# Corelayer

> Corelayer is an AI-native production support platform - an 'AI on-call engineer' - built for regulated, data-heavy industries like finance, healthcare, and insurance. It continuously watches alerts, logs, infrastructure, and the underlying data itself, then uses multi-agent AI to trace anomalies to root cause and suggest fixes. Founded in 2025 by former Goldman Sachs data-infrastructure engineers Mitch Radhuber and Shipra Jha, the company is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Mitch Radhuber (Co-Founder & CEO), Shipra Jha (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 3
- **Products:** Corelayer AI SRE Platform, Production Cortex, Compliance-first deployment
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch., Named by Forbes among 21 most promising startups from YC's latest batch (March 2026)., Signed early customers including Finzly, Broadridge, Ridery, Rilla, Pump, and Moda.

## Products & services

- **Corelayer AI SRE Platform** — AI-native production support platform that continuously monitors alerts, logs, infrastructure, and underlying data, filters false positives, groups related issues, and uses AI agents to root-cause incidents and suggest fixes.
- **Production Cortex** — The system's reasoning layer that integrates across code repositories, databases, deployments, and existing observability tools, using a multi-agent architecture with causal reasoning to trace anomalies backward to root cause within minutes.
- **Compliance-first deployment** — BYOC and on-premises deployment, SOC 2 compliance, PII masking, confidential compute, flexible LLM inference, and an audit trail with citations for every agent action - built for regulated industries.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
- Named by Forbes among 21 most promising startups from YC's latest batch (March 2026).
- Signed early customers including Finzly, Broadridge, Ridery, Rilla, Pump, and Moda.
- Founders previously built and ran data infrastructure at Goldman Sachs processing hundreds of billions of rows daily.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Began Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch; reported seed funding.
- **2026-03** — Featured in Forbes roundup of the most promising YC W26 startups.

## Links

- Website: https://corelayer.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corelayerai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/CorelayerAI
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CorelayerAI

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Last updated: 2026-07-31