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The Press Release Was Supposed to Be Cheap. EZ Newswire Made It Measurable Instead.
A $25 experiment in automated press releases grew into a premium distribution platform that charges up to $1,500 a release. The interesting part is not the markup - it is what EZ Newswire learned to sell instead of vague reach.
The Browser Company Built a Browser People Loved - Then Sold the Pivot for $610 Million
Arc made browser tabs feel new, then became too novel for the audience it needed. The company’s second act - a simpler AI browser called Dia - attracted Atlassian, a $610 million deal, and a harder test: turning taste into a business.
The Curiosity Machine: How SightX Turned Slow, Expensive Market Research Into Something You Can Finish Before Lunch
For a decade, SightX chased a stubborn idea: that testing a price, a package, or an ad should not require three vendors and a month of waiting. Then it taught an AI to do the asking.
Autonomous Started With a Standing Desk. Now It Wants Your Whole Office to Think.
A New York furniture startup shipped millions of desks and chairs to more than 30 countries, then bet its next act on a stranger idea: hardware that reasons. Here is how a Kickstarter desk turned into an AI hardware workshop.
The Agency That Sent 1,000 Micro-Influencers Into Battle and Never Took a Dime of Venture Money
Mae Karwowski bootstrapped Obviously out of a Lower East Side apartment, turned down a $25 million offer, and sold to the world's biggest ad holding company. The trick was treating influencers like a data problem, not a popularity contest.
A Sister's Wedding, a Quit Job, and the App That Won't Go Free
Sharmeen Mitha-Sehgal built Appy Couple after her sister's 500-guest Mumbai wedding turned into a logistics headache. More than a decade later, it still charges couples in a market that mostly gave the software away.
The Startup That Wants to Kill the Spreadsheet Running Your Warehouse
Selling online got easy. The part after the sale - knowing what to buy, when, and how much - is still run on 1950s math and Friday-night spreadsheets. Flieber is betting AI can finally do the boring part.
The Startup That Read the Fine Print So Risk Managers Don't Have To
Commercial insurance runs on documents nobody wants to read. LineSlip built the software that reads them - and handed risk managers back control of their own numbers.
The Startup That Turns Your Idle Credit Card Points Into a Business Class Seat
Adam Morvitz spent years booking other people's dream flights by hand. point.me is his attempt to fit a decade of points obsession into a search box - and to make banks pay for it.
The Company Betting Your Next Purchase Is Already Yours
Ordergroove sells brands a simple, expensive idea: the cheapest customer to acquire is the one who already bought. Here is how a company started in a Manhattan apartment built the plumbing behind the subscribe-and-save button.
The Company That Attacks You Before the Scammers Do
AI made it cheap to clone a CEO's voice and email 10,000 employees at once. Adaptive Security's answer is to run those attacks first - as a drill - and see who clicks.
The Startup That Made Insurance Paperwork Feel Like TurboTax
Broker Buddha replaced the PDF-and-fax ritual of commercial insurance with online smart forms - and squeezed renewals from months down to about three and a half days. Then Acturis bought it to plant a flag in America.
Ambral
Ambral is a New York-based Y Combinator (S25) company building AI Account Managers for post-sale revenue teams. Its product, Cortex, synthesizes signals from product telemetry, support tickets, emails and calls into a live model of every customer account, then detects expansion and churn signals and drafts or executes the outreach - giving mid-market and SMB accounts the kind of attention normally reserved for a company's largest customers.
Arctic Health
Arctic Health is a New York healthcare startup (YC P26) that automates provider credentialing and payer contracting. It pairs credentialing experts with an AI platform to get healthcare providers in-network across all 50 states and 300+ insurance networks, handling documentation, CAQH profiles, payer submissions, rate negotiation, and ongoing compliance so clinics and health systems can get paid faster.
Bezel
Bezel is a Y Combinator (W25) startup that generates studio-quality photos and videos of apparel on photorealistic AI human models. Fashion and e-commerce brands upload a clothing image, pick a preset model, and get shoot-ready stills and video in seconds - replacing shoots that cost thousands of dollars and take days. Founded in 2025 in New York by Kashyap Achar, the company positions itself as an on-demand content engine for brands that need constant creative variety for ad testing.
Caddy
Caddy is a personal AI for everyday work that lives in your text messages and responds to voice. Built by the team that led product and design for Loom's AI suite, it connects to the tools people already use - email, calendar, Slack, Linear, Notion - and gets work done without forcing anyone to open yet another app. You text or talk; Caddy handles the tickets, reminders, scheduling and follow-ups. The company is part of Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch and is based in New York City.
Cohesion
Cohesion is a New York-based Y Combinator (P26) startup building AI agents that automate research for institutional investors. Its agentic teammate monitors the companies an analyst covers - tracking earnings, news, and non-traditional datasets like podcasts and X/Twitter - and surfaces differentiated insights purpose-built for public equity investing. Founded by ex-hedge-fund analyst Devon Krapcho with engineers from AWS and T. Rowe Price, Cohesion is already live with 10+ long/short and long-only fundamental funds managing a combined $10B+ in assets.
Datost
Datost is a Y Combinator (Spring 2026 / P26) startup founded by Maceo Cardinale Kwik and Jason Wang. It launched as 'the proactive AI data analyst' - a Slack-native agent with a semantic layer that scored 75.2% on the BIRD-Interact text-to-SQL benchmark versus 33% for a frontier model alone - and has since become an applied research lab building ED1TH, a 25-gram pair of AI AR smart glasses with no cameras, an in-lens display, and a companion smart ring. Backed by Y Combinator and OpenAI.
OneGrep
OneGrep (YC W24) is a New York-based developer-tools startup building AI agent infrastructure for DevOps. It began as a DevOps copilot that fine-tuned models on real-time telemetry to help engineers resolve incidents faster and cut observability costs, and has since expanded into tooling that lets AI agents discover, correlate, and safely operate the many SaaS and MCP-based tools engineering teams rely on. Founded by ex-Disney, Amazon, and Coinbase engineers Achintya Ashok and Brian Cripe, it went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch.
Pointwise
Pointwise is a New York fintech that tells you which credit cards to get and when, so you stop leaving rewards on the table. Founded by Ken Book and Ben Litvin and backed by Y Combinator (W23), the free app connects to a user's existing cards, analyzes their real spending, and runs it against a live database of nearly 4,000 credit cards to build a personalized, math-driven plan for maximizing cash back, points, and sign-up bonuses over time.
Roger
Roger is a New York eSignature and contract platform (YC W21) that turns clunky PDF signing into an app-like, mobile-first experience. Built for startups, SMBs, and growing sales, HR, and finance teams, it pairs reusable templates, approval workflows, smart reminders, and a searchable contract repository with pay-as-you-go pricing - positioning itself as a faster, simpler alternative to DocuSign.
Scott AI
Scott AI is a New York-based Y Combinator (Fall 2025) startup building a planning workspace where engineering teams align on what to build before their coding agents start writing code. Scott runs multiple coding agents in parallel, has them explore different design paths, and surfaces their disagreements so teams can compare tradeoffs and settle on the best spec before handing execution to tools like Claude or Cursor. Founded by ex-Coinbase engineer David Maulick and ex-Comun engineer Devin Cintron, it positions itself as a neutral, agent-agnostic decision layer for multi-agent software development.
Truffle (YC S26)
Truffle (now operating as Marble) is a New York-based Y Combinator S26 startup building an AI-native operating system for the restaurant back-of-house. It replaces the patchwork of spreadsheets, clipboards and disconnected point solutions that restaurants, cafes and bars rely on with a single system: computer vision and voice AI capture real-time inventory levels, machine-learning models forecast item-level demand, and AI agents run end-to-end workflows like procurement, invoice reconciliation, scheduling, food prep and menu engineering. Founded by Aakar Khanna (CEO) and Arjun Chaliha (CTO), it targets the billions the hospitality industry loses each year to stockouts, food waste and lost profit.
Rebag
Rebag is a New York-based online and retail marketplace for buying and selling pre-owned luxury handbags, watches, jewelry and accessories. Founded in 2014 by Charles Gorra, the company built proprietary technology - most notably Clair, an appraisal index, and Clair AI image recognition - to standardize resale pricing and pay sellers upfront. It aims to bring transparency and liquidity to what it calls an opaque secondary luxury market.
CMP.LY
CMP.LY is a New York-based social media technology company founded in 2009 to solve a then-new problem: how brands, agencies and influencers disclose material connections in compliance with FTC, FINRA, SEC and FDA rules. Its patented system of short disclosure URLs, codes and icons let marketers signal endorsements, paid posts and reviews inside a tweet or Facebook post while linking to full, audit-ready disclosures. In 2013-2014 the company expanded into monitoring, measurement and insights and rebranded its platform as CommandPost, serving Fortune 100 financial services, automotive and consumer brands.
Accrue
Accrue is a New York fintech that powers modern customer loyalty at the payment layer. Its brandable, stored-value digital wallet lets merchants take control of their payments and refunds, reward repeat customers, and reduce reliance on traditional card networks. Founded in 2021 by Michael Hershfield as a 'save now, buy later' alternative to BNPL, the company has expanded into a full-stack wallet, reward engine, pay-by-bank payments and closed-loop refunds used to lift order value and shopper frequency.
Agentio
Agentio is an AI-native advertising platform that lets brands buy, run, and measure creator ads at scale. Founded in 2023 by former Cameo president Arthur Leopold and former Spotify engineer Jonathan Meyers, it automates the end-to-end creator campaign lifecycle - matching brands with relevant YouTube (and now Meta) creators, briefing, brand-safety checks, contracting, payments, and real-time performance tracking. The company positions creator media as a programmatic channel, aiming to do for sponsored content what DoubleClick did for display advertising. It has raised $56.3M total, including a $40M Series B led by Forerunner in November 2025 at a $340M valuation.
AI One
AI One is a New York-based enterprise software company that builds an Enterprise Context Management (ECM) platform - a lightweight layer that sits beneath enterprise AI and agentic applications. Rather than forcing companies to migrate data into a new lake or warehouse first, AI One connects directly to the systems large organizations already run (Salesforce, Workday, on-premise databases, APIs and documents), resolves entities across fragmented data, and enforces security and permissions so AI operates with real business context instead of guessing. Founded in 2024 by Conor Twomey and Fergus Keenan, the company targets Fortune 500 firms in financial services, healthcare, insurance, energy and private equity, and raised $11M total including a $7M Series A led by Vestigo Ventures.
Aleph
Aleph is an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform that lets finance teams keep working in the spreadsheets they already know while syncing live data from 150+ source systems. Founded in 2020 by Albert Gozzi and Santiago Perez De Rosso and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch, the New York company pairs a web-based data platform with Excel and Google Sheets add-ins and AI that automates data cleaning, variance analysis, and reporting. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Picus Capital, and Y Combinator, Aleph serves customers including Webflow, Turo, Notion, Zapier, Harvey, and Chess.com.
Amigo
Amigo is a New York-based healthcare AI company that builds a platform for designing, training, and deploying patient-facing clinical AI agents. Using a 'digital residency' model, its agents train on millions of simulated patient scenarios before handling real interactions such as intake, triage, care navigation, and 24/7 patient support. Founded by Ali Khokhar and John Xing, Amigo integrates with major EHRs (Epic, Oracle Health, Athenahealth), operates in 100+ languages, and reports more than three million patient encounters with zero safety incidents. It raised an $11M Series A in March 2026 led by Madrona, bringing total funding to $17M.