AI (Artificial Intelligence) Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in India 2026

Hardware teams burn weeks on procurement. An engineer needs a part. Someone emails five distributors, chases quotes, gets an approval, wires the money, tracks a shipment across three carriers, clears customs, and then nobody knows where the box is or what's actually on the shelf. Waybill runs that entire loop. Send us a part, a spec, or a BOM. We source it, pull quotes, route approvals, pay the supplier, handle freight and customs, track it to your dock, and keep your stock count updated. Take your supply chain for granted. Built by a team that's seen it at LAT Aerospace and WareIQ (YC S20).

Ressl AI helps teams bridge the gap from prototype to production by providing the platform needed to train, benchmark, and deploy autonomous agents that actually work in real-world business systems.

Perseus takes an iterative branching approach to search in high dimensional spaces. Our first product helps coding agents find the right codebase context before they write. It searches files, symbols, and dependencies in parallel, so models can make better changes with less trial and error. Perseus Search gives Mythos-level programming ability to Opus-level coding agents.

Redapto builds the intelligence that runs the real world, closing the gap between understanding and execution. By combining real-time context, specialized AI agents, and adaptive orchestration, Redapto takes ownership of complex, mission-critical operations from end to end. Acting as an always-on operational brain, it coordinates across people and systems, improves every decision, and grows more capable with every task.

Bolna handles the complexity of voice infra, so enterprises can automate calls faster, better, and cheaper, at scale Bolna is a Voice AI Orchestration platform purpose-built for Indian enterprises. Businesses in India run tens of thousands of calls every day - across sales, support, collections, recruitment, and more. Bolna gives them the power to build and deploy Voice AI Agents directly from their transcripts and FAQs, so they can start automating calls immediately. With Bolna, enterprises get: 1. Full control over agent intelligence, tone, and workflows 2. Cost efficiency at scale with smart routing across providers and price points 3. Enterprise-grade performance on latency, interruptions, multi-language, and multi-accent understanding

SureBright lets e-commerce merchants embed "Apple Care” like product warranties into their checkout flows in less than 10 minutes. Our AI-powered warranty platform generates incremental revenue and boosts customer loyalty at zero cost to the merchant. Sanket led engineering at PolicyBazar, an insurance tech company that IPOed and is valued at over $8B. Manish worked at Amazon and has built $100M ARR products, handling over 180B requests per day. Until now, finding the right policy for any product and pricing it at the right price wasn’t possible at scale. We automated this process using LLM and have unlocked a $50B+ opportunity. Each month, over 5 million consumers view SureBright warranty offers.

CORE is your AI personal assistant that learns who you are, connects to your apps, and does the work before you ask. Open source. Self-hostable. Fully yours.

Floworks (https://floworks.ai) is building a suite of AI employees that helps business to run several business functions such as sales, on autopilot. Our flagship product, Alisha is an AI SDR that performs the full outbound SDR job- fully autonomously without any human involvement. Our AI SDR Alisha can perform ICP research, find out prospect lists, research about each prospect across 180 web sources, write highly personalized emails to each, follow and engage, and finally coordinate like a human to book sales calls. Businesses using Alisha get 3 key benefits: 1.⁠ ⁠They get 12x output from your existing sales team. 2.⁠ ⁠⁠Are able to scale to 8 figure revenues with just a single AE. Alisha is built on our proprietary function calling model ThorV2 (https://floworks.ai/research) that outperforms both Claude 3 and GPT-4 function calling in accuracy by 13% and 43% respectively. At the same time, ThorV2 uses only a fraction of the cost (<40%) and time/latency (<78%) as the other models. Our second AI employee, Ashley, is an AI Executive Assistant that keeps you reminded and on top of your on your schedule. Works on your whim- just command Flowy to book a meeting, move a meeting or write a email, and it does without you having to navigate through every apps. You can teach Flowy specific workflows such as ‘inform me immediately if i receive a reply from xyz’, “show my unread emails from last day every morning 7am” and much more Our third AI employee, Romona is a helpful AI Revenue Operations Manager that keeps track of every CRM data updation on behalf of your team, works on your instruction to update notes, next steps, MEDDIC after every call, does periodic CRM reporting and much more.

Every student deserve personal attention. With AI, we can infinitely scale personalised learning experience at scale to every student. That's what we are building at SuperKalam.

Craze is the AI video platform where creatives make something people watch. Brands, creators, agencies and studios use Craze to storyboard, edit, design and turn creative direction into social media content, ads, films and more. Craze comes with a creative agent you direct, access to all top video/image/music/audio/media models, and a full premiere-like timeline editor. You can also use Craze with your Chatgpt, Claude, Muse or other personal agents via Craze MCP.

At Raven, we are building AI assistants for manufacturing plants which can offer intelligent assistance for day-to-day operations like training, job planning, troubleshooting, reporting and also helps with real-time analytics — all while seamlessly integrating with your existing systems. We’re taking decades of manufacturing expertise and combining it with AI to solve real operational problems. We’re a small, focused team working to make industrial operations safer, smarter, and more efficient.

Applied research lab on a mission to build machines which can program themselves to do any task.

Landeed is the AI-native digital infrastructure for property intelligence, verification, and transactions in India. We provide read/write rails that transform fragmented property and regulatory systems into continuously verified, machine-interpretable state. Powered by Terra, our proprietary property intelligence engine, Landeed converts messy, multi-source records into structured, queryable knowledge that supports legal-grade due diligence, collateral verification, title search, transfers, and property payments. With coverage across 24 states, enterprises go live nationally from day one. We are trusted by Fortune India 500 companies across BFSI, real estate, and retail. Landeed is the blue tick for property.

Peoplebox.ai is an AI-native talent platform used by 500+ companies to hire, manage, and grow their people. At the center is Nova, the world’s most human-like AI teammate, for all talent conversations. Nova runs two-way voice/video pre-screen calls, first-round interviews (with coding round and advance proctoring), check-ins, and assessments, all with your company’s context built in. The talent management platform brings together OKRs/goals, performance reviews, career growth, calibration, and compensation into one unified system, helping companies align, assess, and develop talent faster.

Flux is building physical AI to automate material movement in warehouses and factories on legacy vehicle fleets. Using Flux's solutions customers can reduce their dependency on human drivers, while also increasing productivity and reducing operating costs. Flux is currently deploying with customers like Walmart, Daimler, Bajaj, Cummins, Mahindra Logistics across warehouses, fulfillment centers and factories.

InferEdge builds agentic AI for the buy-side - systems that run autonomously across research, portfolio management, and risk, for equity and fixed income. The point isn't generating a generic note - anyone can do that now. For example, when earnings season hits, our agents produce the quarter's coverage in your analysts' own tone and format, matching how your desk already writes, so it doesn't need a rewrite before it's usable. We build on top of LLMs, turning raw model capability into consistent and auditable workflows, not another stalled prototype.

Fieldproxy is Retool for Field Teams. Our no-code SaaS application allows organizations to build internal mobile applications to manage field teams of any size. Fieldproxy's vision is to be the Operating System for Field teams.

NFO is building India’s financial education platform for students. We make financial education structured, engaging and competitive through age-appropriate curricula, AI-proctored assessments and nationally recognised certification. Our platform enables schools to introduce financial education without adding to their academic workload, while giving students a measurable way to learn, apply and demonstrate financial knowledge. We’re building toward a future where financial education is a standard part of every Indian student’s education.

Swipe is a simple billing and payments app for small businesses in India. We make it easy for local businesses to invoice their customers over WhatsApp. With Swipe, businesses can send a WhatsApp message with a link that allows their customers to pay instantly with a variety of payment methods.

Writesonic is the GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) platform that tracks your AI visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, and 10+ AI search platforms. Then helps you take precise actions to boost visibility—create new content, refresh existing pages, or reach out to sites that mention competitors but not you. Track, Act, and Win AI search from one platform. 15,000+ five-star reviews across G2, Trustpilot, and Capterra.

Neodocs lets you perform instant lab tests on your smartphone. Our users are health optimizers and athletes who want to improve key nutritional markers for better performance. You simply collect your sample, take a picture, and results are instantly generated. We are the perfect team to build this. Anurag is a 3-time medical entrepreneur who’s built medical devices, Pratik has worked on AI/ML models for leading US banks, and Nikunj comes from a consulting background at Bain & Co. We’re building your personal lab on your phone.

At Coulomb AI, we envision a future powered by the seamless integration of AI and battery technologies, creating a powerful synergy to combat climate change. We build category-leading software that can significantly improve battery lifespan and performance by employing advanced predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, and adaptive battery management algorithms.

Kalam Labs has developed autonomous spaceplanes, capable of flying from 100,000+ ft altitude to conduct upper atmospheric sensing, currently limited to non-maneuverable balloons and expensive satellites. We are one of the world's highest flying UAVs, and have $330 Mn+ contracts from global goverments to deploy the autonomous spaceplanes and replace traditional satellites and ground-borne UAVs

Salarybox is a payroll app for small businesses in India. There are 63 Million small businesses in India and 90% still manage payroll manually. Today, business owners manage attendance on pen-paper; calculate salary on excel and pay employees in cash. Using our App, the entire process can be performed with the click of a button. Our app reduces the time taken to process payroll from 5 days to 5 minutes. We use Payroll data to build a credit profile of 300 Million+ blue-collar workers and improve access to financial products.

Reclaim Protocol provides best in class conversion rates (45%+) on education, employment and retail loyalty verification. Global coverage, secure and privacy preserving. - Global coverage : Unlike most other vendors we are global by default. No matter where in the world the user is, we can verify. - It is 100% private : Neither you, nor us, see any private information about the user. So you carry no liabilities. No risk of your database getting hacked. - Best in class conversion : We have the highest conversion rates in the industry at 45%+ because users don't have to scramble for their documents to upload. - AI fraud resistant : All the verifications happen securely using cryptography that even the most advanced models cannot fake. Total amount raised : $10M (Series A)

The only sales outreach platform you’ll ever need. From research to outreach, RocketSDR runs your entire top-of-funnel — freeing you to focus on conversations that convert.

Ostronaut is an AI-powered, SaaS-based corporate training solution built to transform workforce learning. Its foundations come from six years of training 10,000+ product professionals through Pragmatic Leaders, which provided a faster, more cost-effective alternative to an MBA. 🚀 Smarter, faster, and designed for real-world impact. - Initiative of Pragmatic Leaders

We help D2C brands and SMBs in India acquire customers and sell on WhatsApp. We do this by offering attribution based marketing and storefront ordering through a commerce bot with vernacular support.

UrbanKisaan is an AI-for-plant-biology company. We build foundation models and the physical infrastructure that trains them. Shipping a single new seed variety takes about ten+ years. Two on germplasm, three on crosses and selection, three or four on field trials, one on regulatory. Inside that decade, prediction and experiment never properly meet. DNA is abundant, phenotype data is scarce and unpaired, and the cycle never trains itself. We closed that loop. Three foundation models cover the upstream science. Aadi is a 48-layer transformer trained from scratch on the public and proprietary corpus of plant genomes; it reads plant DNA and ranks variants before any wet-lab spend. Jeeva is the genotype-to-phenotype model that turns a seed and a target environment into yield, flowering, maturity, and height with confidence intervals plus per-locus attribution. Akash is the geospatial backbone - it maps every pixel of every field to crop class and growing condition. Two pieces of physical infrastructure close the downstream half. GeneRush is a controlled-environment chamber engineered for speed: extended photoperiod, optimized temperature, integrated phenomics. Wheat reaches anthesis in 38 days. Breeding programs run 4–6 generations a year instead of 1–2. GrowRush takes that same chamber to commercial production scale, where every harvest is also a labelled phenotype training pair flowing back to Jeeva. The unit is paid for by what it grows; the science works because the unit is identical to the chamber the AI was trained on. Every cycle produces proprietary genotype-to-phenotype data the next generation of models needs. The ten-year breeding cycle compresses toward three. We are already commercial

With increasing fraud rates, the need for a credible background check system is more important than ever. Unlike other background check solutions that are manual, expensive and require a ton of documentation, HelloVerify creates a seamless experience through its technology platform that is cost effective and provides results instantly from trusted verification sources. It not only automates data collection and matching but streamlines the entire process from order requests, progress status to final report delivery. We help prevent fraud by finding facts about individuals. The online service acts as a means of authenticating and objectively verifying an individual’s identity, court case status, educational check, credit score and employment history - thereby enabling commercial transactions and hiring decisions to take place between parties. Whether you are a corporate or a startup looking to hire new employees or a homeowner seeking to verify your driver's driving license or a landlord wanting to ascertain your tenant’s payment ability - we provide a wide range of checks at affordable rates & quick turnaround time. Sign up today!

Meet Sparky, a fun and quirky AI buddy in the avatar of a friendly fox who kids can just speak with to build fluency and confidence with English speaking. Powered by Generative AI, and made magical with child-appropriate experience, features and topics, Sparky brings a whole world of knowledge and a judgement-free environment for kids to become comfortable with speaking English. 142 countries (outside English dominant countries) mandate English learning as part of the national education policy. These kids have exposure to English but feel underconfident and embarrassed to speak. The biggest problem across the classes and books they get, is the lack of real conversational practice. With AI, we're making this affordable accessible and enjoyable for kids across the world. We're a passionate team of educators with over 30 years of combined experience in building education products for kids and have held leadership positions are India's biggest education companies - Byju's and LEAD.

Scribe is an AI-Powered Sales Assistant for your inside sales team, that you can hire in <10 minutes. Scribe magically finds the best prospects, writes highly personalized emails, handles objections and schedules demos with pre-qualified leads. To put it into perspective, our customers have been able to get 3X the number of qualified meetings for 50% of the cost, and your SDRs can now focus on only the warmest leads. Scribe is backed by Y Combinator and other elite Silicon Valley investors and is fundamentally transforming sales.