Y Combinator Winter 2022 (W22) Companies

Joon is a mobile app that helps children ages 6-12 build executive functioning and positive habits through gamified task management, targeting parents seeking to reduce behavioral friction around chores, homework, and daily routines.

3 investors

JumpWire provides data access control software that sits between applications and databases to identify and restrict access to sensitive fields based on organizational policies. The platform enables fine-grained permission controls for who can read or modify specific data properties, and works within existing infrastructure without requiring data migrations or application changes.

2 investors

Jutsoo builds AI agents that automate repetitive bookkeeping tasks, allowing accountants and bookkeepers to focus on judgment and advisory work. The company's first product, Bookkeeper, handles transaction entry, categorization, and bank matching for financial teams.

1 investor

Kaagaz is a document management platform that helps users organize and access their important documents. The company serves individuals and businesses seeking streamlined document storage and retrieval solutions.

5 investors

Kable provides billing, invoicing, analytics, and authentication infrastructure for API businesses, enabling developers to integrate these capabilities with minimal setup. The platform helps API companies reduce engineering overhead and implement flexible billing models.

1 investor

Kapital is a financial services platform offering digital banking, payment processing, and investment products in Mexico. The platform enables users to manage accounts, transfer funds, pay bills, and invest in financial instruments like Pagaré and CEDES through a mobile app.

5 investors

Karate Labs provides an open-source testing framework that simplifies API and integration testing by parsing human-readable commands into HTTP calls and JSON assertions. The framework serves software engineering teams and is maintained as both free open-source software and a commercial offering with productivity and enterprise features.

1 investor

Kaso develops supply chain optimization solutions for restaurants and suppliers to reduce food waste. The platform addresses inefficiencies in the food supply chain to support business profitability and environmental sustainability.

3 investors

Kenobi customizes website landing pages for individual visitors by inserting personalized content through a single code snippet, using AI to generate visitor-specific messaging and improve conversion rates.

1 investor

Koala is an interactive online learning platform that provides a collaborative classroom environment for teachers and students, featuring co-browsing, content uploading, and integrated invoicing for tutors. The platform serves online educators and tutors working with students of various ages.

3 investors

Koko Cares partners with academic researchers to deploy evidence-based mental health interventions for young people across digital and clinical settings in the US. The organization collaborates with Northwestern University's Lab for Scalable Mental Health to deliver programs like Project YES through online platforms, clinics, schools, and health systems.

1 investor

Korrai develops an AI platform for infrastructure and mining risk assessment that aggregates multi-modal data and performs automated analysis to identify geotechnical hazards and reduce critical failures.

3 investors

Kular develops AI-powered sales tools for business owners. The company is founded by scientists from leading research institutions and focuses on delivering intuitive sales solutions.

2 investors

LanceDB is an AI-native multimodal lakehouse platform that unifies training data across multiple systems to accelerate model development and dataset creation at scale.

8 investors

Lenco provides multi-currency banking services to African businesses, enabling them to manage vendor payments, cross-border transactions, and access financing.

7 investors

Lenk provides a white-label platform that automates financial origination processes including onboarding, lending, and leasing for financial institutions. The platform digitizes and streamlines credit approval workflows, document processing, and compliance for banks and lenders.

3 investors

Lexter develops a large language model tailored for legal work in Brazil and serves major law firms in the country.

3 investors

LifeAt provides desktop software that displays ambient scenes and planning tools on a second monitor to help users maintain focus and organize their work.

1 investor

Lifecast.ai developed software tools for volumetric video capture, editing, and 3D reconstruction using machine learning and computer vision. The company created tools for creating 3D and 4D Gaussian video, upscaling video content, and rendering immersive scenes for mixed reality and virtual production applications.

1 investor

Lightmeter helps B2B sales and marketing teams send emails at scale by providing email delivery services and mailserver automation. The company focuses on making the decentralized email network accessible to entrepreneurs through open standards and open source technology.

1 investor

Livedocs is an AI agent that performs data analysis tasks—including querying, visualization, forecasting, and anomaly detection—converting raw data into dashboards and insights. It serves business teams across sales, marketing, finance, supply chain, and operations who need rapid analytical answers.

2 investors

Lizza is a platform that connects brands with UGC creators and influencers in Latin America for campaign management, from creator discovery to payment. It consolidates the entire workflow—pitching, contracting, content review, and payment—in a single system designed to replace fragmented tools.

1 investor

Loops builds an email platform designed for software companies to manage customer communication and engagement.

1 investor

Lovage automatically generates and posts social media content about open appointment slots for beauty professionals, helping them convert availability into client bookings using AI-generated designs.

2 investors