Generative AI Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2024

Sapling offers an API and SDK to help businesses integrate language models into their applications. Its messaging assistant sits on top of CRMs and messaging platforms to help users more efficiently compose responses.

Monterey AI helps companies understand what actions to take to improve engagement and reduce churn by setting up user feedback channels, auto-collecting, and analyzing qualitative feedback and quantitative data from multiple sources.

Orangewood Labs makes the world's most affordable AI-powered industrial robotic arms for small businesses! Our robots can be programmed by just using natural language prompts and cost a fraction of human labor.

Reforged Labs is breaking ground with the launch of its first-of-its-kind AI-powered video creation service, designed specifically for indie and small game studios. We are automating what has long been an expensive and time-consuming creative process, replacing it with lightning-fast delivery of cost-effective video ads tailored to each studio’s marketing needs. At the core of this service is Reforged Labs’ proprietary AI engine, trained by analyzing thousands of high-performing game ads in its reference library. Studios can select from a streamlined ‘storefront’ of ad templates modeled after the opening hooks, content format, and narrative flows from successful ads for games similar to their own. Game developers simply upload gameplay recordings and Reforged Labs’ AI will identify key scenes and moments that showcase the game’s most impactful features and designs. Reforged Labs delivers finished ads in less than 24 hours, saving game studios both time and money. We’re a small and nimble team with backgrounds from Google, Microsoft, and Harvard, and we’re backed by world-class investors, including DCM, Y Combinator, the founder of King and Sky Mavis, and executives from Niantic and Pocket Gems.

Pibit transform loss run files into comprehensive reports with actionable insights, helping carriers and MGAs enhance underwriting efficiency and make better, more accurate decisions.

Tara AI helps engineering leaders measure and improve engineering efficiency, with fine-tuned, secure LLMs trained on source control and project data. Our customers include MongoDB, Clearbit and Prometric. Our platform generates all-in-one views on cycle times, benchmarks, investments and overall size and velocity of engineering activity. We're helping customers achieve 30% reduction in time to customer deployment.

Playground combines AI research and product design to invent new kinds of creative tools.

Simplify is re-imagining the hiring and job-searching process. We're building tools to democratize the job search, no matter what your background is, where you live or what school you attended. Our first product is Copilot, and we're rapidly expanding on both the candidate and recruiter fronts. We've helped facilitate over 20m+ applications in just the last year, and are doubling down on our vision of building a common app and personal AI agent for your career.

iollo is an at-home metabolomics test to extend your healthy lifespan. We measure more than 500 biomarkers in blood and use AI to automatically match you with dietary, behavioral, and therapeutic interventions.

We provide a simple API for creating, storing, versioning, and collaborating on multi-modal AI datasets of any size. With Activeloop's open-core stack, you can rapidly transform and stream data while training models at scale. Deep Lake powers foundational model training by acting as a vector database with significant benefits, such as (1) the ability to use multi-modal datasets to fine-tune your own LLM models, (2) storing both the embeddings and the original data with automatic version control, so no embedding re-computation is needed (3) truly serverless service with no vendor lock-in. How cool is that? GitHub loves us - we're one of the fastest-growing libraries there, and we're used by little-known companies like Google, Waymo, and Intel. No big deal. Our founding team hails from places like Princeton, Stanford, Google, and Tesla, and we're backed by Y Combinator & other Silicon Valley heavyweights. Activeloop is hiring, and we want you! Check out our open roles on our YC page and join the fun. 10-min demo: https://activeloop.wistia.com/medias/aibvo0dst2 Whitepaper: https://www.deeplake.ai/whitepaper

Meet your AI-powered team with Taskade! Build, train, and deploy AI agents that think, learn, and act—ready to plan, research, and complete tasks alongside you. Unlock powerful workflows where humans and AI work together to boost productivity. Automate tasks, streamline projects, and turn insights into action—all in one seamless workspace. Experience the future of work with Taskade, where AI and human collaboration supercharge your team's potential. 🌐 🐑

In the past decade, the recruiting industry has not had any innovation. AI has created an opportunity to disrupt it through software that can reason and take actions. Juicebox is an AI-powered recruiting platform. We build agentic workflows to identify, assess, and engage the best talent. We’ve grown to 7 figures in revenue with 20% monthly growth. We have 500+ customers including Patreon, Replit, and leading AI labs.

Openlayer helps you test and monitor high-quality AI systems.

Writesonic is an AI writing and image generation platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to create any form of content 10X faster. It's like Canva for writing, with tools that simplify the process of creating, editing, and publishing SEO-optimized articles, blog posts, ads, landing pages, eCommerce product descriptions, social media posts, and many other forms of content. Our customers love us, as evidenced by the 10,000+ 5-star reviews on G2, TrustPilot, and Capterra. Backed by Y Combinator, HOF Capital (investors in Uber, Stripe, Alibaba, UiPath, Klarna), Rebel Fund (team includes founders of Instacart, Reddit, and Cruise), Soma Capital (investors in Deel, Rippling, Razorpay, Lattice, coda, Rappi), Broom Ventures, Amino Capital (investors in Zoom, Webflow, Rippling) and some of the best angels from different industries.

We are building the TikTok for fashion — a platform for creators to showcase their works, gain traction and build their brands. ### Reverie is powered by two pieces of core technology: - An AI-enhanced design tool for creators to turn their design ideas into e-commerce quality product images very efficiently. - An AI-powered Virtual Dressing Room to create professional fashion photography directly from product images. Both fashion creators and other users can easily style outfits on different models. With our core tech, we are building an active community of fashion creators (designers, stylists, influencers, bloggers, artists, casting directors, etc..) who produce original designs and engaging content around the published pieces. The social media platform will provide a streamlined path for fashion creators to experiment with their ideas and build traction. We want to eventually become the default choice for anyone who wants to launch their fashion label, and have the future Off-White, Balenciaga, Rick Oven, etc. originate from Reverie. Our team combines deep expertise in technology (AI Phds) and the fashion industry (Community builder). Our Virtual Dressing room is live with top retailers (such as Neiman Marcus) and has ~1M ARR. We are backed by YCombinator, TSVC, Cabra VC, and other amazing angels with retail experience and connections. Join us to reshape the fashion industry!

Bobidi runs SuperTalents AI, a gamified training solution to help restaurants and vendors boost sales by empowering their staff.

Dart is a fully-featured project management tool that uses AI to assist with roadmap planning, report generation, breaking tasks into subtasks, duplicate detection, and executing on basic writing and design tasks. Teams use Dart in order to plan better and eliminate regular PM chores from their schedule, freeing up seven hours per week to focus on other work.

Campfire is building the next generation of games powered by AI. Our first product is a game with LLM-based AI agents at the heart of the gameplay experience along with the tools to realize these worlds. Advent of AI is going to change entertainment more than 3D rendering or the internet. We're following in foot steps of Pixar and Epic Games in creating a paradigm shifting company at the intersection of creativity and technology.

Boundo uses generative AI to replace SDRs. Tell our platform who you're looking for, and it will find and contact high quality sales leads in a fully automated way! We’ve tuned our models to write near-human outbound sales emails with proven conversion. Best of all, we're using our own tool to do all of our sales.

Phind is an intelligent answer engine for developers. Focused on helping you solve challenging problems, Phind uses generative AI to get you from an idea to a working product. Connected to the internet and your codebase, Phind has the context it needs to get you the right answer.

CAPSULE is a mobile app that makes it easy to save and buy the things you find on any social media platform. Just snap a screenshot of anything you like, from any platform, and we search the entire internet to instantly give you shoppable links. Instead of searching hundreds of websites and sifting through thousands of products on your own, CAPSULE lets you find inspiration from anywhere and uses advanced machine learning to return results that feel like magic.

HR/IT/Finance professionals spend 50% of their time answering employees' questions and tickets. It’s even worse on the employee side, they have to wait for a long time for simple answers. We are live with 500 customers like Coca-Cola, Sony, Puma, Vodafone, Nestle, P&G, Airbnb, etc. We have raised over $40M from top VCs like Bessemer, Greycroft, Elad Gil, etc. Leena AI consumes company’s enterprise knowledge & starts answering all employee questions just like a human would. It can even answer complex personalized questions like Why is my salary less this month? Employees can access Leena AI from commonly used UIs like MS Teams or Slack.

Here at Spellbrush, we're passionate about making a good anime game. We also happen to be the world's leading generative AI studio — we're the team behind niji・journey. We are currently investigating how AI can be used to help human artists perform masterpieces in the most complex medium of our times: video games. Our games are characterized by a no-compromise approach to well-balanced gameplay married to a truthful love of visual arts.

Rosebud is building the AI Roblox. We will make it 1000X easier for a community of game devs to create and enjoy the games of their dreams. ‍ We’re a team of PhD researchers, creatives and engineers building the generative AI platform to enable game creation at the speed of thought. We believe all media creation will be done via generative methods in a few years. We're building that future.

Understand what content is driving revenue. Create and distribute more of it to in-market buyers across SEO, LinkedIn, and sales enablement.

Adoption of Telehealth 1.0 has dropped to <5% because it's inefficient and unintelligent. Ankr uses generative AI to recreate functions of clinic staff including front desk, medical assistants and scribe. This allows Doctors to "spin-up" virtual clinics on-demand, anytime, anywhere. An average clinic using Ankr generates $1M in new revenue/year. We integrate with all top EHRs and work with all types of clinics in mid- to large-sized healthcare organizations.

Helping product builders to listen to users at scale so they can make something people want.

*Achieve Mobile App Test Coverage 10x Faster with AI-Powered Automation* Struggling with low E2E test coverage for your mobile app? Short on QA resources? Our GPT Driver uses AI to automate your mobile app testing, freeing up your team and providing reliable, consistent results. Eliminate tedious maintenance, accelerate release cycles, and ship higher-quality apps with GPT Driver. Trusted by mobile industry leaders like Duolingo, Spotify, Netflix, Etsy and Wise.

Accelerate software development with WarpBuild. Get 30% faster, 90% cheaper CI builds in 30 seconds using WarpBuild cloud runners for Github Actions.

A personal cloud storage platform that's so good, it'll replace Finder / File Explorer on your desktop. Find anything with multi-modal, natural language search. Browse with a lightning fast interface that feels just like native. Organize, tag, view, edit, share, and more.

Delight is an AI copilot to help singles find and succeed in relationships. We’ve started with helping singles looking for a serious relationship find the right partner. For example, they talk to our AI copilot, as if they’re talking to a human matchmaker, in plain English they specify their preferences. They can be as specific as possible, e.g. someone with an entrepreneurial spirit, who appreciates fine art, enjoys discussing politics and comes from a big family. Our technology then finds their ideal partner. So far, we've helped create over 10,000 couples and in the future our AI copilot will offer these couples support for relationship success, like improving their communication, financial planning, couple’s legal assistance, and navigating life events.

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ML models are only as good as the datasets they're trained on, and that means that most improvement to model performance comes from improvement to the quality and diversity of their datasets. Our tooling makes it easy for ML teams to find anomalies + failure patterns in their datasets and fix these problems by editing / adding the right data. So the next time you retrain your model, it just gets better.