Metal
Firm proprietary data is only as sharp as the context around it. Metal is the context platform for private capital. It structures everything a firm has touched, every deal, company, and figure, along with every decision the deal team has made, into one context graph. So the AI tools your deal teams already rely on, like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot, can reason with the firm's own knowledge. Every deal feeds back into the graph, so the firm's edge compounds: each decision sharpens the one that fo
Y Combinator
yc-company-directory #5156Backed by a16z and YC, Metal is building an AI-native operating system for founders raising venture rounds. Metal brings proprietary intelligence on the venture ecosystem, enabling founders to identify the "most likely" investors, research various firms, and identify who they know that can introduce them to specific investors. More than 100 YC founders have signed as paying customers.
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yc-company-directory #5179Firm proprietary data is only as sharp as the context around it. Metal is the context platform for private capital. It structures everything a firm has touched, every deal, company, and figure, along with every decision the deal team has made, into one context graph. So the AI tools your deal teams already rely on, like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot, can reason with the firm's own knowledge. Every deal feeds back into the graph, so the firm's edge compounds: each decision sharpens the one that fo
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A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.
Sandra AI
match 87Sandra AI is building the AI operating system for car dealerships, replacing clumsy legacy software with an AI-native, automation-driven platform. Founded by 3 McKinsey, HEC & MIT alumni who met 10 years ago at Ecole Polytechnique, the company’s AI agents already automates all customer interactions across calls & messages, and increasingly run dealership operations by automating sales and aftersales workflows end-to-end. This operational footprint naturally extends into a proprietary software la
shared extracted concept terms: native, operat, system; shared product terms: proprietary, already, customer, native; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
VectorShift
match 82VectorShift is the AI operating system for private market investors.VectorShift is the AI operating system for private market investors. We capture a firm's institutional knowledge across every deal, decision, and diligence finding, and put it to work across data room analysis, IC memos, portfolio company monitoring, and LP reporting.
shared extracted concept terms: operat, system; shared product terms: firm, private, deal, decision; shared product theme: context and memory; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Fixture
match 72Fixture is an AI-native CRM built for startups. It integrates with all the tools you use to communicate with customers, tracks marketing channels (e.g. website traffic), and pulls everything into a single go-to-market context store. Our AI agents proactively help you move your deals forward, and you can use Fixture from our web UI or any of your favorite AI tools (e.g. Claude Code).
shared extracted concept terms: customer; shared product terms: native, customer, everyth, context; shared product theme: context and memory, sales and marketing; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Digipals
match 71Social networks are dead. Social media became more media than social. My friends aren't on social media anymore - it's one third ads, one third content from strangers, and one third AI slop. Our social lives are fragmented across dozens of different apps - iMessage, WhatsApp, Find My, Partiful, and Venmo. Digipals is the first AI-native social operating system that improves our relationships with friends. We built ambient AI agents that use social context from our location, calendar, and photos
shared extracted concept terms: native, operat, system; shared product terms: native, operat, system, context; shared product theme: context and memory; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Nessie
match 70Knowledge work is being restructured by AI. Strategy happens in Claude. Research happens in ChatGPT. Building happens in Claude Code. The people defining the next decade of work are already thinking with AI every day. But none of that thinking compounds. Every session starts from zero. The reasoning behind decisions, the context behind strategies, the evolution of ideas across hundreds of conversations - all of it evaporates. Nessie is the infrastructure that makes it permanent. We auto-sync AI
shared product terms: context, decision, already, claude; shared product theme: context and memory; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
IncidentFox
match 51AI SRE agents that automatically learn each customer’s system so they work just like an in-house engineer.
shared extracted concept terms: customer; shared product terms: customer, system, so, like; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator