Generative AI Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2024

Monterey AI builds intelligent customer voice infrastructure for product operations teams in hyper-growth companies. Monterey helps companies understand what actions to take to improve engagement and reduce churn by setting up user feedback channels, auto-collecting, and analyzing qualitative feedback and quantitative data from multiple sources.

Shasta Health enables physical therapists to go independent, so they can make 3X more than working for a big clinic. Our AI platform automates patient acquisition, billing, and engagement, so they can focus on treating patients rather than running a business.

We're building a new video based experience for marketing and product teams. We make personalized video outreach scalable with AI. Record a video once, and send it to thousands instantly completely customized to them.

Cardinal is an opinionated feature backlog. It pulls in your customer feedback, CRM data, and task management issues and uses AI to assess which customers want which features, how important is it for them, and how much are they worth

Pibit.ai is an insurtech company turns unstructured submission documents like loss runs, SOVs, applications into structured data, enrich data from third-party sources, provides a comprehensive view of information, enabling better decision-making and automation within the commercial underwriting workflow.

Tara AI helps engineering leaders measure and improve engineering efficiency, with fine-tuned, secure LLMs trained on source control and project data. Our customers include MongoDB, Clearbit and Prometric. Our platform generates all-in-one views on cycle times, benchmarks, investments and overall size and velocity of engineering activity. We're helping customers achieve 30% reduction in time to customer deployment.

Playground combines AI research and product design to invent new kinds of creative tools.

Simplify is re-imagining the hiring and job-searching process. We're building tools to democratize the job search, no matter what your background is, where you live or what school you attended. Our first product is Copilot, and we're rapidly expanding on both the candidate and recruiter fronts. We've helped facilitate over 20m+ applications in just the last year, and are doubling down on our vision of building a common app and personal AI agent for your career.

We provide a simple API for creating, storing, versioning, and collaborating on multi-modal AI datasets of any size. With Activeloop's open-core stack, you can rapidly transform and stream data while training models at scale. Deep Lake powers foundational model training by acting as a vector database with significant benefits, such as (1) the ability to use multi-modal datasets to fine-tune your own LLM models, (2) storing both the embeddings and the original data with automatic version control, so no embedding re-computation is needed (3) truly serverless service with no vendor lock-in. How cool is that? GitHub loves us - we're one of the fastest-growing libraries there, and we're used by little-known companies like Google, Waymo, and Intel. No big deal. Our founding team hails from places like Princeton, Stanford, Google, and Tesla, and we're backed by Y Combinator & other Silicon Valley heavyweights. Activeloop is hiring, and we want you! Check out our open roles on our YC page and join the fun. 10-min demo: https://activeloop.wistia.com/medias/aibvo0dst2 Whitepaper: https://www.deeplake.ai/whitepaper

Let AI turn your ideas into a website in minutes. Get content, structure, and style done for you, ready to edit and publish instantly.

Outerbase is the interface for your database. Companies use Outerbase to view, edit, and modify their data and even generate beautiful visual dashboards without having to write a single line of SQL.

Track prompts and models. Test edge cases. Catch errors in production. Evaluate your AI with one-line of code.

Writesonic is an AI writing and image generation platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to create any form of content 10X faster. It's like Canva for writing, with tools that simplify the process of creating, editing, and publishing SEO-optimized articles, blog posts, ads, landing pages, eCommerce product descriptions, social media posts, and many other forms of content. Our customers love us, as evidenced by the 10,000+ 5-star reviews on G2, TrustPilot, and Capterra. Backed by Y Combinator, HOF Capital (investors in Uber, Stripe, Alibaba, UiPath, Klarna), Rebel Fund (team includes founders of Instacart, Reddit, and Cruise), Soma Capital (investors in Deel, Rippling, Razorpay, Lattice, coda, Rappi), Broom Ventures, Amino Capital (investors in Zoom, Webflow, Rippling) and some of the best angels from different industries.

We are building the TikTok for fashion — a platform for creators to showcase their works, gain traction and build their brands. ### Reverie is powered by two pieces of core technology: - An AI-enhanced design tool for creators to turn their design ideas into e-commerce quality product images very efficiently. - An AI-powered Virtual Dressing Room to create professional fashion photography directly from product images. Both fashion creators and other users can easily style outfits on different models. With our core tech, we are building an active community of fashion creators (designers, stylists, influencers, bloggers, artists, casting directors, etc..) who produce original designs and engaging content around the published pieces. The social media platform will provide a streamlined path for fashion creators to experiment with their ideas and build traction. We want to eventually become the default choice for anyone who wants to launch their fashion label, and have the future Off-White, Balenciaga, Rick Oven, etc. originate from Reverie. Our team combines deep expertise in technology (AI Phds) and the fashion industry (Community builder). Our Virtual Dressing room is live with top retailers (such as Neiman Marcus) and has ~1M ARR. We are backed by YCombinator, TSVC, Cabra VC, and other amazing angels with retail experience and connections. Join us to reshape the fashion industry!

Dart is a fully-featured project management tool that uses AI to assist with roadmap planning, report generation, breaking tasks into subtasks, duplicate detection, and executing on basic writing and design tasks. Teams use Dart in order to plan better and eliminate regular PM chores from their schedule, freeing up seven hours per week to focus on other work.

Humand transforms how companies digitize their internal communication, culture, and HR processes within one user-friendly app. As a result, Humand provides every company with a digital Community to centralize every company-employee interaction. Humand's digital Communities are powerful, customizable and easily adapt to the needs of every company, no matter the industry, size or region. Companies that implement Humand benefit from the following suite of Mini Apps, which are getting smarter thanks to the power of AI: + Forms & Smart Workflows 📋 + Internal Social Network ❤️ + Chat 💬 + Time Off 🏝 + Magazine 📰 + Surveys 📊 + Smart Intranet 📲 + Kudos 👏🏻 + Learning 📚 + Onboarding 🎉 + Org chart 👥 + Company Files and Employee Documents 📂 + Perks & Benefits 🥂 + Birthdays & Work Anniversaries 🥳 + Employee Development 🥇 + Electronic Signature ✍🏻 + Smart Tickets 📧 + Marketplace 🛍 + Calendar & Events 📆 + Agenda 🔎 + Integrations 🔗 More than 130 companies use Humand. Implemented by ArcelorMittal (biggest steel producer in the world), Tenaris (global leader in steel pipes production), NSG group (among the biggest glass producers in the world), and many other organizations across different countries. Humand enables all workers, particularly those without direct access to a computer at their desks, to stay connected with their company anywhere, anytime. Humand enhances internal communication speed, streamline information flow between collaborators, and enable instant, targeted reach to all employees with push notifications tailored to their needs. Companies that adopt a digital Community powered by Humand experience an enriched work environment, heightened employee camaraderie, and a surge in productivity, all contributing to a thriving and connected workforce.

Layerup's mission is to boost innovation in industries that lack it, starting by bringing AI securely to enterprises.

Wolfia helps companies fill security questionnaires and RFPs 10x faster using generative AI. We do this by building a knowledge base using your existing policies and previously answered questionnaires with AI.

Mercator is your AI-assisted data analytics platform for writing faster, cheaper, and smarter SQL. Co-founders Andrew and Dayton met on the Instacart data science team. Dayton earned a physics PhD at UC Berkeley before entering DS. Andrew spent six years as a SWE at Uber, where he developed pydeck, a geospatial data visualization library with over 12M downloads. Mercator is backed by Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, Soma Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Amplify Partners, and Rebel Fund.

Sail uses generative AI to replace SDRs. Tell our platform who you're looking for, and it will find and contact high quality sales leads in a fully automated way! We’ve tuned our models to write near-human outbound sales emails with proven conversion. Best of all, we're using our own tool to do all of our sales.

Sonnet is an end-to-end meeting assistant, combining a human-quality notetaker with an auto-updating CRM. Our AI notetaker uses the most powerful AI models to transcribe, summarize, and generate notes for your meeting recordings. With Sonnet, collaboration and recollection is both faster and better. Sonnet CRM updates itself automatically using conversation data, so you'll never have to wrangle with CRM fields again. Get up to speed on the context of an entire relationship, in seconds.

CAPSULE is a mobile app that makes it easy to save and buy the things you find on any social media platform. Just snap a screenshot of anything you like, from any platform, and we search the entire internet to instantly give you shoppable links. Instead of searching hundreds of websites and sifting through thousands of products on your own, CAPSULE lets you find inspiration from anywhere and uses advanced machine learning to return results that feel like magic.

askLio builds AI Copilots to help procurement teams at enterprises - saving them $2.6M every year. When an employee wants to sign a $25k contract, the process used to take weeks. askLio turns it into hours. The company is founded by AI engineers and procurement experts that have built an AI Startup together before. Think of Lio as an additional assistant for every procurement manager - saving enterprises on average $2.6M per year and reducing manual work of procurement managers by 80%. Some of the most renowned companies in the world are already using our AI-Copilot.

Here at Spellbrush, we're passionate about making a good anime game. We also happen to be the world's leading generative AI studio — we're the team behind niji・journey. We are currently investigating how AI can be used to help human artists perform masterpieces in the most complex medium of our times: video games. Our games are characterized by a no-compromise approach to well-balanced gameplay married to a truthful love of visual arts.

ML models are only as good as the datasets they're trained on, and that means that most improvement to model performance comes from improvement to the quality and diversity of their datasets. Our tooling makes it easy for ML teams to find anomalies + failure patterns in their datasets and fix these problems by editing / adding the right data. So the next time you retrain your model, it just gets better.

Understand what content is driving revenue. Create and distribute more of it to in-market buyers across SEO, LinkedIn, and sales enablement.

Rosebud is building the AI Roblox. We will make it 1000X easier for a community of game devs to create and enjoy the games of their dreams. ‍ We’re a team of PhD researchers, creatives and engineers building the generative AI platform to enable game creation at the speed of thought. We believe all media creation will be done via generative methods in a few years. We're building that future.

Hypotenuse AI turns a few keywords into entire blog articles, stunning pictures, artwork, and any other type of copywriting including product descriptions, social media captions and emails. It takes weeks, or even months, for companies to prepare for campaign launches — we help them get their drafts in seconds.

Adoption of Telehealth 1.0 has dropped to <5% because it's inefficient and unintelligent. Ankr uses generative AI to recreate functions of clinic staff including front desk, medical assistants and scribe. This allows Doctors to "spin-up" virtual clinics on-demand, anytime, anywhere. An average clinic using Ankr generates $1M in new revenue/year. We integrate with all top EHRs and work with all types of clinics in mid- to large-sized healthcare organizations.

Helping product builders to listen to users at scale so they can make something people want.

Get 30% faster, 50% cheaper CI builds in 30 seconds using WarpBuild cloud runners for Github Actions. Optimize your software development lifecycle through DORA, SPACE reports and AI powered insights.

PromptLoop brings AI data analysis to everyday spreadsheet users, turning complex tasks like web scraping and text processing into straightforward functions or a simple file drag-and-drop system. Its clear-cut approach means investors, researchers, and businesses can enrich and add to their datasets without the steep learning curve, making meaningful analysis more accessible. This straightforward tool supports informed decision-making by simplifying data enrichment and market research, creating value for its users without the typical hassle.

Criya, a Y Combinator and venture backed AI startup that empowers world class industry experts build their Professional Brand in 1-click. Complete with AI generated websites that demonstrates their entire experience in a comprehensive and attractive format, and scheduling capabilities, video course hosting and more, Criya is a pivotal platform for senior industry leaders to turn their expertise into a powerful all-rounded professional brand with a strong online presence.

Dialect uses AI trained on your company’s internal knowledge to automate response generation for forms, RFPs, and other complex business communications.

Penguin AI is an inbound sales platform that identifies, engages, and converts leads visiting your website into demos.

Delight is an AI copilot to help singles find and succeed in relationships. We’ve started with helping singles looking for a serious relationship find the right partner. For example, they talk to our AI copilot, as if they’re talking to a human matchmaker, in plain English they specify their preferences. They can be as specific as possible, e.g. someone with an entrepreneurial spirit, who appreciates fine art, enjoys discussing politics and comes from a big family. Our technology then finds their ideal partner. So far, we've helped create over 10,000 couples and in the future our AI copilot will offer these couples support for relationship success, like improving their communication, financial planning, couple’s legal assistance, and navigating life events.