ChampionEffect Inc.
ChampionEffect Inc. is a YC Fall 2026 (F26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About ChampionEffect Inc.
Summary
ChampionEffect Inc. builds an AI coaching product that teaches employees how to use AI tools, workflows, and concepts inside Slack and Microsoft Teams. It conducts live walkthroughs with individual employees, the way an internal expert would, replacing ad-hoc peer training and one-size-fits-all onboarding programs. The coach tailors guidance to a company's specific tools and industry use cases, and improves its recommendations with each completed session.
Go-to-market
Enterprise companies adopt ChampionEffect to roll out AI skills across their workforce, with the product delivered directly inside the collaboration tools employees already use, requiring no separate platform login.
From the Y Combinator listing
An AI coach for every employee!
ChampionEffect is an AI Coach that teaches AI to every employee at a company, in Slack and Teams. The Coach helps with a new AI concept, a new workflow, or any tool. It jumps on a call and walks you through the work, just like a coworker would. It points to the top use cases in your industry and tailors everything to your company’s needs and tools. Every time someone does a walkthrough with the Coach, it learns how real work gets done at the company and uses that knowledge with other coworkers. Before this, we ran a YC company (Cambly) that taught English to millions of professionals and generated $100M+ in revenue. Now we’re using what we learned to teach millions about AI.
Facts
- B2B / B2B
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Emre Simdi
- Kevin Law
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