Orange Collective
Venture capitalActively deployingDanville · Pre-Seed–Series A
Investment thesis
Orange Collective is an AI-native fund run by Y Combinator alumni that backs breakout YC founders. It concentrates on companies building AI infrastructure and applied AI across areas such as agent frameworks, AI billing and compliance, data and reinforcement-learning environments, developer tooling, and AI-driven vertical applications. The firm positions itself as a partner to founders around YC demo day and beyond.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Founder mafia
The Orange Collective mafia →23 people who came through Orange Collective went on to found or lead other companies.
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What they invest in
from 27 of 37 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×24AI & Machine Learning ×20SaaS ×13Developer Tools ×9Data & Infrastructure ×8Fintech ×6Cloud Computing ×4Advanced Manufacturing ×2
HQs:United States×21Austria×1Germany×1United Kingdom×1India×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 20 portfolio companiesFounding team size:2 founders×153 founders×44+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 41 founders with education data
Stanford University ×4Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) ×2Harvard Law School ×2Imperial College London ×2Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ×2Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ×2Linzer Technikum ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 41 founders with career history
Etsy ×3Facebook ×2Google ×2IBM ×2Insight Data Science ×2Oracle ×2Stanford University ×2Unsiloed Ai ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
3 founders hold a PhD · 1 hold an MBA (of 40 with degree data)
Investments · 37 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 22024 · 36 dated
Airweave is a context retrieval layer that connects AI agents and RAG systems to apps, tools, and databases, enabling them to retrieve accurate, real-time information through a unified search interface.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Lennert Jansen(Founder)inRauf Akdemir(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorFCVCLux CapitalHomebrew468 CapitalLightspeed Venture Partners
Akkari automates customer operations for B2B SaaS companies, capturing signals from conversations and emails to surface commitments, blockers, and next steps, then executing follow-ups and closing loops.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Jeffrey Byun(CEO, Co-Founder)inHenry A. Lee(Founder)inMichael Moore(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Apollo Atomics develops compact nuclear power systems designed for rapid deployment.
Advanced ManufacturingClimate TechDeep TechEnergyBoston, US
Assil Halimi(Founder)inDrew Walker(Co-Founder/COO)in
Co-investorsFifty YearsKima VenturesPerceptive Ventures Management Company, LlcScribble VenturesValia VenturesY Combinator
Arden provides an end-to-end audit automation platform that collects evidence across systems and executes control tests for SOX compliance.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Aryaman Khanna(Founder)inDavid Lomelin(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsLink VenturesY Combinator1Sharpe VenturesCoalition OperatorsStoryHouseSusa Ventures
Autumn provides usage tracking, gating, and billing infrastructure for software companies.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSLondon, GB
Ayush Rodrigues(Founder)inJohn Yeo(Founder)in
Co-investorsTranspose Platform ManagementY Combinator
Bolna provides a voice AI agent platform for building multilingual conversational agents in Indian languages and accents.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBengaluru, IN
Prateek Sachan(Founder)inMaitreya Wagh(Founder)in
Co-investorsGeneral CatalystY Combinator
Corgi is an AI-native, full-stack insurance platform that serves technology companies.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechInsurTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Nico Laqua(Founder)inEmily Yuan(Founder)inNicolas Laqua(Executive Officer, Director)Emily Zeng Yuan(Executive Officer, Director)Oliver Jung(Director)
BoardAlexander Wortmann(Director)
Co-investorsY CombinatorAlumni VenturesContraryFIRST ORDERGlade Brook Capital PartnersKindred Ventures+7 more
Cua provides open-source infrastructure and cloud sandboxes for AI agents to run on desktop operating systems (Linux, Windows, macOS, Android).
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Francesco Bonacci(Founder)inDillon DuPont
Co-investorsY CombinatorScript Capital
Didit provides identity verification and KYC/KYB infrastructure for organizations worldwide, offering a programmable API with real-time fraud detection, deepfake protection, and support for 48+ languages.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US
Alberto Rosas(Founder)inAlejandro Rosas(Founder)inDavid Paschkes(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsY CombinatorLobster CapitalRebel Fund
General Legal is an AI-native law firm that handles commercial contract work using AI integrated into attorney workflows.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTech
Ryan Walker(Co-founder & CEO)inJ.P. Mohler(Founder)inJaved Qadruddin(Founder)in
Co-investorsAudaciousDepth VenturesHAWKTAILScribble VenturesY Combinator
Data & RL envs for computer use
Hamming provides quality assurance and monitoring software for voice agents, enabling teams to test voice applications before deployment and track performance in production across accuracy, safety, and compliance metrics.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareAustin, US
Sumanyu Sharma(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsCoalition OperatorsMischiefTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorAI GrantOlive Tree Capital+1 more
Henry provides AI-powered software for commercial real estate teams to automate property database management, underwriting models, and institutional pitch deck creation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaSNew York City, US
Sammy Greenwall(Founder, CEO)inAdam Pratt(Founder)in
Co-investors1Sharpe VenturesCoalition OperatorsY CombinatorStoryHouseSusa Ventures
Kobalt Labs provides software that analyzes third-party contracts and documentation against internal policies and external regulations to identify and track compliance risks for banks and fintech companies.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York City, US
Kalyani Ramadurgam(Founder)inAshi Agrawal(Founder)inAshi A(Founder)
Co-investorsRoosh VenturesY Combinator
LeapingAI builds AI voice and text agents that automate inbound and outbound calls for enterprises, handling customer support, appointment setting, and lead qualification.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Kevin Wu(Founder)inArkadiy Telegin(Founder)in
Co-investorsRitual CapitalY CombinatorBasis Set VenturesNexus Venture Partners
Luel develops proprietary technology for machine perception and AI system training across multiple modalities.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
William Namgyal(Founder)inInigo Lenderking(Founder)in
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture PartnersY CombinatorGeneral CatalystHuman Capital
Marketplace for multimodal data
Metorial provides a platform for enterprises to connect AI agents and employees to 1,000+ integrations and internal tools with built-in governance, access control, and security.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareVienna, AT
Karim (Wen) Rahme(Founder)inTobias Herber(Founder)in
Co-investorsValia VenturesY Combinator
Parahelp builds an AI-powered customer support agent that can be configured to integrate with external tools and APIs to resolve support tickets autonomously.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Anker Ryhl(Founder)inMads Liechti(Founder)in
Co-investorsbyFoundersSkyfall VenturesY CombinatorAlt CapitalHanabi CapitalHidden Capital
PeerDB provides fast and cost-effective data replication from PostgreSQL to data warehouses including Snowflake, BigQuery, and ClickHouse, as well as to event queues like Kafka and EventHubs.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Sai Srirampur(Founder)inKaushik Iska(Founder)in
Co-investorsWayfinder VenturesY Combinator8VCRogue CapitalWebb Investment Network
Promptless automatically generates and suggests documentation updates when product changes occur, such as code PRs, Slack threads, or support tickets.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Prithvi Ramakrishnan(Founder)inFrances Liu(Founder)in
Co-investorsFundersClubY Combinator
S2.dev builds infrastructure services and tools for developers.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Shikhar Bhushan(Co-founder and CEO)inStephen Balogh(Co-founder and CTO)inDwarak Govind Parthiban(Co-founder)inMehul ArorainCristian Caciucin
Co-investorsTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorResearch Corporation Technologies
Sazabi builds an observability platform that uses AI to help engineering teams understand and control production systems.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Sherwood Callaway(Founder)inAbhi Aiyer
Co-investorsY CombinatorZypsy CapitalVillage Global
Starcloud is a deep-tech company building large-scale data center infrastructure designed to operate in space.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningClimate TechCloud ComputingDeep TechSemiconductorsSpace TechRedmond, US
Philip Johnston(Founder/CEO)inEzra Feilden(Founder)inAdi Oltean(Founder)in
Co-investorsDnx VenturesFUSEGround Up VenturesHarpoon VenturesImagination CapitalIntegra Groupe+22 more
TaxGPT provides tax information access and services to individual taxpayers and businesses.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechLegalTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Kashif Ali(Co-founder and CEO)inIsabella Maceda-Ali(Founder)in
Co-investorsConvergeTRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)Y Combinator468 CapitaliSeed VenturesLAUNCH+3 more
TrueClaim provides a modern insurance platform designed to reduce administrative errors and claims processing failures.
HealthtechInsurTechSan Francisco, US
Barbora Howell(Founder)inBobby Bayer(Founder)in
Co-investorsHeadwater VenturesKAYAThe MBA FundY CombinatorRebel Fund
Unsiloed builds AI models that read and analyze document pages using attention-guided heatmaps to identify and extract structured data from tables, figures, and text regions.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Aman Mishra(Founder)inAdnan Abbas(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Venta AI develops AI employees for B2B sales teams in Europe, focusing on customer identification and lead generation to replace inefficient outreach methods.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSales TechMunich, DE
Lucas Spreiter(Founder)inStefan Reuther(Founder)in
Co-investorsGradient VenturesY CombinatorGaingels
Vybe builds AI coworkers and custom applications that automate repetitive operations tasks and integrate with existing team workflows through Slack and 3,000+ business integrations.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Quang Hoang(Cofounder/CEO)inFabien Devos(Cofounder/CTO)in
Co-investorsFjor FoundersHAWKTAILY CombinatorFirst Round CapitalPelion Ventures
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioPeerDBacq. by ClickHouse
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Starcloud · techcrunch.com · Aug 21, 2026
Corgi Insurance · finance.yahoo.com · Aug 3, 2026
Henry · inspenet.com · Jul 19, 2026
s2.dev · therealdeal.com · Jul 13, 2026
General Legal · foundedceo.substack.com · Jul 12, 2026
Sazabi · tryfundable.ai · Jul 6, 2026
Hamming AI · nubiapage.com · Jul 1, 2026
Arden · thesaasnews.com · Jul 1, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Orange Collective made?
- Orange Collective has 30 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Orange Collective invest at?
- Orange Collective invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Orange Collective focus on?
- Orange Collective focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software.
- Where is Orange Collective located?
- Orange Collective is headquartered in Danville, US.
- Who does Orange Collective co-invest with?
- Orange Collective most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Scribble Ventures, TRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital), among 40 tracked co-investors.
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