Cedar
YC W25San Francisco, US · Founded 2025 · 2 employees · 1 known investors
Cedar provides sales automation software that helps account executives reduce administrative work on CRM tasks and deal management, allowing them to focus on selling for high-growth companies.
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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W25)
Cedar was founded in 2025 by Jesse Li and Isabelle Ilyia.
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Isabelle Ilyiain𝕏Co-founder · Chief Technology OfficerIsabelle Ilyia is the CTO of Cedar (YC W25), with prior software engineering roles at Figma, Notion, and LinkedIn. She holds a degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Investors · 1
The YC application· Winter 2025 batch
Alumni Q&A
- What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
- The founders aim to make software agentic. They are building an AI copilot that learns about users and products at scale and generates instructions for users, which they intend as a first step toward executing tasks for users directly and autonomously.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
Competitors · 2
by search overlap
Cedar AI4 shared keywordsCedar AI develops technology solutions for the freight rail industry, bringing together rail expertise and engineering to address operational challenges.
Cedar Legal3 shared keywordsCedar provides an AI-native operating system (Cedar-OS) for building conversational and agentic applications, with customizable components and built-in support for tool calls and agent interactions.
Companies competing with Cedar for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
Cambridge Awarded $1.15 Million for Cedar St. - 47abcwmdt.com · Jul 2026Frequently asked questions
- What does Cedar do?
- Cedar provides sales automation software that helps account executives reduce administrative work on CRM tasks and deal management, allowing them to focus on selling for high-growth companies.
- Who founded Cedar?
- Cedar was founded by Jesse Li, Isabelle Ilyia in 2025.
- Who are Cedar's investors?
- Cedar's investors include Y Combinator.
- Where is Cedar headquartered?
- Cedar is headquartered in San Francisco, US.