Productivity Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

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.

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 automates your back-office using your existing tools and processes without requiring any IT integrations. What We Do: Think of Clicks as your back-office worker that can handle any repetitive task. Simply describe your process via video call or share documentation, and our forward-deployed engineering team ensures it's automated exactly your way. Our AI agents work 24/7 and can be kicked-off via email, Slack, or our web app, handling tasks like CRM updates, report generation, and data entry while adapting to your existing software. Initial Focus: We're starting with recruiting and executive search firms, automating candidate codification, assessment reports, and administrative workflows that typically consume hours of manual work each day. Value Proposition: Our pricing is 100% outcome based: you only pay for the work outputs we complete (e.g., candidates added to CRM, reports generate, etc.). Current customers are already live and saving an average of 60% in costs compared to human workers, with full automation deployed within one week.

Hyprnote is the first open-source AI notetaker for the enterprise. It runs fully on-device or on-prem, ensuring that no data ever leaves your system. Hyprnote transcribes and summarizes conversations automatically, turning discussions into actionable knowledge without risking security or regulatory breaches. Unlike cloud-based tools like Granola or Otter, Hyprnote is built for industries where data control is non-negotiable - tech firms, finance, healthcare, government, and beyond.

Trace is a workflow automation platform that routes tasks to the right agent – human or AI. We enable enterprise-grade context and AI orchestration in mid-sized teams. Trace breaks workflows into clear steps, sends repetitive tasks to AI agents, and routes the rest to the right people while respecting permissions and logging every action. We help teams cut busywork and unify AI tools across departments – helping companies adopt AI in days rather than months.

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

Async is an open-source task management tool that doesn't just track work, it does it. Async automatically triages tickets, completes them, and tests from end-to-end. We're fully open-source and self-hostable, so you can customize Async to work for your company and your processes. Our mission is to kill engineering busywork: bug fixes, UI tweaks, papercuts, and KTLO.

We’re building an AI-native messaging app. Pond is a desktop app you can use with your existing messaging services like iMessage (and soon WhatsApp + more). You can see important messages you haven’t replied to, snooze conversations, answer customers in your voice, and more.

Slashy is a general agent that connects to your G-Suite, Slack, Notion, Linear, and more to take in your personal context and perform actions. Consider it an agentic Glean that allows knowledge workers to save 2-3 hours a day of busy work.

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. We launched this year in the middle of tax season and quickly processed hundreds of returns, earning thousands in ARR, and since tax season we've been growing customers by >30% month-over-month. We've completely automated over 25% of the return process so far and developed a proprietary vision model that beats incumbent scanning technology by almost 2x on accuracy - jumping from 50% field-level accuracy to 89%, approaching the quality of their expensive human-verified service at 92%. 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.

Our AI Chief of Staff gives CEOs and busy executives instant visibility into project progress, team performance and key company metrics. Eliminating status updates and saving execs 10+ hours a week.

You build awesome software - now turn it into a business with as little effort as possible. We turn each git commit into customer sales by producing sales and marketing material from your codebase and providing 24/7 technical support to your users.

Zero empowers knowledge workers by transforming the way they manage their email. It intelligently summarizes important messages, helps complete tasks, and even enables users to chat directly with their inbox.

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 transforms Microsoft Word into an AI-native document editor. Our plugin enables instant document changes with git-style previews, automated comment implementation, and formatting preservation.

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

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.

Riveter is bringing the power of Perplexity to the scale of the spreadsheet. Their AI agents, custom scrapers, and integrations pack the power of browser use and automation for search, at a cost that allows for scale. Most teams still spend hours (or hire UpWorkers/contractors) to manually copy product specs, check competitor pricing, pull custom KYB/KYC data to assess customer risk, or scrape filings. Perplexity and ChatGPT are great for single questions, but they can’t handle large amounts of data at once. And they’re working with a single agent and context window instead of one in every cell. And Riveter’s web browsing can go further—even reading PDFs and images that may contain answers. With Riveter, anyone can automate complex, auditable web research… without coding. Our founding team brings deep product and engineering expertise from to YC-backed companies Gusto, Retool, and Middesk.

Raycaster is regulatory intelligence for biopharma documents - think Cursor for regulated content, helping medical writers and CMC teams draft, edit, and review submissions much faster.

Capitol builds intelligence infrastructure for companies overwhelmed by data but starved for clarity. Today, 80% of enterprise AI projects fail because outputs aren't accurate, attributable, or usable. Capitol AI works with companies in high-stakes industries to turn information into intelligence that drives decisions with model-agnostic, purpose-built infrastructure. Capitol is building a different future - one where institutions, creators, and analysts stay in control of their knowledge, their IP, and their value. We deliver a model-agnostic platform that turns complexity into decision-grade insight. We don't believe the future should be dictated by a handful of closed models. We enforce attribution, minimize hallucinations, and preserve temporal accuracy - giving companies trusted answers they can act on.

If you’re a founder and feel like you—or your exec team—are too far removed from the customer, Overstand is here to help. We’re the platform (and API) for your customer communications, turning Slack, emails, WhatsApp, call recordings, and more into actionable insights. For example, we can help you discover feature requests hidden in customer emails, spot upsell opportunities from a casual Slack message, or identify a critical support issue buried in a call transcript -- all without having to depend on others in your company to fill out a form or write meeting notes. Get back to Founder Mode by spotting trends, uncovering growth opportunities, and staying deeply connected to your customers. Overstand makes it easy to understand where you’re needed most and take action that drives impact. 🚀

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 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.

Kenley is an AI-powered workspace for consulting firms. With Kenley, firms can use their institutional knowledge to power critical workflows—from drafting proposal decks to scaling due diligence research—so consultants can focus on excellence. *AnswerGrid, Inc. doing business as Kenley ⸻ Kenley was founded by Bolu Ben-Adeola and Noah Ohrner. Bolu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kenley. Before Kenley, he built ML infrastructure for the fixed-income markets at Bloomberg and led teams at Palantir, South Korea, tackling problems in heavy industry manufacturing. Noah is the Co-Founder and CTO of Kenley. Before Kenley, he graduated with a first class degree from the University of Cambridge and was a tech lead on Foundry Security at Palantir.

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.

Thorntale is the easiest (and prettiest) way to create your next presentation. We've built a super capable AI assistant that can directly edit your slides, and coupled it with an advanced slide design system to keep things beautiful and professional. Thorntale AI is designed to work alongside you as an AI collaborator. It can modify slide design and content, as well as give suggestions on what to improve to make your points clearer for your audience. We've also built tons of enterprise level features into Thorntale, like integrated data connections and send as email.

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.

Speck helps professionals in back-to-back calls on their meeting tasks. It automates pre-call research, listens to every word, learns, and creates meeting notes, follow-ups, action items based on how you do them.

Onyx is the open source generative AI platform 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/

Tracecat helps security, IT, and production support engineers close tickets fast. We provide everything they need to automate mission-critical work — AI agents, workflow builder, and case management. Built open source on open source (Temporal, Pydantic AI, Postgres, Clickhouse). Founded in 2024, deployed by more than 200 organizations from startups to Fortune 500 and federal agencies.

Basepilot builds AI coworkers that collaborate with humans to automate work across the browser. They learn from what you do and you can teach them new skills, just by demonstration. Companies using Basepilot save 30% of their time and resources per week, freeing up time for more high-value tasks. Basepilot is founded by Ken, who previously led a fintech-product to 3M users in <12 months, and Pascal, who worked on robotics & self-driving at Carnegie Mellon and Mercedes-Benz Research. Interested to try it out? Get started here: https://www.basepilot.com/ YC Launch: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KcS-basepilot-your-ai-employee-to-automate-repetitive-browser-work-in-minutes

Mattermost provides secure collaboration for technical and operational teams that work in environments with complex nation-state level security and trust requirements. We serve technology, public sector, national defense and financial services industries with customers ranging from tech giants, to the world’s largest banks, to the U.S. Department of Defense and governmental agencies around the world. Our self-hosted and cloud offerings provide team messaging, file sharing, integrations, audio and screen share, workflow automation and project management on an open source platform deployed by the world’s most secure and mission critical organizations. We co-build the future of collaboration with over 4,000 open source project contributors who’ve provided over 30,000 code improvements towards our shared product vision, which is translated into 20 languages.

Sourcepulse is the internal status page for software delivery, alerting teams before costly delays. We collect anonymous feedback from project members to identify exactly what to fix, just like how Sentry captures system details for production errors.

Upstream is an email client designed for team collaboration. We add features like channels and task-tracking functionality on top of a typical email client, so that teams can have full context and transparency on all of their conversations, and make decisions more efficiently.

Langdock is a comprehensive and secure platform for deploying AI in companies. From a powerful chat interface for all employees to tools for creating custom workflow automations with AI-driven agents.