves operational efficiency for users in diverse s | B2B | 3 people John Ferrara, Founder and CEO Steve Liguori, CMO Jake Patton, Head of North American Sales | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 2 | AI-adjacent | – | 1 person Hasan Aybars Ari, Co-Founder and CTO | ||||
Natural-language AI agent builder | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Okibi is a natural-language platform for creating AI agents in minutes. The homepage highlights a template gallery and custom agent requests, with examples tied to Google Sheets, PostHog, Clearbit, and Veo3. The product appears aimed at users who want to assemble agents from prompts and prebuilt tem | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
3D vision AI for bulk inventory tracking | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | dScribe AI specializes in using autonomous drones and 3D vision technology to track bulk and stockpile inventory. Their approach offers precise measurements and real-time visibility, enabling businesses to make informed decisions. This technology transforms inventory management by providing clarity | B2B, Supply Chain, Logistics | 3 people Warren Wang, Co-Founder and CEO Cole Robertson, CTO and Co-Founder Jordan Mryyan, Co-Founder | USD 1,700,000 | – | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 2 people Warren Wang, Co-Founder Cole Robertson, CTO and Co-founder | ||||
Browser infrastructure for web agents and automations | – | – | – | Kernel is a platform that provides browser infrastructure for web agents to access the Internet in the cloud. Their unique approach allows for fast browser spin-up and session reuse, which is essential for automating web tasks. This capability significantly reduces the time spent on manual processes | B2B, Infrastructure | 2 people Ryan Field, CEO Bryan Johnson, Founder | USD 500,000 | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-adjacent | – | 1 person Catherine Jue, Co-Founder | |||||
AI affiliate manager for TikTok Shop brands | United States | 11-50 | 2024 | Reacher builds automation software for TikTok Shop brands that manage creator and affiliate programs at scale. Its product combines AI creator search, automated outreach, creator CRM, and analytics tools for affiliate operations. The company says it is a TikTok Shop partner, a Y Combinator-backed co | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | Andrew Miklas sources: 1 | AI-native | Reacher's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG), focusing on leveraging AI-powered tools to automate and scale creator relationships for TikTok Shop sellers. Key tactics include automated creator outreach and community campaigns, which streamline affiliate marketing and enhance sources: 1 | 2 people Jerry Qian, Co-Founder Bora Mutluoğlu, Co-Founder | ||||
Restaurant voice AI for phone orders | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Certus AI provides a restaurant voice AI agent that answers calls around the clock and takes orders, reservations, and catering requests. The system forwards calls to a dedicated number, speaks with customers, upsells add-ons, and injects completed tickets into restaurant POS and KDS systems. The we | B2B | 1 person Gurveer Singh, Co-founder & CEO | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Isaac Nichols, Co-Founder | ||||
AI motion designer for branded videos | Germany | 1-10 | 2025 | Hera is an AI motion design platform that generates motion graphics from text prompts. It produces product launch videos, explainers, infographics, social clips, and reusable brand motion systems with real-time preview and editable timing, colors, and effects. The company says exports support MP4, G | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Peter Tribelhorn, CEO and Co-founder Chia-Lun Wu, CTO and Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Browser infrastructure for AI agents | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Notte provides cloud browser infrastructure for AI agents and automation scripts that need real browser access. Its platform combines browser sessions, web agents, serverless functions, credential vaults, and agent identities for production workflows. The company says it is trusted by 100+ AI compan | B2B | 2 people Andrea Pinto, Founder & CEO Lucas Giordano, Co-Founder & CTO | USD 500,000 | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-native | Notte Labs employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy as part of their go-to-market approach. They offer a free plan aimed at indie developers, a Pro subscription for larger-scale users, and an Enterprise option for custom solutions. This tiered pricing model is designed to attract a wide range of sources: 1 | – | |||||
Privacy-first AI unified inbox | United States | 11-50 | 2024 | Pally is a privacy-first personal messaging agent that combines multiple inboxes into one AI unified inbox. It keeps chat content, relationship data, notes, tags, and on-device AI processing on the user’s Mac, while using a minimal backend for authentication, enrichment, analytics, billing, and host | B2B, Productivity | 2 people Haz Hubble, Co-Founder & CEO Wyatt Lansford, Co-Founder | USD 1,100,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | Pally's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). The company focuses on user engagement through its AI relationship management platform, which allows users to track contacts and their online activities, suggest introductions, and provide searchable notes. Their pricing model of $ sources: 1 | 1 person Wyatt Lansford, Co-Founder & CTO | ||||
AI referral management for primary care | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Locata automates referral workflows for primary care practices, including authorization submission, document transmission, patient communication, and consult note retrieval. The company describes its system as agentic automation built to close care gaps and reduce manual referral coordination. Its s | Healthcare, Healthcare IT | – | USD 500,000 | – | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | Locata's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). They focus on automating the referral process for healthcare providers, utilizing AI technology to streamline workflows and enhance user experience. Key tactics include offering automated referral forms, real-time tracking, and co sources: 1 2 3 4 | – | |||
Agentic business intelligence for company data | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Pleom is a business intelligence product that analyzes company data with AI-powered visualizations, workflows, machine learning, and analytics. The site says users can connect data sources in seconds and get automatic insights with zero learning curve. The homepage does not disclose customer names, | Consumer, Consumer Electronics | – | – | – | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI agents for drug sourcing and diligence | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Convexia builds AI agents and review workflows for sourcing and evaluating existing drug assets. Its platform combines automated sourcing, in silico modeling, commercial analysis, and human PhD review. The company says it is Stanford- and YC-backed and runs pilots with pharma, biotech, and investmen | Healthcare, Drug Discovery, Delivery | 2 people Ayaan Parikh, Co-Founder David Lozano, CEO | USD 500,000 | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | Convexia's go-to-market strategy combines both product-led growth (PLG) and sales-led approaches. They focus on licensing components of their AI-driven platform to pharmaceutical, biotech, and investment groups, which indicates a sales-led strategy. Additionally, their emphasis on using AI agents to sources: 1 | 1 person Ayaan Parikh, Co-Founder & CEO | ||||
AI agent for chip design | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | SigmanticAI offers an interactive AI agent for chip design and verification. The product is positioned as “Claude Code for Chip Design” and supports natural-language generation of VIP, IP, UVM, SVA, coverage, RAL, and RTL. The site says it uses a verification-first multi-agent workflow, a persistent | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Rohil Khare, Co-Founder & CEO Tamzid Rahman, Co-Founder & CTO | USD 500,000 | – | – | AI-native | Sigmantic's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). They focus on leveraging their AI-driven toolchain for rapid delivery of production-grade RTL and verification collateral, which allows them to attract customers through the capabilities of their product rather than relying on sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI notebook for notes, videos, quizzes | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Opennote is an AI learning workspace that combines note taking, chat, recording, and practice tools in one product. It generates notes from audio and YouTube links, creates videos and diagrams, and supports flashcards and quizzes for studying. The company announced a $850K pre-seed round, joined Y C | Education | 3 people Rishi Srihari, Co-Founder & CEO Abhi Arya, Co-Founder Vedant Vyas, Co-Founder | USD 850,000 | – | Andrew Miklas sources: 1 | AI-native | Opennote employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on enhancing user experience and engagement. Their go-to-market strategy includes key tactics such as allowing users to "start learning for free," which lowers the barrier to entry and encourages adoption. The platform features capabilit sources: 1 | 2 people Vedant Vyas, Co-Founder Rishi Srihari, Co-Founder | ||||
AI workforce management for hourly teams | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Sira describes itself as an AI HR manager for deskless and hourly teams. The company’s product covers time tracking, scheduling, payroll, communication, and HR automation, with a YC page calling it a Rippling-style platform for hourly workers. App Store and YC materials also describe features for at | B2B, Human Resources | – | – | – | – | Andrew Miklas sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||
GD&T analysis software for engineering drawings | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | F4 Industries builds software for analyzing GD&T on engineering drawing packages, including PDF and STEP files. It validates ASME Y14.5 syntax, performs tolerance stack-up analysis, and generates FAIR-ready exports without using AI for the analysis. The platform runs locally and supports ITAR and EA | Industrials | 2 people Paul Hyoungsang Shin, CEO & Co-Founder Aidan Cantu, CTO & Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | non-AI | – | – | ||||
Enterprise agent learning and evaluation layer | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Metis is an applied-research and product lab building proprietary intelligence for enterprise agents. Its first product, Insight, turns first-party data, tools, and environments into a continuously learning agent stack. The company says it trains agents through offline and online reinforcement learn | B2B, Infrastructure | – | – | – | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI-driven email marketing for personalized campaigns | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Eden specializes in leveraging customer data to create hyper-personalized email marketing campaigns. Their unique approach focuses on understanding shopper hesitations to enhance conversion rates. This results in tailored communications that effectively drive revenue for businesses. | B2B, Marketing | – | – | – | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 2 people Jason He, Co-Founder Alexander Talamonti, Founder & CEO | ||||
Voice AI agents for debt collection | Mexico | 1-10 | 2022 | Altur builds voice AI agents that run debt collection and banking sales call-center operations. The product handles outbound calls, negotiation, follow-up, and omnichannel outreach through phone, WhatsApp, and SMS. The site also states ISO 27001 certification, real-time monitoring, and audit logs fo | B2B | 2 people Luis Olave, Co-Founder & CEO Pedro Fernández, Co-Founder & CTO | USD 125,000 | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Luis Olave, Co-Founder & CEO | |||||
AI-native real estate services firm | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | PARES AI provides brokerage and property management services for real estate owners and investors. The company says it handles acquisition, management, and disposition through an AI-backed operating system that covers underwriting, marketing materials, distribution, asset management, and property ma | Real Estate | 1 person Zihao Wang, Co-founder | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | PARES employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach. The company focuses on providing an all-in-one AI-powered platform designed specifically for commercial real estate professionals, integrating various tools to streamline operations and enhance productivity. This strateg sources: 1 2 | – | ||||
AI claims auditing for health plans | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Avelis Health uses AI to audit medical claims, identify billing errors, and recover overpayments for health plans and TPAs. The company describes its service as payment integrity for self-funded plans and says it targets 2% to 7% annual plan-spend savings. It also says its system includes clinician | Healthcare, Healthcare IT | 2 people Angel Onuoha, Co-Founder, CEO Ahmad Shehu, Co-Founder, CTO | USD 500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 2 people Angel Onuoha, Co-Founder & CEO Ahmad Shehu, Co-Founder & CTO | ||||
Car wash platform for sales and memberships | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | Nautilus describes itself as a car wash platform built to support online sales, member management, and automated marketing. The site says it includes checkout, payment, reporting, support, and POS integration tools. It also markets Compass AI as a separate paid add-on for site-level operations. | B2B, Sales | 2 people Amayr Babar, Co-founder Ali Sareini, Co-founder, CTO | USD 500,000 | – | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-adjacent | Nautilus employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on integrating with existing car wash systems and providing automated marketing and membership management. Their approach is designed to enhance user experience and facilitate self-service capabilities, which helps car wash operators inc sources: 1 2 | – | ||||
Voice AI travel support and operations | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Humoniq provides voice and text conversational AI for travel support operations. Its homepage says the system combines AI with human travel agents and connects to NDC and GDS travel infrastructure. The company also offers BPO-style customer support across travel channels, including call, chat, email | B2B | 2 people Todd Sullivan, Founder and CEO Will Weber, Founder and CPO | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 2 | AI-native | Humoniq's go-to-market strategy combines both product-led growth (PLG) and sales-led approaches. The company focuses on enhancing customer support in the travel industry through its voice and text conversational AI, which integrates with human agents. This product-led aspect emphasizes improving ser sources: 1 | 1 person Todd Sullivan, CEO & Co-Founder | ||||
AI-driven investment monitoring platform for private equity | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Palace is a platform designed for private capital allocators to monitor and report on their investments. It differentiates itself by automating data collection and reporting processes, allowing users to gain insights from existing data. This approach enhances decision-making and operational efficien | Fintech, Asset Management | 1 person Gibrán Chapur, CEO | – | – | – | Diana Hu sources: 1 | AI-adjacent | Palace employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on automating data collection and reporting processes to enhance user experience. Their go-to-market strategy includes key tactics such as offering features like automated reminders and live updates, which streamline reporting and improve sources: 1 | – | |||
AI app and website builder for non-coders | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Floot is a chat-based platform that helps non-coders build and host websites and production apps. The product combines editing, hosting, backend, database, user management, automation, and SEO features in one workspace. The company is backed by Y Combinator and lists a $500,000 pre-seed round on Lin | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Yujian Yao, CEO & Co-Founder Edward Look, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Floot employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on ease of use for beginners and allowing users to start building apps for free without requiring a credit card. This approach is evident in their marketing tactics, which emphasize empowering entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into function sources: 1 | – | ||||
Dental supply comparison and ordering platform | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | ALARA is a platform for dental offices to compare supply prices across multiple distributors and place orders from one cart. The site says it covers more than 300,000 supplies and supports 13+ major dental distributors. It also states the service is free for independent dentists and SOC 2 compliant. | B2B | – | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | ALARA Dental employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on providing a free, AI-powered platform that simplifies dental supply procurement. Their approach is designed to eliminate vendor-hopping and manual tracking, emphasizing user experience and self-service capabilities. Key tactics in sources: 1 | – | ||||
Autonomous AI analysts for fraud teams | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Socratix AI builds AI-powered agents for fraud and risk teams. The site describes a command center that gathers evidence, identifies threats, and recommends actions across fraud, compliance, and verification workflows. A Super.com case study says the system scaled account reviews 20x and supported 2 | B2B, Operations | 2 people Riya Jagetia, Founder Satya Vasanth Reddy, Co-Founder & CTO | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Socratix employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on intelligent AI agents designed for fraud and risk teams. Their go-to-market strategy includes key tactics such as offering a "Request a demo" option, which encourages direct engagement with potential customers. This approach emphasize sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI customer support agents for e-commerce | Netherlands | 1-10 | 2024 | Minimal AI builds customer support agents that handle e-commerce tickets from start to finish. Its system connects to helpdesks and store, logistics, WMS, subscription, and custom API tools to take actions directly inside support workflows. The company says it is backed by Y Combinator and serves e- | B2B | 2 people Niek Hogenboom, Co-Founder and CEO Titus Ex, Co-Founder and CTO | – | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Minimal AI's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). The company specializes in advanced AI customer support agents designed for E-commerce businesses, allowing these agents to learn business processes and tone of voice quickly. This enables brands to automate up to 90% of their sources: 1 | – | ||||
Agentic AI for higher education campuses | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Risely AI builds agentic software for universities, with separate agents for advising, enrollment, and advancement. The platform ingests data from SIS, LMS, and CRM systems, and works inside existing daily tools without migration. Its site claims live deployments at leading universities, including a | Education | 3 people Shahryar Abbasi, CEO & Co-founder Danial Asif, CTO & Co-founder Sadia Saifuddin, CPO & Co-founder | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Risely AI employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on automating administrative tasks to enhance student support in higher education. Their go-to-market strategy includes key tactics such as offering early access and demo requests, which facilitate direct engagement with potential custo sources: 1 2 | – | ||||
Command center for coding agents | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Omnara is a software product for running coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex from multiple devices. The site says it supports desktop, web, mobile, and Apple Watch access, and keeps sessions active when a laptop goes offline. It emphasizes parallel agents, worktrees, and Git-based workflows | B2B | 1 person Kartik S., Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||||
AI video agency for business explainers | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Knowlify calls itself the AI video agency and offers two production paths for business teams. The self-serve platform turns documents, URLs, and other source files into narrated animated videos, while the studio service delivers custom videos in as little as 72 hours. The site positions the company | B2B | 4 people Ritam Rana, Co-Founder & CEO Ritvik Varada, Co-Founder & CTO Arjun Talati, Co-Founder Jonathan Maynard, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | – | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI-native E2E testing for mobile apps | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Autosana provides AI-powered end-to-end testing for mobile and web applications. It creates natural-language tests in seconds, requires no code, and uses self-healing behavior to adapt when interfaces change. The site says it supports iOS and Android apps built with any framework. | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | – | USD 500,000 | – | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Jason Steinberg, Co-Founder | ||||
AI voice assistant for email and calendar management | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | April is an AI voice executive assistant that manages emails and calendars hands-free. It uniquely processes communications using natural voice commands, allowing users to achieve inbox zero while multitasking. This capability transforms how busy professionals manage their time and productivity. | Consumer | – | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | April's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). The company focuses on busy professionals who require efficient email and calendar management. Their marketing approach emphasizes the product's capabilities, such as achieving "inbox zero" and managing schedules hands-free through sources: 1 2 | 2 people Akash Thakur, Co-Founder Neha Suresh, Co-Founder | ||||
Robotics and frontier hardware venture | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | IronGrid says it is building what is next for robotics and frontier hardware. The site also states the company is under restructuring. The public homepage does not provide product details, customer names, funding data, or evidence of market traction. | Fintech, Insurance | – | USD 500,000 | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI platform for automated invoice processing | Germany | 1-10 | 2025 | Finto is an intelligent AI platform designed for automated invoice processing and accounting for mid-sized companies. Its unique approach leverages self-learning AI agents to handle time-consuming tasks such as reading, verifying, coding, and posting incoming invoices in real-time. This automation s | B2B, Finance, Accounting | 3 people Jonas Morgner, Co-Founder & CEO Linus Boehm, Co-Founder & CTO Lorenz Neuner, Co-Founder & CPO | USD 500,000 | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Lorenz Neuner, Co-Founder & CPO | ||||
AI qualitative research with 48-hour reports | United Kingdom | 1-10 | 2022 | Motives runs AI-led qualitative research interviews with real consumers and returns reports within 24 to 48 hours. Its workflow uses an AI assistant to define the study, recruit participants, and generate a research plan, then an AI interviewer conducts video interviews in any language. The platform | B2B, Marketing | 2 people Sean Conley, Co-Founder & CEO Sam Stoll, Co-Founder & CTO | – | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Sam Stoll, Co-Founder & CTO | ||||
Models trained on raw video experience | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Relling specializes in developing advanced models that utilize raw video data for training. Their approach integrates multiple data modalities, including depth and audio, to enhance understanding of complex events. This innovation allows for more accurate predictions and actions in real-world scenar | B2B, Infrastructure | – | – | – | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||
Open-source AI notetaker prioritizing privacy | United States | 11-50 | 2023 | Hyprnote is an open-source AI notetaker designed for compliance and privacy. It operates entirely on users' devices, ensuring that no data leaves their control. This approach allows users to take and organize meeting notes securely and privately, transforming how meetings are documented and summariz | B2B, Productivity | – | USD 500,000 | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Hyprnote employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on user experience and features that drive adoption. Their marketing approach emphasizes the product's unique selling points, such as privacy and compliance, appealing to professionals in various companies. This strategy has been impleme sources: 1 | 3 people John Jeong, Co-Founder, CEO Yujong Lee, Co-Founder Sung Cho, Co-Founder | |||||
AI data analyst for biology labs | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | NovaFlow App provides AI-powered workflow tools for life science researchers who need to analyze biological data quickly. The site says it automates bioinformatics analysis, generates pipelines for validated workflows, and produces visual outputs from raw data in minutes. It currently positions Basi | Healthcare | 1 person Aman Agarwal, Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Novaflow employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on automating bioinformatics workflows for life science researchers. Their go-to-market approach emphasizes a self-service model, allowing users to initiate complex bioinformatics analyses through simple, conversational prompts. This str sources: 1 | – | ||||
Counter-UAS micro-missile defense systems | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Perseus Defense builds counter-UAS weapons for U.S. defense and homeland security customers. Its site describes portable missile batteries and guided micro-missile pods for defeating small drones. The company states its system can launch from UAVs, ground vehicles, boats, and other platforms, and it | Industrials, Drones | 2 people Dr. Jason Cornelius, Co-founder & CEO Steve Messinger, Co-founder & CTO | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-adjacent | Perseus Defense employs a sales-led go-to-market strategy focused on developing and marketing affordable micro-guided missile pods for countering drone threats. Their approach involves extensive engagement with end-users in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure their sources: 1 2 | – | ||||
AI agents for clinical trial oversight | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Phases deploys AI agents to oversee clinical trials, with a homepage headline describing automated clinical trial oversight and execution. The product monitors trial operations in real time, detects risks, and takes autonomous actions across connected systems. The site highlights clinical-trial work | Healthcare, Healthcare IT | 3 people James Wall, Co-founder & CEO Anton Zaliznyi, Co-founder & Chief AI Officer Jonathan van Wersch, Co-founder & CTO | – | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||
AI for insurance claims outcomes | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Solva builds AI software for insurance claims teams, with a primary emphasis on claim quality assurance and workflow automation. The system produces source-cited answers with audit trails, and the site highlights security and compliance controls for regulated claims processing. Solva says insurers u | Fintech, Insurance | – | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | Solva Technology employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach. This strategy focuses on seamless integration with existing claims systems and workflows, allowing insurance teams to automate claims processes efficiently. The company emphasizes product usability and custome sources: 1 | – | ||||
Mass-producible long-range drone submarines | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Albacore builds expeditionary drone submarines for military operators. The company says its systems are scalable, modular, persistent, and autonomous, with deployment from boats, piers, or beaches. Its Ghostfin platform is positioned for long-range undersea missions, including sensing, observation, | Government | 1 person Dante Vaisbort, Co-founder | USD 500,000 | – | – | non-AI | – | 1 person John Huddleston, Co-Founder | ||||
Personalized children’s storybooks with AI | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | GoRiff makes personalized children’s storybooks that place a child inside the story. The app lets users upload photos, choose story templates, and customize themes such as kindness and courage. App store listings identify the company as Riff Labs Inc., and the product has 1K+ Google Play downloads a | Consumer | 1 person Adith Reddi, Co-Founder & CEO | – | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | Riff's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG), focusing on making music production accessible and enjoyable for both beginners and experienced producers. Their marketing tactics include targeting aspiring musicians who find traditional music software cumbersome, emphasizing comm sources: 1 2 3 | 1 person Adith Reddi, Co-Founder & CEO | ||||
AI monitoring and optimization platform for agents | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Mohi specializes in testing and monitoring AI agents to enhance their performance. Their unique approach includes real-time analytics and auto-optimization features that improve agent behavior. This enables organizations to unlock the full potential of their AI systems and ensure reliable operations | B2B, Operations | – | USD 500,000 | – | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||
AI agents for automated search marketing solutions | United Kingdom | 1-10 | 2023 | Mimos AI specializes in automating search marketing operations through AI agents. Their approach focuses on large-scale automation, enabling firms to manage complex workflows efficiently. This results in improved visibility and conversion rates for clients in a competitive digital landscape. | B2B | 1 person Rohit Sirosh, Co-Founder & CEO at Mimos (YC S25) | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | Mimos AI employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on automating search marketing operations through AI agents. Their go-to-market strategy emphasizes the automation of complex workflows, which allows marketing teams in large firms and agencies managing multiple client accounts to improv sources: 1 | 1 person Rohit Sirosh, Co-Founder & CEO at Mimos (YC S25) | ||||
Applied AI lab for context engineering | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Nozomio Labs describes itself as a product lab solving context in AI. It makes Nia and AgentSearch, and its site positions the company around applied AI, context engineering, AI agents, coding agents, and personal AI. The homepage does not show customer names, funding details, certifications, or par | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 1 person Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, Founder & CEO | USD 1,340,000 | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | Nozomio Labs employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on their product Nia, which enhances coding agents by providing additional context. This approach emphasizes the product's capabilities to attract users, allowing developers to access extensive contextual knowledge that transforms th sources: 1 2 3 | 1 person Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, Founder & CEO | ||||
Prompt-to-app workflows with owned code | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | VibeFlow is an AI automation platform that turns prompts into visual, exportable workflows, including a frontend, a database, and code users own. The company also presents itself as a Lovable and n8n-style system for generating full-stack web apps from prompts. Its open-source core, VibeFigma, conve | B2B | 2 people Elia Saquand, Co-founder Alessia Paccagnella, Co-founder | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI agents for B2B order intake | Germany | 1-10 | 2025 | Comena builds AI agents that automate B2B order and quote intake from email inboxes into ERP systems. The product reads PDFs, attachments, and handwritten notes, then matches items and remaps large tender or Excel lists. The company targets technical wholesalers and manufacturers handling repetitive | B2B, Supply Chain, Logistics | 2 people Jiehua Wu, Founder and CEO Almo Sutedjo, Co-founder | USD 500,000 | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Hardware certification software for compliance | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Normal Factory helps hardware teams handle pre-compliance and certification workflows for products entering regulated markets. The site says it reduces compliance work by 50x and coordinates testing through accredited partner labs. It covers certification paths such as FCC, ISED, CE, and ASTM. | Industrials | – | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | non-AI | – | – | ||||
Human-layer security testing platform | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | GhostEye sells human-layer security testing that simulates how attackers exploit people, vendors, and help desks. The platform uses live threat intelligence, automated reconnaissance, and multichannel attack simulations across email, SMS, voice, and chat. Its founders describe the company as built b | B2B, Security | – | USD 500,000 | – | Andrew Miklas sources: 1 | AI-native | GhostEye employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on continuous social intelligence monitoring and dynamic attack scenario generation to reach customers. Their marketing and sales approaches emphasize real-time monitoring of employee profiles and ongoing human testing to identify vulner sources: 1 2 3 | – | ||||
Agentic commerce API for product discovery | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Channel3 provides an API that organizes product data for AI agents, letting them search, recommend, and purchase products. The company positions its system as agentic commerce infrastructure for both developers and brands, with separate offerings for building shopping experiences and distributing ca | B2B, Retail | 1 person Alexander Schiff, Co-Founder, CEO | USD 500,000 | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | – | – | – | |||||
Local-first open-source apps with shared memory | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Epicenter builds an ecosystem of open-source, local-first applications that share one memory store. The company describes its core model as plain text and SQLite stored locally, synced across devices, with the server acting only as a relay. Its site and GitHub repo show products for transcription an | Consumer | – | USD 500,000 | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-adjacent | Epicenter's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). This approach emphasizes user control over data and encourages community engagement through platforms like Discord and GitHub. Their marketing tactics include fostering a community around their open-source applications, allowin sources: 1 2 3 | – | ||||
AI-driven sales coaching for in-person retail | – | – | 2025 | Candytrail specializes in enhancing in-person retail sales through AI-powered coaching tools. Their unique approach captures and analyzes sales conversations to provide actionable insights for improvement. This enables sales teams to close more deals efficiently and effectively. | B2B, Sales | 2 people Ayush Mahna, Co-Founder Aditya Mahna, Co-Founder | – | – | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||
Developer tools for embedded software engineers | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Embedder builds developer tools specifically for embedded software engineers. Their approach focuses on enhancing productivity and efficiency in embedded systems development. This enables engineers to streamline their workflows and improve project outcomes. | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Ethan Gibbs, CEO Bob Wei, CTO | USD 550,000 | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | Embedder's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). They focus on enhancing user experience by offering a free trial for individual developers and hobbyists, which allows users to engage with their developer tools directly in their terminal without requiring changes to their inte sources: 1 | – | |||||
AI workers for car dealerships | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Flai builds an AI communications platform for car dealerships. It handles calls, SMS, and email to answer customers, qualify leads, and book appointments. The company says it is SOC 2 Type II compliant and lists dealer customers including Freeman Toyota and Glendale Infiniti. | Industrials, Automotive | 3 people Ari Polakof, CEO / Co-Founder Juan Francisco Alzugaray, COO / Co-Founder Alen Polakof, CTO / Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | – | AI-native | Flai employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach, focusing on enhancing customer engagement and lead conversion for car dealerships through its AI solutions. The company emphasizes automated customer interactions, ensuring 24/7 availability to capture leads effectively. sources: 1 | 2 people Alen Polakof, Co-Founder Juan Francisco Alzugaray, Co-Founder | ||||
AI chemical synthesis platform | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | b12 labs builds an AI-powered chemical synthesis platform that designs, optimizes, and runs reactions. Its tools cover route planning, reaction optimization, lab automation, and data analysis for pharma and biotech research. The company says it was launched from Y Combinator and built by researchers | Healthcare, Drug Discovery, Delivery | – | – | – | – | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI research lab scaling human intent | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Fulcrum presents itself as a research-focused company scaling human intent in software. Its public website does not describe a specific commercial product, customer segment, or industry use case. The visible presence of a blog, careers page, GitHub organization, and X account suggests an early-stage | B2B, Analytics | – | – | – | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||
AI orchestration layer for modern teams | United States | 201-500 | 2025 | Trace is a workflow automation platform that routes work between AI agents and people across company operations. It builds a company knowledge graph from existing tools, then uses that context to assign, pause, review, and reroute tasks with audit trails. The company says more than 30 companies alre | B2B, Productivity | 3 people Mike Gonzalez, CEO, Co-Founder Martin Destagnol, CTO, Co-Founder Joanna Auburn, CPO, Co-Founder | – | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | Trace employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach. This strategy is characterized by allowing users to "Start for free," enabling them to experience the product's capabilities without initial investment. Key tactics include the use of community-curated templates for mult sources: 1 2 3 4 | – | ||||
AI charge cards for real estate accounting | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | IronLedger provides AI-enabled corporate cards and invoice processing for real estate operators. The product collects, codes, and allocates expenses and receipts in real time, while integrating with property management and accounting systems already in use. The company says it serves property manage | Real Estate, Construction, Housing | – | USD 1,000,000 | – | Andrew Miklas sources: 1 | AI-native | IronLedger.ai employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on automating property accounting through AI technology. Their key tactics include real-time expense tracking and coding, which significantly reduces manual workload for property managers, allowing them to close their books faster. sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI workforce for enterprise work | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Doe is an AI platform for work that provides company-native agents for enterprise teams. Its system combines knowledge, action, inference, and memory layers, plus governance controls such as RBAC, scoped credentials, and audit receipts. The product is positioned for recurring business workflows acro | B2B, Operations | – | – | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | Doe Labs employs a hybrid go-to-market strategy that leans towards product-led growth (PLG) while incorporating sales-led tactics. The company focuses on automation and integration with existing tools, which aligns with a PLG approach, allowing users to experience the product's value directly. Howev sources: 1 | – | ||||
Simulative biology platform for advanced research | – | 1-10 | 2024 | Louiza Labs specializes in simulative biology, leveraging advanced AI technologies. Their unique approach integrates biological data with simulation models to enhance research capabilities. This innovation enables researchers to conduct experiments virtually, significantly accelerating the pace of d | Healthcare | 2 people Larissa Tyagi, Co-Founder and CEO Georgia Witchel, Chief Technology Officer | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | Louiza Labs employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on their innovative technology to attract customers. Their approach emphasizes the ability to accurately simulate human biology and provides a platform that allows for testing devices on digital twins. This reliance on the product's c sources: 1 2 | 1 person Larissa Tyagi, CEO & Co-Founder | ||||
Governance infrastructure for clinical AI | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Parachute provides governance infrastructure for hospitals evaluating, deploying, and monitoring clinical AI systems. The company says its workflow covers vendor selection, approval, monitoring, and audit documentation for clinical AI deployments. The site also states Parachute is backed by Y Combin | Healthcare, Healthcare IT | 1 person Elmo Taddeo, CEO and Co-Owner | – | – | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-native | Parachute's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). The company focuses on simplifying the evaluation and deployment of clinical AI systems, emphasizing features that allow for rapid integration into existing workflows. Key tactics include automating tracking to provide early wa sources: 1 2 3 4 | – | ||||
AI-native continuous penetration testing services | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Riverbank Security specializes in continuous penetration testing and offensive security. Their approach combines autonomous AI with expert red team supervision to identify real risks. This methodology enables organizations to secure their systems effectively and efficiently against potential threats | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | – | – | – | ||||
AI vetting engine for mass tort firms | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Kalinda provides an AI product for mass tort law firms that vets claims, identifies missing case data, and reviews medical records. It automates outbound calls, texts, voicemails, and follow-ups, then syncs collected information back into case management systems. The company says its team includes f | B2B, Legal | 2 people Sayan Bhatia, Founder Sohil Bhatia, Founder | – | – | Andrew Miklas sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Tiny AI models for edge devices | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Stellon Labs describes itself as an AI research lab building powerful tiny models for edge applications. Its homepage positions the company as Frontier AI for Minimal Hardware, and its openings page says the team works on edge AI optimization for resource-constrained devices. Public website content | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Rohan Joshi, Founder Divam Gupta, Co-founder | – | – | Diana Hu sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI firmware engineering for hardware teams | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | BootLoop builds AI tools for firmware development, testing, debugging, and security analysis on real hardware. The platform covers pre-silicon work, hardware-in-the-loop validation, and firmware porting across embedded systems. It targets teams shipping hardware in regulated and complex industries, | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Noah Pacik-Nelson, Co-Founder and CEO Chris Markus, Co-Founder and CTO | USD 500,000 | – | Diana Hu sources: 1 2 | AI-native | BootLoop employs a hybrid go-to-market strategy that combines both product-led growth (PLG) and sales-led approaches. The company focuses on rapid onboarding for enterprise customers through a "custom firmware design service" and "firmware validated by human experts," which indicates a sales-led str sources: 1 | – | ||||
Implantable cattle monitoring microchips | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Nexa builds implantable microchips and herd management software for cattle operations. The system uses a subcutaneous chip and centralized platform to monitor health, breeding, location, and behavior. The site says it targets beef and dairy farms and begins with the cattle population in America. | Industrials, Agriculture | 5 people Zarif Azher, Co-Founder and CEO Alvin Zhang, Co-Founder and CTO Kenneth Chan, Co-Founder and CFO Samuel Xie, Co-Founder and CPO Kyle Berkson, COO | – | – | Diana Hu sources: 1 | AI-native | Nexa's go-to-market strategy focuses on leveraging their innovative implantable microchips for cattle health monitoring, which allows farmers to detect diseases early and optimize breeding management. Key tactics include offering a free pilot program for dairy operations, which provides a low-risk o sources: 1 2 3 | – | ||||
AI agents for computer automation | – | 1-10 | 2025 | Induction Labs builds advanced foundation models that operate on computers and the real world. Their unique approach focuses on learning from human behavior data at scale, utilizing the largest dataset of computer interactions ever collected. This enables their models to execute tasks autonomously w | B2B, Productivity | 2 people Jonathan Li, CEO & Co-founder Jeffrey Li, Cofounder | CTO | – | – | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-native | Induction Labs employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach. The company focuses on developing advanced foundation models that are designed to be widely used, creating a feedback loop that enhances their research and product development. Their philosophy emphasizes that " sources: 1 2 | – | ||||
AI post-production workflow for editors | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Cocreate is a professional video production workflow tool for post-production teams. It reads slates, syncs footage, groups multi-camera setups, transcribes dialogue, and builds project structures from camera card to edit. The company says assistant editors, DITs, editors, post supervisors, UPMs, cr | Consumer, Content | 3 people Nicki Farag, Chief Executive Officer Tamish Pulappadi, Co-founder Dan Roe, CPO/CTO | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Sid Yu, Co-Founder | ||||
AI designed for enhanced productivity and task automation | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Slashy AI specializes in connecting various applications to automate tasks and improve productivity. Their unique approach integrates multiple tools seamlessly, allowing users to streamline workflows effectively. This transformation enables individuals and organizations to work more efficiently and | B2B, Productivity | 3 people Harsha Gaddipati, Co-Founder and COO Pranjali Awasthi, Founder Dhruv Roongta, Co-Founder | – | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Operating system for healthcare AI agents | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Wedge builds tailored AI systems for healthcare organizations, including hospitals, health plans, and multi-physician groups. The site presents six named agents for payments, records retrieval, governance, reception, claims, and medical coding, alongside development, integration, maintenance, and on | Healthcare | – | USD 500,000 | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | Wedge's go-to-market strategy is primarily sales-led. They emphasize direct engagement with potential customers through options like "Talk To Sales" and "Book a Demo," indicating a focus on personalized sales interactions. Their approach includes comprehensive audits and onsite engineers for customi sources: 1 2 3 | – | ||||
AI-powered EMS documentation and compliance solution | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | CareSwift specializes in AI-driven documentation solutions for emergency medical services. Their technology streamlines the completion of electronic patient care reports, ensuring compliance and accuracy. This approach significantly reduces documentation time and enhances revenue recovery for EMS pr | Healthcare | 3 people Brian Weigand, Co-Founder and CEO Jonathan Zero, CTO John Paul Mussalli, Co-Founder and COO | USD 500,000 | Eric Levine sources: 1 | AI-native | CareSwift employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on AI-driven documentation solutions for emergency medical services (EMS). Their approach emphasizes user experience and efficiency, allowing medics to complete electronic patient care reports significantly faster. The platform enables sources: 1 | – | |||||
Secure access platform for application delivery | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Fossorial specializes in a secure access platform that simplifies application exposure and access control. Their unique approach integrates networking and security to effortlessly connect services with users, regardless of hosting location. This enables organizations to deploy applications without t | B2B, Infrastructure | – | – | Andrew Miklas sources: 1 | non-AI | Fossorial employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy as part of its go-to-market approach. This is evident from their emphasis on user experience, highlighted by phrases such as "No deployment hassle" and "No credit card required," which suggest a focus on making the platform easily accessible to u sources: 1 | – | |||||
AI-powered media asset management platform | – | 1-10 | – | Kestroll is an AI-powered media asset management platform that automates the organization and retrieval of media assets. Its unique approach leverages AI for automatic tagging, logging, and natural language search capabilities. This transformation allows users to efficiently manage and utilize their | B2B, Operations | – | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Kestroll's go-to-market strategy focuses on targeting media production companies and creative teams that require efficient asset management. Their key tactics include leveraging AI for automatic tagging and natural language search capabilities, which enhance productivity and collaboration. The compa sources: 1 2 | – | ||||
Frontier AI for actuaries | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Tesora builds AI tools for actuaries that cover loss modeling, trends, on-leveling, market research, and pricing work. Its Tesora Workbench provides a fully reproducible audit trail, provenance on every cell, and ASOP-aware documentation for regulated actuarial workflows. The site presents Insight a | B2B, Supply Chain, Logistics | 2 people Vivek Rao, Founder & CEO Federico Reyes Gómez, Co-founder & CTO | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 2 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI-powered robotics solutions for data centers | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | DeepAware AI specializes in innovative robotics solutions for next-generation AI data centers. Their approach integrates AI-driven automation and real-time monitoring to enhance operational efficiency and security. This enables significant energy savings and improved sustainability for data center o | B2B, Infrastructure | – | USD 500,000 | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | DeepAware AI employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach. The company focuses on innovative solutions such as AI-powered security and stability monitoring, as well as reinforcement learning scheduling for GPU workloads. Their marketing tactics include offering compliment sources: 1 2 3 4 | – | ||||
AI-powered workflow automation platform with natural language interface | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Sidekick is an AI-powered workflow automation platform that allows users to build complex automations using natural language. Its unique approach eliminates the need for coding, enabling users to create workflows quickly and intuitively. This capability transforms how individuals and teams automate | B2B, Operations | 2 people Michael Martin, Co-Founder and CEO Dmitry Pushkarev, Co-Founder and CEO | – | – | Andrew Miklas sources: 1 | AI-native | Sidekick's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG), focusing on simplifying workflow automation through an AI-driven chat interface. This approach allows users to create automations without coding, making it accessible for non-technical users. Key tactics include offering ready-t sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI-driven software maintenance for developers | United States | 1001-5000 | 2003 | Keystone AI specializes in autonomous software maintenance, integrating AI to understand and manage codebases. Their approach focuses on providing context-aware solutions that enhance engineering productivity. This transformation allows developers to focus on design rather than routine maintenance t | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | – | – | – | – | Diana Hu sources: 1 2 | AI-native | Keystone AI employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach. The company focuses on automating software maintenance through its AI-powered platform, which integrates seamlessly with tools like GitHub and Sentry. This allows software development teams to streamline issue mana sources: 1 2 | 1 person Pablo Hansen, Founder at Keystone (YC S25) | |||
Efficient edge AI models for devices | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | DeepGrove builds efficient AI models for deployment on devices and edge systems. Its homepage highlights Bonsai, a 0.5B-parameter ternary-weight language model that reaches competitive commonsense reasoning while using a fraction of the training data. The company positions its work around frontier i | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | – | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||
AI legal agents for law firms | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Skope builds AI legal workflows for law firms, covering research, drafting, document review, and matter management. Its products run in a browser, Microsoft Word, and email, with cited legal research and tracked edits. The company says it is backed by Y Combinator and provides isolated infrastructur | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Skope's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). They emphasize quick integration with their APIs, allowing customers to set up billing in minutes without extensive effort. This approach is designed to attract AI companies by providing flexible pricing models, including subscript sources: 1 | 2 people Ben Smith, Co-Founder & CEO Connor Park, Co-Founder, CTO | ||||
Visual intelligence without labeled data | Canada | 1-10 | 2025 | OnDeck is a visual intelligence company that analyzes video and other footage without training a model or using labeled data. Its Perception-0 product uses recursive self-improving mechanisms and visual analysis primitives to identify objects, behaviors, and events across long-form footage. The comp | B2B, Analytics | – | USD 40,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | OnDeck AI employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy in its go-to-market approach. This is evident from their focus on enabling users to "instantly find any object, event or behaviour - without any training data," which highlights the ease of use and immediate value of their technology. Their marke sources: 1 | – | ||||
Unified zero-trust authorization for AI agents | Estonia | – | 2021 | Alter specializes in providing secure, controlled access for AI agents to tools, LLMs, and data. Their approach centralizes authentication and authorization, ensuring compliance and preventing data leaks. This enables organizations to transform outdated processes into intelligent workflows while mai | B2B, Security | 1 person Anne Bradley, Chief Product Officer | – | – | – | – | AI-native | – | – | |||
AI-native ad network for conversations | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Imprezia builds monetization infrastructure for AI products and calls itself the Intent Exchange for AI. Its SDK adds ads to chatbots, agents, and copilots, with intent matching in under 100 milliseconds. Y Combinator lists the company as a Summer 2025 startup. | B2B, Infrastructure | – | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
OpenAI-compatible inference on idle GPUs | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Lilac provides an OpenAI-compatible inference API that routes requests to idle enterprise GPUs already powered on. The company says its system delivers frontier-speed inference at lower cost, and it offers a drop-in SDK replacement. Lilac also lets GPU owners monetize spare capacity through its prov | B2B | – | – | – | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-adjacent | Lilac's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). The company operates a marketplace that connects users with idle GPUs from cloud providers, allowing startups and researchers to access these resources at significant savings, up to 90%. This model is designed to streamline the pro sources: 1 2 | – | |||
AI-native ticket triage and management system | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Janet AI is an intelligent ticket management system designed for enterprise environments. It automates ticket triage, de-duplication, and relationship detection, enhancing workflow efficiency. This approach allows organizations to manage large volumes of tickets effectively, transforming their opera | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | Janet AI employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on automating ticket management for Jira users. Their go-to-market strategy emphasizes self-service features such as automated ticket de-duplication, relationship detection, and intelligent prioritization, which enhance workflow efficien sources: 1 | – | ||||
Self-learning Windows computer-use agent | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Cyberdesk builds a computer-use agent for Windows that automates desktop workflows across legacy software, including EHRs and ERPs. The company says its Cyberdriver runtime supports real Windows machines, workflow creation in plain English, and API-triggered runs with code SDKs. Its site and Y Combi | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | – | USD 500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 2 | AI-native | Cyberdesk employs a product-led growth (PLG) strategy, focusing on user experience and self-service. Their go-to-market tactics include emphasizing ease of use in their automation solutions, allowing users to create workflows in plain English, and offering demo calls to facilitate onboarding. This a sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI voice technology for commercial loan brokerage | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Qualify.bot automates the commercial loan brokerage workflow using AI voice technology. This approach significantly reduces manual work by 80% while ensuring high deal quality. The transformation enables brokers to focus on strategic tasks rather than administrative burdens. | B2B, Finance, Accounting | 2 people Rohan Datta, Co-Founder & CTO Yash Goenka, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
High-quality audio datasets for Voice AI | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Panels provides high-quality audio datasets for training and evaluating speech and audio models. Its catalog includes speaker-separated multilingual audio, single-speaker scripted audio, and turn-taking evaluation data for real-world human-agent scenarios. The company says it works with frontier lab | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | – | – | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI that optimizes performance at hardware speed | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Herdora specializes in providing visibility and control over AI performance across infrastructure. Their unique approach combines automated GPU profiling and intelligent performance monitoring to deliver actionable insights. This enables engineering teams to maximize performance while maintaining ow | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Emilio Andere, Co-founder Steven Arellano, Co-founder | USD 500,000 | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Emilio Andere, Co-Founder | |||||
AI-driven communication solutions for businesses. | – | 1-10 | 2025 | Nuntius specializes in AI-driven communication solutions that enhance business interactions. Their unique approach integrates advanced technology to streamline communication processes. This enables organizations to improve efficiency and engagement with their stakeholders. | B2B, Infrastructure | 2 people Daniel Rupawalla, CEO Abhijay Rana, Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Abhijay Rana, Founder | ||||
AI GTM workflows for sales teams | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Orange Slice builds AI tools for go-to-market teams that need prospecting, enrichment, and workflow automation. The product includes chat-based research, CRM updates, and reusable templates for common sales and RevOps tasks. The company says 5,000 plus sales and RevOps teams use it and that it raise | B2B, Sales | 2 people Kishan Sripada, Co-Founder, CTO Vihaar Nandigala, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | Orange Slice's go-to-market strategy focuses on leveraging AI agents to identify companies that are actively seeking solutions, allowing for targeted engagement with potential customers. Their key tactics include analyzing online signals and firmographic data to pinpoint high-intent prospects. They sources: 1 2 | 2 people Vihaar Nandigala, Co-Founder Kishan Sripada, Co-Founder, CTO | ||||
AI geospatial intelligence for maps | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Monarcha builds AI software that georeferences scanned maps and extracts spatial data from documents. Its system processes geological, topographic, and legacy maps, then outputs structured geospatial files for GIS workflows. The company says its product supports on-premise deployment, custom models, | B2B | 2 people James Spokes, Co-Founder & CEO Everett Lee, Co-Founder & CTO | USD 500,000 | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person James Spokes, Co-Founder & CEO | ||||
Crowdsourced AI design benchmark | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Design Arena is a subjective framework for evaluating AI design capabilities through community voting and pairwise comparisons. The site benchmarks outputs across website, game, 3D, UI, and media generation categories, then ranks models with Bradley-Terry scoring. It describes itself as the largest | Consumer | – | – | – | – | – | AI-native | – | – | |||
AI-powered voice solution for local government | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | EffiGov specializes in AI-driven voice technology tailored for local government services. Their unique approach automates call handling and service requests, allowing staff to focus on critical tasks. This innovation enhances service delivery and responsiveness to residents' needs. | Government | 2 people Aubteen Pour-Biazar, CEO Aden Clemente, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | EffiGov's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). They focus on engaging potential customers directly through product demonstrations and trial experiences. Their website encourages users to "Experience our AI voice agent firsthand" and offers a "Book a Demo" option, which highli sources: 1 | 2 people Aubteen Pour-Biazar, Co-Founder & CEO Aden Clemente, Co-Founder & CTO | ||||
AI-driven app development on mobile devices | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Bitrig specializes in enabling users to build mobile applications directly from their phones. Their unique approach leverages AI to simplify the app development process, eliminating the need for programming knowledge. This empowers users to transform their ideas into functional apps quickly and effi | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Kyle Macomber, Co-founder & CEO Jacob Xiao, Co-founder | – | – | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Bitrig's go-to-market strategy focuses on simplicity and accessibility in mobile app development, targeting non-technical users who wish to create apps without programming knowledge. Their key tactics include leveraging AI to facilitate app creation through conversational interfaces, allowing users sources: 1 | – | |||
AI native billing platform for complex pricing | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Lark is an AI native billing platform that streamlines billing operations using AI agents. Their approach allows for the definition of complex pricing models and easy rollout of pricing changes. This capability transforms the billing experience for customers and enhances operational efficiency. | B2B, Operations | – | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Physics-based CAD optimization models | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Topological develops physics-based foundation models for CAD optimization. Its first model, UToP-v1, targets topology optimization with reported less than 5% compliance error and 1930x speed improvement over current methods. The company says it helps hardware teams iterate at software-like speed whi | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | – | – | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
First agentic DevOps engineer for operations | United States | 201-500 | 2019 | datafruit builds the first agentic DevOps engineer to eliminate operational friction. It connects to various sources to learn a company's context and executes tasks across the tech stack. This approach allows organizations to build faster and more efficiently by providing observable execution and pl | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 1 person Venkat Arun, Co-founder | USD 125,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 3 people Venkat Arun, Co-Founder Abhiram Chennupati, Co-Founder Tom Jeong, Co-Founder | ||||
Security controls for AI browser agents | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | ContextFort provides runtime security for AI agents running on endpoints and browsers. The company intercepts agent commands before execution, inspects shell activity, and adds browser-session visibility and policy controls through a Chrome extension. Its public materials say it is backed by Y Combi | Real Estate, Construction | 1 person Harshvardhan Agarwal, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | ContextFort's go-to-market strategy focuses on automating the review of architectural drawings for construction contractors. Their key tactics include automatically identifying issues within drawings and generating Requests for Information (RFIs) based on specifications, which streamlines the review sources: 1 2 | – | ||||
AI-driven evaluation platform for agent improvement | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | ZeroEval specializes in enhancing AI agents through real-time evaluation and optimization. Their unique approach involves using calibrated LLM judges that learn from production data, enabling continuous improvement. This results in smarter AI agents that adapt and perform better over time. | B2B | 2 people Sebastian Crossa, Co-Founder Jonathan Chávez, Co-Founder | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | ZeroEval's go-to-market strategy focuses on enhancing AI agents through real-time evaluation and optimization. They utilize a platform that provides instant insights and automatic instrumentation, allowing AI development teams to improve their agents rapidly. Key tactics include offering product dem sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 | – | |||||
Physical AI robots for fulfillment workflows | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Verne Robotics builds mobile, dual-arm robots for warehouse and laboratory physical work. The company describes its system as Physical AI and says its robots are useful from day one. Its public materials emphasize fulfillment, packaging, reverse logistics, and cold-chain packaging applications. | Industrials, Manufacturing, Robotics | – | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI-powered pharmacy assistant for operational efficiency | – | 201-500 | 2025 | Pharmie AI specializes in automating pharmacy operations through intelligent technology. Their unique AI voice caller significantly reduces staff workload and enhances patient engagement. This transformation leads to improved efficiency and patient satisfaction in pharmacy management. | Healthcare, Healthcare IT | 2 people Aniruddh Sriram, Co-Founder & CTO Neer J., Co-Founder & CEO | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 2 | AI-native | – | 2 people Aniruddh Sriram, Co-Founder & CTO Neer J., Co-Founder & CEO | ||||
Human audio datasets for voice AI | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Liva AI supplies human audio datasets to research teams building voice models. The company offers catalog access, sample requests, licensing, and custom data collection on pre-agreed timelines. Its site states it has 60 plus datasets across more than 20 languages, with emotion coverage. | B2B | – | – | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | Liva AI's go-to-market strategy is primarily product-led growth (PLG). They focus on engaging users by inviting them to contribute their voice or video, which allows them to earn royalties. This approach emphasizes community involvement and user engagement, aligning with their goal of building a hig sources: 1 2 3 | – | ||||
Message API for AI applications with privacy controls | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Pond is a message API designed for AI applications that connects to user data while ensuring privacy controls. Its unique approach focuses on filtering important messages and automating responses, which saves users significant time. This transformation allows individuals and teams to manage their co | B2B, Productivity | 2 people Feng "Bill" Shi, CEO Dylan Zhang, Co-founder | USD 7,500,000 | – | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | Pond's go-to-market strategy focuses on targeting both individuals and teams seeking efficient message management solutions. They offer a free plan for individuals and a customizable plan for businesses, which allows them to cater to a diverse customer base. Key tactics include features such as auto sources: 1 | – | |||
AI agents for autonomous bug detection | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Ghostship specializes in using AI agents to identify bugs before they reach users. Their unique approach involves autonomous testing integrated with GitHub, allowing for rapid release cycles without compromising user experience. This capability enables companies to ship software confidently and at a | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 1 person Jesse Choe, CEO | USD 500,000 | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | Ghostship's go-to-market strategy focuses on leveraging AI agents for autonomous bug detection, targeting software development teams in tech startups. Key tactics include integrating with GitHub for seamless testing, allowing users to identify bugs by entering a URL and describing a user journey. Th sources: 1 2 3 | – | ||||
Fast, affordable global payroll and EOR platform | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Shor is a global Employer of Record and payroll platform designed for high-growth remote companies. Their approach emphasizes speed and affordability, allowing businesses to hire and manage global employees and contractors efficiently. This enables companies to expand their teams without the complex | Fintech, Payments | – | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 2 | AI-native | Shor's go-to-market strategy focuses on speed and affordability, specifically targeting high-growth remote companies. They employ a transparent pricing model with no hidden fees, charging $99 per employee and $19 per contractor, which is competitive compared to traditional Employer of Record (EOR) s sources: 1 2 | – | |||||
AI-powered content creation for audio and video | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | Golpo specializes in transforming documents and topics into customizable conversational audio and explainer videos. Their unique approach integrates with various platforms, streamlining workflows and enhancing communication. This capability significantly reduces time spent on information processing, | B2B, Productivity | 1 person Shraman Kar, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | Golpo's go-to-market strategy focuses on integrating its AI-powered content creation tools with platforms like Box, SharePoint, and Zoom, which streamlines workflows for users in healthcare and education sectors. Their key tactics include targeting specific use cases such as automated team updates a sources: 1 2 3 4 | 2 people Shreyas Kar, Co-Founder Shraman Kar, Co-Founder | ||||
Open-source dev tool for AI coding and task management | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Async is an open-source development tool that integrates AI coding with task management and code review. Its unique approach emphasizes structured thinking and critical questioning, rather than convenience. This enables engineers to focus on important tasks while delegating tedious work to the tool. | B2B, Productivity | 1 person Mikkel Kim, Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI freight brokerage for carrier sourcing | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Lanesurf provides AI software for freight brokers that contacts carriers by phone, email, and text. The product handles load booking, carrier vetting, rate negotiation, and shipment tracking until delivery. It reports SOC 2 Type II status in review and supports integrations with modern TMS, load boa | B2B | 2 people Pratham Bansal, Co-Founder Sarthak Singh Chauhan, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 2 | AI-native | Lanesurf's go-to-market strategy focuses on leveraging AI technology to enhance operational efficiency for freight brokers. Key tactics include enabling simultaneous communication with over 100 carriers, which allows for rapid carrier vetting and negotiation. Their approach emphasizes compliance and sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI investment analyst for informed decision-making | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Gaus specializes in providing AI-driven investment analysis. Their unique algorithms analyze market trends and data to deliver actionable insights. This approach empowers investors to make informed decisions and optimize their portfolios effectively. | Fintech, Consumer Finance | 2 people Bruno Koba, CEO Daniel Tulha Hochstetler, CTO | – | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
AI RNA models for precision oncology | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Blank Bio builds AI foundation models for RNA as an applied research lab. The company applies these models to precision oncology, including disease progression modeling and therapy response prediction. It says pharma teams use its system to identify trial candidates, study resistance mechanisms, and | Healthcare, Therapeutics | 3 people Jonathan Hsu, CEO, Co-Founder Philip Fradkin, Co-Founder Ruian Shi, Co-Founder | – | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | Blank Bio's go-to-market strategy focuses on leveraging advanced foundation models for RNA therapeutics, particularly through mRNA design tools. They aim to collaborate with biopharmaceutical companies and research institutions, offering applications such as cfRNA analyses, novel biomarker discovery sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI governance and compliance browser agent | United States | 1-10 | 2023 | truthsystems builds a browser extension and platform for governing AI use across company systems. The product blocks non-compliant prompts, limits data leakage, assigns software access by client matter, and records immutable audit trails. The company says it is trusted by established companies and e | B2B, Infrastructure | 2 people Nam Nguyen, Co-founder Anh Mac, Co-founder | USD 1,500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Anh Mac, Co-Founder | ||||
Email inbox API for AI agents | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | AgentMail provides AI agents with real email inboxes, letting them create, send, receive, and search messages through a REST API. The product treats email as an identity layer for agents and supports threads, attachments, semantic search, and real-time events. The company says it has delivered more | B2B, Infrastructure | 2 people Adi Singh, Co-Founder Michael Kim, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | AgentMail's go-to-market strategy focuses on targeting developers who integrate AI systems needing email capabilities and businesses that automate customer support. Their key tactics include an API-first approach that emphasizes optimized email deliverability, ensuring seamless integration with vari sources: 1 2 3 4 | 1 person Haakam Aujla, Co-Founder | ||||
Self-healing observability for AI agents | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | TraceRoot is an open-source observability platform for AI agents, with a self-healing layer that can inspect traces and source context. Its agentic debugging workflow runs in an isolated sandbox, can access GitHub history and production code, and can open fix pull requests. The company says it is ba | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Xinwei He, Co-founder and CEO Zecheng Zhang, Co-founder and CTO | USD 500,000 | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||||
YC-backed RL environments for AI evals | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | MangoDesk builds production-grade reinforcement learning environments for evaluating and improving AI systems on real workflows. The company says it accelerates custom evals and post-training data creation, with a product described on YC as long-horizon RL environments. YC lists MangoDesk as founded | B2B | 1 person Ananth Subramanya, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Ananth Subramanya, Co-Founder | ||||
AI visibility for software products | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | The Prompting Company helps software companies appear in answers generated by AI systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek, Google AI, and Claude Code. Its site describes two product areas, Discovery for being cited in AI answers and Usability for being used by AI agents to complete task | B2B, Marketing | 3 people Kevin Chandra, CEO Albert Purnama, CTO Michelle Marcelline, Co-founder | USD 500,000 | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | The go-to-market strategy of Prompting Company focuses on optimizing content for AI-driven recommendations. Their key tactics include analyzing user questions to identify high-intent inquiries and creating AI-optimized content that enhances visibility in AI-generated responses. The process involves sources: 1 | – | ||||
Enterprise voice agents for on-prem deployments | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Acrely builds enterprise voice agents for customer-facing and internal workflows. The company says it offers cloud and on-premises deployments, and its YC page highlights a home-services customer service representative use case. Its product handles greetings, job booking, contractor dispatch, follow | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | Jon Xu sources: 1 | AI-native | Acrely AI's go-to-market strategy focuses on automating inbound calls for home service companies and real estate professionals. Their key tactics include providing an AI-driven inbound call team that handles every call, qualifies leads, books appointments, and follows up to maximize customer engagem sources: 1 2 3 4 5 | – | ||||
Persistent Linux machines for AI agents | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Dedalus Labs provides persistent Linux machines that start in under 250 milliseconds for agent workloads. The company says users pay only for active compute, and it supports SSH access, an API, and a CLI. Its site positions the product for agents running untrusted code, ML training, web scraping, CI | B2B | 2 people Catherine di, CEO and Co-Founder Windsor Nguyễn, Co-Founder and CTO | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | Dedalus Labs employs a go-to-market strategy focused on simplifying the deployment of AI solutions for developers. Their key tactics include providing a unique MCP gateway that allows users to connect large language models to managed cloud servers quickly, enabling them to "ship production-grade age sources: 1 2 3 4 | 1 person Windsor Nguyen, Co-Founder | |||||
AI shopping agent for online stores | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Closera sells an AI personal shopping agent for online stores that guides shoppers with personalized recommendations, bundles, and guided discovery. The site says its Customer Graph builds a real-time understanding of each shopper, and its Guardian Protocol governs responses for brand alignment and | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | Closera's go-to-market strategy focuses on automating tasks for commercial real estate brokerages, enabling brokers to save an average of 30 hours per week. Their key tactics include generating client deliverables quickly, such as offering memorandums and property valuations, which allows brokers to sources: 1 2 3 4 | – | ||||
Agentic browser with 96.5% WebVoyager accuracy | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Meteor is an agentic browser that handles actions on behalf of the user inside a modern browser. The site says it combines browser flexibility with intelligent task automation and can act like a personal assistant. It also reports a number one WebVoyager ranking with 96.5% accuracy. | Consumer | 1 person Pranav Madhukar, Founder | – | – | Tyler Bosmeny sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 1 person Pranav Madhukar, Founder | ||||
8-hour inventory delivery for retailers | Singapore | 11-50 | 2023 | GetASAP ASIA specializes in rapid inventory delivery to corner shops and restaurants across Southeast Asia. Their unique approach involves a network of optimized fulfillment centers that ensure deliveries within eight hours. This capability transforms inventory management for small retailers, allowi | B2B, Supply Chain, Logistics | 2 people Raghav Arora, Founder & CEO Pranavkrishna Suresh, Co-Founder | USD 3,450,000 | – | – | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-native | GetASAP ASIA's go-to-market strategy focuses on providing rapid inventory delivery services to small retailers, particularly corner shops and restaurants across Southeast Asia. Their key tactics include leveraging a network of optimized fulfillment centers to ensure deliveries within eight hours, wh sources: 1 2 | – | |||
AI language practice partner for real conversations | – | 1-10 | 2025 | Pingo AI is an AI language practice partner that offers personalized speaking lessons. Its unique approach immerses users in real-life conversations, providing instant feedback to enhance language skills. This enables users to build confidence and fluency in their target language effectively. | Consumer | 3 people Michael Xing, Founder and CEO Morrie Schonfeld, Founder and COO Peter Drykin, UGC Creator | USD 500,000 | – | Brad Flora sources: 1 | AI-native | Pingo AI's go-to-market strategy focuses on attracting language learners through a free trial of their AI-driven platform, which offers personalized speaking lessons. The company emphasizes real-life conversation practice and provides actionable feedback to enhance user engagement and learning effec sources: 1 | 1 person Morrie Schonfeld, Co-Founder & COO | ||||
Sell items effortlessly through text and photos. | United States | 501-1000 | 2025 | Rid specializes in simplifying the selling process for individuals. Users send photos and text descriptions, and Rid manages the listing, marketing, and sale. This approach reduces the hassle of selling items, enabling users to make money easily. | Consumer | – | USD 500,000 | – | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | non-AI | Rid's go-to-market strategy focuses on simplifying the selling process for individuals. The company allows users to send photos and text descriptions of items they wish to sell, and Rid manages the entire process, including listing, marketing, and handling the sale. This approach targets individuals sources: 1 | – | ||||
Synthetic users for QA and UX testing | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Synthetic Society builds synthetic users that simulate product behavior during development. The site says the system automates end-to-end QA and UX testing, flags bugs and design flaws, and auto-generates user flows without maintenance. Homepage metrics mention 20% automation and 60% cost, but the p | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | – | USD 500,000 | – | Ankit Gupta sources: 1 | AI-native | Synthetic Society's go-to-market strategy centers on integrating AI-driven user simulations into the software development process to enhance quality assurance (QA) and user experience testing. Their approach emphasizes the following key tactics and channels:
AI-Driven Simulations: They utilize synt sources: 1 | – | ||||
On-device AI with cloud fallback | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Cactus Compute builds Cactus, an inference engine for on-device AI across smartphones, laptops, and edge hardware. The product runs LLMs, transcription, embeddings, and agent functions locally, then falls back to cloud inference when needed. The site also highlights Needle, a 26M tool-calling model | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Henry Ndubuaku, Founder Roman Shemet, Founder | USD 500,000 | Andrew Miklas sources: 1 | AI-native | – | 2 people Henry Ndubuaku, Founder Roman Shemet, Founder | |||||
Ops platform for forward deployed teams | United States | 11-50 | 2025 | Nixo is the intelligent management layer for forward deployed teams, with a stated goal of getting teams from discovery to deployment faster. It combines customer context, code intelligence, and workload visibility for forward deployed engineers. The company is backed by Y Combinator and lists limit | B2B | – | USD 500,000 | – | Diana Hu sources: 1 2 | AI-native | – | – | ||||
Narrative intelligence for investors | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Serafis builds narrative intelligence tools for investors and research teams using podcasts, interviews, and independent media. Its platform indexes more than 100,000 searchable transcripts, adds company and theme tags, and returns timestamped source quotes. The company says its data platform is liv | B2B | – | – | – | Dalton Caldwell sources: 1 | AI-native | Serafis's go-to-market strategy focuses on targeting professional investors and wealth advisors by providing personalized insights and advanced search capabilities. Their key tactics include distilling high-signal ideas from a vast universe of expert content and delivering credible, timely insights sources: 1 | – | ||||
AI phone operator for real estate | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Wayline builds Operator, an AI phone assistant for real estate operators that answers calls and messages around the clock. The system handles maintenance triage, leasing, scheduling, resident questions, and human handoffs while keeping call logs and a knowledge base. The company says it is backed by | Real Estate | 2 people Eric Rowell, Co-founder Jason Okra, Co-founder | – | – | Gustaf Alstromer sources: 1 | AI-native | Wayline's go-to-market strategy focuses on leveraging its AI-powered assistant to enhance property management and real estate communications. The company employs several key tactics and channels to reach its customers, primarily targeting property managers and hospitality operators.
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AI account manager for enterprise revenue | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Ambral provides an AI account manager for enterprise and scale-up customer teams. It builds real-time digital twins of accounts by unifying CRM, support, meeting, email, and warehouse data. The system prioritizes churn risk, expansion opportunities, and next best actions, and Ambral Simulate tests h | B2B, Sales | – | USD 500,000 | – | – | Harj Taggar sources: 1 | AI-native | – | – | |||
AI-driven simulations for scientific research | United States | 1-10 | 2025 | Fluidize is an AI platform designed for scientific computing. It accelerates research and development by automating simulations and experiments. This approach significantly enhances development pipelines, enabling faster and more efficient scientific processes. | B2B, Engineering, Product, Design | 2 people Jamin Liu, Co-Founder Henry Bae, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | Jared Friedman sources: 1 | AI-native | Fluidize's go-to-market strategy focuses on targeting engineering teams in industries such as aerospace, energy, automotive, and materials. They aim to connect with organizations that are experiencing slow research and development processes. Their marketing approach includes direct outreach to these sources: 1 2 3 | 2 people Jamin Liu, Co-Founder Henry Bae, Co-Founder | |||||
Open-source billing layer for AI startups | United Kingdom | 1-10 | 2025 | Autumn provides a drop-in billing layer for AI startups that replaces in-house usage tracking, gating, and asynchronous billing logic. The product acts as a real-time source of truth for plans, usage, and AI credits while keeping Stripe as the payment system. Its documentation describes open-source | B2B | 1 person John Yeo, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | Pete Koomen sources: 1 | AI-adjacent | Autumn's go-to-market strategy focuses on simplifying app pricing models for developers and SaaS founders through a seamless integration with Stripe. Their key tactics include emphasizing ease of integration, flexibility in pricing, and providing robust support channels such as Discord. They also ut sources: 1 2 3 | 1 person John Yeo, Co-Founder | |||||
AI employee for creator campaigns | United States | 1-10 | 2024 | Stormy builds an AI employee for creator and influencer campaign operations. It connects to Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack, Stripe, Shopify, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube to handle outreach, negotiation, tracking, and handoffs. The site positions Stormy for creator teams managing spreadsheets, briefs, | B2B, Marketing | 2 people Robert Lukoszko, Chief Executive Officer & Founder Alex Pokras, Co-Founder | USD 500,000 | – | Garry Tan sources: 1 | AI-native | Stormy AI's go-to-market strategy focuses on automating influencer marketing through an AI-powered platform. Key tactics include:
Automated Influencer Discovery: Utilizing natural-language search to identify suitable influencers for campaigns.
Automated Outreach: An AI agent that can reach out to i sources: 1 2 | 1 person Alex Pokras, Founder |
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