ML Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Netter centralizes and structures traditional mid-market data to deploy analytics, workflows and ML pipelines. - A nursing home group was chasing unpaid invoices manually across disconnected tools. Netter centralized the collection workflows, automated reminders, real-time visibility, task routing. - A logistics operator had trucks running empty. Netter connected their TMS, ERP and fleet data, and automated route and load optimization. Less fuel, better margins. - A retail chain had years of loyalty card data sitting unused. Netter cross-referenced it with public demographic data to build precise customer segments and trigger the right promotions to the right people.

Ndea is building frontier AI systems that blend intuitive pattern recognition and formal reasoning into a unified architecture. # AI for Scientific Advancement Unlike all life before us, humanity's ascent is a story of ingenuity, not just biological evolution. Our progress has been driven by the curiosity to acquire knowledge, the ability to pass it on, and an intrinsic drive to innovate. We build technology which gives us leverage beyond our biology. We stand at the top of a knowledge and technology colossus that we collectively created over the past ten thousand generations. Scientific progress has helped us overcome burdens that long defined human life — famines, plagues, and widespread illiteracy. Science will continue to redefine the boundaries of the human condition. Today, the acceleration of scientific progress hinges on one factor: AI capable of independent invention and discovery. This capacity is the gateway to advancements beyond our wildest imagination. # A New Research Lab We're starting Ndea — an AI research and science lab. The name - like 'idea' with an 'n' - is inspired by the Greek concepts ennoia (intuitive understanding) and dianoia (logical reasoning), capturing our first goal to merge deep learning with program synthesis. Ndea is entirely focused on developing and operationalizing AGI to realize unprecedented scientific progress in our lifetime for the benefit of all current and future generations. Building AGI alone is a monumental undertaking, but our mission is even bigger. We're creating a factory for rapid scientific advancement — a factory capable of inventing and commercializing N ideas. From our vantage point today, we see many 'known' frontiers like self-driving vehicles, drug discovery, sustainable energy, robotics, and space exploration. While AGI will benefit all of these, the most exciting adventure lies in the 'unknown'. AGI promises discoveries and progress we cannot imagine today.

What if every experiment you wanted to run could be modeled using AI? Godela is an AI-powered physics engine that gives engineers faster, cheaper replacement to simulations and physical prototypes. No set up, no wait. Just ask—and get simulation quality result.

We're creating reinforcement learning environments for training frontier models.

RunLocal is the first AI-native platform for optimizing ML model inference on edge hardware (like Nvidia Orin and Qualcomm) Our AI agent automates on-device model performance debugging and optimization. Our web platform replaces brittle validation scripts and manual experiment tracking. With RunLocal, you deploy more capable/efficient models on your target hardware with a fraction of the engineering effort. We’re working with market-leaders in autonomous vehicles, robotics, drones and smart cameras. We're backed by investors like Y Combinator and 468 Capital.

Pipeshift helps engineering teams run real-time inference in production. We offer optimized runtimes to meet latency/throughput SLAs, paired with infrastructure orchestration that auto-scales and routes workloads across clusters and regions at cost-effective rates.

Dragoneye helps devs build their custom video detection models in less than 5 minutes. These models can then be used to power apps and features that use images and videos. No more arduous process of annotating any training data or doing any machine learning work themselves. Try out our demo today at https://playground.dragoneye.ai/ !

Over 80% of maternal mortalities were preventable with earlier intervention. Currently, doctors miss >50% of moms who have life-threatening complications and wait until labor to start doing manual risk assessments, at which point it's too late. Elythea's proprietary ML models catch life-threatening obstetric complications (like postpartum hemorrhage, preeclampsia/eclampsia, emergency c-section, preterm labor, and more) as soon as the first visit. We automatically analyze relevant demographic and clinical risk factors, flag high-risk patients, and provide evidence-based interventions, giving doctors months in advance to intervene and prevent complications from ever happening. Our global clinical studies have shown that we can catch 3x more complications than clinical judgment 10x sooner.

Cair Health empowers billing companies, care management platforms, EHRs, offshore BPOs, provider groups, and specialty pharmacies with AI-driven RCM solutions. Our suite of AI Agents helps RCM teams streamline operations, reduce manual costs, and improve consistency—while maintaining full control over core workflows. Cair is trusted by 100+ practices across the country — including iconic VC-backed digital health startups, leading specialty EHRs, and some of the largest billing companies and BPOs Backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Soma Capital, Translink Capital & many others..

truemetrics helps logistics companies to find their customer's faster. By detecting and mapping entrances, we help GLS, a key logistics company in Europe, save 32.7 seconds on each delivery. The way couriers navigate is broken. “You Have Arrived At Your Destination!” — or so Google Maps thinks. In reality, the way couriers navigate is broken: No parking, hard-to-find entrances, and labyrinth-like apartment and office complexes can turn the last meters of delivery into a time-consuming puzzle. truemetrics provides parking positions and entrance locations to enable faster drop-offs. Our data is generated by analyzing sensor data from drivers' smartphones, allowing truemetrics to identify precise parking and entrance locations, thereby simplifying the last meters of delivery.

Rownd helps enterprises in regulated industries build and deploy AI applications with our open-core model, providing production-ready components for RAG systems, model fine-tuning, and prompt engineering that run entirely on-premise while maintaining complete data sovereignty. With a powerful CLI and YAML configs, teams can create differentiated AI products without vendor lock-in or ML expertise, ensuring compliance and cost control that cloud-only solutions can't match.

Emobi is a unified legal, financial, and technical infrastructure that delivers seamless, secure, and reliable EV charging across networks—powering apps, fleets, and automakers while maximizing charger utilization. Our secure, fully automated charging technology, JustPlug, works instantly with no special hardware, software, or setup, making EV charging effortless. With 122,000+ EV chargers integrated across the U.S. and Canada, Emobi is recognized as the largest EV charging ecosystem in North America. Backed by two provisional patents and 15+ enterprise customers, Emobi's technology is also trusted by the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Department of Transportation (DoT). To learn more, visit www.emobi.ai.

Telmai is a Data observability and Data Quality platform designed for Open architecture. It monitors data stored/managed in any data system, such as a data lake or data warehouse, in its raw format at scale without sampling

Our platform fixes construction's broken supply chain. 70% of construction projects finish late or over budget; procuring and managing building materials is the number 1 reason why. We use LLMs to buy and manage building materials for large construction companies. With DigiBuild, construction contractors can find, order, track and manage their materials from the supplier to the job site. We help customers save money, staff time, and improve construction project schedules. We work with the top real estate developers, general contractors, and subcontractors in the US. We manage billions in building material volume annually in the 2nd largest market in the world.

Superb AI is a leading computer vision platform and professional services provider that provides enterprise-grade, end-to-end MLOps and DataOps workflows to accelerate the adoption and development of data-centric AI. Through the practical application of AI-based automation, Superb AI helps teams manage the entire ML lifecycle more efficiently, from data annotation to curation, model training, and deployment, while ensuring optimal data accuracy and consistency.

Klarity is Enterprise AI that helps companies like OpenAI, DoorDash, CrowdStrike and Zoom bend the G&A curve. Klarity delivers two core capabilities: (1) unlimited transformation; creating a digital twin of your business to identify gaps, risks and inefficiencies, and provide valuable insights into your business in weeks instead of quarters, and (2) intelligent document processing that turns contracts, invoices, and POs into audit-ready data with 82%+ pass-through rates. Klarity reduces OpEx, boosts accuracy, and empowers CFOs to deliver board-ready ROI.

The artist-formerly-known-as Scoopler is a real-time search engine. It aggregates and organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. It does this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When users search for a topic on Scoopler, they get the most relevant results, updated in real-time. Scoopler has now become JustSpotted, a celebrity-tracking tool, meant to give fans an idea of what their favorite celebrities are up to at any given moment. JustSpotted, like Scoopler, is a data-aggregator, yet JustSpotted collects from Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare -- alongside their own data they’ll be collecting from users who actual spot celebrities in the wild. All the information we aggregate is publicly available and you can even do a search on Twitter yourself and find sightings of celebrities. We're just the first people to organize it on a map and in such a way that it's easy to consume and ENJOY.” JustSpotted is about connecting with celebs. All the sightings on our website are naturally occurring events where an everyday person bumps into a celebrity as a chance occurrence. Back in the day, when you saw a celebrity while you were out and about the first thing you would have done was phone or text a friend. In the new age of social media, the first thing you do is share it on Facebook or Twitter. This phenomena is already happening. The service, which launches the week of October 11, 2010, is the latest creation by AJ Asver, Dilan Jarawardane and Benjamin Tauber.