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Floworks

YC W23Entrepreneur First '22

San Francisco, US · Founded 2022 · 20 employees · 5 known investors

Floworks provides AI agents for sales teams to automate prospecting, email outreach, and LinkedIn engagement. The platform targets B2B sales and revenue teams seeking to expand pipeline and improve sales productivity.

Also known as Floworks AI · Floworks Inc

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W23)

Floworks was founded in 2022 by Sarthak Shrivastava and Sudipta Biswas.

SSSarthak Shrivastava
Sarthak Shrivastavain𝕏Co-FounderSarthak Shrivastava has held roles in e-commerce, logistics, and financial services across India, Singapore, and the Philippines, and previously contributed to scaling business operations at venture-backed startups in India.
SBSudipta Biswas
Sudipta BiswasinCo-FounderSudipta Biswas is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur who began his career as a quantitative strategist at Goldman Sachs. He previously founded Engphile Labs to develop AI systems for sports umpiring, holds a patent, and has experience building tax compliance products at Cleartax.

Investors · 5

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Floworks builds a suite of "AI employees" intended to run business functions, principally sales, autonomously. Its flagship product is Alisha, an AI SDR that carries out the outbound sales development workflow end to end: defining an ideal customer profile, building prospect lists, researching each prospect across web sources, writing personalized emails, following up and engaging, and coordinating to book sales calls. Additional named agents include Jesse, an internet research/prospecting agent that searches the web and a database of more than 700 million contacts using intent data and filters; Linda, which automates LinkedIn research, connection requests, personalized messaging and meeting booking; Ashley, an AI executive assistant for scheduling, email and user-taught workflows; and Romona, an AI revenue operations manager that updates CRM records, notes, next steps and MEDDIC fields after calls and produces periodic CRM reporting. The company's site also lists a voice-calling agent as "coming soon" and describes five specialized agents in total.

The products are built on ThorV2, a proprietary function-calling architecture the company describes in a research white paper authored by co-founder Sudipta Biswas and Shival Gupta. Alisha v2, launched through Y Combinator, added lead research connected to 10+ sales databases and intent signals across 20+ sources, simultaneous email and LinkedIn sequencing, automated objection handling grounded in customer-supplied documents (PDF, websites, CSV, plain text, docs), autonomous calendar coordination and meeting scheduling, and two-way CRM sync that can trigger new campaigns based on deal progression.

The company states compliance with SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, ISO 27001 and HIPAA, and names YC, SenseAI and Beyond Capital among its investors.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Alisha email open rate (claimed)Jan 2025over 48%
Claimed call booking upliftJan 20253.9x more calls booked on autopilot
Contact database sizeJan 2025700,000,000 contacts
Customer outcome — Ayna meeting booking rate after 1 month with AlishaJan 20259%
Customer outcome — Unscript email performance with AlishaJan 2025over 40% opens and 6% replies (from 10% opens, <1% replies previously)
G2 average ratingJan 20254.9 stars
G2 average rating (contact page)Jan 20254.8 stars
HeadcountAug 202657
ThorV2 accuracy advantage vs GPT-4o / Claude-3 OpusJan 202475% and 15.2% higher accuracy respectively; <40% of cost and <78% of time
ThorV2 benchmark accuracy on 142-query HubSpot benchmarkJan 202490.1%
ThorV2 benchmark reliabilityJan 2024100%

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 4

launches, deals, and filings
Jul 2024
Press coverage: claim that Floworks' AI agent outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4o

News item listed on the company's Y Combinator profile covering Floworks' benchmark claims for its ThorV2 function-calling model.

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Jan 2024
Launch of Alisha AI SDR v2

Y Combinator launch post for Alisha v2, adding multi-database lead research with intent signals, simultaneous email and LinkedIn sequencing, grounded automated objection handling, autonomous meeting scheduling and two-way CRM sync.

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Aug 2023
TechCrunch coverage of Floworks' AI assistant

TechCrunch article, listed on the company's Y Combinator profile, on Floworks building an AI assistant to change how workers interact with software.

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Jan 2023
Participation in Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch

Floworks is listed in the Y Combinator company directory as part of the Winter 2023 batch, with status Active.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Floworks do?
Y Combinator-backed developer of autonomous AI sales agents that run outbound prospecting, email and LinkedIn outreach.
Who founded Floworks?
Floworks was founded by Sarthak Shrivastava, Sudipta Biswas in 2022.
Who are Floworks's investors?
Floworks's investors include Beyond Capital, Capria Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Y Combinator, Venture Catalysts.
Where is Floworks headquartered?
Floworks is headquartered in San Francisco, US.