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Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2005. It has pioneered a new funding model for early-stage startups by investing a modest amount of capital, typically around $150,000, in a large number of companies twice a year. Over a three-month program, Y Combinator collaborates closely with these startups to prepare them for investor pitches and enhance their business strategies. Each funding cycle concludes with Demo Day, where startups present to an exclusive audience of investors. Y Combinator focuses on various sectors, including business software, education, healthcare, and financial technology, among others. In addition to initial funding, it offers ongoing support through its extensive alumni network. Since its inception, Y Combinator has funded over 630 startups, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Gustaf Alstromer

Group Partner

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Verena Prescher

Director of Finance

Geoff Ralston

president

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Arnav Sahu

Principal

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Partner

Past deals in Intelligent Systems

Potion

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AI-Based Beauty Product Development Company

Intellect

Seed Round in 2021
Intellect Company Pte. Ltd., established in 2019 and headquartered in Singapore, offers digital therapy programs designed to help users improve their traits, habits, and behaviors. The platform features psychological training initiatives developed by a team of leading psychologists and behavioral experts, aiming to provide accessible mental health support through technology.

Lightly

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Building delightful AI-powered consumer products.

SBX Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SBX Robotics generates synthetic data that teaches robots to see. SBX Robotics is accelerating the design of intelligent robots through simulation, starting with computer vision models for industrial settings.

Chatbiz.id

Seed Round in 2021
Web Platform to create your own smart virtual agents to automate online store from beginning to end and can be integrated with your chatting app and website.

Luminai

Seed Round in 2020
Luminai is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in enhancing IT customer support services. It leverages automation technology to assist customer support agents in managing their workloads more efficiently, effectively enabling them to resolve tickets at twice the usual speed. By streamlining the user interface for customer support operations, Luminai aims to improve productivity and service quality for organizations that rely on timely and effective customer assistance.

1910 Genetics

Seed Round in 2020
AI for new drug discovery

Ardis AI

Seed Round in 2020
Ardis AI develops a toolkit for natural language understanding that extracts structured information from raw text. Ardis AI's software builds a simulation, it understands the goals, beliefs, and assertions of the people discussed in the text, it reasons about spatial and temporal relationships, and stores and learns from its experiences.

SprintAI

Seed Round in 2020
SprintAI is designs and develops a cloud based platform for lifestyle retail merchandising. It offers intellihawk, inventory placement system ; intellisort, identify assortment groups; and intellifil, for the pre-placement quantity at stores/warehouses. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Soteris

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Soteris Inc. develops artificial intelligence based learning tool for the insurance industry. The company is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

1910 Genetics

Seed Round in 2019
AI for new drug discovery

Sapling.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Sapling Intelligence, Inc. provides AI assistant for business communication. The company provides platform for CRM and messages to agents. Sapling Intelligence, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Superb AI

Seed Round in 2019
Superb AI is a machine learning data platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company specializes in streamlining the development of data-centric artificial intelligence by providing tools for data annotation, curation, and model training. Its proprietary deep learning technology enhances the efficiency of labeling images and videos, allowing users to break down training data into manageable components. This approach enables businesses to manage AI projects more effectively, reducing both time and resource requirements. Through its innovative platform, Superb AI aims to facilitate the growth and implementation of AI solutions across various industries.

Synthetic Minds

Seed Round in 2018
Synthetic Minds is a smart contract security startup. It has built automation that can read and write code using program synthesis.

ROSS Intelligence

Series A in 2017
ROSS Intelligence Inc. provides an online platform that enhances legal research through artificial intelligence tools. Based in San Francisco, the company offers services that deliver answers with citations and recommend relevant readings from various sources in response to user inquiries. Additionally, it monitors legal developments, notifying users of new court decisions that may impact their cases. ROSS Intelligence's flagship product, ROSS, aims to augment lawyers' capabilities, enabling them to work more efficiently and effectively. Its clientele includes prominent law firms and corporate legal departments in the United States and internationally. The company also has operational offices in Toronto and New York.

Semantix

Seed Round in 2017
Semantix is a Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence company. Leveraging proprietary algorithms and a powerful data warehouse of clinical notes for training machine learning models, Semantix is delivering the next generation of medical coding technology for providers and payers.

BIOS

Seed Round in 2017
BIOS is developing a full-stack neural interface platform, that uses AI to decode and encode the signals from to the body, to treat chronic health conditions. BIOS began operation in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom and an R&D office in Montreal, Canada.

Entry

Seed Round in 2017
XIX.AI, Inc. specializes in biometric identity solutions for web applications, focusing on enhancing user authentication while prioritizing privacy and security. Their flagship product, Entry, allows users to log into various web applications using facial recognition technology via standard web cameras on laptops and desktops. This innovative approach provides a streamlined user experience, eliminating the need for traditional passwords and multi-factor authentication methods. By leveraging biometric authentication, Entry effectively helps organizations mitigate risks associated with account takeover attacks, credential breaches, phishing, and password spraying. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, XIX.AI aims to redefine identity verification in the digital landscape.

Iris Automation

Seed Round in 2016
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

ROSS Intelligence

Seed Round in 2016
ROSS Intelligence Inc. provides an online platform that enhances legal research through artificial intelligence tools. Based in San Francisco, the company offers services that deliver answers with citations and recommend relevant readings from various sources in response to user inquiries. Additionally, it monitors legal developments, notifying users of new court decisions that may impact their cases. ROSS Intelligence's flagship product, ROSS, aims to augment lawyers' capabilities, enabling them to work more efficiently and effectively. Its clientele includes prominent law firms and corporate legal departments in the United States and internationally. The company also has operational offices in Toronto and New York.

ROSS Intelligence

Seed Round in 2015
ROSS Intelligence Inc. provides an online platform that enhances legal research through artificial intelligence tools. Based in San Francisco, the company offers services that deliver answers with citations and recommend relevant readings from various sources in response to user inquiries. Additionally, it monitors legal developments, notifying users of new court decisions that may impact their cases. ROSS Intelligence's flagship product, ROSS, aims to augment lawyers' capabilities, enabling them to work more efficiently and effectively. Its clientele includes prominent law firms and corporate legal departments in the United States and internationally. The company also has operational offices in Toronto and New York.

VOIQ

Seed Round in 2015
Our AI Voice suite empowers companies to use conversational VoiceBots on their website and over the phone channel to connect, qualify and engage their leads and customers through highly-personalized, human-like voice conversations.

Iris Automation

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

vicarious

Series B in 2014
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company focuses on developing general intelligence for robots by leveraging the computational principles of the human brain. Vicarious aims to tackle significant challenges in the field of AI, fostering a culture that values intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and passion among its team members.

Anybots

Seed Round in 2013
Anybots develops mobile telepresence systems that allow users to engage with people and environments as if they were physically present. Their robotic platform features a self-balancing, two-wheeled design that can be remotely controlled through a web browser from any location worldwide. This versatility enables the integration of various content payloads, including telepresence systems from established providers such as Cisco or Polycom, as well as mechanical arms or medical devices. By leveraging this technology, Anybots facilitates real-time interaction and communication, making it a valuable tool for diverse applications.