Productivity Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

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.

Dropbox is building the world’s first smart workspace. Back in 2007, making work better for people meant designing a simpler way to keep files in sync. Today, it means designing products that reduce busywork so you can focus on the work that matters. Most “productivity tools” get in your way. They constantly ping, distract, and disrupt your team’s flow, so you spend your days switching between apps and tracking down feedback. It’s busywork, not the meaningful stuff. We want to change this. We believe there’s a more enlightened way to work. Dropbox helps people be organized, stay focused, and get in sync with their teams.

OpenWork is a desktop app that lets people connect to their existing skills, MCPs, and agents. Users can download the app for free, try it with over 50+ model providers, and easily share their setup with their team.

Syntropy is an autonomous coding agent built for complex long-horizon tasks, that turns a feature description into a fully tested implementation. Instead of babysitting a terminal for hours writing prompts and managing context, just describe what you want, go out for lunch, and come back to a production-ready PR. Syntropy joins your Slack to send you updates, and also supports custom MCP integrations.

Every great company in history was built on one thing: communication. Sila is an agentic workspace messaging & collaboration platform for teams and companies. Our mission is to lead the future where human-AI communication is the standard for work.

We learn how you work, and proactively create tailor-made automations you can deploy without you ever writing a prompt or relying on X for automation inspo.

Agent-first development environment. Emdash enables engineering teams to develop software faster, by running multiple coding agents in parallel. We're an open-source and provider-agnostic desktop application.

Robby is an AI growth engine for home services businesses that uncovers revenue opportunities and collects additional data from every technician visit. Our AI combines customer and third party data to generate dozens of new leads every day, and then arms the technicians with talking points to increase close rates, giving GMs a single command center to manage and drive revenue. We have several paying customers that are each uncovering 6 figures in additional revenue opportunities every week. On our first day of launch, we helped close $40k in new business within an hour. Our team has spent the last few months riding along with dozens of technicians and shadowing every position in the office to best understand the industry. We're also studying for the EPA 608 exam to become certified technicians ourselves. Vineet and Feroze have both built critical products and infra at prominent startups (Ironclad, Porter, Affinity, Uber, Cloud Health Systems). Joe previously consulted PE firms on software acquisitions and led home services growth projects at Bain. We all met at Harvard Business School, and dropped out to work on Robby full-time.

Unisson is building trusted AI subject-matter experts for teams that are responsible for customer deployments (technical customer success, implementation, sales engineering). Within 20 minutes, our agents learn to use any product and can be used by teams in Slack, text, or email. Our agents gather requirements and context from existing tools enabling them to handle complex tasks like customer health audits, onboarding, product administration, and custom integrations. With Unisson, customer-facing teams have 24/7 access to an AI SME, allowing them to scale and save thousands of hours.

Logical is a desktop AI that acts as a proactive and largely promptless copilot, designed to reduce the friction of using AI for everyday tasks. It transfers context across apps, and allows taking action on many apps with just a few clicks. Logical can assist with drafting emails, writing docs, noting meetings and can even automatically detect action items. Need to prompt? Logical can understand intent in much fewer words than a regular chatbot. Plus, user data is never sent to Logical servers. Logical is the AI resurrection of Clippy, but actually good.

Sciloop is building an AI Co-Scientist that automates experimentation and analysis for machine learning researchers, allowing them to test ideas far faster than today’s tools allow. We are Bilal and Osman, International Physics Olympiad medalists and the only Pakistanis admitted to MIT in our respective years, with several years of hands-on ML research experience inside MIT CSAIL. We have built large-scale training pipelines, worked with terabyte-scale datasets, and seen the research bottleneck firsthand while contributing to scientific ML projects. We left MIT to solve this problem directly and are now building a system that can eventually accelerate scientific discovery itself. https://sciloop.dev

Clicks is the AI-native BPO backed by Y Combinator. We replace traditional BPOs and shared service centers by automating back-office work with AI agents that operate your existing tools and follow your existing processes. We achieve higher accuracy and faster turn-around times at a fraction of the cost, with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliance built in.

Char is an open source Granola alternative that never locks you in. It's local-first and filesystem-based like Obsidian. Also, it provides ways to use on-device AI models or BYOK.

Trace is a workflow orchestration platform that gives agents shared context across systems and lets teams build visual processes combining AI and humans. It automatically identifies which tasks can be AI-automated and which need human input, so non-technical teams build and run workflows without engineering involvement.

The world's best AI video generator that turns your documents and/or prompts into whiteboard explainer videos. In addition, we have a similar product that generates podcast-style audio explainers from your documents/prompts. API access available for both video and conversational audio. Product of Red Tree Inc. Please reach out at founders@golpoai.com

AI that helps you fly through your inbox.

Magnetic scans client documents - from handwritten charity notes to excel spreadsheet Schedule Cs to multi-state K-1s - and enters them into tax software automatically, saving hours of tedious data entry. The accounting profession is facing a massive talent shortage, as graduates choose different professions and the old guard begins to retire. As a result, CPA and tax preparation firms are awash in clientele, but unable to keep up. At many firms, phones go unanswered, clients are "fired", and websites are taken down, as the existing workforce tries to handle the grueling 80 hour+ weeks necessary to push through tax season to the April 15th deadline. We built this because a former colleague who owns her own tax firm asked us to automate her workload, and we quickly realized the massive opportunity. Thomas brings deep domain expertise as the former Head of Product at Keeper (YC W19), where he built tax engine automation systems and an OCR form scanning system that outperformed everything else on the market. At Keeper, he leveraged early access to OpenAI's LLMs (well before ChatGPT) to build systems that automated the entire tax filing process, allowing a tiny team of CPAs to process thousands of returns with near zero busy work. Patrick was the first engineer at FunCraft, shipping multiple mobile games with 1M+ downloads and building scalable shared codebases. We've worked together since 2017, including co-leading multiple teams at Zynga as PM & Tech Lead respectively. The opportunity is massive - there are 80M US personal tax returns filed via professionals annually, in a $2B outsourcing market where individual CPA firms currently pay $100k-$1M per year for inferior services. We're positioned to capture significant market share by offering better accuracy & document coverage, instant processing, and superior user experience. We've built this kind of software before, we've worked together for years (and even lived together), we've built products to $10M ARR before, and we have the grit to outwork anyone in this space.

We spend our lives in messaging apps. Slack. iMessage. WhatsApp. We face a constant stream of information, introductions, and things we need to do. What if you could bring together every message, from every platform, in a Superhuman-like experience, with AI agents that automatically complete your action items? That’s exactly what we’re building at Pally; a future where you never need to check another inbox again.

Bond is an AI Chief of Staff that gives CEOs and busy executives real-time visibility into what’s happening across the company and tells them what to focus on. Saving execs 10+ hours a week.

You only need two tools to build a business in 2026 - Cursor for building and Clarm for sales, distribution, and support. Our AI captures inbound, qualifies buyer intent, and routes revenue across every channel while you build.

Orchid is a proactive work agent that connects to your inbox and calendar, handles tasks autonomously, and surfaces only the decisions that need you.

Den is a Slack/Notion-like platform that help teams get more done with general-purpose AI agents. We want to deploy trillions of AI agents into the mainstream workforce and unlock the most productive era in human history.

Praxim is the agentic AI word editor that makes edits across your entire word document with formatting control, file and web context, and your personal preferences in mind. Simply tell Praxim what you'd like to do with your document and Praxim will implement your changes automatically.

TamLabs is an applied research lab redesigning how knowledge work gets done.

Stamp is the first AI Native inbox. It's more than an email client, though -- it's like your second brain. Stamp can respond to emails in your voice, organize your inbox to filter out the noise, keep track of action items, and automate essentially every task you're doing manually in your inbox today.

Veterinarians spend 40% of their time on admin work, >20% on note taking alone. We're here to change that so they can focus on what really matters - providing the best care possible for animals.

Robust live speech translation models with 50+ languages and simple integration

ThirdLayer is an applied research and product lab building the next interface for human–AI collaboration. Our first product is Dex, an AI copilot for the browser. Think Cursor for knowledge work, optimized for speed and embedded directly where you work. Most web agents are built for set-and-forget tasks. But real work is fluid and messy—spread across tabs, tools, and evolving decisions. Dex transforms your browser into an intelligent, multimodal workspace that understands your intent through voice, text, and action. It enhances familiar interfaces, automates tedious steps, and removes the friction of handoffs. Beneath the surface, Dex is more than a browser agent — it’s a foundation for: ● Long-term, cross-modal memory grounded in real workflows ● A new interaction layer to replace static UI with a collaborative canvas ● Personalization: understanding how individuals approach tasks and navigate software We're building the infrastructure for adaptive, intent-aware systems that work the way you do.

Altrina automates SOPs to give humans back their time to do what matters. We have already significantly improved organizational efficiency for local governments, law offices, insurance brokers, consulting firms, and hedge funds. Formerly General Agency/Tessa AI

BrowserBook makes it easy to reliably automate the web. It's a Jupyter-style IDE for browser automation that combines a live browser, executable code cells, and an AI coding assistant to generate Playwright scripts that are deterministic by default. Developers use BrowserBook to build, debug, and deploy robust web automations, powering AI agents, QA workflows, and data operations.

Melder is an Excel add-in that brings AI functions and document support into your spreadsheets. Upload files directly into cells, use smart formulas like =GEN, and build automations—all without leaving Excel. Core features: - File-to-Sheet: Drop PDFs directly into cells, then reference them in formulas. - AI-Powered Functions: Write formulas like =GEN() or =EXTRACT() to summarize, classify, and analyze content. - Chat Assistant: Use our AI assistant to help build your sheets or answer questions from your data, live in the workbook. Business users use Melder to: - Accelerate diligence by extracting insights from data rooms - Review contracts by identifying key terms and clauses instantly - Run market research by pulling information from competitor websites - Synthesize transcripts by generating summaries from interviews and calls Melder brings the power of structured spreadsheet logic to the messy, unstructured data world—no coding needed.

Raycaster is an AI document workspace - think Cursor for regulated content, starting with life sciences teams to draft, edit, and review submissions much faster.

The AI-native document editor for long-form content. Create, edit and review with full end-to-end traceability and full searchability of your source documents. Perfect for regulatory, compliance and legal professionals.

Capitol AI is building a sovereign operating system for intelligence, designed for regulated, high-stakes institutions such as professional services firms, financial services, and government agencies. These organizations are overwhelmed by data and experimenting with generic AI tools that lack auditability, repeatability, and secure deployment. As a result, critical decisions are increasingly shaped by systems they do not fully control. Capitol runs entirely inside enterprise infrastructure and transforms proprietary data into structured, decision-grade artifacts such as due diligence reports, regulatory documentation, and executive intelligence. The platform is model-agnostic, fully auditable, and operates with no data egress, giving institutions durable control over their data, workflows, and standards.

Automatically organizes your team's emails and meeting notes. Find anything in seconds, get intelligent email drafts, and reclaim hours every day.

CodeViz creates interactive codebase maps to help engineers quickly understand and navigate code. Adopted by engineers at Amazon, Microsoft, and Roblox, CodeViz was founded by two ex-Tesla engineers to tackle the 75% of development time lost to reading code. Download today at https://codeviz.ai

OrgOrg is a suite of apps that keeps teams productive and healthy regardless of the size of your organization. Founded by the creator of Zenter (YC 07, acquired by Google and became Google Slides), OrgOrg is designed to be a natural extension of Google Workspace Apps to help run organizations collaborate better leading to higher productivity. Today the suite includes apps like: • Go links: Go links allows anyone in the org to easily name any link so team members can jump directly to the information that matters most: go/sales, go/production, go/anything-you-want. • Profiles with Personality: OrgOrg profiles are as insightful as they are delightful. They not only show you the expected org chart data, but also highlight accomplishments, how you like to work, and who you are as a person. • Goal tracking: Track, share, and collaborate on "big rock" goals on the cadence that makes sense for your team from daily to annually. • Branded New Tab: Keep the team focused the next major milestone, broadcast announcements, and keep important links top of mind every time a new browser tab is opened. • All Hands Q&A: Crowdsource questions, anonymously if desired, for large team meetings to make sure everyone's voice is heard, and the most top of mind questions are answered and recorded. • Smart Groups: Create rules based groups of people and use them to make sure the right people are in the right conversations and have the right access. For example, anyone with the title of "Software Engineer" should be in the #eng slack channel and eng@ google group. • On-call: Schedule smart rotations that take into account balancing the load and using signals from calendar schedules to make sure you don't waste time figuring out who can cover what in a fair way. Easily page the on-call from slack, API, or OrgOrg directly. • And more... All the tools you need so you can spend more time focusing on your core business, and less time focusing on the complexity that comes from running an organization.

Zuni is a Chrome extension that gives you AI capabilities in the sidebar of your browser. It can use what it sees on any of your tabs as context, and proactively helps you draft messages and emails.

Patched empowers Enterprise IT and Ops teams to build and deploy agentic workflows that can autonomously resolve tickets, service requests, and incidents.

An OpenClaw Framwork that builds an AI Workforce paired with an in-built CRM, that lives in your communication channels, is online forever, knows your everything about your business. and does the tasks on your behalf only so you can click "Approve" every morning. Build you own AI employees today... - Lead intake via Voice / SMS / Email and then updating the Contact / Matter / Case in the CRM. - Connects with Gmail / Outlook for AI to write replies (in draft for you to review) all ready to send, for every email that deserves your reply, so you don't spend time writing emails anymore. - Handles outbound sales completely, scrapes all the leads there possibly are on the internet, phone books, data brokers, and contacts customers, chats back and forth with them at scale, infinitely, parallely all at once. - Writes daily/weekly/monthly briefings and reports based on all the new context there is on the CRM every day/week/month. It finds out insights you possibly couldn't have found by looking at it all manually. - Customer Research AI agents: find powerful POCs of a company, check through your LinkedIn connection tree to find out how far apart in mutual connections you are from them, research their background, and send out intro texts / emails / call agents to connect you with the POC. and so much more. Contact us for enterprise needs.

You can think of Stempad as a Notion for science. It is the world's first true pen-and-paper alternative to fast scientific writing and collaborating. Quickly switch between different forms of technical visualization with the ease of a whiteboard and the convenience of your keyboard. Stempad allows you to share your work, collaborate in real time, store your data, annotate, write papers, plan, takes notes, create presentations, and so much more. Our vision is to make it easier and faster for students and scientists to digitize and share their scientific ideas.

Anara is AI for scientific advancement. We help researchers find, understand and write scientific documents, together. We started working on Anara two years ago. In that time: - we’ve grown to 3M users spanning hundreds of major colleges and research-led companies, - we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue, - 600M+ people have seen our content across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, - and we raised $3M from YC and the founders of Github and Reddit. We're a small, tight-knit team with huge ambitions. As a founding member, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $10M to $100M and then $100M to $1B+. If you’re excited by the idea of being a part of that, definitely reach out.

Quivr is an AI-powered customer support tool that helps teams draft responses, automate replies, and resolve tickets directly inside platforms like Zendesk or other helpdesk solutions. The platform augments agent productivity by reducing repetitive work and accelerating resolution time.

Circleback helps teams get the most out of every conversation with best-in-class AI-powered meeting notes, action items, automations, and search. For example, Circleback can automatically identify feature requests that come up in product demo calls and create Linear tasks for each of them, or update your CRM with customer details after a sales call. Before Circleback, Ali led the first integration of LLMs into the Stripe support product and Kevin worked on predictive analytics at Tableau as a senior software engineer.

Onyx is the open source chat UI connected to your company’s docs, apps, and people. We ingest and sync from all sources of information (Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Salesforce, etc.) to provide a centralized place for users to ask about anything. Imagine your most knowledgeable co-workers, all-rolled into one, and available 24/7! Check us out on Github: https://www.github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx Or visit our website: https://www.onyx.app/

The AI automation platform built for security teams and agents. Open source for builders. Tracecat provides everything busy security teams need to automate work — AI agents, workflows, cases, and an AI copilot that builds for you.

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/