Operations Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2026

Sona8 is a voice agent that talks to every employee in a company about how their work gets done. Each employee gets a link and talks to the agent for about 20 minutes. The agent asks follow-up questions, for example why a step is still done by hand or who else is involved. From the conversations we build process maps and a list of the problems people described, sorted by site and team. That is the start. We then stay on through the implementation. After each initiative is rolled out, the agent goes back to the employees involved and asks whether it was implemented and what changed in their daily work. The transformation team sees this after every rollout step. The result is a project management office that has talked to every employee. That context did not exist before, because nobody had the time to collect it. Consulting firms use it to gather ideas at the start of an engagement instead. Transformation and corporate development teams use it to guide the execution of strategic transformation.

Kebra builds AI for skilled technicians. Kebra guides technicians in the field in real time, documents their work, and automatically handles hours of back-office work; from dispatching technicians to filing warranty claims and managing inventory.

Rational is building the first accounting firm with no humans. It's entirely run by our AI employees, who go from client intake to doing the books to filing with the IRS. We secure 90% cost reduction, 24/7 support, and an overall seamless experience for businesses.

We are building an AI operating partner that reads every record a company produces to find and prioritize value creation opportunities, including costly operational inefficiencies no one is tracking. Cerenovus warns leaders before small problems become expensive and turns weeks of manual investigation into evidence-backed answers in minutes. Every claim links to its source, and every finding is ranked by impact. Companies use it to improve their operations; private equity and advisory firms deploy it across the businesses they own or advise.

Walter is an AI employee for manufacturing operations.

Rote handles the entire negotiation lifecycle between shops and insurance companies to help them recover thousands of dollars in denied claims. Shops today lose millions per year because they lack the resources to negotiate with insurance companies that undervalue repair costs. Rote's agents recover denied revenue by taking shop estimates and referencing technical repair data to autonomously file and defend shop claims.

GodHands makes employee transitions seamless and ensures that critical knowledge is captured for posterity. We reconstruct any employee’s work in days from the systems where they did it. You can see what depends on them, hand their role over, and keep their work running after they leave.

Modern is consolidating the IT function into a single platform powered by secure, always-on agents who understand your business. Help desk, access, hardware, on/off-boarding, security, procurement are automated end-to-end inside the channels your team already uses (Slack, Teams, Email, Voice, WhatsApp, Telegram).

Sidekick is an AI agent that runs custom manufacturing operations over text. Workers text a problem, photo, video, or voice memo and get an answer from the shop's own documents. It reads live machine data and acts on its own: flagging issues before they become downtime, opening and routing work orders, and placing purchase orders. No app, no login. These shops run on tribal knowledge: a handful of veterans know how every job is set up, and they are retiring. Sidekick learns from every message it handles, so answers outlive the people who gave them, and shops run 15% more jobs with the same crew. Sidekick captures it as a byproduct of the work, in an industry that was never documented.

Trellis is building toward a new hospitality platform: one that does not just help guests find homes, but actually operates them with agents. Our first wedge is short-term rental property managers, replacing their fragmented stack across guest messages, tasks, cleaners, maintenance, vendors, and owner updates with agents that run operations end-to-end. In two months, we’ve grown to $500k ARR across 35 customers and 3000 listings, growing around 15% week over week, with one customer already running day-to-day operations with no human involved.

Ontora is an AI Agent that interviews every employee to map how work actually gets done and identify bottlenecks. Consultants spend months doing this manually; Ontora does it in hours.

58% of the $400B call center industry runs on on-prem phone systems, and until now bringing AI voice automation to them meant ripping out their entire infrastructure first. That's the largest unserved segment in the market. Callab AI connects directly to legacy PBX systems like Avaya, Cisco UCM, and Mitel, and automates up to 70% of call volume with zero migration needed. We plug into these environments without requiring a rip-and-replace. We serve clients across three continents, including brands like Dunkin Donuts.

Autostep maps how work happens across a company for humans and agents, finds repetitive tasks and bottlenecks, and ranks them by cost and impact. Then it fixes them by building agents inside existing tools, changing the process, or finding the right software.

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.

AI pilots are everywhere. Few organizations can point to a department that actually runs AI-first. Terminal Use changes that. We help operations teams rebuild how work gets done, end to end. We begin with one critical process, map how it runs today and where it breaks, then redesign the workflow around AI agents, existing systems, and people at the right control points. The result is a working AI-first process, measurable operational change, and a blueprint for transforming the broader department. Founded by ex-Palantir FDEs and engineers working on transformation at scale, Terminal Use works across construction, logistics, manufacturing, retail, and other complex operating environments.

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.

Bubble Lab helps event organizers and professional communities turn a room full of people into meaningful connections. We help them understand who’s in the room, identify who should meet, make the introduction, and remember those relationships for the next event. Attendee enrichment, matchmaking, searchable member directories, applications, payments, Luma and Slack sync, onboarding, and analytics all live in one place, so a single operator can run better gatherings and build a smarter community over time.

Corvera (YC W26) is the context layer for AI-native CPG brands. We help brands unlock the full potential of AI by making their unified data legible to any AI tool via MCP. 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 in place, brands can enable anyone in their organization to: - Rapidly deploy AI agents via tools such as Claude and ChatGPT, - Build dashboards and apps using Cursor and Lovable, and - Automate workflows across the entire business, from category management to supply chain. All in a secure, audit-logged, and access-controlled environment, without the need for a team of data engineers or AI specialists, in a simple plug-and-play solution. 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). To-date, we’ve raised $6.2M and are backed by YC, firstminute capital, 6 Degrees Capital, 20VC, Rebel Fund, Duke Capital Partners, and more. Our ICP are omnichannel retail-focused CPG brands at the $100M+ revenue inflection point. Our mission is bold: to enable the next generation of unicorn CPG brands to be run by teams of less than 10 people. Our vision is even bolder: to be the system of intelligence for the $5.4T global CPG industry. Visit www.corvera.ai to learn more!

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 is an AI-native ERP for manufacturers.

Socratix builds AI coworkers for fraud and compliance 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 compliance. 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.

Morphik helps Skilled Nursing and Senior Living organizations increase their NOI by automating repetitive manual tasks like AP, billing and collections, nurse admin work.

SalesPatriot is a back-office operating system for distributors and OEMS. We build custom AI workflows for sales and supply chain teams to manage procurement, requests for quote and purchase orders. In large orgs that operate as key nodes of the supply chain data is scattered across twelve systems. Quotes get lost and Executives lack visibility. Supply chain workflows are time consuming because data isn't where it needs to be in the format it needs to be. Employees are stuck between their email, ERP, CRM, marketplaces, and spreadsheets instead of winning business and protecting margin.

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

Leading enterprises use Callback to manage complicated, real-world workflows. We integrate with your systems, not the other way around. Our platform serves as an auditable and permissioned system of record for your operations.

Stormy runs the office so your crew can run the work. Every call answered, day or night. Every quote followed up until it is a yes or a no. Jobs booked, crews scheduled, parts tracked, invoices sent and collected. Marketing that brings the work in, and an AI agent for every person on your team — all working from the same job record. Built for the shops that keep physical things running: forklift and heavy equipment service, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, roofing, logistics and yards.

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.

Build and run an AI support agent that resolves even your most complex tickets end-to-end. If a tool has an API, you can securely connect it to your agent - just by chatting with Parahelp. For example, you can connect Stripe so your agent can resolve billing questions and refund requests.

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.

Letterbook is the AI-native alternative to Zendesk, Freshdesk, Zohodesk, and Intercom. We help companies manage and resolve customer support tickets across email, in-app feedback, and website forms. Our AI will triage your tickets, write replies, and build your knowledge base.

Nowadays is the AI-native platform for corporate meetings and events. Our AI doesn't just assist planners – it does the work. It emails and calls venues, negotiates rates in 22 languages, parses 50-page hotel proposals into clean apples-to-apples comparisons, and surfaces unmanaged meeting spend across your entire org. We work with companies ranging from ones planning one epic company kickoff a year to ones running thousands of meetings through the platform annually. Clients include Google, Airbnb, BlackRock, Anthropic, Pylon, and Mintlify. Unlike legacy platforms like Cvent that bolted AI onto decades-old infrastructure, Nowadays was built from the ground up for the AI era.

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.

Automat is an AI automation company that replaces slow manual work and brittle legacy RPA with agents that understand context, recover from errors, and improve over time. Backed by a forward-deployed engineering team and enterprise-grade security (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001), Automat runs reliable, human-in-the-loop automation for document-heavy industries — mortgage & lending, banking, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing. It delivers this through two products: Automat Workforce and Automat Core. Workforce - A digital teammate you onboard like a new hire. Meet Ace, a digital teammate with its own email, Slack, phone, and logins that works across the tools your team already uses. You reach it like a colleague (a text, a channel mention, an email, a doc comment) and it does the work end to end, asks when it needs judgment, and leaves an audit trail for everything it touches. Learn more here: https://runautomat.com/workforce Core - Managed agentic automation for enterprise Managed, AI-powered process automation for the enterprise. Automat Core replaces legacy RPA with self-healing agents that combine UI automation, AI document extraction (IDP), and API workflows in one platform. Automat's team builds, tests, and monitors every automation, so operations go live in days (not months), run reliably at scale, and cut operational costs — with human review wherever precision matters. Learn more here [https://runautomat.com/capabilities](https://runautomat.com/capabilities)

TableFlow builds AI teammates for data tasks, helping operations and data teams automate the messy, manual tasks buried in PDFs, spreadsheets, images, and emails.

There are billions of dollars of hospital waste caused by inefficient, disconnected supply chains and finance data. Today, clinics are facing unprecedented backorders, recalls, and purchase verticals (medical devices, SaaS, security, commodities). We are building a single product to 10x a fragmented industry with each tool built almost 20 years ago.

Velos helps non-technical operations teams automate complex, manual back-office tasks with AI workers instead of overseas teams. Unlike traditional robotic process automation (RPA) platforms like UiPath, Velos automations use machine learning to reliably handle ambiguities in their tasks, eliminating the need for an army of maintenance engineers and consultants to build and maintain your automations. We're automating the repetitive work people hate to do.

Berry offers an AI CSM that scales customer success for SaaS companies. Every post-sales organization faces the challenge of scaling customer success without having to hire more. Berry combines the best of the two worlds - taking the white-glove onboarding experience and offering it at scale. Our AI CSM onboards, trains and grows accounts for you non-stop. It’s a 10x hire to your team - at a fraction of the cost.

Blitz is a no-code platform to build internal applications and automate manual tasks. Quickly build a database, integrate your logic, and scale your operations. Alternative to Google Sheet and Airtable, Blitz is not limited by a number of lines of records or by an API rate. Create your data model and set up data validation rules. Use our interface builder to create dynamic forms, and quickly onboard customer and partners. Leverage our granular permissions to share data to external users (publicly or privately). Add advanced business logic to your forms and portals, without writing any line of code. The experience is similar to creating spreadsheets, but without their limitations in terms of scalability and security. You can use Blitz to build an onboarding flow, an order management system or some validation workflows for compliance purposes. Stop using developer resources or rigid SaaS software. Start building your own tools, adapted to your needs, with Blitz.

Atlas is a modern, all-in-one customer support platform that is built with AI first. We help you solve your customers problems faster by understanding them more completely with a suite of customer tools like session recording, bug tracking, and event feeds. You can think of us as the next generation Zendesk / Intercom combined with Log Rocket and Linear. Learn More: https://atlas.so/ Products: - Chat Widget - Ticketing - Omni channel Support (chat, email, WhatsApp, Slack Connect, and SMS) - Customer Timeline - Session Recording - Help Center - AI Chatbot - Customer Insights

MosaicVoice makes it easy for call centers to automate their Quality Assurance function. Our software listens to customer conversations in real-time and identifies and alerts agents and managers to any compliance violations as they happen

Ponyrun evaluates people for you. We help you answer questions like: Should you sell to them? Are they a good fit for your product? Should you interview them? Its easy to use. Give it a search URL or a list of people. Tell Ponyrun what you want to evaluate the person on. And Ponyrun will go through the person's information (e.g. LinkedIn), and evaluate them.

Workflow86 provides a complete end-to-end platform for building agentic workflows and automating complex business processes and operations. Workflow86 provides users with a complete suite of tools to build and deploy custom agents and orchestrate them to perform complex, long-running workflows including human-in-the-loop steps, custom code, agent tools, and integrations with your existing systems. Build using a visual canvas, or simply describe the workflow in natural language with agents able to self-configure tools, prompts, and integrations, and even build the multi-agent workflows.

OneSchema provides AI agents for data operations that automate data prep, driving efficiency and improving client project margins. By standardizing raw client files to your RFIs, OneSchema helps teams reach insights and deliver results faster.