Operations Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

Sarah AI is building the AI-native operating system for consumer goods brands—an autonomous supply-chain brain that replaces legacy ERPs and actually runs the business. Founded by Chris (2x Founder; ex-CEO at Better Nature; Forbes 30U30) and Dirk (ex-Google Data, Analytics & AI Lead), we’re backed by YC (W26). In our first month full-time, we’ve raised $1.6M and secured rapid commercial traction with 15 design partners and a growing pipeline of 30+ brands. Our mission is bold: give CPG brands completely hands-free supply chains that run themselves through Sarah, their AI ops assistant. We’re now growing a small, world-class team of builders excited to reinvent how physical goods companies operate—end-to-end, autonomous, and AI-first. If you want to work on hard problems, ship fast, and define the future of autonomous operations, you’ll feel right at home here.

Mantle connects to all your tools: your CRM, Mail, Calendar, Payments, Product Analytics, and more. With just one prompt, you can create agents that handle back office work for you. These agents can automate reports and email them to you, drafts emails right in your email client, generates pre-meeting research directly in your calendar event, and much more. They run quietly in the background, react to changes in real time, follow a schedule or work when you chat with them. You didn’t start up to stay stuck in admin. Turn your company AI-native with Mantle.

*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.

Tesora builds AI-Native Software for Operations and Finance Teams at enterprises, manufacturers, distributors, small and mid-market businesses.

Lark is a modern billing platform with the flexibility to support any pricing model (flat-fee, credit-based, usage-based, hybrid, dimensional, outcome-based, etc.) at any scale. Whether you're building an AI powered API service or a B2B SaaS product, Lark provides the tools you need to implement complex billing logic without the hassle. Jack and Vijit previously built a usage-based billing system for a large billing provider.

We help people understand their agent workflows and where they went wrong. We met early on at MIT and built a bunch of projects together for fun. Of course when the AI wave took over, we were excited about agents. We made our own agents, and we always found it annoying figuring out if they consistently worked or not. We believe that it should be easy to know what your agents are doing and why, no matter the use case or the tech stack. So that's exactly what we're helping companies achieve; we started building a few weeks ago and are working with our design partner to get deep observability and insights into their agent executions. The future is autonomous; AI agents will be everywhere. Mohi can make sure that we humans know what these agents are doing.

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.

Build automations that take action across all of your connected apps. Quicker than doing it manually, simpler than writing code, and cheaper than hiring an engineer. Connect Gmail, Notion, Airtable, Slack, Linear and lots more.

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.

The rapidly growing creator economy ($250B+) consists of millions of solo entrepreneurs still managing complex business finances with spreadsheets and a patchwork of disconnected tools. They face volatile multi-source income, unique business expenses, and daunting U.S. tax obligations: leading to significant stress, lost time, and missed financial opportunities. Beluga Labs is building the financial operating system for these modern solopreneurs. Our platform starts with intelligent bookkeeping: we connect all their financial accounts, use AI to automatically categorize income and expenses, and assess their potential tax deductibility, giving creators a clear picture of their business finances and tax preparedness. This core solution, already actively used for expense management and tax Q&A, is the first step. We will rapidly expand to automate quarterly tax filing and payments, then provide integrated tools for S-corp formation and management, payroll, and benefits: truly becoming the 'Rippling for content creators.' Our success means creators save more money, reduce administrative burdens, and can confidently focus on their craft and growth within the creator economy.

Instantly deploy custom research agents to source and enrich specialized professionals, company data, and insights directly into your existing systems.

LineWise is building an AI assistant for manufacturing teams to operate and resolve production issues, from defects to breakdowns. LineWise automatically extracts frontline know-how from live video recordings, turning them into structured SOPs and training guides. It also ingests generated SOPs, machine manuals, and past breakdown logs to suggest the most probable root causes when issues occur. Operators receive step-by-step guided troubleshooting, and as they confirm outcomes, LineWise learns from each resolution - converting every fix into a reusable playbook and proactively recommending preventive actions to cut future downtime.

SalesPatriot is a back-office operating system for defense firms. It helps you find, review, and bid on RFQ solicitations, both directly with the Pentagon and as a subcontractor. US Government procures billions of dollars worth of parts and products every year, yet the procedure is riddled with red tape and repetitive, manual work. Nelson worked at a manufacturing firm during his gap year prior to attending Berkeley. As the Chief of Staff, he witnessed first-hand the tedious process of finding great contract opportunities, the lengthy solicitation preparation process, and paper-based communication between departments. He teamed up with Ben and Maciej, whom he met during Berkeley's M.E.T. admit day. Both of them had extensive experience in AI research and applications, which they applied to creating a powerful framework for humans and AI agents to collaborate during the lifecycle of a contract. With SalesPatriot, your firm can run on autopilot - we find suitable contracts automatically, ingest RFQs from primes, streamline the communication between the departments, and provide analytics to improve your win rate. Wether you are a manufacturer, reseller, or distributor, SalesPatriot can reduce your manual tasks, increase throughput, and boost your revenue.

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

Rulebase builds AI coworkers that help banks and fintechs review 100% of customer interactions in real time. Our agents flag compliance breaches, high-risk issues, and quality gaps across calls, chats, and emails — then route them to the right teammates. The result: up to 30% fewer escalations and QA cycles reduced from hours to minutes.

AI procurement agents built for European enterprises. Automate intake, sourcing, contracts, due diligence, and 3-way match.

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

Callback is AI-native business process outsourcing. We help our customers stay focused on their core business while we use AI to automate tasks like invoice processing, PDF report parsing, and data labeling.

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.

Simple AI makes it easy to build and deploy enterprise-grade phone agents in days, not weeks. Iconic businesses use us for sales calls, customer support, leads qualification, and more.

Pre is an AI-powered execution system for startup founders who are serious about building real companies. Set a 10-week goal, connect your tools, and get pushed to do your highest-impact work every week. Pre doesn’t track effort… it tracks outcomes, and it holds you to a higher standard.

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.

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

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 several background screening organizations and are processing 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.

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

Assembly is a customer experience platform that turns customer feedback into product growth and support requests into long-lasting relationships.

At Toma, we aim to become the Microsoft/OpenAI of the Automotive industry by supplying a fully integrated AI + software suite to tens of thousands of profitable automotive dealers in America, and then worldwide. Step 1 is to provide the world’s best voice AI solution for the automotive industry, serving departments from service to sales to finance to information technology. Toma’s voice agents do thousands of AI calls every day and generate millions of dollars worth of revenue for automotive customers. The automotive industry 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 Cox Automotive. Toma is backed best investors in Silicon Valley and the Automotive industry.

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.

Kobalt has built an AI copilot to automate 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.

Elyos AI is a fully autonomous AI Agent, built specifically for trades and field services businesses.

Fragment’s premise is that every company using AI will need humans in the loop, and software for the handoff between AI and humans. We start by helping operations teams in fintech companies with task management for their manual processes (onboarding, compliance…). Building on top of this, we make it easy to increase automation by adding a layer of human supervision.

Nowadays is an AI copilot that automates the boring parts of planning corporate events and retreats. For example, our AI can contact venues by email and phone to get availability, deal with back-and-forth negotiations, and present the best options.

Parea AI is the essential developer platform for debugging and monitoring every stage of LLM application development. We provide testing, evaluation, and monitoring in one unified platform. These capabilities help developers get visibility into LLM responses, quickly test and optimize prompts, and ensure customers get the best user experience.

Car washing is a $15B market in dire need of disruption. Legacy systems are costly, out of date, and inflexible. We are building modern solutions to help car wash operators manage and grow their business.

## What is Yuma AI? Yuma is automating customer support by providing an AI Support Agent orchestration platform. Yuma provides autonomous AI agents dedicated to customer service and e-commerce. We integrate directly with help desk software (Zendesk, Kustomer, Gorgias, etc.) and focus on helping large Shopify brands deal with their high volume of support requests. Top merchants using Yuma can automate up to 80% of their support tickets fully autonomously. ## Why do Shopify merchants need Yuma? There are thousands of large Shopify merchants around the world generating $10M+ a year. Most of them have taken over some niches and are great at what they do: selling their products. But they all have one thing in common: they all hate customer support. It's a burden for them and a huge source of cost, as they receive hundreds of requests per day. Some of them have dozens of support agents on staff, usually offshore, and the overall quality is still often pretty poor while staff turnover remains high. Those merchants have been promised automation for years but have always been disappointed by the outcome. As customers, we have all had to live through a terrible support automation experience before, so this is no secret, and everyone knows that the current state of the technology is quite bad. ## Yuma is solving this in a few ways: Yuma isn't just another RAG chatbot. Our platform provides autonomous AI agents dedicated to support and ecommerce. These agents are powered by knowledge, follow processes, and are managed by our in-house AI orchestration technology. This ensures safety, control, and quality at every step. We believe that to truly automate customer support, we must develop a platform that mimics the actions of a human support agent. That's exactly what we've been doing. Currently, our top merchants are automating 60% of their support tickets through Yuma. Yuma can fetch information from external services and take actions in other apps as needed to resolve each ticket. We are laser-focused on building the best AI support agent platform and aim to achieve 80% true automation in the next few months. ## Fun Fact Yuma got started by accident. This is my third YC startup after Socialcam (W12) and Triplebyte (S15). I released Yuma as a prototype for fun in mid-December 2022 and was overwhelmed with demo requests. That's when I knew I was onto something and had to turn this into a real company, once again.

With Kyber, companies operating in regulated industries can quickly draft, review, and send complex regulatory notices. For example, when Branch Insurance's claims team has to settle a claim, instead of spending hours piecing together evidence to draft a complex notice, they can simply upload the details of the claim to Kyber, auto-generate multiple best in-class drafts, easily assign reviewers, collaborate on notices in real-time, and then send the letter to the individual the notice is for. Kyber not only saves these teams time, but significantly improves consistency, compliance, and personalization.

Traditional automation software is slow and expensive, Automat is 10X faster and 1/10th the price. It lets operations teams automate using video and natural language. 🧐 The problem: Traditional Robotic Process Automation is slow and expensive. 💡 Our Solution: Automat makes it 10X cheaper and faster to build any robotic process automation using natural language on any operating system We’re solving this by creating a platform that enables robotics process automation for Chrome using large language models and computer vision. Currently our customers send us descriptions or videos of the processes they’d like us to automate and we use our internal tooling to quickly build out those automations.

TableFlow builds AI teammates for data tasks, helping operations and data teams automate the messy, manual tasks buried in PDFs, spreadsheets, images, and emails.

Pylon is the modern alternative to Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, and Salesforce Service Cloud. We help B2B companies track customer support issues across common B2B channels including shared Slack channels (Slack Connect), Microsoft Teams, email, in-app chat, ticket forms, Slack community, and more. Hundreds of fast-growing YC companies of all sizes like Vellum, Hightouch, and Deel are customers. Learn more at usepylon.com

There are billions of dollars of hospital waste caused by inefficient, disconnected supply chains and finance data. Today, clinics are facing unprecedented backorders, recalls, and purchase verticals (medical devices, SaaS, security, commodities). We are building a single product to 10x a fragmented industry with each tool built almost 20 years ago.

Velos helps non-technical operations teams automate complex, manual back-office tasks with AI workers instead of overseas teams. Unlike traditional robotic process automation (RPA) platforms like UiPath, Velos automations use machine learning to reliably handle ambiguities in their tasks, eliminating the need for an army of maintenance engineers and consultants to build and maintain your automations. We're automating the repetitive work people hate to do.

Berry offers an AI CSM that scales customer success for SaaS companies. Every post-sales organization faces the challenge of scaling customer success without having to hire more. Berry combines the best of the two worlds - taking the white-glove onboarding experience and offering it at scale. Our AI CSM onboards, trains and grows accounts for you non-stop. It’s a 10x hire to your team - at a fraction of the cost.

Founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Ariglad The first AI platform that integrates with support channels and release notes to auto-maintain your knowledge base. Ariglad suggests new articles, updates existing ones, detects duplicates, and merges them. Basically, it puts your knowledge base maintenance on auto-pilot. This is led by Co-Founders Sophie and Ali. They are both completely obsessed with this problem and their customers, who have partnered with Ariglad to become immensely more efficient.

Blitz is a no-code platform to build internal applications and automate manual tasks. Quickly build a database, integrate your logic, and scale your operations. Alternative to Google Sheet and Airtable, Blitz is not limited by a number of lines of records or by an API rate. Create your data model and set up data validation rules. Use our interface builder to create dynamic forms, and quickly onboard customer and partners. Leverage our granular permissions to share data to external users (publicly or privately). Add advanced business logic to your forms and portals, without writing any line of code. The experience is similar to creating spreadsheets, but without their limitations in terms of scalability and security. You can use Blitz to build an onboarding flow, an order management system or some validation workflows for compliance purposes. Stop using developer resources or rigid SaaS software. Start building your own tools, adapted to your needs, with Blitz.

Fini builds AI agents that autonomously resolve up to 80% of customer support tickets for enterprises specially in Fintech, E-commerce, Gaming and Fitness tech. Our agents understand complex workflows, take real actions (like refunds or KYC checks), and improve in real-time. Built on a proprietary knowledge engine, our agents deliver 98%+ accuracy and integrate deeply with tools like Zendesk, Salesforce, and internal APIs. Enterprises like Bitdefender and Training Peaks use Fini to slash support costs by 50% while boosting CSAT by 10%.