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FirstWork
FirstWork is a San Francisco-based, YC S24 enterprise AI company building autonomous agents that automate workforce operations for frontline and seasonal labor. Its platform handles document verification, credentialing, continuous compliance, and worker onboarding inside a company's existing systems, cutting time-to-hire and onboarding by up to 80%. Founded in 2024 by Vardhan Kapoor (ex-Remitly, Deliveroo) and Shubham Choudhary (ex-Deel, Rippling), FirstWork raised a $5M seed round led by Gradient and serves staffing, logistics, delivery, and care companies including Deel, Job&Talent, Relay, and Wonolo.
Arrow
Arrow is a New York-based healthcare technology company building an AI-powered operating system for revenue cycle management (RCM). Formerly known as Walnut and often described as 'Stripe for healthcare,' Arrow helps healthcare organizations reduce claim denials, accelerate collections, and run billing, claims, and payer communications from a single platform. Founded in 2020 by Roshan Patel and Yash Joshi, the company emerged from stealth in 2024 with $110M in Series A financing led by Gradient Ventures.
Arva AI
Arva AI builds enterprise-grade AI agents that do the manual grunt work of financial crime compliance - screening, KYB/KYC onboarding, and transaction monitoring - for regulated banks and fintechs. Its agents autonomously resolve the majority of alerts and reviews (roughly 91% of screening alerts, 87% of KYB/KYC assessments, and 86% of transaction-monitoring alerts), cutting onboarding times from days to seconds and compliance operations spend by up to 80%. Founded in 2024 by Rhim Shah and Oli Wales and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, the New York-based company raised a $3M seed round led by Google's Gradient Ventures in January 2025.
Cake
Cake is a New York-based startup that bundles the sprawling open-source AI stack into a single managed platform, so companies - especially in regulated industries like finance, insurance and healthcare - can deploy AI inside their own cloud without wiring together 100+ tools by hand. Founded in 2022 by Misha Herscu and Skyler Thomas and launched from stealth in December 2024 with a $13M seed led by Google's Gradient Ventures, Cake handles the integration, security, governance and cost-monitoring glue around open-source components like LangChain, Ray, MLflow and vector databases, all deployed inside a customer's own VPC so data never leaves.
Humata
Humata is an Austin-based AI company that lets people upload files and ask questions about them in plain English, returning answers with clickable citations that point back to the exact passage in the source document. Often described as 'ChatGPT for your files,' it targets professionals in legal, finance, healthcare, and research who need to extract insight from dense, unstructured documents without reading every page. Founded in 2022 by Cyrus Khajvandi and Dan Rasmuson, the company raised a $3.5M seed round in October 2023 led by Google's Gradient Ventures with participation from Cathie Wood's ARK Invest and M13.