Rocketable
YC W25San Francisco, US · Founded 2023 · 2 employees · 6 known investors
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Rocketable acquires software businesses and automates their operations by replacing human staff with AI agents across functions; the company develops tools to coordinate these agents toward shared business objectives.
Also known as Ponti Capital
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (W25)
Rocketable was founded in 2023 by Alan Wells.
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Alan Wellsin𝕏Founder & CEOHe has over a decade of experience building AI/ML products across autonomous vehicles, working at Cruise on robotaxis and at Uber on self-driving trucks and driver-assistance systems, as well as at Tule (YC S14) on agricultural automation. He holds a degree in design, codes, and has co-authored five patents on AI systems for task automation.
Investors · 6
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeed RoundJul 2025Source ↗
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The YC application· Winter 2025 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 founder started Rocketable after buying a small B2C SaaS business and running it solo for a year. Unable to afford human staff, he handled every function himself and relied heavily on LLMs throughout that period.
- What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?
- Running a small software product let the founder fit an entire business's context—source code, knowledge base articles, blog posts, internal docs, support histories, and NPS results—within a single model's context window, which he found produced better results with less effort than enterprise AI tools that had raised hundreds of millions. This led him to structure Rocketable as a holding company operating many smaller software businesses rather than a single scaled product.
- What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
- The founder found existing AI products inadequate for operating his acquired business, since they stayed limited to copilot-style assistance rather than full automation. After building his own tools that reached higher performance with less effort, he started Rocketable.
- What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
- The founder's long-term goal is to treat running a software business as a reinforcement learning problem, testing many variations of content and features in parallel as creation costs drop and tying AI workflow outputs to financial metrics. Winning strategies would be deployed automatically via pull request, aiming for business strategies that only AI can discover.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
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Altertable5 shared keywordsAlterTable builds an AI-native data lakehouse platform that consolidates fragmented data stacks, offering warehouse-grade performance and storage economics with federation capabilities. The product serves data teams and enterprises requiring a unified foundation for analytics and AI applications.
Craftable4 shared keywordsCraftable makes back-office management software for hospitality businesses, covering food and beverage, supplies, labor, and finance operations for restaurants and bars. Its platform helps operators handle purchasing, invoices, and inventory, serving more than 80,000 hospitality professionals.
Lighttable4 shared keywordsLighttable offers AI-based software for construction developers and owners to review project quality and identify potential cost drivers before they lead to RFIs or change orders. The tool is aimed at improving cost predictability and quality assurance during preconstruction.
Sourcetable3 shared keywordsSourcetable is an AI-powered spreadsheet that lets users query databases and applications in plain English, generate charts, clean and structure data, and run Python-based analysis without switching tools. It targets data analysis use cases across finance, marketing, operations, research, and education.
SoundCloud3 shared keywordsAudio distribution and music-sharing platform for artists and creators.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Rocketable do?
- Rocketable acquires software businesses and automates their operations by replacing human staff with AI agents across functions; the company develops tools to coordinate these agents toward shared business objectives.
- Who founded Rocketable?
- Rocketable was founded by Alan Wells in 2023.
- Who are Rocketable's investors?
- Rocketable's investors include Seaplane Ventures, Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Rebel Fund, True Ventures.
- Where is Rocketable headquartered?
- Rocketable is headquartered in San Francisco, US.