Automation Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2024

Ginkgo Bioworks is the organism company. We design custom organisms for customers across multiple markets. We build our foundries to scale the process of organism engineering using software and hardware automation. Organism engineers at Ginkgo learn from nature to develop new organisms that replace technology with biology.

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.

Magic Loops are the fastest way to automate (almost) anything. By combining generative AI with code, we make it easy for anyone (yes, even non-programmers!) to setup repeatable tasks and automated workflows. - Want to use ChatGPT to classify new product features from a Close call? - Want to receive a text when someone purchases >$1000 from your Shopify store? - Want to replace your bespoke AWS Lambdas with self-repairing code? Build your first Magic Loop today!

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

Subsets uses AI to automate retention in subscription media. We help increase life-time value by enabling commercial teams to create AI-driven experiments and automations, without engineering support.

With Stack AI, any organization can build and deploy custom AI Assistants and Workflow Automations in minutes. Our low-code interface allows teams of all sizes to leverage Generative AI and automate back-office workflows. Hundreds of companies use Stack AI to build custom knowledge-base AI assistants, automate compliance reviews, scrape data from the internet, and analyze large volumes of documents.

Sola is copilot for workflow automation. We help automation-minded teams build robust robotic agents to handle tedious tasks via LLMs and computer vision, smoothly integrated into their standard workflow. Our tooling makes it easy for companies to automate data entry/scraping in manual filing and processing flows. Go from a screen recording to a bot in any desktop or browser workflow; develop logic and watch logic self-develop in the face of new events!

Entangl is automating engineering design. Starting with datacenter design, our AI agent automatically detects errors while engineering teams work. For each error detected, Entangl suggests a detailed step-by-step solution. 20,000 datacenters are being built every year, making this a massive market. We are also actively training our next AI agent that can autonomously implement solutions (think code completion but for hardware engineering).

GetCrux is an AI Copilot for Performance Marketing. Our AI Ads Specialist helps media buyers & planners uncover hidden opportunities and take the right actions at the right time. With GetCrux, ad agencies are bringing operational efficiency and driving better performance for their clients without hurting their bottom line. GetCrux is backed by Y Combinator, Emergent Ventures and senior execs from Google, Facebook and have recently raised over $2.6M. Our team consists of the best minds in AI and product from top grad schools in India like IIT Bombay. Join us in our journey of redefining how performance marketers make decisions and build a next-generation SaaS from India.

Lob provides the building blocks for developers to automate the offline world. Enterprise companies use Lob’s suite of APIs to mail fully dynamic and personalized customer communications with print media. We provide insight into deliverability with piece-by-piece tracing and utilize our proprietary Print Delivery Network to streamline production across fully redundant nodes all over the country. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Lob is venture backed by Y Combinator, Polaris Partners, Floodgate, and First Round Capital. Find out more about Lob and what we’re up to by following our blog: https://lob.com/blog or visiting our website: https://lob.com.

We help companies build and scale marketing campaigns through WhatsApp, reaching their customers anywhere in the world with engaging conversations. With our platform, businesses can create and send conversations massively to users and get analytics to improve their campaign performance over time, increasing conversion in every stage of the funnel.

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.

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.

We’re building the next generation of warehouse robotics. In the US today, retailers spend approximately $10B per year paying human laborers to pick up and move cardboard boxes in warehouses. Existing solutions for automating this are expensive and difficult to install, which is why manual operation is still so prevalent. Our solution is different. We make swarms of small mobile robots that install into existing warehouses to provide a low-cost and robust automation solution for case picking and mixed-SKU palletization. Our novel technology allows these robots to be installed and operate at significantly lower cost than existing solutions while being both flexible and robust.

Home service businesses, like plumbers and roofers, are losing millions of dollars each year by failing to answer the phone. Sameday's AI Sales Agent answers any calls they otherwise would miss and will follow up until every lead is on the schedule.

Ply helps behavioral health providers (e.g. therapists, social workers, psychiatrists) see more patients by getting them in network with insurance companies like Aetna or Medicaid. Ply submits enrollments 2x faster using automation and AI enabled data validation.

FINNY is building a new operating system for independent financial advisors, and starting by helping them grow. Our goal is to empower the best financial advisors (the independents!) to serve all Americans who want financial advice. We are starting with growth, which is the most existential problem advisors face. The organic growth process is highly inefficient and full of noise. Advisors often waste 60 hours of business development to convert 1 new client. At FINNY, we are certain we can do better with AI. With our tool, advisors can: - Identify prospects within their target niche, aggregating thousands of data points per lead - Prioritize prospects based on their predicted likelihood of converting, a score unique to each advisor and prospect pair - Automate the outreach and meeting scheduling with their high priority prospects In essence, doing all the work for the advisors, and letting them focus on what actually matters, the client relationship.

Dimely builds AI agents for B2B SaaS finance teams. Our agents automate time-consuming finance workflows so teams can stay lean and realize revenue faster. We do this by doing the data work, including converting contracts to invoices, calculating overages, reconciling payments, and streamlining revenue recognition We pride ourselves in our fast time to value. Dimely seamlessly slots into your existing workflows without requiring a rip and replace, meaning you'll immediately see results from Day 1. Stop spending hours on billing today!

Lumenary accelerates financial research with advanced AI. Our software automates multi-step AI workflows and over complex financial documents. Lumenary was founded by four best friends who met at Dartmouth College, with engineering and financial expertise from Jane Street Capital, IMC Trading, Palantir Technologies, and Blackstone. They've published high impact machine learning research in venues like NeurIPS, in addition to deploying secure enterprise software managing billions of dollars and petabytes of data.

Smartcuts is a Chrome extension that lets you automate anything in your browser, without code. Record your clicks and keystrokes, and replay them later on similar web pages to automate repetitive work. It's like Excel macros for any website.

FollowUpThen is a personal assistant that sends you exactly what you need at exactly the right moment to get something done. Its uncanny timing is not the result of AI wizardry, but rather an explicit reminder syntax that is embedded in an email address. Email 1min@followupthen.com, 1hour@followupthen.com or {any-time}@followupthen.com and you'll get the email back at that time. Adding a reminder to any email is a one-second operation thanks to your email client's address autocomplete. Example use-cases include: * Following up with sales prospects * Maintaining relationships * Task delegation (put FollowUpThen in the bcc field) * Just-in-time reminders to get a task done (pay bills, etc) * Hitting inbox zero (forwarding emails to your future) In today's workplace we are bombarded with realtime demands on our attention. FollowUpThen answers this trend by making work more asynchronous, allowing you to place information in the future, giving you freedom and peace of mind in the present and allowing you actually get something done.

Open source mobile marketing automation and customer onboarding platform. Alternative to braze customer io / iterable / pendo / appcues . Segment and engage your users with complex scheduled push notification, sms and email campaigns.

Actionbase builds tools that make the internet programmatically interactable. Our first tool is an SDK for automating popular websites.

Documents are everywhere. Through all industries, understanding their content is a critical step of many processes that software builders throughout the globe want to automate. We focus on the science, the AI, the deep learning to give these builders the one API they need to automate the understanding of documents and give their software human-like superpowers. Based on three pillars: - A product: a universal self-service platform where builders can train their own models - A catalog of use-cases: We push critical use cases to the limits of human performances in critical markets such as Accounting software, AP Automation, Expense Management, KYC and many others - A internal capability to make tailor-made AI: We answer to specific needs from large customers that needs a custom AI of their own to handle their use cases

Quill AI automates the tedious parts of researching and investing in public equities. Extract back-linked data from SEC filings and earnings calls, get excel-downloadable financial historicals with company-specific KPIs, and digest earnings results faster every quarter. Faster processes help you increase your coverage per analyst.

With just a prompt, our desktop AI system automates steps for any complex computer usage workflow that you can accept with a single keystroke. It makes repetitive but critical workflows such as financial data entry 2-5x faster, while providing complete visibility, control, and adaptability—all without requiring any setup, recording, or migrating to a new platform.

Finic helps fintechs automate fraud and dispute investigations with AI agents that automatically follows SOPs and writes comprehensive case notes. With Finic, fintechs can: - 10x fraud ops capacity without increasing headcount - Train agents on new fraud typologies and instantly scale to thousands per day - Reduce time-to-resolution from hours to under 5 minutes

We’re building a platform to design, test, and improve AI agents. It’s hard to build agents, understand how well they’re performing, and know what and how to improve. Our platform unifies design, evaluation, and fine-tuning, making it easier to identify weaknesses, improve reliability, and scale agents for real-world use. Manil and Pranav previously worked at Scale AI, where they helped produce and refine data to evaluate and improve some of the best AI models in the world. Now, we’re bringing that expertise to help companies build AI systems that work better, faster.

Autotab is a drop-in AI knowledge worker that uses a mouse and keyboard like you—so anything you can do, it can do. Show it how to perform your task, train it to be hallucination-proof by adding examples and providing feedback, and then run it on demand or on a schedule—either locally or in the cloud. It achieves superhuman reliability, and can scale up on demand so your team doesn’t have to. Autotab is already handling complex tasks thousands of steps long, from messaging customers to triggering payments and updating data across core systems of record like Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Sheets, and Jira. Download the beta version of the app and get started right away, or sign up for a personalized onboarding: https://www.autotab.com

Swishjam takes web and product analytics a step further by connecting to all of your disparate systems, stitching that data into your product analytics data, and giving you a complete view of your SaaS business and your customers.

🚀 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!

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.

Scale business processes with orchestrated scripts, integrations and UIs. Skip engineering hours, stay auditable & lock-in free.

Basalt Tech is a spacecraft OS company based in San Francisco. We're building Dispatch: An OS which allows different types of satellites to work together, and produces optimized instructions for fleets of spacecraft. The company is founded by Max Bhatti and Alex Choi, lead engineers at the MIT CubeSat program. Previously, the duo worked as systems engineers at SpaceX, and the UK Ministry of Defense. Basalt Tech recently received its seed investment as part of the Y Combinator W24 batch, and is currently in technical development.

At Artisan, we're creating AI Employees, called Artisans, and software which is beautiful, easy to use, and replaces the endless stack of point solutions. We're starting with outbound sales. Our platform contains every tool needed for outbound sales - B2B data, AI email sequences, deliverability optimization tools and so much more. Ava, our AI BDR, operates within our platform. She automates: - Lead discovery with access to over 300M B2B contacts - Lead research, with 10s of data sources - Choosing a sales strategy and writing + sending hyper-personalized emails - Managing deliverability with a suite of tools - from email warmup to placement tests We're on a mission to create the final boss of software, with every SaaS product needed for sales and AI employees consolidated together in one exceptional platform. This is the next Industrial Revolution.

Omni turns documents, slide decks, websites and more into the data you need. You'll never need to copy + paste data into spreadsheets again. - Connect to a database or document store. We support Snowflake, Postgres, Google Drive, S3 and more. - Transform your data - Define type safe schemas to run against your unstructured data. We’ll run those models against your data, and keep your warehouse in sync as new rows/fields are added/deleted. - Query with SQL - All the transformed data stays in your warehouse. Surface this data in your product, or analyze with your existing BI tools.

At Kiosk, we help companies engage with their customers on their preferred app, WhatsApp. In short, we blend AI agents and traditional marketing tools (Campaigns, Workflows) to generate personalised conversations at scale. Think of us like the MailChimp for WhatsApp, with a conversational AI twist 💬 While WhatsApp is a key revenue driver in markets like India, its vast potential in Europe and Emerging Markets is still largely untapped!

Quantic helps salespeople generate better pipeline. Quantic researches your book of business and presents buying signals, insights, and pipeline opportunities. This helps reps target the right people, at the right time, with the right messaging.

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Manifold is revolutionizing the spot freight procurement process for Carriers, Brokers, and Shippers. Our inaugural product transforms the booking process for spot shipments, significantly reducing empty miles and increasing revenue. We do this by aggregating spot shipment opportunities from a variety of shipper and brokerage sources into a single location. Andrew and Oliver bring deep domain expertise of freight from their pivotal roles at Convoy, where they were engineering leaders automating processes that were scaled to handle over 10,000 weekly shipments. This background has been instrumental in shaping Manifold's innovative approach. In just two months since launching Manifold has achieved $5,100 in monthly revenue, showcasing the pressing demand for our product. Manifold is poised to transform this $100+ billion industry. Not only will we streamline spot freight procurement operations but we will also redefine the industry's cost structure for the better.

Integration Labs makes it easy to interact with your business customers' financial data. Leading SaaS, payments, and financial service companies use a single API to seamlessly retrieve and sync data across their customers' accounting, commerce, and payments platforms. With Integration Labs, B2B companies integrate once to connect to 30+ accounting, payments and e-commerce integrations and build innovative business tools for invoice financing, digital lending, expense management, automated AP/AR reconciliation, and more.

Saleswhale is an AI Sales Assistant that scales lead qualification via two-way email conversation. We look after the grunt work in Sales (ahem, admin) and bring only qualified leads and meetings to your Sales teams. On top of automating data entry into your CRM, Saleswhale also conducts lead enrichment on your prospects (e.g. capturing their most up-to-date contact details), capture referrals and rejection reasons, as well as manage lead assignment. Happy customers we support include Randstad, General Assembly and Verlocal - to name a few. Interested to find out more about our AI Sales Assistant? Request a customised demo for your business on our website and we'll get back to you shortly!

hute powers enterprise UGC for brands, agencies and publishers – from discovering consumer photos and videos, both with visual and text search, to the ideation, production, and amplification of compelling visual material. Chute works with some of the world’s biggest brands and publishers including Benefit Cosmetics, NBCUniversal, adidas, Brown-Forman, Condé Nast, NBA, United Nations, New York Times, and Ford. For more information, visit www.getchute.com. You can reach us anytime at hello@getchute.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

Cohere resolves 40-70% of support requests using AI, over all channels, within just a few days.

Clara is a human-in-the-loop assistant that helps automate repetitive tasks.