Y Combinator Summer 2023 (S23) Companies

CandorIQ is an AI-powered platform that helps companies plan and manage compensation, headcount, and workforce spend by automating routine planning cycles and enabling real-time collaboration across HR, Finance, and Talent teams. The platform uses AI agents to run compensation cycles, plan headcount, and build job architecture, while providing shared data and transparency to support fair pay decisions.

4 investors

Capi Money provides cross-border payment services for importers in emerging markets, enabling them to pay suppliers in multiple currencies with settlement within 24 hours. The platform targets businesses that need faster, more reliable international payment alternatives to traditional banking channels.

5 investors

Cardinal Gray automates vehicle titling and DMV documentation workflows for lenders and financial institutions. The platform streamlines document origination, title reporting, lien management, and electronic signature collection in the auto lending process.

1 investor

CareOasis provides a platform that helps family caregivers obtain certification, enroll in federal compensation programs, and access training resources. The company serves family caregivers seeking financial support and professional development for caring for their loved ones.

2 investors

Cargo is a platform for go-to-market teams to build, compose, and automate GTM workflows and agents as code. It provides unified data models across CRM, product, and enrichment data, enabling autonomous research, lead qualification, account scoring, and deal management.

2 investors

Casca provides business loan eligibility checks, with a focus on helping small businesses access SBA loans.

3 investors

Catamaran is a risk decision platform that helps corporates, brokers, insurers and investors analyze and transfer complex risks using data extraction, AI analysis, and structured risk transfer. The platform serves the insurance and risk management industry by consolidating insurance data, modeling risk scenarios, and connecting clients with capital providers.

1 investor

Cedalio builds AI agents for accounts payable and procurement that automate invoice processing, validation, and fiscal compliance across multiple workflows. The platform serves mid-market and enterprise finance teams managing high-volume invoicing, particularly in regulated industries like utilities, retail, and corporate real estate in Latin America.

3 investors

Cedana provides infrastructure software that automatically checkpoints, migrates, and resumes GPU jobs across instances to improve throughput, reliability, and performance.

3 investors

1 investor

Cercli is an AI-powered payroll and compliance platform designed for multi-entity, multi-country teams. It processes payroll, automates manual work, and provides 24/7 support for global workforce management.

2 investors

Certainly is an aesthetics and wellness concierge service that provides price transparency and personalized guidance for cosmetic and medical treatments. It connects patients with vetted providers to help them access care at better prices while meeting their appearance and wellness goals.

1 investor

Chatter provides a platform for testing and refining language model prompts, allowing teams to experiment across different models and validate outputs against defined test cases. The tool supports collaborative workflows where engineers can build model chains while quality assurance teams define test scenarios.

1 investor

Cheq is a UPI-powered digital wallet designed for foreign tourists and non-resident Indians to make payments across India using their smartphones. The wallet integrates with the UPI platform and accepts use at over 50 million merchants including hotels, restaurants, and local stores.

2 investors

Chow Central operates a delivery-focused food service in Nigeria that serves meals quickly at lower cost than traditional restaurants by operating within concentrated local areas. The company targets urban customers seeking affordable and fast food delivery.

2 investors

Clearest Health provides software that identifies and helps independent healthcare providers dispute underpaid claims using AI-powered claim analysis and benchmark comparisons to support No Surprises Act appeals.

2 investors

Coba provides an infrastructure platform for instant, compliant cross-border money movement between the US and Latin America, serving businesses conducting cross-border transactions. The company operates regulated partner rails across multiple corridors and currencies in the region.

4 investors

Aide is a developer tools lab that explores how inference-time scaling and agentic systems can improve software development, debugging, and maintenance workflows.

1 investor

Cognitio IQ provides AI-powered back-office automation for food product quality teams, with always-on AI agents reviewing Certificates of Analysis and compliance documentation. The platform unifies sensing, regulatory compliance, and payments for companies operating in regulated food systems and supply chains.

1 investor

Constructable provides a unified project management platform for construction teams that consolidates communication, documentation, and workflow tasks in a single interface. The software leverages AI and modern design to replace fragmented workflows of PDFs, emails, and screenshots for construction professionals.

1 investor

Continue was an AI-powered developer coding agent distributed as open-source software. The platform was designed for developers who wanted to augment their capabilities rather than be replaced by automation.

2 investors

Converge is an AI-native growth platform for direct-to-consumer brands that automates media buying, attribution analysis, and reporting through agentic AI. The platform combines server-side conversion tracking, multi-touch attribution, and marketing analytics to optimize ad spend across channels.

2 investors

CORE is an AI personal assistant that integrates with user applications and anticipates tasks without requiring explicit requests, available as open source software that can be hosted independently.

1 investor

Corgea provides developer-first security solutions that enable developers and security teams to ship secure code without slowing down development velocity.

2 investors