Productivity Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area that are currently hiring 2025

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.

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.

Kenley is an AI-powered workspace for consulting firms. With Kenley, firms can use their institutional knowledge to power critical workflows—from drafting proposal decks to scaling due diligence research—so consultants can focus on excellence. *AnswerGrid, Inc. doing business as Kenley ⸻ Kenley was founded by Bolu Ben-Adeola and Noah Ohrner. Bolu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kenley. Before Kenley, he built ML infrastructure for the fixed-income markets at Bloomberg and led teams at Palantir, South Korea, tackling problems in heavy industry manufacturing. Noah is the Co-Founder and CTO of Kenley. Before Kenley, he graduated with a first class degree from the University of Cambridge and was a tech lead on Foundry Security at Palantir.

Onyx is the open source generative AI platform 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.

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.

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

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 🚀

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.

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

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.

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

Sapling offers an API and SDK to help businesses integrate language models into their applications. Its messaging assistant sits on top of CRMs and messaging platforms to help users more efficiently compose responses.

GoLinks allows you to create internal links for your company that are so easy to remember and share, you don't have to bookmark or copy and paste them in emails. For example, teams use GoLinks to keep track of their dashboard at go/metrics or an employee directory at go/directory - powered by AI. These internal link systems have been a standard for productivity boost within companies like Google, Yahoo, Linkedin, Twitter, and Airbnb for years. GoLinks is the first company building this as a service for everyone else. 75% of all employees at all of our customers use GoLinks every single month. In 2023, GoLinks, launched two new productivity solutions to build off of their vision of building a Gen AI productivity suite: - GoSearch (www.gosearch.ai): An enterprise workplace search solution powered by AI. - GoProfiles (www.goprofiles.io): A hub for your team to find shared connections, celebrate wins, and boost company culture — powered by gen AI!

We replace form builders like Typeform and custom code as the way you collect information from users using low code tools. For example you’re a health tech startup and want an onboarding flow but don’t want to use Typeform and don’t have engineering bandwidth. You can use Embeddables to build a totally custom concierge flow and embed it in your app. Then make edits and view analytics, without writing code.

Klarity is Enterprise AI that helps companies like OpenAI, DoorDash, CrowdStrike and Zoom bend the G&A curve. Klarity delivers two core capabilities: (1) unlimited transformation; creating a digital twin of your business to identify gaps, risks and inefficiencies, and provide valuable insights into your business in weeks instead of quarters, and (2) intelligent document processing that turns contracts, invoices, and POs into audit-ready data with 82%+ pass-through rates. Klarity reduces OpEx, boosts accuracy, and empowers CFOs to deliver board-ready ROI.

Retool is the fast way to build internal tools.

PocketSuite is a YC-backed mobile platform for service businesses, ranging from fitness trainers, photographers, and home cleaners to dog trainers, hairstylists, therapists, and life coaches. Businesses use PocketSuite to get booked, paid, and message their clients. We make the work of running your own business simple for solo operators and small teams. PocketSuite empowers the U.S. market of 20 million service professionals generating $800 billion in sales with a mobile cloud solution for running their business. Thousands of businesses run on PocketSuite. Over 500,000 clients book and pay their Pros on PocketSuite today and we're growing fast.

We help B2B companies reduce churn and grow customer spending. Our product gives account managers access to data dashboards and priority checklists needed to proactively save customers and upsell them to more profitable products. Most companies have all the data they need to figure this out, but it’s often locked away in 20 different systems. There is no central place for an account manager to easily prioritize which customers to focus on and what actions to take to help them. Workbase is the solution, by one-click integrating the data sources and customizing the interface and actions for each company. When working on similar internal tools at companies like Segment, we saw first-hand that proactively managing the customer journey could increase net retained revenue by as much as 20 percent.

Cron (acq. by Notion) is the next-generation calendar app for professionals and teams, making modern work more efficient and joyful. Our mission is to help spend time wisely through well-crafted software that streamlines workflows, integrates other productivity tools, and builds collaboration right into the core experience. In everything we do at Cron, we believe that time is our most precious resource.

Slapdash brings all your apps together in one place to give you new superpowers. It's a new type of tool that makes modern computer work less tedious and more fun. It's just one neat trick: we make your workflow insanely fast. We have built a low-latency, file-system for your cloud apps as well as the fastest interface in the world to drive it: the Command Bar.

Plato turns the company's engineering and product managers into better leaders. We help resolve challenging management situation as they arise, in real-time thanks to video one-on-one conversations, AMAs, and more with experienced technical leaders form Google,Netflix, Lyft, Box, etc.

We believe that the way business gets done today is broken. That’s why we’re dedicated to simplifying work for everyone - from small startups to large enterprise companies. Millions of individuals and over 65,000 companies world-wide trust the HelloSign platform – which includes eSignature, digital workflow and electronic fax solutions – to automate and manage their most important business transactions. With a sharp focus on user experience and a lust for innovation, HelloSign is on a mission to Simplify Work.