Pops, a mobile app that lets users create and play AI-generated games with friends using natural language, launched in 2026 with backing from Y Combinator. The app enables instant game creation, remix…
Twolabs, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2026, develops modular humanoid robots and a software platform for training and deploying robots in elder care facilities. The company aims to address…
Rex, an AI-native service deploying specialized agents to manage enterprise order-to-cash operations, launched in 2026 with backing from Y Combinator and Vercel. Founded by Merlin Kafka and Lewis Blac…
Infera, an AI-native laboratory operating system startup founded in 2026 and backed by Y Combinator, converts natural language experiment descriptions into validated protocols, material orders, instru…
Instinct, a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company, launched a mobile trading app that uses AI and quantitative tools to help retail traders act on their instincts in global and crypto markets. Founded by f…
RealPact, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company founded by Dartmouth students, has launched voice-powered AI agents that automate real estate transactions by retrieving property records, filling contract…
Zenbu, a Y Combinator Spring 2026 company founded by former Next.js core team member Rob Pruzan, launched an extensible IDE purpose-built for managing AI coding agents. The tool addresses operational …
Care GP, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company, has deployed AI agents to automate administrative tasks in over 400 Australian GP clinics, reducing burnout and wait times. The platform integrates with cl…
Cerenovus, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company founded by Harvard students, is building an AI-powered 'company brain' that aggregates and reasons over fragmented enterprise data from emails, Slack, doc…
Linzumi, a Y Combinator Spring 2026 company, launched a chat interface that lets engineering teams coordinate AI coding agents running locally on their own machines, addressing security concerns of cl…
Touchmark, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 startup, is building infrastructure to price AI outputs based on quality and delivered value instead of token count. The company offers a TypeScript SDK that reco…
Mireye, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 startup, is building a geospatial data infrastructure layer that provides AI agents with accurate, cited ground truth about physical locations. The company, founded …
Tolmo, an AI security startup, emerged from stealth in June 2026 with a $22M seed round led by Accel and Y Combinator. The company builds autonomous AI security agents that operate on a live knowledge…
Pango, a Y Combinator S26 startup, launched an agentic operating system that automates post-purchase operations for e-commerce brands, including returns, exchanges, and delivery tracking. Founded in 2…
Six major infrastructure companies—Cloudflare, Shopify, Stripe, Supabase, Netlify, and Google—independently invested in making their platforms agent-ready over the past six months, signaling a new dis…
Vanta, an agentic trust platform, crossed $300M in ARR by integrating AI into its security and compliance product, a domain where trust is traditionally hard to earn. The company learned to trust AI b…
Osmaura, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company founded by MIT alumni Kali Abeje and Jity Woldemichael, launched an AI engine that provides law firm partners with rainmaker-level business development supp…
Exa launched Exa Agent on June 16, transforming its AI-native search API into a research agent endpoint for developers. The product automates structured web research tasks like deep research and entit…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day saw investors gravitating toward startups that turn AI into durable control systems for defense, agent infrastructure, and healthcare, with some companies commandin…
Posting Machine, a content agency using AI, enables two people to manage 20 LinkedIn accounts for B2B SaaS founders by turning customer calls, meeting notes, Slack threads, and product updates into fo…