# Ambria (YC W24)

> Ambria is a San Francisco startup building AI agents for the industrial world - production-ready agents that automate back-office operations across manufacturing and distribution. Founded by UIUC classmates Praneeth Guduguntla and Arman Rafati, the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, where it first launched as Glimmer, an AI search engine for massive PDFs, before turning its document-reasoning expertise toward the paperwork-heavy back offices of industrial companies.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Praneeth Guduguntla (Co-Founder and CEO), Arman Rafati (Co-Founder and CTO)
- **Team size:** 2 (2-10 range)
- **Products:** Ambria AI Agents, Glimmer
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch., Launched Glimmer on Launch YC as an AI search engine for massive PDFs, handling documents over 10,000 pages with verifiable page citations., Founders bring engineering experience from Palantir, Meta, Affirm, Mercury, and AWS.

## Products & services

- **Ambria AI Agents** — AI agents built to automate back-office operations for manufacturing and distribution companies - the reading, checking, and processing of operational documents and workflows that traditionally consume back-office staff.
- **Glimmer** — The company's original product: an AI search engine for massive PDFs. Users upload documents up to 10,000+ pages, then query in natural language and get answers with verifiable page-level citations. Aimed at construction, law, finance, and healthcare professionals. Free and self-serve.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch.
- Launched Glimmer on Launch YC as an AI search engine for massive PDFs, handling documents over 10,000 pages with verifiable page citations.
- Founders bring engineering experience from Palantir, Meta, Affirm, Mercury, and AWS.
- Praneeth presented at the VSF Tech Club conference (Spring 2025) on building production-ready AI agents for back-office operations in manufacturing and distribution.

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — Launched Glimmer on Launch YC - AI search for massive PDFs, up to 10,000+ pages with verifiable sources.
- **2024** — Company positioning shifts to Ambria, 'AI for the Industrial world,' focused on manufacturing and distribution.
- **2025-05** — Founder Praneeth presents on production-ready AI agents for industrial back-office automation at the VSF Tech Club conference.

## Links

- Website: https://ambria.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ambriahq
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/prantheman__

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Last updated: 2026-07-31