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

Founded in 2011, Zapier is the #1 workflow automation platform for small and mid-sized businesses. By connecting more than 6,000 of the most popular work apps, Zapier empowers its users to make the most of the tools they already use—and to focus on what matters most.

Dropbox is building the world’s first smart workspace. Back in 2007, making work better for people meant designing a simpler way to keep files in sync. Today, it means designing products that reduce busywork so you can focus on the work that matters. Most “productivity tools” get in your way. They constantly ping, distract, and disrupt your team’s flow, so you spend your days switching between apps and tracking down feedback. It’s busywork, not the meaningful stuff. We want to change this. We believe there’s a more enlightened way to work. Dropbox helps people be organized, stay focused, and get in sync with their teams.

Robby is an AI growth engine for home services businesses that uncovers revenue opportunities and collects additional data from every technician visit. Our AI combines customer and third party data to generate dozens of new leads every day, and then arms the technicians with talking points to increase close rates, giving GMs a single command center to manage and drive revenue. We have several paying customers that are each uncovering 6 figures in additional revenue opportunities every week. On our first day of launch, we helped close $40k in new business within an hour. Our team has spent the last few months riding along with dozens of technicians and shadowing every position in the office to best understand the industry. We're also studying for the EPA 608 exam to become certified technicians ourselves. Vineet and Feroze have both built critical products and infra at prominent startups (Ironclad, Porter, Affinity, Uber, Cloud Health Systems). Joe previously consulted PE firms on software acquisitions and led home services growth projects at Bain. We all met at Harvard Business School, and dropped out to work on Robby full-time.

Unisson is building trusted AI subject-matter experts for teams that are responsible for customer deployments (technical customer success, implementation, sales engineering). Within 20 minutes, our agents learn to use any product and can be used by teams in Slack, text, or email. Our agents gather requirements and context from existing tools enabling them to handle complex tasks like customer health audits, onboarding, product administration, and custom integrations. With Unisson, customer-facing teams have 24/7 access to an AI SME, allowing them to scale and save thousands of hours every month.

Logical is a desktop AI that acts as a proactive and largely promptless copilot, designed to reduce the friction of using AI for everyday tasks. It transfers context across apps, and allows taking action on many apps with just a few clicks. Logical can assist with drafting emails, writing docs, noting meetings and can even automatically detect action items. Need to prompt? Logical can understand intent in much fewer words than a regular chatbot. Plus, user data is never sent to Logical servers. Logical is the AI resurrection of Clippy, but actually good.

Sciloop is building an AI Co-Scientist that automates experimentation and analysis for machine learning researchers, allowing them to test ideas far faster than today’s tools allow. We are Bilal and Osman, International Physics Olympiad medalists and the only Pakistanis admitted to MIT in our respective years, with several years of hands-on ML research experience inside MIT CSAIL. We have built large-scale training pipelines, worked with terabyte-scale datasets, and seen the research bottleneck firsthand while contributing to scientific ML projects. We left MIT to solve this problem directly and are now building a system that can eventually accelerate scientific discovery itself. https://sciloop.dev

Trace is a workflow automation platform that routes tasks to the right agent – human or AI. We enable enterprise-grade context and AI orchestration in mid-sized teams. Trace breaks workflows into clear steps, sends repetitive tasks to AI agents, and routes the rest to the right people while respecting permissions and logging every action. We help teams cut busywork and unify AI tools across departments – helping companies adopt AI in days rather than months.

The world's best AI video generator that turns your documents and/or prompts into whiteboard explainer videos. In addition, we have a similar product that generates podcast-style audio explainers from your documents/prompts. API access available for both video and conversational audio. Product of Red Tree Inc. Please reach out at founders@golpoai.com

We’re building an AI-native messaging app. Pond is a desktop app you can use with your existing messaging services like iMessage (and soon WhatsApp + more). You can see important messages you haven’t replied to, snooze conversations, answer customers in your voice, and more.

Sagekit is the AI workspace for research and writing. Work side by side with AI as ideas and research become real, lasting documents.

AI that helps you fly through your inbox.

We spend our lives in messaging apps. Slack. iMessage. WhatsApp. We face a constant stream of information, introductions, and things we need to do. What if you could bring together every message, from every platform, in a Superhuman-like experience, with AI agents that automatically complete your action items? That’s exactly what we’re building at Pally; a future where you never need to check another inbox again.

Bond is an AI Chief of Staff that gives CEOs and busy executives real-time visibility into what’s happening across the company and tells them what to focus on. Saving execs 10+ hours a week.

You only need two tools to build a business in 2026 - Cursor and Clarm. We automate inbound and customer support for highly technical teams like software, OSS, and finance and healthcare companies.

Zero empowers knowledge workers by transforming the way they manage their email. It intelligently summarizes important messages, helps complete tasks, and even enables users to chat directly with their inbox.

Praxim is the agentic AI word editor that makes edits across your entire word document with formatting control, file and web context, and your personal preferences in mind. Simply tell Praxim what you'd like to do with your document and Praxim will implement your changes automatically.

TamLabs transforms Microsoft Word into an AI-native document editor. Our plugin enables instant document changes with git-style previews, automated comment implementation, and formatting preservation.

Altrina automates SOPs to give humans back their time to do what matters. We have already significantly improved organizational efficiency for local governments, law offices, insurance brokers, consulting firms, and hedge funds. Formerly General Agency/Tessa AI

Automatically organizes your team's emails and meeting notes. Find anything in seconds, get intelligent email drafts, and reclaim hours every day.

CodeViz creates interactive codebase maps to help engineers quickly understand and navigate code. Adopted by engineers at Amazon, Microsoft, and Roblox, CodeViz was founded by two ex-Tesla engineers to tackle the 75% of development time lost to reading code. Download today at https://codeviz.ai

OrgOrg is a suite of apps that keeps teams productive and healthy regardless of the size of your organization. Founded by the creator of Zenter (YC 07, acquired by Google and became Google Slides), OrgOrg is designed to be a natural extension of Google Workspace Apps to help run organizations collaborate better leading to higher productivity. Today the suite includes apps like: • Go links: Go links allows anyone in the org to easily name any link so team members can jump directly to the information that matters most: go/sales, go/production, go/anything-you-want. • Profiles with Personality: OrgOrg profiles are as insightful as they are delightful. They not only show you the expected org chart data, but also highlight accomplishments, how you like to work, and who you are as a person. • Goal tracking: Track, share, and collaborate on "big rock" goals on the cadence that makes sense for your team from daily to annually. • Branded New Tab: Keep the team focused the next major milestone, broadcast announcements, and keep important links top of mind every time a new browser tab is opened. • All Hands Q&A: Crowdsource questions, anonymously if desired, for large team meetings to make sure everyone's voice is heard, and the most top of mind questions are answered and recorded. • Smart Groups: Create rules based groups of people and use them to make sure the right people are in the right conversations and have the right access. For example, anyone with the title of "Software Engineer" should be in the #eng slack channel and eng@ google group. • On-call: Schedule smart rotations that take into account balancing the load and using signals from calendar schedules to make sure you don't waste time figuring out who can cover what in a fair way. Easily page the on-call from slack, API, or OrgOrg directly. • And more... All the tools you need so you can spend more time focusing on your core business, and less time focusing on the complexity that comes from running an organization.

An AI Workforce paired with an in-built CRM, that lives in your communication channels, is online forever, knows your everything about your business. and does the tasks on your behalf only so you can click "Approve" every morning. Build you own AI employees today... - Lead intake via Voice / SMS / Email and then updating the Contact / Matter / Case in the CRM. - Connects with Gmail / Outlook for AI to write replies (in draft for you to review) all ready to send, for every email that deserves your reply, so you don't spend time writing emails anymore. - Handles outbound sales completely, scrapes all the leads there possibly are on the internet, phone books, data brokers, and contacts customers, chats back and forth with them at scale, infinitely, parallely all at once. - Writes daily/weekly/monthly briefings and reports based on all the new context there is on the CRM every day/week/month. It finds out insights you possibly couldn't have found by looking at it all manually. - Customer Research AI agents: find powerful POCs of a company, check through your LinkedIn connection tree to find out how far apart in mutual connections you are from them, research their background, and send out intro texts / emails / call agents to connect you with the POC. and so much more. Contact us for enterprise needs.

Anara is AI for scientific advancement. We help researchers find, understand and write scientific documents, together. We started working on Anara two years ago. In that time: - we’ve grown to 3M users spanning hundreds of major colleges and research-led companies, - we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue, - 600M+ people have seen our content across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, - and we raised $3M from YC and the founders of Github and Reddit. We're a small, tight-knit team with huge ambitions. As a founding member, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $10M to $100M and then $100M to $1B+. If you’re excited by the idea of being a part of that, definitely reach out.

Thorntale is the easiest (and prettiest) way to create your next presentation. We've built a super capable AI assistant that can directly edit your slides, and coupled it with an advanced slide design system to keep things beautiful and professional. Thorntale AI is designed to work alongside you as an AI collaborator. It can modify slide design and content, as well as give suggestions on what to improve to make your points clearer for your audience. We've also built tons of enterprise level features into Thorntale, like integrated data connections and send as email.

Speck helps professionals in back-to-back calls on their meeting tasks. It automates pre-call research, listens to every word, learns, and creates meeting notes, follow-ups, action items based on how you do them.

Onyx is the open source chat UI connected to your company’s docs, apps, and people. We ingest and sync from all sources of information (Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Salesforce, etc.) to provide a centralized place for users to ask about anything. Imagine your most knowledgeable co-workers, all-rolled into one, and available 24/7! Check us out on Github: https://www.github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx Or visit our website: https://www.onyx.app/

Tracecat helps security, IT, and production support engineers close tickets fast. We provide everything they need to automate mission-critical work — AI agents, workflow builder, and case management. Built open source on open source (Temporal, Pydantic AI, Postgres, Clickhouse). Founded in 2024, deployed by more than 200 organizations from startups to Fortune 500 and federal agencies.

Basepilot builds AI coworkers that collaborate with humans to automate work across the browser. They learn from what you do and you can teach them new skills, just by demonstration. Companies using Basepilot save 30% of their time and resources per week, freeing up time for more high-value tasks. Basepilot is founded by Ken, who previously led a fintech-product to 3M users in <12 months, and Pascal, who worked on robotics & self-driving at Carnegie Mellon and Mercedes-Benz Research. Interested to try it out? Get started here: https://www.basepilot.com/ YC Launch: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KcS-basepilot-your-ai-employee-to-automate-repetitive-browser-work-in-minutes

Mattermost provides secure collaboration for technical and operational teams that work in environments with complex nation-state level security and trust requirements. We serve technology, public sector, national defense and financial services industries with customers ranging from tech giants, to the world’s largest banks, to the U.S. Department of Defense and governmental agencies around the world. Our self-hosted and cloud offerings provide team messaging, file sharing, integrations, audio and screen share, workflow automation and project management on an open source platform deployed by the world’s most secure and mission critical organizations. We co-build the future of collaboration with over 4,000 open source project contributors who’ve provided over 30,000 code improvements towards our shared product vision, which is translated into 20 languages.

Kino automatically organizes footage to make video editing faster and more enjoyable. Kino saves hours every day for all types of video creation, from Youtube content to Hollywood blockbusters.

CORE gives your AI tools persistent memory and the ability to act in the apps you use. ✅ Remember everything across Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code ✅ Take actions in Linear, GitHub, Slack, Gmail, Google Sheets ✅ Connect once, works everywhere via MCP ✅ Your data, your control: open-source and self-hostable

Modern teams work in the browser. But browsers weren't built for teams 😔. This leads to a bunch of problems like: - Knowledge/info that is hard to find (links that get lost, documentation that gets, buried, silos, etc) - Poor collaboration - Inefficient workflows LinkGrep is an AI browser copilot that solves those problems by making your browser team friendly. Specifically we help teams: 1. 🔗 Keep track of links, documents, and more automatically. With LinkGrep you'll never have to manually add or save a link. 2. 🔍 Find information that matters. LinkGrep connects with your existing tools like Notion and Slack and will automatically suggest relevant information to you as your browse (we have semantic search that you can fallback on). Demo: https://youtu.be/jwcPGDRy4oQ 3. 👥 Collaborate better. LinkGrep lets you leave notes and comments directly on web pages — you won't ever have to copy paste a link into Slack ever again. 4. 🤖 Automate team actions like opening up the right links before a meeting. Never disrupt a meeting to send a link again. Demo: https://youtu.be/an3VKpAWft0

Transforms plain-English requirements into fast, reliable, and self-healing tests, built to replace manual testing and reduce regressions,

Elessar boosts engineering productivity by integrating with your existing ecosystem of tools to automatically generate changelogs, streamline communications, and provide AI-powered reporting to engineers & managers.

Dart is a fully-featured project management tool that lets you chat with AI to create tasks, plan roadmaps, generate reports, and handle any other PM work. You can then use customizable agents to complete work across every role. Thousands of teams use Dart in order to chat with their tasks, plan better, and eliminate regular PM chores from their schedule, freeing up seven hours per week to focus on other work.

Our mission is to make the web more collaborative. We're not just making collaboration faster—we're crafting it to be the best. Today we’re all using online platforms more than ever before - building, researching, learning, connecting etc. And we're not doing it alone. We're doing it together with other people and machines, turning the internet into the world's biggest team. Yet, the web was built for solo voyages. We saw a shift when platforms like Figma and Google Docs brought a multiplayer approach, breaking down walls and inspiring seamless teamwork. At Velt, we're taking it further. We're on a mission to infuse the magic of collaboration into the fabric of the web—one app at a time. We aim to erase the lines between online and offline co-working, crafting an environment where distance is irrelevant, and 'flow' is the norm. Right now, more than half of work hours are spent on coordination and communication—less on creating. With Velt, we're setting out to reverse these figures, reducing time spent on logistical issues by over 90%. Imagine what we can create when we spend less time talking about work and more time doing it! We're building a better web—a web for us, for our team, for everyone. Join us, and let's accelerate the future of web together 🚀 Our Products: - Velt Collaboration SDK (https://velt.dev/): JS SDK to add powerful collaboration experiences to your own product for your end-users. This helps you ship such experiences ridiculously fast, increase user growth and engagement. - Superflow (https://usesuperflow.com/): JS plugin to enable product, marketing and design teams to comment and collaborate directly on their websites. This helps them iterate and ship their products 10x faster. We’re a team of ex-Googlers. We've launched products like Augmented Reality in Google Search & Maps. Come build a better web with us 🚀

Unlayer makes embeddable email and web editing software. We provide the essential editing tools that companies need to create successful marketing and engagement campaigns. If you want to add a rich email template editor, web page builder, or popup builder into your application, try Unlayer.

Instead of trying to hurriedly take notes while also having a conversation, you simply push a button in our app whenever you hear something important, like a piece of product feedback or action item. In real-time our system records, transcribes, and creates clips from the parts of the conversation you tagged that can share with your team or use to write post-call notes.

FlowEQ is the trusted provider of workflow automation for teams that need to accelerate their work, especially complex processes and high-volume workflows that require human judgment. The FlowEQ Workflow Acceleration Platform includes interactive decision trees that are used by customer support, operations and product teams across all industries to improve accuracy and speed up important recurring work. Using FlowEQ customers get through high-stake recurring workflows 10x faster, saving their companies time and money every day. For additional information, visit www.floweq.com.

https://www.flow.club/ is a virtual co-working space where people work in high-intensity sprints designed to double their productivity. We envision a world where... - anyone can access deep, focused flow anytime, anywhere - working independently or remotely doesn’t have to feel like you're on your own Our mission is to build the software that powers the most inspiring and productive work environment for knowledge workers. Our members love Flow Club (https://www.flow.club/wall-of-love). We’re growing quickly, just presented at Y Combinator's Summer 2021 Demo Day, raised $5M, and hiring our founding team. We are backed by Worklife Ventures, a firm investing in companies re-designing the way work gets done in the future, and 100 more of the world's best investors and operators. Among our investors are Paul Graham and the founders of iconic companies like Dropbox, Mercury, Quora, Outschool, and Sendbird. Finally, we are inspired by our members and hosts who we see everyday working out of Flow Club building the most incredible things. They remind us great things are built incrementally, one step at a time.

Build internal tools for your business with just a few clicks. No developers are required to create custom workflows, Kanban boards, tables, apps, forms, dashboards, and more. Leverage AI to eliminate manual work.

We’re building the autonomy layer where AI agents, people, and robots work as one team.

Waydev is the Engineering Productivity Intelligence platform that helps companies understand, measure, and improve the performance of their software teams. It connects to the tools engineers already use, then transforms code, work items, reviews, deployments, and AI-assisted activity into a unified source of truth for engineering effectiveness. Built for modern engineering leaders, Waydev delivers deep visibility across delivery speed, code quality, collaboration patterns, and real business impact. With automated insights, conversational analytics, and industry benchmarks, teams can make decisions with clarity, reduce bottlenecks, and continuously improve how software is shipped. Waydev replaces manual reporting, subjective evaluations, and static dashboards. It gives executives, managers, and ICs the context they need to optimize workflows, forecast outcomes, and align engineering output to business results. Waydev powers engineering intelligence for fast-growing startups and global enterprises by turning raw activity into actionable strategy.

Text Blaze saves time and increases comms quality by automating repeated tasks. Users save smart templates and insert them anywhere on the web using keyboard shortcuts. Templates can include placeholders, logic, dynamic fields, integrations with other apps, and more.

Compose AI is a free Chrome extension that helps automate your writing using AI. You know how Gmail autocompletes your emails? Compose.ai is like that but everywhere, like how Grammarly works.

‍Fieldguide is a vertical AI platform for modern assurance and advisory firms that digitizes the end-to-end engagement workflow on a single platform. Built by former Big Four practitioners and experienced technology leaders, Fieldguide is trusted by top CPA firms to improve margins, win new business, and build stronger client relationships. We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Y Combinator, Floodgate, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Qasar Younis, Eric Ries, and more.

Zynq makes company offices smart with an all-in-one workspace management platform that redefines the relationship between people x space x time. Companies using Zynq can fully embrace the Hybrid Office, giving employees a quick way to find the best time and space to collaborate, meet with guests, and much more.

Motion lets you build and manage AI Employees directly within our work management platform, an AI-native productivity suite offering project management, task management, calendar, docs, wiki, notes, scheduling, contextual search, reports, and more.

Taskade is the execution layer for ideas. One prompt becomes a live app that thinks and collaborates with your team. Build live dashboards, websites, and tools that connect with your workspace in real time. Every workflow automates itself. Every project becomes a live database. Every agent plans, acts, and learns inside your workspace. No code. No setup. Just creation. Taskade Genesis turns work into living systems. Projects remember. Agents learn. Automations keep everything in motion. Build once, and your workspace evolves as your data and team grow. Your workspace is the backend. The interface builds itself. Software should be built by everyone. Build without permission. https://www.taskade.com