Operations Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Field technicians are bad at documenting their jobs, which paralyzes the back office. Kebra ends that. We guide technicians in the field and capture the exact job details the back office needs. Before the truck leaves the driveway, Kebra turns every job into complete notes, warranty claims, parts ordered, and follow-up sales opportunities. Over time, every job feeds your Company Brain, so your best technicians’ expertise never leaves the company. Kebra will power the first $100M-a-year field service company with no back office.

Rational builds AI coworkers for accounting firms. Our agents onboard themselves to the firm, build a company brain, and do the work, from month-end close to tax prep. In addition, they follow up with clients and communicate with the right members of your team.

Amulet helps post-sales teams monitor every account and automate the work that drives retention and expansion. Our agents connect to customer data (CRM, support, product usage, and communication data) to flag churn risks, surface upsell opportunities, track adoption, and draft the right messages for each customer.

Walter is an AI employee for manufacturing operations.

Rote handles the entire negotiation lifecycle between shops and insurance companies to help them recover thousands of dollars in denied claims. Shops today lose millions per year because they lack the resources to negotiate with insurance companies that undervalue repair costs. Rote's agents recover denied revenue by taking shop estimates and referencing technical repair data to autonomously file and defend shop claims.

Modern is consolidating the IT function into a single platform powered by secure, always-on agents who understand your business. Help desk, access, hardware, on/off-boarding, security, procurement are automated end-to-end inside the channels your team already uses (Slack, Teams, Email, Voice, WhatsApp, Telegram).

Sidekick is an AI-powered SMS assistant for frontline workers in manufacturing, auto dealerships, and retail. The idea came from Justin's father, who owns a manufacturing facility and asked him to build a tool to help with worker onboarding, training, and organizing company knowledge. Workers text questions in any language and get instant answers from their company's documents — no app, no login, works on any phone. They can send photos of equipment for instant identification or voice memos when their hands are dirty or they're wearing gloves. Managers upload documents and record video walkthroughs; Sidekick automatically generates step-by-step tutorials and a searchable knowledge base. When Sidekick can't answer, it escalates to the manager via SMS and learns from the response, getting smarter with every interaction.

Trellis is building toward a new hospitality platform: one that does not just help guests find homes, but actually operates them with agents. Our first wedge is short-term rental property managers, replacing their fragmented stack across guest messages, tasks, cleaners, maintenance, vendors, and owner updates with agents that run operations end-to-end. In two months, we’ve grown to $500k ARR across 35 customers and 3000 listings, growing around 15% week over week, with one customer already running day-to-day operations with no human involved.

Ontora is an AI Agent that interviews every employee to map how work actually gets done and identify bottlenecks. Consultants spend months doing this manually; Ontora does it in hours.

58% of the $400B call center industry runs on on-prem phone systems, and until now bringing AI voice automation to them meant ripping out their entire infrastructure first. That's the largest unserved segment in the market. Callab AI connects directly to legacy PBX systems like Avaya, Cisco UCM, and Mitel, and automates up to 70% of call volume with zero migration needed. We plug into these environments without requiring a rip-and-replace. We serve clients across three continents, including brands like Dunkin Donuts.

Arzana trains custom models on a factory's historical data and use them to deploy agents that automate their quoting, order entry, invoicing, and other repetitive office work. We've saved our customers over $1M in avoided staff costs. In the future, we'll expand into shop-floor automation, sending instructions to machinery and robots to produce the orders that our office agents processed. By 2035, we aim to fully automate 10,000 American factories.

Autostep maps how work actually happens across a company, finds repetitive tasks and bottlenecks, and ranks them by cost and impact. Then it fixes them by building agents inside existing tools, changing the process, or finding the right software.

MochaCare is an agentic management service for care organizations. We handle hiring, scheduling, and client intake end-to-end so our partners can focus on growth.

EigenPal.com automates your document processing workflows with AI. KYC docs, invoices, claims, shipping forms, contracts, receipts, loan docs - we automate that. Works on messy scans, handwritten forms, third-party docs. Powerful workflow builder and team functionality. On-prem ready or use our cloud.

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.

Corvera (YC W26) is the context layer for AI-native CPG brands. We help brands unlock the full potential of AI by making their unified data legible to any AI tool via MCP. As of mid-March 2026, we scaled from $0 to $33k in MRR in 4 weeks, are serving 12 brands, and are growing 130% week-on-week. With Corvera in place, brands can enable anyone in their organization to: - Rapidly deploy AI agents via tools such as Claude and ChatGPT, - Build dashboards and apps using Cursor and Lovable, and - Automate workflows across the entire business, from category management to supply chain. All in a secure, audit-logged, and access-controlled environment, without the need for a team of data engineers or AI specialists, in a simple plug-and-play solution. We're founded by Chris (2x Founder; ex-CEO at Better Nature; Forbes 30U30), Dirk (ex-Google Data & AI Lead), and Matthew (ex-Head of Product at Rosemark; Princeton MEng in CS). To-date, we’ve raised $6.2M and are backed by YC, firstminute capital, 6 Degrees Capital, 20VC, Rebel Fund, Duke Capital Partners, and more. Our ICP are omnichannel retail-focused CPG brands at the $100M+ revenue inflection point. Our mission is bold: to enable the next generation of unicorn CPG brands to be run by teams of less than 10 people. Our vision is even bolder: to be the system of intelligence for the $5.4T global CPG industry. Visit www.corvera.ai to learn more!

*Eliminate your Finance Operations grunt work!* ⚡Computer Agent logs into existing systems (e.g., ERP, Accounting, other CFO systems) ⚡Automates Finance processes (e.g., pricing, billing, month-end) ⚡Uploads & submits in your system (e.g., create journal entry) *The Blockers ➜ Your Finance Systems:* Finance Operations is buried in repetitive tasks, driving: ❌ Lack finance visibility for decision-making ❌ Wasted time by in-house or outsourced teams ❌ Mistakes and delays from human-driven processes Barriers to FinOps automation have included: 🚨 Legacy ERPs with limited AI 🚨 Authentication-protected websites & portals 🚨 Too many Finance Systems that lack full integrations It doesn’t have to be this way. ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ *The Breakthrough ➜ Zalos:* Zalos Agents run your rule-based processes, using your existing Finance applications: ⭐ Our agents automate processes based on simple instructions (e.g., Screen Recording, PDFs) ⭐ Native handling of ERPs or other applications (e.g., 2FA, Captcha) ⭐ Superior performance from our FinOps libraries (e.g., Data Extraction & Harmonization, Reconciliation, etc.) Customer story: FROM: In the Bay area, a Finance Manager was wasting 8 days (!) per month: ✖️ Downloads transactions from Corporate Credit Cards & legacy Banks ✖️ Uploads into NetSuite and manually categorizes 100s of transactions USING ZALOS: Finance Manager schedules ‘run process’ weekly: ✔️ Zalos handles 2FA to download & submit required transactions ✔️ Zalos operates NetSuite to categorize >60% outstanding transactions * No browser required: Zalos works silently in the background, whilst continuously improving itself. Gaining 2 days per week was transformational. The Finance Manager could 🟪 Reduce financial risks with closer inspection (e.g., debt covenants) 🟪 Catch cash leakages by spotting suppliers being paid at generous terms 🟪 Be a strategic partner to the CEO & business with better analysis ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ Zalos transforms your Finance Operations: ☑️ Scale without headcount - don’t let Operations teams be a bottleneck ☑️ Smarter every day, with evals & RL-finetuning driving a self-performing system ☑️ Built for Enterprise-grade security and screen records every automation for audit ➡Interested? Request demo here: https://www.zalos.ai/contact-us

RowFlow replaces clunky web forms with natural conversations that run over text, slack, or wherever your users are. Our platform increases your form’s response rates while cutting your internal overhead in half. With RowFlow, you can take any existing form and instantly convert it into an AI-powered conversation. New flows launch in minutes and reach respondents over your preferred channel or embedded chat. We guide the exchange, follow up automatically, and return clean structured data without extra work from your team. Forms power billions of business interactions yearly. Whether it’s forms for client intake, registrations, compliance, feedback, or surveys, they all follow the same painful pattern: low conversion, messy data, and frustrated users. Teams have long tolerated forms only because there's been no scalable alternative for collecting structured information from people - until now. Our goal is for RowFlow to become the new default way for how organizations collect user data in an AI-first world.

Pollen is building AI agents that autonomously improve retention. Pollen monitors every customer account to detect back-tested churn and upsell signals by connecting to your communications, support tickets, product usage, and CRM. Then, Pollen tells your team exactly which accounts need attention today and decides what to do next.

Smartbase is an AI-native ERP for manufacturers.

Socratix builds AI coworkers for fraud and risk teams so that humans don't have to spend their days drowning in alerts and spreadsheets. Today, fraud and risk teams at fintechs and banks are overwhelmed. Analysts jump between tools, manually stitch together context, and make judgment calls under pressure, often for hundreds of alerts a week. Too much of their work is slow, repetitive, and error-prone. We're here to change that. Socratix gives fraud and risk teams AI coworkers that investigate alerts in real time, replacing manual reviews with fast, explainable decisions. Socratix agents plug into existing workflows and reason across signals just like human analysts to help teams reduce fraud losses, minimize false positives, and scale operations without scaling headcount. We've seen this problem firsthand. At DoorDash, Riya helped save $30M+ a year by building smarter fraud detection and investigation tooling, and at Unit21, she built products for analysts that made them 3X faster. We're able to build and sell enterprise-grade software. At Cruise, Satya built scalable AI systems powering petabyte-scale data, and at LinkedIn, he built enterprise products from 0 to 1 generating $50M+ in incremental revenue. Now, the two of us are teaming up to eliminate the manual toil in fraud and risk. We're obsessed with fraud, LLMs, real-world automation, and the messy edge cases traditional ML has trouble handling. We believe that every fraud analyst should have an AI coworker - and the future of fraud will involve combining human-level reasoning with machine-speed execution.

End-to-end accounting workflows executed by AI agents. - Invoice capture + upload to ERP/POS - Invoice payment + reconciliation - Tax filings - CFO insights on demand

Atlog creates voice agents with built-in compliance. Companies use Atlog to automate their calls and texts without worrying about getting sued.

Morphik helps Skilled Nursing and Senior Living organizations increase their NOI by automating repetitive manual tasks like AP, billing and collections, nurse admin work.

SalesPatriot is a back-office operating system for distributors and OEMS. We build custom AI workflows for sales and supply chain teams to manage procurement, requests for quote and purchase orders. In large orgs that operate as key nodes of the supply chain data is scattered across twelve systems. Quotes get lost and Executives lack visibility. Supply chain workflows are time consuming because data isn't where it needs to be in the format it needs to be. Employees are stuck between their email, ERP, CRM, marketplaces, and spreadsheets instead of winning business and protecting margin.

Paragon is the AI growth engine for distributors and manufacturers, freeing up staff and growing revenue on autopilot.

Vortexify is an AI application platform that enables developers and domain experts to build production-ready software with AI agents. Instead of writing thousands of lines of code, users can connect enterprise data, describe the problem they want to solve, and collaborate with AI agents to generate secure applications for data-intensive business processes. The platform contextualizes millions of rows of data, and provides the runtime, execution engine, and UI framework agents need to generate and deploy custom applications through two integrated products: the Agent Data Warehouse, a data foundation for enterprise data, and the App Playground, where AI agents build and deploy applications using that data. The Agent Data Warehouse connects to enterprise systems, continuously ingests and contextualizes operational data, and provides a unified understanding of your business. By transforming raw enterprise data into AI-ready context, the ADW enables agents to reason across systems and build intelligent applications. The App Playground is a development environment built on top of the Agent Data Warehouse where developers, engineers, and domain experts collaborate with AI agents throughout the entire application lifecycle. Agents help users discover and define business problems, explore and understand enterprise data, plan and design solutions, and ultimately generate production-ready applications, including business logic, data pipelines, workflows, automations, analytics, and custom user interfaces.

Crouton is the living map of your organization. It’s for founders and operators at growing companies who need to understand how people, teams, roles, and ownership actually fit together. Today they piece this together from org charts, Notion docs, spreadsheets, Slack, and memory and then redo it every time something changes.

We build AI agents for fintechs that own accounts from approved to transacting, chasing over WhatsApp, email, and SMS, and run customer ops: reviewing 100% of interactions, routing issues, coaching agents. Rho, Qonto, and Lesaka see 120% more recovered accounts and 99% less manual QA.

Expanding to other geographies and marketplaces is a massive growth lever for brands and manufacturers, but it’s complex and resource-intensive. Omnidock makes it effortless for merchants to sell on multiple marketplaces by acting as their merchant of record. Brands simply plug into our operating system, which reads their catalog, assesses marketplace eligibility, and auto-launches their products through our pre-vetted marketplace accounts. We handle all transactions on their behalf, removing the challenges and complexities of multi-marketplace selling

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.

Lucible is a combined checking and investment account that allows you to invest 100% of your money while still being able to spend it. Whenever you spend, we issue a loan in real time, using your investments as collateral, to cover the cost. This is the most capital and tax efficient way to manage your money. It's what the ultra wealthy already do to finance large purchases, and now you can do it for every day spending.

Residential contractors are drowning in office work. Drillbit automates all of it. We use AI receptionists and an LLM based quoting tool on top of our own CRM to entirely manage jobs from lead, to quote, to scheduling, to staffing, and even collecting payment.

Consumer enterprises have millions of customer support tickets annually. They need to constantly evaluate support agents’ performance and compliance. Typically they evaluate less than 5% of those interactions manually which is slow, expensive and not scalable. Intryc's AI can evaluate 100% of all customer interactions, in real time, at half the cost.

Mica's AI agents replace the data ops teams fixing bad data. When bad or missing data breaks the pipeline, and orchestration, retries, and monitoring fail, painful manual review work kicks in, pulling humans in to investigate and patch data issues across systems. Mica does what those humans do: gathering the right information from internal docs and external systems, reasoning across context, and resolving errors autonomously to get the pipeline moving again. The result: dramatically reduce time, cost, and operational drag as your data pipelines scale without scaling ops headcount. Mica turns judgment-heavy data fixes from a manual bottleneck into an automated background process with full auditability.

Set up Parahelp in just 1 day without engineers to resolve your complex support tickets end-to-end. It connects with your existing ticketing system (such as Zendesk, Intercom, Front), tools (like Stripe, Slack, Linear), knowledge, and procedures.

Superunit deploys AI voice and email agents to complete employment verifications for background check companies—faster, cheaper, and more compliant than internal teams or outsourced call centers. Our agents call and email employers, collect verification data, and log every interaction for audit and compliance. Customers are replacing manual workflows with Superunit to scale without adding headcount or compromising quality. We work with background screeners and banks to process thousands of verifications per month.

Triply (Formerly Tripitaca) is the operating system for travel businesses in Africa. We eliminate operational chaos by unifying payments, Invoicing, payroll, accounting, operations, and more into a single platform allowing travel businesses to execute and sell more efficiently.

CommodityAI builds intelligent automation agents for some of the most operationally complex businesses in the world: physical commodity traders. In trading operations, critical data is often buried in spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, and legacy systems — making workflows slow, error-prone, and overly manual. CommodityAI acts as a digital operator, continuously reading, interpreting, and updating information across the trade lifecycle to keep records accurate and systems in sync. Our agents extract and validate key details from trade confirmations, contracts, vessel updates, and more — turning scattered, unstructured data into clean, structured records that flow directly into CTRMs, ERPs, and other core platforms. No manual entry required. By automating what others still do by hand, we help trading teams move faster, reduce risk, and focus on the decisions that matter most.

Saga AI deploys voice agents for healthcare practices, ACOs, and health systems to handle scheduling, patient intake, and care gap outreach. Agents connect directly to your EHR in real time.

Want to apply AI to your IT Helpdesk queue? Risotto helps you grant software access, limit access/permission grants by time, serve knowledge, and get approvals from people like managers. All using natural language directly in chat (AKA "ChatOps") IT teams spend too much time manually provisioning software and answering the same question repeatedly. We help them improve resolution times, reduce SaaS spend, and enhance security with 24/7 automated software access and IT support. Check us out at: https://www.tryrisotto.com

The AI-native Customer Intelligence Platform purpose built for post sales teams. Wavelength brings your entire customer data stack into one place - with powerful AI agents that uncover important signals and act instantly

At Toma, we are building the AI software suite for underserved industries, starting with Automotive. We started as a voice AI infrastructure company and still are our own biggest customer to this day. Our product empowers hundreds of businesses with a world-class AI receptionist and customer support platform. Toma’s AI agents engage in thousands of customer interactions every day and generate millions of dollars worth of revenue. Why Automotive first? It is a sleeping giant contributing trillions of dollars to the GDP. The industry and its processes are ready for disruption. Toma is bringing AI to all operations in the industry while working hand-in-hand with some of the biggest names, such as the Car Dealership Guy, and public companies like Lithia Motors and AutoNatio. Toma is backed by the best investors in Silicon Valley, including Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator.

Carma is building an AI-native platform that transforms fleet operations from tedious, manual work into effortless, automated workflows. We’re the fastest-growing company in fleet management software. Carma already powers some of the largest fleets in the U.S., including Fortune 500 clients, saving operations teams thousands of hours by eliminating busywork and keeping vehicles on the road. Backed by Soma Capital, Y Combinator, founders of Superhuman, and Tier-1 investors, we raised our $5.5M seed and are sprinting toward a Series A in 2026. We’re hiring the top 0.1% of engineers who want real ownership and impact—starting Day 1, you’ll build and ship fast to production for enterprise clients. Fleet operations run in real time, so your work is immediately used in the field and gets real customer feedback in hours, not months.

Salvy is a mobile carrier for businesses in Brazil. Over 1800 companies use Salvy to manage over 20,000 mobile lines, cutting costs by over 50%. The founders have worked many years together in Brazil's largest fintechs (Nubank and EBANX). Today, every carrier in Brazil has roughly the same network quality - it isn't a differentiator. If you're an IT manager who needs to deploy 2k lines, you want an integrated and seamless solution. You need to deploy this resource, fast. Salvy provides a software layer that makes deploying and managing mobile lines a fast and efficient process, integrated with HRIS, ERPs, and others. This is a massive market: there are 55 million b2b mobile lines in Brazil, which adds up to 5 billion dollars in ARR in just one country.

Letterbook is the AI-native alternative to Zendesk, Freshdesk, Zohodesk, and Intercom. We help companies manage and resolve customer support tickets across email, in-app feedback, and website forms. Our AI will triage your tickets, write replies, and build your knowledge base.

Automate and strengthen manual risk and compliance operations for fintechs and banks. Given a third party contracts and documentation, Kobalt’s reasoning engine ingests internal policies and procedures, legal commitments, past privacy and compliance assessments, and syncs with external legislation to instantly auto-surface and track risks. We're helping community/regional/sponsor banks increase revenue and scale their partnership and vendor volume, and we're helping fintechs conduct their partner diligence in 1/10 the time, all without needing to increase headcount.