Funded

In-call AI teleprompter that helps reps close enterprise deals (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Sales; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI co-pilot for building plan review and building code compliance (YC Winter 2025; Real Estate and Construction -> Construction; Salt Lake City, UT, USA).

Where your life context becomes understanding (YC Winter 2025; Consumer -> Consumer Electronics; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Real-time AI Voice Translation for Developers (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Productivity; VC, Spain).

Regulated derivatives exchange (YC Winter 2025; Fintech -> Banking and Exchange; New York City, NY, USA).

The agentic AI Word editor (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Productivity; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Making humanoids dexterous enough to thread a needle (YC Winter 2025; Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics; San Francisco, CA, USA).

An AI teammate that automatically updates your customer-facing docs (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI documentation engineer – test & autoimprove stale product docs (YC Winter 2025; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Financial OS for Modern Fleets (YC Winter 2025; Fintech; Berlin, Berlin, Germany).

AI-Powered Company OS (YC Winter 2025; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

A Roomba for weeds on a farm. (YC Winter 2025; Industrials -> Agriculture; Seattle, WA, USA).

Reusable Satellites (YC Winter 2025; Industrials -> Aviation and Space; Atlanta, GA, USA).

We turn complex API integrations into drop‑in full‑stack libraries (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; Amsterdam, NH, Netherlands).

A vintage marketplace curated by AI (YC Winter 2025; Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics; New York City, NY, USA).

Automating refurbishment of $1T in consumer electronics (YC Winter 2025; Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics; New York City, NY, USA).

AI Employees for Hotels (YC Winter 2025; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Test, monitor, and improve your voice agents (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Analytics; San Francisco, CA, USA).

The AI Maximalist Software Holding Company (YC Winter 2025; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI powered operating system for distributors and OEMs (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Operations; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Computational Law (YC Winter 2025; B2B; London, England, United Kingdom).

AI-powered student information system for K-12 schools (YC Winter 2025; Education; New York City, NY, USA).

We turn traditional companies into AI companies (YC Winter 2025; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI agents for CX teams, starting with training and QA (YC Winter 2025; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Autonomous patrol-boats for National Security (YC Winter 2025; Industrials -> Drones; Los Angeles, CA, USA).

AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Recruiting and Talent; Leuven, Flanders, Belgium).

The AI Secretary for Email and Calendar (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Productivity; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Next-Generation Power Electronics (YC Winter 2025; Industrials; San Francisco, CA, USA).

The Open-Core Security Graph (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Security; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Daily productivity tracker (YC Winter 2025; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Zero code network tracer (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

connect, migrate and implement enterprise systems (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; BY, Germany).

Chat with AI Characters (YC Winter 2025; Consumer; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Tally: YC-listed company with no public description (YC Winter 2025; Fintech; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Agent Teams for Professionals (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Productivity; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Book and manage all of your golf tee times in one place (YC Winter 2025; Consumer; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Vercel For GPUs (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Infrastructure; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI Agents for Audit (YC Winter 2025; B2B; New York City, NY, USA).

AI Compliance for Affordable Housing (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Legal; New York City, NY, USA).

AI for insurance verification & billing at dental clinics (YC Winter 2025; Healthcare -> Healthcare IT; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Reasoning Fine-Tuning (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI-powered research desk for hedge funds (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Finance and Accounting; New York City, NY, USA).

AI agents for global trade compliance (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics; San Francisco, CA, USA).

A foundation model for physics (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AWS for AI Agents (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; Bengaluru, KA, India).

Lovable for Chrome Plugins (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Recruiting and Talent; San Francisco, CA, USA).

A Disease Focused Biotech, Building Multiple Billion Dollar Drugs (YC Winter 2025; Healthcare -> Therapeutics; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI Platform for Commercial Insurance Brokerages (YC Winter 2025; Fintech -> Insurance; Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden).

Outbound Sequencing Infrastructure for Startups (YC Winter 2025; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AI Copilot that automates admin work for veterinary professionals (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Productivity; Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden).

Voice AI for medical language translation (YC Winter 2025; Healthcare -> Healthcare Services; San Francisco, CA, USA).

We automate urban planning so cities can build cheaper and faster (YC Winter 2025; Government; location unlisted).

AI to understand and then route engineering work (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

AEO/GEO for E-Commerce and Retail (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Claude Code plugin that reduces token consumption and cost by 50% (YC Winter 2025; B2B; San Francisco, CA, USA).

The OS for hospital workforce management (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Human Resources; New York City, NY, USA).

Artificial Specialized Intelligence (YC Winter 2025; B2B -> Infrastructure; San Francisco, CA, USA).

Bratislava-based US-Slovak startup whose ARES engine builds behavioral/psychological digital twins of audiences to pre-test content across 70+ languages.

Alethica (Techstars London 2025, ex-Amazon/IBM founders) builds an AI data-intelligence platform helping legal professionals uncover legal breaches — a Bloomberg-Terminal analogue for litigators. Evidence of accelerator-backed demand for litigation analytics.

Ovida (Techstars London 2025, led by P&G's ex-global head of leadership training) analyzes professional conversations with AI to develop leadership and coaching skills. Corporate L&D shifting from courses to conversation-level feedback.

Parasol Platforms (Techstars London 2025, ex-Aon brokers) automates commercial insurance brokerage workflows with AI agents. Broker admin burden is a validated wedge across EU insurance distribution.

PrettyData (Techstars London 2025, ex-Bridgewater + salon entrepreneur) is an AI revenue-management suite for beauty salons — dynamic pricing/utilization for a fragmented service vertical. Vertical revenue-ops reaching main-street services.

Renn (Techstars London 2025, ex-Fiverr team) is a tax-expert AI agent for SMEs that optimizes business structure and captures tax savings to raise net income. Tax optimization for small firms is being productized.

Solim Health (Techstars London 2025, MD + AI engineer founders) builds a digital therapeutic for dementia-care patients to slow cognitive decline. Dementia-care demand is demographically locked in.

Tova Earth (Techstars London 2025) uses AI to forecast water availability globally, automating hydrologic analysis now bought as engineering consulting. Water-risk quantification is moving from consultants to software.

Bratislava fintech SaaS giving venture funds portfolio analytics and LP reporting.

Ydoca (StartupYard batch, featured March 2025) is an AI platform for producing sales proposals — automating the quoting/proposal documents that B2B sales teams assemble manually. Proposal automation is a recurring SMB pain with proven willingness to pay.

Bulgarian robotics startup automating warehouse inventory scanning with autonomous drones. LAUNCHub Ventures co-led the round.

Brno company protecting millions of users via DNS filtering sold through telcos; leads the EU's DNS4EU public resolver that went live June 2025. Backed by Day One Capital and Unbound.

Codasip GmbH (Munich HQ, engineering roots and major R&D in Brno) won EIC equity for custom RISC-V processor IP with CHERI hardware memory-safety security. EU processor-sovereignty play with deep Czech engineering DNA.

Deeploy B.V. (NL) won EIC blended finance for a platform keeping deployed ML models explainable, monitored and compliant — positioned directly on EU AI Act high-risk obligations. Public capital funding the AI-compliance tooling stack.

NannyML NV (BE) won EIC blended finance for post-deployment ML monitoring detecting silent model failure without ground truth. Production-AI reliability is becoming a compliance requirement under the AI Act.

Neurescue ApS (DK) won EIC funding for an intelligent aortic balloon occlusion catheter improving blood flow to heart and brain during cardiac arrest resuscitation. Attacks the dismal out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate.

Nextkidney B.V. (NL) won EIC blended finance for the NeoKidney portable hemodialysis device enabling home dialysis. Dialysis-center capacity and patient quality-of-life drive the shift home.

Noah Labs (Berlin) won EIC blended finance for voice-based AI detecting heart-failure decompensation before hospitalization. Readmission prevention via passive phone-call monitoring.

PrecisionLife (UK) won an EIC grant for combinatorial multi-factor genomic analysis stratifying chronic-disease patients that GWAS misses. Precision medicine expanding beyond oncology into chronic disease.

Robeaute (FR) won EIC blended finance for a microrobot navigating through brain tissue for biopsy/drug delivery along curved paths. Beyond-straight-line neurosurgery access is a funded frontier.

Saveggy AB (SE) won EIC blended finance for an edible coating replacing plastic wrap on cucumbers/produce while extending shelf life. Plastic-packaging bans + food waste = double-mandate market.

Open Source React.js Library for AI Chat

“Open Source React.js Library for AI Chat”

Berlin company that manages residential buildings itself and runs the work with AI — owner and tenant communication, repair dispatch, invoice approval and accounting — rather than selling software to existing managers. It reported over 9,000 apartments under management and monthly growth above 30 percent.

“Today's technology will enable us to transform the way real estate is managed and dramatically improve the lives of millions”

Budapest-founded (syslog-ng creator Balazs Scheidler) pipeline that curates security telemetry and cuts SIEM costs. Credo Ventures led the 2023 seed.

Paris company, founded 2018, that turns a borrower's PSD2 bank-transaction data into a credit score and affordability decision via API for consumer lenders and BNPL providers. French lenders including Sofinco (Crédit Agricole), Cetelem, Cofidis, Oney and Floa use it, and by January 2025 it was profitable and aiming for EUR 5M ARR.

“La société, désormais rentable, vise le cap des 5 millions d’euros de revenu annuel récurrent au premier semestre et met l’accent sur l’international.”

New York-based Belfry sells security-guard companies one platform that runs shift scheduling, GPS timesheets, payroll matched to each client contract's pay rules, and client invoicing. It raised a $12M Series A led by Base10 Partners in January 2025.

“announced today it has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round, bringing Belfry’s total financing to $20 million. The investment was led by Base10 Partners with continued support from existing investors Bienville Capital and Aglaé Ventures.”

Tallinn company, founded 2014, that sells a modular SaaS toolkit (virtual power plant plus energy-management system) to utilities and to commercial and industrial sites, which use it to pool batteries, PV and flexible load and sell that flexibility on ancillary-service markets without Fusebox competing against them. It raised EUR 2.6M in January 2025 and reports 3,600+ connected assets in 13 markets.

“What makes us unique is that we don’t compete with our clients in the ancillary market. Instead, we offer them a modular toolkit to build their own flexibility business.”

Slovak provider of localization, returns and logistics services for e-shops expanding across CEE; used crowd capital for an M&A play.

Slovak price comparison and search engine for sneakers/clothing across European shops.

Zilina-region SaaS automating network device configuration, backup and management for IT teams. Network-automation niche; register's NIS2 capacity problem (p-0008) is compliance-services, this is tooling — weak adjacency.

Continual learning for enterprise AI

“Continual learning for enterprise AI”

Surrey-based NatureMetrics sells end-to-end biodiversity monitoring: field sampling kits, environmental-DNA lab analysis and an AI nature-intelligence platform that turns site data into impact reporting for CSRD and TNFD. It raised a €24.3M Series B in January 2025 and serves more than 600 organisations including Unilever and Anglo American.

“a Surrey-based startup in nature intelligence and biodiversity monitoring, has announced the completion of a €24.3 million Series B funding round.”

Personeo.ai (StartupYard batch, featured Jan 2025) is an AI roleplay platform for practicing communication soft skills — sales calls, difficult conversations, management feedback — with simulated counterparts. Soft-skill practice is moving from workshops to on-demand AI simulation.

Czech AI-native platform automating retail back-office operations; fresh Credo pre-seed.

Czech-founded AI assistant giving vets evidence-based clinical answers at the point of care.

Croatian startup helping companies prove AI-act compliance to enterprise buyers.

Romanian biotech-software startup compressing preclinical drug-development workflows.

Slovak startup building advertising infrastructure native to AI chat applications.

Slovak AI tool letting teams edit production front-ends visually.

AI for Commercial Insurance Agencies

“AI for Commercial Insurance Agencies”

Stuttgart company selling a smartphone-mounted survey system whose AI grades road-surface damage every four metres while municipal staff drive their normal rounds, then feeds a maintenance and budget plan. Over 500 partner municipalities in 7 countries use it.

“Mittlerweile sind es international über 500 Partnerkommunen, die ihre Straßen und Wege regelmäßig mit dem KI-basierten vialytics System analysieren.”

The next generation of induced-proximity medicines.

“The next generation of induced-proximity medicines.”

Prague/US platform auto-documenting therapy sessions, saving therapists ~14 minutes per note. Backed by Credo Ventures and Kaya VC from pre-seed.