Captain
YC W26San Francisco, US · Founded 2025 · 2 employees · 4 known investors
Captain builds infrastructure that makes unstructured enterprise data searchable and accessible through an Agent Swarm approach, serving large organizations that need to query and explore data at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSB2BAPIData EngineeringInfrastructureUnited States of AmericaAmerica / Canada
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W26)
Captain was founded in 2025 by Lewis Polansky and Edgar Babajanyan.
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Lewis Polanskyin𝕏CEO & Co-FounderLewis Polansky worked on community software projects and previously founded CyberSpace, a CTF hacking group. He studied at Purdue before leaving to lead Captain.
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Edgar Babajanyanin𝕏Co-founder · CTOHe has published research in AI and NLP, previously built OCR engines at Boar's Head, and spent four years developing high-performance RAG pipelines and cross-region datacenter infrastructure.
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- What does Captain do?
- Captain builds infrastructure that makes unstructured enterprise data searchable and accessible through an Agent Swarm approach, serving large organizations that need to query and explore data at scale.
- Who founded Captain?
- Captain was founded by Lewis Polansky, Edgar Babajanyan in 2025.
- Who are Captain's investors?
- Captain's investors include Y Combinator, Accel, Tiger Global Management, Z47.
- Where is Captain headquartered?
- Captain is headquartered in San Francisco, US.