AIOps Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Modern helps IT, HR, and Finance teams automatically resolve 80%+ of high-volume requests. Teams define workflows in plain language, set approval rules and policies, and Modern handles the rest: password resets, access provisioning, expense approvals, on-boarding checklists, and more. Everything runs with full audit trails, role-based approvals, and enterprise-grade security built in. Modern works alongside your existing ITSM with no rip-and-replace required or runs as your ITSM from day one. Most teams are live in under a day. For teams that want to go fully hands-off, 100% automation via a fully managed IT services are also available.

Mount is the Insurer for the Agent Economy. When AI systems autonomously sign contracts, manage finances, or talk to customers, every failure becomes the deployer's liability. Existing insurers don't want to cover this. They lack the data, the models, and the speed to assess deployed AI systems. We're solving this by building a risk evaluation and mitigation platform specifically for AI Agents. Mount's platform red-teams them, scores their operational risk, and issues ADR certifications (the SOC 2 for AI agents). Every evaluation generates proprietary risk data that feeds our underwriting engine, a data moat no competitor can replicate. The AI agent market is projected to grow from $7.6B to $183B by 2033. The EU AI Act and upcoming regulation require deployers to manage AI risk. Over 90% of businesses want coverage for AI risks, yet no insurer is built to price this new risk category. We are that company. Fabian studied CS at ETH Zürich with a focus on machine learning and has been building AI systems since. John founded an AI-first media company at 18 and scaled it to 400K in annual revenue. Together, they combine deep technical AI expertise with the operational intensity to build a full-stack insurance company from scratch.

Klaimee certifies and insures autonomous AI agents. We audit your agents and back them with AI-native liability coverage. Built for startups bringing AI to enterprise clients, self-serve from day one. The problem: AI agents are taking actions autonomously, buying, emailing, modifying data. AB 316 already holds deployers liable. EU AI Act enforces in August. Cyber insurance is excluding AI claims. Startups shipping agents to enterprise have zero coverage and no third-party proof their agent is safe. Enterprise legal asks "who pays if your agent breaks something?" and there's no good answer. We built the answer. Critical-category risk evaluation, certification, financial guarantee, liability insurance and the documentation enterprise procurement needs to sign off. Team: Ines (ex-General Manager at SafetyWing, grew insurance product from $5M to $40M revenue, 5 years managing claims, underwriting, and carrier relationships) + Julien (software engineer + corporate strategy, enterprise compliance). We understand how insurance works, what enterprises require, and why startups can't wait 6 months for either.

We built the most accurate indirect prompt injection classifier available today, trained by the team behind Microsoft's Prompt Shields. Our model catches the attacks that generic guardrails miss: hidden instructions embedded in documents, emails, tool outputs, and retrieval results that manipulate your agent from the inside. Connect your observability stack and Benchspan monitors every LLM call, tool invocation, and RAG retrieval in production. We learn your agents' normal behavior and flag data exfiltration, unauthorized tool access, and behavioral drift before they cause damage

AI SRE agents that automatically learn each customer’s system so they work just like an in-house engineer.

Kestrel is an AI-native cloud incident response platform that brings self-healing to cloud infrastructure. It monitors cloud and kubernetes infrastructure 24/7, finds root causes, and generates exact fixes - so incidents get resolved in seconds instead of hours.

Adaptional is the first system of intelligence for insurance. Existing insurance systems organize work. Adaptional AI actually *does* the work. Our first product Underwriter AI pre processes every submission for an underwriter. AI extracts data from submission files, validates each data point using public sources, and summarizes risk using your underwriting guidelines.

Our mission is to build self-improving AI agents. We're here to close the last mile reliability gap. Through calibrated llm judges and automatic evaluations, we help companies optimize their agents 10x faster than doing manual experimentation.

Okibi is a web app that lets you create AI coworkers using natural language. It's like Lovable for creating AI agents that talk to your internal software Corporate users lose 2 hours every day doing tasks that can be automated with agents But existing agent builders have janky drag and drop UIs that don’t map to what they want exactiy. Okibi lets everyone use natural language to build the exact agent they want.

Alter is a zero-trust identity and access control platform purpose-built for AI agents. It wraps every tool call in strong authentication, fine-grained authorization, and real-time guardrails, so agents can move fast without breaking things. Each request is verified at the parameter level, authorized against granular policies, executed with least-privilege access, and fully audited in real time. Unsafe actions, whether it’s a rogue DROP TABLE or a payment above policy limits, are blocked before they touch production. Behind the scenes, Alter manages credentials, issuing ephemeral, scope-narrowed access for every interaction, then rotating or expiring it in seconds. The result: no long-lived secrets, no blind spots, and no surprises in audit. With Alter, teams can move fast on AI agent initiatives while staying fully compliant with SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and internal security standards. A CISO-ready dashboard delivers real-time visibility, detailed audit logs, and compliance-ready controls, removing silos, eliminating excessive permissions, and providing complete oversight of every agent workflow.

Luminal builds an ML framework and compiler that generates GPU code. Our stack 10x's model speed while simplifying deployment and cutting idle GPU costs Github: https://github.com/luminal-ai/luminal Discord: https://discord.gg/APjuwHAbGy

Janus automates AI evaluations by using high-fidelity simulation environments, catching failures in reasoning, compliance, tool usage, and performance. The resulting datasets benchmark products and feed post-training loops to continuously improve performance over time.

We are building the data layer for AI, starting with audio. We start with data collection, curating our own proprietary set of diverse conversational data covering a wide range of languages, dialects and accents. We then leverage human expert audio annotators and our own annotation platform to process audio data for Automatic Speech Recognition. With human level transcription and diarization, our data help push the audio model frontier. Today we have over millions of hours of conversational data, and growing. If you need audio data for training or evaluating your voice models or voice agents, reach out! We offer flexible licensing deals that work for startups and enterprises, with minimal process. Audio data should besimple :)

The LLM Data Company is training models in data scarce verticals

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Our first product, Stillwind Search, makes finding an electronic part as easy as writing a text message. The search engine turns natural language queries into fine-grained specifications that are matched against our proprietary database of millions of parts. This is the first step towards autonomous electrical engineering.

Our CLI makes ML model training effortless - just describe your job, and we handle GPU orchestration and execution at half the cost of major cloud providers.

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

As AI agents take on more consequential workflows, the hard part isn’t just whether they work—it’s whether they behave consistently with your company’s knowledge, policies, and expectations. Lucidic AI turns that institutional knowledge into consistent agent behavior by continuously testing, stress-simulating, and auto-optimizing agents against your real production scenarios. Lucidic ingests your real logs, edge cases, and operational rules, then uses controlled simulations, reinforcement learning, and Bayesian optimization to automatically discover failure modes, propose targeted fixes, and verify improvements before anything reaches production. Instead of relying on manual prompt fiddling or guesswork, your agents get a continuous improvement loop: they’re tested, corrected, and optimized based on what your business actually requires—not what a generic model assumes. The result is AI agents that reliably follow your domain logic, adapt to changes, and stay aligned across clients, configurations, and environments—without you needing to hand-engineer every prompt or behavior.

Hyrex is a task orchestration framework that uses PostgreSQL (or Hyrex Cloud) as a durable task queue. Define tasks in Python or TypeScript, send them to be processed asynchronously, and let Hyrex handle the rest. Hyrex tasks are COLD: Controllable, Observable, Large-Scale, and Durable!

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.

Sage is a HIPAA compliant, AI-native communication platform that makes home care agency client-intake handling smarter, faster, and more reliable. Teams that use Sage can save over 100 minutes of busywork per prospect, freeing up their teams to manage a larger, faster growing business.

Laminar is open-source observability for AI agents. Trace complex workflows, replay and debug agent runs, and detect anomalies across trajectories at scale.

Domu automates debt-collection calls, texts, and emails for financial services and healthcare. We work with some of the largest financial institutions in the world and win by doing what nobody else is willing to do. We are hiring :)

Elevate is bringing AI to private equity-backed roll-ups. For example, one of our customers is Guardian Restoration Partners, which is backed by Alpine Investors, the leading roll-up focused private equity firm. In three months, we integrated 10 acquisitions and enabled them to pilot AI agents built on top of our data warehouse. We know this problem personally. Before Elevate, Scott was a Vice President at a $15B private equity firm where he was leading a roll-up. Steve and Jeff are both software engineers with backgrounds across finance, big tech, and start-ups. The founding team has been friends for over a decade from their Duke undergraduate days.

Pipeshift helps engineering teams run real-time inference in production. We offer optimized runtimes to hit latency/throughput SLAs, paired with infrastructure orchestration that auto-scales and routes workloads across clusters and regions.

Maitai makes building reliable AI applications easy. We autocorrect faulty model output in real-time and automatically fine-tune models that learn from their mistakes. This means our customers get more reliable results immediately, and over time, they gain custom models built specifically for their application that only get better and faster. You wouldn’t hire an employee who doesn’t learn from their mistakes—so why use a model that doesn’t? Maitai is here to deliver the next generation of reliable AI inference.

AI Agents have arrived. They are powerful enough to read, plan, and act across your everyday life and work. The question is no longer whether they can run canned demos to check the weather, it’s whether real teams can rely on them for critical work. We optimize for adoption over spectacle: useful, accountable systems that help top professional complete real tasks. Wordware is backed by Spark Capital, Felicis, and Y Combinator, with a $30M seed round. Our beautiful, historic San Francisco office sits in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, it’s full of plants and radiates innovation and calm. We genuinely love working together. At lunch we talk about alignment and AI consciousness, we have surfboards in the office ready to use, we take walking meetings on the beach and hang out after work at the bar or climbing wall. We work really hard because we care deeply about what we do. Sauna is Wordware’s AI workspace for professionals. Think ‘Cursor for Knowledge Work’ and you’re halfway there. With explicit permission, it connects to tools like Gmail, Calendar, Slack, and thousands more, to gather the right context to move your work forward. It learns who you are, drafts and refines your documents, presentations, and datasets, researches across the web and your org’s internal knowledge, summarizes long threads to cut through the noise, proposes next steps, even acts on your behalf when enabled. You can work with Sauna live, side-by-side, or schedule jobs to run automatically in the background, with clear permissions and easy off-switches. Sauna brings the power of AI Agents to all professionals.

Respan (formerly Keywords AI) gives teams a unified control plane to trace and evaluate agent behavior without guesswork, automatically surface issues, and fix what breaks faster. Respan connects production observability, automated and human-in-the-loop evaluations, and an adaptive AI gateway to close the loop between detection, decision, and action - so agents improve continuously in production. Respan is trusted by 100+ AI startups and enterprise teams. Today, the platform process 1B+ logs and 2T+ tokens every month, supporting more than 6.5M end users.

Automorphic has invented a way to infuse knowledge into LLMs via fine-tuning (surpassing context window limitations), enabling developers to rapidly iterate on and successively improve custom models cheaply and efficiently.

LLMs are incredibly powerful, but latency, cost, and unpredictable outputs have made productionizing LLM features challenging. Baserun is a testing and observability platform that helps AI teams streamline their development cycle from identifying an issue to evaluating their solution, so that teams ship faster with confidence.

Cognitio Labs is an applied AI research lab building real-time compliance infrastructure for regulated supply chains, serving as the first line of defense against recalls and regulatory failure. When a food contamination event happens, time is everything. Today, traceability relies on spreadsheets, PDFs, and manual logs, turning recalls into multi-day investigations. Entire product categories get destroyed, brands lose trust, and a single recall can cost $10M to $100M+. Why now: The FDA’s FSMA 204 rule requires companies to produce standardized digital traceability records within 24 hours by 2028, impacting over 60,000 U.S. food facilities. The regulatory bar is rising, but the infrastructure to meet it does not exist. Our first product line uses sensors and AI to automatically capture key events such as temperature, handling, and lot-level movements across production, storage, and transit. We convert fragmented operational data into standardized, FSMA 204-compliant traceability records in real time. Compliance is generated as operations happen, not after. This becomes the first line of defense by enabling faster recalls, reducing spoilage, eliminating manual compliance work, and protecting contracts, insurance, and brand equity. We are starting with food and expanding into other regulated, high-risk supply chains.

LiteLLM is an open-source LLM Gateway with 18K+ stars on GitHub and trusted by companies like Rocket Money, Samsara, Lemonade, and Adobe. LiteLLM provides an open source Python SDK and Python FastAPI Server that allows calling 100+ LLM APIs (Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic) in the OpenAI format We have raised a $1.6M seed round from Y Combinator, Gravity Fund and Pioneer Fund

PoplarML lets you deploy any machine learning model to a fleet of GPUs as a ready-to-use and scalable API endpoint with one command.

Middleware is a full-stack cloud observability platform. We allow the dev and ops teams to debug the issue faster by bringing all the metrics, logs, traces, and events to a single unified timeline and train data to AI so it can give better insight into infrastructure and application. - Single command installation to collect all the metrics, logs, traces, and events. - AI-based anomaly and error detection - GPT 4-based error resolution - Support Infrastructure monitoring, Logs, APM, Kubernetes Monitoring, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, Custom dashboard, and Alerts. - Full-stack observability, observe any stack at any scale. We are at Middleware and wanted to make cloud observability faster, cheaper, and better.

NuMind is a tool for data scientists, data analysts, but also software engineers to create custom NLP models. For example, a recruiting company uses NuMind to find which job offers best match a given resume. Etienne (CEO) was head of Machine Learning at Wolfram Research, and Samuel (CTO) co-founded Make.org (8M users). NuMind originated from our own frustration when developing NLP models. Leveraging large language models similar to GPT-3, NuMind allows to complete NLP projects at least 10x faster than before. We launched a private beta August 2 and had 9 paying customers one month later.

LanceDB is a new open-source vector database that can support low-latency billion-scale vector search on a single node. Built around a new columnar data format, LanceDB makes it incredibly easy to build applications for generative AI, recsys, search engines, content moderation, and more.

Query Vary is a no-code tool for building LLM-powered automation. Example use cases include extracting information from a sales call transcript and piping it into a CRM, creating a Slack bot trained on product documentation, or transforming Google forms into fully formatted reports. Input Software --> LLM --> Output Software Our extensive toolset to make each workflow reliable sets Query Vary apart. Book a demo: https://calendar.app.google/6oxEvZA2k4kK6dBa8

🚀 Lumina💧 (YC W22) is a fast growing job platform in Southeast Asia with 1.5 million workers, helping 30k companies recruit and optimize at scale. 🤖 We are now expanding globally with Lumibot, a bespoke AI+human-powered automation service. We help companies automate mundane, repetitive processes with AI and human-in-the-loop catering for various use cases in data ops and complex workflows. This allows your business to focus on your core and grow faster, better and cheaper. 👌Our AI-powered automation start with USD 13/hour, supplemented with human-in-the-loop at USD 2-6/hour. Our services are managed based on SLAs by dedicated service managers under a prepaid credit system without arduous contracts for optimum flexibility. No minimum commitment with fully-refundable deposit from as low as USD 500^. 🛠️ We currently support the following use cases: 1) operations support 2) revenue operations support 3) web and social media management 4) email management 5) content moderation 6) AI training and verification 7) AI text humanization 8) custom process automation ... with more to come ... 👥️️ Lumibot (by Lumina) is backed by Y-Combinator, Monk's Hill Ventures, Alpha JWC, Goodwater Capital, SWC Global and January Capital. More information about us: * 💬 WA: https://wa.me/message/SEMGBRM22MDYK1 * 📅 CAL: https://usemotion.com/meet/aswin-andrison/global * 🌐 WEB: https://www.lumibot.com ^ Reach out to us on special deals ONLY for YC companies!

SubscriptionFlow is an AI-based customizable revenue management platform that helps SMBs optimize subscription revenue. It monitors user activity to identify customers at risk of churning and automatically alerts the sales team. For example, eLearning/SaaS/Membership businesses require to monitor subscription usage to improve customer retention. Ecommerce/Magazine companies need to see the subscription trends to cross-sell and upsell products/services.

RedBrick AI's mission is to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence in radiology by building world-class software infrastructure. Currently, we are focused on helping radiology AI teams prepare high-quality datasets to train their algorithms. Radiology data, such as CT and X-ray scans, is an incredibly important source of truth in healthcare delivery. In fact, over 90% of all healthcare data is medical imagery! However, the global radiology workforce is overburdened. In the UK, for example, only 2% of radiology departments are able to fulfill their reporting requirements, and this trend is reflected worldwide. The acute state of radiology, coupled with the abundance of data, makes the use of AI in radiology a prime candidate. In 2022, $5.6 billion was invested in the development of AI in healthcare! However, a key hindrance to further adoption is the lack of sophisticated tools to build and deploy AI algorithms in clinical environments. This is the problem we’re focused on at RedBrick AI We're a team based out of Bangalore India, and USA. We're backed by leading institutional investors like Y Combinator and Peak XV (formerly Sequoia Capital India).

Rootly is a modern on-call and incident management platform used by top YC companies like Dropbox, Lattice, Webflow, Faire, but also Figma, LinkedIn, NVIDIA and 100s more.

Openlayer is the governance platform for AI applications.

Mystic’s platform allows companies to easily and reliably deploy ML models on our serverless cloud or on their own infrastructure without requiring a team of MLOps engineers. With our Python SDK, data-scientists immediately get an endpoint from their own model, or any open-source models. Once uploaded, our platform handles routing, multi-cloud scaling, caching, GPU optimization and other features to provide the ultimate ML inference platform.

Prolific helps dedicated research teams to collect the very highest-quality human-powered data - at scale - using our simple-to-use platform to target and manage participants from our diverse, vetted participant pool. The truth matters: the best decisions, and biggest discoveries, are built on the highest-quality data. And with the increasing proliferation of AI, access to reliable, diverse data to develop and train AI models has never been more important. Created by researchers for researchers, Prolific was founded to provide a better way for researchers and organisations to get high-quality human data and feedback at scale for important research. Now, more than 30,000 researchers across academia and industry use Prolific to gather definitive human data and feedback from reliable, engaged and fairly-treated participants – with a new study launched every 3 minutes.

Superb AI is a leading computer vision platform and professional services provider that provides enterprise-grade, end-to-end MLOps and DataOps workflows to accelerate the adoption and development of data-centric AI. Through the practical application of AI-based automation, Superb AI helps teams manage the entire ML lifecycle more efficiently, from data annotation to curation, model training, and deployment, while ensuring optimal data accuracy and consistency.

Fountain’s all-in-one high volume hiring platform empowers the world’s leading enterprises to find the right people through smart, fast, and seamless recruiting. Candidates can apply anytime, anywhere in minutes, right from their phone. Automated and customizable processes streamline the candidate experience and save time for recruitment teams so they can scale with growing hiring needs. Advanced analytics provide end-to-end process visibility so managers can make swift, data-driven decisions. Throughout the candidate journey, the openly integrated platform enables companies to find, qualify and convert more applicants. Fountain’s global customers hire over 1.2 million workers annually in 78 countries.

Sepal is a data research company on a mission to advance human knowledge and capabilities through safe AI. We partner with the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises to help their models get better at the tasks people actually want them to do. We’ve built a Cloud-Native Agent Dataset Factory which turns the process of generating evaluation and training data from manual, inconsistent, and labor-intensive into something automated, standardized, and scalable. Sepal AI was founded in 2024 by engineers and operators from Vercel and Turing. We went through Y Combinator, raised several million dollars from leading investors, and already count multiple Fortune 500s and top AI research labs as paying customers.

Chatter is Postman for LLMs. Our platform helps companies and developers test their LLM models. Iterate on prompts, run them across model families and evaluate them against test cases – all in one place. With collaboration features, engineers can design LLM chains while QA can write test cases.