Vela Partners

An applied AI research lab that develops world models enabling agents to simulate physical environments with high-fidelity reconstruction, using technology derived from autonomous vehicle systems.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

KFKion Fallah(Founder / CEO)inSNSilen Naihin(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Fabraix develops automated security testing software that probes AI agents for vulnerabilities using adaptive attack techniques, enabling companies to continuously validate the safety of customer-facing AI systems without manual penetration testing.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

AAAhmed Aly(Founder)inIAibrahim abdu(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Familiar builds an AI video-translation and dubbing model that combines voice cloning and full-face lip-sync in a single system, preserving tone, expressions, and background audio, with support for real-time streams.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareMedia & EntertainmentSan Francisco, US

MKMingi Kwon(Founder)inAZAn Zhu Liu(Founder)inXZXu Zheng(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Financial Datasets provides institutional-grade market data infrastructure designed for AI agents, offering an API for real-time and historical stock data, fundamentals, and text extracted from SEC filings.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York City, US

VSVirat Singh(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Firefly operates a network of digital advertising screens on vehicles including car top displays and branded wraps on taxis and rideshare vehicles, delivering geo-targeted and contextually relevant messages to urban audiences across 60,000+ screens in the U.S. and 7 countries globally.

AdTechMarketing TechMarketplacesMedia & EntertainmentMobility & TransportationNew York City, US

KGKaan Gunay(Co-Founder and CEO)inOnur KardeşlerSteve Cymerman

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsNFNFX50500 Emerging Europe50500 GlobalCACaruso VenturesCHChesterfield FundMAMaC Venture Capital+8 more

GitCafe is a git forge for hosting code, reviewing changes, and shipping software, including its own git implementation and a first-party CLI for managing pull requests and credentials.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Veronica C.(Founder)

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Glen provides a shared source of truth platform where teams and agents access and contribute to consistent information, reducing contradictions and enabling fact-based decision-making across different departments.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US

NDNikos Dritsakos(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorARAres

Golden builds a self-constructing knowledge graph that combines artificial and human intelligence to automatically map and reconcile human knowledge from millions of disparate sources.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

JGJude Gomila(Founder)

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsFOFounders FundGIGigafundSVSV AngelA1a16z cryptoANAndreessen HorowitzDCDCVC (Data Collective)+5 more

goooods is a Japanese B2B wholesale marketplace connecting retail shops with distinctive domestic and overseas brands, focusing on food, organic products, and specialty goods.

B2B MarketplacesE-commerceRetail TechTokyo, JP

LNLouis Nonouchi(Founder)inKKKeisuke Kanno(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsANAngel Bridge Co.,Ltd.INIncubate USZ Z Venture Capital

Graphify is an open-source, on-device tool that maps a code repository into a local knowledge graph (graph.json, graph.html, GRAPH_REPORT.md) using tree-sitter grammars, letting AI coding assistants query real paths through the code instead of grepping.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareLondon, GB

SSSafi Shamsi(CEO/Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Hardware Intelligence builds an agent-native toolchain for chip design, starting with Wave, an agentic waveform debugger for terminal use.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHardwareSan Francisco, US

AAAthreya Anand(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

hiloop provides snapshottable, forkable compute infrastructure with built-in observability for AI agents that propose, run, and verify experiments (autoresearch).

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

KBKaran Brar(Founder/CEO)inTBThomas Boser(Founder/CTO)in

Co-investorsTRTranspose Platform ManagementY Y Combinator

Hiverge builds an AI discovery engine that uses multiple parallel agents to automatically write and optimise algorithms for critical optimisation problems, from speeding up AI model training to solving combinatorial optimisation tasks.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsCambridge, GB

AFAlhussein Fawzi(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsALAlpha Intelligence CapitalFLFlying Fish VenturesAHAhren Innovation Capital

Hoplite provides infrastructure for deploying and managing software factories in cloud environments.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US

RMRyan Morrissey(Founder)inBRBence Redmond(Founder)in

Co-investorsTRTranspose Platform ManagementY Y Combinator

Huckleberry offers a baby tracker app and sleep support that combines pediatric sleep experts with AI to build custom sleep plans for families.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerDigital Health

SOSeng Oon Toh(Founder)

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsCICity LightSPSpero VenturesTATamarisc VenturesTHThe Fund

Hyperprobe provides an SDK that enables AI coding agents to capture runtime state from running services for production debugging.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

KRKaran Raina(Founder)inSSShailendra Singh(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Induction Labs is a research lab developing foundation models designed to learn from their own observations and update over time, with the goal of scaling curiosity-driven artificial intelligence toward superintelligence.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

JLJonathan Li(CEO & Co-Founder)inDLDavid Li(Founder)in

Co-investorsTRTranspose Platform ManagementY Y Combinator

Inkbox provides an identity layer for AI agents, enabling them to have email, phone, iMessage, and internet addresses for communication and interaction.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

RLRay Liao(Cofounder and CEO)inDVDima Vremenko(Founder)inAWAlex Wilcox(Cofounder & CTO)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Jobox provides a marketplace platform that connects skilled home service professionals with customer demand through retailers, franchises, and small businesses across the US.

B2B MarketplacesFintechFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US

Moshe Levi(Director)Shay Bloch(Executive Officer, Director)

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsACAcequia Capital (AceCap)COCoelius CapitalREResolute Ventures

Marble (formerly Truffle) is an AI-native back-of-house operating system for hospitality and restaurant businesses, automating inventory counting, procurement, food prep, demand forecasting, and employee scheduling.

AI & Machine LearningFoodTechSaaS

Kebra captures activity from physical field operations, builds a live "operating memory" of that context, and deploys AI agents to automate follow-on work such as back-office tasks.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

MHMohamed Hosny(Founder)in

Kuika is an AI-native platform for building business applications and automating internal operations such as leave management, onboarding, approvals, and purchasing workflows.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBellevue, US

SCSureyya Ciliv(Founder)in

BoardMurat Ihlamur(Director)Ceyhun Araz(Director)

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Kunduz provides personalized tutoring to students through a combination of vetted tutors and AI, available 24/7.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechMarketplacesIstanbul, TR

BBBasar Basaran(Founder)inBBBaris Bilgic(Founder)inMSMelih Sener(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsDODorm RoomSTStartupFonY Y CombinatorZEZeno Ventures

Lamb Labs develops custom silicon chips and a post-training technique that converts existing language models to a diffusion-based architecture for faster AI inference at lower power.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHardwareLondon, GB

NKNiki Kotecha(Founder)inTLThomas Lanning(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Last Accounting Company (LAC) offers a combined accounting service and AI platform, using its agent "Björn" to automate manual bookkeeping while human accountants review the results, replacing tools like Procountor, Fennoa, and Netvisor.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

RKRiki Karjalainen(Co-Founder)inSLSami Laakkonen(Founder)inVPVeikko Pere(Founder)inPVPietari Virkkunen(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorINInception Fund

LATO conducts commercial diligence for investors by sourcing and interviewing domain experts and customers, then combining interview data with public and proprietary documents to create market simulations.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US

TCTien Chu(Co-founder, CTO)inTSTymek Staniszewski(Co-founder, CEO)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

LeakSignal provides data governance and protection solutions for securing sensitive data in motion, including classification, policy enforcement, and compliance monitoring across AI applications, APIs, and endpoints.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & Infrastructure

BoardKAKunal Anand(Chief Innovation Officer (at F5); formerly co-founder of Prevoty)

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsCYCyber Mentor FundTFTFX CapitalSHShasta Ventures

LemonLime is an AI tool that automatically finds sales leads, drafts outreach emails, and creates branded marketing content for a company overnight, leaving the user to review and send.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSales Tech

JZJordan Zietz(Founder)inDMDaniela Muñoz(Founder)in

LevelPlane builds an AI system (EIM) that reads 2D engineering drawings to extract dimensions, features, and design intent, then produces should-cost estimates, supplier matches, and RFQ workflows for manufacturing sourcing teams.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSales Tech

CBCris Blace(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsINIncubate US

Limitless creates AI tools designed to augment human intelligence and overcome cognitive limitations by improving memory and focus.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHardware

DSDan Siroker(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzFIFirst Round CapitalDADaft CapitalDADash VCEVEvolution VC PartnersINIncubate US+7 more

Litmus is a hiring platform that evaluates software engineers through practical assessments aligned with how modern engineering teams actually work, replacing traditional interview processes.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechNew York City, US

SRShaivi Rau(Founder)inEZElena Zhao(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorINInsight Partners

LMArena is a platform for testing and comparing frontier AI models through user conversations, with data shared to AI providers to support AI research.

AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech

Co-investorsFEFelicis Ventures

Locke builds AI agents that help companies and governments interact, powering an AI-native government affairs firm.

AI & Machine LearningGovTechSan Francisco, US

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorTRTranspose Platform Management

Lovie provides AI agents that automate company launch operations — incorporation, EIN registration, registered agent setup, and compliance — accessible through a conversation or a tool call from the founder's IDE.

AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsINIncubate USSTStreamlined Ventures

Luca IQ is a tax preparation platform for accounting firms and CPAs that handles the workflow from client intake and document collection through preparation, review, e-signature, delivery, and IRS e-filing.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSBoston, US

APAngelo Policicchio(Founder)inASAkash Sadashivapeth(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Lyon trains a foundation model from scratch on a company's own customer event data, producing per-customer embeddings that power downstream predictions such as churn, credit risk, fraud, collections, income, and cross-sell.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

GNGabriel Noya(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Machine0 provides on-demand persistent virtual machines with NixOS or Ubuntu, pre-installed development tools, and per-minute billing for developers and AI agents needing isolated compute resources.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

BMBarnaby Malet(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Magma helps companies that build AI agents package and license their agents' interaction data — traces, corrections, and completed workflows — to AI labs, paying those companies a revenue share.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

RSRamtin Shahzanian(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorCACapria VenturesGVGVFL Ltd.HAHashkey CapitalPUPuzzle VenturesSESevenX Ventures

Marker embeds with client companies to build custom AI agents on its Marker Command Center platform, aiming to move organizations toward AI-native operations.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US

RBRichard Berwick(Founder)inWDWill Drevno(Founder)inDPDavid Pastewka(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorBEBetaworksINIndex VenturesLOLocalGlobeOTOtherwiseRARadical Ventures

Markov Studios captures screen recordings and interaction data from real computer use to create datasets that machine learning models can learn from.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

HAHarish Ashok(Founder)inDMDev Mandal(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorULUlu Ventures

Maxxwell is an orchestration tool for developers running many parallel AI coding sessions (such as Claude Code and Codex), consolidating them into one window and running a "conductor" session that monitors each lane, keeps stalled ones on track, and surfaces only the events that need human decisions.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools

Meditopia provides holistic wellbeing programs that combine psychology, technology, and wellness to support mental, emotional, and physical health.

Digital HealthMental HealthWellness & Fitness

BYBerk Yilmaz(Founder)inFatih Mustafa Çelebi(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsHIHighland EuropeSCScaleX VenturesSTStartersHub

Mentlio is an applied research lab that helps enterprise engineering teams measure AI tool spend against delivery on a per-engineer basis and reduce that spend using machine learning-based request routing, context optimization, and prompt compression.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

ASAshank Shah(Co-Founder & CEO)inADAhmet Demirbas(Co-Founder & CTO)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Mirelo develops generative AI models for audio processing in video production, serving both individual creators and large-scale production studios.

AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentBerlin, DE

FWFlorian Wenzel(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzINIndex Ventures

Mireye provides an API that converts geographic coordinates into structured, sourced data about physical terrain, buildings, infrastructure, and environmental risk for AI agents.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

ACAnsh Chokshi(CEO and Founder)inSKShashwat Kapoor(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Momenta is a venture capital firm focused on identifying high-potential companies in software-defined industry, industrial AI and robotics, and connected infrastructure sectors.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechIoT

Co-investorsMOMomenta VenturesLELeadout CapitalLOLorimer Ventures

Mosaic offers a tool that aggregates and centralizes AI coding sessions in one place, distributed via a Homebrew package for developers and AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

SPShubham Patil(Founder)inDRDorsa Rohani(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorRARadical Ventures

Nebula Security uses AI-driven security pipelines to accelerate vulnerability research in widely used software such as operating systems, browsers, and applications.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareVancouver, US

EZEten Zou(Founder/CEO)inYTYuan Tan(Founder/CTO)inFWFrank Wu(Founder/Security Research Lead)inXYXiaochuan Yu(Founder/VP of Vulnerability Research)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Nex builds AI agents that connect to 1000+ integrations to automate manual workflows across business tools like HubSpot, Gmail, and Slack.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US

N(Najmuzzaman (Nazz) Mohammad(Founder)inFDFrancisco Dias(CTO & Co-founder)in

Co-investorsLELeonis CapitalTOTogether FundY Y Combinator

Nominal builds a financial operating system powered by generative AI to modernize accounting and financial operations for companies.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

GLGuy Leibovitz(Co-Founder and CEO)inGKGolan Kopichinsky(Co-Founder and CTO)inStephanie Montelius(VP of Marketing)inYHYaara Hendel(VP of Product Management)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsBLBling CapitalHYHyperwise VenturesINIncubate USNENext47FOFounders Fund

Olam Labs builds multiplayer game environments — such as no-limit Texas hold'em, Risk-style conquest, Codenames-style word deduction, and market simulations — to study how AI agents negotiate, socialize, and compete alongside humans.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareGamingSan Francisco, US

OBOm Buddhdev(Co-Founder)inSSshreshth sharma(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

OneCLI is an open-source credential gateway that secures AI agents by injecting API keys at the network layer, preventing agents and LLMs from accessing credentials directly.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSan Francisco, US

GBGuy Ben Aharon(Founder)inJFJonathan Fishner(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

OneTriangle provides an inference optimization service that transfers KV cache between models — running prefill on a small model and decode on a large one — to reduce large language model inference costs and latency by around 20%.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools

Ooak Data is an applied AI research lab that converts real enterprise data into reinforcement learning environments for training AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareParis, FR

TAThomas Aubry(Founder - CTO)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

OpenRelay operates a distributed overlay network that connects consumer GPUs into a fault-tolerant mesh for inference workloads, automatically routing traffic around failed nodes without manual intervention.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US

PPPrashant Patel(Founder)inJWJaden Wang(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

OpenVector monitors video feeds to detect security events such as tailgating through building entrances and triggers automated responses like placing phone calls with attached clips.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsSaaSSan Francisco, US

AGAndrey Gizdov(Founder)inVUVishal Urlam(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Understudy Labs offers an open-source toolkit that captures traces from LLM production workflows, benchmarks and A/B tests cheaper or open-weight models against them, and fine-tunes and deploys specialist models that users own and can host anywhere.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

LMLuis Manrique(Founder/CEO)inAPAamir Poonawalla(Founder/CTO)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Osmaura helps corporate law firms identify and pursue new matter opportunities with clients.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSSan Francisco, US

KAKali Abeje(Founder)inJWJity Woldemichael(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Osseus builds a permissioned research brain that connects tools and data across R&D teams to surface past experiments, expert knowledge, and next actions.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkRobotics

AMAnish Mariathasan(Founder)inAPAyush Patel(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

OwnID's Liveness is a biometric verification technology that defends against fraud at the capture layer by detecting emulators, injection attacks, deepfakes, and signal manipulation, while maintaining fast user experience.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsCECervinINIncubate USGTGTMfund

Palette is a multimodal AI studio that turns a single prompt, image, or document into video, visuals, and structured content within one workflow, with editing, storyboarding, and character-consistency tools.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMarketing Tech

AWAmila Welihinda(Founder)in

Palisade provides AI agents for online marketplaces, giving each buyer a personal agent that knows the catalog and pricing, giving sellers/owners an agent that explains their performance data, and routing high-intent leads to the operator's team.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketplacesSaaSLos Angeles, US

JSJonathan Salama(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorBOBoreal Ventures

Palisade builds an AI security module that attaches to the Linux kernel via LSM-BPF to detect operating-system vulnerabilities—such as privilege escalation, remote code execution, and memory corruption—and deploy vetted fixes as kernel-enforced rules across an entire fleet.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeep Tech

Prince(Founder)

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Pango is an AI-powered operating system for e-commerce logistics that unifies shipping, tracking, returns, and post-purchase operations in a single platform.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainStockholm, SE

SRSteve Rahimi(Founder)inLRLukasz Reszczynski(Founder)in

Co-investorsHEHeartfelt CapitalWAWave VenturesY Y Combinator

Parasma develops algorithms and infrastructure to train living neural systems for computation, aiming to make advanced AI far more energy-efficient and accessible by leveraging biological neurons as programmable compute.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

SCSean Cole(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Peer Freight is a technology-based freight brokerage that uses AI to generate rate quotes quickly, vet carriers, and monitor shipments, while keeping human support available.

AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSan Francisco, US

FPFelix Peng(Founder)inAZAaron Zhang(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorALAlumni VenturesFLFlare Capital PartnersGAGaingelsGRGreycroftMAMana Ventures+1 more

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsREReach Capital

Perceptron builds custom AI systems for law firms, trained on the firm's own matters and deployed within the firm's own infrastructure.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTech

Petrarch operates a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of specialized datasets and proprietary information.

Enterprise SoftwareMarketplacesSan Francisco, US

SHSamuel Hahn(Founder)inILIan Lee(Founder)inSSSudhish Swain(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Phaidra develops an AI control platform that uses reinforcement learning to optimize energy efficiency and operational performance in data centers and AI factories.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep TechEnergySeattle, US

JGJim Gao(Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board Member)inVPVeda Panneershelvam(Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Board Member)inKHKatie Hoffman(Co-Founder, President, Chief Operating Officer, Board Member)inVPVedavyas Panneershelvam(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsCOCollaborative FundCOCool Climate CollectiveEAEast Valley VenturesFLFlying Fish VenturesINIncubate USINIndex Ventures+8 more

Pluto is an AI voice agent that captures professional information through a 10-minute conversation and makes users discoverable to recruiters and AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechNew York City, US

MPMaki Potamianos(Founder)inSSSahil Seth(Founder)inTXTony Xavier(Founder)inEmily Chen

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorMAMaveronSESeed Capital Limited

Polymer is a no-code business intelligence and reporting platform that connects to e-commerce data sources like Shopify and Amazon to generate automated sales reports, dashboards, and AI-driven insights.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureE-commerceMarketing TechSaaSNew York City, US

AGAshish Gupta(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsENEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)FLFlucas VenturesINIncubate USSISierra VenturesSOSommet ABOCOceans Ventures

Poth Labs builds an AI-powered survey platform that uses adaptive questioning and knowledge graphs to convert employee feedback, customer surveys, and market research into statistically validated insights.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

MHMojmir Horvath(Founder)inMWMatthew Wong(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Prism AI builds an AI platform for biomarker discovery and drug development from multi-omics clinical trial data.

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsEVEvolution VC PartnersUTUtah Innovation Fund

Prized is a low-code platform that enables non-engineers to build internal tools by describing them in plain language; the platform connects to existing enterprise systems with admin-approved connectors and maintains role-based access control and audit logging.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

MEMarinos Eliades(Founder)inHGHudson Griffith(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Promise is an entertainment studio that uses generative AI to help filmmakers and artists create films, series, and storytelling content.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

GSGeorge Strompolos(Co-Founder & CEO)inJBJamie Byrne(Co-Founder, President & COO)inDCDave Clark(Co-Founder & CCO)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzFIFirst Round CapitalKAKapor CapitalY Y Combinator

Promoted.ai provides ranking and search infrastructure for online marketplaces and e-commerce platforms, using machine learning to optimize relevance across search results, ads, and feed content.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketplacesSeattle, US

DHDan Hill(Cofounder and CTO)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsIMImmeasurableINInterlace VenturesY Y CombinatorMAMAGIC Fund

ProtoPie is a code-free interaction prototyping tool for design teams, offering collaboration features, developer handoff with automated interaction specs, and integrations with hardware, APIs, and multiple devices.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsMobility & TransportationSaaSSeoul, KR

TSTony S. Kim(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsATAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.LBLB InvestmentBSBSK InvestmentINIndustrial Bank of Korea

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsVEVermilion Cliffs VenturesESEssence Venture Capital

Rapidfolio automates manual processes for the financial industry using AI.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

NQNaveen Qureshi(Founder)inFVFrederik Vanhevel(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Rational provides AI agents that automate recurring accounts payable, close coordination, reconciliation, and document management tasks for finance teams, while keeping approvals and final decisions with human staff.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

JMJibril Moinuddin(Founder)inCXChrist Xu(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

ReFiBuy provides a platform for optimizing product data and visibility across AI-driven shopping environments and agents.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechRaleigh, US

MSM. Scot Wingo(Executive Officer, Director)inDerek Lee Conlin(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardSSStefan Sterns(Director)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsG2G20 VenturesINIncubate USKNKnoll VenturesCOCommerce VenturesINIncubate FundNENewRoad Capital Partners, LLC+2 more

Rekursiv.ai builds autonomous systems of AI models that act as "AI Scientists," forming hypotheses, designing and running experiments, and discovering new knowledge such as novel machine learning algorithms.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSan Francisco, US

JDJoshua Dillon(Founder)inDKDan Kondratyuk(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Rex is an agentic finance platform that connects to existing enterprise financial systems and automates manual operational finance work like collections, reconciliation, and portal uploads using AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US

LBLewis Blackwood(Founder)inMKMerlin Kafka(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorFOFounders Fund

Riften provides a routing layer that sits between a company's applications and large language model APIs, directing each request to the least expensive capable model and using self-hosted open-weight models where possible to reduce inference costs.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

CSCarl Stauffer(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Rigor develops a mathematically rigorous methodology for provable, continuous risk mitigation and security, targeting CISO, CIO, and security operations teams at enterprises, MSSPs, federal, and regulated industries.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintechSanta Clara, US

Navneet Y(Founder)RKRaghavan Kollivakkam(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsPRPrana Tech VenturesPRPruVen Capital PartnersUBUbiquity Ventures

Screenpipe is a local-first context layer that captures screen activity for enterprise AI agents, enabling them to act on real user behavior.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US

LBLouis Beaumont(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Shielded combines a company's internal datasets with external information sources to map how external prices and events affect margins and cash flow, continuously tracking supply chain and financial risks.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechLogistics & Supply ChainSan Francisco, US

James Simon(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Sidekick is a mobile-first work order and knowledge management platform that helps workers report maintenance issues via SMS text, automatically routes them to the right technician, and captures repair knowledge into a searchable digital archive.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

JSJustin So(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Simular builds AI agents that automate repetitive computer work for knowledge workers using a neuro-symbolic approach combining large language models with symbolic code.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Carlos, US

AAlanLALi Ang(Executive Officer)inALAng Li(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsANAngel Collective Opportunity FundFEFelicis VenturesFLFlying Fish VenturesSASamsung NextSTStartXBABasis Set Ventures+2 more

Spaceflow deploys and operates an on-premise enterprise AI stack—open frontier models, a governance gateway, and AI agents—that learns a company's existing systems and automates procurement and supply chain work such as reading supplier emails, comparing quotes, matching invoices to purchase orders, and routing approvals.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechLogistics & Supply ChainSan Francisco, US

EIEmre Isik(Co-founder and CEO)inHEHakan Enes Aksu(Founder)inAEAli Eren Aytekin(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Speko provides a unified API gateway for voice AI that benchmarks and routes speech-to-text, language models, and text-to-speech providers to the optimal stack for each call across 10+ languages.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

BABeknazar Abdikamalov(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Standard Machines is building reinforcement learning environments for long-horizon chip design tasks.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSemiconductorsSan Francisco, US

JPJacob Peake(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Studio builds simulated "societies" that model consumer cohorts of a market and runs a company's proposed decisions—such as price changes, product placements, or promotions—through them to forecast outcomes before launch.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSan Francisco, US

CMCameron Malloy(Founder)inNMNikita Mullangi(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorIMImpact46MEMerak Capital

TariffLo uses AI to audit importers' customs entries — reviewing entry packets, HTS codes, and ACE reports to find classification, rate, and origin errors — and works with a third-party broker to file Post Summary Corrections and recover overpaid U.S. tariffs.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSalt Lake City, US

BJBryce Judy(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Tenor builds managed AI "workers" that own defined jobs across a company — each with a role, manager, permissions, tools, and configurable workflows — so users describe an outcome in plain language and the worker builds and executes the workflow.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSan Francisco, US

AAAmgad Al-Zamkan(Founder)inHAHamze Al-Zamkan(Founder)inMOMuhtasham Oblokulov(Co-Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

EdTech

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsEAEarl Grey Capital

Touchmark operates a live order book for reserved AI inference capacity, letting buyers commit forward to blocks of tokens on named models at posted discounted prices while providers sell capacity ahead to lock in revenue against GPU buildouts.

AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US

IBIlia Bolgov(Co-Founder)inRYRoman Yanushevskyi(Co-Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Traceforce is an on-device security platform that monitors and controls AI applications, desktop apps, CLI agents, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors across an organization's device fleet, tracking tool calls and blocking dangerous actions in real time.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

XHXia Hua(Founder)inVWVarun Wadhwa(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Tracer is a research lab building Echo, an inference system that coordinates open-weight models behind a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for chat, code, and agent workloads.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorBDBDMINENewRoad Capital Partners, LLCPRProgress VenturesS4S4S VenturesTHThirty Five Ventures

Trident is an AI-assisted security platform for continuous web and API penetration testing and cloud attack-path analysis, connecting cloud assets, identities, data stores, and application findings to prioritize risks.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

DLDekai Li(Founder)inJMJunaid Mahmood(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorIFIFC

Trope is an AI-native platform that automates ERP implementation tasks including data migration, requirements documentation, configuration scanning, and change management for enterprise consulting partners.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

MCMatthew Chow(Co-Founder)inVVVictor Vannara(Co-Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

TryNearby is a subscription platform that pairs local restaurants with nearby content creators who visit, film, and post reviews to social platforms like TikTok and Instagram, using AI agents to handle matching, booking, and creator communication.

Creator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechLos Angeles, US

YAYousef Abdelfattah(Founder)inOAObaida Albaroudi(Founder)inAIAhmad Ibrahim(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

OpenTag provides cloud-based AI agents that operate inside team chat tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, running automations, maintaining a self-updating company wiki, and routing tasks to whichever of 80+ AI models fits.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS

Almanac provides an AI agent with its own dedicated computer, complete with a browser, files, and logins, allowing it to sign in and operate web tools directly the way a human would.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS

Vartana provides an AI-powered platform that streamlines the sales and financing process for technology and equipment vendors, enabling them to close deals faster with integrated proposal, payment, and financing options.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSales Tech

Kush KellaAhmed Sharif

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsACActivant CapitalAUAudaciousRERecall CapitalMAMayfield Fund

VCBench is a standardized benchmark that evaluates how well AI models and humans predict founder success in venture capital, scoring systems on a head-to-head leaderboard using anonymized founder-and-company profiles.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintech

VCRouter runs a benchmark that has multiple AI models complete real venture-capital tasks anonymously, then scores their outputs when actual outcomes become known.

AI & Machine LearningFintech

Vendo offers an open-source customization layer that lets a software product's end users build their own features and micro-apps on top of it, describing what they need so the interface assembles live components, actions, and automations.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

NZNour Zahzah(Co-Founder & CEO)inYHYousef Helal(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Verdict Machine builds an AI-based cybersecurity platform that maps a financial institution's on-chain environment, evaluates proposed transactions against its policies before execution, and provides cyber risk assessment, wallet screening, and security posture monitoring.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareTel Aviv-Yafo, IL

DDDan Danay(Founder)inIGIsaac Grossman(Founder)inLKLiran Kogan(CPO, Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Seattle, US

Simon Skaria(Founder)

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsINIncubate USTRTrilogy Equity Partners

VOLT AI is a video security platform that uses AI to analyze feeds from an organization's existing cameras to detect weapons such as guns and knives and identify other threats, alerting security teams and first responders within seconds.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEdTechGovTechSaaSWashington, US

Egor O(Co-founder)DSDmitry Sokolowski(Co-founder)inEgor Olteanu(Co-founder)Shannon(Marketing Leader)inJulia(Finance Leader)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsABAbstract VenturesINIncubate USFUFuel CapitalFUFuel Ventures

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsINIn-Q-TelINIncubate US

Waybill provides an automated procurement service for hardware teams, handling sourcing, supplier negotiation, freight, customs clearance, delivery, and inventory tracking from a single approved payment.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainGurugram, IN

TGTushar Goyal(Founder)inRLRishi Laddha(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Interviewing.io provides technical interview preparation services, helping candidates practice coding, system design, machine learning, and behavioral interviews with real interviewers from top tech companies.

EdTechSaaS

ALAline Lerner(Founder)in

PartnerYIYigit Ihlamur· solo GP

Co-investorsCHChapter OneULUlu VenturesWEWestbound Equity PartnersM1M13TETenOneTen Ventures

Whitespace provides AI agents that analyze business data to forecast demand, recommend inventory order quantities, and automate inventory management processes for wholesale distributors and manufacturers.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSLondon, GB

ATAlex Tung(Founder)inLYLeon Yao(Founder)in

Co-investorsMAMaC Venture CapitalY Y CombinatorCACaffeinated Capital

Zaplar is an autonomous operations platform for hotels that unifies rooms, events, spa, F&B, guest messaging, booking, and point-of-sale into one system.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTravel & HospitalityStockholm, SE

AAAxel Andersson Lingbert(COO & Co-founder)inOKOscar Karlstromer(CFO & Co-founder)inJMJon Milles(CTO & Co-founder)inDSDouglas Solberg(CEO & Co-founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator

Zomma Labs builds AI agents that automate repetitive work and system operations, enabling teams to focus on higher-value tasks.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

VAVarun Arumugam(Founder)inCFCashel Fitzgerald(Founder)inJKJihyun Kim(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y Combinator