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

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 120+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly. Discover how Deel makes global work simple at deel.com.

Webflow is the leading no-code visual web development platform. It seamlessly generates sophisticated code so anyone can build powerful web-based businesses and adapt to changes without developers or months of building. From entrepreneurs and creative agencies to Fortune 500 companies, Webflow makes the internet a more inclusive place by making the tools to build on it more accessible to more people, fueling business growth. Webflow powers websites for innovators like Discord, Monday.com, IDEO, Orange Theory Fitness, TED, and Dropbox. Webflow is backed by Y Combinator, Accel, CapitalG, Silversmith, and other awesome investors.

Launched out of Y Combinator’s 2009 Summer batch, Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online Stripe is a proud partner of YC companies—from Airbnb (S09) to Defog (W23)—to help them grow their businesses and increase the GDP of the internet.

Sarah AI is building the AI-native operating system for consumer goods brands—an autonomous supply-chain brain that replaces legacy ERPs and actually runs the business. Founded by Chris (2x Founder; ex-CEO at Better Nature; Forbes 30U30) and Dirk (ex-Google Data, Analytics & AI Lead), we’re backed by YC (W26). In our first month full-time, we’ve raised $1.6M and secured rapid commercial traction with 15 design partners and a growing pipeline of 30+ brands. Our mission is bold: give CPG brands completely hands-free supply chains that run themselves through Sarah, their AI ops assistant. We’re now growing a small, world-class team of builders excited to reinvent how physical goods companies operate—end-to-end, autonomous, and AI-first. If you want to work on hard problems, ship fast, and define the future of autonomous operations, you’ll feel right at home here.

Uplane replaces marketing agencies with AI. We generate hundreds of ads with matching landing pages and steer the ad spend across channels like Meta, Google, LinkedIn and others. By connecting to CRM and ERP data, Uplane learns what drives profits and continuously improves campaigns. We’ve grown from $0 to $29k MRR in only 4 months. Our largest customer recently fired their ad agency at an all-time performance high, just to work with us. Now they get 20 times as many ads per month as before. The landing pages we generate convert up to 3-times as well as the status quo. Even the best marketing managers in the world can’t beat AI at personalization and A/B testing. Digital marketing is a $740B market with a 10% CAGR. Uplane charges a base fee plus up to 10% of ad spend, outperforming marketing agencies that typically charge 10-30%.

Semble AI builds AI agents that design building-systems (fire, HVAC, plumbing, security). Construction companies use Semble to cut down weeks on commercial and residential projects. The $600B building-system integration industry still runs on spreadsheets and manual drawings, even as building codes rapidly evolve and become more localized. It’s a massive blind spot for the tech world. Jonathan and Ethan met studying computer science at Stanford. Jonathan worked at Convergint, one of the world's largest building system integrators, specifically for the purpose of learning how this industry works. Ethan is obsessed for a different reason: His house burned down in 2017 due to a faulty fire system. They are determined to make Semble the industry standard for construction design.

Outsourced IT is a $350B industry running on 10-20% margins. We're building AI employees to help them solve support tickets faster and increase margins to 70-80%. Yolanda worked as a Senior Support Engineer at Netflix. Her team ran 3x more efficiently than average outsourced IT companies. We're now bringing the automation Netflix has to 150K companies globally.

Next-generation truck management software to automate back-office operations for trucking companies. Features include AI agents to automate inbound/outbound calls, AI document upload to reduce manual data entry, load sourcing tools, automated accounting, and more.

GroundControl builds mission-critical software for manufacturers in highly-regulated industries (aerospace, defense, medical) Our core product automates lengthy, complex, and regulated quality documentation in aerospace manufacturing. As an example, the Boeing 777 is made up of over 3 million parts sourced from manufacturers around the world. These manufacturers must complete quality documentation for every part on this aircraft (machined parts, printed circuit boards, wire harnesses, assemblies, and more). GroundControl helps manufacturers complete this required documentation accurately, in minutes instead of days.

SalesPatriot is a back-office operating system for defense firms. It helps you find, review, and bid on RFQ solicitations, both directly with the Pentagon and as a subcontractor. US Government procures billions of dollars worth of parts and products every year, yet the procedure is riddled with red tape and repetitive, manual work. Nelson worked at a manufacturing firm during his gap year prior to attending Berkeley. As the Chief of Staff, he witnessed first-hand the tedious process of finding great contract opportunities, the lengthy solicitation preparation process, and paper-based communication between departments. He teamed up with Ben and Maciej, whom he met during Berkeley's M.E.T. admit day. Both of them had extensive experience in AI research and applications, which they applied to creating a powerful framework for humans and AI agents to collaborate during the lifecycle of a contract. With SalesPatriot, your firm can run on autopilot - we find suitable contracts automatically, ingest RFQs from primes, streamline the communication between the departments, and provide analytics to improve your win rate. Wether you are a manufacturer, reseller, or distributor, SalesPatriot can reduce your manual tasks, increase throughput, and boost your revenue.

Contrario is a managed hiring network helping growth-stage startups and enterprises fill hard roles fast. We fill critical roles faster with AI-powered expert recruiters who deliver high-signal candidates quickly. Unlike a typical marketplace, Contrario white-glove delivers top candidates by pairing proprietary AI models with recruiter workflows to filter noise and surface only the best-fit talent.

Ergo is AI for sales teams, monitoring customer communication across tools like Zoom, Email, and Slack to keep CRMs such as HubSpot and Salesforce up to date. Ergo’s AI agents execute revenue-generating activities, such as automating mid-funnel follow-ups based on external market signals and past customer interactions. By eliminating manual operational tasks, Ergo helps sales teams maintain active pipelines, prevent deals from stalling, and cut sales cycles in half.

Woz is an AI platform that enables anyone to build and scale real software businesses - no coding required. Historically, the ability to write code and architect software served as a massive barrier to business building. Woz eliminates this barrier with a team of AI agents that enable anyone, regardless of technical ability, to build products, go to market and grow a business all on one platform without a technical cofounder or inhouse engineering team. To start, we’re helping entrepreneurs build high quality mobile apps and launch them directly to the app store. For example, one of our first customers is a personal trainer building a fitness app for his clients. Ultimately, Woz aims to be the default platform where millions of AI-enabled entrepreneurs launch and scale businesses. Woz is built by a team of engineers and ML scientists who've worked together building complex AI systems for the last decade. We're backed by YC, Untapped Ventures, MGV and more.

Docs are integral to a great customer experience, but managing them is a challenging, multi-team effort. The most successful companies recognize that fantastic docs drive adoption and bad ones cause customers to churn. Promptless is used by fast-growing startups and Fortune 500 enterprises alike to automatically update docs based on feature releases, support tickets, internal Slack conversations, and more. Promptless is designed to be flexible—it can integrate with any docs platform, be triggered automatically from many workflows, and can pull in context from any internal knowledge source. With Promptless, documentation becomes a strategic advantage for growth, not a bottleneck or a liability.

Edexia is an AI Teacher Assistant for grading essays. It can be trained and controlled by the teacher and can grade assignments from any curriculum, year level, subject, or format. Learning like a teacher, Edexia visually breaks down its understanding of the rubric, and updates this as a teacher corrects it. Our vision is to transform education by facilitating AI’s safe and effective integration across all institutions and applications. Not using AI to replace teachers but rather to empower them—providing them with all the time and resources they need to develop their students.

Ryvn provides the devtools and infrastructure to easily deploy any workload, on any cloud, and on-prem. Run apps in your own cloud and offer Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) to your customers in minutes, with built-in observability designed for sensitive industries.

Enterprises are paralyzed by the risks of deploying generative AI. Traditional methods like RAG and fine-tuning are brittle, expensive, and fail to prevent costly hallucinations or guarantee compliance in high-stakes environments. This lack of trust stalls innovation and blocks ROI. CTGT ensures strict, auditable adherence to your policies on the fly. We deliver defensible audit trails and remediate noncompliant model behavior, so outputs become more aligned with company policies over time, combating data and model drift. CTGT is backed by Google's AI fund (Gradient), General Catalyst, and luminaries like Paul Graham. We provide the control and confidence necessary to unlock the full potential of enterprise AI.

PathPilot is the AI platform powering the next generation of financial operations. We build fintech-specialized AI agents that automate the most critical and manual workflows — loan origination, customer support, onboarding, collections, and regulatory oversight — so financial institutions can scale with confidence.

Lighthouz AI's AI agents solve the biggest problems in logistics - AR and AP! 3PLs, brokers, factors, and carriers lose billions every year to slow invoicing, manual invoice audits, and billing disputes. Manual AP & AR processes create errors, disputes, cash flow bottlenecks, late fees —hurting everyone in the logistics supply chain. 🚛 The Problem: - Factors: Auditing and verifying carrier invoices, timely invoicing - 3PLs & Brokers: Verifying carrier invoices, creating own invoices, and handling disputes and chargebacks. - Carriers: Timely invoicing, Submitting correct and complete paperwork, Dealing with late payments, incorrect deductions, and manual paperwork. - Shippers: Struggling with invoice error identification and resolution, delaying payments. 📉 The Impact: The U.S. freight industry processes over $1.2 trillion in transactions annually, yet 25% of freight invoices contain errors, leading to payment disputes and delays. 🔹 Our Solution is an AI agent that automates invoice audits, rate verifications, invoicing, and collections in the logistics industry. With Lighthouz AI agents, businesses 10x their AR and AP processes.

Planbase has everything health clinics need to manage their team in one place: capacity planning, employee scheduling, credentialing and payroll.

ProhostAI is building an AI Property Manager for short-term rental hosts on Airbnb and other platforms. Our team consists of an ex-Airbnb Staff Data Scientist and Dropbox Sr Software Engineer who are also Superhosts with 9 properties worth $15M making $1.5M/yr.

Poka Labs is developing an AI platform to automate operations tasks in chemical manufacturing, beginning with production scheduling. Traditionally, these tasks are performed manually using spreadsheets. Our software seamlessly integrates with existing data sources such as data historians, emails, and PDFs to automate analytics, scheduling, changes, and communication within a single platform. Malay and Andrew met while pursuing their MBAs at Harvard Business School. Malay previously worked as an engineer in the specialty chemical industry, saving his employers over $100 million across US, China, and German plants. Andrew worked as a software engineer on data infrastructure at Meta and optimization problems at a seed-stage startup. He also completed a Masters degree at Harvard specializing in Machine Learning.

At Anglera, we're developing a suite of AI agents to help e-commerce companies run their operations more efficiently. Our flagship agent helps our customers onboard, enrich, and manage their product data, reducing time per product from 15 mins down to 5 seconds. We previously developed ML to automatically enrich millions of products at Uber Eats, and we're now on a mission to automate the most common manual workflows for every e-commerce business.

Gauge helps your company show up in more AI answers. With traffic leaving search, traditional SEO is dying. Our customers are seeing inbound traffic from AI answers double every quarter.

Distro is the all-in-one AI-powered sales platform for counter staff and inside sales at industrial wholesale distributors (HVAC/R, plumbing, electrical, and more).

Andy is AI software that completes documentation for nurses doing home visits. Our software saves $8B a year; Tiantian was previously a PM at Google’s healthcare business and Max was a staff engineer on the health team at Apple. Andy benefits nurses and the agencies that employ them. Agencies that use Andy see up to 45% more detailed charts, 2x greater nurse productivity, and timely submission (no more billing delays!) With Andy, clinicians get their evenings back. Home health is the fastest growing segment of healthcare, doubling to $251B by 2031. Combined with recent nursing shortages and burnout, we’re seeing not just urgency, but excitement and joy, around adopting AI for home health.

Brainbase Labs is an applied AI research lab enabling AI in the workforce by building high-fidelity agent environments and tooling.

GetCrux is the AI Creative Strategist to launch winning ads. Creatives have become the biggest lever to win on ad platforms. Yet, there is no clear way to figure out why something works. Marketers end up guessing and replicating the best performing ad, only to see it fail - with high CAC & wasted dollars. GetCrux helps performance marketers find winning patterns in their ad creatives across 100+ parameters like hooks, messaging, storyline, music, pacing, and recommend exactly what to launch next.

Delve helps fast-growing teams get compliant with an AI-automated platform. Serving hundreds of companies on frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, and more.

Alex is an AI recruiter for the future of hiring. Companies use us to get the best hiring signal on their applicant pool and hire in a fraction of the time. Our AI recruiter has a live conversation over a video call with each of your candidates based on the interview questions you choose or that are recommended based on the job description. During the interview, our AI asks personalized follow-up questions in real-time based on the candidate's responses. Our AI recruiter can be customized to your roles in minutes and has already conducted thousands of interviews across engineering, IT, retail, hospitality, and more.

At Toma, we aim to become the Microsoft/OpenAI of the Automotive industry by supplying a fully integrated AI + software suite to tens of thousands of profitable automotive dealers in America, and then worldwide. Step 1 is to provide the world’s best voice AI solution for the automotive industry, serving departments from service to sales to finance to information technology. Toma’s voice agents do thousands of AI calls every day and generate millions of dollars worth of revenue for automotive customers. The automotive industry 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 Cox Automotive. Toma is backed best investors in Silicon Valley and the Automotive industry.

Centralize helps revenue teams operationalize multi-threading and drive warm pipeline. Reps at companies like Sendoso, Ethena, and Navattic use us to automatically map stakeholders, track evolving account priorities, and fill contact gaps by leveraging their networks for warm intros.

We are Alguna, an early-stage startup building a modern pricing, quoting, and billing platform for B2B companies. Our mission is to build the most efficient revenue management engine for B2B SaaS. Today, most companies get by using spreadsheets and manual processes across multiple single-point solutions, which is inefficient and costs millions in lost revenue. We solve this by unifying the quote-to-revenue process and automating complex back-office operations. This enables our customers (growth-stage startups and enterprises) to flexibly close more deals faster without worrying about internal limitations and relying on finance and engineering teams.

Building a modern alternative to Salesforce: https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty

Campfire is the modern accounting platform for startups and mid-size tech companies. Our product includes an accounting general ledger that has multi-entity support and advanced financial reporting such as P&L by department and contribution margin by customer. Migrate from legacy accounting software to Campfire for your accounting and financial reporting to automate manual tasks and streamline workflows to unlock financial insights and accelerate the monthly close process.

PropRise is building the AI operating system for commercial real estate investing. We automate the entire workflow from sourcing to closing: our AI finds deals nationwide that match your criteria, then populates your Excel models with extracted data in 90 minutes instead of 4 hours. CRE teams currently waste 80% of their time on manual tasks and miss profitable deals because they can't analyze fast enough. Major firms like Colliers and Public Storage already use us to analyze 7x more deals. We're creating the first end-to-end platform that acts as the system of autonomy, intelligence, and record for the $20 trillion CRE market.

Strada helps insurance carriers, MGAs, and brokers run with AI agents that handle sales & service calls, chats, and emails 24/7.

We use generative AI to call insurance on behalf of healthcare clinics. We save clinics up to 40 hours of calls every week over existing outsourced human solutions. Compared to the existing solutions for benefits verifications: - We're faster -- by default, we have a turnaround of 24 hours compared to typically a 3 day turnaround for competitors - We can reach more payors -- as long as they have a phone line, we can support calling them for benefits. There's quite a few payors in both medical and dental (e.g. Seledent) that have yet to offer a digital retrieval of benefits - We're reliable and consistent -- there is no person-to-person variation or question skipping when it comes to working with software

Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & questionnaire response management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows. **Core benefits and features:** - **10X Faster Drafts With Highly Accurate Responses**: Using Inventive’s proprietary AI-system you can get first drafts 10 times faster, with accurate responses rooted in your knowledge sources, that you and your team can collaborate on to refine. - **Single Hub for All Your Knowledge Sources:** Inventive offers a centralized hub for all your knowledge sources. You can upload previous RFPs and relevant documents; integrate with your internal data systems such as gDrive. Sharepoint & more; upload Q&A from legacy tools or spreadsheets; and even add information from your websites. - **Fight Stale Content With AI Content Manager:** Inventive’s AI content manager proactively flags conflicting content by identifying issues within your sources, so you only use fresh and relevant content in your responses. - **Higher Productivity & Competitive Advantage With AI Agents:** Inventive offers a suite of AI agents designed to boost productivity and give you a competitive advantage. These agents can help with researching competitors, brainstorming ideas, and more. Built by a customer-obsessed team comprising an ex-exec from a Fortune 500 company and ex-AI team from Google & Stanford. Backed by top Silicon Valley investors including YCombinator.

Corgea helps engineers ship code and not vulnerabilities. It's an AI-powered SAST, unlike traditional SAST with tons of false positives, Corgea can find vulnerabilities like business logic flaws, API vulnerabilities, and broken authentication with little false positives (<5%). It also writes security fixes for engineers to approve.

Roame is flight search engine design for credit card points and miles. We help travelers redeem their points for dream vacations in seconds rather than days. At Roame, we are on a mission to revolutionize travel and consumer finance. We stand at the intersection of travel tech and fintech.

Artie is software that streams data from databases to data warehouses in real-time. Today, most companies run their ETL process every few hours or overnight, so their data warehouse is always out of date; with Artie, the warehouse always has live production data.

Outset offers AI-powered user interviews to conduct qualitative research. Traditional surveys are fast but lack depth while live interviews produce high quality data but are slow and expensive. Outset uses LLMs to lead interviews and synthesize results so researchers get high quality data 100 times faster.

Pump saves up to 60% off AWS for early stage startups, and for free (yes, that's right). Using group buying and AI, Pump automates cost savings that require no engineering effort. #GetPumped

HockeyStack improves sales outcomes for B2B companies by helping them record and understand every interaction their customers have with their marketing, sales reps, CSMs, and products. We map every customer touchpoint from ad impression to closed won and to upsell using our own tracking script and native integrations to the B2B GTM tech stack. Building this source of truth allow us to give companies previously hidden insights that generate incremental revenue, such as: - Deploy marketing budget: "Launch this ad campaign to this audience to generate $XM in pipeline" - Target the right accounts with the right messaging: "These accounts have the highest likelihood to convert, put them on this email sequence" - Convert more of the pipeline: “Pied Piper hasn't visited the site for 8 days; give Jim a phone call”

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

Omnistrate is a cloud platform to SaaS-ify your docker image in minutes instead of years. Let’s say you have an open-source software, and you want to monetize your invention by building a multi-cloud SaaS solution. You can either spend years doing it yourself or use Omnistrate to do it in no time. Get started today by simply importing your existing docker-compose.

Orchid is an AI-powered Electronic Health Record (EHR) for independent mental health professionals that saves them time, money, and frustration by integrating core administrative workflows, streamlining clinical processes, and automating manual flows.

Companies struggle to customize their generative AI models by taking advantage of their existing customer and enterprise data, in real-time. Chima solves for this through a sleek, interoperable layer before the standard generative AI models are applied.