SaaS Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in India 2026

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.

Clueso is the fastest and easiest way for companies to generate high-quality instructional videos and documentation, ideal for customer education/onboarding and employee training. Our AI transforms simple screen-recordings into studio-quality videos and step-by-step documentation in minutes.

We're building an AI Operating System for DSCs. This includes a set of AI agents that can work together to complete a workflow end to end.

DrDroid is building AI Agents for Platform & Infrastructure teams. We help engineering teams fix issues faster and reduce escalations during on-call—automating triage, debugging, and remediation. We’re also the team behind several open-source projects: 🔹 Playbooks – A runbook automation platform 🔹 Kenobi – An event analytics platform for debugging data pipelines Join us in redefining how teams run operations in the post-GPT world.

With over 500M white-collared job offers rolled out annually, companies find it very difficult to be certain about what to offer. Companies rely on old compensation survey data, which are updated only once every year. The salary expectations of candidates in the market change significantly on a quarterly basis (~7% statistically) in the startup ecosystem. This results in more than 50% of qualified/selected candidates not joining the company due to expectation mismatch. CompUp is an API-driven compensation benchmarking tool. We integrate with your existing HR/payroll systems, removing the need for manual data entry, and also getting updated in real-time. CompUp provides the most accurate real-time compensation benchmarking data which helps you make the right offer to the candidate. The platform allows you to make better compensation decisions such as annual increments, candidate offers using internal and external data. This has the following advantages : - All the process of compensation data submission is automatic and needs no manual intervention - Since the job market is dynamic in nature, the offers made on CompUp's real-time benchmarks would be the most efficient - The presentation of the offer to the candidate makes it look more appealing and explanatory to the candidate

Cone is an AI-powered work operating system that unifies accounting workflows — proposals, tasks, billing, payments, and client engagement into one platform

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.

Salt is a neo banking solution stitched together to ease payments and documentation which comes with business banking by moving it to a digital-first and automated end to end platform.

Kaagaz is an 'Office' Suite for Mobile-first Businesses in India. With Kaagaz, these users can manage all the document requirements for their business using their smartphone itself, without needing a Desktop. We have an active user base of 3Mn+ users and paid users north of 60,000+ - growing every month. With over 200M such businesses in India, at $15/year subscription price, this a $3B opportunity in India & much larger globally. We are a team of 2nd time entrepreneurs having scaled the pervious startup to $1M in GMV. We are backed by YCombinator, Goodwater Capital, Pravega Venture, Better Capital & other investors including Alan Rutledge (TrendMD) and Farid Ahsan (Sharechat)

Spadeworks transforms how trade contractors handle customer service through AI agents that work 24/7. We answer every call, schedule every job, send every reminder, and follow up with every customer - turning missed opportunities into booked revenue. Trade businesses grow faster because they never miss a lead again.

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.

rehook.ai is an all-in-one promotion engine. A complete stack which lets you run referral, loyalty, rewards, discounts, coupons, leaderboards, streaks, tiers etc and is flexible, trackable, scalable and secure. With an intuitive rule engine, marketers can simply add/edit/change rules to generate coupons/rewards/cashbacks or any other incentives. rehook.ai lets you experiment and personalize campaigns around user segments, geographies, demographics, journeys and any other attribute- without ever going back to tech.

RDash is an AI powered construction management software that unifies site teams, procurement, design and finance - out of box; Without requiring customer to stitch anything. We are fastest to deploy and compatible with most accounting and ERP tools.

Our SaaS product solves the different problems that job seekers face in the process of finding a new job - creating an efficient resume, writing a cover letter/email, updating their LinkedIn profile, applying to suitable jobs, interview preparation... It's the 1st time in history that we've been able to create resumes using technology that surpass human made resumes. This is a novel way to add active job seekers to our database of resumes as none of the incumbents are focussing on candidates' problems. 100k+ new active job seekers are added to our database every month, growing rapidly. As the next step, we are launching a recruitment marketplace to close the loop.

SalaryBook is an payroll, employee attendance and Expense management app for 60 million Indian SMEs. SMBs see in our app a one stop solution for running their business. Starting from seamless on-boarding of employees to managing their payroll and attendance. Our app includes some cool features like selfie & location based attendance marking. Say goodbye to the traditional punch in attendance systems & replace it with a click of a button on SalaryBook mobile app. SalaryBook also helps 400M Indian blue-collar employees to create their first ever credit & skills profile online.

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.

Rivia.ai empowers marketing, sales, and demand generation teams to effortlessly generate and distribute interactive product demos within 10 minutes. Potential customers of SaaS brands can now personally engage with these self-guided product stories without direct sales interactions. With our user-friendly platform and intuitive dashboards, teams can effortlessly capture, customize, enhance, and share their demos without sound technical expertise. These interactive demos can seamlessly integrate into applications, websites, email campaigns, or ad campaigns.

Advantage Club is a global platform for employee engagement including rewards, flexible benefits, perks and communities. We are currently live with 1000+ companies across 100+ countries and have a ARR of ~$8m. Our revenue has grown ~4x in the last 1 year.

AppX empowers creators to launch their personal apps and websites to monetise their audience via courses and premium exclusive content.

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.

GimBooks offers a cloud based and Mobile First book keeping and business management platform, geared mainly towards small and micro-sized businesses of India, which is easy to use and uniquely offers domain based bookkeeping and Integrated banking.

Issue UPI wallets to employees, track and control the spend.

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

Zoko: The Ultimate WhatsApp Commerce Solution for Shopify Merchants WHY ZOKO IS THE GAME-CHANGING PLATFORM EVERY SHOPIFY MERCHANT NEEDS Shopify merchants face a critical challenge: while they've built amazing online stores, they're missing out on the world's largest messaging platform where customers actually want to shop. Zoko solves this by seamlessly integrating WhatsApp commerce capabilities with your existing Shopify infrastructure. THE UNTAPPED OPPORTUNITY THAT'S COSTING YOU SALES Consider this: 175 million people message businesses on WhatsApp daily - that's more engagement than Amazon generates. With 100 million merchants already using WhatsApp for business globally, those not leveraging this channel are falling behind competitors who are capturing sales directly through conversations. PROVEN SUCCESS FORMULA Zoko's founders didn't just theorize about WhatsApp commerce - they lived it. Starting with their own ecommerce business entirely on WhatsApp, they scaled to 200,000 engaged followers who eagerly purchased products through weekly WhatsApp updates. When other businesses began paying for access to their "WhatsApp sales tools," they knew they'd discovered something revolutionary. THE $50 BILLION MARKET OPPORTUNITY The WhatsApp commerce market represents over $50 billion annually - a massive revenue stream that traditional ecommerce platforms can't access. For Shopify merchants, this means untapped customers, higher engagement rates, and sales happening through the world's most trusted messaging platform. COMPLETE SALES, MARKETING & SUPPORT INTEGRATION Zoko transforms WhatsApp into a comprehensive business channel, enabling Shopify merchants to: - Convert conversations directly into sales - Run targeted marketing campaigns through WhatsApp - Provide instant customer support where customers prefer to communicate - Build deeper customer relationships through personalized messaging THE FUTURE OF COMMERCE IS CONVERSATIONAL WhatsApp represents the internet for the next billion users entering the digital economy. Zoko positions itself as the "Shopify for WhatsApp merchants," giving existing Shopify store owners the tools to dominate this emerging channel before competitors realize its potential. For Shopify merchants serious about growth, Zoko isn't just another tool - it's the bridge to the next generation of ecommerce where conversations convert to sales.

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.

Volopay is a modern spend management platform that saves companies time and money by giving visibility & control to every aspect of business spending. With Volopay, finance and accounting teams can control expense requests and approvals, make bill payments (domestic/cross-border), manage company cards, and reconcile all accounting on one platform. Volopay completely eliminates the need for expense reports and reimbursements while giving everyone in the company a card to use. We worked in an offshore dev centre in the past and it took 2 months to get our reimbursements and 4 weeks to make any purchase as there was just one corporate card for the entire company and clunky bill payments solutions offered by the banks. Among our customers are Reddoorz (OYO of South East Asia), Dathena (biggest data security co in Singapore) and Beam (APAC’s leading micro-mobility player).

Exly is an all-in-one business platform built for knowledge businesses, coaches, trainers and creators to launch, manage and market their products (courses, webinars, ecommunities, 1:1 consultations and workshops).

Building a plug-and-play suite of APIs and lending tech stack to enable financial inclusion. OneFin is backed by marquee investors from Silicon Valley like Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, etc. Leading NBFC, SFB and fintech companies in India are our users. We have enabled loan disbursement/migration of around $2B in last few years across more than 1 million loans across education loans, EV financing, business loans, credit line, 2 wheeler financing, personal loans, invoice discounting, and various other credit products.

Blitzllama makes it easy for product development teams to rapidly collect user feedback at scale. With only a simple SDK integration, teams can ask questions to their users within product journeys and get highly contextual answers in minutes. This empowers product teams to ship products that address users' real problems that increase user retention, engagement and reduce churn.

SMEs find it hard to derive value from their business data which is stuck inside hard-to-access accounting softwares. We provide them an app-first MIS/Business Intelligence solution to track their business essentials (Debtors, Creditors, Sales, Outstanding etc.) and help make quicker and better decisions.

Wingman is a software for sales teams that listens to sales calls and automatically surfaces suggestions to sales reps in real-time. The sales calls are also transcribed and analysed for postmortems, reviews and coaching.

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.