FlowiseAI
AcquiredYC S23Founded 2023 · 5 employees · 1 known investors
Flowise is a drag-and-drop platform for building and deploying AI applications and agents using large language models without coding. It provides modular building blocks, multi-agent orchestration, and support for deployment at scale across cloud and on-premises environments.
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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S23)
FlowiseAI was founded in 2023 by Henry Heng and Chung Yau Ong.
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Henry Hengin𝕏Co-Founder & CEO (Acquired by Workday)2023–2025Henry Heng is cofounder of Flowise and previously worked as a software engineer at Fidelity Investments.
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Chung Yau Ongin𝕏FounderCofounder of Flowise, a drag-and-drop platform for building and deploying AI applications and agents using large language models.
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The YC application· Summer 2023 batch
Alumni Q&A
- How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
- The founders began building applications with open-source frameworks such as LangChain and HuggingFace in February 2023, and wanted a faster way to prototype without repetitive code and with better visualization of the LLM flow, which led to Flowise.
- What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
- The founders aim to make large language models accessible to people from less technical backgrounds. Flowise lets users connect components such as a PDF loader, OpenAI embeddings, and a Pinecone vector database to build applications like a ChatGPT over their own documents without writing code.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
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Competitors · 8
by search overlap
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CrewAI31 shared keywordsCrewAI provides an enterprise platform for discovering, building, deploying, and governing AI agents that automate workflows across business applications, with no-code multi-agent workflow creation and observability. It targets enterprises adopting agent automation, offering governance controls such as role-based access, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
Netezza31 shared keywordsIBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services. The company is also investing heavily in quantum computing and AI-based enterprise offerings, including its Lightwell open-source software security clearinghouse and the Anderon quantum wafer foundry.
OpenAI30 shared keywordsOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.
LlamaIndex30 shared keywordsLlamaIndex provides document parsing and AI agent workflows that automate document-based administrative operations such as invoice matching, contract data extraction, form processing, and compliance reporting. It serves enterprise operations and developer teams building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent-based applications.
Hugging Face28 shared keywordsHugging Face is a collaboration platform that hosts and provides access to machine learning models, datasets, and applications. It offers both open-source tools for the ML community and paid compute and enterprise solutions for teams building AI applications.
Flow AI23 shared keywordsFlow-AI builds infrastructure for production-grade AI agents that operate over structured data and analytical workflows, serving SaaS teams who want to embed reliable, domain-aware agents in their products. The company provides a runtime, data layer, and evaluation tooling to enable data-driven analytics agents.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does FlowiseAI do?
- Flowise is a drag-and-drop platform for building and deploying AI applications and agents using large language models without coding. It provides modular building blocks, multi-agent orchestration, and support for deployment at scale across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Who founded FlowiseAI?
- FlowiseAI was founded by Henry Heng, Chung Yau Ong in 2023.
- Who are FlowiseAI's investors?
- FlowiseAI's investors include Y Combinator.