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Abhi
Abhi is a MENAP embedded-finance company that started by letting salaried workers draw wages they have already earned before payday, and has grown into a full stack of employer-facing tools - earned wage access, payroll processing, payroll financing and invoice factoring - plus its own microfinance bank in Pakistan. Founded in 2021 by Omair Ansari and Ali Ladhubhai and backed by Y Combinator (S21), it now serves over a million people across thousands of companies in Pakistan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman, and was the first MENAP fintech named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
Stephen Igwue
Stephen Igwue is a Nigerian software engineer and co-founder of Suplias (YC S21), a Lagos-based B2B fintech that lets FMCG distributors and retailers buy inventory on credit through its Obtainly app. He leads the company as Chief Executive Officer, having earlier driven its technology as CTO, and describes his work in the language of Arthur C. Clarke: building software good enough to look like magic.
Tony Park
Tony Park is the co-founder and CEO of Stipop (YC S21), a sticker and character-content platform he launched in 2017 with his boarding-school roommate Daniel Cho. What began as a consumer sticker store in Seoul grew into a global API and SDK that lets any app add stickers with a single line of code, reaching hundreds of partners including Google, Microsoft Teams, Canva and Adobe, and generating over 200 million sticker views a month. Splitting time between Seoul and Santa Monica, Park was part of the first Korean team through Snap's Yellow accelerator before joining Y Combinator, and he has since steered Stipop toward helping independent character creators earn from their work.
Alephee
Alephee is an Argentine cloud platform that helps automotive aftermarket brands, wholesalers and distributors sell parts online across Latin America. It standardizes fragmented product catalogs, adds vehicle-fitment data, keeps prices and inventory in sync, and connects the entire distribution chain to marketplaces like Mercado Libre and Amazon so an offline reseller network can be replicated online.
AppX
AppX is a Y Combinator-backed (S21) creator economy SaaS company from India that lets educators, influencers and content creators launch their own branded mobile apps and websites to sell courses, memberships, live classes and digital products - without writing code. It bundles course hosting, payments, community tools, DRM content security and marketing into a single console that creators fully own.
Buoyant Aero
Buoyant Aero builds zero-emissions, self-flying advertising blimps and rents them out as a turnkey service. Founded in 2020 by MIT hardware engineers Benjamin Claman and Joe Figura, the company (Y Combinator S21) started out designing unmanned cargo airships for middle-mile delivery, then turned the same self-flying blimp technology into 'Blimps-as-a-Service' - electric, camera-equipped ad blimps up to 35 feet long that fly pre-planned routes over events, retail launches and conferences for brands like Amazon Prime Video.
Chari
Chari is a Moroccan B2B e-commerce and fintech company that turned the country's corner grocery stores into digital customers. Through one app, the traditional shopkeepers who form the backbone of North African retail can order fast-moving consumer goods and get them delivered in under 24 hours, keep their customer credit ledgers, accept card payments, pay bills, and tap embedded financial services. Founded in 2020 by Ismael Belkhayat and Sophia Alj, Chari was the first Moroccan startup admitted to Y Combinator (S21). In October 2025 it raised a $12M Series A - the largest in Morocco's history - and became the first VC-backed Moroccan company to win a payment institution license from the central bank, the foundation for its Banking-as-a-Service platform.
Examedi
Examedi is a Latin American digital health company that sends nurses and lab technicians to patients' homes to draw blood, run medical tests, give vaccines and connect people to doctors - booked in minutes through an app or website. Founded in Chile in 2021 and shaped in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch, it built logistics software to route clinicians the way a delivery app routes drivers, then expanded from COVID-era PCR tests into a broader home-health marketplace spanning lab work, telemedicine, nutrition, kinesiology and mental health across Chile and Mexico.
FrontPage
FrontPage is a Bengaluru-based social platform where India's retail traders and investors gather to discuss stocks, share trade ideas, and learn from one another. Backed by Y Combinator (S21) and a roster of fintech founder-angels, the app pairs stock-specific discussion forums with market tools - Nifty heatmaps, FII/DII data, NSE option chains, and a TradeLab paper-trading sandbox - and is now building an AI-assisted stock trading platform for India.
Liv Labs
Liv Labs is a women's health startup (YC S21) commercializing Pippa, a patented internal resistance spring that activates the pelvic floor during everyday movement and exercise. Founded by CEO Melody Roberts and inventor Carly Price, the company pairs the wearable with self-care coaching to help the 78 million American women living with pelvic floor weakness stay strong, active, and leak-free without clinical visits or effortful daily kegel routines.
Luable - MejorCDT (YC S21)
Luable is a Colombian fintech running MejorCDT, a marketplace that lets everyday savers compare and open fixed-term deposits (CDTs) from many banks online, commission-free. For banks, it is a cheaper, faster funding channel than opening branches or hiring salespeople. Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (S21), it has processed over USD $30M in deposits and is expanding from Colombia into Mexico and the Caribbean.
MindFi
MindFi is a Singapore-based corporate mental health platform that helps global employers care for their people. Through a single app it offers on-demand therapy and coaching, 24/7 text and chat support, guided self-care programs, and community support, matching employees to culturally relevant, multilingual providers. Founded in 2017 and a Y Combinator Summer 2021 company, MindFi positions itself as an APAC-first alternative to Western employee-assistance programs, blending clinical care with wellbeing analytics for HR teams.
NeoDocs
NeoDocs is a Mumbai health-tech company that turns a smartphone into a diagnostic reader. Users dip a paper test card in a urine sample, scan it with the NeoDocs app, and get lab-referenced results in under a minute - covering kidney, metabolic and general wellness markers. Founded by three IIT Bombay alumni and backed by Y Combinator (S21) and Omidyar Network India, it sells test kits direct to consumers and works with thousands of doctors across India.
Pideaky
Pideaky is a Monterrey-based fintech that helps offline Latin American small businesses - mostly Mexico's corner shops (tienditas) and their suppliers - manage and accelerate cash flow. It uses AI and computer vision to turn photos and videos of a shop's inventory into a credit score, then extends inventory-based financing alongside automated collection, payment and reconciliation tools. The company was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch.
Pylon
Pylon is a Cairo-based smart infrastructure platform that sells electricity and water utilities a subscription-based Smart Metering as a Service (SMaaS). Its software layers on top of any meter - old or new - to cut losses, improve revenue collection and give operators real-time visibility, all at zero upfront cost. Founded in 2017 and backed by Y Combinator (S21), Pylon runs across more than a million metering endpoints in Egypt and the Philippines.
Rivia.AI
Rivia.AI is a Bengaluru-based, Y Combinator (S21) startup that lets marketing, sales and demand-generation teams build interactive, self-guided product demos without code. Using a Chrome extension, teams capture pixel-perfect clones of their live product, layer on guided tours, checklists and video narration, then share or embed the demos and track how prospects engage. It positions itself as an affordable alternative to demo platforms like Walnut, Storylane and Navattic.
Stipop
Stipop is a sticker infrastructure company that lets any app add a searchable library of 150,000+ stickers with a single line of code, through its API and SDK. Founded in Seoul by roommates-turned-cofounders Tony Park and Daniel Cho, it grew a marketplace of thousands of global artists, powered sticker features for Google, Microsoft Teams, Canva and Adobe, and joined Snap's Yellow accelerator and Y Combinator (S21). It has since expanded toward monetization tools for character-IP creators and AI chat products.
Suplias
Suplias is a Lagos-based B2B fintech that helps FMCG distributors and small retailers in Africa buy inventory on credit. Founded in 2019 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch, it started as a marketplace connecting mom-and-pop shops with manufacturers, then leaned into its Obtainly app, which lets retailers and distributors pay suppliers, build a credit history, and access short-term inventory and LPO financing with no collateral and repayment over roughly 30 days.
Filadd
Filadd is a Córdoba, Argentina-based edtech company (Y Combinator S21) that helps Latin American students pass college entrance exams and graduate from university. Its platform blends video lessons, live tutoring, AI-powered study plans, and downloadable resources to prepare students for regional exams like Chile's PAES and Brazil's ENEM. Filadd serves more than 25,000 students a year across Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia.
Yuxin Zhu
Yuxin Zhu is the co-founder and CEO of Replo, a San Francisco low-code platform that lets ecommerce brands build high-converting Shopify landing pages without writing code. A UC Berkeley computer scientist, he first made his name building Berkeleytime, a course-scheduling tool that grew to over a million annual sessions and was acquired by the University of California. After six years engineering and managing product teams at Uber through its IPO, he reunited with college friend Noah Gilmore to launch Replo in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch. The company has raised over $8 million and onboarded thousands of brands, much of it on word-of-mouth growth.
James Dorris
James Dorris is the co-founder and CEO of Odys Aviation, a Long Beach company building long-range, hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft that take off and land like a helicopter but cruise like an airplane. A former fusion physicist who started at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, he helped build the propulsion and levitation tech at Virgin Hyperloop One before turning to flight. At Odys he is chasing aircraft that can lift off from a helipad, fly up to 1,000 miles on a hybrid system, and cut regional travel emissions sharply while serving defense, logistics, and passenger markets.
Sahil Hasan
Sahil Hasan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dots, a developer-friendly global payouts platform that has processed over $1 billion to more than 1 million gig workers, creators, and contractors in 190+ countries. A UC Berkeley EECS grad with a CMU master's degree, Sahil spent time as a Research Engineer at Google X before co-founding Dots through Y Combinator's S21 batch. The company raised an $8.9M Series A in February 2026 led by DCM Ventures, is profitable, and growing revenue 400% year-over-year.
Andrew Luo
Andrew Luo is the Co-Founder and CEO of OneSchema, a San Francisco-based data integration platform that automates CSV imports and data validation for enterprise software companies. A Stanford CS graduate who left school a year early, he cut his teeth as one of Affinity's first engineers before co-founding OneSchema in 2021 after watching customer success teams drown in spreadsheet cleanup work. Backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and Sequoia, OneSchema has raised $6.4M and serves 130+ companies including Toast, Vanta, and Scale AI. Andrew and co-founder Christina Gilbert were named Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology.