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Ambria (YC W24)
Ambria is a San Francisco startup building AI agents for the industrial world - production-ready agents that automate back-office operations across manufacturing and distribution. Founded by UIUC classmates Praneeth Guduguntla and Arman Rafati, the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, where it first launched as Glimmer, an AI search engine for massive PDFs, before turning its document-reasoning expertise toward the paperwork-heavy back offices of industrial companies.
Alex Ragir
Alex Ragir is the co-founder and co-CEO of Glimmer (formerly Storyhunter), the global content-production platform he grew from zero to a vetted network of more than 40,000 filmmakers and creators across 192 countries. Before building software, he was an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News and the Associated Press in Brazil, where he won the 2010 Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on financial crime in Latin America. He works at the seam between journalism, film, and enterprise technology, helping Fortune 500 companies hire and pay creators anywhere in the world.
Ryan Hollander
Ryan Hollander is the CEO of Glimmer (formerly Storyhunter), the all-in-one creator management platform connecting enterprises with 50,000+ vetted creators, production companies, and agencies across 192 countries. Headquartered in New York, Glimmer manages billions in corporate content spending and has produced content for clients including Meta, CNN, Bloomberg, Hearst, and Airbnb. Hollander leads the company through its evolution from a video production marketplace into a full-stack creative workforce platform backed by $11.9M in total funding.