Y Combinator Winter 2023 (W23) Companies

1stCollab is an influencer marketing platform that connects creators with brand partnership opportunities. The platform handles campaign matching, contract management, and payment processing for creators and agencies seeking sponsorship deals.

4 investors

222 is a membership-based social platform that matches compatible people for shared experiences like dinners, cocktail outings, and group activities across multiple cities.

2 investors

Adri is an AI agent that writes, tests, and deploys custom code for SAP systems (ECC, S/4HANA, BTP). It scans 50M+ objects in customer systems to find existing solutions, generates configuration guides, writes code using released APIs, and creates transport requests ready for production.

1 investor

Adventris is a biotechnology company developing cancer immunotherapy treatments.

1 investor

Alaan is an all-in-one expense management platform for finance teams that combines corporate cards, AI-driven expense tracking, accounting automation, and real-time dashboards. The platform serves businesses of all sizes across all sectors in the Middle East.

1 investor

Alloy is a cloud-based platform that enables teams to prototype and build product changes using AI by connecting their codebase or capturing pages via browser extension, then pushing production-ready code directly to GitHub. It serves product teams and developers across any company looking to accelerate product iteration without local environment setup.

2 investors

Alphawatch AI provides a document processing tool that lets users transform PDF and Word files while integrating data from private knowledge bases, with security controls.

2 investors

An AI tool that automatically creates and updates knowledge bases from Zendesk support tickets. It serves customer support and knowledge management teams in the SaaS and enterprise sectors.

1 investor

Arroyo builds a stream processing engine designed for cloud environments and ease of use, enabling real-time data processing for companies building real-time applications. The platform serves organizations needing to process data with low latency without the need for specialized streaming infrastructure teams.

1 investor

Atmeto develops machine learning technology for clean energy generation, aiming to decouple carbon dioxide emissions from energy production.

2 investors

Automat is an enterprise automation platform that uses AI techniques to automate business workflows. It targets companies seeking to automate work processes faster and at lower cost than traditional automation software.

3 investors

Avoca provides AI-powered customer service agents for service-based businesses that handle incoming calls, text messages, and chats to book appointments and re-engage customers. The platform targets HVAC, plumbing, electrical, auto repair, construction, and other service industries with features for call answering, lead capture, customer nurture campaigns, and call coaching.

11 investors

Backdrop Agent provides AI teammates ("Alex" as a product manager and "Sam" as an engineer) that manage projects, handle technical tasks, and maintain product context for software teams. The platform integrates with Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, and other workflow tools to automate product operations and development work.

1 investor

Benchmark provides a platform for investment firms to centralize and structure deal data from multiple sources, enabling teams to screen deals, draft investment memos, and build comparables faster. The platform leverages a firm's historical investment decisions to improve analysis across the entire investment lifecycle.

2 investors

Berry is an AI revenue agent that automates customer success activities for enterprise SaaS companies, including renewal management, adoption guidance, and upsell/cross-sell identification. It operates across email, voice, and chat channels to protect gross renewal rate and grow net revenue retention.

1 investor

Bluebirds provides a platform for go-to-market teams to automatically identify and send prospect lists to their CRM by combining custom intent signals from multiple data sources, reducing manual research and list-building work.

2 investors

Bluedot provides a payment platform that consolidates charging transactions and expense tracking for electric vehicle owners and fleet operators.

5 investors

Blyss operates an AI platform that runs machine learning models inside secure enclaves with end-to-end encryption, ensuring user data remains encrypted even during computation. The platform serves developers, enterprises, and organizations seeking to deploy AI features while maintaining strict data confidentiality.

1 investor

Booth AI provides an AI image generation platform that creates lifestyle product photos for e-commerce companies. The service is designed for brand managers and marketers who need to produce catalog-style product photography faster and more cheaply than hiring traditional photographers.

2 investors

Boundary develops BAML, a programming language designed for building AI agents and integrating large language models into applications. The language includes native testing and observability tools for structured LLM outputs, tool calling, and parallel LLM execution, and can be used alongside other programming languages to standardize AI component development.

1 investor

Brewit is an AI-powered data analytics platform that enables users to query databases and data warehouses through natural conversation, generate SQL queries and visualizations, and create reports and dashboards. It serves business teams and analysts seeking to accelerate data-driven decision-making through self-service analytics.

1 investor

BuildJet provides faster and secure runner infrastructure for GitHub Actions, allowing developers to speed up CI/CD pipelines by replacing default runners with optimized alternatives.

1 investor

Bujeti is a financial operations platform that provides unified expense management, spending controls, and financial visibility for businesses. The platform targets African businesses seeking to consolidate fragmented finance tools into a single automated solution.

3 investors

Cakework provides APIs that enable any developer platform to offer serverless code hosting without requiring dedicated infrastructure expertise. The service lets frameworks and platforms deploy user code from version control or local environments in a fraction of the time typically needed.

1 investor