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WalkMe Sold the Cure for Software Nobody Uses - Then SAP Paid $1.5 Billion for It
WalkMe built a business around an awkward corporate truth: buying software is easy, but getting people to use it is expensive. Its journey from browser prompts to SAP's $1.5 billion adoption layer offers a practical playbook - and a warning - for anyone selling change to large companies.
The Backup Company That Reads Your Kids' Search History - And 7 Million People Are Fine With It
Vijay Krishna built a boring backup tool, then pointed its machine-learning at student essays and found the kids no one was watching. Here is how a Red Bank, New Jersey company turned SaaS insurance into a safety net for 1,200 school districts.
Product Fruits
Static onboarding is a manual script, adaptive onboarding is a conversation. Don't force users through a rigid path they'll just skip.
Zeda.io
A product-discovery platform betting that the fastest way to build the right thing is to stop guessing and start listening - at scale, with an AI copilot reading the customer for you.
Dixa
The agentic CS platform behind exceptional ecommerce brands.
Churned
Predictive AI built to prevent churn for high-volume subscriptions. Churned tells you exactly which subscribers are about to leave, what to offer them, and triggers the action automatically.
Chative.IO
An AI-powered omnichannel inbox that turns messaging apps into a storefront - letting small teams sell, support and retain customers from a single screen.
Candu
The no-code editor that hands product and growth teams the keys to their own software - so onboarding, tours and in-app messages ship in an afternoon, not a sprint.
Logical
Logical is a proactive desktop AI copilot for knowledge workers. Instead of waiting for prompts, it watches what you are working on across apps like Gmail, Slack, Excel and Apple Mail, carries context between them, and suggests actions - drafting emails, detecting to-dos, taking meeting notes and answering questions - with a few clicks. Founded in 2025 by childhood friends Sam Karu and Anushka Idamekorala, it is widely reported as the first startup with an entirely Sri Lankan founding team admitted to Y Combinator (Fall 2025 batch).
Paloma (YC S25)
Paloma is an AI-native CRM built for everything that happens after a deal closes. Founded in 2025 by a team of former Deel operators, it pulls contracts, communications, usage data and notes into one shared source of truth so revenue, success and finance teams can spot upsells and churn risk early - and turn messy contract terms into billing that runs on its own. It was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.
Powerhouse AI
Powerhouse AI is a Y Combinator (W22) startup building an AI vision copilot for warehouse operators. Using an ordinary phone or tablet camera, its software counts boxes on pallets, reads shipping labels and logistics documents, and verifies inventory without manual data entry - aiming to make receiving, cycle counting, and shipping up to 20-40% faster while cutting human error. Founded in 2021 by Ivo Verhaegh and Kushal Pillay, the company operates between Singapore and New York.
Vetnio
Vetnio is a Swedish AI copilot that automates the paperwork of veterinary medicine. It listens to consultations between vets and pet owners, writes structured clinical notes, drafts client communications, and offers science-backed diagnostic prompts - giving clinicians back roughly two hours a day. Founded in 2024 by longtime friends Arman Karegar and Max Henry Xie, it is one of the few European veterinary companies backed by Y Combinator (W25).
Laguna Health
Laguna Health is a healthtech company building conversational AI for care teams. Its platform, anchored by the Laguna Companion co-pilot, the Laguna Insight analytics layer, and the LISA family of AI agents, listens to member calls, automates clinical documentation, and surfaces context so care managers - typically nurses - can spend less time on paperwork and more time supporting patients recovering after hospital stays. Founded in 2020 by Yoni Shtein and Yael Adam, the company serves health plans, payers, and virtual care organizations from offices in Tel Aviv and New York.
Spire.AI
Spire.AI is an enterprise AI company whose full-stack SaaS platform is powered by a single, domain-intelligent Generative Skills AI engine. Built on a live knowledge graph with more than 14 million skill-adjacency edges, it helps large organizations acquire, deploy, reskill, mobilize and retain talent in a skills-first way. Founded in 2007 by Saurabh Jain and Shweta Jain and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, the company has evolved its research into OpenKnowra, a context-intelligence layer that pairs enterprise understanding with autonomous execution.
Vitally
Vitally is a New York-based customer success platform for B2B SaaS companies. It unifies product usage, billing, CRM and support data into a single workspace so customer success managers can score account health, automate playbooks, collaborate with customers and cut churn. Its AI Copilot layers summaries, meeting notes and natural-language insights on top of that data. Founded in 2017 by Jamie Davidson and Patrick Vatterott out of Techstars NYC, Vitally has raised roughly $40 million and counts Zapier, Productboard, Mixpanel and Gorgias among its customers.
Hiver
Hiver is a customer service platform built on top of Gmail and Google Workspace. It turns shared mailboxes like support@ and sales@ into a collaborative help desk - letting teams assign emails, track status, automate workflows, and measure SLAs without leaving their inbox. Founded in 2011 (originally as GrexIt), Hiver now serves more than 10,000 organizations, including Harvard University, Flexport, and Upwork, and has expanded into AI-assisted support across email, live chat, voice, and WhatsApp.
UpCodes
UpCodes is a software company that turns the sprawling, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction world of U.S. building codes into a single searchable, always-current platform. Founded in 2016 by brothers Scott and Garrett Reynolds, it hosts more than 5 million code sections across 1,700+ state and city codes and roughly 160,000 local amendments, updated thousands of times a month. Architects, engineers, and contractors use it to look up requirements, collaborate on compliance, and - since 2023 - ask questions of Copilot, an AI research assistant fenced into the codes that actually apply to a given project and permit year.
Enzzo
Enzzo is a Seattle-based AI platform that helps hardware product teams move from idea to investment-ready in roughly half the time. Spun out of startup studio Pioneer Square Labs and led by serial founder Ford Davidson, Enzzo uses generative AI and customer-supplied data to draft product definitions, requirements, user personas, competitive analysis, risk assessments, concept images, and bill-of-materials pricing - the slow, document-heavy front end of building physical products. It raised a $3M seed round in March 2024 and counts electronics and instrumentation makers among its early paying customers.
Inventive
Inventive is a San Francisco startup building customer-facing AI that B2B SaaS companies embed inside their own products. Its first product, an embedded AI Analyst, lets a software vendor's customers use plain language to explore data, build custom reports, and act on insights. What sets Inventive apart is the layer around the agent: built-in quality and learning systems that test across accounts, catch mistakes, and propose fixes so the AI measurably improves week over week instead of degrading after a good demo. Founded in 2022 by ex-Google, Meta, and Microsoft product and platform veterans, the company launched out of stealth in June 2024 with a $6.5M seed round led by Wing VC.
Luzid
Luzid is a San Francisco-based startup building agentic AI for enterprise software implementations. Its AI agent, David, orchestrates every phase of SAP and Salesforce projects - capturing requirements from workshops, tracking scope in real time, and auto-generating test scripts. Founded in 2025 by Stanford grads Andres Carranza and Matheus Dias, Luzid targets the roughly 75% of implementation projects that run over budget or over time, and is used by SAP system integrators including Numen, delaware, NTT Data and Seidor.
qikfox Cybersecurity Systems
qikfox Cybersecurity Systems is a San Mateo, California startup building what it calls the 'tool shed for a trustworthy Internet.' Founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur Tarun Gaur after his mother lost money to an online scam, the company makes a privacy-first Smart Browser and Safe Search engine that deliver real-time scam and phishing protection, ad and tracker blocking, and biometric/PIN locks - without collecting browsing history or product analytics. qikfox claims to be the world's first browser to bake in both decentralized identity and quantum-resistant cryptography, and has since layered in an AI Copilot, 3D web, and knowledge-management features aimed at the emerging agentic web.
Canvas Medical
Canvas Medical builds programmable EMR infrastructure for the companies reinventing how care gets delivered. Its ONC-certified electronic medical record pairs a FHIR API and a Workflow SDK so clinicians and developers can extend the chart like software, then layers AI agents - led by the open-source Hyperscribe ambient copilot - that listen, document, place orders, and prep claims in real time. Founded in 2015 in San Francisco, Canvas powers primary care, behavioral health, weight loss, longevity, and other modern clinics that want their EMR to bend to their workflows instead of the other way around.
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.
Fulcrum
Fulcrum is a San Francisco AI platform that automates the unglamorous backbone of insurance brokerages - policy checking, proposal generation, certificate issuance and carrier sales prep - so account managers can scale their books of business without scaling headcount. Founded in 2023 by Arjun Mangla and Sambhav Anand, it raised $25M in combined Seed and Series A led by CRV in January 2026 and is in use at nearly half of the top 50 U.S. brokerages.
SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI builds vertical, industry-specific AI software that runs core workflows for demanding sectors - financial services, retail and CPG, manufacturing, media, and enterprise IT. Founded in 2017 by billionaire technologist Dr. Romesh Wadhwani and led by CEO Sanjay Dhawan, the Palo Alto company stitched together a string of startups and acquisitions into a single, profitable enterprise AI company built on its Eureka generative AI platform. With a roughly $500M revenue run rate, 2,000+ customers across some 40 countries, and around 2,300-2,500 employees, SymphonyAI sells ready-to-deploy AI rather than build-it-yourself tooling - and has openly signaled plans to go public.
Leapsome
Leapsome is an AI-powered people enablement platform that unifies the HR stack - performance reviews, goals and OKRs, engagement surveys, learning, compensation, and a core HRIS - in one place. Founded in Berlin in 2016 by Jenny von Podewils and Kajetan von Armansperg, it helps managers and HR teams run feedback, development, and alignment processes without juggling spreadsheets and disconnected tools. The company bootstrapped to profitability before raising a $60M Series A in 2022, and today serves more than 1,500 organizations including Spotify, Unity, and monday.com.
Bitrix24
Bitrix24 is an all-in-one online workspace that bundles CRM, project management, HR, communication, and AI automation into a single platform. Launched in 2012 and used by over 15 million organizations in 16 languages, it is the only major CRM in the world that prices per organization rather than per user - a structural bet that has made it a go-to for SMBs and growing teams that refuse to pay headcount taxes to their software stack.
Kyligence
Kyligence is the company behind Apache Kylin, the open-source OLAP engine for big data. Founded in 2016 by the project's original creators, it now sells an AI-powered metrics platform and a copilot that lets non-technical employees chat with their business numbers instead of writing SQL.
Prophecy
Prophecy is an AI-powered data engineering platform that turns visual workflows into production-grade Spark and SQL code, letting analysts and engineers build, deploy, and govern pipelines together on Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery.
Stampli
Stampli is an AI-powered accounts payable and procure-to-pay platform that centers all invoice communication, approvals, and payments around the invoice itself. Founded in 2015 by brothers Eyal and Ofer Feldman, the Mountain View company is best known for Billy the Bot, an AI agent trained on more than $150B in annual spend that codes invoices, matches POs, and flags duplicates across 70+ ERPs.