Black-founded YC companies | Y Combinator

1910W19Boston

Multimodal AI Platform for Modality Agnostic Drug Discovery™

We are the only AI-native biotech pioneering small and large molecule therapeutics discovery by integrating massive multimodal data, frontier AI models, and high-throughput lab automation into an infrastructure for AI-enabled drug discovery.

a0.devW25San Francisco

We make mobile apps using AI.

a0.dev is a platform that helps mobile developers build high quality apps in days instead of weeks by generating custom react native projects. We've launched top ranking apps that have been used by hundreds of thousands, and now we're creating the tools we wish we had to build faster.

AbInitio BioP26Boston

The Intelligence layer for Drug Manufacturing

Abinitio Bio builds foundation models for biomanufacturing, validated against wet lab data. Our first model, Echo, predicts manufacturing outcomes more accurately than standard models, and any pharma or CDMO can adapt it to their own workflow instantly. By making process decisions that take 6-18 months today in hours, we help teams avoid the cost of delay on a single program.

AbundantF24San Francisco

Agent simulation and RL for researchers

Hello! 👋 We are a team of former ML engineers, founders, roboticists and ops leads who obsess about data and its impact on safe, reliable AI. We specialize in creating environments and datasets for RL by leveraging our experience in simulation and model training. By the numbers: • Powering 3 of the top 6 global AI labs and multiple Fortune 500 enterprises • Billions of training tokens generated each month, 2x month over month • Exclusive, global network of over 500 domain experts We believe humans are inherently creative, and thrive by pushing the frontier. We are working towards an abundant future--one where everyone has access to infinite intelligence, services and goods. Based in San Francisco, CA. We enjoy good food and good company. -- more info below -- Abundant is building the NVIDIA of training data. AI models rely on two fundamental ingredients: compute and data. NVIDIA, the leader in compute, has a peak market cap of $5T and generated $130B in revenue last year as the need for scaling compute has exploded. We believe the need to scale data is just beginning, as we move beyond SFT and human supervision to RL and Learning from Experience. Our founding team consists of second-time founders, ML engineers and data leads from Waymo, Google, Meta and AWS. Our team has previously collaborated with DeepMind to classify hate speech in YouTube videos, trained SOTA models for self-driving, and scaled data pipelines with thousands of human annotators. Our pioneering work in human computation, synthetic data, imitation learning and RL give us a solid advantage in delivering results to our customers. Why now? Training data is more important and more scarce than ever before. Scaling laws dictate that linear improvement in model performance demands an exponential increase in training data. But there is only one World Wide Web and most of it has already been trained on. The next advances will require new, diverse, and high-quality datasets, making training data more important and scarce than ever before. What happens if we succeed? Abundant will be the core enabler for AGI and beyond. Most of the challenges in model training are already solved. What’s missing is the data necessary to move from general knowledge to domain expertise; from chatbots to agents; and from digital intelligence to physical AI. Ask any AI researcher or roboticist: the core bottleneck to progress is the availability of data, i.e. “abundant data”. Abundant works with the most advanced AI labs and startups, as well as F500 enterprises.

AellaW17Lagos, Nigeria

Diversified credit infrastructure powering payments across Africa.

Aella is a diversified credit payments platform with over 2 million users, offering a raft of financial services to underbanked users across Africa with a focus on lending. We are at the forefront of financial inclusion and empowerment of the underbanked. Aella’s Debt-as-a-service model ensures that agents across Africa are able to have quick and easy access to funding through its partnerships with leading agency banks across the continent.

Affil.aiS24San Francisco

AI Affiliate Network For Financial Companies

We build AI compliance for external marketing. For example, we work with major creators to ensure that their content meets credit card marketing guidelines.

AfriexS20San Francisco

Instant, low-fee remittances

Afriex makes it easy for immigrants to send money home. We offer instant, low-fee remittances to over 25 countries around the world.

AgapéS21Rochester, NY, USA

Feel close, even when apart. One meaningful conversation at a time.

Agapé is a relationship wellness app that helps you feel close to your friends, family, or partner, even when apart! We curate daily questions to spark meaningful conversations for over 2 million people around the world.

&AIS24San Francisco

Collaborative workspace for patent litigators

&AI is a collaborative workspace that delivers trial-ready work product for patent litigators — fast enough for pitches, strong enough for court.

AirfordableS16Chicago, IL, USA

Buy flights for only a fraction upfront and pay off the rest in…

Airfordable is payment plans for airline tickets. The service allows users to secure tickets with a deposit upfront and pay the remaining balance in recurring payments before the departure date.

AltroS20Los Angeles

Build Credit With Your Subscriptions

Altro (altro.io) is a platform that enables members to build credit no matter who they are, where they are from, or their history of credit access/score. We serve the 68M people in the US (mainly Women and POC) who are denied credit due to historical bias and the lack of access that current banks provide to credit building and tools. (It wasn't until The Equal Credit Opportunity Act in the 1970's that Women and "Minorities" could even get fair access to credit)! Altro has created a mobile that allows anyone to have access to credit, using their subscriptions as a means to start building their credit score. Altro lends to members a $75 Line of Credit to pay for their subscriptions, such as Netflix, Hulu, HelloFresh, etc. This card is built to solely work on the subscriptions that the member is already paying for, allowing them to securely use their $75 credit to build their credit using things they are already paying for. Doing this empowers folx who were denied credit a way to start building their score and financial power. Altro will service millions of people in not only building their credit, but also gaining access to the tools (such as personal loans, emergency funds, car/house loans and more) that they could not access prior.

AnchorS22Lagos, Nigeria

Embedded finance platform for African businesses

Anchor provides APIs, dashboard and tools that help developers easily embed and build banking products. This includes APIs for creating bank accounts, funds transfers, savings products, issuing cards and offering loans. We also provide regulatory coverage and continuous compliance support to our partners.

AptDecoW14New York City

AptDeco is the easiest way to buy and sell used furniture

AptDeco is a peer-to-peer managed marketplace dedicated for buying and selling quality used furniture. We offer a complete end-to-end process to bring back the joy of discovering amazing furniture finds for the home again. Our customers benefit from a trusted and verified community of buyers and sellers, pre-arranged pick up and delivery and a secure electronic payment process.

Aragorn AIS22Dallas, TX, USA

Operating system for HR in the AI era

We’re building a new way of working in People Ops for the AI era—one that starts by solving a painful problem no one talks about: HR data integrations. And from there, it grows into something far more powerful: personalized, agentic HR analysts that any team can create and deploy on their own.

Autodial prev QwestW19Miami, FL, USA

Skip Busy Phone Lines

Previous Qwest (W19) - skip busy club lines. Autodial (currently exiting) is a service for skipping busy phone lines for everyday people calling businesses. Our goal is to connect people directly to customer service via phone lines by reducing the wait time from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. We cover 10,000 phone lines ranging from financial institutions, telecom, home services, government, etc. The Pivot Club and restaurant lines were non-existent during COVID. We reset the company and shifted focus using more technical skills in machine learning to build a service that millions of americans could use and leverage in the moment -- a service that called government phone lines and handled the call process. Succeeding we expanded quickly expanded and built a model to support people using the service for free.

Avelis HealthS25

We audit medical claims for self-insured employers and health plans.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬: I (Angel) have had three knee surgeries since my mid-teens and was billed more than $250K for care that should have cost a fraction of that. Fighting those inflated charges was so painful that we set out to build a consumer-facing AI agent to do it for others. In less than five months, we helped sixty patients erase or reduce over $300K from their medical bills. This inspired us to fix the problem farther upstream: stopping bad payments before the patient ever sees a bill. So we launched payment integrity, machine-learning models that audit every medical claim for self-insured employers and health plans in real time. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦: • Self-insured employers waste $60 B+ each year on claims that never should have been paid. Healthcare is the 2nd largest company expense after payroll. • Manual audits are slow and partial: Reviewers focus only on high-dollar claims, letting millions more slip through unnoticed. • Existing audit software is static: Decades-old rule engines can’t keep pace with evolving codes, contracts, or billing tactics. • Incentives are misaligned: Third-party administrators are paid to process claims, not to police them, so accuracy checks are minimal. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Our models audit medical claims before and after payments have been issued. We catch nuanced billing, coding, and contract errors to save 3-7% on annual claims spend. We work with self-insured employers and health plans. 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬: Angel Onuoha (CEO) and Ahmad Shehu (CTO) have worked together for 4 years. Before Avelis Health they built Zuvy, a Lagos-based fintech company that provided invoice factoring to small businesses. Zuvy was acquired by The BAS Group in 2025.

AvionW20San Francisco

Avion builds and operates autonomous eVTOL drones that deliver vital…

Avion is a drone-based digital health platform, designed to bridge the gap between remote clinics and urban healthcare infrastructures. By connecting these isolated clinics with sophisticated labs and well-stocked pharmacies in cities, Avion brings a new era of remote diagnostics and prescription fulfilment. Avion ensures the rapid, safe, and efficient delivery of vital medical supplies and clinical samples, even to the most hard-to-reach locations. Avion's operation uniquely combines cutting-edge autonomous drone technology with digital health platforms. Our drones, built with advanced eVTOL capabilities, ensure seamless take-off and landing capabilities, even in challenging terrains. Avion's digital health platform serves as the connective tissue between urban health centers and remote clinics. The platform features an intuitive interface, making it easy for healthcare providers to order necessary supplies, track shipments, and even communicate with laboratory and pharmacy staff.

BambooW20Lagos, Nigeria

Bamboo ― the first online brokerage service for Africans and their…

Bamboo is the first online brokerage service that gives wealthy Africans and their wealth managers direct access to the US and global securities. We’re building Fidelity for the African continent. For wealthy Africans and their asset managers, investing in the global capital markets is cumbersome, expensive and practically inaccessible. In Nigeria, Africa's largest economy and home to 30% of all the wealth in Sub Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa), 99.99% of the investing population do not have access to invest globally. Even for the 0.01%, if you wanted to buy a US stock, you’d have to call your asset manager who would then call an international broker to execute a trade. This is inefficient & expensive! We have a mobile app that allows individuals trade the US stock markets by themselves and a brokerage tool for asset managers to execute trades directly & manage multilple portfolios seamlessly.

BankjoyW15Troy, MI, USA

An end-to-end digital banking solution for banks and credit unions

Bankjoy provides a full suite of modern digital banking software, including mobile banking, online banking, online account opening, loan applications, and conversational AI to banks and credit unions.

Beacon HealthW26San Francisco

AI Employees for Primary Care

Beacon Health (YC W26) is building AI employees that double revenue for primary care practices while also reducing the total cost of care. Primary care is the primary source of care for over 200M Americans, but physicians don’t have the bandwidth to manage their patient panels. Beacon Health builds AI employees that automate tedious background workflows - preventative screenings, prior authorizations, referrals, and risk adjustment. We handle these workflows from start to finish, directly in their EHR. We’re on a mission is to bring joy back to primary care.

BensonW22Alexandria, VA, USA

Easily invest like the rich

Benson helps everyday people invest like the rich by helping them identify the best stocks to invest in. We help users know when to buy, how much to invest, and even when to sell.

Better AuthP25San Francisco

The authentication framework for TypeScript

Better Auth is a comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript that lets you implement everything from simple auth flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on your own database, embedded in your backend. It’s loved by developers all over the world and endorsed by leading voices in the ecosystem. On top of the framework, Better Auth also provides an infrastructure layer to help you scale with user management and analytics, bot and fraud detection, transactional email and SMS, global session storage and more.

BilancW24San Francisco

AI-Powered Engineering Productivity

Bilanc helps engineering leaders build more productive, happier teams. We use AI to analyse every line of code that is written, and our platform delivers insights that help to improve developer experience, and increase developer productivity.

BiteSightW24New York City

The video-first food delivery app. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash.

BiteSight shows users videos of food we think they will love from nearby restaurants and delivers it right to their door. Zac and Lucious studied together at UT Austin. Zac did CS and AI Research, and Lucious built his first $1M ARR product while moonlighting at a YC startup at age 19.. UberEats and DoorDash have become cluttered and impersonal super apps. They've created a $30B opportunity for a delivery app that puts the customer experience first by combining high-quality videos, recommendations, and social proof from your most trusted food critics - your friends.

BlazeS24

Agentic Finance for your Life and Business

Blaze (YC S24) is the agentic finance platform. For businesses it's an AI CFO that pays bills, invoices clients, and forecasts cash. For people it's an agent that sends money, converts currencies, and manages your finances globally: you set the rules, it handles the rest. Other AI finance tools just report. Blaze moves the money, on your approval, in stablecoins or straight through the banking system. The founders scaled their last startup to $1M in ARR, studied at Duke, NYU, and Cornell, and led teams at Spotify and Artsy. npx @blaze-money/cli · https://blaze.money

BottomlessW19Seattle

Building the first sensor enabled marketplace for repeat purchases

BoyaW22Nairobi, Kenya

Corporate Expense cards and Spend management for businesses in Africa

Boya Makes it easy for businesses in Africa to issue corporate expense cards instantly and great software to control and track spending. For example, if you run a pharmaceutical company, you can use Boya to instantly issue Visa cards to sales and marketing teams and get real-time visibility and control over their spending. 50M+ businesses in Africa have no easy way to streamline and track their employee spending in real-time. So we are building a corporate card and a spend management platform that enables businesses to streamline spend workflows and provide real-time reporting. We are building the first corporate card that supports mobile money, banks and card schemes payment workflows

BraviF25Paris, France

The AI operating system powering home services businesses

Bravi is building the AI operating system for home-services businesses, using AI-powered customer communication as the wedge. We replace the front office (calls, chats, follow-ups) with AI agents that never miss a lead, then layer an internal AI copilot that understands products, pricing, and technical documentation. We started with fenestration (shutters, windows, garage doors), a large, complex vertical with no modern software, before expanding to adjacent trades. Bravi is already live with leading installers and manufacturers across Europe and the US, turning missed demand into revenue.

BreezefulW20Toronto, ON, Canada

An online mortgage broker. Get the best mortgage, fast.

Breezeful gets you the best mortgage online from start to close. Instead of dealing with multiple banks, credit checks and in-person meetings, we’ll use your income, credit score, and other financial data from your application to negotiate with hundreds of lenders on your behalf in seconds.

BrevyS20

Empower your customer service team through AI & automation.

Brevy is an AI chatbot that uses large language models to resolve eCommerce support tickets with human level accuracy at a fraction of the price.

BrickwiseF25London

AI property manager for landlords and estate agents

We've built an AI property manager that automates maintenance requests, handling tenant calls and messages 24/7, following up by chasing contractors and resolving issues. We're based in London, but have over 10 customers throughout the world, from San Francisco to Dubai. We have a reliable sales pipeline, including a >$1m cARR enterprise contract. Since our formation 6 months ago, we have raised over $3M in funding. Ismail, co-founder & CEO, is an ex-Founder at LiveLink AI, where he raised $3M, growing the platform to editing 150k videos per month. He also built his own prop firm to $500k ARR. Elias, co-founder & CTO, was an early engineer at a YC backed company, acquired by Google. While a senior engineer at Google for 5 years, he took the product from $50k ARR to >$100m. CS at Bristol, MBA from Imperial.

BujetiW23Paris, France

The Finance Control Centre for African Businesses

Control spending, process payments, manage payroll, and multi-currency operations with approval workflows, total visibility and control, from one unified platform

BuyPowerW17Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Modern bill payment platform for African businesses and consumers.

BuyPower is the modern bill payment platform for Africans. We make it easy for individuals to pay their energy bills, businesses to pay international vendors, and lenders to make smarter lending decisions using our proprietary Energy Data Service. Our mission is to simplify bill payment and empower African SMBs to prioritize their financial health.

BytebotS21Boston

Bytebot is the open source container for AI desktop agents.

Bytebot simplifies and streamlines the development of computer use agents with a ready made container for desktop automation, including APIs for mouse movements, keyboard input, and screenshot capture. The container enables developers to build robust, dynamic computer use agents that can be configured and run anywhere.

Cactus ComputeS25San Francisco

Tiny Edge AI For Tiny Devices

On-device AI for phones, wearables, smart home, robots and small robots: - Cactus Needle: 14MB agentic LLM for tiny devices - Cactus Engine: fastest runtime for tiny devices - Cactus Hybrid: post-trained models fall back to cloud

CenoteW25San Francisco

AI agents for conversational commerce

Cenote helps online D2C brands convert more shoppers through AI sales reps that can call and text. Online stores rely on static websites, one-way email and SMS campaigns, and inside sales teams with limited availability. But many purchases are better suited to a conversation: shoppers have questions, need guidance, or simply are not excited to buy based on what's on the site alone. Today, those shoppers are poorly served. Abandoned-checkout campaigns are generic, call centers close, and slow human follow-up allows high-intent leads to go cold. Our customers often see conversion rates below 1% from traditional abandoned-checkout outreach. Cenote's AI reps reach shoppers immediately, remember their context, and continue the conversation across channels and over time. This gives every interested shopper access to a personalized sales rep and helps brands recover revenue from leads they have already paid to acquire.

Chow Central IncS23Lagos, Nigeria

Asset Light Chipotle for Africa

Chow Central is building technology to disrupt the food industry in Nigeria. The goal is to profitably provide food to as many people as possible in record time. Chow Central has launched its first product "500chow". A delivery-only quick service restaurant that serves customers in record time. 500chow has 10x lower costs than traditional brick-and-mortar restaurants, and 10x more online orders. Our customers love us for our super fast and cheaper deliveries. We are able to do this by launching hyper-locally within a 3km radius. We are very focused on solving real problems in the food industry one scalable product at a time.

ChowdeckS22Lagos, Nigeria

On-demand food delivery for Africa

Founded in October 2021, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service and marketplace where people can purchase their favourite meals from a wide range of restaurants. Whether local or continental, customers can buy food in a few short steps and have it delivered to their doorstep in under 30 minutes. Chowdeck is on a mission to empower restaurants in Africa to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime. Part of our unique offering to the restaurants listed on our marketplace is that we’ll help them grow, and so far, most of the restaurants we work with can boast of this achievement. With their help and the help of an ambitious team of relentless and fearless riders, we’ve delivered over 80,000 meals in the last six months in two major cities in Lagos. We’ve come this far because we’re passionate about understanding the teething pains of delivery service in Africa and believe strongly in a world where ordering a meal is seamless.

ClevaW24San Francisco

Global neobank for emerging markets

Cleva breaks down financial borders across the globe by enabling remote workers, individuals, and businesses to hold stablecoin-backed dollars. Specifically, we enable our customers: 1. Receive USD, GBP, EUR payments: Individuals and businesses can receive USD, GBP, and EUR payments into their virtual account. 2. Receive and send stablecoins: They can also receive USDT or USDC, and make global payments via USDT and USDC. 3. Hold funds in USD: They can choose to hold their funds in USD instead of converting to local currency. In high inflation countries, this is extremely desirable as it helps our customers hedge against inflation until they're ready to spend in local currency. 4. Stablecoin-backed cards: We issue cards that are stablecoin-backed and accepted by 150M+ merchants across the globe. Users can fund in stablecoins or fiat, spend anywhere VISA is accepted, and earn cashback in the form of Cleva Points. 5. Savings: We recently launched Cleva Pots, allowing users to save towards their goals and earn yield on their savings. It's still very early days at Cleva. We've been hyper-focused on our home country Nigeria but we're now expanding to more countries across the globe.

ClipDropW21Paris, France

Turn regular mobile photos into professional product visuals

ClipDrop is an app that turns regular mobile photos into professional product visuals. Thanks to companies like Poshmark, Etsy and Ebay, there are now over 25M sellers who need great visuals for their shops but most of them don’t have access to a professional photographer or a design team. We replace all of this with our app available on mobile and desktop. We’re a team of former Google, Facebook employees and Machine learning PhD’s and academic Professors. We believe that machine learning will bring professional photography and design to millions of businesses for a fraction of the cost.

Conductor QuantumS24San Francisco

AI that operates quantum computers for scientific discovery

Conductor Quantum is building quantum superintelligence: AI that operates quantum computers to make scientific discoveries beyond human reach. Quantum computers let us understand the world at its most fundamental level, the path to new drugs, new materials, and discoveries no human can reach alone. A quantum computer is the perfect simulator of nature: it encodes the logic of reality into a programmable machine, atom by atom, electron by electron. Give AI that simulator and you open the door to discovery. The bottleneck is operating the hardware. Today, engineers spend days or weeks by hand to bring a chip to operating conditions for just two qubits. A qubit is the information-carrying unit of a quantum computer, the equivalent of a bit in a classical one, and a useful machine needs billions. Removing the human from that loop is only half the problem. Every command an AI sends to a quantum computer must be optimised for the specific hardware it runs on. We build the AI that operates quantum computers and tunes every machine it runs on. That is the path to quantum superintelligence.

ConfidoS21New York City

AI-enabled financial automation and intelligence for CPG Brands

Confido is a next-generation financial automation and intelligence platform that helps fast-growing CPG brands operate and scale more efficiently.

ConvoyW22London

Webhooks Gateway for outgoing and incoming webhooks.

We are building Convoy for engineering teams that value efficiency, especially during this bear market. You might already know about API Gateways. Convoy is exactly that for webhooks. Engineering teams today use Convoy to securely send, receive and manage millions of webhooks reliably with robust support for retries, rate limiting, static IPs, circuit breaking, rolling secrets and more. We know both receiving and sending webhooks can become a lot of work to manage, we have built a product to enable engineers to build and ship highly scalable stripe-like webhooks infrastructure.

CovaS26San Francisco

Financial infrastructure for family caregiving

Cova is an AI-native home care agency, licensed in Michigan. We serve Medicaid, LTCI, and private-pay patients; we pay caregivers the highest base rate in the state; and we help unpaid family caregivers get paid through programs they didn't know they qualified for. Our entire operation runs on AI agents, which means less overhead and more value passed directly to the people doing the real work.

CowrywiseS18Lagos, Nigeria

Digitizing wealth management in Africa

Cowrywise is a FinTech company democratizing access to premium financial services by making these services available to the mass market cheaply. We are leveraging technology and investment management to re-imagine how financial planning, savings and investment products are delivered to people. We do this by helping our customers achieve their savings and investments goals in a simple, secure and affordable manner.

CredPalW19Lagos, Nigeria

CredPal is a buy now pay later company in Africa that allows…

CrowdForceW20Abuja, Nigeria

Crowdforce is an app that allows any local merchant in Africa,…

CrowdForce is an app that allows any local merchant in Africa, starting with Nigeria to become a bank branch within minutes.

CuracelW22London

AI-Powered Infrastructure for Insurance & Healthcare

Curacel builds AI-driven infrastructure to help payors, TPAs and healthcare providers automate claims processing, reduce fraud, streamline operations and enhance customer experiences. Our intelligent solutions make insurance and healthcare more efficient, accessible, and scalable.

DeepReach Inc.S26San Francisco

Network for Physical AI Data Business

Physical AI — robots and world models — is bottlenecked on one thing: diverse, real-world data at massive scale showing how humans actually do work in the physical world. It was never written down, and you can't buy it, because no one has ever captured it. Only real local experts, the people who do this work every day, can produce data this authentic and valuable. DeepReach builds the network that reaches them. We design and manufacture wearable stereo capture devices, then place them with local data partners who run collection as their own business — in warehouses, workshops, farms, kitchens and repair shops. They own the local relationships; we supply the hardware, the software platform, the quality pipeline and the payments. Anyone can run a data business. That structure is what produces diversity. Instead of thousands of hours inside one environment, we deliver hours spread across thousands of environments — which is what actually makes robot policies generalize. 475 devices in the field and 100+ data partners are live across 7 countries, adding new partners every week. They've collected nearly 150,000 clips in the past three months, with volume roughly doubling month over month. Our data is in production with multiple frontier model and robotics companies, and we're scaling to 10,000+ devices across 50 countries.

DigistainS21London

Pioneering Breast Cancer Diagnostics for a Healthier Tomorrow

In the global fight against breast cancer, Digistain stands at the forefront, offering a beacon of hope to millions. Our journey began at Imperial College London, where ground-breaking research gave birth to a technology poised to revolutionize breast cancer diagnostics. The Challenge: Every year, breast cancer affects 2.3 million individuals globally. Post-surgery, 60% of patients are advised to undergo genomic testing, an expensive and time-consuming process monopolized by a single lab in the U.S., costing around $4,000 and taking nearly two months. Consequently, only 5% undergo this vital testing. The rest, unable to access this crucial diagnostic step, often resort to chemotherapy—a treatment that, in one in four cases, is more harmful than the cancer itself. Our Solution: Digistain addresses this critical gap. Our technology transforms the current diagnostic process by enabling hospitals to analyze patient samples in-house using existing equipment, supplemented with our innovative technology. This approach offers near-instantaneous decision-making data, a stark contrast to the existing month-long waits. Central to our technology is a proprietary algorithm that identifies a unique spectral fingerprint of the tumour in the infrared spectrum, providing a personalized risk score. This score guides oncologists in selecting the most effective, individualized treatment plans, potentially reducing unnecessary chemotherapy and its harmful side effects. Impact and Potential: Our solution not only challenges the status quo in technology but also in accessibility. In a landmark government-commissioned study, Digistain demonstrated clinical evidence on par with the market leader, but at a fraction of the cost and time. Already making waves in clinical practice globally, with insurance reimbursement at leading cancer centers, our technology represents a paradigm shift in cancer care. Recognized by the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society, and Imperial College for our innovative contributions, and supported by entities like the NHS, Y Combinator, and the European Investment Bank, Digistain is more than a company—it’s a movement towards equitable, effective cancer treatment. With the potential to democratize access to life-saving diagnostics, Digistain is not just envisioning a better future for cancer patients; we are actively creating it.

DittofeedS22Los Angeles

Open-source customer engagement & messaging automation

Dittofeed is an open-source alternative to platforms like Klaviyo and Customer.io. Self-host us for free, or use our low-cost cloud offering to automate messages across email, SMS, mobile push, WhatsApp, and more. We also offer solutions for embedding Dittofeed in your own SaaS! Instantly provide your customers with automated messaging tools.

DjamoW21Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Challenger Bank for consumers in French speaking Africa.

Djamo is a challenger Bank for consumers in french speaking Africa where less than 25% of the population is banked, we are building seamless and affordable banking solutions to break into this huge untaped market and bring millions of people into financial inclusion.

Dojah IncW22Lagos, Nigeria

Prevent Fraud and Onboard Users Faster

Dojah is the anti-fraud infrastructure for the internet, helping businesses verify identities, detect fraud, and stay compliant with powerful APIs and no-code tools. Fintechs, banks, and digital businesses rely on Dojah’s solutions for seamless user onboarding, AI-driven fraud detection, KYC & KYB verification, and transaction monitoring. By leveraging government data lookups, biometric authentication, and real-time risk analysis, Dojah ensures businesses can mitigate fraud risks, improve user trust, and scale efficiently while staying compliant with regulatory standards.

DoublezeroS24

Platform to build, use, and monetize fully autonomous agents

Doublezero is a platform that provides developers with everything they need to build, operate, and monetize autonomous agents. Developers can focus on creating tools while Doublezero handles reasoning frameworks, state management, analytics, monetization, and a runner UI. Users can interact with agents through a powerful UI that allows play, pause, rewind, and human intervention, and discover or share agents and tools through an integrated marketplace.

DryMergeW24San Francisco

AI that updates your CRM for you

We create AI agents that constantly monitor emails, calendar, calls, or wherever else companies have relationship data and organize it into CRM records as meticulously as a great rep would. We build these agents on top of the DryMerge platform, a tool to build AI agents that integrate with business apps and work in the background.

DuraniumS25San Francisco

Reshoring critical metal production

China and Russia control the world’s critical minerals. We can produce Titanium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Zirconium & Hafnium in the U.S. more profitably than any existing process, and carbon neutrally via co-production. Carbochlorination is the primary process for producing critical metals like titanium, hafnium, and zirconium, and was once the standard for magnesium. The problem: conventional carbochlorination relies on purchasing carbon feedstocks, wastes valuable byproducts, and is highly CO₂-intensive. Duranium changes this with a novel reactor that recycles CO₂ emissions back into feedstock (CO) while generating a valuable co-product (bleaching agents). This closed loop slashes emissions and delivers Chinese-level metal pricing without subsidies — unlocking the full potential of carbochlorination for U.S. critical mineral production.

Eazipay Inc.W22105102, Lagos, Nigeria

Eazipay powers effortless payroll and financial access in Africa.

Eazipay is Africa’s leading payroll and payment automation platform, making it easy for businesses to pay their teams accurately, on time, and with minimal effort. Our Payroll API enables businesses, fintechs, and platforms to integrate payroll processing directly into their systems—automating salary payments, tax deductions, and compliance. Beyond payroll, Eazipay also empowers workers by providing faster access to their earnings and financial benefits. With features like early wage access and financial wellness tools, we help employees and gig workers gain more control over their income and financial stability. We now serve over 10k businesses, with many YC companies as customers.

Eden CareS23Nairobi, Kenya

Claims infrastructure for African health insurance

Eden Care is building the claims infrastructure for African health insurance

Embark TrucksW16San Francisco

Self-driving semi trucks.

Embark Technology develops self-driving truck software. Embark was the first self-driving truck company to achieve an autonomous coast-to-coast drive, the first to reach 100,000 miles driven on public roads, and the first to open a network of transfer points. Embark went public on NASDAQ in 2021 and was acquired by Applied Intuition in 2023.

Emerge CareerS22New York City

All-in-one re-entry & workforce development training platform

Vocational training programs and workforce management software for government agencies looking to create high-paying jobs and up-skill their low-income and justice-involved citizens out of poverty.

eqtbleW21New York City

Turning HR data into actionable insights

At eqtble, we’re on a mission is to empower companies to make more equitable decisions around their employees. We're building a people analytics platform that enables talent and people leaders to access a rich set of analytics and insights out of their existing data. Within a short time period, we've vaulted to the top of the HR tech industry with our tech-first people analytics solution. With customers such as Etsy, Chobani, Nuro, Harrys, Checkr - eqtble is on a path to being the leader in the people analytics space.

Evidently AIS21London

Open-source monitoring for machine learning models

We are building an open-source standard to monitor ML models in production. The tool is used by enterprise data science teams to operate their models reliably and detect and resolve issues.

ExpanseP26San Francisco

Unlock wasted GPU capacity.

Expanse unlocks wasted GPU capacity. We recover idle compute through three capabilities: resource prediction (right-sizing job submissions before they reach the scheduler), optimisation suggestions (code and config changes researchers can apply themselves), and failure prediction (catching jobs that will fail before they consume hours of GPU time). We’re four engineers. We ran HPC and GPU training workloads at the largest quant funds and national supercomputing centres. We faced this problem first hand and the only fix was to over-provision and burn millions. Ismaeel built the first multimodal HPC resource predictor as research at EPCC (Edinburgh’s Parallel Computing Centre), which beat every published baseline. This is the tool we wish we had.

EzeW20San Francisco

The easiest way to track, buy, and sell your company’s tech — all in…

Eze is your all-in-one hub for IT asset management, procurement, and recovery. Easily track every laptop, phone, and license from purchase to retirement with real-time visibility across your organization. Need new equipment? Order directly from vetted suppliers at competitive prices. Upgrading? We’ll handle buybacks, trade-ins, and recycling — so you recover value from your old tech instead of letting it collect dust. From automated asset tracking to one-click purchasing and vendor management, Eze keeps your inventory accurate, your costs low, and your team focused on work that matters — not spreadsheets. Whether you’re scaling fast or streamlining operations, we make sure your IT is always working for you.

FacioW20

Salary advance to employees in Brazil.

Fingo AfricaS21Nairobi, Kenya

A neobank for Africa's 500 million youth

Fingo is building a pan-African digital bank. Today, most Africans pay 5-15% fees to transfer money to friends, family, or businesses - with Fingo these fees will be 90% cheaper. In 240 seconds, any young person will be able to access a full suite of financial services including personal, business, investment and savings accounts.

FlipW15Los Angeles

Community-driven marketplace for sneakers.

FLIP is everyone’s sneaker connect — the premier specialty destination where people find and sell hard to find, rare, limited edition sneakers. They have created a community where their members can buy and sell with confidence and ease. Never miss out on an opportunity to place your bid on hard to find sneakers in 90 minutes from a curated list of quality sellers who really care. Their mobile only platform is currently available for your iPhone and coming soon to Android. They strive to keep an open and trusted environment for their community.

Flott HQP25Paris, France

AI-native operating system for vehicle fleet management

Flott helps transport and logistics companies run leaner, smarter, and more profitable operations. Flott unifies everything transport and logistics teams need in a single, AI-powered control center—bringing planning, live tracking (gps, fuel, etc), invoicing, and payments into one place and delivering true end-to-end visibility. Flott’s AI agents act as an extension of fleet managers — automating repetitive tasks and optimizing workflows.This lets companies focus on what truly matters: growing the business.

flukeS21São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

fluke is a full-digital mobile operator in Brazil

Brazilians hate the experience of using the traditional mobile carriers. They force you to pay for data packages you don’t need and make it impossible to switch your plans. Fluke offers a better customer experience and that’s why we have a CAC that is 50% lower and an LTV that’s 30% higher than traditional carriers. What’s smart about our approach is we rent infrastructure from these incumbents and build a better customer experience on top of it. This keeps our costs lows and lets us focus on what really matters: the customer experience! We have the best network and customers are switching to us because of the service and flexibility to build their own customized mobile plans. We are doing in telco what Nubank did in banking in Brazil. We are Fluke, thank you!

FlutterFlowW21San Francisco

Application Development Platform (Native Mobile + Web Apps)

We're building a visual application development platform to dramatically improve the time to market and quality of digital experiences. FlutterFlow helps companies and product teams improve developer efficiency, accelerate project timelines, and reduce costs for large-scale business applications. Our customers include some of the largest banking, consulting, telecom, and manufacturing companies in the world. We have more than 1.3M users in more than 200 countries and regions around the world. We’re a remote first team headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have offices in Mountain View, New York City, and Singapore.

FlutterwaveS16Lagos, Nigeria

Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in Africa.

At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, Angela, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $20 billion in payments and 100 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.

FluxW21Lagos, Nigeria

Cross border Payments infrastructure for internet businesses and…

We are building Flux- Flux is a Mobile App for merchants, freelancers, regular users(P2P) to make and accept payments from their customers anywhere in the world using crypto or fiat. We have built a mobile app that uses the merchants’ phone number, creates a wallet enabling them to receive payments in crypto or fiat without having to go to an exchange or pay expensive fees. Merchants can accept payments in crypto or in fiat. Payments made in Crypto can easily convert into fiat due to the built in fast reconciliation and is made available for spending immediately. Currently the vast majority merchants receive payments in crypto because of two issues (1) Paypal, Venmo, CashApp or Square to not exist in Africa and (2) the local currency fluctuates more than bitcoin due to inflation. But in order for merchants to receive money in crypto and exchange it into fiat they resort to crypto exchange apps and crypto addresses to receive payments which is a very complicated and expensive process. Merchants want to be paid quickly with the lowest amount of fees possible. This is why we are building Flux

FoodCourtS22Lagos, Nigeria

Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa

FoodCourt (CoKitchen) is Africa's leading virtual restaurant company. We've served over 350,000 meals in the last 12 months & our goal is to make good food and quick convenience goods more accessible across Africa, through virtual restaurants & dark stores. Understanding the unique problems of the African on-demand/ food delivery market, we've taken a full-stack approach by controlling different areas of the value chain such as technology, production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience while giving us unlimited flexibility for growth. Learn more at www.getfoodcourt.com or email henry@cokitchen.ng

GamebytesS19New York City

Chat game universe

GarageW24New York City

Marketplace for America's most essential assets

Garage is modernizing how America buys and sells the vehicles and equipment that keep communities safe. Our AI-powered marketplace automates every part of the transaction—appraisals, payments, paperwork, freight, warranty, and financing—reducing what once took months down to minutes. By replacing broken, manual processes with modern software, Garage helps critical equipment reach communities faster—saving taxpayer dollars and supporting the industries that keep America running. We've raised $18M to date, and are backed by Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors.

GatherS20New York City

Project management software for People Operations

Gather is software that helps high-growth teams build and execute their onboarding, offboarding, and other People Operations programs. Gather replaces manual coordination with smart, automated communication powered by a deep integration with Slack.

Gerald Technologies, IncW21New York City

Buy Now Pay Later + Cash Advance for Household Essentials

Gerald is a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) and cash advance app that provides users with financial flexibility without any fees—no service fees, no transfer fees, no interest, and no late fees. Unlike competitors that charge hidden fees or penalties, Gerald ensures users can shop now, pay later, and access cash advances without extra costs. Gerald is on a mission to eliminate stress about paying bills, and provides: Zero Fees—Ever – No interest, no late fees, no transfer fees, and no subscriptions. Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) with No Hidden Costs – Users can shop now and pay later with no interest or late fees, making purchases more manageable. Free Cash Advance Transfers – Users who shop using BNPL unlock free cash advance transfers with zero costs—no hidden fees, no percentage cuts, and no instant transfer fees. Instant Transfers for Eligible Users – Unlike other apps that delay transfers or charge extra for speed, Gerald provides instant transfers for eligible users at no cost. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gerald-cash-advance-app/id1569801600 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=8069558551988887008&hl=en_US

GigsterS15San Francisco

Build and manage distributed teams

Gigster is democratizing access to software by enabling organizations harness the best teams regardless of where they are in the world. Businesses with access to custom software have thousands of times more leverage than those without. We believe that by democratizing access as well as the ability to build great software we can increase the pace and efficiency of human advancement. Core to our approach is building the best place to work on the internet. We are building the largest network of exceptional engineers, designers, and product managers and making this network available to businesses. We are also using software and insights from thousands of projects to improve the odds of successful outcomes. Gigster is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint, Marc Benioff, Adam D'Angelo, Michael Jordan and others. Gigster has served well over 1000 customers including multiple F100 companies spanning a range of industries.

GiveMeTapW15London

We produce & sell stainless steel water bottles that enables people…

GiveMeTap is a social enterprise. Our mission is to make clean drinking water available to everyone, everywhere. We create stainless steel water bottles, and each bottle funds 5 years of clean water for someone in Africa. When you get a GiveMeTap bottle, you also have access to the free-water network of cafes and shops who give free tap water to people on the go. No questions, no hassle. We build water projects in remote villages and elect a water committee to run the maintenance of the water. So far we have made an impact in Namibia, Malawi, and Ghana to bring clean water for the first time. We like to think of this as ‘Water for You, Water for Everyone’. We help awesome companies create custom bottles for their staff, customers, and events so that they can stay hydrated, reduce plastic waste and help fund water projects. Our partners include: Deloitte HSBC YCombinator Google TED Flexport Legal & General Richard Branson's The Lodge, Switzerland Cambridge University Want to get your company involved? Visit http://bit.ly/2j2Ef64 Water for you. Water for everyone.

Glass HealthW23

AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support & Ambient Scribing

We empower clinicians with our AI platform for developing differential diagnoses and drafting clinical plans.

GovDashW22New York City

AI platform to win and run government contracts

GovDash helps modern government contractors win work faster and execute successfully after award, using one AI-native platform across capture, proposals, and post-award.

GradeW26San Francisco

API for performance-based payroll

Grade is the API for performance-based payroll. Think of us like Deel or Gusto, but our payouts are for work completed, not hours. Companies use Grade to pay AI agents and contractors based on results: tasks completed, targets hit, work delivered. We handle compliance, tax reporting, and global payouts.

GrainW20San Francisco

Grain transforms the debit card you already have into a credit card…

Grain is a mobile app that transforms the debit card you already have into a credit card by linking it to a line of credit based on your cash flow. For the millennials, Gen Zs, and immigrants who are afraid of falling into crippling credit card debt, there is now a distinct market opportunity to offer an alternative to how these 100M people access and manage credit.

GreyW22San Francisco

Banking services for remote workers and digital nomads

Grey provides US, EU, and UK accounts for remote workers in emerging markets. For the first time, western companies feel comfortable recruiting skilled workers from anywhere and Grey is making it easy for these workers to receive their salary, save in foreign currency, convert to local currency and spend.

Guide LabsW24San Francisco

Frontier models and agents you can learn from, audit, and steer.

Guide Labs builds frontier AI models and agents that you can learn from, audit, and steer. Our first model, Steerling-8B, is the first and largest inherently interpretable model: it can trace any output to training data, concepts inside the model, and the input, all without sacrificing performance.

HandledS24New York City

AI teammate for finance and operations teams at consumer brands

Consumer brands run finance and operations across ERPs, commerce platforms, 3PLs, accounting systems, email, and spreadsheets. Because these systems do not share context or complete work, teams still spend hours assembling reports, reconciling numbers, entering orders, monitoring inventory, processing invoices, and chasing exceptions. Problems are often discovered only after they have cost the business time, margin, or revenue. Handled is an AI teammate for finance and operations. It connects to the systems and unstructured information a brand already uses and learns its data, rules, and workflows. Handled answers questions about the business, proactively catches issues, and takes on recurring manual work across financial reporting, inventory, procurement, wholesale order-to-cash, and AP/AR. It works across systems and brings a person in when judgment or approval is required. Handled gives lean teams more operating capacity without adding another tool to manage, more outsourced support, or more headcount.

HarberaW25New York City

AI Healthcare Provider Credentialing Software

Harbera helps clinic keep their doctors credentialed and compliant. Our AI software continuously monitors and proactively helps admin teams re-credential doctors, preventing denied claims, disruptions in patient care, and lost revenue caused by doctors falling out-of-network.

HarperW25San Francisco

AI-native commercial insurance brokerage

At Harper, we are building a fully autonomous commercial insurance brokerage powered by AI. Our initial focus is on mid-sized businesses with complex insurance needs, but our vision is to eventually serve every business in the country. By leveraging AI to automate key workflows in the insurance process, we efficiently secure optimal coverage for each client's unique requirements at competitive prices and with rapid turnaround. Our AI system learns from the expertise of our brokers, accumulating not just knowledge but also the specific workflows, data, and capabilities that pave the way to full autonomy.

HavenW23New York City

AI workforce for property management

Haven is building AI Agents to automate property management operations. Our first Agent is automating the maintenance coordination process. This means answering the phone when tenants have a maintenance issue, diagnosing the issue, dispatching a technician, and then following up with tenants to make sure the issue is resolved.

HealthlaneW20Lagos, Nigeria

Africa's Preventative Health System

Rebuilding Africa's health system, with focus on prevention this time

Helicarrier (prev Buycoins)S18London

Cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa.

Helicarrier (previously Buycoins) is building cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa. Sendcash is an app that lets Africans in the diaspora send money back home. Buycoins is the easiest place to buy, sell, and manage your cryptocurrency portfolio.

Helium HealthS17Lagos, Nigeria

Africa's #1 healthcare technology provider.

Helium Health provides a suite of digital health tools for healthcare providers, payers and patients across Africa — most prominent of which is our maiden electronic medical records (EMR) & hospital management information system (HMIS) for emerging markets, HeliumOS. We offer business loans to healthcare providers through our HeliumCredit product. We also work with donors and governments in executing public health strategies. Finally, we have built the largest healthcare data repository on Africans with over 1 million health records.

HeyfoodW22Ibadan, Nigeria

Doordash for Africa

Heyfood is building the “Doordash for Africa”. But unlike Doordash in America, we make a profit on every single delivery, from day 1. We are targeting Millennials and Gen Z urban professionals in Africa’s top 70 cities, withing 10 years there will be 140m number of these people, we assume they will want to order food once a week, we make $1 per delivery, this represents a $51B market.

HingetoW16San Francisco

A B2B marketplace that connects inventory to online stores

Hingeto is a technology platform that enables fashion brands & influencers to sell past and future masterpieces with zero inventory risk. We are backed by Y Combinator (W16), Kapor Capital, Cross Culture Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Stanford University / StartX & several angels (including Andrew Iguodala)

HYBRDF24Boston

coaching agents for athletes

The mission of HYBRD is to take world-class coaching and make it universally available. Health data has never been more abundant. GPS watches track pace and heart rate, wearables monitor sleep and recovery, and voice logging has made it easier than ever to capture weightlifting and HYROX. And yet most athletes are still following static PDF plans they found online, or "adaptive" apps that fall apart the moment cross-training enters the picture. Existing tools feel disappointing because they don’t actually know your goals and constraints, so they can’t do anything meaningful with the data they collect. HYBRD can. We aggregate your wearable data, fill the gaps with a simple AI logger, and use that complete picture to build personalized training programs from the best coaches in the world, like Alex Viada, who coined the term "hybrid athlete." From there, the HYBRD agent keeps you on track, adjusting your schedule around weather, travel, and fatigue as you progress. Everything you'd get from a $500/month coach, at a 50x lower price. Founded in 2024 by WHOOP and AWS alumni, HYBRD is built by hybrid athletes. Join us for a workout every Monday morning in San Francisco and Boston.

HyperGlueW21San Francisco

Business intelligence on text

There is more text generated than any one person or team can read. A single product team can not hope to sift through their thousands of feedback responses and determine the signal amongst the noise. Hyperglue enables operators, product managers, and analysts to instantly access machine intelligence on large text datasets without the engineering or headcount overhead required to deploy natural language AI within their business.

ideate.xyzS24London

ideate.xyz is an AI-powered 3D art suite on the web

Generate. Paint. Refine. ideate.xyz is an AI-powered 3D art suite on the web, taking your ideas from concept to production ready assets in record time. Our powerful text to image to 3D pipeline rapidly generates model assets using the latest AI tech. Rapidly generate and edit 3D model textures in your browser using our texture projection and inpainting editor. Get your 3D assets production ready using our texture processing, upscaling and compression algorithms.

InEventS19Atlanta, GA, USA

In-Person, Hybrid and Virtual Event Management Software

InEvent is an all in one platform that allows you to use multiple solutions (website, registration, mobile app, hospitality, check-in, badge printing, budgeting, etc) altogether, without having to upload data 3-4x times on different pages. Everything is available on the cloud, 24x7, for you and your attendees. Most of our competitors have modules that don't talk with each other, we solved this by creating a solid foundation that all of our solutions are built upon. We have already successfully improved more than 12,400 events, boosting more than 2,390,000 registrations so far. We have integrations with Salesforce, Marketo, Oracle, Microsoft and other vendors to create a simple, easy-to-use marketing ecosystem for all our customers. Discover the InEvent Virtual Lobby, the top event marketing solution in the world today: https://inevent.com/en/virtual-online-streaming-events-room-events-innovative.php

Infiuss HealthS21San Francisco

2 sided Marketplace for accelerating medical research

We are building the world's first community of patients eager to contribute to and advance medical research. Our patient community platform offers health management, patient support and patient health data aggregation. We offer researcher's and life science companies with the opportunity to connect with these patients for their medical research needs. They recruit real patients for clinical trials, for bio specimens sourcing and to obtaining real world patient data.

JarminF25San Francisco

AI Employees for human-level roles

Jarmin.ai builds AI employees for human-level roles. It learns its responsibilities, understands your data, embeds into your systems, and becomes part of your team's day-to-day workflow. Completely hand over full initiatives or individual tasks. Hire AI ML Engineers, Account Executives, Paralegals, Financial analysts, Compliance analysts, and more. Jarmin’s founding team is from Meta SuperIntelligence Labs (Staff Engineers), Apple (Machine Learning Engineer), AWS (scaling infra), Lockheed-Martin (Research), and JPMorganChase (SWE) with experience building AI/ML and automating complex work of Researchers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers with AI.

JopwellS15New York City

Career advancement for Black, Latinx & Native American professionals.

Jopwell’s mission is to make a substantial, measurable impact on increasing Black, Latinx, and Native American representation in the workforce. Jopwell strives to build inclusive workplaces where our members can bring their authentic selves to work. We do this by assisting companies with their recruitment, marketing, and retention efforts for communities of color.

JupiterS19New York City

AppLovin for the food community

KaizenP25San Francisco

Automate anything on the web.

Kaizen uses browser agents to automate operational work across legacy web portals. We’re tackling the $300B business process outsourcing market by replacing the manual portal work that powers industries like healthcare, logistics, and financial services.

KemNetS22Victoria, BC, Canada

KemNet supplies reformulated drugs for specific groups of patients.

KemNet supplies pharmacies with premium reformulations of popular drugs that are more useful for specific groups of patients. For example, more than 30 pharmacies rely on KemNet to supply reformulated products for erectile dysfunction that work up to 8 times faster than alternatives. In addition to sexual function, products reformulated for novel drug delivery and supplied on KemNet include medications for hair growth, pain, weight loss and women's health.

KidatoW21Nairobi, Kenya

Online school for K12 education in Africa

Parents in Africa face either public schools with student-teacher ratios as high as 50:1 or private schools with tuition fees as high as $7500 per year, per child. Kidato classes have student-teacher ratios of 5:1 and teach the same rigorous international curriculum as other private schools — but at a fraction of the price. In our second semester, Kidato has enrolled more than 30 students into our learning-from-home program as a replacement for brick-and-mortar schools. We expect to triple this enrollment by our third semester.

LaminarF24San Francisco

Enterprise systems delivery without the turbulence.

Laminar analyzes, builds, and governs the systems that run your business, from SMBs to Fortune 10 Enterprise orgs. Powered by Implementation Intelligence™.

LandedW16San Francisco

White-labeled shared appreciation down payment programs for employers

Landed helps employers develop programs that increase access to homeownership for their employees. We do this by unlocking the power of shared appreciation to create down payment programs tailored to the needs of each institution, improving recruitment and retention of key talent. Unlike other programs, shared appreciation is mutually beneficial to funders and buyers, creating a self-renewing pool of capital that recycles as homebuyers exit the program.

LemFiS21London

Fair, simple and accessible financial services

LemFi makes everyday financial services fair, simple and accessible for people overlooked by traditional banks, starting with those who live and work across borders

LendtableS20San Francisco

We give employees cash advances for their 401k match and ESPP

1 in 4 Americans do not get their full 401(k) match. That means 25 million workers are leaving $24 billion on the table in free employer contributions. The primary reason these workers cannot get their match is because they do not have enough to both cover living expenses and invest. Lendtable helps workers get thousands in additional income by giving them a cash advance to cover their living expenses so they can finally begin earning their employer match. Once their money has vested we take some of the match money earned in order to cover our expenses. Workers now have thousands of dollars more without putting any money down, and we make money helping them do so -- we win if they win.

LiveFlowW21New York City

The Unified AI-ERP & FP&A Platform

LiveFlow is the unified AI-ERP & FP&A platform. We're on a mission to transform the $200B+ accounting & finance industry by replacing the fragmented, legacy finance stack with one intelligent system — eliminating the manual operational work for accounting & finance teams. Serving +6,000 businesses. HQ in New York, with team members around the globe.

LoreS24San Francisco

Transform your iMessage conversations into shareable stories

Transform your iMessage conversations into shareable stories Founded by a team of ex-Google Photos and AI engineers, we’re bringing the same “turn personal data into something you actually come back to” loop to relationships

LoulaW23New York City

Enabling birth & postpartum doulas to easily accept insurance.

Loula is a software platform and national provider network for independent birth & postpartum doulas to boost their practices by accepting health insurance. Doulas typically operate outside of the traditional healthcare system and face an enormous learning curve and administrative burden when trying to accept insurance. This is why we created Loula. Starting with doulas in California, Loula handles their credentialing, contracting, and revenue cycle management so that they can focus on delivering the best quality care to their clients.

LucidW25San Francisco

interactive video models

We are building universe simulations powered by interactive video models. We train video models that simulate hyper-realistic environments with immersive control, replacing hard-coded game or physics engines with dynamic neural networks. We built the fastest action-conditioned diffusion video model (running at 20+fps on a 4090 gaming gpu) to simulate minecraft. It is 5x faster than other minecraft World Models and was trained with 100x less resources. Our unique insight was relying on aggressive compression in our tokenizer (128x versus the traditional 8x), and because attention scales quadratically with # of tokens our model can run blindingly faster. Now we’re training a hyper realistic world model!

LumeW23

Speed up customer implementation with AI

Lume speeds up customer implementation with AI. Lume helps teams analyze, map, and ingest customer data up to 87% faster, accelerating time-to-revenue.

Maple MaterialsW19San Francisco

We turn CO2 into battery-grade graphite and oxygen.

Maple Materials, Inc. (Richmond, California) develops a low-cost electrolysis process to split carbon dioxide into graphite and oxygen. Due to several unique features of our production process and product, we have potential to produce battery-grade graphite anode material one-third the cost of current graphite anode materials. When powered by renewables, this process has the potential to be carbon negative.

MarketForceS20Nairobi, Kenya

The SuperApp for neighbourhood merchants in Africa.

MarketForce empowers neighbourhood merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently, access a banking wallet with credit facilities, collect digital payments and earn extra income by offering agency baking services and reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments in their communities. Incorporated in 2019, MarketForce is a fast-growing company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 180 consumer brands trading on the platform.

MarkItF25Atlanta, GA, USA

Compliance that makes products ready for global markets.

MarkIt is an AI-powered regulatory compliance platform that helps consumer brands launch products in new markets. We review formulations, packaging, and supporting documents against local regulations, identify compliance gaps, and provide the exact changes, regulatory references, and market-ready labels needed before launch. We are initially focused on cosmetics and food products entering the U.S., replacing weeks of manual work across regulatory consultants, spreadsheets, and disconnected vendors with one actionable compliance workflow.

MaxiW23New York City

AI Agent for your personal finances

Maxi is an iMessage-based, AI-native agent for your personal finances. It connects to all your accounts (secure read-only access) and Gmail and proactively texts you to help cancel subscriptions, identify split expenses, and send Venmo requests (on your behalf). It also tracks your net worth, reminds you about bills, and keeps you in line with your budgets.

Mecha HealthW25San Francisco

Foundation models to automate x-ray analysis for radiologists

Mecha Health builds foundation models to automate x-ray analysis for radiologists. We take medical images and process them using proprietary models to produce accurate draft medical reports. Our first model was built in less than two months, and beat Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI on clinical accuracy metrics. On top of that, it’s two orders of magnitude smaller and trained with a quarter of the data. We are partnering with the largest privately owned radiology practice in the US and a multinational tele-radiology company to provide them with their own foundation model, enabling their radiologists to go from reading 1 scan per hour to 1 scan every 5 minutes. By charging on a per scan basis, x-ray report generation represents a 40B+ market opportunity.

Mecho AutotechS21Atlanta, GA, USA

On-demand auto maintenance & repairs

It is cumbersome to maintain/repair vehicles in Africa. Vehicle owners currently have 2 options to choose from; very expensive and geographically limited branded mechanic garages (less than 1% of the supply pool) or unvetted roadside mechanics (about 99% of the supply pool). About 95% of vehicle owners cannot afford branded garages where quality and reliable service delivery can be guaranteed and thus rely on roadside mechanics. However, low quality and transparency are typical issues associated with roadside mechanics. We created a network of vetted mechanics, spare part vendors and an app that enables easy booking, payment and mechanic matching process. Via the mecho app, a customer or business can make a request for any automobile service (repairs or regular servicing) or part.

Medium BiosciencesS21Austin, TX, USA

AI-designed Affinity Reagents

We turn advances in AI and protein design into experimentally validated molecular tools, partnering with research teams and diagnostic developers to deliver high-performance affinity reagents in weeks, not months.

MentalHappyS18San Francisco

Group-Therapy Platform for Providers and Health Systems

MentalHappy is a secure and compliant platform that leverages AI and data-driven analytics to enhance the group-based therapy experience and boost client/patient engagement. Our platform streamlines administrative tasks for providers, improves group participant self-management capabilities, automates group participant check-ins, and identifies group members who may be at risk. Additional features on the platform allow providers to schedule and host virtual sessions, engage members in secure chat, and share health resources, and offer support groups

MenzaW26London

The AI data analyst for consumer brands

Menza is the AI data analyst for consumer brands. A brand like Hershey’s would connect all of their data sources and then we give them an AI analyst that works 24/7 looking for revenue opportunities, cost leaks, trends and anomalies.

Meter FeederW16Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Helping fleets find and pay parking tickets

Did you know that if your car is eligible for booting and towing in NYC, all of your registered vehicles are eligible? Now imagine you have thousands of vehicles in thousands of cities. We make sure that your vehicles are compliant.

MidenW24Rotherham, UK

Card issuer processor and banking stack for businesses in Sub-…

Miden is building a modern infrastructure that facilitates the launch of card programs and various financial products for businesses in Sub-Sahran Africa. Just by reducing integration time, card fraud, improving stability, and being customer focused we quickly rose to top 5 in TPV among card issuing Fintechs in Sub-Saharan Africa within 8 months of launch. We’re going to build the first comprehensive fintech and banking software stack for Africa, based on modern technology. We’re starting with a card issuer-processor.

MinicorP26San Francisco

Scalable windows desktop automations

Minicor connects AI startups to legacy desktop apps that have no API. Reliably, quickly and at scale. Describe a workflow and get an API endpoint. Each call triggers a self-healing desktop automation on a Windows VM. On-prem, cloud, or Citrix. Build through your coding agent via our MCP. Complete with the observability tools to manage your customer relationship: full video replay of every automation, granular logging, and slack enabled alerts.

MiruS24San Francisco

Config Management for Robotics

Miru makes it easy for robotics teams to manage, version, and deploy robot configurations. Developers use our well-documented APIs and UI components to automate configuration updates for both engineers and operators. In the long term, we're building software infrastructure to accelerate the automation of the physical world.

Miyagi LabsW25New York City

AI tutors for exam prep

Miyagi Labs is an AI-powered exam preparation platform built to unlock human intelligence and democratize world-class education globally. We provide students with an elite AI tutor, hyper-personalized study analytics, and an infinite engine of rigorous practice material tailored to exam material. We currently support major standardized exams across North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, including the SAT, ACT, and NYC SHSAT (US), the UTME (Nigeria), the KCSE, KJSEA and KPSEA (Kenya), the NEET and CAT (India), and the YKS (Turkey). We’re building the platform we wish we had when studying for exams. We envision a world where students anywhere can come to Miyagi to receive personalized, world-class AI tutoring designed to unlock their full potential.

MolagriS26Toronto, ON, Canada

Resistance free pesticides.

Molagri develops safer, more effective pesticides for agriculture. We design biopesticides that hit a precise molecular target unique to pest insects, knocking out pests while sparing pollinators, beneficial insects, and the wider ecosystem. By modeling how pests are likely to evolve, we stay a step ahead of resistance, keeping our products effective against the pests of today and tomorrow. The higher efficacy and biobased production will also contribute to emissions reductions in both manufacturing and field use. Our founders are PhD lab mates from the University of Toronto who have worked together for six years and published in Nature Communications and Nature Microbiology.

MonecoS22Paris, France

Neobank for African migrants in Europe

Moneco is a neobank targeting the migrant communities in Europe, starting with the African diaspora. We are making banking easier and more affordable for underserved communities, starting with a current account, a payment card and free remittances. The long term vision is to turn Moneco into a one-stop-shop where all of their financial needs will be addressed.

MonoW21Lagos, Nigeria

Plaid for Africa, but better.

We allow companies to access data from their customers bank accounts and allow them to debit money from these same bank accounts.

MoonvalleyW21Toronto, ON, Canada

Building the next generation AI creative studio

We are building the next generation creative studio, powered by the most capable video and image foundational models. We are creating the place where generative image and video experiences will be built. Backed by Y-Combinator and Khosla Ventures.

MorphS23San Francisco

Fast Models Optimized for Coding Agents

Specialized inference, built for agent workloads Fast Open-Source models: Kimi k3, Deepseek v4 flash, qwen 397b, at 200+ tps Specialized models for applying edits, code search, compaction, and model routing

MyriaW22Los Angeles

A marketplace of luxury services for the ultra-wealthy

Myria is a private community and concierge for off-market goods & services — the things you can't Google. Ultra-high net worth individuals spend $390 billion per year ($1.3 million each) on lifestyle, but they still struggle to find everything they want. Why? Because the best of any category — homes, boats, restaurant reservations — the best stuff is never listed online. Likewise, the best people don’t need the internet to find a new client or job. The best is always off-market. Myria is the Off-Marketplace. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest and wealthiest buyers. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people access the best of everything, give back, and get the most out of life. If it’s off-market, it’s on Myria!

NaïveP25San Francisco

Autonomous Company Infrastructure

The full stack your agent needs to run a business — compute, payments, identity, incorporation, 10,000+ tools — in one config file. Paste a prompt into your coding agent, it writes naive.config.ts, and provisions all infrastructure for your apps, agents, businesses. One API, one balance, every action governed. We're a small, fast-moving, remote-first team.

NALAW19New York City

Building Payments for the Next Billion.

Story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZfKgoseJ5E&t=1s We have two products: 1. Consumer Cross Border payments to Emerging Markets : nala.com 2. Stablecoin Payment Rails for emerging markets: rafiki.com

NasdiscS21San Francisco

A marketplace for vinyl, cassettes and cds

Nasdisc is a marketplace for the $4B worth of records purchased every year. The vinyl market has seen exponential growth in the past decade - the first 6 months of this year has already seen an increase of 108% in sales. Our platform takes a 12% cut, making this a $400mm opportunity that is more than doubling every year. Pressing plants are backed up years out, bots buy limited releases in seconds, and record prices are skyrocketing in both retail and aftermarket sales. Despite this growth, the only dedicated marketplace is difficult to use, doesn’t process transactions, yet facilitates over $600mm in vinyl exchanges per year. This is why I finally decided to quit my job at Google and recruit my best friends from college to fix it. We’re all software engineers and have been passionate about music and vinyl since we were kids, and have $50k in records ourselves. We started building a marketplace in July and launched our website 4 weeks ago. We now have $1k / week in sales, and $50k in listings.

NashW22San Francisco

All in one finance platform for borderless businesses in Africa

Nash enables finance teams to manage all their finance flows in one place and craft their money flow experiences globally. Our ledger-based operating system allows your borderless business to connect all your money accounts, accounting systems, payment service providers, treasury operations, spend management in one place. Our mission is to enable borderless commerce in Africa. We achieve this initially by providing your team with all the finance tools needed to build, scale, and grow your borderless business without the need for a costly and complex in-house infrastructure.

NaturAll ClubW19Philadelphia, PA, USA

Frozen beauty products.

NewCraftW18

Universal API for HR & Payroll

NewCraft makes it easy for developers to connect to employee platforms like Workday, ADP, and Paylocity with a single API. To get access to these systems, some companies have spent over $10M in development costs alongside years of business development efforts. We believe innovators can build the future of employment faster with simplified access. On top of standardizing data across employee systems into a universal API, we offer a modern developer experience with test environments, documentation, and security.

New StoryS15Atlanta, GA, USA

We pioneer solutions to end the global housing crisis by empowering…

Since its inception, NS has raised over $80 million to build thousands of homes across Latin America and impact ~20,000 individuals. In 2021, NS launched a venture capital fund, Hometeam Ventures, focused on early-stage construction and housing innovations. NS graduated from Y Combinator and is a 4x recipient of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company.

NombaW17Lagos, Nigeria

Banking and payments for businesses in Africa

Nomba provides Banking and payment to over 200k+ business in Africa (Nigeria & DRC).

NovigS22New York City

America's #1 Sports Trading App

Novig is building America's #1 sports prediction market. Founded by Jacob Fortinsky and Kelechi Ukah, we are the only platform to offer commission-free sports trading. We deliver better pricing, full transparency, and a more efficient market structure for users by eliminating the traditional sportsbook model. Backed by the best - Novig has raised over $100M from some of Silicon Valley’s top investors including Pantera, Forerunner, Lux, NFX, Paul Graham, and Joe Montana.

OctaPulseW26

CV and robotics to automate quality inspection in fish farms

OctaPulse uses AI vision to automate hatchery QA for fish farms, starting with broodstock phenotyping and juvenile deformity inspection. We cut inspection time from about 5 minutes to under 30 seconds per fish, with more than 90 percent accuracy, so farms advance only high quality fish and waste less feed and labor. Our goal is to bring automation across the entire fish production lifecycle for the $300B aquaculture industry. Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector, and has already surpassed commercial fishing for production of seafood. Yet two of the most critical QA and QC steps in fish production are still done by hand: phenotyping and deformity inspection. These processes are slow, error prone, and despised by technicians but vital for the success of the farm, so much so that farms spend >$200K a year on trained technicians and geneticists to operate. We’ve built an AI vision platform for vertically integrated finfish farms that drops into existing workflows starting in the hatchery, uses off the shelf cameras, standardizes these QA steps, and creates a proprietary multi species dataset that becomes the brain for future autonomous aquafarms. Phenotyping is the start, but the platform is designed to be a drop in solution that can easily expand into feeding, health monitoring, and processing so we can solve production problems across the lifecycle. We signed a 6-figure paid pilot with the largest trout producer in the United States, are deploying into 2 more farms early 2026, and trained models above 90 percent accuracy while cutting inspection time from 5 minutes to under 30 seconds. Each deployment adds labeled images to our dataset and improves cross species generalization.

Ocular AIW24San Francisco

Applied AI Data Research Lab Encoding Human Expertise into Machines…

OpenBiomeW20Boston

A nonprofit stool bank enabling access to fecal transplants.

We are a nonprofit stool bank, expanding safe access to fecal transplants and catalyzing research on the human microbiome.

OpenlayerS21San Francisco

The fastest way to ship airtight AI

Openlayer is the governance platform for AI applications.

OrthogonalW26San Francisco

Agentic Payments for APIs

APIs weren't built for agents. Orthogonal fixes that. We enable agentic payments so any agent can instantly discover, access, and pay for hundreds of APIs. No subscriptions, no sales calls, just pay per use. API providers list once and get paid every time an agent calls their API.

OutlitW25San Francisco

Retain and Grow Every Customer

Outlit helps B2B SaaS companies improve GRR and NRR by keeping more customers and finding more expansion revenue. Outlit creates a real-time view of every customer using product usage, support, calls, email, Slack, billing, CRM, and external signals. It assesses whether each account is likely to renew, expand, contract, or churn, then provides the evidence and next action. The result: stronger adoption, higher retention, and more expansion revenue from signals your team would never catch in a health score or any single tool.

OutRival, Inc.W19Miami, FL, USA

Outbound AI Agents for Education, Insurance, and Travel

OutRival's AI Agents make outbound calls, send texts, and write emails for enterprises in education, insurance, and travel. We drive revenue through millions of proactive conversations monthly. Companies go live in under 2 weeks.

PactimaS21Ottawa, ON, Canada

Live video signing for real-time agreements

Pactima is a value-centric, fast-growing, and venture-backed company that’s transforming the manner in which businesses conduct transactions in our remote world. Our flagship product, Live eSignatures^TM, is a real-time solution that allows people to view and sign documents while simultaneously hosting a secured video call. This easy-to-use solution allows transactions that could only be done in-person to now be performed online.

Pair TeamS19San Francisco

Building the safety net of the future

Pair Team is building a new kind of healthcare system across Medicaid, Medicare, and public assistance programs: one that recognizes that access to housing, nutritious food, and reliable transportation are just as critical to health as having the right medications or seeing a doctor. We run one of the largest medical groups for complex, low income patients and our next chapter is building a vertically integrated AI care manager to support any clinical, behavioral, or social need for everyone.

ParagonW20Los Angeles

The embedded integration platform for SaaS apps.

Paragon enables companies to build products that integrate with the SaaS ecosystem. With Paragon, software companies can integrate with hundreds of different SaaS apps in minutes while providing their customers with a seamless, unified integration experience

PareaS23New York City

Test, evaluate & observe your LLM applications

Parea AI is the essential developer platform for debugging and monitoring every stage of LLM application development. We provide testing, evaluation, and monitoring in one unified platform. These capabilities help developers get visibility into LLM responses, quickly test and optimize prompts, and ensure customers get the best user experience.

PartnaW22Wilmington, DE, USA

Unlock African payments

Stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure, to collect, convert, and settle between Africa and global markets.

PayhippoS21Lagos, Nigeria

Loans to Nigeria's SMEs in under 3 hours

Payhippo provides loans to small businesses in Africa in under 3 hours. We made $42k in revenue in Nigeria in July 2021, growing 25% m/m with a 97% repayment rate.

PaystackW16Lagos, Nigeria

Modern payments infrastructure for Africa

Paystack is a small and vibrant family working across Lagos and San Francisco. We enable businesses to accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer, and mobile money, directly from their website or mobile app.

PennantS26New York City

The World Model for Corporate Governance

Led by former institutional proxy voters and technologists with a collective 20+ years of experience, Pennant gives institutional investors, public companies, and corporate advisors voting and governance intelligence to act on their own principles at scale.

PideakyS21Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

We help offline LatAm SMBs manage and accelerate their cash-flow

Pideaky helps offline LatAm SMBs manage and accelerate their cash flow through AI collection agents, which remind, collect, and negotiate bills on behalf of SMBS in Latam. We focus on the massively underserved $70B/year customer segment as our wedge — Mexican corner shops and corner shop providers:

PingPongW21Orem, UT, USA

Video messaging app for remote teams.

A video messaging app for remote teams in multiple time zones—it's like Slack for video. With PingPong, teams collaborate by exchanging short video, voice, and screen recording clips.

Players' LoungeW18New York City

Win money betting on yourself playing AAA video games

Players’ Lounge enables gamers of all skill levels to bet on the outcome of their video game matches and win money. Our mission at Players’ Lounge is to give gamers a monetary return on their gaming time, while adding a new layer of fun and entertainment. We have raised $15m in funding. Investors include: ycombinator, Samsung, Griffin Gaming Partners, Strauss Zelnick, Drake and Myles Garrett.

PlumterW22Lagos, Nigeria

Financial tools for cross-border trade

We're providing a global platform for cross-border trade between importers and exporters. Leveraging powerful multi currency and stablecoin infrastructure, multilingual invoicing powered by AI, and deeply embedded apps that feel natural to traders around the world, we are making cross border trade as easy as texting.

PocketSuiteW16Washington, DC, USA

All-In-One Business Operating System by PocketSuite

PocketSuite is the all-in-one platform built for service businesses. From bookings and payments to client communication and beyond, we help owners and managers simplify their business and focus on what they do best. For more than a decade, thousands of independent professionals, small businesses, and multi-location brands have trusted PocketSuite to power their service businesses and serve hundreds of thousands of clients. We’re proud to support a diverse community of entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey. PocketSuite empowers the U.S. market of 20 million service businesses, generating $1 billion in sales with a desktop and mobile cloud solution for running their business. Thousands of businesses run on PocketSuite. Over 600,000 clients book, pay, and communicate with their service providers on PocketSuite today, and we're growing fast.

PointOneW24New York City

AI Time Platform for Law Firms

PointOne is the leading AI Time platform. With automated time entry, compliance, and analytics, PointOne offers AI-native

Prembly (formerly Identitypass)W22Lagos, Nigeria

Identity Verification API for Emerging Markets

We are making it possible for digital businesses to easily verify individuals and businesses within seconds across Emerging Markets.

PromiseW18San Francisco

Better payment systems for governments and the communities they serve.

Promise modernizes government payments helping agencies recover more revenue while giving residents flexible, humane ways to pay. We replace broken systems with tech that actually works for everyone.

PropexoW23Boston

Plaid for Commercial Real Estate

Propexo lets engineers build, test, and launch CRE software integrations in days, not months. We modernize the developer experience for our customers, providing clear documentation and robust infrastructure to support the needs of property owners, property managers, & proptechs.

PropRiseS23San Francisco

The AI platform for CRE investment teams

PropRise is the AI platform for institutional CRE investment teams. We automate the tedious, Excel-heavy workflows that slow down dealmaking: from sourcing to underwriting to due diligence. Our two live products serve 50+ customers including Public Storage: Beacon automates site selection for developers, and Primer extracts financial data from deal packages into structured, model-ready formats, cutting hours of analyst work to minutes. We're expanding across asset classes to become the operating system for CRE dealmaking.

ProspaW21London

Banking for businesses

PykaS17San Francisco

Autonomous electric airplanes

Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation. To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes. Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce C02 emissions in their respective industries. What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.

PyroscopeW21San Francisco

Open source continuous profiling software to debug performance issues

Pyroscope is an open source continuous profiling platform. With just a few lines of code it will help you debug performance issues and find bottlenecks in your code.

PyxaiW19Port St. Lucie, FL, USA

An assessment tool that evaluates people to predict future success

Pyxai helps organizations evaluate, identify and source top talent by focusing on the best indicators of long-term job success, soft skills. Our proprietary, AI driven assessment tool helps organizations increase retention by at least 30% all while reducing the time to hire by more than 50%.

QuicknodeW21Miami, FL, USA

Tools & infra to build and scale high-quality blockchain applications.

Quicknode is an enterprise-grade blockchain development platform that helps teams build and scale high-performance onchain applications. Developers get fast and reliable access to over 80 chains, real-time and historical data, automation tools, and a unified suite of APIs. From startups to global enterprises, teams choose Quicknode for consistent performance, predictable pricing, and a platform built for growth.

RamaniW20Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

We're building financial infrastructure for Africa's supply chains

An app for salespeople to track inventory, register their customers and record their sales transactions. Cofounders: African. Ex-Salesforce PM, Stanford CS, Capgemini

Ramen VRS19San Francisco

Ramen VR is transforming game development with advanced XR + AI tools.

XR + AI are the most fundamental computing shifts of the past century. We're using XR and AI to build products that empower creators of online games and virtual worlds. Meaningful games can change lives, and every game starts with its developers. We believe that game devs can change the world. ‍ We're a team of devs working on solving the hardest problems in game development. We previously built the #1 VR game Zenith: The Last City on Steam and Quest. We've raised $40m+ to date and have been working in stealth on our next game as well as tools that will shape the future of game development.

Rank (formerly Moni)W22Lagos, Nigeria

Group Financing for small businesses across Africa.

Moni finances small businesses in groups across Africa. The collective responsibility of the group serves as a collateral on the loan while the social pressure from the members ensures on-time repayment. There are over 44million SMBs in Africa.  
 We launched 7 months ago and we already have $72k MRR growing at 50% MoM. We achieved 99% repayment on 11,000 units of loans with over $5M disbursed. This is 15 times higher than most financial services in Africa. 
 Femi (CEO) worked previously with the World Bank with a focus on financial services while Dapo (CTO) led the development of the technology for one of the largest digital lending apps We are also backed by Y Combinator(W22), Magic Fund, Ventures Platform, Voltron Capital and more.

RastroS24London

The fastest way to launch product catalogs.

We help distributors and manufacturers turn catalog chaos into launch-ready products. Share vendor data, pull online specs and pricing, fuzzy match to your database, generate images, and output products in your exact schema.

Releaf EarthS17Lagos, Nigeria

Turning food waste into Biochar to remove CO2 from the atmsophere

Releaf Earth is a climate tech startup pioneering carbon removal and agricultural solutions leveraging biochar (BCR). Expanding from our roots in food processing technology, we now specialize in producing premium biochar from palm kernel shells. Biochar Carbon Removal (BCR) is a powerful tool for carbon sequestration and a key technology for economic development in Africa. African farmers already experience a 150% global mean temperature rise from a climate crisis they didn’t cause. Releaf's mission is to empower rural communities with improved productivity, crop yields, and a role in achieving Net Zero Emissions.

Reliance HealthW17Lagos, Nigeria

We make healthcare in emerging markets affordable and accessible

Reliance Health uses technology to make quality healthcare delightful, affordable and accessible in emerging markets. Through an integrated approach that includes affordable health insurance, telemedicine and a combination of partner and proprietary healthcare facilities, Reliance Health offers innovative healthcare solutions that meet the needs of emerging markets including Nigeria, Egypt and growing

Remedial HealthW22Lagos, Nigeria

B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa

Remedial Health sells medicine wholesale to the 1 million pharmacies and hospitals in Africa. Today in Africa, pharmacies shop in open-air medicine markets where they pay higher prices for counterfeits medicines. We offer a managed marketplace with all the stock they'll need, deliver within 24 hours and offer credit to help them grow.

RemixW15San Francisco

We’re building a platform to empower cities to plan the best possible…

Remix’s mission is to help build more livable cities. Our software helps city planners understand their communities and design transportation systems that serve them. We’ve partnered with over 325 cities across 20 countries on 4 continents — and were continually seeking to grow our impact around the world. Urban planning impacts everything from economic mobility to CO2 emissions, and our platform empowers local governments to transform their transportation systems, design safer streets, and implement new mobility options to better serve their communities.

REZIW17New York City

Rent Better

REZI is a leading real estate technology company founded in 2016 and the only fully remote and automated marketplace for long-term apartment rentals. REZI empowers landlords to lease their vacant apartments using their state-of-the-art platform — guaranteeing the monthly rent, paying up to 12 months of rent upfront, reducing leasing costs, and simplifying the leasing process for several to hundreds of units in a single transaction. Renters on REZI are then able to find, tour, apply for, and lease their next home without any fees and in as little as five minutes — right from their phone — through pre-screened listings, contactless tours, and automated application decisions.

Rima AI (formerly Garage)S22Austin, TX, USA

Document and spreadsheet automation for accountants

Rima helps accountants automate document and spreadsheet work with accuracy and cell-level audit tracking. For accountants that deal with messy docs and spend their time in Excel, Rima enables them to build workflows in natural language to extract and process financial data from PDFs or ERPs into their Excel templates and reconcile their spreadsheets in minutes. Accountants build these workflows once and our agents do the work for them going forward, preserving their institutional memory and know-how.

RoboDockW26San Francisco

Robots that run autonomous depots for autonomous fleets.

RoboDock builds robots that automate depot operations, like charging and vehicle checks, for electric and autonomous vehicle fleets. We turn fleet depots from manual sites into self-running systems that lower operational costs and increase vehicle uptime.

RulebaseF24New York City

AI customer operations for regulated industries.

We run customer operations for regulated industries with AI. Our QA layer reviews every interaction, human and AI, cutting manual QA by 99%. On top of it sit specialist agents for onboarding, remediation, reactivation, and retention that own accounts from approved to transacting, chasing customers over WhatsApp, email, and SMS

RyseW24New York City

The secondary market for real estate leases

Ryse is the only marketplace where investors who want to buy leases can trade with real estate operators who want to sell leases.

Safer ManagementS21Dallas, TX, USA

Student Attendance tracking for Public Schools

Safer Management sells attendance software to public school districts and colleges. Public schools receive federal funding based on their average daily attendance, and our software ensures they get the money they need. We started Safer Mgmt. 12 months ago after I dropped off my twin boys and experienced inefficiencies with the sign-in process. We are now in 75 public schools and two colleges with annual reoccurring revenue of $621,000. We have 82% margins and are profitable. At scale, we will charge $15 per student per year. There are 70 million public school students in America which is a $1.4 billion dollar market opportunity.

SalesformS20New York City

Qualify, route, and convert more inbound leads

Salesform qualifies, routes, and converts inbound leads while 2-way syncing with your sales stack. Now, you can meet more target customers faster and leverage Salesform’s native enrichment to enhance routing rules and auto-replies for demo requests etc.

SanifuS22Nairobi, Kenya

Automate the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for

Sanifu automates the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for. Teams across finance, marketing, operations, and revenue simply describe their repetitive work like cleaning and validating data, matching records, preparing reports and moving data from emails, PDFs and Excel exports into dashboards and other systems. Sanifu captures the steps, rules and outputs so the work is repeated reliably every time Some of these work never needed spreadsheets to begin with; the likes of data cleanup, bank reconciliations, report consolidation, payment allocations, channel attributions. Spreadsheets have become the standard workbench for handling these tasks and in the process, teams lose valuable time doing manual data entry, filling templates, formatting data, applying formulas, deleting rows or columns. Sanifu is replacing the spreadsheet while maintaining the logic and processes behind the work, getting you from inputs to your desired outputs in seconds. This significantly reduces time spent on copy-paste work, spreadsheet cleanup, and manual entries and checking, while improving accuracy, consistency, and operational visibility. Sanifu helps teams scale critical back-office processes without relying on brittle spreadsheets, scripts, or general AI tools that reinvent the logic every run. Sanifu is a full operational platform with 5k+ app integrations, 1k+ native functions, forms, scheduler, data stores, dashboards, approvals, reviews, AI-powered entity matching among many other features that make it an end-to-end data app management platform

SchoolableW19Lagos, Nigeria

Tuition collection service for K-12 private schools in Africa

We are a financial technology company that is revolutionizing the state of pre-tertiary education in Africa. By paying school fees for parents upfront with a flexible monthly repayment plan, building fees savings culture among parents, This way, schools get up to 80% of all their expected fees 2weeks into resumption and also enabling schools to access to loan facility and availability of various vendors and service providers at discounted rates.

SemioticF25San Francisco

Studio-Grade Design at Scale

Semiotic builds AI design agents. We’re starting with agents that build landing pages for fast‑growing startups. Existing AI website builders didn't make creating websites easier—they made creating ugly websites easier. So, companies choose between blue-purple gradient slop or agencies with 3-month waitlists and $100k minimums. You don't have to choose anymore. Start a project: semiotic.com

SENDW20Lagos, Nigeria

Flexport for Africa - Digital Freight forwarder and Customs Broker.

SEND is a digital freight forwarder and customs broker for Africa. We manage the entire process of shipping cargo by air or by sea, including the documentation, customs process, delivery to the warehouse and trade financing.

SendboxW21Lagos, Nigeria

Fulfillment by Amazon for African merchants

Sendbox helps small e-commerce merchants who sell directly to customers through their own online channels or social media platforms with fulfillment. We now handle local and international fulfillment for over 7,500 merchants within Nigeria.

SendHubW12San Francisco

Simple Business SMS. SMBs to Large Enterprise.

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.

Shekel MobilityW23Lagos, Nigeria

B2B marketplace for Auto Dealers in Africa

Our platform helps car dealers find, finance and sell more cars in the $30B African used Car market. We are building the largest auto dealership ecosystem ; powering $10Bn transactions annually

ShepherdW24

Every student's personalized learning assistant

Shepherd is a Learning assistant for schools to provide to their students. Shepherd seamlessly combines AI-enabled self-study, affordable tutoring, peer collaboration, and analytics for a personalized learning experience that is both efficient and effective.

ShoobsW14London

We help you find and book tickets to great entertainment events that…

Shoobs offers event organisers with a convenient and powerful platform to sell tickets to their events. A couple of years ago we got thinking that selling tickets should be QUICK & EASY! So, we decided to create Shoobs to help event organisers sell out their events efficiently! Shoobs is the leading destination to discover and book great urban culture events in the UK, such as Hip Hop concerts and RnB club nights.

shotwell.aiP26San Francisco

Annotations for robotics data

Shotwell AI is building the data QA layer for dexterous robotics. We work with teams collecting teleoperation and egocentric data to provide dense semantic annotation and validate task adherence. This lets teams compress feedback loops from weeks to hours and iterate on models much faster.

SilkChartS22San Francisco

AI Sales Assistant to increase playbook adoption and win more deals

SilkChart analyzes sales calls and measures how well playbooks are executed. It proactively surfaces coaching opportunities to managers, and provides reps with actionable feedback to close more deals.

Simplifyd SystemsW22London

We deliver toll-free internet apps

Simplifyd enables businesses deliver their internet apps (websites/mobile apps) data-free, similar to toll-free telephone lines. We do this through our Zerodata app Founded in August of 2021 and based in Lagos, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya, Simplifyd through its Zerodata platform is a trusted marketplace for data-free internet apps. Businesses list their internet apps (websites/mobile apps) on the Zerodata platform so end users can access them data-free! End users simply need to download the Zerodata app, available for both mobile and desktop, toggle on and enjoy access to listed apps data-free! We are on a mission to make apps accessible to over ~2B people in emerging economies who simply cannot afford the costs of internet data subscriptions.

Sinovia TechnologiesW17San Francisco

Flexible printed OLED displays.

We use the printing methods used for newspapers, packaging, posters, and other graphic media to make beautiful, emissive electronic displays with high-end OLED technology aimed at low-cost applications. Our displays are paper-thin, flexible, and can be easily custom printed in a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing hardware designers to use displays and indicators on curved surfaces and in new ways.

SIRUMW15San Francisco

SIRUM is a “match.com” for unused medicine. We connect institutional…

SIRUM uses technology to connect, prioritize and simplify various sources of medicine. We help safety-net clinics access this medicine for their patients. SIRUM is an innovative nonprofit organization committed to reducing barriers to health for underserved populations. Incubated at Stanford University, SIRUM draws from the academic and technology expertise of faculty and alumni to strengthen its impact and efficiency. SIRUM has become a leader in prescription drug donations, providing consulting and technical assistance to county governments, community clinics and multiple drug donor groups to establish redistribution programs

SnapTradeW22Fredericton, NB, Canada

Plaid for trading

SnapTrade is an API to connect retail brokerage accounts to any fintech app. We enable API access to real-time account data, historical transactions, and trading. This makes it possible to build new investing experiences with existing brokerage accounts, so users don't need to transfer and it's easier to get started.

SocialcamW12San Francisco

The easiest way to share videos with friends and family.

Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family.

SorceF25San Francisco

Tinder for jobs

Tinder for Jobs. Swipe right, AI applies on your behalf.

Spotlight RealtyS25San Francisco

AI powered brokerage reducing residential rental commissions in NYC…

We are a full-service sell-side residential brokerage that lists and markets your properties. We also screen and schedule tenants showings with our AI agent for a third of the normal commission.

SpotPayW26San Francisco

Stablecoin Global Bank Account

SpotPay is a global borderless neobank. We give users one account that works for everything payments related: receiving money from abroad, paying locally, spending anywhere with the SpotPay card and saving and earning on their balance.

Spring in AfricaW19San Francisco

Investing in innovation

Backing innovation, building financial technology. Focused on emerging markets and leveraging people finesse with capital.

Squire TechnologiesS16New York City

Platform to grow your barbershop and maximize profitability.

Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers worldwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments and better market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry worldwide. For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.

Stairs FinancialW22New York City

Find a home you can actually afford

Stairs helps young Americans buy their first home. Our home search identifies homes based on their finances, and connects them to government grants, loans and tax breaks.

StarSlingP25San Francisco

Self-Driving CI: fast AI-native GitHub Actions runners

Drop-in Ubuntu runners plus AI agents that open optimization PRs for your workflows. StarSling Runners continuously improve your CI to make it up to 6x faster and 13x cheaper.

StatusW22New York City

Sims but Social Media

Status allows users to live in immersive fantasy worlds through the familiar lens of social media. Over 3 million users worldwide.

SubstrateS24San Francisco

Artificial Intelligence for your medical billing team

Substrate's AI agents automate the click-work & data entry in revenue cycle management. Our agents perform repetitive and time-consuming tasks on behalf of medical billers, significantly increasing efficiency and reducing errors.

SupliasS21Lagos, Nigeria

We enable FMCG distributors in Africa buy inventory on credit

Suplias helps FMCG manufacturers in Africa receive payments and finance inventory purchases of their distributors using a mobile app called Obtainly. We launched in Nigeria, where we have been growing revenue by 32% month over month for the last 11 months Our founding team has a combined 25+ years of experience in supply chain and ecommerce having worked for Procter & Gamble, Pepsi Co, Gap and Jumia, the #1 ecommerce company in Africa.

Swipe TechnologiesW20London

Building modern payments, accounting and cashflow management tools…

Swipe is building modern modern payments, accounting and cashflow management tools for businesses. We own and operate Float, a global b2b payments platform and Accounteer - a cloud accounting and bookkeeping platform for businesses and freelancers.

Syrona HealthW22London

Employee benefit for reproductive and hormone health

Syrona Health’s innovative add on benefit is designed to address the critical gaps in women’s health coverage by integrating fertility, menopause, and female-specific cancer care , men's health and trans/nonbinary health. Our solution directly tackles the escalating $30B in out-of-pocket healthcare costs by offering financial protection for treatments often excluded or poorly covered by traditional health insurance.

Tambua HealthW20San Francisco

Bloodless, blood diagnostic app

NoDraw by Tambua Health is the world’s first bloodless, blood diagnostic app, turning any smartphone into a full blood panel diagnostic tool

TendoW22Accra, Ghana

Enabling Africans to sell online with zero capital

Tendo enables anyone in Africa to sell online with zero upfront inventory - our mobile app connects dropshippers to local wholesalers. The sellers on the platform are able to source products through Tendo and resell items using social commerce tools, such as WhatsApp, arrange delivery, and get paid, all through the Tendo mobile app. At the moment, people who want to sell online need to save money, visit hundreds of suppliers to find a trusted one, and risk losing their capital by stocking up inventory. Beyond this, they need to incur costs for logistics and warehousing. We eliminate all that.

TennrW23New York City

Fast, Transparent Patient Experiences

Tennr is solving the black hole problem in healthcare by leveraging models to digitize the flow of paperwork between healthcare providers. -- Today, when you go to your doctor and need to be referred to a specialist (e.g., for sleep apnea), your doctor sends a fax (yes, in 2024, 90% of provider-provider communication is a 1980s fax). These are often converted into 20+ page PDFs, with handwritten (doctor’s handwriting!) notes, in thousands of different formats. The problem is so complex that a person has to read it, type it up, and manually enter your information. Tennr built RaeLM™ (7B—trained on 3M+ documents) to read these docs, talk to your doc to ensure nothing is missed, and text you to help schedule your appointment so you can get better, faster.

TensorPoolW25San Francisco

Vercel For GPUs

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.

tEQuitableW18San Francisco

tEQuitable's mission is to create work culture that works for everyone

tEQuitable helps companies get in front of and prevent harassment. We are an independent, confidential platform to address issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. For employees, we provide a sounding board they can consult without fear of retribution on issues ranging from subtle, insidious slights and invalidations to overt discrimination and harassment. For companies, we provide data and insights to identify systemic issues, track behavioral trends, and develop actionable recommendations. tEQuitable is using technology to make workplaces more equitable.

TermiiW20Lagos, Nigeria

Termii is an AI-native reliability infrastructure company.

Termii is an AI-native reliability infrastructure that prevents transactions like logins, payments, checkouts, fraud alerts, and OTPs from failing — using AI. We process over 3B+ transactions and reach more than 16M end-users across banks, fintechs, e-commerce and digital platforms globally.

TerrakottaW24Seattle

AI platform for phone-first sellers

Terrakotta is a power-dialer that lets sales reps leave AI-generated voicemails. Our first customers are Commercial Real Estate brokerages that use Terrakotta to clone their brokers voices, dial prospects and when no one answers, leave an A/B tested, personalized voicemail that gets a callback.

TherifyS21

Inclusive mental healthcare for companies

Therify is an inclusive mental health benefit for companies. Through our web platform, employees access culturally responsive therapists, live community sessions, and self-guided content to support their emotional well-being.

Thrive AgricW19Abuja, Nigeria

ThriveAgric help Farmers in Africa access finance, insight and Markets

We have created a market place that enables the sales of agro-commodities locally and internationally while providing rural farmers with all the resources they will need to grow crops like loans to but inputs and the needed extension services for better insights.

TitanS18New York City

Titan is an award-winning wealth manager with a mission to increase…

Titan is an award-winning wealth manager with a mission to increase our generation’s compound growth rate. We plan to do this by putting a human wealth advisor in every pocket. Historically, wealth managers have been accessible to only the ultra-wealthy. With Titan, they’re available to everyone. We harness frontier technologies like artificial intelligence to build a platform that gives advisors superpowers, enabling them to serve clients they historically never could. Backed by a16z, General Catalyst, Sam Altman, and many others, we manage over $1 billion in assets for clients across the country.

TizetiW17Lagos, Nigeria

ISP for Africa

Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service right across Africa.

Todos ComemosS20Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

Taking from 1 to 100 the premade food industry in LATAM

With the mission of improving people's lives in LATAM by enabling pre-made food access to millions of people, TodosComemos is pushing forward the actual barriers of the industry in LATAM by: 1. Developing pre-made and ready-to-eat healthy food above-edge technologies for the region, 2. Enabling established products and brands of prepared food to go from 1 to 1000, offering them a competitive distribution one-stop solution to reach millions of new customers in a multichannel strategy 3. Building the first pre-made food subscription service including both pre-made and ready-to-eat meals for all needs.

TopshipW22Lagos, Nigeria

Flexport for African Merchants - Building the OS for Global Logistics

Topship is the easiest way for African businesses to export/import cargo, freight and parcels to their suppliers, distributors and customers. We are building Flexport for Africa. Our goal is to build a Global Distribution System that makes delivery of parcels, cargo and freight easy for African businesses.

Touch and Pay Technologies LimitedW2262 Shipeolu St, Somolu 102216, Lagos, Nigeria

Digitizing and processing Microtransactions in Africa

We process cash-based microtransactions across Africa's informal sector, an example of microtransaction is payment for bus rides today we help over 300k people make this payment.

treble.aiS19São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

We help companies scale marketing campaigns through WhatsApp

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.

TrieveW24San Francisco

All-in-one API for search, RAG, & recommendations

Infrastructure for search teams building retrieval and RAG. Trieve combines search language models with tools for tuning ranking and relevance. Building excellent search is difficult and can take months to implement then even more time to maintain. Trieve offers production-ready infrastructure that works out of the box to help search teams build adjustable AI search and RAG into their products. With tools for custom models, relevancy weighting, date-recency biasing, semantic full-text hybrid search, recommendations, and more Trieve covers the full spectrum of what a team wants from their discovery infrastructure.

TriplyW24Nairobi, Kenya

Operating system for travel businesses in Africa with embedded finance

Triply (Formerly Tripitaca) is the operating system for travel businesses in Africa. We eliminate operational chaos by unifying payments, Invoicing, payroll, accounting, operations, and more into a single platform allowing travel businesses to execute and sell more efficiently.

TruoraW19Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Reliable background checks & fraud prevention tools for Latin America.

Truora provides safe and reliable background checks and fraud prevention services for Latin America, through APIs and web service solutions. We operate in 6 countries (Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Brazil and Chile) and are expanding rapidly. Our customers include Latam's top martketplaces (i.e. Didi, Rappi, Liftit), FinTech startups, large financial institutions and large HR firms as well. Our software allows for: background check verifications, continuous identity verification, digital identity solutions, OCR technologies and document authentication, KYC solutions and biometric validations. Our team is composed of 4 founders with expertise in the security and fraud prevention, as well as 60+ expert software engineers. We have offices across Latam, with our tech teams based in Colombia.

TwitchW07San Francisco

A global community creating the future of live entertainment.

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay. Learn more at http://twitch.tv.

UltrasoniumS26Boston

Metal manufacturing, faster, cheaper, and more versatile.

The technologies that define this century, including data centers, rockets, satellites, and robots, are built from complex metal parts. As these systems advance, the parts get harder to make. Past a certain complexity, casting and machining stop working, and the advanced methods that remain are slow, expensive, and hazardous. Ultrasonium has invented a new manufacturing method to make these critical parts 15x faster and 75% cheaper than the methods they replace, in the U.S. and at scale. Solid metal feedstock goes in and a finished part safely comes out, controlled by a physical AI layer and novel control processes. The systems that matter most, in aerospace, energy, and compute, are demanding metal geometries that can't be machined or cast and are too expensive and slow to make with incumbent methods, at a moment when domestic manufacturing capacity is a national priority. Our founding team has built and innovated some of the most complex engineering systems known to man: quantum computers, superconductors, nuclear reactors, and novel aerospace alloy processing methods.

Union54S21Lusaka, Zambia

Developers of ChitChat, an integrated messaging and payments wallet…

ChitChat by Union54 is an integrated messaging and payments platform designed specifically for Africa's unique needs. Our app combines secure instant messaging with USD card capabilities and cross-border payments, making international money movement more accessible and affordable. We're tackling one of Africa's biggest financial challenges: the high cost of sending money across borders, where African senders often pay double the fees despite sending smaller amounts. As a Y Combinator-backed startup, we're building technology that empowers African consumers and businesses to participate more fully in the global digital economy. Our mission is to create financial products that genuinely serve customer needs while challenging the status quo of traditional remittance providers.

UsulS24San Francisco

AI Platform for Winning Defense & Government Contracts

Usul helps companies win government contracts in 60+ nations. Our AI monitors $8 trillion in annual government spending and instantly matches you to contracts across defense, IT, energy, healthcare and more. Learn more at https://usul.com/

VaultPayS23Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Digital banking platform for the 30 million smartphone users in DRC.

Vaultpay is building a digital banking platform for 30 million smartphone users in DRC and the country's largest agent network. For example, a young Congolese entrepreneur who just won a subcontract with a major mining company can now easily open a personal and business account, receive payments, all from their smartphone, instead of spending hours at bank branches.

VendeaseW21Lagos, Nigeria

Where restaurants in Africa buy food supplies

Vendease is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Now, instead of going through expensive - middlemen - vendors, or wasting productive man hours sending staff to open markets with hiked prices, restaurants can now get on our platform, click to order and get all their food supplies within 24hrs.

VendooW22Washington, DC, USA

We help online sellers manage a sales business on multiple platforms.

Vendoo is a software that was created to solve the daily pain points of the millions of sellers in the steadily growing reselling industry. Our goal is to save sellers time and help them make more money. The user friendly interface allows sellers to crosspost their items onto multiple marketplaces in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually. Users can currently list items onto 10 marketplaces, including eBay, Poshmark, Etsy, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace and more. The software also provides other conveniences for sellers, like the ability to easily import their existing listings, delisting and relisting items with one click, and inventory management features like easy sorting and searching. Vendoo also provides sellers with business data and analytics to help them make calculated decisions to grow their business.

VendyW22Lagos, Nigeria

Vendy is a marketplace on WhatsApp

Vendy is a marketplace on WhatsApp. We provide customized WhatsApp shops for sellers, allowing buyers to browse inventory, place orders with automated invoicing, and make payments, all within WhatsApp. No app download or sign-up required.

VertoW19London

Cross-Border Payments and FX Simplified

Verto is a cross-border payment platform for businesses; our mission is to simplify cross-border payments in emerging markets, particularly Africa. We do this by providing businesses with superb infrastructure that they can use to convert, hold, receive and make payments across 49 currencies. By connecting Businesses, Liquidity providers, FX Brokers, and Payment Institutions, and banks through our marketplace, companies can choose their foreign exchange rates at the time that suits them, therefore, providing a constant liquidity flow cheaply.

VideoGenS24San Francisco

Create professional videos in minutes with AI, online or via API

VideoGen makes it easy for anyone to create professional, copyright-free videos in seconds. Our AI video generator turns a prompt, script, or article into a finished video, complete with AI voiceover, subtitles, and b-roll, powered by the latest models like Sora, Veo, and Kling. Today, over 5 million users trust VideoGen, from individuals and small businesses to teams at Google and ByteDance. Making videos is hard, time-consuming, and expensive if you hire someone to do it for you. With VideoGen, it only takes a few clicks! Try it at https://videogen.io/, or build video into your own product with our API: https://videogen.io/videogen-api

Village LabsS24New York City

Helping America's businesses become employee owned

At Village Labs, we help America's businesses become employee owned by helping them set up and manage an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). ESOPs are a federal retirement plan that enable businesses to give their employees a stake in the company in exchange for significant tax benefits. With 2.9M Baby Boomer business owners set to retire in the coming years, there's a growing "Silver Tsunami" of businesses across the country in search of new ownership. For many of these owners, selling to their employees is a socially-minded yet financially pragmatic solution. By selling ownership of their business to an ESOP, owners get a fair price, tax benefits, and the satisfaction of knowing their employees and legacy will be taken care of — things not guaranteed with traditional buyers like private equity. In turn, employees retain their jobs and get shares in the business that can help them create life changing wealth by the time they retire — imagine an office secretary retiring as a millionaire. Thousands of businesses across America like Bob's Red Mill, Harpoon Brewery, and Recology already have an ESOP, benefiting over 14 million workers and creating 2.1 trillion in employee wealth. We're excited about the opportunity to massively grow these numbers by making it simple for every business to become employee owned.

Visibl SemiconductorsW26San Francisco

Custom silicon for power electronics

Visibl Semiconductors makes custom silicon accessible to hardware companies, starting with power electronics. We are an AI-native custom-silicon design partner that cuts ASIC development cost and timeline on mature nodes, helping teams deliver better performance and lower BOM cost. We work with data-center and AI-infrastructure power, motor drives, industrial automation and robotics, industrial power supplies and conversion, battery systems and e-mobility powertrains, EV charging, solar, energy storage, grid power, HVAC, heat pumps, and appliances. V1 boards built from off-the-shelf parts are great for getting to market quickly, but scaling to v2+ volume requires optimizing cost, size, and manufacturability. Visibl folds those parts into custom silicon built around the product: a simpler BOM, reclaimed board space, fewer supply constraints, and automation-ready assembly. We manage the full path from architecture and design through verification, fabrication, packaging, and production-ready silicon, working alongside hardware teams so they do not need an in-house chip team.

Vitable HealthS20Philadelphia, PA, USA

Affordable care via ICHRA and primary care with visits, meds, labs…

If you're a YC company: Book Here! https://calendly.com/danielle-wimberly-vitablehealth/30min We are a team of engineers, clinicians, and operators rethinking healthcare for startups and and SMB's. We make it simple for startups to offer ICHRA with built in direct primary care, including free virtual visits, over 1,000 prescriptions, and 40+ lab tests. Contributions are made with tax-free dollars, and we handle everything from onboarding to ongoing care so founders can stay focused on building. We are backed by world class investors like First Round Capital, Cherryrock, Y Combinator, and SoftBank, along with incredible founders and operators including Michael Seibel (YC, Twitch), Immad Akhund (Mercury), Allison Pickens (Gainsight), Jack Altman (Lattice), Dan Folkman (GoPuff), and others.

VoriW20San Francisco

Vori is a modern operating system for supermarkets

Vori offers a modern operating system designed for the grocery industry. VoriOS helps independent and regional grocers streamline their inventory management, ordering, and supplier coordination, allowing them to operate more efficiently and profitably. The platform integrates real-time data to optimize stock replenishment and improve pricing strategies. Founded in 2019, Vori empowers grocers with technology that levels the playing field against larger retailers.

Wattson HealthS23

AI Voice and SMS Agents for Healthcare

Wattson Health’s AI agents connect with customers over the phone and SMS. Give us your busiest tasks and we’ll train our agents to take them off your hands.

WazaW23Lagos, Nigeria

B2B payments platform for emerging markets.

Waza is the B2B platform for global payments and emerging market trade. We make it easy and affordable for businesses with no access to USD to fulfil their global payment obligations, treasury and liquidity needs.

WeatherCheckW19201 E Jefferson St, Louisville, KY 40202, USA

WeatherCheck monitors properties for hail damage so that insurance…

WeatherChecks application tells anyone when severe hail is about to strike and when it has in fact impacted a property. Using state of the science technologies we compute and analyze geo-weather data faster than every weather company globally. This allows companies, insurance companies specifically to gain dynamic insight into their overall exposure and enabling them to respond more quickly and efficiently to disaster.

WindsorW19San Francisco

AI Powered Personalized Videos

Windsor brings AI and deepfake tech to video personalization. We create personalized videos at scale - where someone can record a single video of themselves talking to a camera, and then send millions of these to customers with unique names, at unique companies and different locations around the globe. Each video will look and sound like it was personally recorded.

WorkpayW20Nairobi, Kenya

Payroll, compliance, benefits, and Employer of Record services for…

Workpay helps companies hire, pay, manage, and stay compliant across Africa. We provide payroll software, payroll outsourcing, Employer of Record services, statutory compliance, benefits, HR tools, and salary disbursements for local and cross-border teams. Companies use Workpay as their workforce infrastructure partner across 50+ African countries.

Yemaachi BiotechnologyS21Accra, Ghana

Diversifying precision cancer diagnostics and treatments

Yemaachi Biotech is diversifying and expanding access to precision cancer diagnostics and therapeutics by collecting and sequencing samples from all across Africa, which is the most genetically diverse population on the planet. We then use this data to either optimize existing diagnostic tests, or help other companies discover new ones. With our research activities based in Africa, we are able to leverage access to the most genetically diverse population on the planet to build a first-of-its-kind clinical and molecular knowledgebase on cancer among African people.

ZenS21New York City

Posture correction software

ZeroStorefrontW19San Francisco

#1 Data platform for restaurants. Acquired by Thanx

We connect applications to drive more orders and better customer experiences for restaurants. The typical restaurant now uses more than two dozen different applications to run their business. Specifically, we connect, warehouse and route the data to improve analytics, marketing, operations and finance. Our customers include brands like Frank Pepe’s, Halal Guys, Wings Over and more.