Lysto
DefunctYC S23New York City, US · Founded 2023 · 2 employees · 5 known investors
Lysto provides revenue intelligence software for startups that generates automated insights and answers about business performance with minimal manual setup required.
Also known as Airfront · Awning AI · Bazaar · Lysto AI
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S23)
Lysto was founded in 2023 by Kyle Archie, Manuel Diaz-Granados, and Egor Gagin.
Investors · 5
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Lysto was a New York City-based company, founded in 2023 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch, that built revenue intelligence software for startups. Its public positioning was that users could set the product up in minutes and then receive automatic insights, intelligent answers, and reduced manual work in support of revenue growth. Y Combinator classifies the company under Artificial Intelligence and lists its website as lysto.ai.
A secondary aggregator profile describes the product in more detail as a revenue intelligence and task automation platform for go-to-market functions (sales, marketing, customer success), integrating data from video calls, emails, and internal documents to automate CRM updates, follow-up emails, bug ticket creation, and project status synchronization, with an AI assistant referred to as "Leo" and integrations with tools such as Slack and Jira. The same profile states the company began as a sales engagement tool with modest recurring revenue and pivoted after roughly 200 user interviews with go-to-market professionals. These details come from a single aggregator source and are not corroborated by the company's own materials in this set.
Y Combinator lists Lysto's status as Inactive with a team size of 2. Note that at least one other organization operates under the Lysto name — a blockchain/gaming company founded in 2021 and led by Sadiq Ahamed, and a separate gaming-AI site at lysto.gg — and material about those entities is not attributed here.
Founding story
According to an aggregator profile, Lysto was founded in 2023 by Kyle Archie and Manuel Diaz-Granados, with Egor Gagin also listed as a founder. Kyle Archie is described as CEO, previously conducting pre-ChatGPT LLM product research at Facebook and leading Conversational AI and IMU gestural interface teams at Meta, with two patents in conversational AI and a computer science background from Stanford. Manuel Diaz-Granados is described as CTO, previously on the ads web team at Rokt and the enrichment team at Tripod AI, with an M.S. in ECE from Carnegie Mellon. Egor Gagin is described as a co-founder of Awning AI who previously led AR/VR products at Meta and worked at a digital health startup and in banking. The aggregator account states the company started as a sales engagement tool and pivoted to task automation after about 200 user interviews with go-to-market professionals.
Business model
Lysto offered a software product (SaaS) aimed at startup revenue/go-to-market teams, positioned as requiring minimal setup ("set up in minutes") before delivering automated insights and answers. Public sources do not disclose pricing tiers, contract structures, or revenue figures.
Not disclosed in the sources; one aggregator states the company generated modest recurring revenue in an earlier sales-engagement incarnation, without figures.
Traction
No customer counts, revenue, or usage metrics for this company are disclosed in the sources. Y Combinator reports a team size of 2 and an inactive status.
Latest developments
Y Combinator's company page lists Lysto as Inactive with a team size of 2 and refers to its founders as former founders. No later product, funding, or corporate developments attributable to this company appear in the sources.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Lysto was an early-stage participant in the AI-based revenue intelligence and sales automation category, targeting startups rather than large enterprises. The sources provide no market share, revenue, or customer-count data, and the company is listed as inactive.
Per an aggregator profile, the stated differentiators were AI-driven automation of administrative go-to-market tasks, unification of data from calls, emails and documents into a single deal view, an AI assistant ("Leo") answering questions over sales data, integration with existing tools such as Slack and Jira, and a focus on startup-stage GTM teams rather than large enterprises. This characterization comes from one secondary source only.
Technology
The product was described as AI-based, categorized by Y Combinator under Artificial Intelligence. One aggregator source describes an AI assistant called "Leo" that answers questions and surfaces insights over aggregated sales data drawn from video calls, emails, and internal documents, plus automated workflows connected to CRM, Slack, and Jira. No details on models, architecture, or infrastructure are provided.
Go-to-market
Sources do not describe Lysto's sales or distribution motion beyond a self-serve framing ("set up in minutes") and integration with existing workflow tools such as Slack and Jira as reported by one aggregator.
Startups and early-stage growth companies, specifically their go-to-market functions: sales, marketing, and customer success teams.
Geography
Headquartered in New York City, New York, United States. No other offices or markets are identified in the sources.
History
The company was founded in 2023 and participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch. Y Combinator's company page lists Lysto's status as Inactive, its team size as 2, and its location as New York City, NY, and describes its founders as "Former Founders," indicating the company is no longer operating. No acquisition, shutdown announcement, or wind-down details are described in the available sources.
Risks & controversies
The principal documented issue is that the company is listed as inactive by Y Combinator, with a team size of 2 and founders described as former founders. Available third-party aggregator data on Lysto also appears to conflate this company with an unrelated, similarly named blockchain gaming company, so funding figures reported by such aggregators for "Lysto" are unreliable for this entity.
Compiled by commissioned research from 4 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 1
by search overlapCompanies competing with Lysto for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
▸Research sources · 4
primary sources listed
- Lysto: AI Agents for Game Development, Px & Monetizationlysto.gg · web
4 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Lysto do?
- Lysto was a New York-based, YC Summer 2023 revenue intelligence startup for go-to-market teams, now listed as inactive.
- Who founded Lysto?
- Lysto was founded by Kyle Archie, Manuel Diaz-Granados, Egor Gagin in 2023.
- Who are Lysto's investors?
- Lysto's investors include Y Combinator, Astir Ventures, BEENEXT, Better Capital, Tiger Global Management.
- Where is Lysto headquartered?
- Lysto is headquartered in New York City, US.