Tagged: autonomous-agents
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Ressl AI
Ressl AI (YC W26) is a San Francisco startup building a platform to train, evaluate and deploy autonomous AI agents that do real back-office work. It began by shipping AI agents that automate Salesforce administration, then moved into deploying AI 'employees' for trades and home-services businesses - answering leads, generating estimates, procuring parts and handling the admin that clogs up field-operations offices - all on top of a company's existing software with no migration.
Ishaan Bhola
Ishaan Bhola is the Co-Founder of SuperAGI, a Palo Alto-based AI company building full-stack autonomous agent infrastructure and a next-generation AI-native CRM. A serial entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded six ventures across consumer apps, home decor e-commerce, fintech lending, account-based marketing, and now AGI infrastructure, Bhola has scaled teams to 200+ employees and built products used by millions. SuperAGI raised a $10M Series A led by WhatsApp founder Jan Koum's Newlands VC in March 2024, and has grown to $9.9M in revenue with an open-source platform boasting 15,200+ GitHub stars.
Pablo Palafox
Pablo Palafox is the Co-Founder and CEO of HappyRobot, a San Francisco-based AI workforce platform that deploys autonomous voice agents for logistics and freight operations. A Spanish-born roboticist who left a PhD program at the Technical University of Munich in 2022, he has built HappyRobot from a YC S23 startup into a company serving 70+ enterprise clients including DHL, Ryder, Schneider, and Werner - raising $103M across three funding rounds, most recently a $44M Series B led by Base10 Partners with participation from Andreessen Horowitz.
Cognition
Cognition is the San Francisco AI lab behind Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer, and the post-acquisition home of the Windsurf IDE. Founded in 2023 by three IOI gold-medalists, the company builds agents that plan, write, test and ship production code, and is reshaping how engineering teams scale.
Factory
Factory builds agent-native software development for enterprises. Its Droids - specialized AI agents for coding, reliability, product, and knowledge work - take tickets, write code, open PRs, and triage incidents alongside human engineers. Founded in 2023 by Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes, the San Francisco company raised a $150M Series C in April 2026 at a $1.5B valuation led by Khosla Ventures.
Robert Yang
Robert Yang (Guangyu Robert Yang) is a computational neuroscientist turned AI founder who left a tenure-track professorship at MIT to build Fundamental Research Labs (formerly Altera), a company creating socially intelligent AI agents. Trained in physics at Peking University, with a PhD from NYU and postdoc at Columbia, Yang became a 2022 Searle Scholar before pivoting to the startup world in December 2023. His company made waves running 1,000 autonomous AI agents in Minecraft — watching them spontaneously develop religions, trade economies, and social hierarchies — and has since raised over $45M to bring that vision into enterprise productivity tools and beyond.
Matan Grinberg
Matan Grinberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of Factory, an AI platform that deploys autonomous agents called Droids to automate the entire software development lifecycle. A theoretical physicist who dropped out of his UC Berkeley PhD program in 2023 after a fateful three-hour walk with Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire, Grinberg built Factory from a 72-hour hackathon demo into a $1.5B unicorn backed by Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, and Insight Partners. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 AI in 2025, he is one of the defining voices in the agent-native development movement.
Babak Pahlavan
Babak Pahlavan is the Founder, CEO & CPO of NinjaTech AI, the company behind MyNinja.ai — an autonomous AI executive assistant designed to handle real work on behalf of professionals. A serial entrepreneur who immigrated from Iran, earned dual honors degrees from UC Berkeley and Stanford, and sold his first AI startup CleverSense to Google in 2011, Babak spent 11 years as Senior Director of Product Management at Google leading 20+ teams before leaving in 2022 to build what he calls 'TaskGPT' — AI that doesn't just advise but actually does the work.