YC Companies/Fall 2026

YC Fall 2026 Data Room

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Persistent sandboxes for agents like hermes, openclaw, claude code

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
New York City, NY, USA
Developer Tools
SaaS
B2B

* Ready to Use Instantly: Skip the complex server setup. It comes pre loaded with top AI Agents (like Claude Code and Hermes) so your agents can start working immediately. * Keep Your Work Safe: Unlike other systems t…

voice-first hardware interface for human-agent interaction

Consumer
Consumer -> Consumer Electronics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hardware
Consumer
AI

antimattr builds a voice-first hardware interface for human-agent interaction that includes a ring and a pair of earphones. Designed to make more of your voice, the ring can record and summarise your conversations, captu…

2
Sirsho C
Sridipto Ghosh

Autonomous CNC factories for faster hardware

Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
Bengaluru, KA, India
Robotics
Manufacturing
Public profile enrichment pending.
Naman Gupta
Shubh Agarwal

AI order entry for food distributors: emails and texts to ERP

Consumer
Consumer -> Food and Beverage
San Francisco, CA, USA
SaaS
Food & Beverage

Restaurants send orders to food distributors by email, text, and photo. Someone at the distributor retypes every one of them into the ERP. Asakana does that entry instead: orders land in the ERP already entered, and anyt…

The best cloud VMs for billions of agents

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote
Developer Tools
Cloud Computing

**Problem** Humans used to need laptops to do their work. Now they prompt agents instead, and those agents need computers too: always-on, in large quantities, and with unlimited capabilities. Building and maintain…

3
Anicet Nougaret
Kirill

Unmanned airplanes for geospatial intelligence

Industrials
Industrials -> Drones
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Geographic Information System
Airplanes
Aerospace

Aviern builds unmanned airplanes that turn the sky into a geospatial intelligence source. Our fixed-wing aircraft launch, fly, and land from unattended docks along infrastructure corridors, with onboard perception that f…

4

The AI coding agent for C and C++

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
Developer Tools
Generative AI
SaaS

ByteAsk is an AI coding agent built for C and C++, the code that runs trading systems, cars, chips, and operating systems. It does not stop at a diff that looks right. ByteAsk builds, debugs, and tests every change with …

2
Anirudha Kulkarni
Pratyush Saini

Turning infrastructure demand into action

Government
Government
San Francisco, CA, USA
GovTech
Public profile enrichment pending.2
Brison Moorhead
Finn Lancaster

AI for Investor Relations

B2B
B2B
Singapore, Singapore
Artificial Intelligence
Finance

Collar helps lean investor relations teams reach the right investors. We automate earnings preparation, track peers and market developments, and target investors who best fit each company. CFOs and IR heads can actuall…

2
Jamie Yau
Kazel Koh En Yang

AI-native OS for insurance brokers

Hiring
Fintech
Fintech -> Insurance
San Francisco, CA, USA
AIOps

Covera builds AI agents for insurance brokers. Our ready-to-use agents take over the day-to-day servicing work: submission intake, carrier quoting, quote comparison, claims handling, past-due collections, and account rou…

2
Tiphaine Venet

A live watermark inside AI voice that survives phone calls

B2B
B2B -> Security
San Francisco, CA, USA
Deep Learning
B2B
Cybersecurity

DeepMark is the authentication layer for AI voice. When an AI agent speaks, we embed a compact, machine-readable ID directly into the audio, not in metadata, which gets stripped the moment a file is touched. The ID resol…

5
Kosta Pavlović
Slavko Kovačević

The fully autonomous intelligence layer in the sky.

Industrials
Industrials -> Drones
Boston, MA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Hard Tech
Drones

We turn natural Language into Multi-Drone Mission execution. Degla is built around a simple idea: once you’ve expressed your intent, the system owns the problem.You don’t babysit drones. You don’t micromanage failures. Y…

2
Aziz Hanafi

The generalist robot deployment company.

Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Robotics

Deploy's core belief is that robots should be useful. Getting a generalist robot to do real work is fundamentally the same problem across industries. We build everything between the model and the task to bring generalist…

2
Irene Grace Karot Polson
Sahith Reddy Chada

Running robot brains in the cloud

Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Infrastructure

Dreamscale Labs is building the fastest cloud inference platform for robotics. As complex physical AI models become difficult to fit on expensive on-robot GPUs, we let users offload inference to the cloud and serve them …

4
Antoine Nguyen
Chris Yoo
Eric Ren
+1 more

Unifying Global Private Credit

B2B
B2B
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Fintech
B2B

An AI platform that connects commercial debt advisors with mandate matching private credit funds.

5
Daniel Yoon
Darryl Luo
Riley Janjis

Cursor for GTM

B2B
B2B -> Sales
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Sales
Marketing

Build agents that research accounts, find prospects, run campaigns, update your CRM, qualify inbound, and more. Connect them to the systems you already use and let them work alongside your GTM team. Engineer your reve…

2
Carl Bager
Maya Nayyar

We reconstruct how employees actually work, so nothing breaks when…

B2B
B2B -> Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA
Enterprise
Operations

GodHands makes employee transitions seamless and ensures that critical knowledge is captured for posterity. We reconstruct any employee’s work in days from the systems where they did it. You can see what depends on them,…

2
Sai Vamshi Batchu

Maximum information per experiment, minimum experiments per conclusion

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Industrial Bio
Lund, Skåne County, Sweden
AI-powered Drug Discovery
Swarm AI
Biotech

Halmos Labs builds automated biotech R&D on the principles of validity and interpretabillity. We run research, and simulations answering open questions ranging from wetlab experiment design to full cancer vaccine manufac…

3
Linus von Ekensteen Löfgren
Mattias Akke

Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI

Hiring
Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hard Tech
Hardware

Every serious robotics lab is bottlenecked on the same thing: demonstration data. The field has converged on egocentric video and hand pose as the substrate, and both are now cheap to collect at scale. What neither of th…

1
Julian Olschwang

building the open agent runtime

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
AI Assistant

Developers don't run one coding agent anymore. They run fleets of them — for hours, sometimes days — across laptops, servers, and sandboxes. Keeping track of that work is the new bottleneck: which agent is blocked, which…

1
Can Celik

AI Claims Investigator for Insurance

Fintech
Fintech -> Insurance
New York City, NY, USA
Insurance
Fraud Detection
AI

Hesper AI builds AI agents that investigate P&C insurance claims end to end. Hesper’s agents read the claim file, detect tampered documents, verify facts, check coverage, flag inconsistencies, and produce an audit-rea…

2
Nitish Badu
Pankaj Dhariwal

Fast inference for voice

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Infrastructure
AI

Our customers use Hopper today for two things: replacing GPT-4.1 with Gemma-4 (6x faster), and replacing Elevenlabs with qwen3-tts (8x cheaper).

2
Jashwanth Pedapudi
Pavan Katta

The AI-Native Benefits Brokerage

Hiring
Fintech
Fintech -> Insurance
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Health Insurance
Insurance
AI

Ignition is an AI-native employee benefits brokerage for companies with under 200 employees. Health insurance is one of the largest line items these companies carry, and employers absorb 15 to 40% rate increases year aft…

8

Robotics for AI Infrastructure

Hiring
Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Robotics
Infrastructure
AI

Lambda Robotics builds and deploys robots for the infrastructure powering frontier AI.

6
Chen Peng
Liam Zhong
Yim Ying

Turn Your Taste Into Hires

B2B
B2B -> Human Resources
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Human Resources
Recruiting

Lantern learns what exceptional looks like for your team, pressure-tests the role against the real talent market, then runs the hiring loop: sourcing, inbound applications, interviews, assessments, candidate communicatio…

4
Justin Tang
Thomas Chan

AI that works for in-house legal teams

B2B
B2B -> Legal
San Francisco, CA, USA
SaaS
B2B
Legal

Lightfield connects to a company’s email, chat, and business systems and does the legal work before it reaches the legal team. It gathers context, applies company policies and past decisions, and presents the completed w…

2
Luke Mainwaring
Luke Wagner

Foundation models on enterprise transaction data.

B2B
B2B -> Analytics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Machine Learning
Finance
Data Science

Lyon builds private foundation models for banks, insurance companies, and fintechs. Each model learns from the company’s proprietary transactions, payments, clicks, and customer interactions to predict credit, fraud, col…

2
Gabriel Noya

The managed cloud for AI agents.

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Developer Tools
Cloud Computing
Infrastructure

Maritime is cloud infrastructure for AI agents. We help companies give every customer an agent running in its own isolated, persistent computer, starting at $1 per agent per month. Maritime handles hosting, scaling, and …

3
Aryaman Shrivastava
Maria Gorskikh

Solar farm in a box built anywhere in days

Industrials
Industrials -> Energy
San Francisco, CA, USA
Energy Storage
Robotics
Solar Power

Micora builds a solar-farm-in-a-box that can be shipped anywhere and built without specialized labor. We have designed a new type of solar farm micorgrid that is palletized, lightweight, and deployable. Our system autono…

2
Frederik (Fredy) Mareels

Catch and fix AI agent regressions before they reach production

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
SaaS

Mirrors provides regression testing for AI agents. Teams shipping agents constantly change prompts, models, and tools, and there's no way to test any of it. Agents call bespoke internal tools and APIs no test framewor…

2
Aryan Singhal

Intelligent execution layer for AI workloads

B2B
B2B
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Infrastructure

Intelligent execution layer for AI workloads

2
Pranav Varshney
Viswa Kotra

Automate on-call at agent-scale.

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
DevOps
Automation
AI

OnePatch is a forward-deployed AI SRE. It instruments your services, watches how they actually behave in prod, catches incidents, and drives each one to resolution. Think Datadog, except it doesn't stop at telling you so…

2
Deep Utkarsh
Shalin Patel

AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle

Hiring
Industrials
Industrials -> Aviation and Space
San Francisco, CA, USA
AIOps
Space Exploration
Satellites

At Orca, we are focused on creating the future of spacecraft operations by moving control onto the vehicle. By allowing LLMs to control the satellite using deterministic tooling, we are able to achieve the same holistic,…

3
Hakan Chunton

Continuously improving evals for agentic commerce

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Artificial Intelligence
Crypto / Web3
Consumer Products

We're building the open benchmark for commerce. Builders submit shopping agents. Independent validators run them against problems that change daily. The best agent earns the rewards, and every run becomes training dat…

2
Seth Schilbe
Shardul Bansal

Continuous optimization for AI agents

B2B
B2B
San Francisco, CA, USA
AIOps
B2B
Enterprise Software

Papaya is the optimization engine for AI agents. Engineers don't have time to continually improve the agents they've shipped — the context bloat, overly chatty subagents, and broken tool calls sit in production traces no…

3

Data for AI Science

B2B
B2B
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning

Models are trained on the entire internet, but most of what happens on Earth is never written down. We turn those signals into training data so labs can make models better at science

3
Elias Reinfeldt
Jesper Johansson
Wilhelm Hedenskog

Helps build social skills through daily practice

Consumer
Consumer
San Francisco, CA, USA
AI-Enhanced Learning
Social
Health & Wellness

Quippy is a daily practice app for your social life. You run short, realistic practice conversations, like pushing back on a boss or talking during a first date, and get line-by-line feedback on what landed and what back…

1
Jonathan Li

Commercial insurance for small businesses

Fintech
Fintech -> Insurance
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Insurance

Redoubt is a commercial insurance agency for small businesses. We believe our customers are our most important business partners, and they deserve our full attention. Machines can already handle the boring parts, the nex…

Andre Beukers

Enabling Model-Hardware Co-Design at Scale

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA

RightNow AI is a research lab building GPU infrastructure that lets teams own their AI stack instead of depending on closed-source APIs. Our platform RunInfra takes any HuggingFace model, auto-generates optimized GPU ker…

2
Jaber Jaber
Osama Jaber

The AI task app that gets to work for you.

Consumer
Consumer
Consumer
Productivity
AI Assistant

Roma is the task app where AI gets to work for you. Simply type or say anything - an idea, a thought, a bunch of different things you need to remember - and Roma starts the work from your pocket. It's connected to you…

3

On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Productivity
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Productivity
AI

Nobody's built truly proactive AI, because it requires running inference on your entire life. In the cloud, that's insanely expensive and a privacy nightmare. But not on your own chip. Every night, Sentient's on-devic…

2
Aditya Vellanki
Jesai Tarun

Robots for high skilled labor powering AI infrastructure

Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hardware
Robotics
Manufacturing

Shepherd Robotics builds general purpose robots for skilled physical work across AI infrastructure and advanced manufacturing. Our robots are powered by robot foundation models and use modular, flexible hardware designed…

3
David Fang
Feifei Duan
Kai Ru

AI Operating System for Mergers & Acquisitions

B2B
B2B -> Finance and Accounting
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Finance
B2B
Public profile enrichment pending.2
Param Mehta
Rushil Knagaram

Firmware simulation for AI agents

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Developer Tools
Hardware
Semiconductors

Simantic is modernizing the embedded firmware industry with hardware simulation developed for the adoption of AI in hardware engineering. Simantic gives both humans and AI the visibility into hardware previously limited …

4
Ahnaf Shahriar
Seungmin Hong

Simulate how any product change will perform before shipping.

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence

We build simulations of your real users, grounded in your session data, so you can predict how any product change will perform before you ship it.

2
Ryan Ning
Satyam Singh

Accelerating scaled plastics with additive technologies

Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
El Segundo, CA, USA
3D Printing
Manufacturing
Advanced Materials

Sinter is creating a faster and radically more affordable American plastics pipeline, helping iteration heavy hardware teams evolve from additive prototypes to production parts on week-scale timelines.

2
Justin Kwon
Oliver Johnson

Voice agents that talk to employees enabling transformations

B2B
B2B -> Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA
HR Tech
AI
Conversational AI

Sona8 is a voice agent that talks to every employee about how their work gets done. Consulting, transformation and corporate development teams spend a large part of every project on stakeholder interviews and stakeholder…

4
Anton Hantel
Thilo Tamme

Embodied Scientific Intelligence

Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Robotics
Energy
Advanced Materials

Every instance of intelligence occurring in nature is embodied. Scientific intelligence is no different. We are building general-purpose robotic experimentalists: systems that unite scientific reasoning and physical acti…

3
Benedict Quartey
Cooper Niu
Owen Tower

Predictive maintenance for power infrastructure.

Industrials
Industrials -> Energy
Baltimore, MD, USA
Deep Learning
IoT
Energy

At Talos, we are building better, more modern predictive maintenance for the power industry with a focus on large transformers. Our devices continuously monitor critical power equipment and detect problems early on using…

3
Amitav Kohli
Himani Musku
Kevin Hwang

Training Data For Speech Models.

B2B
B2B
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Conversational AI
ML

We design and collect audio datasets for training speech models.

2
Christian Vestergaard
Matias Voldby Drejer

Talk to your computer without talking

Hiring
Consumer
Consumer -> Consumer Electronics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hard Tech

We're building a silent speech wearable that lets you talk to your computer at the speed of voice, but silently and completely imperceptibly to everyone around you.

3
Aarush Yadav

Super fast, unblockable browser infra for agents

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
B2B
Infrastructure

we build self-healing browser infrastructure that runs millions of agent operations a day without supervision. teams use it for large-scale data collection, agentic workflows, continuous monitoring, and anything else…

4
Abdul Basit Tonmoy
Arman Luthra
Kazi Fardinul Hoque
+1 more

AI Compliance for Affordable Housing

B2B
B2B -> Legal
New York City, NY, USA
GovTech
Real Estate
Housing

Tire Swing uses AI to power resident and applicant eligibility evaluations for affordable housing. Our software manages the resident certification and recertification process end-to-end for public and private properti…

2
Lucas Irvine
Paul Witten

AI travel agent for people with weak passports, starting with visas.

Consumer
Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism
AIOps
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer

Billions of people need tourist visas to travel the world. We use AI agents to prepare applications, verify documents, secure appointments, and handle the visa process end to end.

2
Aly Moursy

AI native TPA starting with workers comp

Fintech
Fintech -> Insurance
San Francisco, CA, USA
Fintech
Insurance

Veltha is the AI native TPA starting with workers comp. We handle claim for insurance providers end to end. Learn more at https://veltha.ai

2
Edin Citaku
Roland Jaloszynski

A foundation model for engineering physics

B2B
B2B
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Hard Tech
B2B

Engineering is bottlenecked by slow, costly simulations. We're fixing that by building foundation models that learn physics end-to-end and deliver the same results in seconds, at a fraction of the cost.

2
Daniel McNeil
Krish Kapadia

Autonomous video editing for non-editors.

Hiring
Consumer
Consumer -> Content
San Francisco, CA, USA
Video
Automation
SMB

Instead of making users learn a timeline, we let them upload footage, describe what they want, and get back a polished edit in minutes.

2
Caleb Pong
Sulan Zhang

Simulation Environments for Verifying Mission Critical Software

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
B2B

Workers IO verifies your entire system across millions of interleaving, faults, and timings to find the exact conditions that break the software properties you care about. Built for teams where 99.99% uptime is table-…

2
Chaitanya Choudhary