growth
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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.
Sherpa
Sherpa is a San Francisco startup building an AI agent that makes websites improve themselves. It installs with a single line of code, studies how visitors behave, generates on-brand variants of pages and flows, runs A/B tests on live traffic, and ships the winners - all without a designer, developer, or analyst in the loop. Founded in 2026 by ex-Lindy engineers Ethan Kinnan and Norbu Sonam and backed by Y Combinator (Spring 2026 / P26 batch), Sherpa also optimizes sites for AI agents, tuning agent-facing pages so that assistants recommend a company more often. Early customers report 15-35% lifts in their primary conversion metric within the first 30-60 days.
The Hog
The Hog is a San Francisco startup from Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch that packages people data, company data, web search, news, social signals, sentiment, and scraping behind a single pay-per-call API for AI agents and go-to-market teams. It routes each request through multiple data providers using waterfall logic, positioning itself as one endpoint that replaces a stack of tools like Clay, Apollo, Exa, and Tavily. Founded by growth operator Hudson Liao and AI engineer Paulo Nascimento, it aims to compress market research and outreach from hours into minutes.
Kular
Kular is a London-based, Y Combinator-backed AI lead generation platform that finds and books qualified customers for businesses over email, LinkedIn, and AI voice - and only charges when it works. Instead of selling software seats or campaign hours, Kular runs the outreach itself and bills per positive reply or booked meeting, aligning its revenue with the results it delivers. The platform serves over 1,000 companies and is built by a team of MIT, Cambridge, and Oxford graduates.