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House of Designers turns the pre-show into the show
A drifting championship, a food trade show, and a video-editing app share an Orange County creative partner. House of Designers connects the thing that catches your eye with the thing you do next.
Shiftr’s next product is the agency itself
The California software and design company is automating the work behind the work. Its founder reports 217% revenue growth in 2025 - and a business increasingly built around longer client relationships.
Hostaway made a business out of your vacation’s busywork
Behind the holiday photos sit calendars, cleaners and a small mountain of messages. Hostaway turned that administrative mess into a software business, survived a travel shutdown and is now betting on AI to handle more of the shift.
PlanSource Wants to Make Benefits Admin Boring - and That’s the Point
HR teams do not need another dazzling demo. They need the newborn to be covered, the carrier file to match and open enrollment to end without a fire drill. PlanSource has spent nearly two decades turning that unglamorous promise into enterprise software.
The $47 Billion Back Office You Use Without Knowing It
Xplor Technologies stitched together the software behind gyms, golf clubs, parks, preschools and plumbers. Now it is betting an eight-figure sum that AI can turn a sprawling portfolio into one quietly useful machine.
Rentvine Turned Property Managers’ Least Favorite Chore Into a $74 Million Growth Story
The Florida software company spent years listening to the people who reconcile rent, deposits and owner payouts. Then it built the accounting-first platform they kept asking for - and made switching systems the product’s hardest, most valuable feature.
DynaNet Wants Customer Support to Pay for Itself - Here’s the Playbook Behind the Pitch
The Toronto-area outsourcer mixes human agents, automation and system integration to turn the help desk from an expense line into a retention tool. Its Arcade1Up case offers a useful blueprint - and a reminder to demand the baseline, the price and the measurement rules.
Fusion CX Is Turning the Call Center Into an AI Test Kitchen
The global outsourcer built its reach one delivery center and acquisition at a time. Now it is using millions of real customer interactions to turn contact-center software into an operating advantage.
The Blockchain Agency That Started With $10,000 and a Newborn
Jarred Winn left Binance, spent his last $10,000, and built one of the Bay Area's first blockchain-focused marketing agencies. Eight years later it runs on brand, automation, and AI agents.
The Company That Teaches Your Software to Talk to Itself
Two former NetSuite engineers spent a decade turning the least glamorous job in software - getting one app to speak to another - into a business ranked the #1 iPaaS and worth an estimated half a billion dollars.
Userlike
A student side project in Cologne became the live chat behind Toyota, Nivea and Hermes - and then bet its future on AI that answers before a human has to.
BaseFrame
BaseFrame is a San Francisco AI startup from Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, founded by UC Berkeley classmates Anshul Paul and Vaibhav Agrawal. The company has iterated quickly across the AI stack - launching first as an AI copilot that catches hardware design flaws before boards are built, then as a desktop app that scans a team's own work history to find what AI can automate, and most recently pivoting to Clam, a 'Semantic Firewall' that adds enterprise-grade security around broad-access AI agents. Across all three, the thread is the same: make powerful AI safe, useful, and grounded in real work.
chromie.dev
chromie.dev (YC S26) is an all-in-one business development, capture, and proposal platform that helps firms find, qualify, and win federal and state, local, and education (SLED) government contracts. Built on the founders' 'deterministic stack for web agents' - browser agents that pair LLM reasoning with the reliability of RPA - the platform continuously scrapes procurement portals, fit-scores opportunities, predicts recompetes before they hit the market, extracts buried requirements from RFPs and SOWs, and drafts compliant proposals, with every parsed field traced back to its source clause for audit and QA.
Revise Robotics
Revise Robotics builds AI-enabled robotic systems that test, refurbish, and resell used electronics, starting with laptops. Its machines slot into e-waste recycling and IT asset disposition facilities, where they inspect devices, wipe drives, photograph units, and list them on online marketplaces - hundreds of laptops a day, across any model, manufacturer, or operating system, without human intervention. Founded in 2024 by Rupesh Jeyaram and Antonio Monreal and backed by Y Combinator (W25), the New York company aims to unlock the residual value trapped in discarded electronics and keep more devices out of landfills.
Cassidy
Cassidy is a New York-based enterprise AI platform that lets non-technical teams build AI agents and multi-step automations powered by their own internal company data. By connecting large language models to a business's knowledge base, tools, and real-time data, Cassidy automates complex, context-heavy workflows - customer support triage, RFP responses, CRM updates from sales calls, lead qualification and internal knowledge sharing - without writing code. Founded in 2023 by Justin Fineberg and Ian Woodfill, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2025 and is used by more than 20,000 teams.
Lightyear
Lightyear is a New York-based enterprise software company building a 'Telecom Operating System' that digitizes how large organizations buy and manage network services. Founded in 2019 by Dennis Thankachan and Ryan Schrack, the platform automates telecom procurement, network inventory management, and bill consolidation across a marketplace of 1,000+ carriers, replacing a process that has traditionally relied on phone calls, spreadsheets, and weeks of waiting. It serves 300+ enterprises and 5,000+ users, including Palo Alto Networks, Five Guys, Alo Yoga, Pandora Jewelry, and Teladoc.
PixieBrix
PixieBrix is a New York-based software company that started as a low-code browser extension for customizing and automating web apps, and has evolved into a browser-native platform for monitoring, guiding, and securing the actions people and AI agents take inside their web applications. Deployed as a lightweight Chrome/Edge extension, it lets teams add context-aware automations, AI assistance, and real-time policy enforcement on top of any website - originally aimed at customer support and contact-center productivity, and more recently at agent oversight, compliance, and safe AI-agent browsing.
Cogent Labs
Cogent Labs is a full-service software and AI studio that deploys practical, 'boring' AI automation for small and mid-size businesses - the kind that quietly removes repetitive manual work like data entry, status updates, and report generation. Founded by CEO Ehmad Zubair, the team blends web, mobile, and generative-AI engineering (Python, Django, React, React Native) with a fixed-price consulting model that maps a company's operations, prioritizes the highest-ROI automations, and ships production-ready workflows in weeks rather than six-month pilots.
Elevance Systems, Inc.
Elevance Systems, Inc. is a Cupertino, California-based, AI-enabled healthcare IT managed services and consulting firm. It provides US healthcare providers with IT infrastructure support, enterprise and clinical application implementation and maintenance, cybersecurity and risk mitigation, identity and access management, data and automation, and digital and cloud transformation - delivered through staff augmentation and AI-enabled automation across a global footprint spanning the Americas, UAE, and India.
Genesys
Genesys is a global customer experience and contact center software company that helps more than 8,000 organizations across 100+ countries orchestrate personalized, AI-powered interactions across voice and digital channels. Its flagship Genesys Cloud CX platform combines omnichannel routing, self-service, conversational and agentic AI, and workforce engagement management into a single cloud service. Founded in 1990 as a computer-telephony integration startup, Genesys today operates an 'Experience Orchestration' model with roughly $2.4 billion in annual revenue and Genesys Cloud ARR approaching $2.2 billion.
Milestone Technologies, Inc.
Milestone Technologies is a Fremont, California-based global IT services and digital solutions company founded in 1997. It helps large enterprises run and modernize their technology at scale - spanning digital workplace services, IT service desk and NOC operations, cloud and infrastructure, application and digital engineering, AI/automation, and platform work on ServiceNow and Salesforce. The company employs roughly 2,600-3,100 people, serves more than 200 clients across about 31 countries, and is majority-owned by The Halifax Group with a minority stake held by Two Sigma Impact.
Automat
Automat is a San Francisco AI company building agents that operate computers the way people do. Founded in 2023 by CMU design alumni and ex-Google Creative Lab designers Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose, it pairs a transformer-based RPA engine with intelligent document processing so enterprises can automate manual back-office work - from KYC checks to mortgage disclosures to medical-claims processing - by simply showing the software a recording of the task. It positions itself as a modern, AI-native alternative to legacy RPA tools like UiPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism.
Gumloop
Gumloop is a no-code AI automation platform that lets any employee build, deploy, and manage AI agents and workflows by dragging modular nodes onto a canvas. Where legacy tools like Zapier treat AI as one node among many, Gumloop makes AI orchestration the core primitive - connecting a company's internal data to leading AI models to complete complex, repetitive work. Founded in 2023 by McGill classmates Max Brodeur-Urbas and Rahul Behal, the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark in March 2026. It counts Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, Instacart, Samsara, and Opendoor among its customers.
ActionAI
ActionAI is a New York- and Israel-based enterprise software company building reliability infrastructure for AI. Its platform lets companies build, run, evaluate and improve mission-critical AI workflows with a human in the loop, mapping data across the AI stack for granular testing and using an 'Explainable Exceptions' system to catch model errors before they cause damage. Founded by Stanford-trained engineer Miriam Haart, the company raised a $10M seed round in April 2026 to serve regulated sectors like finance, insurance, legal and logistics where accuracy is non-negotiable.
Caddi
Caddi is a Seattle-based AI company that turns screen recordings into working automations. Its 'record-to-code' platform watches a professional demonstrate a repetitive back-office task - client intake, document filing, billing, data entry - and generates deterministic, API-driven code that runs the workflow across 80+ tools. Aimed at law firms, financial advisors, accountants and consultants, Caddi pitches itself as a way to do more work at the same headcount without asking teams to learn yet another complicated tool.
Clad
Clad is project management and billing software purpose-built for infrastructure. It unifies project operations and finance so telecom operators and construction subcontractors can track production in the field, automate invoicing and payments, manage vendor compliance, and handle 811 utility locate requests - all in one place. Founded in 2022 by ex-Instagram product manager Jason Rudin and backed by Y Combinator (W23), Clad aims to help the companies rebuilding America's internet and power networks build faster and get paid faster.
Periti Digital
Periti Digital is a HubSpot Elite Partner and AI consultancy headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, that handles the messy, complicated CRM work most agencies avoid - migrating tangled data, wiring HubSpot into ERPs like SAP and NetSuite, and building AI automations on Anthropic's Claude. Founded in 2022, it has grown to serve 400+ HubSpot customers across offices in Dublin, London, Munich, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Boston and New York, and was ranked among the top three global HubSpot partners in 2024.
VectorShift
VectorShift is an AI platform that started as a no-code builder for generative AI workflows and has sharpened into an 'AI operating system for private market investors.' Founded in 2023 by Harvard classmates Alexander Leonardi and Albert Mao and backed by Y Combinator, it lets firms turn scattered deal documents, diligence notes, and institutional memory into working AI - data-room analysis, IC memos, portfolio monitoring, and LP reporting - through a drag-and-drop interface or a Python SDK, without hiring a machine-learning team.
Continual
Continual is a San Francisco AI company building a platform for running business operations with agents. Founded by repeat ML founders Tristan Zajonc and Tyler Kohn, it launched in 2021 as a declarative machine-learning platform on the modern data stack, then pivoted into the AI copilot and agent era - letting teams connect their tools and data, automate workflows across agents and people, and turn repeatable processes into agent-powered applications. Backed by $18.5M+ from Innovation Endeavors, Amplify Partners and others.
TravelJoy
TravelJoy is an all-in-one software platform for travel advisors and agencies, bundling a CRM, itinerary builder, branded proposals, automations, and secure payments into one workspace. Founded in 2018 by Dayo Esho and Chris Kline, the San Francisco company helps independent travel entrepreneurs run their businesses and compete with DIY booking sites - and now facilitates more than $1 billion in annual customer spend.