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Dori Wilson and the trouble with a beautiful chart
She co-founded Thorntale to help people tell stories with data. Her work since then keeps returning to a harder question: what makes a number worth trusting?
Okiemute Avworhokai’s second education
Before co-founding Miden, Okiemute Dominic Avworhokai had spent years in banking and built a student-credit business. Y Combinator gave him another education - and a sharper view of what African businesses need from their money.
Jasper Story Is Teaching AI to Sweat the Cut
A former maths teacher, Google contractor and startup generalist is turning the fussy craft of product video into a system teams can direct with words. His bet is that automation matters most when it leaves the story feeling human.
Shawn Shivdat
Shawn Shivdat is the co-founder and CEO of Penciled (YC W24), a San Francisco startup that builds an AI front office assistant for physical therapy clinics. Raised around a mother's private practice and trained in computational neuroscience at Harvard, he went from writing patient-outcome software at Massachusetts General Hospital to launching a company that fills canceled appointments and completes plans of care automatically. Penciled now serves 200+ providers across 50+ clinics and has raised over $2.6M.
Tolu Alabi
Tolu Alabi is the co-founder and CEO of Cleva (YC W24), a USD banking platform that lets freelancers and businesses across Africa get paid in dollars and shield their earnings from local currency swings. Born and raised in Nigeria, she played competitive basketball before earning degrees at Grinnell College and Stanford GSB and building products at Stripe and Amazon. She also runs Next in Line Africa, a basketball nonprofit that teaches life skills to young athletes.
Stacie Arechavala
Stacie Arechavala is a biomedical engineer and the cofounder and CEO of Selera Medical (YC W24), a San Francisco medical device startup she started in 2023 with Kevin Bui after the two met as fellows at Stanford Biodesign. She trained at the University of Miami and Duke, developed cardiovascular devices at Medtronic, and built low-cost devices for underserved communities before turning her attention to heart failure care. Her guiding line: innovation can change the world, but design is what makes it happen.
Sourav Choraria
Sourav Choraria is the co-founder and CEO of Infinity (YC W24), a Bengaluru business banking platform that helps cross-border SMBs and startups send and receive international payments with multi-currency accounts, flat fees, and no FX markup. He built it with his brother Sidharth after watching their family business lose money to slow, opaque international transfers. Before Infinity he was head of growth at Paytm Money, where he helped scale the wealth platform to 20 million monthly users and launched India's first fixed-deposit-backed credit card.
Dave Feldman
Dave Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Greenboard, a New York-based company building an AI-native operating system for financial compliance. A Johns Hopkins-trained engineer who previously led product work at Guideline and a Hive AI joint venture with Bain & Company, Feldman started Greenboard in 2023 with college friend Ed Schembor after seeing how badly financial firms struggled with fragmented, dated compliance tools. Greenboard went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and has raised $20 million total, including a $15.5M Series A led by Base10 Partners, with more than 500 financial institutions running their compliance programs on the platform.
Lina Colucci
Lina Colucci is the co-founder and CEO of LemonSlice, a frontier AI lab building the world's first real-time interactive talking video models - tech that turns a single photo into a face you can hold a live conversation with. A former professional ballerina with a Harvard-MIT PhD in medical engineering, she has founded three companies, holds patents in biosensing, and raised $10.5M from Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, Dropbox's Arash Ferdowsi, Twitch's Emmett Shear, and The Chainsmokers. She bets that all video is heading toward being interactive and personalized to whoever is watching.
Abdul Jamjoom
Abdul Jamjoom is the co-founder and CEO of Arini, a San Francisco startup building an AI receptionist that answers phones, books appointments, and handles patient communication for dental practices around the clock. A Harvard computer science graduate and former search and applied-AI engineer at the enterprise messaging company Threads, he teamed up with his high-school friend Rami Rustom - the pair met in Jordan - to attack a market they found by literally walking into dental offices and watching front desks melt down. Backed by Y Combinator (W24), Arini turns the $7B-a-year dental front-desk problem into software that, in Jamjoom's words, just gets the job done.
August Chen
August Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Hazel, a Y Combinator-backed startup building AI-native procurement software for U.S. federal, state, and local government. A Harvard mechanical engineering and computer science graduate who built wildfire-prevention software at Palantir, Chen now aims his company at the $2.7 trillion public procurement market, helping overworked civil servants draft compliant solicitations in five minutes instead of five months. Hazel counts customers from K-12 school districts to the U.S. Navy and, in 2025, signed the City of Dallas as the first major Texas city to adopt AI for procurement.
Max Hammer
Max Hammer is the co-founder and CEO of CrowdVolt, a Y Combinator (W24) startup building a bid-ask marketplace for live event tickets - pitched as 'what StockX did for sneakers, for tickets.' A Westport, Connecticut native and University of Pennsylvania graduate, he left an investment banking career at UBS to chase the rave-ticket resale problem he and his co-founders kept hitting after attending 80-plus shows in a single year. CrowdVolt launched in Brooklyn in early 2024, raised $1.4 million in seed funding from Brickyard VC, Goodwater Capital, Pioneer Fund and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, and is expanding from EDM into broader live-events infrastructure.
Max Morganroth
Max Morganroth is the co-founder and CEO of Rove, a New York fintech building the first universal airline mile - a single reward currency that users earn through travel bookings and everyday online shopping, then transfer to more than a dozen airline and hotel loyalty programs across all three major alliances. A 2025 Wharton graduate who flew to 50+ countries in business and first class on points before he could legally rent a car, Morganroth co-founded Rove with Harvard's Arhan Chhabra, went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, and landed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for making premium travel rewards reachable for the 70+ million Americans locked out of premium credit cards.
Neha Mittal
Neha Mittal is the CEO and co-founder of JustAI (formerly Just Words), a Y Combinator W24 startup in San Francisco building an AI-first marketing engine that continuously writes, tests, and optimizes copy across email, push, SMS, and landing pages. Before founding the company in 2024, she led Retention and Growth product teams at Pinterest and Twitter, where a single notification tweak - changing "Elon tweeted" to "Elon just tweeted" - added roughly 800,000 users and planted the seed for her company. A computer engineer turned product leader, she earned a master's at UC Berkeley's School of Information and has raised about $2.2M in seed funding from Cloud Capital, Peak XV Partners, and Y Combinator.
Richard Meng
Richard Meng is the co-founder and CEO of Roe AI, a Y Combinator-backed (W24) startup building an AI-powered data warehouse that lets data teams query unstructured, multimodal data - documents, images, web pages, video - with plain SQL. A UC Berkeley CS and Statistics double major, he previously led generative AI engineering at Snowflake and worked on the Skills and Knowledge Graph products at LinkedIn before founding Roe AI in 2023 to solve a problem that nagged him for a decade: the 80% of enterprise data that never gets used because it isn't in neat rows and columns.
Ryan Gallagher
Ryan Gallagher is a Stanford- and Harvard-trained physician turned founder who runs Clarion, the AI communication layer for healthcare. After helping build two breakout digital-health companies, Two Chairs and Ophelia, to $100M+ valuations, he started Clarion in 2024 to fix the unglamorous problem that swallows clinics whole: the phone. Clarion's AI agents answer the calls, texts and web chats that overwhelm front desks, handling scheduling, billing, refills and referrals end to end across 84+ EHR systems. Backed by Accel, Y Combinator and Sequoia scouts, the New York company already serves tens of thousands of patients a month.
Deniz Kavi
Deniz Kavi is the co-founder and CEO of Tamarind Bio, a San Francisco company that turns hundreds of complex computational-biology models - AlphaFold, RFdiffusion, OpenFold and more - into a point-and-click web tool and API so scientists can design drug candidates without writing code or wrangling cloud infrastructure. A Stanford computer-science graduate who did computational-biology research and engineered software at Stanford School of Medicine, he started the company in 2023 with co-founder Sherry Liu, went through Y Combinator's W24 batch, and in February 2026 raised a $13.6M Series A led by Dimension Capital. Tamarind now serves 10,000+ scientists, including 8 of the top 20 global pharma companies, and was tapped to run the inference infrastructure behind Eli Lilly's TuneLab 2.0.
Martin Hunt
Martin Hunt is the co-founder and CEO of Garage, an AI-powered marketplace where fire departments, ambulance services, and local governments buy and sell their most expensive gear - fire trucks, ambulances, rescue equipment, and surplus apparatus. A volunteer firefighter at 15 in Delaware who later worked in private equity at Goldman Sachs, Hunt built Garage after a friend in the fire service asked for help unloading old equipment and he found no good way to do it. Out of Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, Garage now operates across all 50 states and raised a $13.5M Series A in August 2025, bringing total funding to $18M.
Jeremy Suh
Jeremy Suh is a San Francisco-based software engineer and co-founder who built Browser Buddy - an AI-powered recommendation engine for high-quality internet writing - through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch. Exa, the AI search infrastructure company redefining how developers access web data for LLMs, acquired Browser Buddy in its first-ever acquisition, bringing Jeremy and co-founder Arnav Wadehra onto the team. At Exa, he works on new approaches to retrieval and web organization at a company now valued at $2.2 billion following a $250 million Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2026.
Monik Pamecha
Monik Pamecha is the Co-Founder and CEO of Toma, an AI voice platform built for automotive dealerships. A programmer since age 11-12, he published ML research in 2016, built AI at Uber, Turing.com, and Braze, and co-founded Skindex (a skincare AI startup that was acquired) before landing in the car business - almost by accident. Toma, backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz with a $17M Series A, automates inbound calls, appointment scheduling, and customer follow-ups for 100+ U.S. dealerships, handling over 1 million call minutes and approaching eight-figure ARR in under two years.