Productivity Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in San Francisco 2024

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.

We believe that the way business gets done today is broken. That’s why we’re dedicated to simplifying work for everyone - from small startups to large enterprise companies. Millions of individuals and over 65,000 companies world-wide trust the HelloSign platform – which includes eSignature, digital workflow and electronic fax solutions – to automate and manage their most important business transactions. With a sharp focus on user experience and a lust for innovation, HelloSign is on a mission to Simplify Work.

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.

Text Blaze saves time and increases comms quality by automating repeated tasks. Users save smart templates and insert them anywhere on the web using keyboard shortcuts. Templates can include placeholders, logic, dynamic fields, integrations with other apps, and more.

WorkFlowy is a tool for organizing your brain. It provides a powerful interface for hierarchical lists. People use it as a replacement for text editors and spreadsheets as organizational tools. They leave it open all day and put whatever passes through their brain in it - project plans, to-do's, meeting notes, brainstorms, etc..

Unlayer makes embeddable email and web editing software. We provide the essential editing tools that companies need to create successful marketing and engagement campaigns. If you want to add a rich email template editor, web page builder, or popup builder into your application, try Unlayer.

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.

Build internal tools for your business with a few clicks. Create custom workflows, kanbans, tables, apps, forms, dashboards, and more.

Double the world's productivity by automating project management and internal workflows with A.I. We want to bring operational excellence to every organization in the world.

Retool is the fast way to build internal tools.

Our Mission: "One Human, One Doctor". Why? Because access to a doctor is a basic human right. Customer: Healthcare Organizations Product: All-in-one solution to save doctors time. Problem: Doctors spend 50% of their time on things other than patient care, and the other 50% is inefficient. Solution: All-in-one solution for doctors that saves time from pre, post, and during-visit. Opportunity: Over 1 Billion visits patient care visits occur in the US annually, and the current average cost per visit is $300. When future visits are done by an ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) doctor at a 10x cheaper cost ($29 per visit), it’s $3.9B in revenue in the US only and $25B+ globally.

We replace form builders like Typeform and custom code as the way you collect information from users using low code tools. For example you’re a health tech startup and want an onboarding flow but don’t want to use Typeform and don’t have engineering bandwidth. You can use Embeddables to build a totally custom concierge flow and embed it in your app. Then make edits and view analytics, without writing code.

Instead of trying to hurriedly take notes while also having a conversation, you simply push a button in our app whenever you hear something important, like a piece of product feedback or action item. In real-time our system records, transcribes, and creates clips from the parts of the conversation you tagged that can share with your team or use to write post-call notes.

FlowEQ is the trusted provider of workflow automation for teams that need to accelerate their work, especially complex processes and high-volume workflows that require human judgment. The FlowEQ Workflow Acceleration Platform includes interactive decision trees that are used by customer support, operations and product teams across all industries to improve accuracy and speed up important recurring work. Using FlowEQ customers get through high-stake recurring workflows 10x faster, saving their companies time and money every day. For additional information, visit www.floweq.com.

Modern teams work in the browser. But browsers weren't built for teams 😔. This leads to a bunch of problems like: - Knowledge/info that is hard to find (links that get lost, documentation that gets, buried, silos, etc) - Poor collaboration - Inefficient workflows LinkGrep is an AI browser copilot that solves those problems by making your browser team friendly. Specifically we help teams: 1. 🔗 Keep track of links, documents, and more automatically. With LinkGrep you'll never have to manually add or save a link. 2. 🔍 Find information that matters. LinkGrep connects with your existing tools like Notion and Slack and will automatically suggest relevant information to you as your browse (we have semantic search that you can fallback on). Demo: https://youtu.be/jwcPGDRy4oQ 3. 👥 Collaborate better. LinkGrep lets you leave notes and comments directly on web pages — you won't ever have to copy paste a link into Slack ever again. 4. 🤖 Automate team actions like opening up the right links before a meeting. Never disrupt a meeting to send a link again. Demo: https://youtu.be/an3VKpAWft0

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.

Zynq makes company offices smart with an all-in-one workspace management platform that redefines the relationship between people x space x time. Companies using Zynq can fully embrace the Hybrid Office, giving employees a quick way to find the best time and space to collaborate, meet with guests, and much more.

Dashworks is where work begins. Where all your documents, messages, tickets, and other knowledge scattered across your company's apps and people come together seamlessly. And where you and your team can get on the same page, and get things done.

Our mission is to make the web more collaborative. We're not just making collaboration faster—we're crafting it to be the best. Today we’re all using online platforms more than ever before - building, researching, learning, connecting etc. And we're not doing it alone. We're doing it together with other people and machines, turning the internet into the world's biggest team. Yet, the web was built for solo voyages. We saw a shift when platforms like Figma and Google Docs brought a multiplayer approach, breaking down walls and inspiring seamless teamwork. At Velt, we're taking it further. We're on a mission to infuse the magic of collaboration into the fabric of the web—one app at a time. We aim to erase the lines between online and offline co-working, crafting an environment where distance is irrelevant, and 'flow' is the norm. Right now, more than half of work hours are spent on coordination and communication—less on creating. With Velt, we're setting out to reverse these figures, reducing time spent on logistical issues by over 90%. Imagine what we can create when we spend less time talking about work and more time doing it! We're building a better web—a web for us, for our team, for everyone. Join us, and let's accelerate the future of web together 🚀 Our Products: - Velt Collaboration SDK (https://velt.dev/): JS SDK to add powerful collaboration experiences to your own product for your end-users. This helps you ship such experiences ridiculously fast, increase user growth and engagement. - Superflow (https://usesuperflow.com/): JS plugin to enable product, marketing and design teams to comment and collaborate directly on their websites. This helps them iterate and ship their products 10x faster. We’re a team of ex-Googlers. We've launched products like Augmented Reality in Google Search & Maps. Come build a better web with us 🚀

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. 🌐 🐑

Daily is real-time voice, video, and AI for developers. Our cross-platform SDKs and global infrastructure enable ultra-low latency, highest quality experiences for developers building real-time voice and video AI agents. Our platform also supports integration of traditional voice/video calls, in addition to AI agent experiences.

Peoplebox is a one-stop okr, performance management and employee engagement platform that deeply integrates with your current work tools. It aligns OKRs, 1:1s, Performance Reviews and Compensation into a single platform to drive better execution, visibility, and team performance. Peoplebox integrates with all work tools (Slack, MS Teams, Workday, SQL, Jira, Asana, Hubspot, etc) to drive greater adoption of all business and HR processes and build an engaged and high performing culture with 90% less admin.

https://www.flow.club/ is a virtual co-working space where people work in high-intensity sprints designed to double their productivity. We envision a world where... - anyone can access deep, focused flow anytime, anywhere - working independently or remotely doesn’t have to feel like you're on your own Our mission is to build the software that powers the most inspiring and productive work environment for knowledge workers. Our members love Flow Club (https://www.flow.club/wall-of-love). We’re growing quickly, just presented at Y Combinator's Summer 2021 Demo Day, raised $5M, and hiring our founding team. We are backed by Worklife Ventures, a firm investing in companies re-designing the way work gets done in the future, and 100 more of the world's best investors and operators. Among our investors are Paul Graham and the founders of iconic companies like Dropbox, Mercury, Quora, Outschool, and Sendbird. Finally, we are inspired by our members and hosts who we see everyday working out of Flow Club building the most incredible things. They remind us great things are built incrementally, one step at a time.

PocketSuite is a YC-backed mobile platform for service businesses, ranging from fitness trainers, photographers, and home cleaners to dog trainers, hairstylists, therapists, and life coaches. Businesses use PocketSuite to get booked, paid, and message their clients. We make the work of running your own business simple for solo operators and small teams. PocketSuite empowers the U.S. market of 20 million service professionals generating $800 billion in sales with a mobile cloud solution for running their business. Thousands of businesses run on PocketSuite. Over 500,000 clients book and pay their Pros on PocketSuite today and we're growing fast.

Compose AI is a free Chrome extension that helps automate your writing using AI. You know how Gmail autocompletes your emails? Compose.ai is like that but everywhere, like how Grammarly works.

We are easily bored. It's the one thing that unites humanity in 2020. No one wants to read twenty paragraphs of text, or sit through forty verbose slides. Yet, we keep making them, boring everyone out of their minds. We are building more beautiful and fun alternatives to traditional documents. They're less of a pain-in-the-ass to create, and a lot less waterboard-y to view. Checkout a Padlet timeline (https://padl.et/timeline), or a Padlet map (https://padl.et/map) to see what we're talking about. Over ten million people all over the world use Padlet. Most satisfyingly, for millions of kids, Padlet is their first experience of creating things on the Internet. People say we are improving education. People say we are making them more creative. People say a lot of things.

Front powers the heart of business — the meaningful connections between teams and customers that lead to lasting relationships. Bringing email and apps together in a collaborative customer communication platform, Front drives business impact by scaling the natural conversations that create customers for life. More than 8,000 businesses are using Front today to cultivate personalized customer relationships at scale and transform their work into impact. With $204 in funding, Front is backed by leading venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures, as well as independent investors including top executives from PagerDuty, Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, and Zoom.

‍Fieldguide is an automation and collaboration platform for modern assurance and advisory firms that digitizes the end-to-end engagement workflow on a single platform. Built by former Big Four practitioners and experienced technology leaders, Fieldguide is trusted by top CPA firms to improve margins, win new business, and build stronger client relationships. Fieldguide is backed by top investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners (Sameer Dholakia), 8VC (Alex Moore), Y Combinator, Elad Gil, Floodgate, AICPA/CPA.com, Justin Kan (Twitch/justin.tv), Eric Ries (The Lean Startup), and more.

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.

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.

GoLinks allows you to create internal links for your company that are so easy to remember and share, you don't have to bookmark or copy and paste them in emails. For example, teams use GoLinks to keep track of their dashboard at go/metrics or an employee directory at go/directory - powered by AI. These internal link systems have been a standard for productivity boost within companies like Google, Yahoo, Linkedin, Twitter, and Airbnb for years. GoLinks is the first company building this as a service for everyone else. 75% of all employees at all of our customers use GoLinks every single month. In 2023, GoLinks, launched two new productivity solutions to build off of their vision of building a Gen AI productivity suite: - GoSearch (www.gosearch.ai): An enterprise workplace search solution powered by AI. - GoProfiles (www.goprofiles.io): A hub for your team to find shared connections, celebrate wins, and boost company culture — powered by gen AI!

Tackle is a time tracking & auditing tool designed for high-performing founders and top executives. It automatically tracks and analyzes calendar activities, giving insights to keep day-to-day work aligned with big-picture goals. Tackle helps leaders focus on what truly matters and drive impactful results.

Dialect uses AI trained on your company’s internal knowledge to automate response generation for forms, RFPs, and other complex business communications.

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.

Elessar boosts engineering productivity by integrating with your existing ecosystem of tools to automatically generate changelogs, streamline communications, and provide AI-powered reporting to engineers & managers.

Double Robotics is the creator of Double, the world’s leading telepresence robot. We help telecommuters feel more connected to their colleagues by giving them a physical presence wherever they need to be. Having your own Double in the office means you can be free to roam around anywhere without scheduling a call or meeting. Double takes everything you love about video calls on an iPad and places that on a mobile base that puts the remote worker in control. By combining cutting edge technology with an intuitive, elegant design, Double is the ultimate tool for telecommuters. Our mission is to connect the world through remote experiences. http://www.doublerobotics.com info@doublerobotics.com

Screenleap allows you to share your screen and view it from any web-enabled device without installing any software. Our mission is to do for screen sharing what Dropbox did for file sharing: make screen sharing a hassle-free experience that just works across all devices. We also allow developers to add screen sharing to their applications using our API (http://www.screenleap.com/api). Our screen sharing service has been integrated into a variety of products and services ranging from audio-conferences services to e-learning platforms, sales tools, and support applications.

Meetingbird is the calendar with superpowers. Individuals and teams from companies like Uber, Shopify, and Yelp use Meetingbird to make their meetings great. See what Meetingbird can do for you at meetingbird.com.

Sendoid is an on-demand peer to peer transfer system. It makes transferring any size file between two people as simple as clicking a link!

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

Xobni makes your inbox and address book smarter. Xobni, and its Smartr product suite, discover all the people you've ever emailed, called or SMS'd, and instantly access a full view of each contact, complete with their photo, job title, company details, email history as well as updates from LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. You can download Smartr for Gmail, Android or iPhone; and Xobni for Outlook and BlackBerry - or connect them all with Xobni Pro.

Simperium is a Y Combinator-funded company that builds a platform for syncing content among people and their devices. They released Simplenote as a showcase of this platform.

Tetra uses AI to take notes on phone calls, to help you focus, remember the details, and keep your team in sync.

Cron (acq. by Notion) is the next-generation calendar app for professionals and teams, making modern work more efficient and joyful. Our mission is to help spend time wisely through well-crafted software that streamlines workflows, integrates other productivity tools, and builds collaboration right into the core experience. In everything we do at Cron, we believe that time is our most precious resource.

Stypi is a San Francisco based tech company focusing on real-time collaboration. Its first product is a collaborative code editor that many companies such as Apple, Pinterest, and Palantir, have incorporated into their remote interview process. Stypi was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2012, where the team still continues to build its real-time technology and platform.

Slapdash brings all your apps together in one place to give you new superpowers. It's a new type of tool that makes modern computer work less tedious and more fun. It's just one neat trick: we make your workflow insanely fast. We have built a low-latency, file-system for your cloud apps as well as the fastest interface in the world to drive it: the Command Bar.

We help B2B companies reduce churn and grow customer spending. Our product gives account managers access to data dashboards and priority checklists needed to proactively save customers and upsell them to more profitable products. Most companies have all the data they need to figure this out, but it’s often locked away in 20 different systems. There is no central place for an account manager to easily prioritize which customers to focus on and what actions to take to help them. Workbase is the solution, by one-click integrating the data sources and customizing the interface and actions for each company. When working on similar internal tools at companies like Segment, we saw first-hand that proactively managing the customer journey could increase net retained revenue by as much as 20 percent.

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they're based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn. Imagine relationship management built into your email. For free.

WorkLife is a web app that helps teams have more productive meetings. There are over 3 Billion meetings/year in the U.S. and studies show 50% of that time is completely wasted. WorkLife helps you reclaim that time by helping you and your team adopt good meeting habits - create agendas, stay on track during the meeting, and ensure next steps get done afterwards. Most people spend the majority of their waking hours at work, and way too many of those hours in unproductive meetings. Your work life is a big portion of your life -- and the happier and more productive you are at work, the more fulfilled and energized you are in your life. Better Work = Better Life.

The easiest way for companies to connect their empoyees to the apps they need. Meldium is a YC-backed startup helping teams & companies manage accounts & passwords for cloud apps. From shared passwords to user provisioning, Meldium is a central dashboard that connects to every cloud app and makes it simple to create, edit and remove user accounts across all of them. All without IT.

Plato turns the company's engineering and product managers into better leaders. We help resolve challenging management situation as they arise, in real-time thanks to video one-on-one conversations, AMAs, and more with experienced technical leaders form Google,Netflix, Lyft, Box, etc.

Cloudstitch is an early-stage, venture-backed, Y Combinator start-up serving the developer community based on research started at MIT. Their web developer platform connects webs/mobile apps with ordinary spreadsheets, replacing custom databases and the infrastructure surrounding it. The data flows both ways: updating your spreadsheet automatically changes the website, and interacting with the website changes your spreadsheet. They’re used in production by thousands of web developers on both the Google and Microsoft Office platforms. Their mission is to democratize the web, making web development simpler. faster, and more intuitive.

Pulse is a startup building a crowdsourced knowledge marketplace for C-Suite Technology executives and the vendors that work with them. With nearly 15,000 C-Suite execs already on the Pulse platform and hundreds being added on a daily basis, Pulse is set to change how B2B decisions are made. Companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, Okta and Dialpad already rely on Pulse to turbocharge their strategy, content and marketing teams on a daily basis and as we build out our products, we are excited about what the future holds.

Smart collaborative documents. Company wiki. Personal notes. Event planning. Classroom collaboration.

Plasticity builds APIs that help developers create human-like natural language interfaces. We believe in a future where computers can actually understand language and communicate.

SketchDeck is your always ready design team. We give you 24/7 access to high quality, on brand design for all your marketing, sales and communication needs. We're built for the quality, scale and speed modern teams demand.

Coderwall is a collaborative learning platform for software developers to improve their programming knowledge. It is based in San Francisco, California.

Omni is an intelligent chrome extension to help teams manage their internal knowledge and keep it 100% up to date. It fits in the natural workflow, integrates with current knowledge sources, and provides bite-sized answers when needed.

Zenter is an web based presentation app that promises to really take advantage of being online. Users will have the regular functionality of PowerPoint, but with the ability to directly add content from the web (Google Images). Each public slide show will also be put into a public library, for other users to remix or just drop into their show. Zenter was acquired by Google in June, 2007.

Screenhero lets you screen share any application with anyone, no matter where they are. It's super simple and blazing fast. You each get your own mouse pointer, and you're both always in control. It's designed for collaboration, not just broadcasting your screen. It's like Google Docs for any application on your computer.

We're a Top YCombinator S16 and YCG F19 company empowering people to live healthy and blissful lives. We create healthy and happy employees through nutrition and wellness services. We have built a sophisticated tech stack utilizing AI and IoT to enable a flexible supply chain, being completely asset lite, and full wellbeing analytics. We work with some of world’s top companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Kaiser, Stanford, Stripe, Nike, Lyft, and many more.

SendHub makes business communication fast, simple, and effective. Our complete online business SMS messaging solution helps thousands of companies communicate more effectively with on-the-go workforces, customers, and more. SendHub is a Y-Combinator graduate, and is backed by Menlo Ventures, Kapor Capital, 500 startups, the Seraph Group, Paul Buchheit, Eric Ries, Jawed Karim and Jeb Bush.