Automation Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Ginkgo Bioworks is the organism company. We design custom organisms for customers across multiple markets. We build our foundries to scale the process of organism engineering using software and hardware automation. Organism engineers at Ginkgo learn from nature to develop new organisms that replace technology with biology.

Founded in 2011, Zapier is the #1 workflow automation platform for small and mid-sized businesses. By connecting more than 6,000 of the most popular work apps, Zapier empowers its users to make the most of the tools they already use—and to focus on what matters most.

Bizmark is the bespoke operating system for manufacturers. It connects the systems, spreadsheets, and knowledge a company already has, and turns them into optimized decisions and automated workflows: quotes priced in minutes, schedules that reflow when a machine goes down, inventory balanced between service levels and cash. Working product in weeks, not years. Building it with our first customers now.

Rapidfolio helps banks and fintechs fully automate back-office workflows like fraud investigations, KYB/KYC and loan underwriting, with accuracy and auditability. Built by fintech founders and operators, Rapidfolio is on a mission to ensure banks and fintechs scale their customer base without adding another back-office head count.

We are building a new way for AI to ground itself: a living database of real-time world facts. Our engine watches news, filings, databases, and the open web and compiles what it finds into structured facts. Each fact must compile, checked the way a mathematical proof is, so an agent citing it is citing something formally verified, not something plausible. Agents query it through our API and MCP to answer with what is true right now.

Insurf is the AI-native data and decision layer for health insurance. Our first product, Inveto, automatically turns denied healthcare claims into source-cited, physician-attested appeals, recovering revenue practices lose today. Every claim it resolves builds the coverage-decision graph, the proprietary dataset of real payer behavior that powers our next product, Surely, which prices the true cost of a health plan for employers and brokers.

Enjamb runs the entire drug program for biopharma teams, from discovery to FDA approval. Pharma runs on decades of closed legacy systems like Benchling, Veeva, Medidata, and SAS, with no AI layer and no MCP to connect agents to them. So we built that connection layer in one platform. Our agents run on top of their existing systems and data, with no migration, and do the work across the whole program: clinical evidence, trial design, statistical programming, and regulatory submissions. In just 3 weeks since launch, we're already being used by 500+ employees at top pharma companies, including Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck & Sanofi.

Describe an experiment in plain English, and Infera turns it into a validated, instrument-ready run across the equipment your lab already uses. Infera handles the protocol logic, vendor-specific scripts, data, inventory, and institutional knowledge in one system. An AI-native compiler for the lab: one system from intent to execution.

We deploy robots in warehouses to automate the most demanding job in logistics: unloading loose-loaded containers. Our customers include 3PLs (CEVA, Stord), distributors (DHL, PostNL) and many more logistics companies.

RamAIn can intelligently automate any super complex and repetitive process across applications (Browser & Desktop) super fast. It doesn’t matter whether you have API access or not - if you can see it, RamAIn can do it. Simply chat with it and get your UI task as a composable API - fully managed, self-healing and self-evolving!

Bubble Lab is the home base for premium professional communities. We help career networks, investor communities, and operator collectives launch branded member hubs with directories, applications, payments, Slack sync, onboarding automation, analytics, and warm 1:1 matchmaking — so a single operator can run a community that feels personal and high-touch, without the ops headache.

Tensr is building fully autonomous robotic factories that make scaling hardware as effortless as scaling on AWS. We’re a group of Berkeley graduate robotics researchers who previously won a full scale autonomous IndyCar competition at 160mph.

We are an AI research lab automating AI research. Our aim is to build a hill-climbing machine capable of solving humanity's greatest challenges in science and engineering, uncovering the next AlphaFold or Transformer faster, more systematically, and at scale. We treat discovery not as a matter of luck, but as a combinatorial search problem. Thesis will be the machine behind the defining breakthroughs of the next decade.

item connects to all your customer tools, gathers and enriches context automatically, and becomes your company’s source of truth — one place where your team and your AI agents share the full picture to act autonomously. At the center is the Assistant — your sidekick for daily work. It can send follow-ups, research leads, or add deals with a simple prompt. No complex UI, drop-downs or fields, simply ask. For repeatable work, you build Agents that you can train like new hires, simply by writing documents that describe your processes. item Agents run business processes across sales, support, and account management autonomously.

If you’ve got a lot to do, we believe AI can make things feel doable. Caddy is our core product: a Personal AI that helps you stay on top of everything going on. All you have to do is text. On overwhelming days, it’s super simple to just drop any task in a text thread, and Caddy will help you handle it. Caddy also keeps an eye on your calendars, chats and tasks to make sure you stay focused on what matters. If something needs you, Caddy will nudge you, or can just do it if you don’t have time. The best part is, no two Caddys are alike. The more you use Caddy, the more it learns your vibe, how you work, and what you care about. 

Aside is an AI browser that completes real work across the websites you already use. It can sign in through your browser, work inside email, dashboards, internal tools, docs, and spreadsheets, and keep going when a task takes minutes or hours. Unlike agents that depend on integrations, Aside uses the web the way you do. Browsing history becomes local memory, so it knows which tools and context matter. Its password manager lets agents autofill credentials without exposing secrets to the AI. Sensitive actions like payments, posts, and messages wait for your approval. Aside achieved a state-of-the-art on agentic browsing tasks. Aside is ranked #1 across Mind2Web, Odyssey, bu-bench-v1, outperforming Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Atlas's result.

Bravi is building the AI operating system for home-services businesses, using AI-powered customer communication as the wedge. We replace the front office (calls, chats, follow-ups) with AI agents that never miss a lead, then layer an internal AI copilot that understands products, pricing, and technical documentation. We started with fenestration (shutters, windows, garage doors), a large, complex vertical with no modern software, before expanding to adjacent trades. Bravi is already live with leading installers and manufacturers across Europe and the US, turning missed demand into revenue.

Lark lets teams write end-to-end tests in plain English. Validate dashboards, APIs, SDKs, and full product flows without maintaining fragile test code. Run continuously on feature branches, in CI, or in production.

Okibi is a web app that lets you create AI coworkers using natural language. It's like Lovable for creating AI agents that talk to your internal software Corporate users lose 2 hours every day doing tasks that can be automated with agents But existing agent builders have janky drag and drop UIs that don’t map to what they want exactiy. Okibi lets everyone use natural language to build the exact agent they want.

Nottelabs offers a platform to build and deploy enterprise-grade browser agents. We help companies cut costs and save time by automating repetitive tasks. Unlike others, we provide agents, tools, and infrastructure through a single API, making us the fastest path to reliable web AI agents in production.

Teach robots new skills through natural language and run reliably in production in minutes. Mbodi combines generative AI and agent orchestration, turning everyday language and quick demos into precise, reliable robot actions for industrial automation.

At Moby Analytics, we provide the first AI agentic platform built for financial auditors. Auditors easily create and deploy AI agents to automate audit workflows. No code, just prompts and domain expertise.

throxy builds custom vertical AI agents and pairs them with human SDRs and ultra personalised email sequences to book meetings for B2B software companies selling into traditional industries (e.g. manufacturing, logistics, construction, supply chain) Outbound is broken. Generic automation gets ignored and decision-makers in legacy sectors are hard to reach. Most of your TAM isn't even on LinkedIn, and tools like Clay, Apollo, and ZoomInfo only cover about 65% of the market. throxy fixes this by running bespoke, fully managed outbound systems for software sales teams trying to crack these industries. We use proprietary scraping tools to map your entire addressable market, then combine AI agents with human experts to deliver hyper-personalised email campaigns and human cold calling that is consistently generating six-figure qualified pipelines. Since 2023, throxy has powered outbound for B2B software companies, from industrial SaaS to fintech providers, replacing the need for internal SDR teams or stacks of tools with a solution that outperforms on both speed and quality. Today, we have a team of 55 across London and Cape Town, booking on average 8 to 12 qualified meetings per month per client, with some clients seeing 20+ in their first weeks after we doubled down on human-led cold calling. AI handles the data: building custom databases, scoring leads against your ICP, and personalising outreach at scale. Humans handle the conversations: real cold calls, real emails, real relationships. That's the difference between us and every AI SDR on the market. Our founding team has built AI at JP Morgan, scaled businesses from age 14, and led enterprise sales from Seed to Series D. We're not just automating outbound, we're redefining what sales execution looks like for software companies selling into traditional industries. throxy is the "AI SDR" purpose-built for the sectors software forgot.

We build robots for physical AI. Meet Axol - A dual-arm robot designed for real-world tasks using AI.

We’re building AI-powered systems that automate manual work in scientific labs using robotics. Scientists simply type their experiment in plain English. Zeon translates it into code and runs it on robotic arms (no coding required). By controlling robots with natural language, we’re enabling automation for every lab, every scientist, and every experiment. Zeon is lab-aware. It detects equipment, adapts to protocols, and moves autonomously between instruments to execute full workflows. We’re already working with labs at Stanford and UCSF to accelerate discovery - from running overnight nanoparticle fluorescence measurements to safely disposing of hundreds of bacterial samples. Zeon reclaims time for what matters most: the science.

Lucidic emulates model training without changing model weights. The last decade made models intelligent, but intelligence is not the same as experience. Humans do not get better by memorizing thousands of examples; we build learning systems around ourselves: skills, memories, critique, practice, tools, and guidance. And every person learns differently because every task is different. Lucidic brings that idea to AI agents by training a custom learning system for each agent, so it learns what to remember, what skills to build, when to ask for help, and how to improve from experience. The model provides the intelligence, Lucidic gives it a way to learn.

Quantstruct automatically creates and improves product documentation, implementation guides, and changelogs for API & SDK products, web-based enterprise software, and internal applications. Quantstruct identifies gaps in your knowledge base based on each product release or unfulfilled customer query. It uses multiple AI agents to search existing knowledge sources, test existing docs for validity and style guidelines, and clicks, scrolls, and uses enterprise software through a web browser to generate docs with embedded screenshots and video recordings. Quanstruct is available as a cloud service to start, targeting technical writers, content writing, professional services, and product teams. Traditional generative AI tools risk hallucinating critical API & SDK fields, even with RAG based approaches. Purely agent-based approaches risk providing unpredictable output that can diverge from desired documentation processes. Finally, no company’s review and publishing workflow is the same. Quantstruct is the easiest way to onboard and customize AI agents to continuously improve your documentation based on your customer needs and product evolution. https://quantstruct.com

We enable AI to control the browser. Browser-use is the biggest open-source web agent project. We got 40k stars in the last 3 months.

Asteroid builds and hosts AI browser agents for back-office tasks. With guardrails, evaluations, and human oversight, we deliver enterprise-grade reliability across millions of operations, even in regulated industries. Companies can build agents themselves or rely on us to deliver and maintain them.

x1 is an AI app builder that helps anyone create real, App Store-ready iOS apps. Users start with a structured product plan, design polished iPhone screens in a visual canvas, build features step by step, and prepare launch assets like App Store listings, screenshots, monetization, and analytics. Instead of generating one-shot AI demos, x1 gives builders a guided system for turning an idea into a real app.

Kilvin is an AI-native agency that builds custom software solutions for non-technical teams. With AI, the future of software is democratized. Every team deserves tools built exactly for them, not off-the-shelf SaaS products they need to adapt to. Kilvin makes it a reality, delivering a private, secure workspace of custom applications, built around your workflows and ready in days, not months. No engineers needed on your side. Just software that fits exactly how you work.

AutoComputer is a desktop robotic process automation system.  Given just a text prompt, our AI automates tedious tasks such as financial data entry by performing all the clicks and keystrokes for you.

Dexter helps procurement teams understand exactly where money is being spent and where it can be saved. Dexter's AI agents mine supplier invoices and contracts for insights, surfacing consolidation opportunities, contract leakage, and off-contract spend.

Leading enterprises use Callback to manage complicated, real-world workflows. We integrate with your systems, not the other way around. Our platform serves as an auditable and permissioned system of record for your operations.

Decisional is the fastest way to build self healing automation agents that work with the apps you use. You just ask for an agent in natural language, it builds and tests its own workflow that it runs constantly in the background.

We’re building the next generation of warehouse robotics. In the US today, retailers spend approximately $10B per year paying human laborers to pick up and move cardboard boxes in warehouses. Existing solutions for automating this are expensive and difficult to install, which is why manual operation is still so prevalent. Our solution is different. We make swarms of small mobile robots that install into existing warehouses to provide a low-cost and robust automation solution for case picking and mixed-SKU palletization. Our novel technology allows these robots to be installed and operate at significantly lower cost than existing solutions while being both flexible and robust.

Sage is a HIPAA compliant, AI-native communication platform that makes home care agency client-intake handling smarter, faster, and more reliable. Teams that use Sage can save over 100 minutes of busywork per prospect, freeing up their teams to manage a larger, faster growing business.

Elevate is bringing AI to private equity-backed roll-ups. For example, one of our customers is Guardian Restoration Partners, which is backed by Alpine Investors, the leading roll-up focused private equity firm. In three months, we integrated 10 acquisitions and enabled them to pilot AI agents built on top of our data warehouse. We know this problem personally. Before Elevate, Scott was a Vice President at a $15B private equity firm where he was leading a roll-up. Steve and Jeff are both software engineers with backgrounds across finance, big tech, and start-ups. The founding team has been friends for over a decade from their Duke undergraduate days.

FINNY is the AI-native organic growth engine for financial advisors, focused on helping them grow their practices Our goal is to empower financial advisors to reach the right potential clients at the right time, with the right message. We are building a world where anyone who wants financial advice can connect with the right advisor, while helping advisors ensure organic growth, the most existential problem advisors face. The organic growth process has historically been highly inefficient and full of noise. Advisors often waste 60+ hours of business development to convert 1 new client. At FINNY, we are certain we can do better with AI. With our tool, advisors can: - Identify prospects within their target niche, aggregating thousands of data points per lead - Prioritize prospects based on their predicted likelihood of converting using F-Score, a score unique to each advisor and prospect pair - Automate the outreach and meeting scheduling with their high priority prospects In essence, FINNY does all the rote work for the advisors, letting them focus on what actually matters: the client relationship.

Entangl uses AI to detect and automatically resolve issues in data center engineering and operations, ensuring efficiency and uptime.

Integuru turns any platform into a reliable, low-latency, and high-throughput API. Requests complete in 3 seconds with 99.9%+ success, including deployments above 1M requests/month/platform. No RPA or browsers. No data caching needed.

We build AI agents that automate healthcare admin workflows. Our agents navigate legacy hospital software like humans (using mouse and keyboard) and automate end-to-end workflows (starting with medical coding), freeing medical professionals from manual tasks.

Manifold is revolutionizing the spot freight procurement process for Carriers, Brokers, and Shippers. Our inaugural product transforms the booking process for spot shipments, significantly reducing empty miles and increasing revenue. We do this by aggregating spot shipment opportunities from a variety of shipper and brokerage sources into a single location. Andrew and Oliver bring deep domain expertise of freight from their pivotal roles at Convoy, where they were engineering leaders automating processes that were scaled to handle over 10,000 weekly shipments. This background has been instrumental in shaping Manifold's innovative approach. In just two months since launching Manifold has achieved $5,100 in monthly revenue, showcasing the pressing demand for our product. Manifold is poised to transform this $100+ billion industry. Not only will we streamline spot freight procurement operations but we will also redefine the industry's cost structure for the better.

Basalt is building Constellations as a Service, self-flying satellite constellations tailored for private enterprise and the government without any prior aerospace experience needed! Powered by our Diamond AI, Basalt provides a seamless experience, enabling users to fly and stream data and images from their own dedicated satellite constellation onto their phones and laptops. Basalt received its seed investment as part of the Y Combinator W24 batch, and has since launched Spirit-EEL, the world's first AI-controlled satellite constellation.

GetCrux is the AI Creative Strategist to launch winning ads. Creatives have become the biggest lever to win on ad platforms. Yet, there is no clear way to figure out why something works. Marketers end up guessing and replicating the best performing ad, only to see it fail - with high CAC & wasted dollars. GetCrux helps performance marketers find winning patterns in their ad creatives across 100+ parameters like hooks, messaging, storyline, music, pacing, and recommend exactly what to launch next.

Tracecat helps AI-native security teams build agents and automate work. Used by the most demanding security teams in mission-critical environments across defense, finance, federal and more. Open source and community driven at it's core: https://github.com/TracecatHQ/tracecat

Basepilot helps insurers, TPAs and MGAs streamline claims operations with line-of-business-specific AI agents. Companies like Old Republic International, Zurich & others use Basepilot to make claims operations more efficient, less costly and more intelligent. Basepilot is founded by Ken Hendricks and Pascal Wieler. Interested to try it out? Get started here: https://www.basepilot.com/

We create AI agents that constantly monitor emails, calendar, calls, or wherever else companies have relationship data and organize it into CRM records as meticulously as a great rep would. We build these agents on top of the DryMerge platform, a tool to build AI agents that integrate with business apps and work in the background.

Keystroke is an all-in-one platform for building internal agents and workflows. It's built from the ground up with coding agents in mind. Build agents and workflows as TypeScript in your own repo, then deploy them to a web app where your whole team can use them.

At Artisan, we’re building real AI employees - not copilots, not assistants, but autonomous teammates. Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR. She finds and researches leads, writes emails in customers’ tone of voice, runs outbound sequences, self-optimizes, and manages email deliverability infrastructure. She learns, adapts, and improves over time - just like a human would. Human team members use Artisan as their primary working platform, replacing a sprawling stack of sales tools, and have Artisans working alongside them. We went through Y Combinator (W24) and have raised $35M+ from top investors. We’re at $6M+ ARR, with hundreds of customers including Remote, Quora, and SumUp. We’re currently working on Ava 2.0, pushing the boundaries of what an AI employee can do. And we're hiring.