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Dari
Dari (YC F25) is a San Francisco startup building an API for reliable browser-use agents. Instead of calling an LLM on every run - which makes most browser agents slow, expensive, and non-deterministic - Dari learns a web workflow once, then caches the deterministic DOM steps so it can replay them reliably. It auto-handles 2FA (SMS codes, TOTP, email verification), detects when a site changes and adapts with AI, and exposes each automation as a versioned, stateful API endpoint. Founded by Caltech CS grads Avyay Varadarajan and Benjamin Hong.
Sudheesh Nair
Sudheesh Nair is the cofounder and CEO of TinyFish, a Palo Alto company building enterprise web agents that let AI navigate, research, and extract data from the web at scale. He grew up in a lower-middle-class family in a small town in India before a teacher's nudge toward a campus interview set him on a path to the United States. He was an early employee and president of Nutanix, where he helped scale the company from zero to more than $1 billion in revenue and a 2016 IPO, then served as CEO of ThoughtSpot, steering it from on-premises BI to a cloud-native AI analytics platform. In 2024 he cofounded TinyFish, which launched publicly in 2025 with $47 million in funding and counts Google among its early customers.
Kernel
Kernel is a San Francisco startup building browser infrastructure for AI agents and web automations. Its cloud browsers launch in a few hundred milliseconds, persist login state across workflows, and evade bot detection, letting developers point agents at the live web without operating their own browser fleet. Backed by Accel and Y Combinator, Kernel raised $22M and says it is used by thousands of teams building agents, including Cash App and Rye.
TinyFish
TinyFish is a Palo Alto-based enterprise infrastructure company building web agents that let AI reliably navigate and act on the live web at scale. Its agents log in, fill forms, extract structured data, and complete multi-step workflows across thousands of sites at once - handling tasks like real-time hotel inventory aggregation, competitive price monitoring, and market intelligence. Founded in 2024 by Sudheesh Nair, Shuhao Zhang, and Keith Zhai, the company launched publicly in August 2025 with a $47M Series A led by ICONIQ, and counts Google, DoorDash, and Fortune 500 brands among its customers.