
The Hog
The Hog is a YC Fall 2025 (F25) company. Team of 2.
About The Hog
Summary
The Hog builds a web intelligence API that lets B2B sales and marketing teams find, enrich, and monitor prospects in real time. It replaces static lead databases and multi-vendor data stacks by continuously scanning live social conversations, news, and web signals to surface verified contact and company intelligence. A single operator can identify in-market buyers, enrich records, and trigger outreach across LinkedIn, Reddit, and X without manual research.
Business model
Enterprise pricing, with a waitlist-gated beta and API access.
Go-to-market
B2B teams at growth-stage companies are the target buyers; access starts via a waitlist and API integration, with enterprise pricing tiers for higher-volume users.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI Demand Gen for Companies
TheHog.ai is the first predictive intelligence engine for growth. We don't just find leads; we predict your next customer before they enter the market. TheHog.ai maps your ICP, channels, and opportunities across the internet, monitors competitors, communities, keywords, and turns signals into ranked actionable game plans. The future of sales isn't a static dashboard; it is a living, autonomous command center. TheHog.ai gives a single operator the power of an entire sales and marketing teams by compressing weeks of research into minutes of execution. The Hog Mind & Global Graph At our core is "The Hog Mind": a proprietary Contributory Global Graph that fuses real-time social listening with advanced identity resolution. Unlike traditional enrichment tools that rely on stale databases, The Hog monitors millions of live conversations across the internet to identify high-frequency intent signals. This creates a self-reinforcing data flywheel that ranks opportunities and triggers autonomous engagement workflows instantly. What We Do: Predictive Buying Intelligence: We map the "Global Graph" of customer nodes to surface opportunities before competitors know they exist. Autonomous Engagement: An army of AI agents that don't just draft, but identify, verify, and engage with customers across LinkedIn, Reddit, and X. Deep Data Enrichment: We bridge the gap between anonymous social signals and verified contact data, creating a holistic view of your market. The Data Flywheel: A bottom-up network where every user interaction cleans and verifies our dataset, creating a defensive moat that gets smarter with every query. The Result: Win your customers before it’s even a competition
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Marketing
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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