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The Orange Box That Bet the Smartphone Was Optional
A $199 orange gadget promised to replace your apps with an AI that clicks the buttons for you. The launch went viral, the reviews went brutal, and rabbit is still shipping.
Tidio
Scale customer service without sacrificing customer trust or authenticity. Whether you want to improve support quality or automate up to 67% of conversations Tidio keeps support fast, reliable, and human.
Userpilot
Userpilot helps product and growth teams turn user signals into activation, adoption, retention, and revenue.
Olark
More than a chatbot - an AI agent that works your marketing funnel 24/7.
JivoChat
The bootstrapped live-chat tool that grew into an omnichannel inbox for 200,000 small businesses - and now wants its AI to handle the easy questions.
Comm100
Support That's Simply Better, for Everyone.
Intercom
Intercom is an AI-first customer service company best known for Fin, its AI agent that resolves customer support conversations automatically. Founded in 2011 by four Irish engineers in San Francisco, the company rebuilt itself around large language models after ChatGPT launched, shipping Fin in 2023. By 2026 Fin was resolving more than a million tickets a week for customers like Anthropic, DoorDash and Mercury, and in May 2026 the parent company rebranded itself Fin to reflect that the AI agent had become the core business.
Chatwoot
AI assistant, omnichannel support desk, knowledge base. Everything you need for seamless customer support, all in one place.
BOND
BOND is a San Francisco startup building Donna, an AI Chief of Staff for CEOs, founders and busy executives. Donna plugs into the tools a company already runs on - Slack, Gmail, Notion, Linear, Jira, Asana and more - learns how the organization actually works, and surfaces the highest-leverage moves: what shipped, who is blocked, and the top priorities for the day. Founded in 2025 by Chloe Samaha and Rene Sultan and backed by Y Combinator's X25 batch, BOND aims to give every founder an executive right hand that used to cost a six-figure salary.
Caddy
Caddy is a personal AI for everyday work that lives in your text messages and responds to voice. Built by the team that led product and design for Loom's AI suite, it connects to the tools people already use - email, calendar, Slack, Linear, Notion - and gets work done without forcing anyone to open yet another app. You text or talk; Caddy handles the tickets, reminders, scheduling and follow-ups. The company is part of Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch and is based in New York City.
Elip AI
Elip AI is a Y Combinator (W25) startup building an AI job agent that lives inside WhatsApp. It reads through millions of job postings overnight, filters out ghost and duplicate listings, and sends each user a short list of ranked, personalized matches by morning - plus tailored, ATS-ready resumes. It is free for job seekers; employers pay when they hire. Founded by Gaurav Luhariwala, the company is based in San Francisco with an Indian entity in Jaipur.
jo
jo is a voice-first personal AI agent for macOS that runs on your Mac and a private, per-user cloud machine. Rather than waiting to be asked, it proactively summarizes what is on your screen, drafts emails, manages your calendar, clips relevant content, and keeps up with the loose ends of work and life. Built natively in Swift for Apple Silicon and backed by Y Combinator (W24), jo reaches users across Mac, web, iMessage, Telegram, and WhatsApp while keeping personal data local and out of model training.
Letterbook
Letterbook is an AI-native customer support platform built for startups and lean teams. It connects to a company's inbox, database, and Stripe, then uses AI to triage tickets, draft resolutions, and build a knowledge base - all reviewed by a human before sending. Founded in 2023 by Dawson Chen and Ethan Hou and backed by Y Combinator (S23), it positions itself as the modern alternative to Zendesk, Freshdesk, Intercom, and Front.
Mesh
Mesh is a San Francisco fintech building AI agents for accounting teams. Founded in 2025 by Erin Kim and Nandini Ramakrishnan - who together scaled Carta's fund accounting business from $20M to $100M in ARR - Mesh automates the slow, spreadsheet-heavy parts of the close: bank reconciliation, accruals, and journal entries. It pulls real-time signals from AP inboxes, Slack, Teams, and historical journals to draft audit-ready outputs and cut month-end close by several days, with a chat interface that lets founders ask questions about their financials in plain language. Mesh is backed by Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch.
Nebula Security
Nebula Security is an AI-native cybersecurity company from Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch. Founded by world-class hackers - members of the world's #1 CTF team r3kapig, DEF CON finalists, Black Hat speakers, and a cybersecurity PhD - it pairs an autonomous code-scanning agent called VEGA with human expertise to audit software for vulnerabilities, from code-level bugs to architectural weaknesses. The team has earned $400K+ in bug bounties exploiting the Linux kernel and Chrome, and reported over a thousand vulnerabilities. Its pitch: 'Attackers already have AI. Get VEGA now.'
OneGrep
OneGrep (YC W24) is a New York-based developer-tools startup building AI agent infrastructure for DevOps. It began as a DevOps copilot that fine-tuned models on real-time telemetry to help engineers resolve incidents faster and cut observability costs, and has since expanded into tooling that lets AI agents discover, correlate, and safely operate the many SaaS and MCP-based tools engineering teams rely on. Founded by ex-Disney, Amazon, and Coinbase engineers Achintya Ashok and Brian Cripe, it went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch.
Pango
Pango is an agentic operating system for e-commerce back-office operations. Founded in Stockholm in 2025 by Steve Rahimi and Lukasz Reszczynski, it connects a merchant's store, warehouse and carriers, then runs deliveries, tracking, returns, refunds and claims on autopilot. The company says it automates roughly 99% of returns and shipping operations and cuts operating costs by about 20%, and is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.
Sherpa
Sherpa is a San Francisco startup building an AI agent that makes websites improve themselves. It installs with a single line of code, studies how visitors behave, generates on-brand variants of pages and flows, runs A/B tests on live traffic, and ships the winners - all without a designer, developer, or analyst in the loop. Founded in 2026 by ex-Lindy engineers Ethan Kinnan and Norbu Sonam and backed by Y Combinator (Spring 2026 / P26 batch), Sherpa also optimizes sites for AI agents, tuning agent-facing pages so that assistants recommend a company more often. Early customers report 15-35% lifts in their primary conversion metric within the first 30-60 days.
winfunc
winfunc (formerly Asterisk, YC S24) is an AI-native security engineering platform that behaves like an autonomous hacker: it finds, verifies, and patches vulnerabilities in codebases. Instead of dumping thousands of unverified SAST alerts on engineers, winfunc spins up sandboxes, writes working proof-of-concept exploits, and only reports bugs it can actually trigger - aiming for near-zero false positives. Its agent has surfaced real vulnerabilities in Node.js, React, NGINX, Supabase, Bun, Sentry, Gumroad, Anthropic's MCP SDK, and others. Founded by Mufeed VH and Vivek R, the team previously built Devika, a popular open-source AI software engineer.
Lucidya | لوسيديا
Lucidya is a Riyadh-based, AI-native customer experience management (CXM) platform built for Arabic-speaking markets. Using a proprietary Arabic NLP engine that understands 15+ dialects with roughly 92% sentiment accuracy, it unifies social listening, media monitoring, surveys, customer profiles and omnichannel support into a single system, and now deploys autonomous AI agents for customer-facing roles. Founded in 2016 by Abdullah Asiri and co-founders, the company serves enterprises and governments across the MENA region and in 2025 raised a $30M Series B, one of the largest AI funding rounds in Saudi Arabia.
Blooming Health
Blooming Health is a New York-based social care technology company using AI to automate access to social services for older adults and vulnerable populations. Its AI-assisted, multilingual platform engages people across text, voice, and email to detect needs, screen for benefits, and connect them to services like meals, transportation, housing assistance, and Medicaid or SNAP recertification. Sold to Area Agencies on Aging, government agencies, community-based organizations, and healthcare providers, the platform has connected over 1.5 million people across roughly two dozen states and raised $32.5 million to date, including a $26 million Series A led by Insight Partners in April 2025.
Mia Labs
Mia Labs is an Austin-based AI company building Mia, a voice-first conversational platform for automotive dealerships. Marketed as an 'AI super employee,' Mia answers inbound and outbound calls 24/7 across a dealership's sales, service, reception, and parts departments, syncing with dealer management systems, CRMs, and scheduling tools to capture leads, book appointments, and handle routine customer conversations. As of early 2026 the platform served more than 350 franchise dealerships and had raised a $20M Series A, bringing total funding to roughly $29M.
Mighty
Mighty is a New York technology company using AI to help accident victims value and settle their personal injury claims without necessarily hiring a lawyer. Founded in 2015 by attorney-entrepreneur Joshua Schwadron, the company spent years building software and capital tools for the litigation-finance industry before pivoting to a free, direct-to-consumer AI platform that collects accident records, produces a 'Live Estimate' of a claim's value, and negotiates settlements with insurers - offering claimants a 'third option' between surrendering a third of their payout to a lawyer or negotiating alone.
Tymely
Tymely is an AI customer service agent built for eCommerce and retail brands. It resolves complex support tickets end-to-end - refunds, partial-order exchanges, address changes and more - across email and chat, aiming for human-grade quality while cutting support costs. Founded in 2021 by NLP researchers Ohad Rozen and Roy Penn, Tymely reverse-engineers how a brand's best agents reason, so its AI can handle tickets that generic chatbots pass back to humans, claiming roughly 80% ticket coverage and measurable CSAT gains.
Verifiable
Verifiable is a healthcare technology company that automates provider credentialing, compliance, and network management. Its API-first platform connects to thousands of primary sources to verify and continuously monitor healthcare providers in real time, cutting credentialing timelines from weeks to days. Serving payers, provider groups, digital health companies, and CVOs, Verifiable combines verification software, NCQA-certified CVO services, and its autonomous AI agent CredAgent to reduce administrative cost and compliance risk across the healthcare ecosystem.
eGain Corporation
eGain Corporation (NASDAQ: EGAN) is a Sunnyvale, California software company that helps enterprises automate customer and employee experiences with AI-powered knowledge management. Founded in 1997 and public since 1999, eGain's platform - anchored by its AI Knowledge Hub, Conversation Hub, and Analytics Hub - turns fragmented enterprise content into a single, trusted source of answers for contact-center agents, self-service portals, and AI systems across regulated industries like finance, insurance, government, and utilities.
Aura
Aura is an AI agent for game development built by Ramen VR, the San Francisco studio behind the VR MMO Zenith: The Last City. Purpose-built for Unreal Engine and Unity, Aura turns written ideas into Blueprints, C++ and C# code, generates 3D assets, and automates repetitive tasks so professional developers can ship games faster. Its multi-agent system - including the Telos Blueprint agent and specialized verification and material agents - understands a studio's existing codebase and works within the engine editor. Ramen VR raised more than $45M (Series B led by Anthos and Dune) and pivoted from VR gaming to XR + AI developer tooling.
Collectly
Collectly is a San Francisco-based healthcare fintech that automates the patient side of revenue cycle management. Its AI platform plugs into more than 20 EHR and practice-management systems to run digital billing, eligibility checks, cost estimates, payments and follow-up, so medical groups collect more, faster, with fewer staff hours. Founded in 2017 and a Y Combinator graduate, Collectly says it serves 3,000+ healthcare facilities and has processed over $1 billion in patient payments. In 2025 it launched Billie, a 24/7 AI agent that answers patient billing questions and takes action across voice, chat, text and email.
Hirey AI
Hirey is an AI-first recruiting platform built around a chat-based hiring app and an AI agent named Rey that sources candidates, screens them, checks availability, and books interviews automatically. Founded in 2021 by Walter Wu and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, Hirey focuses on high-volume, fast-turnover hiring in sales, caregiving, and healthcare staffing, where speed matters more than paperwork. The company says it has helped 500,000+ job seekers and is trusted by 10,000+ hiring companies, and it has raised roughly $14M through a Series A led in part by DST Global.
Obvious
Obvious is a San Francisco AI company, formerly known as Flatfile, that builds an AI agent workspace under the tagline "Less Chat. More Work." Instead of returning chat answers, the Obvious agent collaborates with users to produce finished artifacts - docs, slides, sheets, dashboards, apps, timelines and code - while transforming data, running deep research and building on-demand integrations. Founded in 2019 by David Boskovic and Eric Crane, the company built its reputation on Flatfile, a widely used data-onboarding product, then rebranded to Obvious in 2025 to launch a broader agentic platform. It has raised roughly $87M-$95M across Seed, Series A and a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global.