Operations Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Modern helps IT, HR, and Finance teams automatically resolve 80%+ of high-volume requests. Teams define workflows in plain language, set approval rules and policies, and Modern handles the rest: password resets, access provisioning, expense approvals, on-boarding checklists, and more. Everything runs with full audit trails, role-based approvals, and enterprise-grade security built in. Modern works alongside your existing ITSM with no rip-and-replace required or runs as your ITSM from day one. Most teams are live in under a day. For teams that want to go fully hands-off, 100% automation via a fully managed IT services are also available.

Sidekick is an AI-powered SMS assistant for frontline workers in manufacturing, auto dealerships, and retail. The idea came from Justin's father, who owns a manufacturing facility and asked him to build a tool to help with worker onboarding, training, and organizing company knowledge. Workers text questions in any language and get instant answers from their company's documents — no app, no login, works on any phone. They can send photos of equipment for instant identification or voice memos when their hands are dirty or they're wearing gloves. Managers upload documents and record video walkthroughs; Sidekick automatically generates step-by-step tutorials and a searchable knowledge base. When Sidekick can't answer, it escalates to the manager via SMS and learns from the response, getting smarter with every interaction.

Short-term rental operators suffer from diseconomies of scale. As listing count grows, operational complexity increases exponentially, managers lose control, reviews drop, and so do rates and homeowner retention. Most are stuck between 10 and 50 listings, using 5 to 10 different software tools, none flexible enough for their needs. There is no unified data layer of their company. They navigate in the dark, reacting to problems rather than delivering hospitality. Trellis unifies everything into one platform, giving AI agents complete context over operations (communications, tasks, workforce, smart homes, bookings, accounting, revenue management) so they can orchestrate work end to end. We believe software is being commoditized. We reached feature parity with competitors in two weeks. If agents can build software that fast, then every SaaS product becomes a software builder. The vendor provides the trellis: the fixed infrastructure. The AI grows the vines: dynamic features, workflows, and interfaces that adapt to each customer. No more adapting to the tool. The tool adapts to you. But the real value is not in what the agent does for one company. It is in what it learns across all of them. Every workflow that works, every SOP that survives contact with guests, every resolution pattern that prevents a bad review feeds back into the network. The agent shares best practices, battle proven SOPs, and guest intelligence across companies. This creates a network of property management brands where the experience is designed by humans and ensured by software. Quality becomes predictable. Scale becomes unlimited. Hospitality is no longer a people problem, it is a software problem. Airbnb built the marketplace. We are building the machine that runs it.

Most B2B churn is preventable - most teams just see it too late. By the time a CSM notices, the champion has already quietly disengaged, key features went unadopted, and the renewal conversation is damage control. The dangerous part? The customer might still be logging in, but they've stopped using what actually matters. Userlens catches all of that months earlier. Our AI agents monitor every user at every account the way your best CSM watches your top five strategic accounts: - feature adoption - usage trends - champion engagement - sentiment shifts in Slack and Intercom - open support issues. When a signal hits (churn risk, renewal, expansion opportunity), Userlens doesn't just alert you. It builds the talking points and deck on top of your team's approved templates and playbook. If you have CSMs, Userlens makes every one of them your best. If you don't have one yet, Userlens runs your book like the best CSM money could buy.

Ontora gives C-suite leaders AI agents that interview every employee to uncover process bottlenecks across their organization. Consultants spend months doing this manually; Ontora does it in hours

Callab AI - AI voice agents for contact centers. Over half the world's contact center infrastructure still runs on legacy telephony (CUCM, on-prem PBX, carrier-grade SIP) - a $70B+ market where current AI voice platforms can't natively integrate. We plug into these environments without requiring a rip-and-replace. We serve clients across three continents, including brands like DunkinDonut.

Korso builds AI agents that handle the operational work manufacturers still do manually, including processing RFQs, following up on quotes, coordinating with suppliers, and keeping production on track when things go wrong. Our agents plug into your existing ERP and CRM, understand your workflows, and act on your behalf: triaging incoming requests, chasing delayed orders, notifying customers, and escalating only when human judgment is truly needed. We built Korso around the reality that enterprise systems cannot afford mistakes. Every agent action passes through verification layers, tools are scoped, and critical operations go through dry-run validation and secondary review. Full audit trails mean you can see exactly what was done, why, and when. Most AI automation breaks down at the ERP integration layer. Korso's orchestration is built for the messiness of real manufacturing systems, with long-running workflows that span weeks and checkpointing that never loses progress. Instead of replacing your systems, Korso makes them work harder, so your team spends less time on coordination and more time on the work that actually matters.

Fortune 500 companies and the fastest-growing manufacturing firms use Arzana’s AI platform to automate order entry, quoting, and customer updates. So teams can scale faster, respond sooner, and grow without adding overhead.

Autostep is a desktop app installed across your organization to surface repetitive, high-cost tasks that fly under the radar. We rank them by cost and impact so you know what's worth automating, then build or find the right fix - whether that's an AI agent, a process change, or an existing tool.

MochaCare is an agentic management service for care organizations. We handle hiring, scheduling, and client intake end-to-end so our partners can focus on growth.

EigenPal.com automates your document processing workflows with AI. KYC docs, invoices, claims, shipping forms, contracts, receipts, loan docs - we automate that. Works on messy scans, handwritten forms, third-party docs. Powerful workflow builder and team functionality. On-prem ready or use our cloud.

Haladir is the operational AI layer for logistics. We unify data across WMS, TMS, OMS, etc., deploy event-driven agents with execution authority, embed solver-grade optimization into 3PL and distributor operations, and produce RL environments for frontier AI labs. Today's AI brought intelligence. The next frontier is judgement. We define operational superintelligence as AI that consistently makes maximally-optimal operational decisions in complex environments. The first component is speed: continuous decisions that take operations managers and OR analysts weeks to make, in seconds. The second is reliability: every decision is guaranteed to satisfy operational constraints. The third is scope: optimize across thousands of constraints no human or team could possibly reason about.

Bubble Lab turns natural language into visual, production-ready workflows — built for modern ops teams, with built-in observability, logs, and execution traces. Deploy to Slack in one click so your team can build and run workflows from anywhere.

Corvera (YC W26) is the AI agent workforce for CPG back-office. We help brands increase profits by up to 40% by deploying digital workers that run their operations on autopilot. As of mid-March 2026, we scaled from $0 to $33k in MRR in 4 weeks, are serving 12 brands, and are growing 130% week-on-week. With Corvera’s AI agents, brands can: - Process orders end-to-end without lifting a finger - Forecast demand in real time - Automatically process purchase orders and prevent stockouts - And much more. We're founded by Chris (2x Founder; ex-CEO at Better Nature; Forbes 30U30), Dirk (ex-Google Data & AI Lead), and Matthew (ex-Head of Product at Rosemark; Princeton MEng in CS). Our mission is bold: to give CPG brands hands-free supply chains that run themselves through Corvera, their go-to AI-native operating system. Our vision is even bolder: to be the orchestration layer of the $5.4T global CPG industry. Visit www.corvera.ai to learn more!

Mantle connects to all your tools: your CRM, Mail, Calendar, Payments, Product Analytics, and more. With just one prompt, you can create agents that handle back office work for you. These agents can automate reports and email them to you, drafts emails right in your email client, generates pre-meeting research directly in your calendar event, and much more. They run quietly in the background, react to changes in real time, follow a schedule or work when you chat with them. You didn’t start up to stay stuck in admin. Turn your company AI-native with Mantle.

*Eliminate your Finance Operations grunt work!* ⚡Computer Agent logs into existing systems (e.g., ERP, Accounting, other CFO systems) ⚡Automates Finance processes (e.g., pricing, billing, month-end) ⚡Uploads & submits in your system (e.g., create journal entry) *The Blockers ➜ Your Finance Systems:* Finance Operations is buried in repetitive tasks, driving: ❌ Lack finance visibility for decision-making ❌ Wasted time by in-house or outsourced teams ❌ Mistakes and delays from human-driven processes Barriers to FinOps automation have included: 🚨 Legacy ERPs with limited AI 🚨 Authentication-protected websites & portals 🚨 Too many Finance Systems that lack full integrations It doesn’t have to be this way. ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ *The Breakthrough ➜ Zalos:* Zalos Agents run your rule-based processes, using your existing Finance applications: ⭐ Our agents automate processes based on simple instructions (e.g., Screen Recording, PDFs) ⭐ Native handling of ERPs or other applications (e.g., 2FA, Captcha) ⭐ Superior performance from our FinOps libraries (e.g., Data Extraction & Harmonization, Reconciliation, etc.) Customer story: FROM: In the Bay area, a Finance Manager was wasting 8 days (!) per month: ✖️ Downloads transactions from Corporate Credit Cards & legacy Banks ✖️ Uploads into NetSuite and manually categorizes 100s of transactions USING ZALOS: Finance Manager schedules ‘run process’ weekly: ✔️ Zalos handles 2FA to download & submit required transactions ✔️ Zalos operates NetSuite to categorize >60% outstanding transactions * No browser required: Zalos works silently in the background, whilst continuously improving itself. Gaining 2 days per week was transformational. The Finance Manager could 🟪 Reduce financial risks with closer inspection (e.g., debt covenants) 🟪 Catch cash leakages by spotting suppliers being paid at generous terms 🟪 Be a strategic partner to the CEO & business with better analysis ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ Zalos transforms your Finance Operations: ☑️ Scale without headcount - don’t let Operations teams be a bottleneck ☑️ Smarter every day, with evals & RL-finetuning driving a self-performing system ☑️ Built for Enterprise-grade security and screen records every automation for audit ➡Interested? Request demo here: https://www.zalos.ai/contact-us

RowFlow replaces clunky web forms with natural conversations that run over text, slack, or wherever your users are. Our platform increases your form’s response rates while cutting your internal overhead in half. With RowFlow, you can take any existing form and instantly convert it into an AI-powered conversation. New flows launch in minutes and reach respondents over your preferred channel or embedded chat. We guide the exchange, follow up automatically, and return clean structured data without extra work from your team. Forms power billions of business interactions yearly. Whether it’s forms for client intake, registrations, compliance, feedback, or surveys, they all follow the same painful pattern: low conversion, messy data, and frustrated users. Teams have long tolerated forms only because there's been no scalable alternative for collecting structured information from people - until now. Our goal is for RowFlow to become the new default way for how organizations collect user data in an AI-first world.

Tesora builds AI-native software for insurance underwriting and actuarial teams. We forward deploy into MGAs/ Carriers to connect disparate systems, encode expert workflows, and eliminate the spreadsheet and email bottlenecks constraining growth, specifically focused on freeing up actuaries (to build a more profitable book!)

Pollen is building AI agents that autonomously improve retention. Pollen monitors every customer account to detect back-tested churn and upsell signals by connecting to your communications, support tickets, product usage, and CRM. Then, Pollen tells your team exactly which accounts need attention today and decides what to do next.

Smartbase automates order entry for manufacturers. Today, incoming purchase orders are still entered into the ERP by hand. This often requires multiple full-time employees, even at small manufacturers. Smartbase removes this manual work by automatically converting incoming purchase orders into ERP orders. We’ve worked on factory floors, sat side-by-side with employees to learn their workflows, and even slept at a factory. We’re now onboarding our first customers onto five-figure annual contracts. This is our wedge into automating the $26 billion clerical labor market in U.S. manufacturing. Sam previously founded a DevOps platform that raised $2M. Taira was the youngest SDE 2 at AWS SageMaker Inference, where he built AI infrastructure for enterprises such as Salesforce.

Socratix builds AI coworkers for fraud and risk teams so that humans don't have to spend their days drowning in alerts and spreadsheets. Today, fraud and risk teams at fintechs and banks are overwhelmed. Analysts jump between tools, manually stitch together context, and make judgment calls under pressure, often for hundreds of alerts a week. Too much of their work is slow, repetitive, and error-prone. We're here to change that. Socratix gives fraud and risk teams AI coworkers that investigate alerts in real time, replacing manual reviews with fast, explainable decisions. Socratix agents plug into existing workflows and reason across signals just like human analysts to help teams reduce fraud losses, minimize false positives, and scale operations without scaling headcount. We've seen this problem firsthand. At DoorDash, Riya helped save $30M+ a year by building smarter fraud detection and investigation tooling, and at Unit21, she built products for analysts that made them 3X faster. We're able to build and sell enterprise-grade software. At Cruise, Satya built scalable AI systems powering petabyte-scale data, and at LinkedIn, he built enterprise products from 0 to 1 generating $50M+ in incremental revenue. Now, the two of us are teaming up to eliminate the manual toil in fraud and risk. We're obsessed with fraud, LLMs, real-world automation, and the messy edge cases traditional ML has trouble handling. We believe that every fraud analyst should have an AI coworker - and the future of fraud will involve combining human-level reasoning with machine-speed execution.

End-to-end accounting workflows executed by AI agents. - Invoice capture + upload to ERP/POS - Invoice payment + reconciliation - Tax filings - CFO insights on demand

Atlog creates voice agents with built-in compliance. Companies use Atlog to automate their calls and texts without worrying about getting sued.

SalesPatriot is a back-office operating system for defense firms. It helps you find, review, and bid on RFQ solicitations, both directly with the Pentagon and as a subcontractor. US Government procures billions of dollars worth of parts and products every year, yet the procedure is riddled with red tape and repetitive, manual work. Nelson worked at a manufacturing firm during his gap year prior to attending Berkeley. As the Chief of Staff, he witnessed first-hand the tedious process of finding great contract opportunities, the lengthy solicitation preparation process, and paper-based communication between departments. He teamed up with Ben and Maciej, whom he met during Berkeley's M.E.T. admit day. Both of them had extensive experience in AI research and applications, which they applied to creating a powerful framework for humans and AI agents to collaborate during the lifecycle of a contract. With SalesPatriot, your firm can run on autopilot - we find suitable contracts automatically, ingest RFQs from primes, streamline the communication between the departments, and provide analytics to improve your win rate. Wether you are a manufacturer, reseller, or distributor, SalesPatriot can reduce your manual tasks, increase throughput, and boost your revenue.

Paragon is the AI growth engine for distributors and manufacturers, freeing up staff and growing revenue on autopilot.

Crouton is the living map of your organization. It’s for founders and operators at growing companies who need to understand how people, teams, roles, and ownership actually fit together. Today they piece this together from org charts, Notion docs, spreadsheets, Slack, and memory and then redo it every time something changes.

Rulebase builds AI coworkers that help banks and fintechs review 100% of customer interactions in real time. Our agents flag compliance breaches, high-risk issues, and quality gaps across calls, chats, and emails — then route them to the right teammates. The result: up to 30% fewer escalations and QA cycles reduced from hours to minutes.

AI procurement agents built for European enterprises. Automate intake, supplier onboarding, contracts, order tracking, and 4-way match.

Expanding to other geographies and marketplaces is a massive growth lever for brands and manufacturers, but it’s complex and resource-intensive. Omnidock makes it effortless for merchants to sell on multiple marketplaces by acting as their merchant of record. Brands simply plug into our operating system, which reads their catalog, assesses marketplace eligibility, and auto-launches their products through our pre-vetted marketplace accounts. We handle all transactions on their behalf, removing the challenges and complexities of multi-marketplace selling

Callback is AI-native business process outsourcing. We help our customers stay focused on their core business while we use AI to automate tasks like invoice processing, PDF report parsing, and data labeling.

Lucible is a combined checking and investment account that allows you to invest 100% of your money while still being able to spend it. Whenever you spend, we issue a loan in real time, using your investments as collateral, to cover the cost. This is the most capital and tax efficient way to manage your money. It's what the ultra wealthy already do to finance large purchases, and now you can do it for every day spending.

Residential contractors are drowning in office work. Drillbit automates all of it. We use AI receptionists and an LLM based quoting tool on top of our own CRM to entirely manage jobs from lead, to quote, to scheduling, to staffing, and even collecting payment.

Consumer enterprises have millions of customer support tickets annually. They need to constantly evaluate support agents’ performance and compliance. Typically they evaluate less than 5% of those interactions manually which is slow, expensive and not scalable. Intryc's AI can evaluate 100% of all customer interactions, in real time, at half the cost.

Mica's AI agents replace the data ops teams fixing bad data. When bad or missing data breaks the pipeline, and orchestration, retries, and monitoring fail, painful manual review work kicks in, pulling humans in to investigate and patch data issues across systems. Mica does what those humans do: gathering the right information from internal docs and external systems, reasoning across context, and resolving errors autonomously to get the pipeline moving again. The result: dramatically reduce time, cost, and operational drag as your data pipelines scale without scaling ops headcount. Mica turns judgment-heavy data fixes from a manual bottleneck into an automated background process with full auditability.

Set up Parahelp in just 1 day without engineers to resolve your complex support tickets end-to-end. It connects with your existing ticketing system (such as Zendesk, Intercom, Front), tools (like Stripe, Slack, Linear), knowledge, and procedures.

Superunit deploys AI voice and email agents to complete employment verifications for background check companies—faster, cheaper, and more compliant than internal teams or outsourced call centers. Our agents call and email employers, collect verification data, and log every interaction for audit and compliance. Customers are replacing manual workflows with Superunit to scale without adding headcount or compromising quality. We work with background screeners and banks to process thousands of verifications per month.

Triply (Formerly Tripitaca) is the operating system for travel businesses in Africa. We eliminate operational chaos by unifying payments, Invoicing, payroll, accounting, operations, and more into a single platform allowing travel businesses to execute and sell more efficiently.

CommodityAI builds intelligent automation agents for some of the most operationally complex businesses in the world: physical commodity traders. In trading operations, critical data is often buried in spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, and legacy systems — making workflows slow, error-prone, and overly manual. CommodityAI acts as a digital operator, continuously reading, interpreting, and updating information across the trade lifecycle to keep records accurate and systems in sync. Our agents extract and validate key details from trade confirmations, contracts, vessel updates, and more — turning scattered, unstructured data into clean, structured records that flow directly into CTRMs, ERPs, and other core platforms. No manual entry required. By automating what others still do by hand, we help trading teams move faster, reduce risk, and focus on the decisions that matter most.

Saga AI deploys voice agents for healthcare practices, ACOs, and health systems to handle scheduling, patient intake, and care gap outreach. Agents connect directly to your EHR in real time.

Want to apply AI to your IT Helpdesk queue? Risotto helps you grant software access, limit access/permission grants by time, serve knowledge, and get approvals from people like managers. All using natural language directly in chat (AKA "ChatOps") IT teams spend too much time manually provisioning software and answering the same question repeatedly. We help them improve resolution times, reduce SaaS spend, and enhance security with 24/7 automated software access and IT support. Check us out at: https://www.tryrisotto.com

The AI-native Customer Intelligence Platform purpose built for post sales teams. Wavelength brings your entire customer data stack into one place - with powerful AI agents that uncover important signals and act instantly

At Toma, we are building the AI software suite for underserved industries, starting with Automotive. We started as a voice AI infrastructure company and still are our own biggest customer to this day. Our product empowers hundreds of businesses with a world-class AI receptionist and customer support platform. Toma’s AI agents engage in thousands of customer interactions every day and generate millions of dollars worth of revenue. Why Automotive first? It is a sleeping giant contributing trillions of dollars to the GDP. The industry and its processes are ready for disruption. Toma is bringing AI to all operations in the industry while working hand-in-hand with some of the biggest names, such as the Car Dealership Guy, and public companies like Lithia Motors and AutoNatio. Toma is backed by the best investors in Silicon Valley, including Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator.

Carma is building an AI-native platform that transforms fleet operations from tedious, manual work into effortless, automated workflows. We’re the fastest-growing company in fleet management software. Carma already powers some of the largest fleets in the U.S., including Fortune 500 clients, saving operations teams thousands of hours by eliminating busywork and keeping vehicles on the road. Backed by Soma Capital, Y Combinator, founders of Superhuman, and Tier-1 investors, we raised our $5.5M seed and are sprinting toward a Series A in 2026. We’re hiring the top 0.1% of engineers who want real ownership and impact—starting Day 1, you’ll build and ship fast to production for enterprise clients. Fleet operations run in real time, so your work is immediately used in the field and gets real customer feedback in hours, not months.

Salvy is a mobile carrier for businesses in Brazil. Over 1800 companies use Salvy to manage over 20,000 mobile lines, cutting costs by over 50%. The founders have worked many years together in Brazil's largest fintechs (Nubank and EBANX). Today, every carrier in Brazil has roughly the same network quality - it isn't a differentiator. If you're an IT manager who needs to deploy 2k lines, you want an integrated and seamless solution. You need to deploy this resource, fast. Salvy provides a software layer that makes deploying and managing mobile lines a fast and efficient process, integrated with HRIS, ERPs, and others. This is a massive market: there are 55 million b2b mobile lines in Brazil, which adds up to 5 billion dollars in ARR in just one country.

Automate and strengthen manual risk and compliance operations for fintechs and banks. Given a third party contracts and documentation, Kobalt’s reasoning engine ingests internal policies and procedures, legal commitments, past privacy and compliance assessments, and syncs with external legislation to instantly auto-surface and track risks. We're helping community/regional/sponsor banks increase revenue and scale their partnership and vendor volume, and we're helping fintechs conduct their partner diligence in 1/10 the time, all without needing to increase headcount.

Elyos AI is a fully autonomous AI Agent, built specifically for trades and field services businesses.

Nowadays is an AI copilot that automates the boring parts of planning corporate events and retreats. For example, our AI can contact venues by email and phone to get availability, deal with back-and-forth negotiations, and present the best options.

Parea AI is the essential developer platform for debugging and monitoring every stage of LLM application development. We provide testing, evaluation, and monitoring in one unified platform. These capabilities help developers get visibility into LLM responses, quickly test and optimize prompts, and ensure customers get the best user experience.

Zudo.work builds and deploys AI agents that automate customer support, sales, and authorization workflows for warranty administrators in the home and auto markets. Our agents integrate across voice and internal system to handle high-volume service operations such as claims processing, coverage inquiries and authorizations — improving speed, accuracy, and operational efficiency.