Workflow Automation Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2024

Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation, backed by the largest marketplace for on-demand photography and photo editing services. Snappr Shoots is a self-service product for anyone to book a photoshoot in as little as 60 seconds. Snappr Workflows is a SaaS solution for brands for automating visual content pipelines.

Contour is building next-generation voice agents to provide manage call center operations and customer support. Users can define a workflow for their call and deploy the agent in minutes to handle both inbound and outbound calls.

We make it easy for commodity traders manage their shipments. The largest U.S. sugar trader uses our AI-automation platform to track thousands of shipments and process over a million shipping documents. Our team consists of an experienced commodity trader with 8 years of experience and two skilled engineers with a combined 13 years of experience from Samsara and Autodesk.

Cardinal Gray offers software to automate workflows in vehicle title and registration. Auto lenders and dealerships use our software to accelerate title work, improve customer experiences, and detect fraud.

Skyvern helps companies automate browser based workflows using LLMs and Computer Vision, fully automating manual workflows and replacing brittle or unreliable scripts. Examples include: 1. Automating materials procurement from commerce websites 2. Completing complex multi-step workflows (ie getting an insurance quote from Geico.com) 3. Automatically logging into portals and downloading invoices 4. Navigating legacy content systems to do data extraction or data entry

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!

Lysto is a task automation platform built for go-to-market (GTM) teams, designed to streamline workflows and reduce time spent on administrative tasks. By aggregating data from your video calls, emails, and other data sources like internal documents and product analytics, Lysto automates key GTM tasks such as updating CRM records, drafting personalized follow-up emails, and logging customer issues in tools like Slack or JIRA. Each task can be fully automated or flagged for final review in Lysto’s task inbox, providing both efficiency and oversight.

Tower lets overworked and under-resourced in-house legal teams automate and manage incoming requests so they can leave work at 5PM everyday. When a new request arrives via email or chat, Tower automatically extracts necessary context, drafts a first response to the inquirer, and populates a Jira-like dashboard so in-house counsels can track all matters in real-time. Tower also allows counsels to use natural language to search through all matters, including communications and documents. In-house counsels currently spend 30 to 90 (!)% of their day working on highly repetitive, manual tasks; Tower frees them to work on more value-add and meaningful projects.

We build automations that can pull information from documents, fill out forms and software, and integrate with your existing systems. For example, insurance brokerages use us to pull information from policies, fill out forms, update accounting software and generate proposals.

Firstwork is a next-generation HR platform designed specifically for companies with dynamic workforce needs. Our mission is to streamline and automate key HR processes to help businesses operate more efficiently and effectively. What We Do (for now): (1) Smart Onboarding 📋: Our platform simplifies the onboarding process by automating the collection and verification of credentials, such as right-to-work documents, insurance forms and driver’s licenses. This reduces administrative burden and accelerates the time-to-productivity for new hires. (2) AI-Assisted Activation 🤖: Leveraging AI, we enhance communication and messaging for new hires, ensuring they receive timely and relevant information. This helps in better engagement and faster integration into their roles. (3) Perpetual Compliance ✅: Our system uses AI and OCR technology to continuously monitor and ensure compliance with various regulatory requirements. This includes tracking expirations of critical documents, updating records, and generating compliance reports, thus reducing the risk of penalties and legal issues.

Tasker is building the easiest way to build AI agents to automate workflows and screen scraping.

Pair Team cares for the highest-need Medicaid recipients through a community-led, virtual care model. We take responsibility for the whole person by addressing not just clinical needs, but also health-related social needs such as housing instability and food access. We partner with local community-based organizations like shelters and safety net providers to coordinate care alongside our multidisciplinary care team to improve the wellbeing of underserved individuals and communities.

LedgerUp is revolutionizing the way small to medium-sized businesses manage their finances. Our AI-driven platform simplifies bookkeeping, automating tedious tasks and providing accurate, real-time financial insights. By leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms, LedgerUp ensures that every transaction is categorized correctly, making financial reporting effortless and precise. Our mission is to scale up financial operations for businesses without the need for extensive accounting knowledge. From automated transaction entries to instant financial reports, LedgerUp empowers business owners to focus on growth while maintaining complete control over their finances. We're proud to support a growing community of entrepreneurs and business owners who rely on our platform to streamline their accounting processes and enhance their operational efficiency.

Lighthouz AI is building AI procurement specialists for manufacturers. 500k procurement professionals spend 90% of their day emailing suppliers and entering data on spreadsheets and outdated ERP. Lighthouz's AI procurement specialists disrupts this entire profession. It 15x'es the productivity of procurement teams. It automates all manual procurement tasks including data verification and entry on ERP. Our AI agents will replace 500k jobs in the next 10 years. Our team has 20+ years of combined AI experience: - Srijan has been a GaTech CS professor, research scientist @ Google, postdoc @ Stanford AI lab, PhD @ UMD, BTech @ IIT. He has built AI systems now in production at Meta, Home Depot, etc. He has written 60+ papers that are cited 6000+ times. - Sonali was a lead AI engineer at Progressive insurance, American Family insurance, Halliburton, did her MS at University of Washington, and undergrad at IIT.

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.

OSIMple automates data entry for inspectors by replacing stacks of paper with tablets and by generating completed inspection forms. This saves inspectors almost half of their inspection time. Founder Amanda Chan and Michael Miller came across the idea while talking to friends and professors in the civil engineering department at their university. They started building better software for bridge inspectors who were using very manual processes, and it’s been used on over 400 bridges so far. They’ve recently expanded to service home inspectors as well. Robust, easy to use software and committed team of self-starters providing fast and reliable customer service. We are chalk full of Software Engineering expertise and ready to automate routine inspection tasks to let you focus on meaningful work.

Automatic Dynamic Pricing, AI front desk, optimized direct booking site, customer management + analytics, and back office automations the modern tech stack for hotels

AlphaWatch AI is a research and analysis platform designed for hedge funds and private equity firms. By using custom LLMs, specialized embedding models, and integrating with both trusted external data sources and secure private data, AlphaWatch AI offers a reliable chat interface that cites its sources, saving financial professionals time on research. We aim to solve a very real pain point: data is currently disjointed, and hedge funds spend anywhere from 250k to 1M on data costs. While LLMs should solve a research problem, their results are prone to hallucinations and don't include internal information. With efficient data integration and valuable insights, AlphaWatch AI is enhancing the way financial institutions access essential information and make informed decisions while maintaining data privacy

Pledge automates patient billing for independent healthcare clinics. We estimate how much insurance will cover for each visit, so clinics can charge patients at the time of service, rather than waiting weeks for insurance to process.

Guardian is an AI platform to help healthcare providers (hospitals, MSOs, physician groups) fight denials and address unpaid claims. Providers deploy Guardian to: 1. Detect emerging patterns in payer reimbursements 2. Automate the diagnosis and resolution of unpaid claims and denials Our founding team ran AI revenue cycle programs at Mount Sinai, NYC Health+Hospitals, and several other large health systems at Palantir, generating millions of dollars per hospital while eliminating hundreds of hours of work.

Cartage is the future of freight coordination. Transparent, tech-driven and eliminating the need for human coordinators.

Winford AI helps financial services professionals streamline manual tasks. Our AI automatically extracts relevant data, helping save 10+ hours per week.

Healthtech-1 automates repetitive processes for healthcare systems. We’re starting with the world’s most famous: the NHS. We’re already live in over 400+ primary care practices. Based out of Raj's parents' Primary Care practice the Healthtech 1 team are systematically digitising the repetitive processes they experience everyday, saving thousands of hours of staff time. Why now? The UK's National Health Service (NHS) delivers free healthcare in 590 million patient contacts every year. Post-pandemic, Britain's most treasured institution is in crisis. Patient satisfaction is at 25 year low and 1/7 staff are applying for Non-NHS jobs fuelling an 11% recruitment gap. By digitising the 100s of repetitive processes in healthcare, Healthtech 1 will reverse the trend, and produce the world's most productive health care system.

Easily customize GitHub-based technical assessments, where candidates can complete tasks like reviewing code, submitting a pull request, or improving a system’s design. Hatchways helps you build a state-of-the-art practical interview process that is customized to your role while saving you engineering interview load along the way.

As Perplexity or Gemini replaces the Google Search we all use today, it will remove the need to ever visit a website. This is an existential risk to all media brands, which is why Capitol went from zero to $1.68M in revenue during YC: all media companies need to offer THEIR OWN Perplexity-like experience to maintain their direct relationship with customers. The most trusted brand in political news and analysis, Politico, chose us to power their Politico Pro Subscription product. Consumers expect instant personalized answers. Publishers won’t build this on their own. Capitol’s API lights up publishers' websites and apps so their end users can generate personalized search results, cited research reports, and even tweet storms using the publisher’s proprietary data—all within their paywall. Capitol is the new last mile of content delivery for publishing. This market is $16b in 2023, and will grow to $85.6b in 2030. Gemini and Perplexity are the imperial forces. Capitol is arming the rebels.

At Socap.ai, we help founders and investors to grow their network and fundraise better with AI. As experienced founders and investors (Slava is an ex-VC with 2 unicorns from seed portfolio and a top YC founder who has raised $180M over his entrepreneurial career; Alex is a repeat AI founder with an exit and has helped dozens of founders to raise early-stage funding), we're constantly bombarded with emails/DMs from fellow founders asking for fundraising help and intros. We get it — fundraising is tough, especially in the current environment. There's so much advice that you don't even know who to listen to. With Socap.ai, we make it at least 2 times easier by giving founders a proven YC-style "parallel fundraising" playbook (remember — we ourselves have raised over $200M using it), an accountable community, and exclusive access to the Socap.ai platform where you can easily manage and grow your founder/investor network for your fundraising needs and beyond. We're currently in beta and onboarding users through various community initiatives (ours or our VC/accelerator partners). Learn more and apply to one of our free fundraising bootcamps here: Socap.ai

Ficra enables product teams to ship higher quality releases, faster. Ficra is the source of truth for every product screen and user flow, giving companies real-time visibility into what their users actually see in their live product. Ficra's AI provides a live, visual map of your users’ journeys: every screen, flow, A/B test, push notification and email. With Ficra, product teams no longer waste 25% of their time auditing complex user flows to assess product quality and find the blind spots in funnels.

CopyCat automates repetitive tasks by recording your processes and transforming them into streamlined, instant workflows.

Formula Insight offers Institutional Investors previously inaccessible data. We provide a central repository of financial models so investors can track changes to forecasts, quantify projection accuracy and expedite analysis. This further systematizes the investment process and enables better investment decisions.

8vdx is building fine tuned AI/ML models to massively scale up the capabilities for hedge funds and private credit funds to analyze, underwrite and manage debt securities. 8vdx also manages a venture marketplace, eightcapital.com, which raises funds from accredited investors to invest in venture debt and equity of Y Combinator startups.

Platus delivers fast, reliable legal infrastructure with a no-code platform and API, designed to support SMBs with instant access to notarization, legal drafting, e-signing, and workflow automations. Our solution removes the high costs and slow processing of traditional legal services, by empowering businesses to seamlessly manage compliance and legal tasks.

At Tiny, we’re building a new kind of ERP system for factories where AI agents automate repetitive workflows. Made for the four million factories still primarily relying on Excel. LLMs now unlock their troves of siloed unstructured data. We see a massive opportunity to build a compound startup and, beyond that, tap into network effects to unlock just-in-time manufacturing across entire supply chains.

Dexter is the AI workflow automation tool for field operations. With Dexter, customers reduce traffic fines, automate van management, and run asset recovery. We're the only tool that can hand-off tasks between the back office, in-field workers, and AI agents.

Affinity is a compliance training platform designed specifically for regulated industries. We’ve previously built a fintech from inception to a successful exit and are leveraging that experience to solve the learning management needs of regulated tech companies from growth stage to large enterprise banks.

Recase helps automate repetitive support queries and processes, straight from Slack. Our users deploy AI scripts to handle tasks like pulling data with SQL, answering product questions, or even just booking PTO. Invoking them is a simple command: /recase pull 12 months past transaction data on merchant 204598

Structured is a tool that simplifies data discovery and collaboration for teams, focusing on making data modeling and metric tracking as intuitive as possible. It brings together all your data sources, metadata, and documentation into one place, making it easy to find the right data and understand how it connects. By centralizing data models and metrics, Structured allows teams to work with a unified view of their data, which reduces redundancy and confusion. It’s built for teams that prioritize accuracy and speed, making sure everyone can find and use data without bottlenecks. Essentially, it’s a tool for treating data like code, emphasizing structure and reusability across projects.

Foundry is the Retool for AI agents, empowering companies to build and manage agents that automate entire workflows—like customer support, recruiting, and sales—in minutes, no AI expertise required. With Foundry, teams can quickly create agents that actually work, track performance, and scale their impact across the business. Pranav and I built AI systems at Scale AI for companies like OpenAI. Now, we’re bringing that experience to teams everywhere to make AI agents accessible and practical for every business.

Many workflow builders and automation tools have support for adding logic to your processes, but get complicated quick– to the point where process owners are unable to edit them directly and require specialist services. Rulebricks separates decision-making logic from your workflows, giving your team a clear visual, spreadsheet-like interface to manage the changing rules that drive your business, and use those rules as API endpoints, visual forms, and in automation tools like Zapier.

Brainbase is an AI workflow automation builder designed to handle complex enterprise workflows. Our customers use us to spin up everything from sales autopilots to full fledged customer support workflows in less than a day. SMBs and unicorns choose us over our competitors because we are the only platform that combines the power of AI with the ease and robustness of an off-the-shelf enterprise tool.

Tracecat is the open source Tines / Splunk SOAR alternative. Security engineers use our platform to build AI-assisted workflows that automate investigations and incident response. We're building the easiest way for security teams to fight burnout and reduce mean time to respond.

Cloudthread is an analytics platform that helps engineering teams build cost efficiently in the cloud. We were behind Lyft's internal cloud cost management system and now we use that deep expertise to help organizations save hours of engineering time, reduce cloud bills, and prevent costly re-architectures.

Finnt AI Agents improve and accelerate Corporate Finance procedures in FP&A, Controllership, Accounting, Tax etc.

Attunement an automation workflow platform for psychiatric assessments.

CloudCruise lets you trigger user-permissioned workflows in any SaaS software. We do this by providing a simple and well-documented development environment, as well as authentication and browser infrastructure.

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.

Windmill is an open-source developer platform to quickly build production-grade multi-step internal apps, workflows and integrations from minimal Python and Typescript scripts. Open-source alternative to Airplane and Pipedream. Simplified temporal with automatic app generation. Usable as a self-hosted AWS Lambda. Sync your scripts from your github repo or write them directly on Windmill, have them be converted to apps and no-code modules automatically. Use those apps as standalone or, build powerful flows using either those scripts or scripts made by the community on hub.windmill.dev. The experience is similar to no-code tools except that at any point, any module can have its code inspected and tweaked. Leveraging the open-source community, we will build an exhaustive library of scripts for all apis and generic tasks. You may also wrap Windmill with your own frontend to provide automation as a feature on top of your own SaaS. Focus on your business logic for all kind of flows, Windmill is the platform to build, share and run them.

Activepieces is an open-source (MIT) business automation software. For example, you can build automations to receive email and Slack notifications about new contacts add to your HubSpot CRM.

Latent Space develops AI applications specifically designed to address the unique challenges and opportunities in emerging economies. Our first products are GoVisa (AI-enabled online visa and permits application) and SuperAI (administrative workflows automation) for the Indonesian and Southeast Asian markets.