Fundraising Fox
/Companies
Sign in

Cedar

YC W25

San Francisco, US · Founded 2025 · 2 employees · 5 known investors

Find your way into Cedar

Sign up to see every warm intro you have to Cedar

  • Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to the Cedar team. We find them for you
  • 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes that take hours to manually find through your inbox or LinkedIn
  • Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone

Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.

Sign up with GoogleAlready have an account? Log in

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.

Also known as Graphiqal, Inc. · ByteBelli · ByteBelli, lawyai (name in progress), GraphIQal · GraphIQal · lawyai (name in progress)

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSalesSales EnablementCRMEmailUnited States of AmericaAmerica / Canada

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W25)

Cedar was founded in 2025 by Jesse Li and Isabelle Ilyia.

JLJesse Li
Jesse LiCo-founder & CEOJesse Li holds a computer science degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and is co-founder and CEO of Cedar.
IIIsabelle Ilyia
Isabelle IlyiaCo-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 · 5

Andreessen HorowitzreportedMenlo Park · $500K – $50M

How we know: medcitynews.com · Not right? Tell us

JP Morgan ChasereportedNew York

How we know: medcitynews.com · Not right? Tell us

Transpose Platform ManagementreportedSan Francisco

How we know: Y Combinator's founder network · Not right? Tell us

Twenty Two VenturesreportedPalo Alto · $50K – $250K

How we know: Y Combinator's founder network · Not right? Tell us

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

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.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Cedar went on to found or lead other companies.

Jesse LiCEOFounded CedarIsabelle IlyiaCTOFounded Cedar

Related companies · 6

HiveHive provides marketing and event management software for live event promoters, helping clients send over 2.5 billion emails annually.
CrewCrew is a recruiting software platform that combines applicant tracking and customer relationship management features for staffing agencies and independent recruiters, with built-in sourcing tools, automation capabilities, and LinkedIn integration.
Cedar AICedar AI develops technology solutions for the freight rail industry, bringing together rail expertise and engineering to address operational challenges.
VesselVessel is a developer-first platform that enables companies to integrate with customer-facing applications through a unified API, webhooks, and managed data pipelines. It handles authentication, permission management, rate limiting, and data synchronization across multiple third-party apps.
Cedar LegalCedar 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.
RelateRelate is a customer data platform and CRM designed for B2B SaaS startups to manage leads, sales pipeline, customer health, and renewals in a single interface. It integrates with common business tools and provides sales and customer success teams with essential features for deal tracking and customer engagement.

Companies working in the same space as Cedar.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
Graphiqal, Inc.

In the news

Cedar 🌲 In-product AI copilot & PMF analytics for any appycombinator.com · Feb 2025

Frequently 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, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan Chase, Transpose Platform Management, Twenty Two Ventures.
Where is Cedar headquartered?
Cedar is headquartered in San Francisco, US.