Lior Abutbul is an AI practitioner and newsletter writer focused on the frontier of agentic AI systems. Through the Agentic AI Weekly newsletter, Lior breaks down how autonomous AI agents work, where they're headed, and how builders and operators can put them to use today.
Sabrina Ramonov is a Filipina-American AI educator, serial founder, and creator on a mission to teach 10 million people AI for free. A UC Berkeley CS and Physics graduate and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumna (2018), she co-founded and sold Qurious.io (AI speech analytics) to Pegasystems for $10M+ in 2021, then rebuilt from burnout to grow 2M+ followers and 500M+ views in roughly one year — solo, with zero budget, no team, and no paid ads. She runs the Sabrina Ramonov newsletter on Substack (194K+ free subscribers), creates ~250 pieces of content per week, and solo-built Blotato.com, a social media automation SaaS with 1.4M+ website visitors. In March 2026, she launched Women Build AI, a selective free community for women founders building with AI.
Wayco is a New York-based AI operator built for the medlegal industry, automating the full lifecycle of personal injury and medical-legal cases from first intake call to settlement. Founded by 19-year-old Tajikistani prodigy Iqbol Temirkhojaev - who had his first VC-backed startup at 13, his first exit (to the United Nations) at 14, and a software patent at 15 - Wayco uses voice AI and intelligent case coordination to replace the days of phone calls and paperwork that currently define medical case management. Backed by Y Combinator (W26) with $500K in seed funding, the company is positioning itself not just as a software vendor but as an AI-native law firm that expands access to justice for Americans.
Wayline is an AI voice and text platform purpose-built for property managers. Branded as 'Operator,' it replaces the receptionist, leasing agent, and maintenance coordinator with a single always-on AI that answers calls and texts 24/7, converts leads, books showings, triages maintenance requests, dispatches vendors, and closes tickets - all without a human lifting the phone. Backed by Y Combinator (S25) and built by two repeat founders with deep roots in real estate and enterprise software, Wayline targets the 46 million rental units in the US where overworked property teams are perpetually one missed call away from a vacancy.
Zalos builds computer agents that automate repetitive finance operations - from reconciliation to accounts payable - without replacing existing systems. Instead of API integrations, its agents learn directly from screen recordings and then log into ERPs like NetSuite, SAP, and Sage the same way a human would, handling 2FA, navigating screens, and maintaining full audit trails. A Y Combinator Fall 2025 company, Zalos raised $3.6M seed to put invisible finance workers inside the software CFOs already use.
Zarna is building the first cohort of AI associates for private capital - autonomous agents that plug directly into a firm's data and work like a deal team that never sleeps. Founded by four UC Berkeley alumni who were previously forward-deployed engineers at AEA Investors, Zarna automates the grunt work of private equity: tearing down CIMs, building LBO models, drafting IC memos, updating CRMs, and surfacing warm introductions. Backed by Y Combinator (F25), the platform recovers ~80 hours per week for 15-person deal teams and promises full ROI in under 90 days.
Zatanna is a Y Combinator W26 startup that turns software into agent-first APIs. Most AI agents are stuck navigating clunky UIs to interact with systems that never built a proper API - Zatanna fixes that by observing a workflow once, reverse-engineering the underlying HTTP request sequence, and serving it as a clean, reliable endpoint. No browser scripts, no screen-scraping fragility: just fast, production-grade API access to legacy ERPs, insurance portals, marketplaces, and any operational software your agents need to talk to.
Zavo is building the AI-powered operating system for restaurants and hospitality businesses. Founded in May 2025 by Can Zehebi and Ilkan Gezer and backed by Y Combinator (F25), Zavo replaces the patchwork of disconnected tools most restaurant operators rely on - separate POS, payments, reservations, and marketing software - with a single unified platform that uses agentic AI to automate finance, operations, and customer engagement. With 800+ businesses on the platform less than a year after launch, Zavo is moving fast in a market dominated by legacy incumbents.
Roy Rapoport is a veteran engineering leader and writer whose work has quietly reshaped how tech companies think about people, reliability, and operational culture. Best known for his two stints at Netflix (where he built Insight Engineering and its operational platform) and a stint at Slack, Roy popularized the Manager README format and authored influential frameworks on feedback, trust, and performance improvement. He writes on Medium about the subtler mechanics of leadership, raises goats in California, and insists he will never retire.
Zapier is the world's leading workflow automation platform, connecting 9,000+ apps so businesses can automate repetitive tasks without writing a single line of code. Founded in 2011 by three University of Missouri graduates, it became a $5 billion company on just $2.68 million in funding - one of the most capital-efficient growth stories in tech. Today, 69% of Fortune 1000 companies use Zapier, which has processed over 81 billion automated tasks and is rapidly evolving into a full AI orchestration platform.
Zeroframe is the company behind Andoria, an AI-powered customer onboarding agent that learns how web applications work and generates personalized walkthroughs for users who get stuck. Founded in San Francisco in 2024 by Daryl Budiman and Anirudh Ramprasad - two former MultiOn engineers who helped scale that AI startup to a triple-digit million-dollar valuation in under nine months - Zeroframe's flagship product drops into any web app with a single script tag and autonomously shows users exactly what to do, reducing churn by turning confusion into clarity.
Zoho CRM is the flagship product of Zoho Corporation, a bootstrapped Indian SaaS powerhouse founded in 1996 that has never taken external funding yet grown to over $1.4 billion in annual revenue and 1 million+ paying customers. Zoho CRM is a cloud-based customer relationship management platform used by 250,000+ businesses in 180+ countries, offering AI-powered sales automation, marketing automation, and omnichannel communication—all at a fraction of competitor pricing. Zoho Corporation's wider suite of 55+ integrated business applications makes it one of the most comprehensive software vendors in the world, competing simultaneously with Salesforce, Microsoft, Google, and SAP while championing privacy, rural employment, and long-term independence over short-term shareholder returns.
Harper (YC W25) is an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage that turns the $100B+ industry of email and spreadsheets into a fully autonomous engine for Main Street America. Co-founded by Dakotah Rice and Tushar Nair — two Goldman Sachs alumni who swore they'd never work in insurance — Harper uses its internal AI platform, Harper Hub, to automate form completion, carrier matching across 160+ carriers, underwriter follow-ups, and client communications. The result: 1–2 day quotes instead of 5–7, 85% success rate on traditionally 'uninsurable' cases, 5,000+ businesses covered across 35 states, and 1,000+ customers handled per month versus 20–30 for a typical human brokerage. Backed by $54M in total funding led by Emergence Capital, Peak XV, and Y Combinator. Named after Dakotah's mother's maiden name.