[
{
"id": 91,
"name": "Clerky",
"slug": "clerky",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0413dbdb2293e4b9ea1ccbeb3fd25e23c7e07440.png",
"website": "https://www.clerky.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote",
"long_description": "Clerky builds software to make legal paperwork easier for startups and their attorneys. From formation to fundraising to hiring - everything a startup needs. Thousands of top startups use Clerky to get legal paperwork done safely and efficiently.",
"one_liner": "Makes legal paperwork easy for startups and their attorneys.",
"team_size": 35,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1700550246,
"tags": [
"Documents",
"Legal",
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2011",
"status": "Acquired",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clerky",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2011/clerky.json",
"year_founded": 2011,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/clerky-inc-/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/clerkyinc",
"fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/clerkyinc",
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clerky",
"github_url": "https://github.com/clerky",
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0413dbdb2293e4b9ea1ccbeb3fd25e23c7e07440.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 15293,
"full_name": "Darby Wong",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "I'm a co-founder and the CEO of Clerky. I was a startup attorney at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and have a law degree from Harvard Law School. Prior to law school, I majored in computer science at the University of Washington, where I worked on machine learning research.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/darbywong/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/darbyw",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7754d4850c6c951d9a0dbbf9144e0b363bb8366b.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1500,
"full_name": "Chris Field",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "I'm a co-founder of Clerky. I was a startup attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Before becoming an attorney, I worked in various management and operations roles at TippingPoint Technologies and Micron Electronics. I studied electrical engineering and history at Stanford University and I studied law at the University of Pennsylvania.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/fieldchris",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cb70b53ae1a54301b3339abd511cb2a351fbaa2b.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "Becoming A Benefit Corporation Is Complicated: This Startup Wants To Help - Fast Company",
"url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/40452361/becoming-a-benefit-corporation-is-complicated-this-startup-wants-to-help",
"date": "Aug 17, 2017"
},
{
"title": "YC-backed Clerky Helps Startups Save Time And Money On Legal Incorporation, Stock Issuance Forms And More | TechCrunch",
"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/11/yc-backed-clerky-helps-startups-save-time-and-money-on-legal-incorporation-stock-issuance-forms-and-more/",
"date": "Mar 11, 2013"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 533,
"name": "SimpleLegal",
"slug": "simplelegal",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eb7ce56fc4d7716b3ceae151008b7dd130aca547.png",
"website": "http://simplelegal.com",
"all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Legal spend, matter, accrual and IP management software for in-house counsel.",
"one_liner": "Legal Operations for corporate legal teams.",
"team_size": 60,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1367523479,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"Legal"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2013",
"status": "Acquired",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/simplelegal",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2013/simplelegal.json",
"year_founded": 2013,
"city": "Los Angeles",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/simple_legal",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simplelegal",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eb7ce56fc4d7716b3ceae151008b7dd130aca547.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 37794,
"full_name": "Patrik Outericky",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "CTO / CoFounder at SimpleLegal - built much of the initial version of product. Have a strong focus on python, django, postgres, product, design, UI/UX. \n\nStrong knowledge in growing and navigating an enterprise SaaS startup and all the pitfalls that come with.\n\nBackground in BI, reporting, data analytics.\n\nNot really job hunting, but open to helping formally or informally.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dashboard/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/230173bea328b275ff568b409296cc764b7ba847.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 542,
"name": "Casetext",
"slug": "casetext",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png",
"website": "http://casetext.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote",
"long_description": "Casetext, the most widely used A.I. legal research technology, has been adopted across the legal market from the largest Am Law 100 law firms to solo practices. Its award-winning technology offers both conventional search functionality and its CARA A.I. powered contextual search, focuses on the context of your research to help you find on-point authorities faster. Founded by a team of former litigators from top law firms, as well as Ph.D. data scientists and leading A.I. engineers, Casetext helps legal researchers find the best cases, faster, including many that they would otherwise miss. For more information, visit www.casetext.com or contact our team at contact@casetext.com.",
"one_liner": "We make the world's laws free and understandable. ",
"team_size": 50,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1367523550,
"tags": [
"Legal",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": null,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2013",
"status": "Acquired",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/casetext",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2013/casetext.json",
"year_founded": 2013,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/casetext",
"github_url": "https://github.com/casetext",
"logo_url": null,
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 5689,
"full_name": "Jake Heller",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Casetext (S13), acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650M. Lawyer working in tech. AI optimist. Proud dad and animal lover đ đ đ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeheller/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/Jacob_Heller",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/63cf9164e56dddc02fae230a984250c3f6439779.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "Thomson Reuters buys Casetext, an AI legal tech startup, for $650M in cash | TechCrunch",
"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/26/thomson-reuters-buys-casetext-an-ai-legal-tech-startup-for-650m-in-cash/",
"date": "Jun 26, 2023"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 866,
"name": "Ironclad",
"slug": "ironclad",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/617ef74a3e62398db60a2179add2a7f75d8bbd18.png",
"website": "http://ironcladapp.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Ironclad helps companies make and manage their business contracts. Customers like L'OrĂŠal, Heineken, and Salesforce use our platform to move up to 80% faster, make better decisions through data, and effectively manage risk. We are backed by investors like Accel, Sequoia, Bond, Franklin Templeton, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. ",
"one_liner": "AI-powered contract management",
"team_size": 700,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1429997716,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2015",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ironclad",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2015/ironclad.json",
"year_founded": 2014,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ironclad-inc-/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/ironclad_inc",
"fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/ironcladinc/",
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ironclad",
"github_url": "https://github.com/Ironclad",
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/617ef74a3e62398db60a2179add2a7f75d8bbd18.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 8211,
"full_name": "Jason Boehmig",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "GM, Legal Industry @ OpenAI\nFounder @ Ironclad, Inc. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/jboehmig",
"x_url": "https://x.com/jboehmig",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ec9bff62a61d7a023479f0fca25e868c12972d26.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 59885,
"title": "Legal Engineer (Aka Implementation Engineer)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ironclad/jobs/XGeiq0M-legal-engineer-aka-implementation-engineer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Indianapolis, IN, US / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Support",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$96K - $136K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 60110,
"title": "Senior Software Engineer, AI",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ironclad/jobs/rToqqLc-senior-software-engineer-ai",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Indianapolis, IN, US / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Machine learning",
"salary_range": "$126K - $175K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Python",
"Natural Language Processing"
]
},
{
"id": 65008,
"title": "Staff Product Designer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ironclad/jobs/H6eUNEC-staff-product-designer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Design",
"role_type": "Product design",
"salary_range": "$189K - $231K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "6+ years",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [
{
"title": "Ironclad Hits $200 Million ARR As Legal Tech Race Heats up - Business Insider",
"url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/ironclad-hits-200-million-arr-contract-lifecycle-management-ceo-2026-2",
"date": "Feb 12, 2026"
},
{
"title": "How Orangetheory used AI to cut a 6-month legal project in half | Fortune",
"url": "https://fortune.com/2023/11/14/orangetheory-ai-artificial-intelligence-automation-legal-attorneys-contracts/",
"date": "Nov 14, 2023"
},
{
"title": "Ironcladâs new contract platform embeds AI to improve business workflows | VentureBeat",
"url": "https://venturebeat.com/ai/ironclads-new-contract-platform-embeds-ai-to-improve-business-workflows/",
"date": "Sep 16, 2022"
},
{
"title": "Announcing Ironclad's Series D â Towards a New Standard for Business Contracting | Ironclad",
"url": "https://ironcladapp.com/blog/announcing-ironclads-series-d/",
"date": "Feb 18, 2022"
},
{
"title": "Ironclad Reaches $3.2 Billion Valuation In Race To Build Software For Business Contracts",
"url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/01/18/ironclad-series-e-3-billion-valuation/?sh=406a6f105253",
"date": "Jan 18, 2022"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 875,
"name": "ROSS Intelligence",
"slug": "ross-intelligence",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e3214e5b63f02d78b040b5d2b3b07eb77155020f.png",
"website": "http://rossintelligence.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Founded by two computer scientists and an attorney, our mission is to develop technologies that increase access to legal services around the world. We are going after the $8B legal research market with our AI-powered legal research platform that allows lawyers to research in 80% less time and find cases they would have otherwise missed. Today, we are helping lawyers and law firms, including some of the world's largest, offer better and more affordable service to clients.\r\n\r\nWebsite: www.rossintelligence.com\r\nTwitter: @rossintel",
"one_liner": "ROSS is an AI-powered legal research platform that can read andâŚ",
"team_size": 30,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1429997719,
"tags": [
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2015",
"status": "Inactive",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ross-intelligence",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2015/ross-intelligence.json",
"year_founded": null,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/ROSSIntel",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ross-intelligence",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e3214e5b63f02d78b040b5d2b3b07eb77155020f.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 84798,
"full_name": "Andrew Arruda",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": null,
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "htttp://ca.linkedin.com/in/andrewarruda",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/AndrewArruda",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/44ec2e9eb59e1a2741c6a578b81a75106970799c.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 84790,
"full_name": "Pargles Dall`Oglio",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": null,
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=333767290",
"x_url": null,
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ed30bafe939a6d140ad9e7ddec3c2666fb5a7733.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 85671,
"full_name": "Jimoh Ovbiagele",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jimohovb",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/914ed59dc528c2675b2f42ddf2d7d9f3ebc375e8.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 917,
"name": "jEugene",
"slug": "jeugene",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png",
"website": "https://www.jeugene.com",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA",
"long_description": "jEugene jumpstarts definitions checks. In seconds, it highlights undefined terms and unused definitions right in the text of documents, so that lawyers can focus on harder problems. Not so long ago, a corporate associate experienced firsthand the stress of definitions checking. Catching all undefined terms and unused definitions is hard, especially when time is short and terms complex.",
"one_liner": "jEugene highlights undefined terms and unused definitions in legalâŚ",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1430156124,
"tags": [
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2015",
"status": "Inactive",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/jeugene",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2015/jeugene.json",
"year_founded": null,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": null,
"x_url": null,
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jeugene",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": null,
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 76652,
"full_name": "Harry Zhou",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": null,
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": null,
"x_url": null,
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f0e625603764e0b7623e7ea48daf009b9d28b16d.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 1816,
"name": "Lawyaw",
"slug": "lawyaw",
"former_names": [
"Lawyaw",
"MyStacks"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ecc7e8c288b10148057bc68d0b6b2bb86b0fcdc6.png",
"website": "http://www.lawyaw.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Lawyaw is a vertical SaaS platform focused on enabling the digitization of legal services. Our platform solves a foundational gap in the market by making it easy to incorporate programmable documents into digital workflows. As a result we are transforming the $150B consumer legal services market by making access to legal services faster, cheaper and more convenient. We are currently power over 1,000 law firms and growing quickly, but have so much more to build!\r\n",
"one_liner": "Automating document-based workflows",
"team_size": 15,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1510117398,
"tags": [
"Documents",
"SaaS",
"Legal"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2018",
"status": "Acquired",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lawyaw",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2018/lawyaw.json",
"year_founded": 2016,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/17916760",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/golawyaw",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lawyaw",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ecc7e8c288b10148057bc68d0b6b2bb86b0fcdc6.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 94254,
"full_name": "Tucker Cottingham",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Tucker is the founder and CEO of Lawyaw. He is passionate about using technology to increase access to legal services and has worked extensively on criminal justice reform issues. He currently serves on the board of the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center and prior to Lawyaw, built a successful law firm in San Francisco. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tucker-cottingham-53b34611/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5d92ad86062630ebd029ac0664df37f2f23b2018.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "Clio acquires San Franciscoâs Lawyaw as it ramps up merger and acquisition efforts | BetaKit",
"url": "https://betakit.com/clio-acquires-san-franciscos-lawyaw-as-it-ramps-up-merger-and-acquisition-efforts/",
"date": "Sep 08, 2021"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 1818,
"name": "Cognition IP",
"slug": "cognition-ip",
"former_names": [
"Vertical Law"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bf409816d2f4636d78706b6a700030dc1353a6a2.png",
"website": "https://www.cognitionip.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote",
"long_description": "Cognition IP is a tech-powered San Francisco based intellectual property law firm with partners who have represented some of the most innovative companies in the world in many aspects of intellectual property planning, including Apple, Salesforce, Purdue, Hewlett Packard, AstraZeneca, and Texas Instruments.\r\n\r\nOffering patent and trademark filing and prosecution, innovation harvesting and portfolio management, Cognition IP supports early stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with on-demand, flat-fee IP counsel and the results expected from a top-tier firm.\r\n\r\nSchedule a complimentary consultation at: https://www.CognitionIP.com",
"one_liner": "Flat-fee patent & trademark counsel with top firm results",
"team_size": 12,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1510117404,
"tags": [
"GovTech",
"B2B",
"Legal",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2018",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cognition-ip",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2018/cognition-ip.json",
"year_founded": 2018,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognitionip",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/cognition_ip",
"fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/cognitionip/",
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cognition-ip",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bf409816d2f4636d78706b6a700030dc1353a6a2.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 222218,
"full_name": "Andrew Tjang",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-tjang/",
"x_url": "http://www.twitter.com/drandr00",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/66fdeddbbaa5009134348ee96ecc6f947c5cbd50.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 1845,
"name": "Atrium",
"slug": "atrium",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a68d338c691e7fc84535f7b8cd41937ba6bbf631.png",
"website": "http://www.atrium.co",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Atrium is a new kind of law firm. We serve the startup community in ways our clients want to be served. We are organized like a modern business. We incentivize our teamâs creativity and productivity through good management, not the billable hour. We build software to drive efficiency and transparency in our work. We achieve these differences through a technology and operations platform called Atrium LTS, which we co-founded with leading serial entrepreneurs and software developers who share our vision to fix the corporate legal practice.\r\n\r\nPlease find open jobs here: https://www.atrium.co/careers/",
"one_liner": "Modern law firm for startups powered by proprietary technology",
"team_size": 180,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1510300998,
"tags": [
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2018",
"status": "Inactive",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/atrium",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2018/atrium.json",
"year_founded": null,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/atrium?lang=en",
"fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/atriumllp/",
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/atrium-lts",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a68d338c691e7fc84535f7b8cd41937ba6bbf631.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 229175,
"full_name": "Justin Kan",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Justin Kan is the CEO and co-founder of Atrium, a technology company and corporate law firm providing fast, transparent, and price-predictable business and legal services to startups. As a founder of multiple companies and an investor in hundreds more, Justin involuntarily became a power user of corporate legal services. Prior to Atrium, Justin was Founder of Twitch, Exec and Justin.tv. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinkan",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/justinkan",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/63a2c1ec4e5a978f6024fb2c948e34f0e80f1c97.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 1956,
"name": "Regology",
"slug": "regology",
"former_names": [
"Regology",
"Regology",
"Inc."
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b4e59148374543e5853a9de0a3bbd86ccab2246e.png",
"website": "http://regology.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Regology is an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform that enables compliance, legal, risk, and operations teams to navigate complex regulatory environments across U.S. Federal, all 50 states, and global jurisdictions. At its core, the Smart Law Library⢠provides a curated, continuously updated repository of applicable laws and regulations. Three specialized AI agents drive the platform: the Regulatory Change Agent tracks and alerts on jurisdiction-specific developments; the Compliance Agent maps changes to policies, controls, and risks; and the Regulatory Research Agent delivers plain-language summaries, multi-jurisdictional comparisons, and actionable insightsâhelping teams anticipate change, mitigate risk, and act decisively in fast-evolving regulatory landscapes.",
"one_liner": "AI Agents for Regulatory Compliance",
"team_size": 60,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1525230401,
"tags": [
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"Regtech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2018",
"status": "Acquired",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/regology",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2018/regology.json",
"year_founded": 2017,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/regology/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/regology",
"fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/Regology/",
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/regology",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b4e59148374543e5853a9de0a3bbd86ccab2246e.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 242847,
"full_name": "Mukund Goenka",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Compliance, banking and enterprise software experience prior to Regology.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/mukund-goenka",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/43d649c305b047926a05fff13619139c78557487.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 243341,
"full_name": "Pavan Bayyapu",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": null,
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavanbayyapu",
"x_url": null,
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ba22b7e6bdd3380649e259603f4f85b3677fd130.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "Regology snares $8M Series A to help navigate maze of global regulations â TechCrunch",
"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/regology-snares-8m-series-a-to-help-navigate-maze-of-global-regulations/",
"date": "Aug 19, 2021"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 11956,
"name": "Spire Law",
"slug": "spire-law",
"former_names": [
"CaseGuide",
"CaseGuide",
"jet.law",
"jet.law"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a1e963fe8d08ca86e5fc056086ee498a90aabbb.png",
"website": "https://spirelawfirm.com/",
"all_locations": "Orlando, FL, USA",
"long_description": "Spire Law represents businesses and business owners in litigation. Spire Tech Services supports the technology development and marketing for Spire Law. Spire Tech Services was part of the Winter 2019 batch.",
"one_liner": "Tech enabled business and employment litigation law firm.",
"team_size": 10,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1541122485,
"tags": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2019",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spire-law",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2019/spire-law.json",
"year_founded": 2019,
"city": "Orlando",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/spire-law-firm/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/spirelaw",
"fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Spire-Law-PLLC/61574965395702",
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a1e963fe8d08ca86e5fc056086ee498a90aabbb.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 275056,
"full_name": "Jesse Unruh",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": null,
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-unruh-5b857525/",
"x_url": null,
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f9b49c297dbb6ebb4057d891df4f36f467515327.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 12260,
"name": "AXDRAFT",
"slug": "axdraft",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/95bd3baee270d1b082340a1d56709977638c161c.png",
"website": "https://axdraft.com",
"all_locations": "Kyiv, Ukraine; Frankfurt, HE, Germany; Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine",
"long_description": "AXDRAFT analyzes patterns in your legal documents and transforms drafting process from erroneous and time consuming copy and paste to a mistake-free simple Q&A. The average time to draft a document with AXDRAFT is less than 4 minutes.\r\n\r\nOn top of this AXDRAFT allows to integrate data into the document from public registers and your internal databases, eliminating the need to double check every data input.\r\n\r\nData validation, e-signatures, access control, document id, visibility and personal accountability for drafted documents. All of this is possible with AXDRAFT.\r\n\r\n45 corporations using AXDRAFT reduce time spent on drafting legal documents by up to 90% and shorten their approval cycles by up to 4 days.\r\n\r\nBoth of these improvements mean more deals and better financial results for your company every quarter.\r\n\r\nAnd the best part is that from the moment we sign the contract AXDRAFT can be up and running in 2 weeks.\r\n\r\nFew case studies are available here: https://www.axdraft.com/customers",
"one_liner": "AXDRAFT helps corporations draft, negotiate and approve documents 10xâŚ",
"team_size": 34,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1543978964,
"tags": [
"Machine Learning",
"SaaS",
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2019",
"status": "Acquired",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Ukraine",
"Germany",
"Europe",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/axdraft",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2019/axdraft.json",
"year_founded": 2017,
"city": "Kyiv",
"country": "UA",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/axdraft/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/axdraft",
"fb_url": "https://facebook.com/axdraft",
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/axdraft",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/95bd3baee270d1b082340a1d56709977638c161c.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 217579,
"full_name": "Oleg Zaremba",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "2x YC alumni, 1 exit (AXDRAFT acquired by Onit Inc.). \n\nLed the engineering, product and QA teams that built AXDRAFT. Post-acquisition led the cross-product integrations and AI initiatives (3 generative AI products and 1 ML product). \n\nAchieved and maintained security standard (SOC 2 Type 2) for AXDRAFT 3 years in a row including during war times in Ukraine.\n\nStarted AiSDR in 2023 with my brother Yuriy to automate sales prospecting with generative AI.",
"is_active": false,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/oleg-zaremba",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/olzare",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9b7e3cb09fde63a25928ed629a1776f59f60315b.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 208580,
"full_name": "Yuriy Zaremba",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "2x YC alumni, 1 exit (AXDRAFT acquired by Onit Inc.).\n\nGrew AXDRAFT from $0 to $2M through founder-led sales, managed a $10M ARR business line for the acquiring company.\n\nSkilled crisis management: navigated company through war in Ukraine with uninterrupted business continuity and high ARR growth.\n\nStarted AiSDR in 2023 to automate sales prospecting with generative AI.",
"is_active": false,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/yuriy-zaremba",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/YuriyZaremba",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/810f10a93d56372b391fad4f9e7a225659d4226c.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 22131,
"name": "Draftwise",
"slug": "draftwise",
"former_names": [
"DraftWise"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/45fd3c83a50a1e06006ac31f6da21274baf8970a.png",
"website": "https://www.draftwise.com/",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA",
"long_description": "Draftwise is redefining contract work for lawyers with AI that streamlines drafting, review, and negotiation. Draftwise empowers lawyers with intelligent, data-driven tools that use a firmâs own knowledge baseâdrawing from past deals, preferred language, and internal guidance to improve the entire contract workflowâfrom first draft to signed deal.",
"one_liner": "Contract and negotiation AI built for lawyers",
"team_size": 50,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1597352177,
"tags": [
"Generative AI",
"SaaS",
"B2B",
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2020",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2020/draftwise.json",
"year_founded": 2020,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftwise-ai/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/draftwiselegal",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/draftwise",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/45fd3c83a50a1e06006ac31f6da21274baf8970a.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 483700,
"full_name": "James Ding",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "CEO and co-founder of DraftWise",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamding/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/649a7f09e4a7ab8de553c2476edde8e66e3f5f11.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 79543,
"full_name": "Emre Ozen",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CTO @ DraftWise \n\n ex-Palantir | Cybersecurity | Data-Intensive Applications | Enterprise Software ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozenemre",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0816d43e3afbcd3587d609aa000f4492244532a4.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 490556,
"full_name": "Ozan Yalti",
"title": "Founder/CSO",
"founder_bio": "Founder at DraftWise\n",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozan-yalti-b64005b",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/04a8cd368b0093cc3acc74e49ea274ad4d960a8e.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 65290,
"title": "Legal Product Specialist (US)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/ecdYilZ-legal-product-specialist-us",
"location": "New York, NY, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Product",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$130K - $160K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "6+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 68478,
"title": "Account Executive",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/43C8cL4-account-executive",
"location": "New York, NY, US / Chicago, IL, US / San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (Chicago, IL, US; New York, NY, US; San Francisco, CA, US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$215K - $275K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 71708,
"title": "Senior Customer Success Manager",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/jt9VjmE-senior-customer-success-manager",
"location": "New York, NY, US / Chicago, IL, US / Toronto, ON, CA / Toronto, Ontario, CA / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$150K - $190K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "6+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 75899,
"title": "Senior Back End Software Engineer (US)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/AgdvkfL-senior-back-end-software-engineer-us",
"location": "New York, NY, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Backend",
"salary_range": "$140K - $190K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "6+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
"Java",
"PostgreSQL",
"Elasticsearch"
]
},
{
"id": 85678,
"title": "Business Development Representative - NYC",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/sQOu0I5-business-development-representative-nyc",
"location": "New York, NY, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$80K - $90K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 86709,
"title": "Enterprise Account Executive",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/1czVk3F-enterprise-account-executive",
"location": "New York, NY, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$300K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "6+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 107396,
"title": "Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Backend - New York",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/nwYBa5N-forward-deployed-ai-engineer-backend-new-york",
"location": "New York City, NY",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$135K - $175K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 107397,
"title": "Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Backend - West Palm Beach",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/0kxugND-forward-deployed-ai-engineer-backend-west-palm-beach",
"location": "West Palm Beach, FL",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$115K - $155K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 110069,
"title": "Deployment Strategist - New York",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/6MD2SEf-deployment-strategist-new-york",
"location": "New York City, NY",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Operations",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$150K - $190K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 110070,
"title": "Deployment Strategist - London",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draftwise/jobs/FzigST8-deployment-strategist-london",
"location": "London, United Kingdom",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Operations",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$110K - $150K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [
{
"title": "Legal contracts company DraftWise raises $20 mln amid AI investment boom",
"url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/legal-contracts-company-draftwise-raises-20-mln-amid-ai-investment-boom-2024-03-14/",
"date": "Mar 14, 2024"
},
{
"title": "Our Series A announcement â A letter from the founders.",
"url": "https://www.draftwise.com/blog/series-a-letter-from-the-founders",
"date": "Mar 14, 2024"
},
{
"title": "AI Startup DraftWise Raises $5M, With Help From Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe | Legaltech News",
"url": "https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2023/06/28/ai-startup-draftwise-raises-5-million-with-help-from-orrick-herrington-sutcliffe/?slreturn=20230528130829",
"date": "Jun 28, 2023"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 22790,
"name": "Version Story Compare",
"slug": "version-story-compare",
"former_names": [
"Version Story"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8427a4df46d5bdea47426e5463c809db03232f1.png",
"website": "https://versionstory.com/",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA",
"long_description": "Version Story is Git for Lawyers, offering a suite of deterministic tools â compare, merge, rebase, etc. â via MCP and REST API. Easy to embed in Claude or in custom applications.",
"one_liner": "Git for Lawyers â now within Claude",
"team_size": 30,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1616475139,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"B2B",
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2021",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/version-story-compare",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2021/version-story-compare.json",
"year_founded": 2021,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/version-story/",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/version-story",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8427a4df46d5bdea47426e5463c809db03232f1.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 486385,
"full_name": "Kevin O'Connell",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Git for Lawyers",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kkoconnell/",
"x_url": null,
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/39774bbe8e1959533d52191b7f6b917f66ef231b.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 490675,
"full_name": "Jordan Bryan",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Building GitHub for lawyers.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanpbryan/",
"x_url": null,
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bf32c663642a39a7d7d6d2f819fd54e3e5ef6c37.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 22987,
"name": "Darrow",
"slug": "darrow",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a315fec23343c70a7ff5db47daaacb878c366bac.png",
"website": "https://darrow.ai/",
"all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel; New York, NY, USA",
"long_description": "Darrow is an AI-Powered Justice Intelligence Platform that scans real world data to detect harmful events, determine the number of victims, predict the outcome, and assess the financial value of a case. Using generative AI, Darrow detects impactful legal violations, matching plaintiff's lawyers with their next big case so they can stop spending valuable hours on business development and focus primarily on litigation. Darrow is based out of Tel Aviv and New York City.",
"one_liner": "Bring Justice to Light",
"team_size": 95,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1628329756,
"tags": [
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2021",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Israel",
"United States of America",
"Middle East and North Africa",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/darrow",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2021/darrow.json",
"year_founded": 2020,
"city": "Tel Aviv-Yafo",
"country": "IL",
"linkedin_url": "",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a315fec23343c70a7ff5db47daaacb878c366bac.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Aaron Epstein",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 551361,
"full_name": "Evyatar Ben Artzi",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/evyatar-ben-artzi",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/49795f03158a0842bb9ac40050df782f10be6410.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 600412,
"full_name": "Gila Hayat",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilahayat/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d5707f46930b2cd8f88e22b1070084f413bdc1f5.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 600147,
"full_name": "Elad Spiegelman",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/elad-spiegelman-1a47a0103/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5af7250da5986598bd0fdd1f628452175e770637.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "AI For Justice: How A Female Founder Builds The Case For Lawyers",
"url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/geristengel/2024/03/13/ai-for-justice-how-a-female-founder-builds-the-case-for-lawyers/",
"date": "Mar 13, 2024"
},
{
"title": "Darrow raises $35M for an AI that parses public documents for class action lawsuit potential | TechCrunch",
"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/19/darrow-legal-tech/",
"date": "Sep 19, 2023"
},
{
"title": "Darrow raises $20 million to uncover corporate legal violations and bring justice to all - CTech",
"url": "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3921887,00.html",
"date": "Nov 07, 2021"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 24181,
"name": "Kodex",
"slug": "kodex",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3663c3ac728bfa42632af932ea3bfd56b28a9239.png",
"website": "https://www.kodexglobal.com",
"all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA; Remote",
"long_description": "Kodex makes it easy for companies to process, and respond to, subpoenas from governments around the world. Agencies, like the FBI, subpoena user data from customers like Coinbase, and thousands of other companies - without Kodex, companies largely rely on email, fax, and spreadsheets to manage them.\r\n\r\nKodex is a SaaS tool that helps private sector companies manage relationships, workflows, and secure file transfer with government agencies who are seeking confidential information on a company's users. We streamline compliance operations, protect the privacy of their users, reduce error, and validate the legitimacy of government agents who are requesting information.",
"one_liner": "Easiest way for companies to process data requests from governments",
"team_size": 30,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1624913669,
"tags": [
"GovTech",
"Compliance",
"LegalTech",
"Regtech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2021",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kodex",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/kodex.json",
"year_founded": 2020,
"city": "Boston",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/thekodex",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/KodexInc",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3663c3ac728bfa42632af932ea3bfd56b28a9239.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Diana Hu",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 540680,
"full_name": "Matt Donahue",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Formerly Counterterrorism Intelligence for the FBI. While in the FBI, Matt often saw multi-billion dollar companies struggle to comply with legal orders. He left the FBI in order to fix the way in which the public and private sectors engage/collaborate with one another by creating Kodex.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-donahue-9bb60188/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/69c37ff74d8fdc359fb1924dbf01f668da509f0c.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 359174,
"full_name": "Danny Mendoza",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO @ Kodex",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdmendoza1/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8444781337a5a367c2fa38171acd062789264aaa.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 47973,
"title": "Full Stack Software Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kodex/jobs/nNKB6b5-full-stack-software-engineer",
"location": "US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$130K - $230K",
"equity_range": "0.10% - 1.00%",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
"GraphQL",
"PostgreSQL",
"React",
"TypeScript",
"Cryptography"
]
}
],
"news": [
{
"title": " Kodex - The easiest way to process data requests from governments | Product Hunt",
"url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/kodex-2",
"date": "Jul 08, 2021"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 24821,
"name": "Pactima",
"slug": "pactima",
"former_names": [
"Agreema"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cd5b61907c3569a6b9a7653c553f169ebd5b23c1.png",
"website": "https://pactima.com/",
"all_locations": "Ottawa, ON, Canada; Remote",
"long_description": "Pactima is a value-centric, fast-growing, and venture-backed company thatâs transforming the manner in which businesses conduct transactions in our remote world.\r\n\r\nOur flagship product, Live eSignaturesTM, is a real-time solution that allows people to view and sign documents while simultaneously hosting a secured video call. This easy-to-use solution allows transactions that could only be done in-person to now be performed online.",
"one_liner": "Live video signing for real-time agreements",
"team_size": 3,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1625764563,
"tags": [
"Documents",
"SaaS",
"B2B"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2021",
"status": "Acquired",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Canada",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pactima",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/pactima.json",
"year_founded": 2020,
"city": "Ottawa",
"country": "CA",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pactimo/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/pactimaHQ",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cd5b61907c3569a6b9a7653c553f169ebd5b23c1.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 695146,
"full_name": "Moktar Yusuf",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO of Pactima.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/moktar-yusuf/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/moktar_ii?lang=en",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5cdef492f867854063eaed633cccbecb39b1e4c8.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 698536,
"full_name": "Joel Kapongo",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder & CTO of Pactima. Focused on tech and moving the business forward. Son of Congo, adopted by Canada.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelkapongo",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/joelkapongo",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1001708817d33b777a30b7b6ca3f8cbac08d5e84.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 25486,
"name": "Dioptra",
"slug": "dioptra",
"former_names": [
"Dioptra.ai"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8983a589f2875e25661e87e8de4126fdc3b5d46d.png",
"website": "https://dioptra.ai/",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA",
"long_description": "We help founders and in-house counsels streamline their contract negotiations to close deals faster. We do this by building your contract negotiation playbooks and automating them with AI. ",
"one_liner": "Automated contract review with AI",
"team_size": 4,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1638819953,
"tags": [
"Generative AI",
"Legal",
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2022",
"status": "Acquired",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dioptra",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/dioptra.json",
"year_founded": 2021,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/Dioptra_ai",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8983a589f2875e25661e87e8de4126fdc3b5d46d.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 325797,
"full_name": "Jacques Arnoux",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Jacques is a systems and software engineer with 10+ years of experience in web-scale consumer and enterprise software. Heâs an ex-Yahoo and was employee number 8 and lead engineer at Netsil, an application monitoring start-up that was acquired by Nutanix. He built Nutanixâs AiOps business and cloud data-pipeline. Jacques has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquesarnoux/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e846c103b079759b6f24151e96009981dcd102dc.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1094465,
"full_name": "Farah Gasmi",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/farahgasmi/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4251ffc9651d9f1c09ad446e445524c261ab0df1.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "With Dioptra Wilson Sonsini Launches Super-Accurate AI Doc Review â Artificial Lawyer",
"url": "https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2024/05/14/with-dioptra-wilson-sonsini-launches-super-accurate-ai-doc-review/",
"date": "May 14, 2024"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 25538,
"name": "Lexter.ai",
"slug": "lexter-ai",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/13fb400d02f64e196fddff48bb201121acd1fa1d.png",
"website": "https://www.lexter.ai",
"all_locations": "SĂŁo Paulo, SP, Brazil; Remote",
"long_description": "Lexter is the first legal LLM company in Brazil, already working with 3 out of the top 5 law firms in the Country",
"one_liner": "LLM for Legal in Brazil",
"team_size": 18,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1644264235,
"tags": [
"Machine Learning",
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2022",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Brazil",
"Latin America",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lexter-ai",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/lexter-ai.json",
"year_founded": 2020,
"city": "SĂŁo Paulo",
"country": "BR",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/lexter-ai",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lexter-ai",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/13fb400d02f64e196fddff48bb201121acd1fa1d.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Brad Flora",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 416169,
"full_name": "Pedro Jahara",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "I'm a Co-founder and CEO of Lexter.ai. \nPrior to Lexter I've founded BelugaDB (a self-service BI tool for big data) and R2U.io (platform that improves e-commerce conversion rates via AR). I was also the CEO of Revmob and a consultant at Bain&Co.\nI love music, japanese culture (anime, food, ...), crossfit and snowboarding",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrojahara/",
"x_url": null,
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/957d760a44a7b9cbb17414c21fd00430f10f3af0.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 857122,
"full_name": "Pedro Calderon",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "I've studied naval engineering at USP, in Brazil, in my graduation year I discovered that I liked programming much more than I liked boats! Shortly after as a developer at RevMob I discovered a new passion, creating products.\n\nIn 2016 I created my first startup eDoc, a health tech with the mission to optimize inefficiencies in the Brazilian health care market, focusing in patients primary care.\n\nFinally in 2020 I joined the Lexter.ai founding team to try to change the Brazilian lawtech scene.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrocalderon/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2791da975a6bb1101d4b49a929296bbdc2fb7b88.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 857111,
"full_name": "Guilherme Delai",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Lexter.ai technical cofounder",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/guilherme-delai/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/guilhermedelai",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7c6e9392e8a7d27978e0e536cd65612838ed28cd.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 857583,
"full_name": "Lucas Kawazoi",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder of Lexter.ai",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaskawazoi/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3c70e422b0048df0232347a35f7ad80baeb76ed0.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 27039,
"name": "Cobbery",
"slug": "cobbery",
"former_names": [
"Ultimate Tournament",
"Inc.",
"Ultimate Tournament",
"Tangia"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/77230af72102ed90cdbe2e9c55a7bb68f65b9b9b.png",
"website": "https://cobbery.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Born out of 9-figure litigation, Cobbery AI agents are staffed on every matter to give your litigation teams superpowers",
"one_liner": "For winning matters, when winning matters",
"team_size": 4,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1653598743,
"tags": [
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2022",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cobbery",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/cobbery.json",
"year_founded": 2020,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cobberyai",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ultimate-tournament-inc",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/77230af72102ed90cdbe2e9c55a7bb68f65b9b9b.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 565815,
"full_name": "Dan Goodman",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "chronically nerd sniped",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-goodman-7a813214a/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/Dan_The_Goodman",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5fb581cdf9e39a7aa7362b98c81cff39327b041b.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 563474,
"full_name": "Alex Pickett",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "I'm a computer engineer who is a huge fan of building cool things, freakonomics, and video games!",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/alex-pickett-a5a268191/?challengeId=AQFbaqkPrDLb4wAAAXQrrdLy_bF25SuzrsCAIAXKfNO1PfMsPTtOImDHEICVdGdKrYdnt9Fj29MaOG0zXWxd9DQ-sjFL8yYI-w&submissionId=b0a32c0f-7ddf-2e16-0ba5-261e158d7121",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4aacf65a896bec6d46de24e6e49ea8091971fc70.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 64139,
"title": "Tangia đš Toolset for gamers to monetize their live streams",
"tagline": "Tangia enables viewers to buy interactions that affect the game being streamed in real time. For example, a viewer pays $15 to spawn a boss enemy and it instantly appears in the streamerâs minecraft world.",
"body": "**What We Do**\n\nTangia enables streamers to sell real-time interactions to their viewers, boosting engagement, and recognizing real revenue without compromising on content quality. \n\n**What Problems are we Solving**\n\n* Ads donât pay enough and most streamers canât get sponsors\n* Streamers lose 28% to 65% of their revenue to the platform they stream on\n* Creator tools are complex and require multiple products to achieve simple outcomes\n\nTangia allows streamers to earn 200x more per stream over ads as viewers deeply enjoy being a part of the stream. Interactions sales allow creators to take agency over their revenue and connect with their community in an entertaining and engaging way. We enable creators to do this all at a lower rate than existing platforms. \\\n\\\nTangia prioritizes the user experience and simplicity. Having a low friction process to allow viewers to purchase interactions is core to Tangia's design and platform flow. Tangia also consolidates the best features of existing tools on top of the interactions giving the streamers the best of all worlds!\n\n**Want to Get Involved?**Â \n\nGreat! We would love to have you!\n\n_Investors_\n\nPlease shoot us an email â [**founders@ultimatetournament.io**](mailto:founders@ultimatetournament.io)\n\n_Game Developers / Content Creators / Other Inquiries_\n\nPlease shoot us an email â [**support@ultimatetournament.io**](mailto:support@ultimatetournament.io)\n\n**Check us out at** â ",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GgV-tangia-toolset-for-gamers-to-monetize-their-live-streams",
"votes": 102,
"created_at": "2022-06-28T15:16:26.152Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 27867,
"name": "DataSuite",
"slug": "datasuite",
"former_names": [
"Extensional AI",
"Extensional",
"Extensional AI",
"Anarchy AI",
"Anarchy",
"Anarchy Labs",
"TruthSuite"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/98dc541fc5fbbef1e6c9baee61264602e4e64531.png",
"website": "https://truthsuite.com",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote",
"long_description": "DataSuite provides a way to manage and collect multi-terabyte multi-media datasets, and train generative models (diffusion, gan, interactive video) models based on them. \r\n\r\nWe make it trivial for non-technical builders to create their own networks by providing an instant way to collect with AI without worrying about data formats, unzipping power, caching, or data locality.",
"one_liner": "Dataset Management for AI Trainers",
"team_size": 4,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1669080392,
"tags": [
"Developer Tools",
"Generative AI",
"Machine Learning",
"DevOps",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2023",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": [
{
"question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?",
"answer": "Developers need an easy way to collaborate on the step-by-step process of gathering data and training AI models. Out of the box, LLMs can be **>100b** parameters and require **trillion** token datasets. This is more than most organizations are equipped to handle: a few years ago, few had heard of LLMs, and now organizations are scrambling to get ahold of GPUs to train and run them. The famous models are furthermore _proprietary_. Privacy, quality and efficiency needs are leading organizations to _train their own models._ \\\\While training these models, developers are constantly adjusting their datasets. As their projects grow, it becomes harder to keep track of the changes, and figure out what data and models to use and track these things in production."
}
],
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/datasuite",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/datasuite.json",
"year_founded": 2022,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/datasuite",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": "https://github.com/anarchy-ai",
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/98dc541fc5fbbef1e6c9baee61264602e4e64531.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 129728,
"full_name": "Matthew Mirman",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Before founding DataSuite, Matt received his PhD in AI from ETH Zurich in 2022 where he scaled verified machine learning from working on 10 neuron toy nets in hours to 100m neuron nets in milliseconds and invented differentiable abstract interpretation and provable training. Before this, he worked at apple on JS compiler optimizations that saved the world a billion dollars in time wasted waiting for pages to load, and before that got an MS from CMU on meta-programming CoC logic languages.",
"is_active": false,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewmirman/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/mmirman",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0f8c7b0dfce84c3fc75c64878dd889bf64439c0d.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1151451,
"full_name": "James Spoor",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "A Generalist, with a passion for learning! After living in multiple countries hustling, building and creating, I ended up in Switzerland diving into the deep tech world where I worked at DeepCode, ml on static analysis which was then acquired by Snyk a cyber security unicorn. A fun fact about me is I was once a professional climber. My superpower is caring deeply and understanding through questions... there will be many questions!\n",
"is_active": false,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/james-spoor",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/Spoor2709",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5578b222bbf26bfc932bfdd143434fe50587bbf5.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 69294,
"title": "Anarchy 𧪠- LLM infrastructure for building conversational applications đď¸",
"tagline": "Anarchy provides companies with their own LLM endpoints that can call any APIs",
"body": "Greetings YC community! Weâre Matt and James, the founders of Anarchy. Weâve been working in AI for a long time (Matt just finished a PhD working on formal methods in deep learning) and have become experts in taming LLMs. We started Anarchy to share these advances with devs who want to use LLMs in production.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nWhile LLMs are beginning to be used as universal text interfaces, developers and prompt engineers are beginning to want consistent and reliable LLMs with agency: LLMs which can search through their ever-changing databases, be able to book meetings, and generally make calls to their APIs. However, coaxing LLMs to behave consistently is black magic requiring constant vigilance, and relying on a single provider can be a risky point of failure.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nOur platform abstracts away the unpredictable work of researching ideal prompts so developers can focus on building business logic: Provide your API and its description, and your LLM-keys, and anarchy will provide you an LLM endpoint (or web-interface chatbot) that can answer questions and solve problems using your API and load-balance between LLMs.\n\n[Here's a short product demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcv_wrCYRds)\n\n\n\n### **Ask**\n\nIf this excites you (or anybody you might know, YC or not) and youâd like to try our product, please contact us by [signing up.](https://forms.gle/5rqU282gUKmKPmjm9)\n\nIf you want to have a chat about LLM tech or ask us questions directly, feel free to join our discord: \n\nWeâre also in the process of building up our [twitter](https://twitter.com/anarchy_ai_inc) and [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/extensional) and would appreciate a follow đ!",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I1e-anarchy-llm-infrastructure-for-building-conversational-applications",
"votes": 28,
"created_at": "2023-02-15T01:33:56.036Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 27961,
"name": "Hona",
"slug": "hona",
"former_names": [
"Milestones",
"Hona (formerly Milestones)",
"Hona đ"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ca3c9f60cb1b588e41fbba65990acd0b8578f152.png",
"website": "https://hona.com",
"all_locations": "Orem, UT, USA",
"long_description": "Hona is a legal technology company transforming the personal injury law space. Hona's platform helps PI firms strengthen client engagement through real-time case status tracking, AI-powered communication tools, and intelligent medical management â driving better outcomes for firms and the clients they serve.\r\n\r\nIn addition to status updates, Hona allows clients to upload documents, securely message their legal team, and share feedbackâall in one place. Hona integrates seamlessly with the law firm's existing case management systems, making it easy to implement without disrupting day-to-day operations.\r\n\r\nHona's long-term vision is to transform client communication across the legal industry by making clarity and transparency the standard. ",
"one_liner": "Personal Injury Legal Work - Automated",
"team_size": 32,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1669140082,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"B2B"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2023",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hona",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/hona.json",
"year_founded": 2021,
"city": "Orem",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/honasoftware",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/honasoftware",
"fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/honasoftware",
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/milestones",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ca3c9f60cb1b588e41fbba65990acd0b8578f152.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Aaron Epstein",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 916596,
"full_name": "Josh Christensen",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "While studying Mechanical Engineering at BYU, I started an e-commerce sandal company called J-Slips Hawaii which I scaled to $1M+ in revenue in 2 years. I turned it over to my family to run so I could pursue a career in tech. I taught myself how to code and became a software engineer working at extremely fast growing tech companies, first Qualtrics and then Route, before co-founding Hona.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-n-christensen/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/20eea752d2bc99dde6693b01de1257953352abe5.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 916383,
"full_name": "Matt McClellan",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Matt McClellan is the founder of Hona, a legal technology company transforming the personal injury law space. Hona's platform helps PI firms strengthen client engagement through real-time case status tracking, AI-powered communication tools, and intelligent medical management â driving better outcomes for firms and the clients they serve.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-mcclellan22/",
"x_url": "https://mobile.twitter.com/honamatt",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/93261af61eeeb7b49890018c324323b187e6afa1.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "YC-backed Hona looks to reduce the communication friction between law firms and their consumer clients | TechCrunch",
"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/yc-backed-hona-looks-to-reduce-the-communication-friction-between-law-firms-and-their-consumer-clients/",
"date": "Jun 17, 2024"
}
],
"launches": [
{
"id": 67468,
"title": "Milestones - Keep clients in the know.",
"tagline": "đ The bridge between a business's CRM and their clients",
"body": "Weâre Milestones, and weâre building the bridge between businesses CRM and their clients. \n\nIn 2018, Co-Founder, Mannyâs wife, was in a car accident on her way to work. The injuries she suffered put her out of work for a few weeks and caused emotional trauma, so she decided to hire a lawyer to get her compensation. During the course of her legal case, she never felt like she was kept in the loop. She didnât understand the process and always wanted more information.\n\nWhen a client wants more info should they always have to reach out? Do you text Amazon to ask them where your package is at? No! We believe you shouldnât have to text a business to see where your project is at either.\n\n### **â A Two-Sided Problem**\n\n* **Clients:** In today's day and age it's typical to have all the information we want at our fingertips. Clients get frustrated because they want to know what is being worked on and what comes next.\n* **Businesses:** Businesses are often much too busy to keep clients updated with every phase of their project. Businesses often store a wealth of information in their software, but that information is never communicated/available to clients.\n\n### **𧪠Solution**\n\nThink about your interactions with various businesses:\n\n* Insurance claims\n* Taxes\n* Getting a loan\n* Building a house\n* Legal cases\n* Oil changes\n* Solar Installations\n* etc.\n\nHow much better would it be if there was a _Domino's Pizza Tracker-esque_ interface for each one?\n\n* Milestones connects directly with a businessâs CRM to automate updates and stream information back and forth. Notifications are sent to clients via text message, so that a client has easy access to the information. Clients enter the milestones application through a link in the text message. Clients and businesses can communicate back and forth through the Milestones application.\n\n \n\n\n### **âď¸ How it works**\n\n* Using APIâs, a business can set up which information they want to be pushed back and forth to clients. That information includes:\n * Status Updates\n * Documents\n * Educational information\n * Calendared Events\n * Team Information\n * Etc.\n* Clients use SMS and the Milestones app to interact with the business.\n\n \n\n### **đ How to help:**\n\n1. Share this post!\n2. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/milestonesapp/) & [Twitter](https://mobile.twitter.com/getmilestones).\n3. If you know a business that could use our tool, let them know about us!",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HYC-milestones-keep-clients-in-the-know",
"votes": 63,
"created_at": "2022-11-22T17:51:45.991Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 28128,
"name": "Edge",
"slug": "edge",
"former_names": [
"Drift Bio"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eaf8f081136d0802d1263079f90289e27869565f.png",
"website": "https://withedge.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote",
"long_description": "Edge uses AI to help IP professionals get their jobs done. We help trademark attorneys do clearance searches, patent attorneys draft patents, and more.",
"one_liner": "The ultimate IP assistant.",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1674571954,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2023",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/edge",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/edge.json",
"year_founded": 2020,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/workwithedge",
"x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/workwithedge",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eaf8f081136d0802d1263079f90289e27869565f.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 229820,
"full_name": "Evan Zimmerman",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Edge, the ultimate IP assistant. Every company Evan has ever done has involved patents and he holds a JD from UC Berkeley Law School with a specialization in intellectual property. Reach out to talk about how we can help you get better patents! I can also refer you to IP attorneys in my network; I went to the top IP law school in the country.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ejz",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/ejzim",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4ead0653282f64aab91221a3a6ae34a305748cb3.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 288055,
"full_name": "Len Boyette",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Len was an early Okta engineer, who founded Okta's developer experience team. He built a platform to power hundreds of Okta integrations and maintained open-source projects which have over a billion installs.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenb/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/kevlened",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d51ac2e2d555498ebe6b8cc1c681bdec6e3eb223.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 68655,
"title": "Drift Bio: The operating system for life sciences data",
"tagline": "We make software to get life sciences data into the cloud and manage bioinformatics workflows",
"body": "[Drift Bio](https://driftbio.com) is the next-generation tool for life sciences organizations to manage and analyze their data.\n\nWho are we? Weâre Evan and Len, the cofounders of Drift. Weâre passionate about life sciences and the ability of software to transform the way life sciences do business by fixing their software.\n\n\n\n### **Why life sciences software?**\n\nThe practice of life sciences has undergone more change in the past decade than the past century. Today, life sciences companies have to analyze large amounts of data without clear best practices, and this work is often done by hand and requires software engineering to scale. Data scientists lived that way too, ten years agoâbut now they have tools to help them manage their overhead and output 10x more than their predecessors. Life sciences practitioners deserve the same.\n\nThe amount of analysis life sciences companies have to do is dizzying. Genomics, flow cytometry, scRNA, PCA, CRISPR, proteomics (do you prefer DDA or DIA?), and more. People need answers and breakthroughs. Software that requires life sciences companies to deal with this headache, instead of abstracting it away and scaling it across their whole organization, is a key bottleneck to success.\n\n### **Great, so how does Drift help?**\n\nDrift is a platform that is specifically tuned for life sciences organizations. We help you scale your work and make it easy to use.\n\nHow? We help you access popular open source tools, manage your workflows (even with custom code across several languages!), get into the cloud, store your data, share it with collaborators, and more, all without having to manage environments or clusters. All that in just one platform.\n\n\n\nAt its core, Drift is a platform for data that creates different entry points for everyone across any life science organization to get their data in the cloud, analyze it, and make their work reproducible in a shareable way. We do this through our in-house management tools, which you can use to access popular open-source libraries or deploy your own software IP. By using Drift, it is all in the cloud and easy to use. And without even having to change your code, you can turn it into a GUI so that others can use the software. \n\n### **How do I get started?**\n\nIf you work at a life sciences organization, we want to talk to _you_! Tell us about your use case and weâll tell you how Drift can help. Email us at [team@driftbio.com](mailto:team@driftbio.com) to talk.\n\nAnd if you are a bioinformatician who wants to contribute, or you know someone who does, please send them our way too.\n\nThank you!",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HrL-drift-bio-the-operating-system-for-life-sciences-data",
"votes": 37,
"created_at": "2023-01-24T15:03:49.063Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 28825,
"name": "Solve Intelligence",
"slug": "solve-intelligence",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdb4c71ccbddd0ad292fc773c3cfb169d2a4a5ba.png",
"website": "https://www.solveintelligence.com/",
"all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom",
"long_description": "Solve Intelligence is the AI platform for helping legal professionals with every part of the patent process.\r\n\r\nWith $55M backing from Y Combinator, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, 20VC, Operator Collective, Visionaries, and others, they have assembled a world-leading team of patent attorneys, AI PhDs, and software developers to build products for patent application drafting, office action responses, invention harvesting, claim charting, infringement analysis, FTO, validity challenges, patent litigation, and more.\r\n\r\nThey are now selling their 100% secure and confidential software to 700+ IP firms and in-house teams across the US, Europe, and Asia (e.g. DLA Piper, Siemens, Perkins Coie, Amgen - see customers https://www.solveintelligence.com/#customers).\r\n\r\nSolve customers are reporting 60-90% efficiency and quality improvements (see testimonials https://www.solveintelligence.com/#testimonials).\r\n\r\nSee a demo today: https://www.solveintelligence.com/contact-us",
"one_liner": "AI patent drafting, prosecution, litigation and more for legal teams.",
"team_size": 50,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1686701574,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2023",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United Kingdom",
"Europe"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/solve-intelligence.json",
"year_founded": 2023,
"city": "London",
"country": "GB",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/solve-intelligence/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/solveintel",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/solve-intelligence",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cdb4c71ccbddd0ad292fc773c3cfb169d2a4a5ba.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/666838ac9a7189be89825b612c95e112f9842f3d.png",
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/d7b00d669b9d8ec65f923be55429f9ad77758d42.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Tom Blomfield",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1367673,
"full_name": "Chris Parsonson",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Chris did his PhD in machine learning at UCL, publishing and winning awards in top AI conferences and journals. He holds an MRes from the University of Cambridge and an MEng from Imperial College London. Prior to founding Solve Intelligence, Chris worked at leading tech organisations, including The Alan Turing Institute, InstaDeep, and Dyson.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/christopher-parsonson-381830a3",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/chrisparsonson",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/334eb5455096aacaf763b5eeb81c688fb7efefdc.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1357988,
"full_name": "Sanj Ahilan",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Sanj completed his PhD in machine learning at UCL, won awards at top AI conferences, and developed popular open-source code for fine-tuning large language models. Before founding Solve Intelligence, he worked at Magic Carpet AI and Huawei Technologies. He holds an MSci in Physics from the University of Cambridge.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/sanjeevan-ahilan-844b33137",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/sanjeevanahilan",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e05b52c5e1b0c55a4c8f691c334c30e23aa9589a.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1367618,
"full_name": "Angus Parsonson",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Angus completed his MEng degree in computer science at the University of Bristol, during which he received a cyber security scholarship from GCHQ. He has since worked as a Quantitative Developer at Coremont LLP, a spin-off from hedge fund Brevan Howard.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/angus-parsonson-24935914b",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/angusparsonson",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3e5a659cc029201df633f327e3d0381bd3a7d31e.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 63441,
"title": "Full-Stack Engineer (Back-End Leaning)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/nUSCIrz-full-stack-engineer-back-end-leaning",
"location": "London, England, GB",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$100K - $250K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": [
"PostgreSQL",
"Python",
"React",
"TypeScript"
]
},
{
"id": 66829,
"title": "Legal and Product Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/SfeAq7J-legal-and-product-engineer",
"location": "London, England, GB / New York, NY, US / Munich, Bavaria, DE",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Legal",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$100K - $220K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 68959,
"title": "AI Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/xjMVxGq-ai-engineer",
"location": "London, England, GB",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Machine learning",
"salary_range": "$100K - $250K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": [
"PostgreSQL",
"Python"
]
},
{
"id": 76344,
"title": "Full-Stack Engineer (Front-End Leaning)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/Cf3UDWf-full-stack-engineer-front-end-leaning",
"location": "London, England, GB",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Frontend",
"salary_range": "$100K - $220K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": [
"React",
"TypeScript"
]
},
{
"id": 78583,
"title": "Infrastructure Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/Go8FRvV-infrastructure-engineer",
"location": "London, England, GB",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Devops",
"salary_range": "$120K - $250K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "6+ years",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": [
"PostgreSQL",
"Python",
"Docker",
"Software Architecture",
"Software Security"
]
},
{
"id": 80355,
"title": "Account Executive/GTM",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/tdq6MfC-account-executive-gtm",
"location": "London, England, GB",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$100K - $200K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 84096,
"title": "Growth Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/318ShlU-growth-engineer",
"location": "London, England, GB",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$100K - $250K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 87186,
"title": "Account Executive/GTM",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/28q1fFq-account-executive-gtm",
"location": "New York, NY, US / London, England, GB",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$100K - $200K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 88982,
"title": "Sales Development/GTM",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/Jc8kl4j-sales-development-gtm",
"location": "London, England, GB / New York, NY, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$90K - $130K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 89229,
"title": "Motion Designer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/9BlPXqm-motion-designer",
"location": "London, England, GB / New York, NY, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Design",
"role_type": "Animation",
"salary_range": "$90K - $150K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Figma",
"Adobe After Effects"
]
},
{
"id": 99319,
"title": "Events Lead",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/NxzWOjb-events-lead",
"location": "London / New York",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Operations",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$100K - $150K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "5+ years",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 99320,
"title": "Full Stack (Back-End Leaning)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/BtpHVam-full-stack-back-end-leaning",
"location": "London",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Operations",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$100K - $250K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 99321,
"title": "Legal and Product Engineer (Patent Litigator)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/ZJibBPa-legal-and-product-engineer-patent-litigator",
"location": "London / Munich / New York",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$150K - $250K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 99322,
"title": "Customer Support Specialist",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/gYY3T5K-customer-support-specialist",
"location": "London",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Support",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "ÂŁ50K - ÂŁ65K GBP",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 99323,
"title": "Customer Support Specialist",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/CPXHE82-customer-support-specialist",
"location": "New York",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Support",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$65K - $95K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 100599,
"title": "Financial Operations Lead",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/ajtyl6e-financial-operations-lead",
"location": "London",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Operations",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$135K - $200K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "5+ years",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 101126,
"title": "AI Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/6Odbr4M-ai-engineer",
"location": "London",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$100K - $250K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 108485,
"title": "Legal and Product Engineer (USPTO Examiner Background)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/RdsyMKM-legal-and-product-engineer-uspto-examiner-background",
"location": "New York",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$100K - $220K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 108684,
"title": "Legal Counsel",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/5i3wLqV-legal-counsel",
"location": "New York",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Operations",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$150K - $220K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 110240,
"title": "Data Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/8jpb0DK-data-engineer",
"location": "London",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 112060,
"title": "Legal and Product Engineer (Japanese Speaking)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence/jobs/28N3Eov-legal-and-product-engineer-japanese-speaking",
"location": "New York",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$100K - $220K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [
{
"title": "Solve Intelligence Raises $40M Series B to Build AI for Patents and Launches Charts.",
"url": "https://www.solveintelligence.com/blog/post/solve-intelligence-raises-40m-series-b-to-build-ai-for-patents-and-launches-charts",
"date": "Dec 09, 2025"
},
{
"title": "Solve Intelligence Raises $12M Series A to Build AI for Patents | Solve Intelligence",
"url": "https://www.solveintelligence.com/blog/post/series-a-funding-to-build-ai-for-patents",
"date": "Apr 09, 2025"
},
{
"title": "Solve Intelligence raises fresh $12M to bring AI to IP, patent workflows | TechCrunch",
"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/microsoft-backs-solve-intelligence-in-12m-series-a-funding/",
"date": "Apr 09, 2025"
},
{
"title": "Solve Intelligence helps attorneys draft patents for IP analysis and generation | TechCrunch",
"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/28/solve-intelligences-ai-solution-helps-attorneys-draft-patents-for-ip-analysis-and-generation/",
"date": "Nov 28, 2023"
}
],
"launches": [
{
"id": 72326,
"title": "đĄ Solve Intelligence - Write patents with AI",
"tagline": "Reduce the cost and time to write patents.",
"body": "**Tl;dr:** At [Solve Intelligence](https://www.solveintelligence.com/?utm_source=YC+Launch&utm_medium=Main&utm_campaign=Launch&utm_id=SolveIntelligence) we use AI to help you write high-quality patents quickly. We do this by providing a simple in-browser document editor that any patent attorney or inventor can start using straight away. [Connect with us today](https://www.solveintelligence.com/contact?utm_source=YC+Launch&utm_medium=Contact&utm_campaign=Launch&utm_id=SolveIntelligence).\n\n---\n\n\n\nFrom left to right: [Solve Intelligence](https://www.solveintelligence.com/?utm_source=YC+Launch&utm_medium=Main&utm_campaign=Launch&utm_id=SolveIntelligence) co-founders [Angus](https://www.linkedin.com/in/angus-parsonson-24935914b/), [Sanj](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanj-ahilan-844b33137/), and [Chris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-parsonson-381830a3/) (Angusâ brother) in San Francisco.\n\n---\n\n### **What are we building?**\n\nWe are building an in-browser document editor powered by AI to help inventors and attorneys write patents. Our product can help with all stages of the patent life cycle, from drafting and filing to prosecution and opposition. For further details on what our product offers, refer to [this analysis on the top 5 AI tools for patents.](https://www.solveintelligence.com/blog-posts/top-patent-analysis-tools)\n\n### **Product Snapshot**\n\nGiven your tech and prior art, use AI to draft a patent:\n\n\n\nChat with the AI and use it to help edit the patent:\n\n\n\n### **Why are we building it?**\n\nFrom drafting to grant, a worldwide patent costs $60K on average and can take years to obtain. If the patent is contentious, then costs can get much higher ($100K-1M+). It's a slow, complicated, and expensive process which can block innovation and delay time-to-market.\n\nThere's a need for software solutions which can make the patenting process more efficient.\n\nMost existing intellectual property software focuses on _search_ (finding related technology). However, the _generative_ steps of drafting a patent and responding to examiners and competitors make up 90%+ of the costs.\n\nEnter AI, which now has the ability to help with generative patent tasks. At Solve Intelligence, we have assembled a world-class team of AI researchers and software developers. Our goal? To leverage and build on recent AI breakthroughs to transform the patenting process.\n\n### **Who are we building for?**\n\nOur product is for any tech company or inventor striving for swift, high-quality patents at below-market rates. Itâs also a valuable tool for patent law firms looking to increase their bandwidth, engage more personally with their clients, and ensure that the patents they file are of high quality. For further details on how our product can help with patent drafting, refer to [this analysis of the top 6 patent drafting tools](https://www.solveintelligence.com/blog-posts/best-ai-patent-drafting-tools).\n\n### **Our ask**\n\n[Contact us](https://www.solveintelligence.com/contact-us) to:\n\n* **book a full demo** and **give us your feedback**\n* connect us to **patent attorneys** in your network\n* connect us to **tech inventors** in your network\n\n---\n\n---",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IoY-solve-intelligence-write-patents-with-ai",
"votes": 47,
"created_at": "2023-06-16T16:55:16.298Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 28854,
"name": "Docsum",
"slug": "docsum",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cbbf3c5f2937adf8242a332b8bfc9fbaa18073e3.png",
"website": "https://www.docsum.ai/",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA",
"long_description": "Docsum is a contract intelligence platform designed for legal and finance teams. Using AI, Docsum extracts critical data like renewal dates, obligations, and more into a searchable database. The platform is fully customizable with features like custom field reporting, alerts, and playbook-powered redlining. Getting started is simpleâupload contracts or connect Docsum to tools like Google Drive, DocuSign, and more.",
"one_liner": "AI contract repository",
"team_size": 4,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1689290654,
"tags": [
"Documents",
"B2B",
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2023",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/docsum",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/docsum.json",
"year_founded": 2023,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/docsum",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/DocsumAI",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cbbf3c5f2937adf8242a332b8bfc9fbaa18073e3.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Gustaf Alstromer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1402995,
"full_name": "Shaunak Turaga",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "I'm serving as CEO and co-founder of Docsum (S23). I have a background as a developer, product manager, and founder at places like Pacaso, OpenTrack, Capital One, and IBM.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/shaunakturaga",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/shaunakturaga",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/191f11e55712feee11bc7f5f8196473c9024219b.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 332166,
"full_name": "Alex Leonov",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Iâm serving as CTO and co-founder of Docsum (S23). I make contracts suck less by building ruthlessly efficient systems that turn legal spaghetti into structured intelligence.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-l-leonov/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/AlexLLeonov",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6e857c19807de5a9f903ce2e09f4a65860f9e77a.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 73084,
"title": "đ Docsum - AI contract reviewer for legal teams",
"tagline": "Supercharge your contracting workflows from review to negotiation by 3x",
"body": "**TL;DR:** [Docsum](https://www.docsum.ai?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=yc-launch) is an AI contract review and negotiation platform. With Docsum, legal, procurement, and sales teams can negotiate and manage contracts 3x faster, to reduce the time to close and win more deals. Docsum works by analyzing and redlining contracts using configurable playbooks owned by lawyers. [Start reviewing your contracts now.](https://app.docsum.ai?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=yc-launch)\n\n**Problem**\n\n* Sales teams often own the contracting process from reviewing NDAs to sending out MSAs. **Sales teams are motivated to respond to clients quickly and reduce their time to close** but their ability to review and respond to contract redlines is contingent on collaboration with their legal counsel. **This process can be expensive, time consuming, and hard to manage.**\n* For smaller teams, basic contract review and contract negotiation services with external counsel can be incredibly expensive and time consuming.\n* For larger organizations, in-house counsels are burdened by high matter volumes that often position them as bottlenecks within sales cycles.\n\n### **Docsum â an AI legal copilot for sales teams**\n\n\n\n* **Review**: Use Docsum to upload a legal contract and get a comprehensive **summary and ask to our AI attorney questions.**\n* **Analyze**: Get a list of potential red flags and proposed redlines to negotiate with.\n\n\n\n* **Playbook**: Upload your redlined contract to get advice on how to respond with **suggested resolutions** sourced from your organizationâs configured playbook or from our pre-configured playbook trained by our human attorneys.\n\n### **How is Docsum different?**\n\n* **Extensible**: Currently, we are focused on being the best-in-class legal analysis and contract negotiation tool. We believe we can integrate into your existing contract life cycle processes.\n* **đ Interoperable**: We believe the best solutions are integrated where people work so we plan to build an eco-system of tooling which includes our **web application, native Word + Google plugins**, where legal and sales teams work.\n* **đŞđ˝ Collaborative**: We believe that legal teams are essential for creating and preserving value for organizations. Our hope is to enable organizations to engage their legal counsel in a more strategic and efficient manner. We arenât trying to replace lawyers with AI.\n\n### **The Team**\n\n\n\nWeâre [Shaunak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunakturaga/) and [Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-l-leonov/). Weâve been best friends since college and the picture above is us bartending in a horse trailer bar that we built called [Barbox](https://www.instagram.com/barboxraleigh/) â a premium event bartending business which we sold last year.\n\nShaunak has experience as a developer and product manager at Pacaso, OpenTrack, Capital One. Alex has experience as a developer and architect at Pacaso and Fidelity. We worked on growth and global expansion while at Pacaso.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* **Sign up today:** Do you deal with sales contracts? [Sign up to try Docsum today](https://app.docsum.ai?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=yc-launch)\n* **Connect with us:** Do you know of any founders, CROs, sales leaders, deal desk teams, general counsels, or transactional attorneys that might be interested in reducing their time to close and achieve more efficient contracting workflows? We would be most grateful if you can connect us! Email us at [founders@docsum.ai](https://mailto:founders@docsum.ai)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J0m-docsum-ai-contract-reviewer-for-legal-teams",
"votes": 36,
"created_at": "2023-07-14T18:09:12.155Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 28966,
"name": "Pincites",
"slug": "pincites",
"former_names": [
"Pincite"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/66314affa2a18460ebaf6082abe1eba1272e5498.png",
"website": "https://www.pincites.com/",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Pincites makes contract negotiations faster and more consistent for legal teams. Using LLMs, Pincites takes a first pass at reviewing contracts, helping lawyers focus on riskiest parts of their negotiations.",
"one_liner": "Close deals faster with AI for contract negotiation",
"team_size": 4,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1688690921,
"tags": [
"B2B",
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2023",
"status": "Acquired",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pincites",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/pincites.json",
"year_founded": 2023,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pincites",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/pincitesai",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pincites",
"github_url": "https://github.com/pincites/",
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/66314affa2a18460ebaf6082abe1eba1272e5498.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/babc88426c04b5cb0d84d39804912b34c477d9d1.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Tom Blomfield",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1369076,
"full_name": "Sona Sulakian",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Building Pincites (S23) to make contract negotiation faster with AI. Previously a transactional attorney, patent attorney, and a strategic consultant for legal tech.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonasulakian/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/sonasulakian",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b87e1a280754f3df8bcad372d0177f5454b5db94.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1382487,
"full_name": "Mariam Sulakian",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder of Pincites (acq). Previously product at GitHub and eng at Meta.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ms-",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/mariamsulakian",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c502e1726878dbcb73d6cc594864a84b9f25ec5c.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "Filevine acquires Pincites to bring legal AI directly into Microsoft Word",
"url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/filevine-announces-lois-for-word-as-it-acquires-pincites-302660674.html",
"date": "Jan 14, 2026"
},
{
"title": "Pincites raises $3m seed round | Pincites Blog",
"url": "https://www.pincites.com/blog/pincites-raises-usd-3m-seed",
"date": "Sep 07, 2023"
}
],
"launches": [
{
"id": 73190,
"title": "đ Pincites: AI-powered contract negotiation",
"tagline": "Close deals faster with AI for contract negotiation",
"body": "\n\nHello! Weâre [**Sona**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonasulakian/), [**Mariam**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ms-/), and [**Grey**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/greysteil/)âa team of attorneys, security experts, and AI specialists. Weâre on a mission to speed up contract negotiation.\n\n### **â** Problem\n\n* **Sales negotiations get bottlenecked on legal review**. Sales teams must pause deals while they wait for legal teams to redline and finalize customer agreements.\n* **Unfriendly terms slip through the cracks**. Legal teams canât ensure that contracts align with company standards _and_ minimize risk when working under time pressure.\n* **Nonstandard language makes understanding your contracts hard.** Lawyers can phrase the same idea in thousands of different ways. At scale, it's difficult to track contract details and negotiation outcomes.\n\n## đĄ Our solution\n\n* **A Word add-in that ensures guidance is available where and when it's needed.** Using the latest large language models, Pincites allows legal teams to build contract playbooks that any internal team can apply consistently within Microsoft Word using our Word add-in. \n* **An AI-powered onboarding flow that turns existing contracts into playbooks.** Simply upload your template, add guidance, and begin redlining. Unlike previous legal tech, manual tagging or model training is unnecessary because Pincites tags clauses based on their semantic meaning.\n\n## **â¨** How we help\n\n* **Amplify your legal teamâs impact.** Our AI solution surfaces relevant guidance for all teams to quickly review and negotiate contracts using their companies' approved terms. Non-legal teams can securely process contracts, while freeing up legal teams to focus on more critical matters.\n* **Flags key risks for review.** Pincites highlights deviations from your standard language and missing clauses in your contracts. We compare each clause to your standard language, providing insights on variations and associated risk levels. We offer guidance for each variation, ensuring you can align on the right language and conveniently access relevant guidance as you work.\n* **Standardize contracting language and processes.** Pincites serves as a central place for legal teams to define standard guidance that is then embedded in Microsoft Word for easy access by any internal team.\n\n## đ Weâre looking to connect with legal teams! \n\n* Refer us to your in-house attorneys at [founders@pincites.com](mailto:sona@pincites.com)\n* Book a 20 minute demo [here](https://calendly.com/pincites/demo)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J2U-pincites-ai-powered-contract-negotiation",
"votes": 28,
"created_at": "2023-07-18T19:24:30.580Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 28991,
"name": "Inlet",
"slug": "inlet-2",
"former_names": [
"Switchboard",
"Inlet AI"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/947ea79d41ed24389e0a80ad75da05f02c0c5dd7.png",
"website": "https://inletai.com",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA",
"long_description": "Attorneys at small- and medium-sized law firms juggle dozens of matters, context-switching throughout the day â and often failing to record their billable time for every task they worked on.\r\n\r\nInlet records these tasks automatically â eliminating painful admin time and increasing their revenue.",
"one_liner": "AI timekeeping for legal professionals.",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1687479544,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2023",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inlet-2",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/inlet-2.json",
"year_founded": 2023,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/inletai",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/inlet_ai",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/947ea79d41ed24389e0a80ad75da05f02c0c5dd7.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1344901,
"full_name": "Sean Adler",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Sean is co-founder and CEO of Inlet. 10+ years writing code and building AI products at startups. Previously at AKASA (Head of NLP) and ASAPP (ML Engineer).",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/sean-adler-b5872446",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5890f351a075303f2fa291f3c938ae1b13d70b1d.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 968369,
"full_name": "Adam Miller",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Inlet. Previously lead product and machine learning teams at Gridspace, where we built best-in-class voicebots to automate complex contact center workflows. Now building Inlet. Would love to talk, just reach out!",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/adam-miller-14940631",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/53df97d189df46d2c3c7730b53350f96c0b2940a.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 94295,
"title": "Founding SDR",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inlet-2/jobs/MVGBAUc-founding-sdr",
"location": "New York, NY, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$65K - $80K",
"equity_range": "0.01% - 0.30%",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 99324,
"title": "Founding Customer Success Manager",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inlet-2/jobs/37msxHL-founding-customer-success-manager",
"location": "US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Operations",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$75K - $140K",
"equity_range": "0.02% - 0.10%",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 111592,
"title": "Founding Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inlet-2/jobs/5vq9L5e-founding-engineer",
"location": "San Diego, CA, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$140K - $220K",
"equity_range": "0.20% - 2.00%",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 29152,
"name": "Cembla",
"slug": "cembla",
"former_names": [
"Taylor",
"Taylor AI"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/41b0a27e54d4ae8ccb5d6d44522528df85b7ed7a.png",
"website": "https://cembla.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "",
"one_liner": "AI for legal & government",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1687991939,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"GovTech",
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2023",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": [
{
"question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)",
"answer": "Ben and Brian met at the 2015 Speech & Debate Nationals the summer before the start of their freshman year at Stanford. Since then, theyâve been best friends and are currently roommates in San Francisco. After graduating with his masterâs in computer science, Ben was most recently an applied machine learning researcher in a Stanford research lab. After graduating with his bachelorâs in engineering, Brian was most recently a product manager on the front lines of early AI adoption in industry. Ben and Brian started Taylor because they saw companies rushing to adopt AI but struggling to adapt one-size-fits-all chat models for their use cases."
}
],
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cembla",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/cembla.json",
"year_founded": 2023,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/41b0a27e54d4ae8ccb5d6d44522528df85b7ed7a.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/53a4c68619911ccd19537c76a9f9a99ed50038a3.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Diana Hu",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 989748,
"full_name": "Brian Kim",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "S23",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/brian-kim-463a50142",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/brian_j_kim",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8df0ed53ec7dd20d9732a35304d67b041ac9175e.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 515987,
"full_name": "Benjamin Anderson",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "CTO",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/andersonbcdefg",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4d46e310dd7ebda152ee67370014aad907ff6fc2.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "Data Engineering Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2024 | Y Combinator",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/data-engineering",
"date": "Apr 01, 2024"
},
{
"title": "The Journal by Fondo | Taylor AI launches: Tag your text data at scale",
"url": "https://www.tryfondo.com/blog/taylor-ai-launches",
"date": "Mar 26, 2024"
},
{
"title": "The Journal by Fondo | Taylor AI launches: Tag your text data at scale",
"url": "https://www.tryfondo.com/blog/taylor-ai-launches",
"date": "Mar 25, 2024"
},
{
"title": "Bruckner Ventures on LinkedIn: đ¨ Bruckner Ventures is thrilled to announce our investment in Taylor AIâŚ",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7136381855037100033/?actorCompanyId=95063899",
"date": "Dec 01, 2023"
},
{
"title": "The AI Edge on LinkedIn: #ai #aitools #tech #productivity | 10 comments",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ai-edge_ai-aitools-tech-activity-7095124082316185602-tVwh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop",
"date": "Sep 01, 2023"
}
],
"launches": [
{
"id": 79451,
"title": "Taylor â Tag your text data at scale",
"tagline": "The API for on-demand text classification (No LLMs)",
"body": "Hey everyone! đ We're Ben & Brian.\n\n**TL;DR** Use Taylorâs API to tag your free text faster and cheaper than a LLM can.\n\n**THE PROBLEM** High-volume, high-frequency text data (like user-generated content, chat completions, and lead communication logs) is difficult to sort, productize, and manage. You can tag text with LLMs, which works well on smaller datasets but is challenging at scale due to rate limits, high latency, and accuracy issues (âcreativeâ labels). What if you could classify text in real time with no rate limits?\n\n**OUR SOLUTION** An API for classifying your text in milliseconds into hierarchical labels. For example, use our out-of-the-box **topic classification model** to tag your free text by topic.\n\n\n\n**OUR ASKS**\n\n1. Make a request to our topic classification model! [Log in](https://www.trytaylor.ai/login), grab your API key, and then use [this starter code](https://docs.trytaylor.ai/Topic%20Tags/request#full-example) to get back topic labels.\n2. Not the labels you need? Email us ([founders@trytaylor.ai](mailto:founders@trytaylor.ai)) or book time [here](https://calendly.com/brian-r0o/taylor-ai).\n3. Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/TryTaylor_AI) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-ai/) to stay on top of our latest models and roadmap!",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KfT-taylor-tag-your-text-data-at-scale",
"votes": 64,
"created_at": "2024-03-18T03:17:06.573Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 29201,
"name": "Legora",
"slug": "legora",
"former_names": [
"Leya",
"Legora",
"Legora (formerly Leya)"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8ab1e73f4b43c259e677e877d53fe26dfac90b65.png",
"website": "https://www.legora.com/",
"all_locations": "Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden",
"long_description": "Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Built alongside lawyers, our AI-native workspace helps legal teams research, review documents, draft and complete complex workflows so they can focus on judgment, strategy and outcomes.\r\n\r\nMore than 2,100 customers across 80+ markets trust Legora, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons and Barclays. We have scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with more than 900 people across 18 offices spanning Europe, North America and APAC.\r\n\r\nLegora raised $600M in Series D financing, including a $50M extension announced in April 2026, at a $5.6B valuation. The round was led by Accel, with Atlassian and NVentures joining in the extension.\r\n\r\nLearn more at https://legora.com/",
"one_liner": "The agentic operating system for legal work",
"team_size": 900,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1695641655,
"tags": [
"Generative AI",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2024",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Sweden",
"Europe",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Growth",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": [
{
"question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?",
"answer": "Legora was founded in 2023 to build AI software for legal work. The company develops its platform alongside lawyers, combining research, document review, drafting and end-to-end workflows.\r\n\r\nIn March 2026, Legora announced a $550M Series D led by Accel. A [$50M extension announced in April 2026](https://legora.com/newsroom/legora-extends-series-d-with-additional-50-million-welcomes-atlassian-and-nventures-as-investors) brought the round to $600M at a $5.6B valuation, with Atlassian and NVentures joining as investors.\r\n\r\nLegora now serves more than 2,100 customers across 80+ markets and has scaled to $200M+ ARR. In October 2026, the company reported more than 900 people across 18 offices."
},
{
"question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?",
"answer": "Legal teams work with large volumes of documents, fragmented information and complex, time-sensitive matters. Repetitive research, review and drafting can take time away from the judgment, strategy and client advice that require legal expertise.\r\n\r\nLegora brings AI, information and collaboration into one workspace so legal professionals can research, review, draft and complete workflows with greater speed and precision. We build alongside lawyers to make the product useful in the way legal teams actually work."
},
{
"question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?",
"answer": "Our vision is to give every lawyer the tools and freedom to focus on what matters most: advising clients and stakeholders, shaping outcomes and practising law at the highest level.\r\n\r\nWe are building the operating system for legal work, connecting information, communication and execution. AI should complement legal expertise, helping teams work together with confidence, efficiency and sharper judgment."
}
],
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/legora",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/legora.json",
"year_founded": 2023,
"city": "Stockholm",
"country": "SE",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/wearelegora/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/WeAreLegora",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8ab1e73f4b43c259e677e877d53fe26dfac90b65.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/e984d78db707ce7d09f244192d210ddbe45a431f.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Gustaf Alstromer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1091617,
"full_name": "Max Junestrand",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Max is the CEO and co-founder of Leya, where he focuses on developing trustworthy AI assistants for lawyers. Prior to Leya, Max contributed to growth initiatives at two Y Combinator startups, worked at McKinsey, engaged in venture capital, and served as a software developer at Abios (acquired by Kambi) and Ericsson. He earned two degrees in machine learning and business from Sweden's top two universities, KTH and SSE, in parallel whilst working full-time.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/maxjunestrand",
"x_url": null,
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9640603f8052e7a822c52c022b01854bed23a7f8.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1377953,
"full_name": "Sigge Labor",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Family tech support. I can reset grandparents' forgotten email passwords, and I plug in the HDMI for siblings. Graduated from Hyper Island and worked as a full-stack developer at startups since. Founded the first-ever Mexican hops company, but currently building the future of legal work at Leya (W24).",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/siggelabor",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a65c13ae62fedecf4dc68eff147637c25bf1801d.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 68174,
"title": "Senior Full-stack engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/legora/jobs/XcIW6Bt-senior-full-stack-engineer",
"location": "Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$50K - $90K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "6+ years",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": [
"Node.js",
"PostgreSQL",
"Python",
"React",
"TypeScript"
]
},
{
"id": 116571,
"title": "Software Engineer (Mid-level, Senior, or Staff)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/legora/jobs/IdPRNK9-software-engineer-mid-level-senior-or-staff",
"location": "New York, NY, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$175K - $369K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"TypeScript"
]
}
],
"news": [
{
"title": "Legal AI Startup Legora Raises $550 Million for US Expansion - Bloomberg",
"url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/legal-ai-startup-legora-raises-550-million-for-us-expansion",
"date": "Mar 10, 2026"
},
{
"title": "Legora Valued at $1.8 Billion For AI Tool Doing Legal Grunt Work - Bloomberg",
"url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/legora-valued-at-1-8-billion-for-ai-tool-doing-legal-grunt-work",
"date": "Oct 30, 2025"
},
{
"title": "Our $80 million Series B led by ICONIQ and General Catalyst ",
"url": "https://legora.com/blog/series-b",
"date": "May 21, 2025"
},
{
"title": "Announcing $25m in Series A | Leya | The future of legal work",
"url": "https://www.leya.law/blog/announcing-25m-in-series-a",
"date": "Jul 17, 2024"
},
{
"title": "Benchmark backs one-year-old AI legaltech Leya in $10.5m seed round | Sifted",
"url": "https://sifted.eu/articles/benchmark-ai-legaltech-leya-news",
"date": "May 16, 2024"
}
],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 29391,
"name": "Abel",
"slug": "abel",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/07ef2e243aa1386d6ced2b9fa5bf410249eb3799.png",
"website": "https://www.tryabel.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Abel transforms law firm document review workflows, eliminating the need to choose between depth and breadth. Attorneys use Abel to answer nuanced questions based on the context spread across thousands of documents.",
"one_liner": "Transforming document review for litigation teams",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1703027442,
"tags": [
"Generative AI",
"B2B",
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2024",
"status": "Inactive",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": [
{
"question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?",
"answer": "."
}
],
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/abel",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/abel.json",
"year_founded": 2023,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryabel/",
"x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/abelforlaw",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/07ef2e243aa1386d6ced2b9fa5bf410249eb3799.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/7c625ed08b7130eaed6c7a040c93ca746f100c37.png",
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/bca9ad448ebbb99d0dfc2f472c4f32d08f14e22b.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Garry Tan",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 363045,
"full_name": "Sean Safahi",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-Founder, CEO @ Abel, where we're transforming document review for litigation teams. Previously: Product @ Netflix & Airbnb and Co-Founder @ Bold (acquired by Airbnb). Pilot, runner, and best friend to my dog. ",
"is_active": false,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ssafahi",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/scubasean",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b552a5aef0bf03d5efa9d3fb310dacc2986231e3.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1436205,
"full_name": "Chenyu Li",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-Founder, CTO @ Abel, where we're transforming document review for litigation teams. Previously engineering @ Chime and Yahoo!. Co-founder @ Telescope (acquired by Chime). Pilot, mountaineer and lover of all things outdoors!\n",
"is_active": false,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/chenyuli",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3d5705d29587942ab54456a03679904b42262185.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "The 18 most interesting startups from YCâs Demo Day",
"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/ycs-winter-2024-demo-day-confirms-that-we-are-indeed-in-an-ai-bubble/",
"date": "Apr 03, 2024"
}
],
"launches": [
{
"id": 79318,
"title": "Abel: Transforming document review for law firms",
"tagline": "Review legal records with the depth of manual review and the scale of technology",
"body": "Hello! Weâre [Chenyu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chenyuli/) and [Sean](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssafahi/), the team behind [Abel](https://www.tryabel.com/). Abel **answers complex questions across large legal records** made up of many different types of documents. Our mission is to empower attorneys to practice more efficiently, so they can extend representation to more people.\n\n\n\n### **tl;dr**\n\n* Attorneys import documents from a variety of sources and formats (PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, docs).\n* Abel processes the documents and creates a structured representation of the information contained in them (we call these: âentitiesâ). \n* Attorneys understand the facts with more speed and precision than was previously possible.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nMany legal practice areas - including litigation, M&A, and insurance - routinely deal with large document sets, and attorneys spend many hours reviewing those documents to get the information they need. \n\nIn an age of AI, law firm clients demand both increased efficiency and improved effectiveness. \n\nExisting technology solutions, like eDiscovery platforms, donât help attorneys understand the information that exists inside the documents. Theyâre costly, cumbersome, and their search is difficult to use to pinpoint the relevant information. \n\nSo, attorneys rely on manual document review, which is even more costly, prone to human error, and difficult to get client budget buy-in.\n\n### **Solution**\n\n\n\nAbel allows attorneys to get the depth of manual review at the scale of technology. Attorneys import legal records of a variety of document formats, types, and sizes. \n\nAbel leverages our proprietary entity extraction to process the documents and uncover a structured representation of the information contained in them. Our extraction pipelines are flexible and can be customized to identify the relevant entities to our customersâ needs, which can include things like: \n\n* The people involved \n* Clauses in agreements \n* Relevant email threads\n* Key legal issues \n* Motions raised at trial\n* Key events that occurred\n\nAttorneys use Abel to explore the extracted entities and to examine the relationships between them. This allows us to answer more complex questions with more nuance than existing solutions.\n\n[View our demo.](https://youtu.be/USloYdiY6Pk)\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\n1. If youâre an attorney or responsible for law firm innovation, please reach out to [founders@tryabel.com](mailto:founders@tryabel.com). Weâre offering premium onboarding for firms that sign up by May 10th, which includes deploying up to 5 custom entity extraction pipelines. \n2. If youâre on an in-house legal team, weâd love to talk about how we can support both you _and_ your outside counsel. \n3. Please share this post with your networks. Chances are that you know an attorney or two.",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KdK-abel-transforming-document-review-for-law-firms",
"votes": 119,
"created_at": "2024-03-12T17:35:18.158Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 29505,
"name": "Tower",
"slug": "tower",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/71c566f418e6fe3b2b2aa396c65f6feec1bfc40f.png",
"website": "https://withtower.com",
"all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada",
"long_description": "Tower accelerates transactional due diligence via an AI-powered, centralized diligence platform. By consolidating disparate diligence workflows, Tower helps deal teams stay organized, spot issues earlier, and close deals faster.",
"one_liner": "M&A due diligence platform powered by AI",
"team_size": 3,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1715707959,
"tags": [
"Workflow Automation",
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI",
"AI Assistant"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2024",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Canada",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": [
{
"question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?",
"answer": "Both Adam and I both have strong conviction that legal services ought to be more accessible. We believe the current system is broken on both sides of the marketplace. Lawyers are bogged down by a variety of tasks which can and should be automated while their clients are encumbered with large legal costs arising from said tasks. We strongly view legal access as the core recipe for a functional and equitable society and believe that technology has a large role to play in getting us there. We interviewed hundreds of lawyers and found that there are many salient pain points being experienced by in-house legal teams which weâre well-equipped to solve given our in-depth backgrounds in software engineering and AI research."
},
{
"question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?",
"answer": "When Tower truly succeeds, all lawyers will be able to focus on tasks which they attended law school for, such as advising their clients and applying their nuance to strategic matters. They will no longer have to waste their day performing low-value-add tasks such as searching through precedents or handling admin work. Clients, from the largest corporations down to the individual, will have access to quality legal services at affordable costs as legal professionals are freed from the tyranny of mundane work."
}
],
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tower",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/tower.json",
"year_founded": 2024,
"city": "Toronto",
"country": "CA",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tower-software-labs/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/trytower/",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tower-aab5",
"github_url": "https://github.com/tower-software-labs",
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/71c566f418e6fe3b2b2aa396c65f6feec1bfc40f.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/be9b737d3bdcb8f10bd2e971cb0dd384d1cf1fb5.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Harj Taggar",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1450770,
"full_name": "Adam Dorfman",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "I am the co-founder & CEO of Tower; we're building an AI platform for legal due diligence. Previously I was an early engineer at Float (corporate card for Canada), built software for speaker & microphone manufacturing at Apple, built AI software & performed AI computer-vision research at DarwinAI (acq. Apple). I studied Mathematical Physics at the University of Waterloo, where I co-oped in data-science/ML and software engineering.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/adam-dorfman",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/headcaffeinator",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2d3ee3b0806e318dcc142069fe61dae8aec6c98d.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1791443,
"full_name": "Andy Zhang",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO @ Tower; we're building helpful software so M&A folks can leave work at 5PM everyday. Before Tower I was the founding engineer of ArenaX Labs, a Web3 AI Gaming startup, where I helped the company from inception and zero users to Series A and a community of hundreds of thousands. Before this I did research at an investment trust, specializing in reinforcement learning and cool assets like crypto. I graduated from UWaterloo BCS and Laurier BBA.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-z/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/UnholyCucumber",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/915ef170f6842e04259bbbae58d56db29a65c54b.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 101268,
"title": "Tower - collaborative AI for due diligence",
"tagline": "We help deal teams collect the right disclosures faster and automate review.",
"body": "Hi YC,\n\nWeâre Adam, Andy, and Noah - co-founders of Tower ([withtower.com](https://www.withtower.com/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=yclaunch&utm_content=launch_page))\n\n## TL;DR\n\nTower is a collaborative AI diligence workspace. We take your DD checklist and messy data room, organize it, flag whatâs missing, and let your team query everything with AI - so you spend time on analysis, not chasing information.\n\nWeâre live with AmLaw 50 and Chambers Band 1 law firms, top serial acquirers, and leading commercial real estate diligence teams.\n\n\n\n## The Problem\n\nThe hardest part of diligence isnât reviewing documents - itâs collecting the right information. \n\nDeal teams have no dedicated system for collecting and verifying that disclosures are complete before analysis begins. Instead, they rely on multiple VDRs, Excel trackers, email threads, and one-off AI prompts to figure out whatâs been received, whatâs missing, and what matters. That process of chasing and structuring information is iterative, time-consuming, and kills deal momentum. \n\nMost AI tools help teams review documents faster. But you canât review what you donât have, and you canât assess risk in documents you donât know are missing. \n\n## The Solution\n\nTower is the workspace that takes deal teams from first disclosure to answers faster - by fixing collection first, then accelerating review.\n\n**1. Automatically organized data room:** Upload anything, get a fully indexed deal room in minutes. Click any diligence request and see the exact files behind it.\n\n\n\n**2. Catch red flags and missing files up front:** Missing amendments, unsigned agreements, stale financials, and expired contracts are flagged within seconds of upload, before anyone wastes review time.\n\n\n\n**3. AI document review:** Extract covenants, financial definitions, change-of-control triggers, and rep language across hundreds of documents in one pass. Every answer cited to source.\n\n\n\n**4. Smart diligence Q&A:** Every request, every responder, every status, in one live system, synced with the data room. No more \"what's the latest tracker?\" email threads.\n\n## The Backstory\n\nOur team spent years on the wrong end of messy data rooms - burning weeks organizing and chasing disclosures before real review could begin. We watched deals stall and sour because of it. Tower is the system we wished we had on every one of those deals. \n\nNoah is a former M&A and tech lawyer at Dentons, where he co-led the AI industry practice and advised top Canadian startups. Andy was an ML quant at a $27B pension fund and founding engineer at NRN Agents. Adam was an early engineer at one of Canada's fastest-growing fintechs, and worked on data science in manufacturing at Apple.\n\n## Our ask\n\n* Warm intros to M&A partners at AmLaw 200 firms, corp dev leads at PE/strategics, and CRE acquisitions teams.\n* Working on a deal? Book a demo with us.\n\nLearn more at [withtower.com](https://www.withtower.com/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=yclaunch&utm_content=launch_page), or reach us directly at [founders@withtower.com](mailto:founders@withtower.com)\n\n\n\n",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QLM-tower-collaborative-ai-for-due-diligence",
"votes": 18,
"created_at": "2026-05-13T01:11:54.537Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 29760,
"name": "Mage Legal",
"slug": "mage-legal",
"former_names": [
"Modern Realtor",
"Modern Realty"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f4df5aefb249191ba91c6bf450182a3b87c6d5d9.png",
"website": "https://magelegal.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Comprehensive AI coverage across your entire data room. Surface red and yellow flags, draft memos, compare redlines, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.",
"one_liner": "Automatic AI Legal Diligence",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1721426082,
"tags": [
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2024",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mage-legal",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/mage-legal.json",
"year_founded": 2024,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mage-legal",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f4df5aefb249191ba91c6bf450182a3b87c6d5d9.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/18f9738895e8808730820b0e62e85ec1131330e8.png",
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/575a6ef15c423f3361e32be6d66885e80ce4b35a.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Nicolas Dessaigne",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 688868,
"full_name": "Raffi Isanians",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "CEO & Founder of Mage Legal",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/raffi-isanians/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/RIsanians",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/afd5d6862f56b361c315c675f1ed7d95eeffdc2b.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 66546,
"title": "Founding AI Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mage-legal/jobs/SPM0oEc-founding-ai-engineer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Machine learning",
"salary_range": "$100K - $150K",
"equity_range": "0.50% - 2.50%",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"TypeScript"
]
},
{
"id": 84559,
"title": "Founding Front End Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mage-legal/jobs/oQEAawK-founding-front-end-engineer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Frontend",
"salary_range": "$100K - $150K",
"equity_range": "1.50%",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"React",
"TypeScript",
"Next.js"
]
},
{
"id": 84560,
"title": "Founding Designer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mage-legal/jobs/HQwuocB-founding-designer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Design",
"role_type": "UI / UX",
"salary_range": "$80K - $130K",
"equity_range": "1.50%",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Figma"
]
},
{
"id": 84660,
"title": "Founding Marketer/Head of Growth",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mage-legal/jobs/vo0P8dR-founding-marketer-head-of-growth",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Marketing",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$80K - $130K",
"equity_range": "0.25% - 1.50%",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 90434,
"title": "Founding Design Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mage-legal/jobs/tw6C54W-founding-design-engineer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Design",
"role_type": "UI / UX",
"salary_range": "$100K - $150K",
"equity_range": "1.50%",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"React",
"Figma"
]
}
],
"news": [
{
"title": "Should you use AI to buy your home? Here's what some say",
"url": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-estate/2024/10/07/should-you-use-ai-to-buy-home/75511235007/",
"date": "Oct 07, 2024"
},
{
"title": "Are AI real estate agents the future for homebuyers? These firms think so - HousingWire",
"url": "https://www.housingwire.com/articles/are-ai-real-estate-agents-the-future-for-homebuyers-these-firms-think-so/",
"date": "Aug 28, 2024"
}
],
"launches": [
{
"id": 97352,
"title": "Mage: Legal Diligence for M&A and Financings. Minutes, Not Days.",
"tagline": "Turn data rooms into deal intelligence.",
"body": "Hi All!\n\n**TL;DR:** We automate legal diligence for ECVC and M&A attorneys. Upload a data room, get flagged issues, and client-ready reports in minutes instead of days.\n\n---\n\n## What Mage Does\n\nMage is AI legal diligence software for attorneys. We scan entire data rooms, flag issues, and generate diligence reports in minutes instead of days.\n\n**Document Processing**: Automatically classify hundreds of documents by type (NDA, employment agreement, IP assignment, option grant, etc.) and route for analysis.\n\n\n\n**Tabular Extraction**: Extract key provisions from every contract into a structured grid. Red and yellow flags highlight issues requiring attention: liability caps, change of control triggers, assignment restrictions, IP ownership gaps.\n\n\n\n**Issue Flagging**: Identify problems before they delay closing. Cap table discrepancies, missing contracts, and non-standard terms.\n\n\n\nand disclose schedules (see below). Full coverage. No spot-checking. Better results for your clients.\n\n---\n\n## For M&A Attorneys\n\nLarger data rooms. Compressed timelines. Mage enables your team to handle more deals without adding headcount.\n\n**Memo Generation**: Generate client-ready diligence memos organized by practice group. Includes executive summaries, flagged issues, and document references.\n\n\n\n**Redline Comparison**: Track changes across negotiation rounds. Identify exactly what moved between versions.\n\n\n\n**Disclosure Schedules**: Auto-populate disclosure schedules from the merger agreement and data room. AI provides reasoning for each classification. Attorneys review and finalize.\n\n\n\nService more clients with your current team. Handle capacity spikes without scrambling for resources.\n\n---\n\n## Coming Soon: Capital Markets\n\nMage is expanding to capital markets transactions: IPOs, debt offerings, and secondary offerings.\n\nContact us for early access.\n\n---\n\n## Results\n\n - **Scope**: Go from limited review under time pressure to full data room coverage\n\n - **Output quality**: Replace bandwidth-dependent work with consistent, thorough analysis\n\n - **Capacity**: Scale without adding headcount instead of being constrained by associate availability\n\n - **Turnaround**: 6 hours instead of 3-4 days\n\n---\n\n## About\n\nMage was founded by Raffi Isanians (S24), formerly an M&A and startup attorney at Kirkland & Ellis, Gunderson Dettmer, and Goodwin. \n\n---\n\n**Website**: [magelegal.com](https://magelegal.com)\n\n**Contact**: [founders@magelegal.com](mailto:founders@magelegal.com)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PKC-mage-legal-diligence-for-m-a-and-financings-minutes-not-days",
"votes": 8,
"created_at": "2026-01-31T15:47:06.857Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 29772,
"name": "Parley",
"slug": "parley",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49aadd86a1a43580b7c9079ab398a509ebe10568.png",
"website": "https://parley.so",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Parley is the Legal Agent built for the AI era. Legal teams know that getting the work done isn't just drafting or researching. It's also managing your cases, loose threads, and team. Parley is the all-in-one workspace that structures all of that information so that AI can actually deliver finished work.",
"one_liner": "Legal Agent that delivers finished work",
"team_size": 3,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1719517061,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"Immigration",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2024",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/parley",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/parley.json",
"year_founded": 2024,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/parley-legal-ai/",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49aadd86a1a43580b7c9079ab398a509ebe10568.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Gustaf Alstromer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 410497,
"full_name": "Philip Smart",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Automating flat-fee legal work, starting with work visas and green cards for immigration lawyers (Parley S24). \n\nUsed to work on Growth and GenAI @ Linkedin. Drove increases to \"Core Four\" metrics that we reported to MSFT, was PM on the first consumer, massive-scale launch of GPT-4 integrated into a product outside of OpenAI.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/phildsmart",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e891fe8b36771c80b9c8513390b07440f5b5612c.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 587096,
"full_name": "Ian Edwards",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder of Parley. We help automate legal drafting for immigration attorneys and other flat-fee lawyers. Previously an engineer at several startups including Porter (YC S20) and Govdash (YC W22).",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ian-edwards",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4b933094f9793c2eccbac37184cd632d30d28f58.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1753065,
"full_name": "Jackson Perry",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Parley. We want to automate flat-fee legal work, starting with immigration!\n\nIn a former life, invested at a clean energy PE fund and consulted for Oil & Gas majors and U.S. utilities.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jackson-perry",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/106e09163fa463e7150bcc6756bac9ca271f248e.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 81798,
"title": "Parley - Making immigration simple",
"tagline": "We help immigration firms write visa applications with AI, starting with the O-1A Writer.",
"body": "**Tl;dr:** Parley helps immigration lawyers write visa applications using AI. We integrate directly into a lawyerâs typical workflow so they can start writing with Parley from day 1 and deliver results to their clients faster.\\\nâ\n\nHi everyone, weâre Jackson, Philip, and Ian, and weâre the co-founders of [Parley](http://www.parley.so).\n\n\n\n**đ The Problem**\n\nItâs no secret that the immigration system in the U.S. is broken. Anyone pursuing a work or immigrant visa will tell you about the difficulties of lottery systems, exorbitant fees, and endless paperwork. \n\nAt Parley, we believe an important piece to fixing this process is **automating work for immigration firms.** For some visa types, a lawyer or legal writer spends several days writing a single application, learning about the most complex and technical professions, collating hundreds of pages of evidence, and synthesizing it all into a cohesive petition. Meanwhile, an applicant eagerly waits for their opportunity. By helping lawyers work better on a daily basis, we hope to accelerate Parleyâs speed to impact â reducing the complexity of immigration.\n\n**âď¸ The Solution** \n\nParley makes immigration processes easier. Our first product, the O-1A Writer, helps **immigration attorneys speed write a petition** while keeping them in the loop. As a lawyer does the critical thinking in specifying what argument they want to make, our writer dynamically pulls content from an applicant's evidence, fits that material to the context of the application, and automatically drafts a petition for review. We do this all directly in Microsoft Word â where most attorneys spend their time writing. Weâre quickly expanding support for more visa types like the H-1B, TN, EB-1, EB-2 NIW, L-1, and more.\n\n\n\n**Asks:** \n\n* Want to use the product? **Book a demo **[**here**](https://calendly.com/philip-parley/15min)**.**\n* **Been through a visa process?** Reach out to us and tell us about your journey at [founders@parley.so](mailto:founders@parley.so) - weâd love to talk!\n* **Like what weâre building?** Share this post! Spread the word to help us build toward the vision of making immigration simple.",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LHK-parley-making-immigration-simple",
"votes": 96,
"created_at": "2024-06-27T19:39:16.686Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 29798,
"name": "&AI",
"slug": "ai-2",
"former_names": [
"AndAI, Inc. (informally, &AI)"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8d2c29f8fdbb128121d2ae4d3a3fcacf31f107b6.png",
"website": "https://www.tryandai.com/",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "&AI is a collaborative workspace that delivers trial-ready work product for patent litigators â fast enough for pitches, strong enough for court.",
"one_liner": "Collaborative workspace for patent litigators",
"team_size": 7,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1719938647,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"B2B",
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2024",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ai-2",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/ai-2.json",
"year_founded": 2024,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/and-ai/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/tryandai",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8d2c29f8fdbb128121d2ae4d3a3fcacf31f107b6.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/017a61fce9055ae81799a4850c985e73f8b4aedc.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "David Lieb",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1438386,
"full_name": "Caleb Harris",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder/CEO of &AI. Previously, I studied CS + Neuro at MIT, did technical consulting in patent litigation for Fish & Richardson/Gibson Dunn, built out the data science stack at InsideTracker, and conducted ML research at the MIT Media Lab.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-m-harris",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/the_yuppy",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/00aae31ce0f8d9f98a8fcc19cd8e988d7974e020.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1295725,
"full_name": "Herbert Turner",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder/CTO of &AI. Previously, I studied Aero/Astro + CS at MIT, worked on autonomous surface vehicles and applied ML research, fine-tuned LLMs at Google, and was a founding engineer at Kino AI.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/herbert-turner-1b511b238",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c395a4b6123c43faa10d6f7952ce892913fefa80.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 81893,
"title": "đ &AI - Automate patent due diligence in an instant",
"tagline": "Comprehensively find prior art, produce robust claim language, invalidate weak patents, and more.",
"body": "Hey everyone, weâre [Caleb](https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-m-harris/) and [Herbie](https://www.linkedin.com/in/herbert-turner-1b511b238/)!\n\nWe met almost six years ago while studying computer science at MIT, and have spent the last few months building [&AI](https://www.tryandai.com/) after discovering how much attorney time is spent on tedious and repetitive aspects of patent due diligence.\n\n### **tl;dr**\n\n&AI is a platform that streamlines patent due diligence. By using AI to understand the inventive aspects of patents and automate the creation of work products, we enable attorneys to instantly and comprehensively find prior art, produce robust claim language, invalidate weak patents, and more.\n\n### â The Problem\n\nImagine a law firm is tasked with determining the strength of a patent or set of patent claims. This is an everyday problem for patent attorneys and could be for anything from a patent application to an IP litigation case. \n\nTo start, the attorneys need to conduct a prior art search. Typically, either:\n\n1. The attorneys meet with an outsourced search provider and give them their claims and features of interest. After a week or two, the provider returns with 5-10 reasonable documents, charging up to $10k.\n2. The attorneys manually use boolean keyword searches through databases like Google Patents and decades-old legal research platforms. Over the course of 10-20 billed hours, they have found 5-10 reasonable documents.\n\nIn either case, they have already contributed a massive amount of resources to this project without much validation that they are going in the right direction.\n\nWith their prior art in hand, the attorneys must evaluate the claims with respect to the art. This involves drafting work products like claim charts, which require several read-throughs of each document to identify and map the relevant language over the course of 20-40 billed hours. By now, the attorneys should have a good idea of the strength of the claims, whether they need to be revised, and whether they may be invalid.\n\n**What if they havenât found the invalidating art?** They repeat the process. Over and over again, for every patent, for every case. Due diligence can continue almost indefinitely, and itâs only limited by attorney time and client budgets.\n\n### â
The Solution\n\nNow, imagine the law firm is using &AI. **Upon receiving the patent or claims, they find the invalidating prior art and export comprehensive claim charts in seconds!** &AI enables both attorneys and inventors to conduct their patent due diligence at a speed, scale, and quality that has never before been possible.\n\nIn minutes, we can analyze and compare the inventive aspects of thousands of patents, allowing attorneys to spend less time on tedious work and more time developing their arguments. \n\nWeâve built our platform to be broadly applicable and easy to use. Users can leverage our AI for patent applications, responses to office actions, and invalidity, with use cases of freedom to operate, infringement, and portfolio analysis coming soon.\n\n\n\n### 𤲠The Ask\n\nWeâre actively looking to onboard more tech-forward law firms and company in-houses working with patents. Weâd also love to hear directly from individual patent applicants and owners about how our tools might serve them. If youâre interested, please connect with us at [founders@tryandai.com](mailto:founders@tryandai.com) and weâd love to talk about working together!",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LIr-ai-automate-patent-due-diligence-in-an-instant",
"votes": 33,
"created_at": "2024-07-02T17:10:50.878Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 29801,
"name": "Rescript",
"slug": "rescript",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0aaaece51f8461a1fcd555d3c78601c9adf54414.png",
"website": "https://rescript.ai/",
"all_locations": "Washington, DC, USA",
"long_description": "Rescript is using AI to make the law transparent, accessible, and easy to act on. Laws and regulations differ across jurisdictions and are constantly changing, making them too complex for organizations to review and track manually at scale. We're building an agentic AI platform capable of aggregating and interpreting global regulations, tracking how they change, and identifying how organizations should respond. \r\n\r\nOur customers span AmLaw100 law firms, Fortune 100 corporations, and top trade associations across healthcare, retail, fintech and more. They depend on Rescript to help them comply with and act on an ever-changing regulatory landscape from the federal level down to individual cities. \r\n\r\nWe're backed by YC, General Catalyst, and Floodgate. ",
"one_liner": "AI for Legal & Public Policy Teams",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1725406800,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"Civic Tech",
"B2B",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2024",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rescript",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/rescript.json",
"year_founded": 2023,
"city": "Washington",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rescript-ai",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0aaaece51f8461a1fcd555d3c78601c9adf54414.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Brad Flora",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 912498,
"full_name": "Nikhil Ajjarapu",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Rescript, building at the intersection of AI, legal, and public policy. Most recently, I developed products used by federal agencies while on Salesforce's Public Sector team, helped build out AI and process automation for the Air Force's Cloud Computing Team, and studied CS and Public Policy at Princeton. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-ajjarapu",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/NikhilAjjarapu",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ebd2bef0374b740dc9701fc28fc6e4b893adef32.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1525026,
"full_name": "Alexander Pesendorfer",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Rescript. Building AI tools to track public policy. Previously, I studied Computer Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning at Princeton and worked on software at a leading derivatives marketplace.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alex-pesendorfer",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/35397aac2e037eeed8cff9fd97b2015840961191.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 97357,
"title": "Founding Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rescript/jobs/znyGYRt-founding-engineer",
"location": "Washington, DC, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$130K - $190K",
"equity_range": "0.75% - 2.75%",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Microsoft Azure",
"Python",
"ETL"
]
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 83747,
"title": "Rescript â AI Regulatory Analyst for Enterprises",
"tagline": "We track emerging policies and create well-researched compliance and advocacy materials.",
"body": "**Tl;dr:** [Rescript](https://rescript.ai/) helps regulatory compliance and advocacy teams monitor, analyze, and act on the never-ending stream of regulatory and political developments.\n\n**Problem:** \n\nRegulatory lawyers and lobbyists guide companies through constantly changing legal and political environments and are paid tens of billions of dollars every year to do so.\n\nBut thereâs too much to track manually: to identify any new risk or opportunity in the US alone, they have to monitor 150,000+ laws introduced, 300,000+ hours of government hearings, and thousands of new regulations and enforcement suits every year.\n\n\n\n**Solution:**\n\nRescript automates this process from end to end. Weâve built AI agents that scrape legislation and regulation as it changes, identify whatâs relevant for you, and help you create well-researched compliance and advocacy materials.\n\n1. **Exhaustive Tracking:** Rescriptâs AI Agents scan the web and create detailed analyses of everything you need, including hearings, regulations, news, and press releases.  \n2. **Intelligent Filtering:** Our tool uses human-like reasoning to determine if a new development involves the userâs policy issues. No more dealing with keywords. \n3. **Personalized Analysis:** Collaborate with AI to translate regulatory updates into actionable insights for internal business and compliance teams.\n\n**The Team:** \n\n[Nikhil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-ajjarapu/) previously worked as a consultant for the DoD and built software for major federal agencies with Salesforceâs Public Sector team. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, where he studied Computer Science and earned minors in History & Public Policy.\n\n[Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-pesendorfer/) previously worked in software engineering at a leading derivatives marketplace. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a BSE in Computer Science and minors in Statistics, Machine Learning, and Finance.\n\n[Vince](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentjh/) holds an MS in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy from Stanford and previously staffed the House Science Committee in Congress.\n\n**Working with us**\n\nRescript is already used by top-10-ranked government relations firms and AmLaw 200 law firms.\n\nIf youâre interested in learning more, please [schedule a time with us here for a 15-minute demo](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ2QGC5HMWdnOcDcz1cPXamWS8qKzQWFktlQLupOBtY50W-JOfXsHabKGx6u7Nod59taBnm7-dYe), or message us at [team@rescript.ai](mailto:team@rescript.ai).\n\n\n\n",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lml-rescript-ai-regulatory-analyst-for-enterprises",
"votes": 121,
"created_at": "2024-09-04T15:37:24.750Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 29828,
"name": "Draft The Record",
"slug": "draft-the-record",
"former_names": [
"Therapy Buddy",
"Sterling Labs",
"Focus Buddy",
"Sterling Labs, Inc"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c84a03d0d402a34192f801bf5c20f40407fa3c88.png",
"website": "https://www.drafttherecord.com/",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "We are on a mission to provide faster and affordable access to the justice system - starting with depositions and trials.\r\n\r\n1000s of depositions and trials run through DraftTheRecord every week including Senate and House meetings, Confidential federal hearings, criminal proceedings like murder trials, and civil lawsuits involving family disputes, personal injury and much more.\r\n\r\nDuring legal proceedings,\r\n⢠DraftTheRecord provides real time assistance to attorneys, previously requiring a legal team. The platform then helps analyze depositions and other evidence cutting down trial prep time from weeks to days. \r\n⢠Court reporters use DraftTheRecord to capture audio and generate live transcript drafts for attorneys and judges. \r\n⢠Transcribers use our legal-specific AI transcription model to cut transcription time by 3x.",
"one_liner": "AI For Litigation",
"team_size": 5,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1724988357,
"tags": [
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI",
"AI Assistant"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2024",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draft-the-record",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/draft-the-record.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c84a03d0d402a34192f801bf5c20f40407fa3c88.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 650126,
"full_name": "Adnan Sherif",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "CEO Draft The Record. Ex ML @ Google working on Generative AI on the Pixel Phone. Ex ML Researcher @ UC Berkeley Sky Lab",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adnan-sherif-as/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c9550c26d8b2d7046a9552195f4448971b597d96.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 452080,
"full_name": "Yash Ramchandani",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-Founder of DraftTheRecord. Previously PM @ Google working on AI features on the Pixel phone, and Ads for stores trying to drive in-store traffic",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yashmr/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/yash14700/",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/11d77a0b65e9d1420382bc0ca03a2b7db2cc76f9.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 97433,
"title": "Customer Success Specialist",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/draft-the-record/jobs/WN9VSsM-customer-success-specialist",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Support",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$80K - $120K",
"equity_range": "0.05% - 0.10%",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 83816,
"title": "Focus Buddy - AI productivity coach to get more work done",
"tagline": "The AI you speak to 3-4 hours every day to help you think clearly, avoid distractions and be held accountable",
"body": "### **TLDR**\n\n_FocusBuddy is an AI productivity coach that sits in the background on your computer and speaks to you while you work to help you think clearly, avoid distractions and hold you accountable. Our users converse with the AI over a phone call for 3-4 hours everyday while theyâre working_.\n\n### **The Cost of ADHD** \n\nWeâre starting by focusing on people that struggle with ADHD\n\n**People with ADHD consider it the BIGGEST blocker in their life and the PRIMARY cause of their poor grades, missing promotions, and getting fired.**\n\n* 17 million adults and children in the US\n* 2-4 more hours wasted every day compared to peers\n\nBeyond ADHD, there are 80 Million people knowledge workers in high income countries that struggle with workplace productivity that FocusBuddy will serve\n\n### **How Focus Buddy helps our user Jeff**\n\nJeff is a brilliant product engineer who has ADHD. He often struggles to complete work due to his tendency to hyper-focus on details and get distracted by sudden impulses. Here is what Jeff's new workflow looks like since he started using FocusBuddy: \n\nJeff calls Focus Buddy first thing in the morning after breakfast. They go over his to-do list together and create a schedule for his day. Jeff then begins his first task - writing a draft PRD. He explains his approach to FocusBuddy and asks for frequent check-ins to keep him on track. \n\nAn hour into drafting, Jeff notices a small discrepancy in a user activity chart. His ADHD brain latches onto this detail, and he spends the next 30 minutes hyper-focusing on it, losing sight of the bigger picture. Just then, FocusBuddy speaks up: \"How's it going?\" Jeff explains: \"He is still figuring out the details on the chart\" FocusBuddy detects that Jeff has been hyper-focusing on a detail and helps Jeff realize that he is falling behind on schedule with more important parts of the PRD.\n\nFocus Buddy then works with Jeff to wrap up work on the chart discrepancy and reorganize his schedule to come back to the chart later in the day. They then do a 5-minute meditation to shift his focus away from the discrepancy and ease his mind back onto the main task. At the end of the day, FocusBuddy helps Jeff perform a daily reflection and prepare for his day tomorrow.\n\nJeff and our other users experience multiple types of interventions by Focus Buddy every single day and attribute their new-found productivity to it.\n\n### **Why Focus Buddy works**\n\nToday, people with ADHD spend hours every day virtually co-working on apps like Focusmate, updating to-do lists, using meditation apps like Calm, and journaling with little success. It is extremely hard to keep these apps updated, they have very little context about you and are unable to proactively provide timely support when needed. \n\nFocus Buddy is deeply integrated, is seamless to interact with, builds a lot of context over time and is able to leverage this context at critical moments to provide the necessary support.\n\nOn top of that, our voice AI infrastructure is revolutionising the way humans and AI interact. we're crafting an entirely new paradigm for fluid, natural conversations that feel as intuitive as talking to another person. Here are some examples:\n\n[**Multimodal Voice + Text Conversation**](https://youtu.be/d4FpwMfz_Ow)\n\n[**Proactive AI Initiated Check-ins**](https://youtu.be/XOgYMysjZ10)\n\n### **Our Team**\n\n\n\n[Adnan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adnan-sherif-as/) and [Yash](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yashmr/) have been best friends for over a decade, roommates for the last two years, and worked on the Google Pixel team as a Product Manager and ML Engineer. Yash led product and safety for Generative AI apps on the latest Pixel phone, while Adnan worked on training and deploying low-latency, resource-constrained, fully on-device Gemini models used by these apps.\n\nAdnan is a national triple jump champion, and prior to Google, he conducted AI research at UC Berkeleyâs SkyLab with Ion Stoica (co-founder of Databricks), focusing on scaling graph machine learning to problems with millions of nodes. Yash has worked at startups like Kalshi and Relay, helping them from pre-launch to launch.\n\nAdnan learned to manage the ADHD symptoms he faced throughout high school and college and went on to help others cope with the same condition.\n\n# **Our Asks**\n\nReach out to us at [founders@focusbuddy.ai](mailto:founders@focusbuddy.ai) to learn more and sign up on our website to try us out and give us feedback. If you know anyone with ADHD, feel free to send them our way\n\nContact: [founders@focusbuddy.ai](mailto:founders@focusbuddy.ai)  | Website: ",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lns-focus-buddy-ai-productivity-coach-to-get-more-work-done",
"votes": 346,
"created_at": "2024-09-06T17:41:22.363Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30067,
"name": "Beglaubigt.de",
"slug": "beglaubigtde",
"former_names": [
"Openlaw",
"Platus"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/701b2bc3a4abc9947cd6ce87bda2ed1d5e17653c.png",
"website": "https://beglaubigt.de/en-us",
"all_locations": "BY, Germany",
"long_description": "Openlaw is building the legal backoffice for every company in Europe. One engine, three brands:\r\n\r\n- Beglaubigt.de: Germany's leading platform to found, register and manage a company. GmbH/UG formations in ~7 days instead of 6-8 weeks.\r\n- firma.de: the operating system for running a company - accounting, tax, business address and ongoing compliance.\r\n- Registercheck.de: real-time Handelsregister data via API. Every company, every change.\r\n\r\nThrough Germany's first fully automated incorporation API, partners like Qonto and Sevdesk embed company formation directly into their products. 30,000+ customers served so far.",
"one_liner": "The legal backoffice for every company. For founders and AI agents.",
"team_size": 30,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1731569238,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Fall 2024",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Germany",
"Europe"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": true,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/beglaubigtde",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/beglaubigtde.json",
"year_founded": 2024,
"city": null,
"country": "DE",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/beglaubigt/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/beglaubigt",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/701b2bc3a4abc9947cd6ce87bda2ed1d5e17653c.png",
"app_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bf-public_profile/30126/app_video.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAQC4NIECAPVLLM2EU%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022723Z&X-Amz-Expires=60&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEHEaCXVzLXdlc3QtMiJGMEQCIERmcK8Cf9%2Btw509DI59PWqE38RRTAlvZa4J3JDwHNfvAiAayM%2BKkNtOvjgd758WgPB4q6%2BUu3dhFEeIBKJdEEYmHirlAwg5EAAaDDAwNjIwMTgxMTA3MiIMT2KDc6%2BsqQRelJt7KsIDHKXozlWP2zRm6TyaI63cZu7UdMNJI84LhfrBVoBzKOZrazhBds2e6DhqALWGgEHuhaH96sBW1vGKF0SZPA8JEf%2FhnbI%2B0LPups6efXBWO1aKfnU6HWjkfPemBseL1V1dBRWh3MHmM%2BS0wsfJmaYaFWTcHaaVraOkFgeuvtIGQt%2FnimlcxYe9MQMOeYiPnm5yfGLPkCnGOvHZGDepzR19xj6ZjRi9QZRcX734o%2BDyXGZIQOACA5etqDAXBP7fbW8udzjKK9cHEGPamT7IlaTLAWBWnDjL2T9zw8ZCXoeolYzeaw3DTEK0tdnm9pXjkPGWxrNUNlecD6CiG7M3gr2Lm8eody0o9pj5Ec9BIcJ09i9djYQp%2F9Qt3RQagWspbZEm0RIM98ukXmmQO%2Br5NwFl2BqP7h04EVZMR4%2FxuoUkyMfNGipkzTdDAKGOV2wo7LqFqinznpZBKbguQ%2Fg6wWy40kCNyoPguBPf8GYzzIvusP5x6bf1QHvMlXyb8ElzS4lScRKm7v5GhARAJq%2BveXuxU3aR2lwL84TF9HIpOZ6loG5wOggyMO5KqHtaunl14wjKV3M6InDmt6%2F5NLTGbL6N0P36MOn92tYGOqYB%2B%2FclWb0gxQJ%2FmXWJ%2FID3oboHUM%2BqcRMUObsJl1yosDN9kekbLFwXPJS0wjujDnQuGXhjbEK0yPyr8Dgq35lBDPMlxWRQ8upAxHpp%2F0cruekkJPyONG5qpVv25DqS52YxtylQ0pbERuY6rX1AFi5Hwd5%2FQJgU8TuncKO5FjbC0OPiim0nrZjMnv3t4R3u06MVK4%2FRj2yhCS4qwhYGeOsJdP79%2BCqZqQ%3D%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=99f75ea115ac6fe486b1cd82ffc970dcaf636b7eee097f15e9184c327d469c4c",
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": null,
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1428849,
"full_name": "Alexander Sporenberg",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Building the legal backoffice for every company.\n\nPreviously founding team at Razor Group - European unicorn that scaled to âŹ1.7B+ valuation and 500+ employees. Led 150+ M&A transactions, where the real bottleneck turned out to be legal infrastructure, not deal terms.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alexsporenberg",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/405ba215724e1a29c67e8bc2ed3523386aec008f.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 241802,
"full_name": "Felix Gerlach",
"title": "Founder/Building",
"founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Platus.com;\nCo-founded and exited Passbase Inc. (KYC / AML B2B SaaS) in 2023",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/felixgerlach",
"x_url": "https://x.com/felixgerlach",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9c64ea509942d67ee2fcf759172b3a7c3336b18f.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 93272,
"title": "Entrepreneur in Residence â Founder's Office (Internship, m/f/d)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/beglaubigtde/jobs/YqUW3n0-entrepreneur-in-residence-founder-s-office-internship-m-f-d",
"location": "Munich, BY, DE / Munich, Bavaria, DE / Remote (US)",
"type": "Internship",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "âŹ1.5K - âŹ2.5K EUR",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": null,
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 95836,
"title": "đŹ Beglaubigt.de: Digital Business Address with AI Mailroom",
"tagline": "Now live: Company address for Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich in Germany",
"body": "đ Hey YC!\n\n**Alex here â co-founder of Platus (F24)** and our German sub-brand [**Beglaubigt.de**](http://Beglaubigt.de), where weâre building the digital back-office for founders in Germany:\n\nToday, weâre excited to share that weâre officially launching **legally-compliant business addresses + a fully digital, AI-driven mailbox** in **Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich in Germany**. This new service completes our core stack alongside digital incorporations and digital notarizations.\n\n---\n\n## đŹ **About Beglaubigtâs Address + Digital Mailroom**\n\nIn Germany, every founder needs a **_ladungsfähige Geschäftsadresse_** - a legally binding business address required for:\n\n* Trade registrations\n* Incorporations (UG/GmbH)\n* Tax office communication\n* Courts, authorities, and official notices\n* Banking, payroll, insurance, vendors\n\nTraditionally, this process is painfully analog: physical letters, misplaced notices, fake register scams, long delays, and hours lost walking to actual mailboxes.\n\n**We turned the entire process into a digital, automated, AI-interpreted system.**\n\n### **What you get**\n\n* đ˘ **A legally compliant business address** (Hamburg, Berlin, Munich)\n* đ¨ **A fully digital mailbox** â every letter scanned and instantly available\n* đ¤ **AI that reads, classifies & interprets every notice**\n* đ **Auto-routing to the right team member**\n* đ¨ **Real-time fraud & fake-register detection**\n* đŚ **Automatic physical forwarding when needed**\n* đ **Secure storage, searchable archive, full audit trail**\n\nYour mailbox will never look the same again â 2025 is digital, fast, and AI-powered. See for yourself:\n\n\n\n---\n\n## ⥠**Why this matters**\n\nBecause the business address isnât just an address â itâs the _nerve center_ of every German company. With this launch:\n\n* We **unify** **incorporation + address + mail + workflow automation**\n* We eliminate one of the most common operational breakpoints for early-stage companies\n* And we bring real leverage into a system that was designed for paper, not speed\n\nThis product fits perfectly into our broader vision: making entrepreneurship in Germany radically simpler, faster, and fully digital.\n\n---\n\n## đ¤ **Why founders already love the shift**\n\n**No more fear of âDid I miss an important letter?â**\\\n\\*\\*No more manual processes.\\*\\*\\\nNo more slow loops.\n\nAnd because once they see it, they say the same thing every time:\n\n> Why did nobody build this earlier?\n\n---\n\n## đ **Whatâs next**\n\n---\n\nMore cities.\\\nDeeper automations.\\\n**An autonomous back office** that anticipates instead of reacts.\n\n## đŹ **Want to try it?**\n\n\n\nSet up your business address in under 3 minutes.\\\n(And finally manage your German mail the way it _should_ work.)\n\nđ https://beglaubigt.de/geschaeftsadresse\n\nIf youâd like to learn more, ask a question, or see a demo â drop a comment, message us, or send an email to:\\\n[**alexandros@beglaubigt.de**](mailto:alex@beglaubigt.de)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ovk-beglaubigt-de-digital-business-address-with-ai-mailroom",
"votes": 12,
"created_at": "2025-11-28T15:03:54.228Z"
},
{
"id": 85565,
"title": "đď¸ Platus - Automate Your Legal Operations",
"tagline": "Fast, reliable legal infrastructure as a no-code platform and API.",
"body": "Hey everyone, we're [Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandersporenberg/) and [Felix](https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixgerlach/), the co-founders of [Platus (platus.com)](http://platus.com/).\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n* **Legal infrastructure as no code and API**\n* **First Notary-as-a-Service API**\n\nPlatus delivers fast, reliable legal solutions via a no-code platform and API, enabling SMEs with instant notarization, document drafting, e-signing, and workflow automation.\\\n\\\n\n\n---\n\n# **The Problem**\n\n* **Legal services fail to meet todayâs need for instant access**.\n * Just as Uber, DoorDash, and Revolut brought immediacy to mobility, food, and finance, legal services like drafting and notarization should be instantly accessible. In Germany, notarizations take hours at a notaryâs office.\n* **Legal operations are inefficient, turning simple tasks into lengthy processes.**\n * SMEs managing high-volume, time-intensive legal operations often lack the resources to automate their workflows.\n* **Legal services are excessively costly, often only considered if absolutely unavoidable.**\n * In the U.S., legal help typically costs $200â$400 per hour, with complex cases exceeding $10,000, making it a last resort for SMEs.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nPlatus provides instant legal infrastructure with essential tools to handle and automate legal tasks:\n\n**1ď¸âŁ Instant Online Notarization**: Notarize documents across different jurisdictions within 1-24hrs for documents such as Powers of Attorneys, Trust Certifications, and Apostilles.\n\n\n\n**2ď¸âŁ Notarization & e-Signatures via API**: Maintain full control of your customer relationships while enabling compliant document notarization and signing. Now with AI-powered signature field detection.\n\n\n\n**3ď¸âŁ Automation with Workflows:** Choose from predefined playbooks or stack together your own workflow to automate internal or external legal processes.\n\n\n\n**4ď¸âŁ AI-Driven Document Intelligence**: Detailed insights from your company's legal documents.\n\n\n\n---\n\n\\\n**Interested? Talk to us!**\n\n1. [**Book a demo**](https://cal.com/fg/15min?date=2024-11-14&month=2024-11) and explore the platform in action.\n2. **Custom Legal Workflows**? We can build customized solutions and workflows to your legal requirements.\n\nWebsite: \\\nLinkedIn: \\\nX: \n\nReach out to us at [founders@platus.com](mailto:founders\\*\\*@platus.com), or [book a demo directly](https://cal.com/fg/15min?date=2024-11-14&month=2024-11).\n\n\n\n# **Founding story**\n\n* [**Alex**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandersporenberg/) and [**Felix**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixgerlach/) â both experienced builders in legal and compliance tech.\n* Previously, we built [Beglaubigt.de](http://Beglaubigt.de), Germanyâs leading digital notary service, and are now expanding globally with Platus to redefine legal operations and notarization access for SMEs.\n\nFelix brings extensive expertise in European compliance tech, having successfully built and sold a KYC / AML provider in 2023. Meanwhile, Alex, in developing the leading eCommerce aggregator and handling over $100 million in transactions, experienced firsthand the costly and complex nature of cross-border legal services. Together, we are deeply committed to digitizing, automating, and delivering instant legal solutions to make them accessible to everyone. Today, Platus enables SMEs to manage complex legal processes and notarizations with unmatched speed and simplicity. **đĽÂ Beglaubigt was Platus' first customer! đĽ**",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MG5-platus-automate-your-legal-operations",
"votes": 232,
"created_at": "2024-11-14T14:44:46.086Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30073,
"name": "Pearson Labs",
"slug": "pearson-labs",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0e33a2875f652bdd69936c606147614f5fff8283.png",
"website": "http://www.pearsonlabs.ai",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Pearson builds AI agents to automate corporate transactions. Large law firms use us to run gigantic books of businesses with AI, reducing their cost of delivery 40-60%.",
"one_liner": "AI agents to automate corporate transactions",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1731901982,
"tags": [
"Generative AI",
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Fall 2024",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pearson-labs",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/pearson-labs.json",
"year_founded": 2024,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0e33a2875f652bdd69936c606147614f5fff8283.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Nicolas Dessaigne",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2161266,
"full_name": "Stephanie Young",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Cofounder and CEO at Pearson, AI to automate corporate legal transactions (M&A, IPOs, financings). Previously built Riva, AI bots to help employees negotiate job offers with the mission to even gender and racial pay gaps. Went through a M&A with that company which inspired this company. ex-Google, Lyft, Stanford (4 degrees from Stanford in just over 6 years).",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieyoung1/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9f245f1f4b8b291afbcc1b6083b77284ab9b8bc6.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 85684,
"title": "Pearson Labs - we build AI agents to help law firms execute corporate transactions",
"tagline": "Law firm partners can scale their book of businesses with Pearson",
"body": "TL;DR â Hey everyone! Itâs [Steph](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieyoung1/) and weâre building Pearson - AI agents to help law firms and companies execute corporate transactions. We help rainmakers at law firms run gigantic books of businesses with AI.\n\n## AI Researcher & Exited Founder\n\n[Steph](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieyoung1/) got 4 degrees from Stanford including CS+MBA from Stanford in just over 6 years\n\n* Product at Google and Lyft\n* Built and sold an AI company, which inspired Pearson\n\nCome talk to us!\n\n[stephanie@pearsonlabs.ai](mailto:stephanie@pearsonlabs.ai)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MI0-pearson-labs-we-build-ai-agents-to-help-law-firms-execute-corporate-transactions",
"votes": 168,
"created_at": "2024-11-19T01:55:02.953Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30227,
"name": "Caseflood.ai",
"slug": "caseflood-ai",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d31f3f49a5edce794bad2e27245bc567169b4853.png",
"website": "https://caseflood.ai",
"all_locations": "Miami, FL, USA",
"long_description": "",
"one_liner": "How elite law firms do intake",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1736487685,
"tags": [
"B2B",
"Sales",
"Legal",
"Call Center",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/caseflood-ai",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/caseflood-ai.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "Miami",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/caseflood-ai",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d31f3f49a5edce794bad2e27245bc567169b4853.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/0e1c62e5092f64b1c770e2664570060430fce319.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Jared Friedman",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2244729,
"full_name": "Ethan Hilton",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "How elite law firms do intake | Ex-CMU AI",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-hilton/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/338ef9943557cb41965b0bc661bc1765ca55a22a.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 87869,
"title": "Caseflood.ai: The AI Support Staff For Law Firms",
"tagline": "Just like your current support team, but 5X better and 10X cheaper",
"body": "# **TL;DR**\n\nWhat if a law firm could double its capacity without hiring a single person? [Caseflood.ai](http://Caseflood.ai) has engineered highly effective AI agents to do phone intake, client follow-up, and keep clients updated throughout their caseâgiving attorneys dozens of hours back per week.\n\nImagine youâre an attorney, and every day, your calendar fills with paid consultations without you even answering the phone, retainers get signed without you manually chasing leads, and all 300 of your clients stay informed about their cases without you writing a single email. Thatâs Caseflood.\\\n\\\n\n\n# **đŤÂ The Team**\n\n[**Ethan:**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-hilton/) Started a legal leads startup at 16, making 5-figure MRR, and learned law firm operations and SMB sales. Went to CMU and studied AI and Business, but couldnât stop thinking about all the operational inefficiencies in law firms, and eventually dropped out to solve it.\\\n[**Ayushman:**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushman28/) Has been building enterprise AI software for Fortune 100 companies for the past 5 years, was Chief Data Scientist at Indiaâs first unicorn company, and led the fraud detection team for a 30M MAU delivery app. Holds an MS in AI from CMU.\\\n[**Tolen:**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tolen-schreid/) Cut his teeth in UX when he co-founded a game with 9,000 DAU at age 15, built projects like an accurate astrophysics simulator, and was personally commended by the Indiana Governor at age 17 for his advances in engineering. Went to Purdue and studied computer engineering.\n\n# **â The Problem**\n\n**Small firms donât know how to deal with clients**.\\\n_Or at least, thatâs what Ethan saw through visiting \\~80 firms in his previous legal startup._ They couldnât effectively:\n\n* intake new clients\n* do follow-ups to close clients\n* keep clients updated throughout their cases\n\n**Lawyers are stuck**âif they answer calls, they lose billable hours and time. If they donât, they lose potential clients.\n\n**Currently**, receptionists, intake specialists, case managers, and personal assistants eliminate those issues, but cost $60k+ per year each and itâs very difficult to find and train good ones (we met one lawyer who went through 3 receptionists in 6 weeks)âand outsourcing is unreliable and still expensive.\n\n**Vicious cycle**: law firms want to spend more on advertising to get more clients, but getting more clients requires a larger support staff, and having a larger support staff means they canât spend more on advertising. This causes stagnation.\n\n# â
 **Our Solution: The AI Support Staff For Law Firms**\n\nWe created the all-in-one system that intakes, closes, updates, and manages clients with AI agents that are 5X better and 10X cheaper when benchmarked against humans. Itâs like youâre running your law firm, but on easy mode.\n\n**Intake**: Luna, our multilingual AI intake specialist:\n\n* empathetically intakes clients\n* convinces callers to book consultations\n* answers questions\n* forwards callers to the appropriate attorney\n\nHer multimodal features let her take payments, retrieve client data, send information through texts during the call, and simultaneously communicate with other attorneys about whatâs happening in her call. She is the most advanced law firm intake system ever created.\n\n**Client communication**: Jess, our client manager:\n\n* interacts with clients via SMS\n* does personalized lead follow-up to get leads to sign a retainer\n* keeps clients updated throughout their case\n* schedules and reschedules meetings\n\nShe does this by integrating into law firm CRMs and case management software. She increases conversion rates with lead follow-up, saves attorneys dozens of hours per weekâallowing them to handle more casesâand heavily decreases their operational human costs.\n\n**5X better, 10X cheaper** than human staffâhelping law firms reach peak performance.\n\n# **đ Our Ask**\n\nKnow a lawyer drowning in calls? Send them this.\\\n(or our website, [Caseflood.ai](http://Caseflood.ai))\n\nAre you a lawyer? Weâre already helping law firms across the US streamline their operationsâif you run a firm and want **more revenue, less busywork, and happier clients**, [letâs talk](https://cal.com/ethanhilton).\\\n(_use promo code **YCW25** and weâll waive the $3,000 setup fee)_",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MrF-caseflood-ai-the-ai-support-staff-for-law-firms",
"votes": 185,
"created_at": "2025-02-20T18:53:49.873Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30258,
"name": "Gale",
"slug": "gale",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b4d879e54fc4f7ad192906cf1b7d462aa4f207b9.png",
"website": "https://galevisa.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Gale is an immigration tech platform that makes immigration simple for US companies. We've simplified the visa application process, streamlined compliance, and can integrate with HR systems - saving teams time, money and headaches. Through automation, we enable the independent attorneys we coordinate with to maintain quality whilst being more efficient.",
"one_liner": "Fast and Data-Driven Immigration Platform",
"team_size": 3,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1737265835,
"tags": [
"B2B",
"Legal",
"HR Tech",
"Immigration",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gale",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/gale.json",
"year_founded": 2024,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/galeapp/",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b4d879e54fc4f7ad192906cf1b7d462aa4f207b9.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Jared Friedman",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1760440,
"full_name": "Rahul Gudise",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Automating business visas for American employers, starting with the H-1B. Previously built Canada's first instant immigration PDF filler and automation suite. Ex NVIDIA and Tesla. CS @ Waterloo.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/rahulgudise",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e7a0a410936b204c87c9597359a018eb1759c945.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1751117,
"full_name": "Haokun Qin",
"title": "Founder/CPO",
"founder_bio": "Immigrated twice in the last 20 years, now building the data-driven platform for immigration. Math @ Waterloo, ex-MLE @ Viavi.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/haokun-qin",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4a84027d6452f0160b9f2088a10e0a307ed3a294.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1997743,
"full_name": "Rishabh Sambare",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Currently working on simplifying the H-1B process for startups at Gale. Studied Math & CS at the University of Waterloo. Previously built automations for Canadian immigration forms, worked on energy trading at Tesla, and improved matching algorithms for the Waterloo co-op program. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/rishabhsamb",
"x_url": "https://x.com/rishabh_sambare",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d6a39e7b6c9adbc27a728562b41fc1908ba69c3c.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 116966,
"title": "Software Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gale/jobs/9hcjXdD-software-engineer",
"location": "Vancouver, BC, CA / Vancouver, British Columbia, CA",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$110K - $130K CAD",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": [
"PostgreSQL",
"React",
"TypeScript",
"Terraform"
]
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 88070,
"title": "Gale - Fast and Data-Driven Business Immigration",
"tagline": "Immigration platform for US employers",
"body": "Gale is a tech platform that automates the entire H-1B application and compliance process for US employers, with independent licensed attorneys ensuring accuracy at all steps.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/tmMnGLIa3fs\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n\n\n_An email from a founder in W25 to their immigration law firm (name redacted to protect the guilty)_\n\nWeâve talked to enough employers to know dealing with immigration sucks. Hereâs why:\n\n* Slow response times from lawyers (1-3 business days at least)\n* No help on complex compliance requirements after visa approval\n* Knowledge transfer and communication done via email or janky web forms\n* Confusing questionnaires or document checklists\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nWe help US employers spend as little time as possible worrying about H-1Bs and how to be compliant. Hereâs how:\n\n* Fast online data intake process with AI-powered document intake that auto-fills your application\n* Easy to follow tooltips and comprehensive FAQÂ \n* Automated H-1B compliance for you and your team even after H-1B approval\n* An **experienced immigration lawyer** handles and reviews each individual case with the same level of scrutiny as a law firm\n* Fast turnaround time for legal questions\n* We use english, no legal jargon\n\n### **Moving forward**\n\nH-1Bs are just the beginning. Weâve already started working on expanding our offering to help both consumers and businesses with other types of visas such as O-1s, Fs, Ks and TNs. The US immigration service market isnât built for the 21st century, and we believe by using a mix of AI and professionals in the loop we can change that.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n**Know someone who is hiring or has hired H-1B workers?** Whether itâs a startup, SMB, enterprise, university, or nonprofit, weâd love an introduction! You can email us at [**rahul@getgale.app**](mailto:rahul@getgale.app).\n\nWeâd also appreciate it if you could share this post, or our demo video and follow us on [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/galeapp) to stay updated on our journey!\n\n### **Team**\n\nRahul (CEO), Rishabh (CTO), and Haokun (CPO) have been building together since middle school and later studied at the University of Waterloo. After working at companies like NVIDIA and Tesla, they experienced the inefficiencies of the immigration process firsthand and decided to automate it.\n\n\\\nGale founders from left to right: Haokun, Rahul, Rishabh:\n\n\n\n",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MuU-gale-fast-and-data-driven-business-immigration",
"votes": 38,
"created_at": "2025-02-26T18:47:13.872Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30290,
"name": "Tire Swing",
"slug": "tire-swing",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/954a6e03dc3be9737df64c792b63e036b1c580cf.png",
"website": "https://gettireswing.com",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA",
"long_description": "Tire Swing uses AI to power resident and applicant eligibility evaluations for affordable housing.\r\n\r\nOur software manages the resident certification and recertification process end-to-end for public and private properties supported by Project Based Rental Assistance, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, and Housing Vouchers. It serves as a drop-in replacement for third-party consultants and auditors, and helps compliance staff complete their work faster and more accurately. ",
"one_liner": "AI Compliance for Affordable Housing",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1740473580,
"tags": [
"GovTech",
"Real Estate",
"Housing",
"Compliance",
"Legal"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Fall 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tire-swing",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2026/tire-swing.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tire-swing",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "http://crunchbase.com/organization/tire-swing",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/954a6e03dc3be9737df64c792b63e036b1c580cf.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Grey Baker",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/grey-baker"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 990814,
"full_name": "Paul Witten",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Cofounder/CEO Tire Swing\n\nPreviously Senior Consultant at Stroz Friedberg where I led cybersecurity investigations involving Advanced Persistent Threats, Nation States, and Ransomware. I led the memory forensics working group and was a member of the malware analysis working group.\n\nGraduated from Princeton with a Bachelors in Computer Science 2019\n",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/paul-witten-39579715a",
"x_url": "https://x.com/pdubz96",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7e8b659e953c13f6341ab1542908089c109c7f7e.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2402276,
"full_name": "Lucas Irvine",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder Tire Swing (W25)\n\nPreviously a Senior Software Engineer for Instacart, where I worked on everything on the front page of Instacart. Before that worked at Capital One on the open-source rules engine Cloud Custodian.\n\nGraduated from Princeton with a Bachelors in Computer Science in 2019.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-i-b20187128/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0c22bc565cdc37513ad5a76e49631f52536d1824.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 108324,
"title": "Tire Swing - AI Compliance for Affordable Housing",
"tagline": "The AI platform for Affordable Housing operators to review and qualify applicants and residents",
"body": "Hi! We are Lucas and Paul, cofounders of Tire Swing: the AI compliance platform for Affordable Housing.\n\n\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nEvery Affordable Housing move-in and recertification requires applicant income verification and a strict eligibility review. In addition to the high labor costs and regulatory burden, delays in reviewing applications and thoroughly screening applicants can cause weeks of lost rental revenue.\n\nLost revenue on a single move-in can accumulate to thousands of dollars, and penalties for non-compliance can cost millions in credit recaptures and fines.\n\n## **The Solution**\n\nTire Swing uses AI to bring compliance expertise to the point of leasing. It turns weeks of reviews and approvals into a minutes-long process. The platform:\n\n* **Reviews evidence as it is collected.** Tire Swing processes documentation in minutes, allowing problems to be addressed before the applicant leaves the office.\n* **Performs the eligibility analysis.** It calculates household income, applies all applicable property, state, and program eligibility rules, and links every finding to its supporting evidence.\n* **Automates certification compliance.** Tire Swing flags missing, inconsistent, or incorrect information with steps to resolve the problem from a library of thousands of deterministic and AI driven compliance checks.\n\n**Tire Swing means faster move-ins and recertifications, reduced consulting budget, and more consistent, audit-ready files.** \n\n## **Looking ahead**\n\nWe believe Affordable Housing is the first application of a much larger needs-based eligibility opportunity. Federal, state, and local governments distribute more than $1.5 trillion annually through needs-based programs including Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, utility assistance, and tax credits.\n\nThese programs share a common underlying workflow: collect documents, convert them into structured facts, apply eligibility rules, and resolve missing or contradictory information. The administration costs for these services are approximately $20B annually.\n\n## **The Team**\n\nTire Swing is founded by Paul and Lucas, college friends and Princeton computer science graduates. Prior to founding Tire Swing, Lucas worked as a software engineer at Instacart and Capital One, and Paul worked as a cybersecurity consultant at Stroz Friedberg.\n\n\n\n\n## **The Ask**\n\nWe would appreciate introductions to Affordable Housing property managers, developers, public housing authorities, and state housing agencies.\n\nPlease feel free to reach out at [**paul@gettireswing.com**](mailto:paul@gettireswing.com).",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SBA-tire-swing-ai-compliance-for-affordable-housing",
"votes": 5,
"created_at": "2026-07-30T06:17:34.365Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30297,
"name": "OpenIntake",
"slug": "openintake",
"former_names": [
"TripleZip"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1df405069dcaa60afa0846603e01e765ebe5af44.png",
"website": "https://www.openintake.ai/",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA",
"long_description": "OpenIntake boosts law firm revenue by converting callers into clients 24/7.",
"one_liner": "The AI Front Door For Law Firms",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1739319968,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"B2B",
"Sales",
"Legal",
"LegalTech"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/openintake",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/openintake.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/106200029/",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1df405069dcaa60afa0846603e01e765ebe5af44.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Harj Taggar",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2375948,
"full_name": "Yash Sahota",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder of OpenIntake, the AI front door for law firms.\n\nBefore OpenIntake, I was a product security engineer at Slack and a consultant at McKinsey & Company.\n\nCornell CS '20",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yashsahota",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/65cc0cd62110c0500ee9aa7d8d519117c00c4b84.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2371405,
"full_name": "Grayson Pike",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder of OpenIntake, the AI front door for law firms..\n\nBefore OpenIntake, I was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a back-end tech lead at a hedge fund.\n\nUniversity of Texas at Austin class of '21 đ¤",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/graysonpike/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/edb51d6ffda537f5cd707b4e8604c1d02d4b3e6d.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 87973,
"title": "TripleZip - AI for Commercial Real Estate Accounting đ",
"tagline": "Commercial property accounting in minutes, not months.",
"body": "**TLDR:** TripleZip automates complex accounting tasks for Commercial Real Estate firms, cutting admin costs and lowering legal risk.\n\n**Demo:** \n\n**â The Problem: Expensive and error-prone accounting**\n\n* CRE firms pay $$$ for lawyers to manually extract data from their leases\n* Then they pay $$$ for accountants to reconcile tenant accounts\n* The whole process takes 3+ months & often has costly errors.\n\nWe learned about the problem from our parents, who own commercial real estate in San Antonio, TX. After trying existing CRE accounting software, we found that the entire process relied on error-prone manual entry and expensive consulting services.\n\n**â
Our Solution: Replace manual entry with AI**\n\n* TripleZip extracts data from leases with AI (more accurately than humans)\n* TripleZip feeds that data into an accounting engine which reconciles accounts instantly\n* Done in <1 day, 10X cheaper than hiring a consultant or service firm\n\nWeâve started by automating the most complex part of CRE accounting: Triple-net (NNN) reconciliation. This process accounts for up to 1/3 of the accounting effort for a large CRE firm and often results in expensive human errors and audits.\n\nBy reducing the overhead costs of accounting and avoiding costly audits related to NNN reconciliations, we aim to improve our customerâs margins by as much as 25% percent.\n\n**Our Team**\n\n\n\nGrayson and Yash are close friends who have collaborated on software projects since they met in middle school. Since then, they have worked together as consultants at McKinsey & Company in New York.\n\nMost recently, Grayson was a back-end tech lead at a hedge fund and Yash was a security engineer at Slack while helping with his familyâs commercial real estate business.\n\nYash earned a B.S. and an M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell in 2020.\n\nGrayson earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* **Do you know someone who works in Commercial Real Estate?** Weâd love to meet them! Please reach out at [founders@triplezip.ai](mailto:founders@triplezip.ai)Â \n* **Do you manage commercial real estate?** Weâd love to chat! Contact us at [founders@triplezip.ai](mailto:founders@triplezip.ai)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Msv-triplezip-ai-for-commercial-real-estate-accounting",
"votes": 67,
"created_at": "2025-02-24T20:59:43.717Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30479,
"name": "Crimson",
"slug": "crimson",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d21989f713e50ef7cfbe220d4cfc1a1fbcff900f.png",
"website": "https://crimson.law",
"all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom",
"long_description": "Crimson is the case intelligence platform for complex litigation. We help litigators build a complete picture of each case â every argument, entity and event understood in context â and support them with analysis, drafting and case management across the lifecycle of the dispute.",
"one_liner": "The AI Associate for Litigation Lawyers",
"team_size": 7,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1746120512,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"Legal",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Spring 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United Kingdom",
"Europe"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/crimson",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2025/crimson.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "London",
"country": "GB",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/106218761/",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d21989f713e50ef7cfbe220d4cfc1a1fbcff900f.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "David Lieb",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2365297,
"full_name": "Mark Feldner",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Former BigLaw litigator, now automating some of the most common tasks in high-stakes litigation. Crimson is the first AI platform purpose-built for complex disputes.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-feldner/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/96b730e4dd6d31c08f418e6b69a77c97dd447ba5.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1769038,
"full_name": "David StrÜmbäck",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Building AI for complex disputes.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidstromback/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/23588a2b9e6ac4775ce6122b92ae4de77b9d27de.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [
{
"title": "YC-Backed Crimson Raises Oversubscribed $2.5M Seed Round to Bring Case Intelligence to Litigation",
"url": "https://www.lawfuel.com/legal-ai-news-yc-backed-crimson-raises-oversubscribed-2-5m-seed-round-to-bring-case-intelligence-to-litigation/",
"date": "May 29, 2026"
},
{
"title": "AI litigation legaltech start-up Crimson raises $2.5m in seed funding round - The Global Legal Post",
"url": "https://www.globallegalpost.com/news/ai-litigation-legaltech-start-up-crimson-raises-25m-in-seed-funding-round-1123576627",
"date": "May 27, 2026"
},
{
"title": "Litigation AI startup founded by former City lawyer raises $2.5m",
"url": "https://www.nonbillable.co.uk/news/litigation-ai-startup-founded-city-lawyer-crimson-fundraise-mark-feldner",
"date": "May 27, 2026"
},
{
"title": "Litigation Platform Crimson Announces $2.5M Seed Round, New York Office | Law.com",
"url": "https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/05/28/litigation-platform-crimson-announces-25m-seed-round-new-york-office-/",
"date": "May 27, 2026"
},
{
"title": "Crimson litigation AI playbook: From task-level tools to matter-wide intelligence - Legal IT Insider",
"url": "https://legaltechnology.com/crimson-litigation-ai-playbook-from-task-level-tools-to-matter-wide-intelligence/",
"date": "Jan 08, 2026"
}
],
"launches": [
{
"id": 90879,
"title": "Crimson: The AI Associate for Litigation Lawyers",
"tagline": "Analyze case files, find key evidence and draft legal documents in seconds",
"body": "Hi everyone! Weâre [Amine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amine-amor-4a7a42135/), [David ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidstromback/)and [Mark](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-feldner/), and weâre building Crimson - the AI associate for litigation lawyers.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nLitigators deal with thousands of case files, often spanning several years. Crimson processes all that data and uses its understanding of each case to analyze legal arguments, locate evidence and draft documents.\n\n**Crimson saves litigation lawyers 10+ hours of manual work each week.**\n\n[Crimson Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSzn7CMqX5s)\n\n**The problem:** Litigation teams are drowning in case documents\n\n* Case files are scattered across Outlook, shared drives and document management systems.\n* Lawyers spend hours reviewing letters, emails, transcripts and evidence, identifying key issues, and drafting case-specific documents.\n* Existing AI tools arenât built for litigation workflows.\n\n**The solution:** Crimsonâs AI associate that knows each dispute inside-out\n\n* Crimson automatically organizes and analyzes case documents, extracts key legal issues, and identifies inconsistencies between party positions.\n* Lawyers can ask questions such as âWhat have the defendants said about termination?â and get answers with citations across pleadings, hearing transcripts, letters and other case files.\n* Crimson helps legal teams draft arguments, chronologies and letters with content tailored to each case.\n\n**Why are we building this?**\n\n* Mark spent seven years as a litigator at leading law firms. He lost countless hours trawling through case files, searching for evidence and manually drafting documents.\n* With recent advances in reasoning models, we can now build an AI associate that understands the nuances of complex legal arguments.\n* Horizontal AI tools will only go so far. To unlock real value, lawyers need a context-aware platform that is tailored for litigation workflows. Crimson is that tool.\n\n\n\nWant to see Crimson in action? Book a demo here: [crimson.law](https://crimson.law).\n\nYou can reach us at [founders@crimson.law](mailto:founders@crimson.law).",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ndn-crimson-the-ai-associate-for-litigation-lawyers",
"votes": 42,
"created_at": "2025-05-30T14:05:41.366Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30504,
"name": "Third Chair",
"slug": "third-chair",
"former_names": [
"Watchdog AI"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/18cebff9bcd74859dde2e614ddfdcdaf32c2ffb3.png",
"website": "https://usethirdchair.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote",
"long_description": "Third Chair works with IP rightsholders to enforce and monetize their rights, supported by an on-demand network of top lawyers to step in when you need them.\r\n\r\nWeâve started with revenue-generating workflows, giving media companies visibility into whoâs using their content and helping them turn unauthorized ads into a predictable income stream.\r\n\r\nThe biggest media and entertainment companies like Universal Music Group in the world rely on Third Chair to enforce their intellectual property, unlock licensing revenue, and accelerate deal flow. ",
"one_liner": "AI-Native IP Enforcement Agent",
"team_size": 8,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1748486427,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Spring 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/third-chair",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2025/third-chair.json",
"year_founded": 2024,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/usethirdchair",
"x_url": "https://x.com/usethirdchair",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/18cebff9bcd74859dde2e614ddfdcdaf32c2ffb3.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/c2daca8a0e477de6832f8994bc856b96ba4f1cd1.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "David Lieb",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 594864,
"full_name": "Yoav Zimmerman",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Yoav is CEO / Founder of Third Chair (YC X25). Yoav previously founded Trendpop (YC W21) and scaled it past $1M ARR in the media/entertainment industry, selling to customers like Universal Music Group and Mr. Beast. Before that, he worked on machine learning at Google and early-stage AI startups. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoav-zimmerman-05653252/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/yoavz_",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3a5a989fb2b850f37fffe3194f6f156799cfabda.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 517544,
"full_name": "Shourya Lala",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Shourya Lala is the Founder and CTO of Third Chair. He previously founded game-based investments startup Fello (YC W22), scaling it to 2mn users and tens of millions in investments. ex-ODF, ex-BlackRock, 2x YC",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryalala/",
"x_url": "https://twitter.com/atShourya",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fd06dec4b566846e43ecc54c2a938e8e4bdd8542.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 90844,
"title": "Third Chair: Agents for in-house legal teams",
"tagline": "Delegate the paralegal work so your team can operate at scale.",
"body": "# TL;DR\n\nThird Chair is building agents for in-house legal teams. Weâve started in media/entertainment, where our agents can identify IP infringements, collect evidence, and help recover millions of dollars in damages at scale. \n\n# đ Problem\n\nIn-house legal teams are constantly underwater with a million tasks on their desk. Many of these are **repetitive**, **manual**, and **mind-numbing**: \n\n* Our customer at a music distributor spent hours tracking down brand contacts, then weeks following up with different emails just to reach the right department.\n* Our customer at a major record label spent weeks reviewing thousands of social media ads and manually logging results in a spreadsheet.\n* Our customer at a music publisher spent a majority of his time on email follow-ups for unpaid invoices, unsigned contracts, and unanswered emails.\n* Our customer at a music rights investment firm didnât have time to draft individual demand letters for thousands of infringements they wanted to pursue.\n\nWhen you're buried in a million tasks, it can be hard to prioritize what matters most to your business's bottom line. At worst, you can miss opportunities that could turn the legal department from a cost center into a **profit driver**.\n\n# â
Solution\n\nThatâs why weâre building Third Chair for in-house legal teams, starting in media/entertainment. Our customers delegate end-to-end workflows to Third Chair so they can operate at scale: \n\n* Our browser agent detects uses of your copyrights, trademarks, or name-image-likeness across the web.\n* Our outreach agent finds the right business contact, verifies deliverability, and sends follow-ups.\n* Our contracts agent drafts demand letters for human review, incorporating the context gathered in previous steps.\n\n> This is definitely the best product Iâve seen in this category. Every other vendor just sends us CSV data files from outsourced data labelers. - _Top 3 Music Company_\n\n[Third Chair Product Demo](https://youtu.be/Khflxy5GfbI)\n\nđĄ Weâve found that in-house legal teams donât want to learn and buy new software tools, but theyâre happy to buy services to solve their problems. Thatâs why you can work with Third Chair just like you would with a human paralegal. You can send questions or tasks via email to [ask@usethirdchair.com](mailto:ask@usethirdchair.com), or use our web interface for more complex workflows.\n\n**AI will create the first one-person unicorn. Third Chair will be their legal department.**\n\n# đ¤ Team\n\n\n\n[Yoav](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoav-zimmerman-05653252/) previously founded Trendpop (YC W21) and scaled it to $1M ARR in the media/entertainment industry. Before that, he worked on machine learning at Google and AI startups.\n\n[Shourya](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryalala/) previously founded Fello (YC W22), an investment platform with over a million users and several million in annual investments. Before that, he worked at BlackRock building financial solutions for large institutional clients.\n\n# đŻ Ask\n\nWeâre looking to meet anybody in **legal/business affairs** at a media/entertainment company, such as music, film, sports, or talent. If you have any friends in these departments that are drowning in work, give us a shout!\n\nEmail us at [founders@usethirdchair.com](mailto:founders@usethirdchair.com).\n\nCheck out more at [https://](https://usethirdchair.com)[usethirdchair.com](http://usethirdchair.com).\n\n\n\n",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NdE-third-chair-agents-for-in-house-legal-teams",
"votes": 113,
"created_at": "2025-05-29T14:21:57.850Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30553,
"name": "Blueshoe",
"slug": "blueshoe",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7df632e4878b4cdf452b698c74d065153a45564b.png",
"website": "https://blueshoe.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Blueshoe is a full-stack law firm that helps people with everything from everyday legal issues to high-stakes litigation and trial.\r\n\r\nPeople can access legal guidance directly through our web app or the AI interfaces where they are already seeking answers. If representation is needed, Blueshoe attorneys handle many cases all the way to resolution, equipped with cutting-edge data, AI-native tools, and operational support.",
"one_liner": "The AI-Native Consumer + Plaintiff Law Firm",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1746075411,
"tags": [
"Consumer",
"B2B",
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Spring 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/blueshoe",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2025/blueshoe.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/blueshoelaw/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/blueshoelaw",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blueshoe-e8f8",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7df632e4878b4cdf452b698c74d065153a45564b.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Tom Blomfield",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1997200,
"full_name": "Casey O'Grady",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Founder & CEO of Blueshoe. Harvard Law â Strategy Consulting â Legal Tech.\n\nBuilding Blueshoe to rewire the practice of law.\n\nPreviously advised Fortune 500 companies on AI adoption. Author of Agentic Workflows in the Practice of Law (Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Spring 2025).",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-og",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8df8ae044d79d06122fb36ecc5c092685cc34529.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1499064,
"full_name": "Kai Yee Wan",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Building Blueshoe, the agentic law firm for justice that never sleeps. Previously I have been a research assistant at MIT CSAIL, embedded software engineer at Google (Chrome and Nest teams), and lecturer in computer science at Northeastern University.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/kywan",
"x_url": "https://x.com/kaiyeewan",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/39e3c2c85366f399f584fb8d5a3cb351a57226a4.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 103927,
"title": "Blueshoe: Elite legal service. For everyone.",
"tagline": "The first AI-native consumer + plaintiff law firm",
"body": "Blueshoe is a full-stack law firm that helps people with everything from everyday legal issues to high-stakes litigation and trial.\n\nPeople can access legal guidance directly through our web app or the AI interfaces where they are already seeking answers. If representation is needed, Blueshoe attorneys handle many cases all the way to resolution, equipped with cutting-edge data, AI-native tools, and operational support.\n\n\n\n**The Problem**\n\nEvery year in the United States, billions of dollars in legal needs go unmet because trustworthy, affordable help remains out of reach. Legal technology has been built for law firms and corporations, not the people seeking justice.\n\n**Blueshoe changes that.** \n\nBy bringing technology and legal services together, Blueshoe makes legal help more accessible, effective, and reliable with support across: \n\n* [Employment](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/employment)\n* [Property & Housing](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/property-construction)\n* [Personal Injury](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/medical-injury)\n* [Consumer Protection](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/consumer-financial)\n* [Product Liability](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/product-environment)\n* [Commercial Disputes](https://www.blueshoe.com/for/creators)\n\n**How we do it**\n\n**1. Rebuilding the legal buying experience**\n\nToday, millions of people turn to AI before they ever call a lawyer. Blueshoe meets them there. \n\nAnyone using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or other AI tools can connect directly with a Blueshoe attorney for a timely legal assessment and structured intake. All for a flat fee.\n\n**2. Making elite trial lawyers accessible**\n\nThe lawyers winning the largest verdicts aren't advertising on billboards or chasing clicks on TikTok.\n\nBlueshoe identifies, vets, and partners with exceptional trial lawyers, making high-quality representation accessible to the people who need it most.\n\n**3. Helping lawyers do their best work**\n\nMost lawyers spend too much time running a business and not enough time practicing law.\n\nBlueshoe provides qualified clients, AI-native software, and centralized operations in a single system. Lawyers focus on strategy, advocacy, and outcomes.\n\n**Who and why**\n\nWe're a [Harvard-trained lawyer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-og/) and an [MIT engineer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kywan/).\n\nWeâre building the law firm for a generation that expects everything always-on. A firm where technology doesn't replace judgment, but amplifies it, and where scale makes justice more human, not less.\n\nIf you're up against a legal issue â or you're a lawyer who wants to build the future of law â visit us at [blueshoe.com](http://blueshoe.com).\n\n\n\n",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/R2F-blueshoe-elite-legal-service-for-everyone",
"votes": 22,
"created_at": "2026-06-24T17:06:10.563Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30677,
"name": "Kalinda",
"slug": "kalinda",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc717d7521c4543043c20540b7ff90d62356bd8e.png",
"website": "https://www.kalinda.ai/",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Kalinda helps class action law firms qualify potential cases in minutes with AI.\r\n\r\nThe nature of class action/mass torts involves thousands of cases for a single lawsuit. For every plaintiff (injured person), law firms involved in these cases compile everything from the products they used to the injuries they have. This data is extensive, granular, and buried deep in thousands of pages of medical, financial, and employment records and others.\r\n\r\nKalinda extracts, summarizes, and aggregates data from these records for attorneys with AI.\r\n\r\nWhen scaled across an entire litigation, Kalinda works tirelessly and in parallelâturning a process that once took months into just a few hours. \r\n\r\nKalinda provides firms with the equivalent manpower of hundreds of paralegals and legal nurses, allowing them to quickly determine which claimants are eligible and helping them file faster and in greater volume.\r\n\r\nTo date, weâve processed 600k pages of records and are live with 2 of the largest plaintiff law firms in the U.S!",
"one_liner": "Deep research for class action law firms",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1755462558,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kalinda",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/kalinda.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/kalindaai/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/kalindaai",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc717d7521c4543043c20540b7ff90d62356bd8e.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/bc7e88bbd45bd8dfa54f89cdb30a65f8d04c14bf.png",
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/257a0075c3b0f8b73b604fc4e26d4a59f690e542.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Andrew Miklas",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2232317,
"full_name": "Sayan Bhatia",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "CEO @ Kalinda. Prev. AI research at LUKA Lab. Co-founded and scaled a STEM non-profit to 7000 students worldwide. On a mission to deliver justice faster and for more in the fight against corporate negligence. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayanbhatia/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/sayanbhatia",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1004941d777a998f933287e5340f9fbbf60b7601.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1800309,
"full_name": "Sohil Bhatia",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "CTO @ Kalinda. Prev. AI research at Pacific Northwest National Lab. Co-founded and scaled a STEM non-profit to 7000 students worldwide. On a mission to deliver justice faster and for more in the fight against corporate negligence. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohilbhatia/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/sohilbhatia85",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7c7fd25277fc2979b59e02420be1d24b3607d392.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 87871,
"title": "Founding Software Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kalinda/jobs/mxfirbk-founding-software-engineer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$125K - $200K",
"equity_range": "1.00% - 2.00%",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": [
"Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
"Microsoft Azure",
"Python"
]
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 93158,
"title": "Kalinda - Deep Research for Class Action Lawyers",
"tagline": "Kalinda helps class action law firms qualify potential cases in minutes with AI ",
"body": "**TL;DR:** Kalinda helps class action law firms qualify potential cases in minutes with AI â giving plaintiff law firms the equivalent manpower of thousands of paralegals and legal nurses. \n\nHey YC! Weâre [Sayan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayanbhatia/) and [Sohil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohilbhatia/). Weâre brothers and the co-founders of Kalinda.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n**The Problem:**\n\n* Millions of people every year join class action and mass tort lawsuits, hoping for justice and compensation. \n* For the law firm, this means verifying proof of usage and liability for each personâinformation often buried across thousands of pages of medical, pharmaceutical, and product records. \n* This compounds to several months of work for law firms just to determine who qualifies and who doesnât.\n\n**Our Solution:**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPmwze4G18\n\nKalindaâŚ\n\n* **Extracts** proof of use, proof of injury, and other critical data points\n* **Aggregates** and correlates this data against lawsuit criteria\n* **Generates** a single report so plaintiff attorneys instantly know if a case is valid to file\n\nAll while doing this for each case, _working tirelessly and in parallel_. \n\nWhen scaled across an entire litigation this turns a process that once took months into just a few hours.\n\nAs the lawsuit progresses and criteria change, we also help attorneys filter, categorize, and score to surface their strongest cases.\n\n**Where weâre at:**  To date, weâve processed 600k pages of records and are live with 2 of the largest plaintiff law firms in the U.S!\n\n**The Why & The Vision:**\n\nThe plaintiff side of class actions and mass torts have struggled for decades now with whatâs often called the [âField of Dreamsâ problem](https://texaslawreview.org/multidistrict-litigation-and-the-field-of-dreams/). Thousands of clients sign up for a lawsuit looking for restitution - only to leave the law firm buried in records, missing deadlines, and filing bad cases. When courts throw out these bad cases, it weakens the plaintiff sideâs leverage in settlement negotiations.\n\nWith Kalinda, class action & mass tort law firms can now file valid cases faster and file more of them â fundamentally changing for the first time in 172 years not only how many people can get justice against corporate negligence, but how fast itâs delivered.\n\n**The Team:**\n\n\n\n* **Sayan (Co-founder & CEO) -** did AI research at UC Davisâs LUKA Lab in instruction tuning optimization. \n* **Sohil (Co-founder & CTO) -** did AI research at Pacific Northwest National Lab\n\nWeâve been collaborators together since Day 1 and even co-founded and scaled a STEM non-profit together to 7000 students worldwide.\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\nIf you either have \n\n1. Been a part of a class action or mass tort in the past\n2. Know a friend or family whoâs been a part of a class action or mass tort \n3. Know any attorneys, paralegals, associates at class action/mass tort law firms.\n\nReach out at [founders@kalinda.ai](mailto:founders@kalinda.ai). We would love to chat!",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEY-kalinda-deep-research-for-class-action-lawyers",
"votes": 13,
"created_at": "2025-08-19T18:41:06.695Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30794,
"name": "Vulcan Technologies",
"slug": "vulcan-technologies",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9dc164f31a43f3059a961dca44229c015bb26437.png",
"website": "https://vulcan.ai/",
"all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA",
"long_description": "Vulcan builds agents for government and government-adjacent work. We currently sell two agents: Justinian and Trajan.\r\n\r\nJustinian is an AI agent coworker for people who work in and adjacent to American government. To power Justinian, we created the worldâs largest legal and policy database and knowledge graph, accessible to our customers via our platform, email, and Slack.\r\n\r\nTrajan is a public-facing AI concierge built to help governments modernize service delivery. Hosted on a government website, Trajan helps businesses and citizens automatically complete permits, licenses, applications, and answer regulatory and legal questions.\r\n\r\nIn addition to government customers, Vulcan's agents serve regulatory, legal, policy, and government relations teams at major U.S. enterprises.",
"one_liner": "Secure frontier AI for government & adjacent knowledge work",
"team_size": 17,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1750286926,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vulcan-technologies",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/vulcan-technologies.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "Austin",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/107852970",
"x_url": "https://x.com/vulcantechteam",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9dc164f31a43f3059a961dca44229c015bb26437.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Gustaf Alstromer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2746243,
"full_name": "Tanner Jones",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Tanner studied PPE and Classics at Dartmouth. Previously, he founded and exited Downballot Solutions with Arvind Veluvali (Fresco AI, YC F24), a political campaign tech startup. Later, Tanner was the Technology and Regulatory Policy Director at Joe Lonsdale's Cicero Institute, where he was the 2024 employee of the year. Tanner also coached the 2021 speech and debate national champion, holds powerlifting records in two states, and qualified to the 2023 IPL world powerlifting championships.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanner-jones-817192167/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/Tanner_H_Jones",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/890d9cda7329b04ea252602793ab6c242c9bb32a.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2763395,
"full_name": "Aleksander Mekhanik",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Alek earned the prestigious Jack Byrne grant offered to the top math students at Dartmouth, where he studied electrical computer engineering with a focus in machine learning. Previously, Alek was a nationally competitive chess player and high school varsity athlete. He has also contributed to several startups as a machine learning engineer. Beyond Vulcan, Alek holds Ivy League and Arizona powerlifting records and qualified to USAPL collegiate nationals. ",
"is_active": false,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksander-mekhanik-41547b272/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f5ad77596e26bc49b796e7efe41dbe27b84d5929.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2861757,
"full_name": "Chris Minge",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Chris studied computer science and philosophy at Princeton University, graduating in 2022. After graduating, he was a software engineer at Google, where he worked on ML infrastructure, supporting Gemini, Waymo, Vertex AI, and other services.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisminge",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e12e60e49ca5697b947173d89c372b7ba546e81e.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 94497,
"title": "Deployed Agent Orchestrator",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vulcan-technologies/jobs/9AEdHvC-deployed-agent-orchestrator",
"location": "Austin, TX, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$90K - $300K",
"equity_range": "0.01% - 0.20%",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 95663,
"title": "SDR / BDR",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vulcan-technologies/jobs/vW21mUl-sdr-bdr",
"location": "Austin, TX, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$70K - $170K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 104065,
"title": "Security Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vulcan-technologies/jobs/X8WD9yw-security-engineer",
"location": "Austin, TX, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Backend",
"salary_range": "$140K - $200K",
"equity_range": "0.05% - 0.20%",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Amazon Web Services (AWS)"
]
},
{
"id": 104066,
"title": "Security Compliance Lead",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vulcan-technologies/jobs/yMnFWdc-security-compliance-lead",
"location": "Austin, TX, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Support",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$140 - $250",
"equity_range": "0.05% - 0.20%",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [
{
"title": "Vulcan partners with Texas to help public navigate regulations, licensing | StateScoop",
"url": "https://statescoop.com/texas-efficiency-office-launches-ai-chatbot-to-help-public-navigate-regulations-licensing/",
"date": "May 15, 2026"
},
{
"title": "Vulcan Technologies raises $11M to navigate regulations",
"url": "https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10/09/vulcan-technologies-11-million-seed-govtech",
"date": "Oct 09, 2025"
},
{
"title": "Vulcan Technologies Brings AI to the Heart of American Law",
"url": "https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/08/15/vulcan-technologies-brings-ai-to-the-heart-of-american-law-466303/",
"date": "Aug 14, 2025"
},
{
"title": "Virginia agencies required to use Vulcan's AI",
"url": "https://reason.com/2025/07/23/virginia-is-using-ai-to-identify-illegal-and-redundant-regulations/",
"date": "Jul 23, 2025"
},
{
"title": " Virginia Executive Order for Vulcan's Agentic AI Regulatory Analysis ",
"url": "https://www.govtech.com/artificial-intelligence/virginia-to-use-agentic-ai-to-power-review-of-regulations",
"date": "Jul 14, 2025"
}
],
"launches": [
{
"id": 92391,
"title": "Vulcan Technologies â Virginia Required Our Product by Law",
"tagline": "AI to Write Laws and Regulations",
"body": "# Vulcan Technologies\n\n**We are deleting red tape and replacing expensive consultants with AI tools that empower elected officials to actualize the public will and interest.**\n\n[**Virginia Required Our Product by Law**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y43b3UvgJIg)\n\n## Traction\n\n* **Governor of Virginia**: Signed Executive Order last week embedding our invention, âAI agentic regulatory review,â into Virginia's regulatory processes, memorializing our ongoing contract\n* **Acquired RegsBot**: Our biggest competitor\n* **Advisory Board**: Stanford Hoover Institute economics PhD (20+ years regulatory research) + Top-5 law school JD (2 White House tours, 20+ years law/policy)\n\n## The Problem\n\nElected officials â representatives, senators, governors, and presidents â write laws and executive orders to actualize their campaign promises and, in theory, serve the public will and interest. These newly-minted laws and executive orders are then passed to regulatory agencies in the executive branch, occupied by thousands of bureaucrats and contractors, who write regulations and guidance documents designed to implement laws and executive orders.\n\nIn the status quo, the regulatory implementation process is sluggish and highly bureaucratic. Each regulatory change must cohere with all existing state law, federal law, and case law; otherwise, agencies risk litigation and the loss of their budgets. Consequently, agencies spend millions of dollars and years hiring consultancies and law firms just to double-check that their proposed implementation of laws and executive orders is actually lawful.\n\nEach step in this onerous and years-long iteration loop creates new arenas for political conflict, wastes taxpayer dollars, and means that the public will, exercised by elected officials, is not actually implemented.\n\n\n\n## Our Solution: AI Legal Cartography\n\nOur agentic scraper reflects the entire American legal corpus (statutes, regulations, case law, in all jurisdictions) and our proprietary AI knowledge graph maps relationships between legal nodes. Examples: court precedent nullifies federal law, federal law supersedes state law, federal funding demands state compliance, etc.\n\nOur system:\n\n* Instantly redlines proposed regulations\n* Responds to public comment\n* Drafts legislative language\n* Illuminates compliance violations while generating lawful alternatives\n\nWe enable elected officials and their appointees to execute policy changes without wasting time and tax dollars on legal complexities and consultant dependencies.\n\n## The Team\n\nWe came together because we believe AI can and should strengthen America's democratic institutions.\n\n**Tanner** turned down Harvard Law School and left his job as Technology and Regulatory Policy Director at Joe Lonsdale's Cicero Institute where he worked on AI and regulatory policy in 30 states. Previously he worked for Andrew Yang's presidential campaign and wrote his Dartmouth thesis about the \"ontology of American regulation.\"\n\n**Alek** dropped out of Dartmouth where he studied Machine Learning, was a chess champion, and a recipient of the Jack Byrne grant for Dartmouth's top math students. Alek also worked as an AI engineer at several startups before founding Vulcan.\n\n**Chris** left Google where he built ML infrastructure for Gemini and Waymo. Before Google, Chris studied CS and Philosophy at Princeton. Chris became passionate about regulatory reform and leveraging AI to improve policy after following SF politics and the emergent abundance movement.\n\n## Asks\n\n* **Agency connections** â state and federal agencies, legislative counsels, regulatory affairs, anyone in government to whom we can sell\n* **Govtech sales wisdom** â government contracting as a startup is uniquely challenging and we would love to pick the brains of anyone with experience\n* **Legal/regulatory expertise** â administrative law attorneys who understand the compliance landscape\n* **Government veterans** â folks with credibility and gravitas who have occupied senior roles in state and federal government agencies\n* **Feedback on our vision** â we are building AI that empowers elected officials to implement durable policy changes\n\n## Our Ideology\n\nWe see a dialectic in AI and government: totalitarianism (algorithmic control and surveillance undermining freedom) vs. humanism (AI empowering innovation and responsive government, unlocking unprecedented freedom, creativity, and individualism).\n\nAt Vulcan, we are building the humanist future â tools that empower elected officials to serve the public interest without bureaucratic capture.\n\nOur core belief is this: as AI gets better, our Republic should get better too.\n\n**Contact**: [founders@vulcan-tech.com](mailto:founders@vulcan-tech.com)\\\n**Website**: [www.vulcan-tech.com](http://www.vulcan-tech.com)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O2B-vulcan-technologies-virginia-required-our-product-by-law",
"votes": 24,
"created_at": "2025-07-24T15:42:20.775Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30918,
"name": "ComplyDo",
"slug": "complydo",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1138acf799ce629450bf7f2fb3d38a36aabb6d93.png",
"website": "https://www.complydo.io/",
"all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany",
"long_description": "The most flexible enterprise compliance engine that makes GRC teams 10x more efficient. Already trusted by global leaders and the largest EU enterprises.\r\n\r\nWhat it does:\r\n- Extracts requirements from any file\r\n- Maps them to controls and policies\r\n- Shows gaps and monitors changes\r\n- Advises on maturity and next steps",
"one_liner": "Global Compliance for Enterprises",
"team_size": 17,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1759460278,
"tags": [
"B2B",
"Compliance",
"LegalTech",
"Cybersecurity",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Fall 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Germany",
"Europe"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": [
{
"question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?",
"answer": "Enterprises waste months and millions on manual IT compliance. It slows deals, blocks growth, creates regulatory risk, and drains already stretched teams. Global rules get more complex every week, but tools and consultants havenât kept up.\r\n\r\nWe built ComplyDo to change that: the most flexible compliance engine for enterprises. With ComplyDo companies can move faster, stay safer, and win across markets."
}
],
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/complydo",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/complydo.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "Berlin",
"country": "DE",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/complydo-io",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/complydo",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1138acf799ce629450bf7f2fb3d38a36aabb6d93.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/80a50621e790e60fb76403e535da72414caa2519.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Nicolas Dessaigne",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2687177,
"full_name": "Leo Schuhmann",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Helping enterprises win across markets. \nTech & Consulting Background.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leo-schuhmann-324927182/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6a02c3ebd952a4ff24d89085719f812b941e2b00.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2710525,
"full_name": "Moritz Moser",
"title": "Founder/CPO",
"founder_bio": "Building ComplyDo",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/moritz-moser-99b3a320a/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d200b6871073ea9cd8e51ca4dbba265162125516.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2735214,
"full_name": "Matthias Schneider",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Deploying agents to automate enterprise compliance.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-schneider-134391223/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/33a3f0cc53ae97c4aeddb2df62bce1f7bd30ea5a.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 99476,
"title": "Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/complydo/jobs/oA2oHJC-engineer",
"location": "Berlin, BE, DE / Berlin, Berlin, DE",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "âŹ60K - âŹ90K EUR",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizenship/visa not required",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 94528,
"title": "ComplyDo đ: Automating how enterprises comply with hundreds of global regulations",
"tagline": "More Comply, Less Do.",
"body": "Hi, weâre [**Leo**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leo-schuhmann-324927182/), [**Moritz**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/moritz-moser-99b3a320a/) & [**Matthias**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-schneider-134391223/), launching [**ComplyDo**](https://www.complydo.io/).\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n**ComplyDo automates how enterprises comply with hundreds of global regulations.** Already used by leading global players to replace months of manual work, reduce consulting hours, and accelerate market access.\n\n**Ask:** Can you introduce us to compliance, GRC, or audit leaders at enterprises and consultancies? We can help them a lot. Contact: [**leo.schuhmann@complydo.io**](mailto:leo.schuhmann@complydo.io)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDvBicSeQ0U\n\n# The problem\n\nEnterprises face an explosion of global regulations and standards. ISO, PIPL, NIS2, PCI, DORA, and many more. Due to this complexity, compliance, legal, and audit teams still handle most of the work manually or through consultants: mapping requirements, reviewing policies, collecting evidence, and maintaining spreadsheets. Itâs slow, expensive, and limits how fast companies can move.\n\n\n\n---\n\n# The solution\n\n\n\n**ComplyDo** automates this painful process. Upload any regulation, standard or requirement file. Our system:\n\n1. Extracts requirements and obligations\n2. Maps them to your internal controls and policies\n3. Identifies gaps and next steps\n4. Monitors changes across frameworks\n\nAlready **used by global enterprises**, ComplyDo helps organizations stay compliant continuously and scale across markets. **Without** a fleet of consultants.\n\n---\n\n# How we got here\n\nWeâve worked across consulting, software development, and AI, and saw the same issue in every global company. Starting with some of the worldâs most innovative enterprises, we went deep into their GRC processes and shifted manual work from compliance teams and consultants to our models. It became the foundation for faster, smarter global governance.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n# Call to action\n\nWeâre expanding with enterprises, innovative consultancies, and certification bodies. **If you work in GRC, internal audit, or cyber/IT compliance**, weâd love to connect! We go above and beyond to eliminate slow, manual work. If someone in your network could benefit, an intro would mean a lot.\n\nđŠ [**leo.schuhmann@complydo.io**](mailto:leo.schuhmann@complydo.io)\\\nđ [complydo.io](http://complydo.io)\n\n---\n\n**More Comply. Less Do.**\n\n\n\n",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oae-complydo-automating-how-enterprises-comply-with-hundreds-of-global-regulations",
"votes": 66,
"created_at": "2025-10-09T18:26:18.676Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30920,
"name": "Lexi",
"slug": "lexi",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eb8c922483150b7ebb7320f8160a0722809b666c.png",
"website": "https://getlexi.io/",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Lexi is an AI operating system for legal teams, law firms, and in-house counsel. It brings legal research, drafting, document review, contract redlining, case workflows, translation, knowledge management, and AI associates into one secure platform.\r\n\r\nLexi is built for enterprise legal work with end-to-end security, role-based access controls, audit trails, encrypted document handling, private workspaces, and deployment options for sensitive legal environments. Legal teams use Lexi to process high-volume legal documents, find answers with verified citations, draft in their preferred style, review contracts, and manage legal workflows from intake to output.\r\n\r\nLexi has processed 5,000,000+ documents across 200,000+ cases for 200+ organizations and law firms, helping lawyers save 10+ hours every week and handle more matters without adding headcount.",
"one_liner": "AI Operating System for Legal Teams",
"team_size": 15,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1758861304,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"B2B",
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Fall 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lexi",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/lexi.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getlexi",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lexi-01b1",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eb8c922483150b7ebb7320f8160a0722809b666c.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Andrew Miklas",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2742687,
"full_name": "Harshit Garg",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Engineer-turned-lawyer and second-time founder. Previously led major technical and compliance projects for Fortune 500 companies before building Lexi.\n",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshitgarg03/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/HarshitGarg03",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d4d85ce8d524c280f4fe52216a960a8317d03f2f.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2650346,
"full_name": "Kiran Mohan",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Founding Team at Ethlas, a Sequoia-backed startup where he scaled the company to 100K+ users and $2M+ in ARR. Previously built high-frequency trading systems at Grasshopper that processed $500B+ in monthly notional volume. \n\nNow revolutionizing the legal industry with AI-powered legal associates at Lexi.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranmohanb/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/bmnarik",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/01094d818af57ec45dfe4542ad4f866566c34238.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 95269,
"title": "Lexi: AI Associates for Law Firms & Legal Teams",
"tagline": "Scale your practice without scaling overhead",
"body": "Hi everyone! Weâre [Harshit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshitgarg03/) and [Kiran](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranmohanb/), and weâre building Lexi - AI Associates for law firms & legal teams\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nLaw firms & legal departments spend countless hours drafting, reviewing, organizing, and managing documents.\n\nUnlike other LegalTech tools, Lexi integrates directly into your workflow, acting as an AI associate that learns your teamâs standards, tone, and processes to handle your workflows end to end.\n\n**Lexi saves lawyers 10+ hours of manual work every single week.**\n\n[Lexi Launch Video](https://youtu.be/3LSrawsmCfI)\n\n### đ´ **The Problem**\n\nLawyers are drowning in low-leverage work.\n\n70% of a lawyer's day is spent on tasks that don't require legal expertise: summarizing documents, drafting routine correspondence, building chronologies, organizing files.\n\nExisting tools don't solve thisâthey're point solutions that force lawyers to juggle between multiple platforms and subscriptions, slowing them down instead of speeding them up.\n\nThe result? Clients wait for updates, strategy gets postponed, and burnout rises. Even top-tier firms struggle to scale without adding headcount.\n\n---\n\n### đ˘ **The Solution**\n\nLexi doesn't just \"help\" with legal workâit does the work. From intake to delivery, Lexi acts as a trained associate that learns your firm's style, standards, and processes.\n\n**What used to take 8 hours now takes 20 minutes.**\n\n**Document Intelligence**\\\nTransform scattered emails, PDFs, and transcripts into organized, searchable case files. Analyze thousands of documents and extract key information with reliable accuracy.\n\n\n\n**Drafting**\\\nGenerate polished first drafts of pleadings, contracts, and letters in your firm's voice. Lexi learns your writing style and standards to produce documents that need minimal editing.\n\n\n\n**Contract Review**\\\nReview agreements against your firm's playbooks and flag risky clauses automatically. Lexi learns from your past reviews to improve recommendations and match your standards over time.\n\n\n\n**Chronology Builder**\\\nBuild comprehensive timelines from thousands of documents. Extract dates, facts, conflicts, and citations instantlyâperfect for depositions or trial prep.\n\n\n\nThe best part: Lexi **Integrates seamlessly** with the tools you use daily: Microsoft Word, Outlook, Google Docs, iManage, and more. No new systems to learn. No workflow disruption.\n\n**The impact?** Firms using Lexi take on **25% more cases without new hires**âreclaiming 10+ hours per lawyer per week.\n\n---\n\n### đľ **The Team**\n\nWe've lived this problem from both sidesâlegal practice and AI engineering.\n\n**Harshit Garg** (CEO) â Practiced law at top firms where he watched talented lawyers lose hours to repetitive work. Built Lexi to give that time back.\n\n**Kiran Mohan** (CTO) â Former Engineering Manager at Ethlas and Shopee. Built AI systems and infrastructure at scale for millions of users. Now building the AI associate every law firm needs..\n\n\n\nWant to see Lexi in action? Book a demo here: [getlexi.io](http://getlexi.io) or reach us at [founders@getlexi.io](mailto:founders@getlexi.io)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Omb-lexi-ai-associates-for-law-firms-legal-teams",
"votes": 487,
"created_at": "2025-11-06T19:17:07.374Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 30953,
"name": "Relaw",
"slug": "relaw",
"former_names": [
"Relaw",
"Primer"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bb0260bafa98dc299797de55569bc9898b1505c1.png",
"website": "https://www.relaw.ai",
"all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Relaw powers leading AI-native law firms.",
"one_liner": "AI Legal OS",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1759337648,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"Legal",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Fall 2025",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/relaw",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/relaw.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "Los Angeles",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/relaw-ai",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bb0260bafa98dc299797de55569bc9898b1505c1.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Aaron Epstein",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 734292,
"full_name": "Chris Farestveit",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Prior PM and Eng. Formerly at BCG and Dapper. Currently building AI agents for law firms.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/green-c/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/aa6f131bc5780d3c07e03075bb2d8525bf4d2b70.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": []
},
{
"id": 31000,
"name": "Vector Legal",
"slug": "vector-legal",
"former_names": [
"Cadence",
"Raise"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/24fe2cfdacb0c9b085052b0bee9ce77035a7373e.png",
"website": "https://vectorlegal.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "A modern solution for Startup legal.\r\n\r\nVector combines premier lawyers/paralegals (averaging 13+ years of experience) + custom-built AI, so our clients get world class startup legal service at a fraction of Big Law rates. See our client testimonials - https://www.vectorlegal.com/testimonials.\r\n\r\nServices: fundraise & priced rounds | customer contracts and commercial contracts | international flips | complex formations | grow your team | agentic data rooms | e-signatures | cap table management | legal health checks | mergers & acquisitions | co-founder separations | dissolutions.",
"one_liner": "A premier AI-native law firm & legal operating system for Startups.",
"team_size": 9,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1771526564,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": true,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vector-legal",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/vector-legal.json",
"year_founded": 2026,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/vector-legal-in/",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/24fe2cfdacb0c9b085052b0bee9ce77035a7373e.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/video_event/81/1774393783-55a7b197620911a0756cd0e0bea5df77/1c2006756fe2960fad6af4d6c6a00e9c.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAQC4NIECABPQ2AHNW%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022732Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=b6daa5bb9fca5339a407a32a4bf9e665d5ee6666bee2bbfb9f3c25d836f32c0d",
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Jared Friedman",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1077405,
"full_name": "Mitch Duncombe",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "9 year practicing corporate lawyer and now entrepreneur\n\nformerly: Berkeley Law / Fenwick / YC Legal. Now: Vector Legal (W26). \n\nVector Legal is:\n\n-Big law quality counsel (~13 yrs avg. experience)\n-Enterprise quality legal SAAS\n\nat ~40% the cost",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellduncombe/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/mitchduncombe",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5b7f478387667cedcff1d81b16c134f1a6841116.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2296577,
"full_name": "Keenan Venuti",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Founder/CTO @ Vector Legal, a hybrid AI law firm + legal tech platform for Startups\nFormer Staff AI SWE @ Ironclad (S15)\nM.S. Northwestern, B.A. Harvard\n\nkeenan.venuti.org",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/keenan-venuti-in/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b0b3e4bc63a3beed589b0552c6d52c37dcf90ef3.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 95799,
"title": "Founding AI Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vector-legal/jobs/SoiB0TW-founding-ai-engineer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Machine learning",
"salary_range": "$120K - $180K",
"equity_range": "0.50% - 1.50%",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Python",
"TypeScript",
"AI Agents"
]
},
{
"id": 95800,
"title": "Founding Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vector-legal/jobs/bDlpoLM-founding-engineer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$120K - $180K",
"equity_range": "0.50% - 1.50%",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Python",
"TypeScript",
"AI Agents"
]
},
{
"id": 95803,
"title": "Senior Corporate Counsel",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vector-legal/jobs/qACKx6Q-senior-corporate-counsel",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Legal",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$190K - $500K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "6+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 100902,
"title": "Senior Commercial Counsel",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vector-legal/jobs/313muoh-senior-commercial-counsel",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US / CO, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Legal",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$150K - $230K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 100903,
"title": "Junior Commercial Counsel",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vector-legal/jobs/h2CYE5P-junior-commercial-counsel",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US / CO, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Legal",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$100K - $160K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 101192,
"title": "ECVC Associate",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vector-legal/jobs/8SrWHg5-ecvc-associate",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Legal",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$150K - $250K",
"equity_range": "",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 98140,
"title": "Launch: Vector Legal⢠- AI-native law firm + software for Startups",
"tagline": "Experienced counsel + AI agents, integrated seamlessly into your workflows so your Startup can close deals quickly and affordably. ",
"body": "#### Startups know the stakes - itâs move fast or die. Your lawyers should operate at the same pace, without costing an arm and a leg.\n\nVector Legal combines experienced startup legal professionals + proprietary AI to help you close your deals, quickly, at startup-friendly prices. They serve clients from Seed through Series B, handling financings, IP protection, customer contracts, hiring, founder transitions, and more. \n\nIn addition: their VectorOS platform helps founders:\n\n* manage equity and dilution,\n* draft documents,\n* review contracts with AI,\n* maintain investor-ready data rooms, and\n* ask questions across their legal docs.\n\nThe team brings deep experience in the space, having previously worked at Fenwick, YC Legal, and Ironclad.\n\nIf youâre a U.S. startup looking for a modern law firm, learn more and book a demo at[ **https://vectorlegal.com**](https://vectorlegal.com)\n\nCongrats on the launch, Keenan and Mitch đ",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PWu-launch-vector-legal-ai-native-law-firm-software-for-startups",
"votes": 5,
"created_at": "2026-02-25T19:17:45.113Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 31101,
"name": "LegalOS",
"slug": "legalos",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bfdd01c1d2dde8d7cec7f0d61a5c75e8551e254d.png",
"website": "https://www.legalos.ai",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote",
"long_description": "LegalOS is an AI-native immigration law firm that combines cutting-edge technology with 40+ years of legal expertise.\r\n\r\nWeâve studied 12,000 successful petitions to design our process - which allows us to deliver top-quality visa applications in as quickly as 48 hours. Our specialized AI agents draft petition narratives, compile evidence, and anticipate USCIS objections - work that traditionally takes attorneys weeks, if not months.\r\n\r\nEvery case is reviewed and signed by licensed immigration attorneys with 40+ years of experience, so companies get both speed and reliability. We support O-1, H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, TN, EB-1A, EB-1C, and EB-2 NIW petitions.\r\n\r\nOur unique approach works. Weâve filed dozens of visa applications and have a 100% approval rate so far.\r\n\r\nThe U.S. processes 1M+ work visas annuallyâa market where incumbents still operate on fax machines, email, and 1990s case management software. We're building the modern immigration law firm.",
"one_liner": "The AI-Native Immigration Law Firm",
"team_size": 3,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1765500266,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada",
"Remote",
"Fully Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/legalos",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/legalos.json",
"year_founded": 2024,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/legalosai/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/legalosai",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bfdd01c1d2dde8d7cec7f0d61a5c75e8551e254d.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Tyler Bosmeny",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2312887,
"full_name": "Matthew Asir",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Matthew is the co-founder and CEO of LegalOS. He previously founded the immigration SaaS Legal Bullet (Forbes 30 Under 30), and studied Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Like his sister Rachel (COO), he grew up working in his familyâs U.S. immigration law firm and now leads product and AI at LegalOS, turning 40+ years of immigration case data into automated, high-approval work-visa petitions.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-asir",
"x_url": "https://x.com/assiirrrrrr",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/10dce064a86441bd5c6bbb4ad2496beae989454a.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2582582,
"full_name": "Rachel Asir",
"title": "Founder/COO",
"founder_bio": "Rachel is the co-founder and COO of LegalOS. She double majored in Economics & Media Studies at the University of Chicago and previously managed 20+ A-list client deals at United Talent Agency, driving over $10M in tour revenue. She co-founded a charity that raised $70K for youth programs and grew up around her familyâs U.S. immigration law firm. At LegalOS she owns operations and customer experience for companies and candidates using the platform.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelasir",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ce15f86879b65547d9967c8b3d95fd05688e59e0.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2782778,
"full_name": "Claire Jutabha",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Claire is the co-founder and CTO of LegalOS. At LegalOS she leads engineering and AI, building the agents that power automated work-visa petitions.\n\nShe has an MS and BS in Computer Science from USC. She previously shipped LLM safety pipelines at TikTok that flag thousands of high-risk accounts daily, built document-classification models at Notarize and worked at NASA JPL on the Mars Exploration team.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairejutabha/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/80a140e6aeb41092be08bdf387b3bc95b78f33e0.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 97014,
"title": "LegalOS - AI-Native Immigration Law Firm",
"tagline": "Get top-quality visa petitions in 48 hours, not months. We pair AI with 40 years of immigration expertise.",
"body": "Hey everyone! đ\n\nWeâre [Matthew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-asir), [Rachel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelasir/), and [Claire](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairejutabha/) â the founding team behind [LegalOS](https://legalos.ai?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch&utm_content=yc_launch).\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nWhat if your immigration case moved as fast as you do?\n\nWe're an AI-native immigration law firm that combines AI with 40+ years of legal expertise. Weâve studied 12,000 successful petitions to design our process - which allows us to deliver top-quality visa applications in as quickly as 48 hours. \n\nOur unique approach works. Weâve filed dozens of visa applications and have a 100% approval rate so far.\n\n**_Ask:_** If you are an international founder or a manager dealing with immigration? Email [help@legalos.ai](mailto:help@legalos.ai) or[ book a call with us](https://cal.com/rachelasir/legalos-consultation).\n\n\n\n### **â The Problem**\n\nImmigration law is broken - especially for startups\n\n1. **Slow** - Traditional law firms take 6â8 weeks just to prepare a petition - burning runway and blocking hires\n2. **Expensive** - Lawyers charge $10k-35k per visa, pricing out early-stage companies\n3. **Black Box** - Founders & managers often have zero visibility into case progress until it's too late\n4. **Unpredictable** - Inconsistent quality means RFEs, delays, and denials\n5. **High Stakes -** A single denial can force a founder to leave the country or lose a critical engineer\n\nStartups trying to make a critical hire simply canât afford the cost, time, and uncertainty of traditional immigration firms.\n\n### **⨠Our Solution**\n\nLegalOS is a full service, AI-native immigration law firm. Our specialized AI agents that have been optimized on 12,000 winning petitions. _So far we have a 100% success rate._\n\n**What we handle:**\n\n* **O-1A/O-1B** (Extraordinary Ability)\n* **EB-1A** (Alien of Extraordinary Ability)\n* **EB-2 NIW** (National Interest Waiver)\n* **EB-1C** (Multinational Managers)\n* **H-1B, L-1A/B, TN** visas\n\n\n\n**How it works:**\n\n1. **Intake**: Upload your docs, answer a few questions, and we have get your petition started in minutes\n2. **AI-Powered Drafting**: Our agents build your petition using patterns from 12,000 successful cases\n3. **Attorney Review**: An immigration attorney with 40+ years of experience reviews every filing\n\n**Rapid Delivery**: You get a complete, filing-ready petition in as little as 48 hours - not weeks or months later\n\n### **đŤ The Team**\n\nRachel (COO) and Matthew (CEO) grew up in their familyâs 40-year immigration law firm. We've watched thousands of cases, seen what makes petitions win or fail, and built LegalOS on that foundation.\n\nClaire (CTO) brings the engineering talent â ex-TikTok, Notarize, and NASA JPL â and built the 24 specialized AI agents that power our platform.\n\n\n\n\n### đ **Our Ask**\n\n* **Need a visa?** Book a free consultation[ here](https://cal.com/rachelasir/legalos-consultation)\n* **Know a founder dealing with immigration?** Forward this post or intro us\n* **Hiring internationally?** We can help your teamâemail [help@legalos.ai](mailto:help@legalos.ai)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PEk-legalos-ai-native-immigration-law-firm",
"votes": 19,
"created_at": "2026-01-21T15:34:25.781Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 31130,
"name": "AutoSitu",
"slug": "autositu",
"former_names": [
"MirageDoodle, Inc."
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e152edb1a93ed2437635e5b7630e93b7466a400.png",
"website": "https://autositu.com/",
"all_locations": "",
"long_description": "At AutoSitu, weâre building the AI operating system for the built worldâcoordinated AI agents that work across development, design, review, and construction.\r\n\r\nOur agents analyze complex plans, requirements, and project documentation in minutesâsurfacing critical issues, doing the heavy lifting, and escalating the decisions that require human expertise.\r\n\r\nFrom site feasibility and entitlement risk to QA/QC, code compliance, constructability, quantity takeoff, and scope analysis, AutoSitu helps cities, architects, engineers, developers, and construction teams identify problems earlier and move projects forward with greater speed and confidence.\r\n\r\nWe serve as a strategic AI partner to forward-thinking public agencies and AEC organizations across the country and are backed by Y Combinator (W26).",
"one_liner": "The AI operating system for the built world",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1765384359,
"tags": [
"Real Estate",
"Construction"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Unspecified"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autositu",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/autositu.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": null,
"country": null,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/autositu",
"x_url": "https://x.com/autositu",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e152edb1a93ed2437635e5b7630e93b7466a400.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Gustaf Alstromer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2244794,
"full_name": "George Zhai",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": " A Georgia Tech graduate, he has worked on autonomous cars, boats, and robotic systems, consistently pushing the boundaries of autonomy. George is known for rapidly engineering novel, highly cost-effective solutionsâbridging advanced AI with real-world applications from self-driving vehicles to scalable automation.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-zhai-213373141/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cf0e4132604adf2118f1615ebdb01200d627e35d.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2679474,
"full_name": "Xuanshu (Asher) Lin",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Lin combines a background in Urban Planning and Architecture from the University of Michigan, bringing policy insight and design expertise to AutoSitu. He leads product strategy focused on zoning and site plan compliance, with hands-on experience across projects in ChampaignâUrbana and Detroitâs Joe Louis Greenway. An APA Planning and Design Competition Honorable Mention recipient, Lin works to make compliance faster, clearer, and more accountable.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/linxis01/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ee2422c34e717053bb0930aa325aac8545fb9e55.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 97187,
"title": "Founding Engineer - Arkhe",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/autositu/jobs/CvB6tcr-founding-engineer-arkhe",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$120K - $250K",
"equity_range": "1.00% - 3.00%",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"TypeScript",
"Distributed Systems"
]
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 97122,
"title": "AutoSitu: AI-native Development Plan Review for Faster Approvals",
"tagline": "Pre-validates submissions against jurisdiction requirements and patterns so teams submit cleaner sets and cities review faster",
"body": "**TL;DR:** Hi YC! Weâre Lin and George, founders of AutoSitu. Weâre building software that automatically reviews site and building plan sets in minutes and surfaces what a city is likely to flag before you submit.\n\n**𧹠Problem**\\\nIn real estate, _time kills deals_ â and permitting/review is one of the biggest sources of delay and variance.\\\nMost projects go through **2â3 resubmittal cycles**, adding **3â9 months**.\n\n* Developers: **$50kâ$250k+** in carrying costs while projects sit in review\n* Architecture teams: **80â200 hours** of unplanned work per resubmittal\\\n â at **\\~$130/hr**, thatâs **$10kâ$25k+** of margin erased on fixed-fee work đ\n\n**⥠Solution**\\\nAutoSitu is an AI-powered development plan review engine that flags the issues that typically surface later â **before submission**, when fixes are cheap.\n\nTeams use AutoSitu to:\n\n* reduce city comments **50â70%**\n* cut resubmittals from **2â3 â 0â1**\n* shorten approvals by **3â6 months+**\n\n**đ° Impact**\\\nThatâs **$100kâ$400k** in avoided carrying costs for developers and **$10kâ$25k** in preserved fee margin per project for architecture teams.\n\nđ **Backstory**\\\nLin worked across **20+ U.S. public and private projects** in planning and architecture, sitting on **both sides of the table**, and repeatedly hearing the same question from teams and clients: _why does review take so long when the issues are so predictable?_\n\nGeorge spent years building automation systems in robotics and AI, turning processes that took **weeks of manual effort** into scalable pipelines, cutting costs from **$50k to $2k** while keeping humans in the loop.\n\nAutoSitu started from a shared realization: permit review isnât slow because people arenât trying, itâs slow because the same checks are repeated manually, at scale, with no early signal.\n\n[đĽ **Launch Video**: https://youtu.be/77ErS3Ja4Ho](https://youtu.be/77ErS3Ja4Ho)\n\nđ¤ **Ask / CTA**\n\nIf youâre an **architecture/development** team, weâd love to **apply the same playbook from our successful deployments** to your next submission, weâll help you run AutoSitu end-to-end on a real plan set.\n\n**Reach us** at [**founders@autositu.com**](mailto:founders@autositu.com) or [DM](https://www.linkedin.com/company/autositu).\\\n**Visit us: [https://autositu.com/](https://autositu.com/)**\n\n\n\n",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PGU-autositu-ai-native-development-plan-review-for-faster-approvals",
"votes": 6,
"created_at": "2026-01-26T21:00:55.911Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 31146,
"name": "Moritz",
"slug": "moritz",
"former_names": [
"https://www.arcline-ai.com/",
"Arcline AI",
"Arcline"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ba9cb936197827cdb07b7561ff78521aed096ae7.png",
"website": "http://moritzlegal.com/",
"all_locations": "Oslo, Oslo, Norway",
"long_description": "Moritz is a global AI-native law firm that will handles legal work with same day turnaround.\r\n\r\nOur lawyers have closed $ 3bn in deals with an average turnaround of 4-hours. No other law firm offers this kind of speed for complex deals.\r\n\r\nWe're backed by YC, 20VC and the founders of Dropbox, Gusto, Instacart, Reddit, Superhuman, Producthunt, HuggingFace and 15 other unicorn founders.",
"one_liner": "Global AI-native law firm handling legal work with same-day turnaround",
"team_size": 10,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1767976988,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Norway",
"Europe",
"Remote",
"Partly Remote"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": true,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moritz",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/moritz.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "Oslo",
"country": "NO",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/moritzlaw",
"x_url": "https://x.com/moritzlaw",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/arcline",
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ba9cb936197827cdb07b7561ff78521aed096ae7.png",
"app_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bf-public_profile/31204/app_video.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAQC4NIECAK2XLVAEC%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022734Z&X-Amz-Expires=60&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEHEaCXVzLXdlc3QtMiJFMEMCIAKxVeCuOoDsiv9OvW1mQ7mcS8gDT%2FRJKRw6KedW8MBiAh8pY6kF75O%2FWklLJYZpXjNpdv7D7g7DTGoNa63eX1RAKuUDCDoQABoMMDA2MjAxODExMDcyIgwvKBm%2Bb%2F8OodUhrswqwgODlPQnlHNviMegR2tgHBKcqrGQw%2BHtymSQ4Yp%2BHXvxgxZQmZdAto2k32TpvRz%2BVJE%2BqKCUOyrN3nF%2BYp8JTYAbk6GLOMZLQ8NNfzzBNWL8hlZzwhBWCB%2FK92gRfq%2BbLzMD4EZK5luTpQ73dNMYF5KWvVfVFb3JfvZdp6jebipH%2BOsZEvEVbPpI7RqhKxjIWCKuiisx5aGObeO7hsqRRnRVxOTbem6Emw3xwUMNtBgSeDAhJ584VF4e0rTl8AVT%2BPnpDr0OKvLbHZC2Ds%2F8AyDY6hIImlQE2UeauK%2B9ELmg6Yxp%2Fnz1kBNJ%2Fg2X9Jqi1JSLfvWbGkmuDAw89PFwEI0EfUUpXDyZbrY0b%2FSIPioJWPd5idMrJmtR9tYutaPns85TmjvYnh6TyjEksW1uIPi%2F%2FzTa2bGXAUVva1ybRBIV4TRnHjULbBAFlhE68zR2rLoypl%2BC0t0c1rrhWDfEV2%2BlqQRP38IJdPC5%2B32Q2eRMpzaalRIUh8mdZbHKmqaE2qczdAzfevEBI%2FtKPkLVhrYw2ND7bqysVVZRZYOE8rbkPsBRmpgp%2B7tz96eUMIbn3AaPWVW%2F1Au9bEDhTwoP1Kn6aTIw6P3a1gY6pwFIPtNtLcJWP8c793hYWjYfiWxa0eUSYLLcHApCHvGendn7NBYh6NUtrQ%2Fr4LAeOVtQUfme5Ilt3iCxJS%2FRGvvUbEz8jMx%2BOPIDNsEZvz5aI6VIlIz7els8agfAsUzZABhur3GtH9uqeXycsGWan43V8u0Ent37mQvBmvytxMaJCivuTGUjHlJquYXJoLnf%2BskSM1sq9omX%2Fxw7gT6pZpoO2xRdhnID%2FA%3D%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=ec0593daae470fd66d182679c14f31ad57215bb56a2c08b7c28e359f0183a493",
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/bbab36a7ac4e260acedbe4128c144e6989145fd4.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Tyler Bosmeny",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2551519,
"full_name": "Pamir Ehsas",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "We handle your startupâs legal work, with elite lawyers & same-day turnaround | Ex-outside counsel to OpenAI, Google ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamirehsas/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/pamirehsas",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9597a951dd03de00c80a0e3f511d34cf3c4f07a3.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2785685,
"full_name": "Stefan Mandaric",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "AI-native lawyers handling startup legal work in hours | CTO, ex-Fulbright scholar at MIT",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-mandaric/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2a26b36c3614e95aac8fc244316db0acaae24e3e.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 93068,
"title": "Open Role",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moritz/jobs/l65jiEz-open-role",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Operations",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$70K - $180K",
"equity_range": "0.10% - 0.60%",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 93446,
"title": "Founding BDR",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moritz/jobs/mLJtw4g-founding-bdr",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$100K - $120K",
"equity_range": "0.05% - 0.15%",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 101258,
"title": "Founding Commercial Attorney",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moritz/jobs/9vMaf2h-founding-commercial-attorney",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Legal",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$180K - $250K",
"equity_range": "0.20% - 0.40%",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 103338,
"title": "Founding Account Executive",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moritz/jobs/04MIt4f-founding-account-executive",
"location": "New York, NY, US / San Francisco, CA, US / Remote",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Sales",
"role_type": null,
"salary_range": "$90K - $110K",
"equity_range": "0.10% - 0.30%",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 105320,
"title": "Founding Product Designer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moritz/jobs/SmndAaw-founding-product-designer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Design",
"role_type": "Product design",
"salary_range": "$120K - $180K",
"equity_range": "0.10% - 0.30%",
"experience": "Any (new grads ok)",
"visa": "Will sponsor",
"skills": []
},
{
"id": 110253,
"title": "Founding Full-Stack Engineer ",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/moritz/jobs/uJfcvR1-founding-full-stack-engineer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$150K - $250K",
"equity_range": "0.10% - 0.60%",
"experience": "3+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": [
"Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
"PostgreSQL",
"React",
"TypeScript",
"Next.js",
"AI Agents"
]
}
],
"news": [
{
"title": "Y Combinator alum Moritz raises $9m to build a law firm supercharged with AI | Sifted",
"url": "https://sifted.eu/articles/y-combinator-alum-moritz-raises-9m",
"date": "May 05, 2026"
},
{
"title": "AI-Powered Law Firm Moritz Secures $9 Million in Seed Funding - Business Insider",
"url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/moritz-ai-law-firm-seed-funding-y-combinator-2026-5",
"date": "May 04, 2026"
}
],
"launches": [
{
"id": 97011,
"title": "Moritz: AI-native legal services for fast moving companies đŠđťââď¸",
"tagline": "We handle your legal work, with elite lawyers & same-day turnaround",
"body": "Weâre [Pamir](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamirehsas/) and [Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-mandaric/) - founders of [Moritz](http://moritzlegal.com/) đ\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nMoritz provides AI-native legal services to fast moving companies. Our AI does 80% of the work, so you pay our lawyers only for the final 20%.\n\nLet us resolve your legal issues faster. We use elite startup lawyers and offer flat upfront pricing. Book a [demo](https://cal.com/riddhibajaj/moritz-discovery-call) or email [contact@moritzlegal.com](mailto:contact@moritzlegal.com).\n\n\n\n**𤯠The Problem**\n\nIâm a former outside counsel to OpenAI and even there â at a company with more money than most â I couldnât believe how broken the legal experience was:\n\n* **Slow** - I often saw even simple cases get held up for weeks in legal\n* **Opaque billing** - companies never knew what something would cost until they got a giant bill a month later\n* **Not-AI native** - most lawyers would start each project from scratch, instead of taking advantage of AI\n\n**đ¤+đŠđťââď¸= The Solution**\n\nMoritz is a new way of handling your legal work, one that merges top-tier lawyers with the power of AI. \n\nWeâve built a bench of top-tier startup lawyers - folks from top schools (Harvard, Stanford, Oxford) and leading firms (Cooley, Goodwin, Fenwick). \n\nOur lawyers start with first drafts generated with AI, and then do final revisions, which ends up reducing the work by 80%. This means you pay less, but more importantly, your legal matters can often be handled same-day.  \n\n**No other law firm today offers this kind of speed.**\n\n## đ§ **Why should you trust us?**\n\nWeâre founders serving other founders. In the past few months, weâve helped 50+ companies across the US and Europe. \n\nBuilding a startup is hard, and hearing how weâre simplifying legal work for other founders has been the highlight of our journey:\n\n> Moritz delivered our MSA the same day for $750. They move at startup speed, understand our business, and keep costs founder-friendly\n\n\\- Chetan, YC-backed founder at Rhizome AI\n\n> Moritz delivered fast, actionable guidance on a complex corporate issue - exactly what I want from lawyers in the AI era\n\n\\- Perry, YC-backed founder at Arylla\n\n> Moritz lets us move fast without breaking things or worrying about legal risk\n\n\\- Saksham, YC-backed founder at Cardboard\n\n> Moritz delivered everything we needed to launch our product at a fraction of the costs from a BigLaw firm. They also uncovered mistakes in past legal work weâd received from other law firms.\n\n\\- Cathrine, founder at Nordic Brain Tech\n\n# đŠđťâđť **How does it work?**\n\n**1. Forward to Moritz:** A contract lands in your inbox full of redlines. Or you need something drafted from scratch. No matter what it is, forward it to Moritz [here](https://app.moritzlegal.com/), with a description on what youâre trying to get done. \n\n**2. Upfront flat fee:** Before our lawyers start working, youâll know exactly what it costs. No surprise bills, no opaque âweâll see how long it takesâ-disclaimers. \n\n**3. AI does the first 80%**: Our AI drafts the first pass, pulls relevant templates, playbooks, precedent data, industry data, your attachments and customer data. \n\n**4. A top startup lawyer reviews 20%:** An elite startup lawyer reviews, revises, answers your questions and applies judgment to your situation. This is the part youâre paying for. \n\n**5. Same-day turnaround:** Because the heavy lift is already done, we can often turn work same-day. \n\n**Slack-integration**: We can also plug into Slack and operate like your fractional general counsel - on call whenever you need us. \n\n## **đ§âđ¤âđ§ Who we are and how you can help**\n\nPamir is lawyer and former outside counsel to OpenAI and Google, and Stefan is an AI engineer (ex-Fulbright at MIT). \n\nWeâre on a mission to build the legal services we always wanted, and weâd love for you to join the mission.\n\n* If you have an upcoming legal matter, weâd love to help. Book a demo [here](https://cal.com/pamire/30min) \n* If you know founders whoâd benefit, please share this with them\n* If you can recommend any truly elite lawyers, weâd love an intro\n\n\n\n",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PEh-moritz-ai-native-legal-services-for-fast-moving-companies",
"votes": 253,
"created_at": "2026-01-21T15:34:32.847Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 31240,
"name": "General Legal",
"slug": "general-legal",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dbf548c3bb9f1d826b76f6c508355bcfc063f988.png",
"website": "https://general.legal",
"all_locations": "",
"long_description": "We're the elite AI law firm for high growth companies. Our firm provides exceptional, top-of-market legal work across commercial, corporate and employment law, at speeds and prices that put traditional law firms to shame.",
"one_liner": "Elite AI law firm for high growth companies",
"team_size": 25,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1769746017,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"Unspecified"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/general-legal",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/general-legal.json",
"year_founded": 2026,
"city": null,
"country": null,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/general-legal",
"x_url": "https://x.com/gen_legal_inc",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dbf548c3bb9f1d826b76f6c508355bcfc063f988.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Ankit Gupta",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ankit-gupta"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2775355,
"full_name": "Ryan Walker",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Math PhD, software engineer, machine learning for legal. I've been in legal tech for over a decade and was the Chief Technology Officer for Casetext (YC13) which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanwalkerdata",
"x_url": "https://x.com/gen_legal_inc",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7270ba4658843cac846ae405d39a450827f5502d.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 69227,
"full_name": "J.P. Mohler",
"title": "Founder/CPO",
"founder_bio": "iOS/Android dev who went to Harvard Law and subsequently represented startups and VCs at Cooley and WilmerHale for 3 years. Back to building: this time, a more efficient law firm.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-mohler/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/401518fb7ca8c5cdf2dcce7eb03843b8aa541f13.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 3177126,
"full_name": "Javed Qadruddin",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Been coding since the age of 9. Went to Harvard Law because I liked law too. Represented startup companies at Fenwick & West for 2 years, but decided I'd rather actually build things. Switched back to engineering in 2013. Got really into deep learning in 2014. Been at the intersection of law and AI ever since at Casetext (YC13, exited to Thomson Reuters in '23), and at Meta. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/javed-qadrud-din/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/Javed_Qadruddin",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/37e0385d499f67b5f870d0a8c13f55d796017d2b.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 97431,
"title": "General Legal -- The AI Native Law Firm for the Growth Stage",
"tagline": "The corporate law firm for founders. Expert legal advice, one hour contract turnaround, and $500 per deal.",
"body": "Weâre[ Ryan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanwalkerdata/),[ Javed](https://www.linkedin.com/in/javed-qadrud-din/), and[ JP](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-mohler/), and weâre building [General Legal](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/general-legal). Previously, we built AI products for lawyers at[ Casetext](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/542) where Ryan was CTO and Javed led AI. Javed and JP went to Harvard Law and practiced at **Fenwick** and **Cooley**. \n\nGeneral Legal is an **AI-native law firm** solving commercial contracting for founders. We save founders $100sâ$1000s per contract, turn around contracts in hours instead of days, and our clients love the practical, real-time guidance they get from our experienced attorneys.\n\n\n\n**The scenario:** \n\nCongratulations! your B2B startup has its first customer ready to buy! What happens next? Your customer sends you a Cloud Services Agreement. This 30-page document is dense with complex legal terms.\n\nYou might be tempted to just sign this deal and get the revenue now. The problem is that there are often very harmful, and sometimes even company-ending, terms buried in the first turn of an enterprise contract. Some of these terms are so aggressive that VCs wonât even count the contract toward your ARR. You need a lawyer to find and negotiate those out.\n\nAt this point, most founders ask the same law firms that did their incorporation for help. These firms will charge $500â$2000 per hour, wonât estimate how many hours theyâll need to do the job, and will take days or even weeks to turn around your agreement.\n\nWhat your lawyers are doing behind the scenes is a shockingly inefficient process of passing work between partners and associates over email, unassisted by AI or technology generally. Itâs a highly manual process where âdata-drivenâ means âwhatever the partner thinks they saw on the last five deals.â If you look closely at the work product, youâre quite likely to [find embarrassing errors](https://general.legal/blog/your-lawyer-is-worse-than-you-think).\n\nIn short, youâre paying a lot for a poor result, delivered slowly. In the age of LLMs, this is inexcusable.\n\n**The solution:**\n\nGeneral Legal is rebuilding the law firm for the AI era like Tesla rebuilt the car for the EV era. We hire top-tier attorneys and equip them with proprietary AI workflows that enable them to operate at **10Ă the efficiency of traditional attorneys**. This tech advantage allows allows us to offer our clients:\n\n* **Flat, all-inclusive pricing**\n * **$500 per contract** for review services and negotiation on existing paper\n* **Turnarounds in hours not days or weeks**\n * Guaranteed contract turns within **3 hours**, with typical turns delivered in **1 hour**\n\n  \n* **Highest-quality legal work**\n * Our AI workflows eliminate common contracting errors\n * Our expert attorneys spend time focused on substantive risk and providing tailored advice\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\nSince announcing our private preview last month, _weâve had over 20 growth stage companies move commercial contracting to our firm._  We want more founders to run commercial legal through us. Donât let your founder friends pay traditional law firms for routine contract review! Send them to us. Weâll _do any companyâs first contract review for free_ until demo day.\n\nVisit our [website](https://general.legal/), [email us](mailto:founders@general.legal), or [book a demo](https://calendly.com/ryan-general/general-legal-info-call).",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PLT-general-legal-the-ai-native-law-firm-for-the-growth-stage",
"votes": 61,
"created_at": "2026-02-03T17:08:57.503Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 31247,
"name": "Fed10",
"slug": "fed10",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ed78fd7caa59335d26e6924d7cd9e597c6f6f2a8.png",
"website": "https://www.fed10.ai",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Fed10 is a legislative consulting firm staffed by AI agents. \r\n\r\nWe monitor every bill across the U.S., flag threats to your business, and deliver actionable insights â the same work a $500/hr policy consultant does, but in seconds instead of days.\r\n\r\nBuilt by three ex-lobbyists who passed legislation together.",
"one_liner": "AI Agents for Government Affairs",
"team_size": 3,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1768118288,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Winter 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fed10",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/fed10.json",
"year_founded": 2025,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/fed10",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ed78fd7caa59335d26e6924d7cd9e597c6f6f2a8.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Jared Friedman",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2369067,
"full_name": "Armand Iorgulescu",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "CEO @ Fed10. Passed multiple bills before I could vote. Youngest Governor appointee, where I drafted recommendations signed into law. Studied government at Harvard. Skipped high school classes to sit in on law school lectures.\n",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/armand-iorgulescu",
"x_url": "https://x.com/armandiorg",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/59d5ba0e6364f10417d507d4dea2487111e4dde0.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 3207858,
"full_name": "Zayan Islam",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "CTO @ Fed10. Best friend of Armand and Winston. Passed a bill & went to law school lectures with them as well. Got an Amazon offer at 17 and studied CS/Government at Berkeley.\n\n",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/drowsy/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ec51cdc4b03fbb9ad23d1ed38f3e88aeaedea55b.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2941412,
"full_name": "Winston Wei",
"title": "Founder/COO",
"founder_bio": "COO/CPO @ Fed10 \nWilliams College CS & American Studies | Ex-Gov Affairs/NV Dems.\nPassed legislation with these two before I could vote.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonwei-wc",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/22eaab4d7e70686ddfc2c495f6ecaf0666c0a00a.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 98547,
"title": "Fed10 đşđ¸ â AI Lobbyists",
"tagline": "Harvey for Public Policy/Government Affairs teams",
"body": "**TL;DR:** We use AI to ingest every proposed regulation in the world and immediately flag threats to your business. We help companies catch bills that would cost them millions in compliance, draft the fix, and show them who to call and what to say to get it done.\n\n[**Launch Video:**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5xti-2WC1Y)\n\nHey, weâre [Armand](http://linkedin.com/in/armand-iorgulescu), [Zayan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/drowsy/), and [Winston](https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonwei-wc/). Weâre ex-lobbyists who passed legislation before we could even vote, and now weâre building Fed10.\n\n**The problem**\\\nEvery company is affected by regulation. Most don't find out until it's too late.\n\nYour options today:Â \n\n* Pay $30K/month for policy consultants or lobbyists to stop threats\n* Get blindsided\n\nEven the companies that pay still get burned. We watched one of our bills die in Nevada because a last-minute committee change happened and the consultants we were paying missed it.\n\nPublic policy teams spend most of their time on research when they should be spending it on the relationships that actually move legislation.\n\n**What Fed10 does**\n\nOur AI agents handle the research. Every regulation, every jurisdiction, monitored in real time. When something threatens your business, we flag it, draft the fix, and pair you with the right person to get it handled.\n\nOne user had a bill that would have cost them $10M/yr in compliance. We caught it, drafted the amendment, and delivered a full advocacy strategy. That took seconds, not the weeks a consultant would need.\n\n**The team**\n\nIn high school, we led immigrant advocacy campaigns, drafted bills, advocated for them, and got them signed into law that now affect 344,000 people annually. We dropped out of Harvard, Williams, and Berkeley to build this.\n\n**The ask**\n\n* **Run policy or government affairs for your company?** â Try [Fed10](https://www.fed10.ai) and email [armand@fed10.ai](mailto:armand@fed10.ai)\n* **Donât have a policy team but still affected by regulation?** âTry [Fed10](https://www.fed10.ai) and email [armand@fed10.ai](mailto:armand@fed10.ai)\n* **Know someone who does?** â Send them this post",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PdT-fed10-ai-lobbyists",
"votes": 14,
"created_at": "2026-03-06T20:26:46.500Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 31279,
"name": "Regbase",
"slug": "regbase",
"former_names": [
"RegBase"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fd72b079b781bbd2a4eb03627c44c4901fd5da63.png",
"website": "https://regbase.com",
"all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA",
"long_description": "",
"one_liner": "Automating Corporate Compliance, Worldwide",
"team_size": 3,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1776112979,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Spring 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/regbase",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2026/regbase.json",
"year_founded": 2026,
"city": "New York City",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/regbase/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/theregbase",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fd72b079b781bbd2a4eb03627c44c4901fd5da63.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Andrew Miklas",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 2132981,
"full_name": "Natalie Aresta-Katz",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Prior to Regbase, Natalie was the founder of Saponify. Between the ages of 16 and 22, Natalie sold over $1M of soap base on Amazon. \nShe was the first sustainable business major at NYU Stern, and has an MBA from Columbia. \nNatalie spent 3 years as a regulatory researcher at the law firm Paul, Weiss, which is where she got the idea for Regbase.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-aresta-katz-a60a0416a/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f50b8bac1f420f79b353f62d19a720b064bf576b.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1428384,
"full_name": "Ethan Shea",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Founder/CTO at Regbase- Automating Corporate Compliance Worldwide\n\nPreviously I was a staff engineer at Vercel, where I built the observability backend and the first Vercel Agent. Before that I worked at Citadel where my team maintained the firm's master list of everything that can be traded. I grew up in Seattle and went to the University of Washington.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-shea/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/ethshea",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d93201eda3f57fcf6034c5a7913c447dcadbd1e7.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 99803,
"title": "Regbase: Al-native Legal Research",
"tagline": "Hundreds of hours of legal research in one click! ",
"body": "**Regbase helps companies track new laws across the world and at the local level.**\n\nRegbase is an **AI-native research platform** built to help **legal teams, researchers, and government vendors** monitor regulatory changes across countries, languages, and **hard-to-find government sources**.\n\n[https://youtu.be/lY1La0A4iaw](https://youtu.be/lY1La0A4iaw?si=-dCa9ucc4Sq8jvXR)\n\n**The problem:** \n\nCompanies that need to track new laws still rely heavily on **manual research.** Many important updates are posted on obscure local websites, draft bill portals, consultation pages, social media, and other sources that may **never get indexed by Google or picked up by LLMs.** \n\nIf a law is not in English, not covered by the media, or it only applies at the local level, it can be **impossible to find.** \n\n\\\n**The solution:** \n\nRegbase finds these updates automatically, including draft bills, consultations, compliance requirements, and sales opportunities like grants. Then it analyzes them. \n\nSo far we have: \n\n* **Found $400M in expiring school safety grants** across the U.S. for a client selling protective equipment\n* Identified **80** **requirements** for greenhouse gas disclosure **in 45 countries** for a global manufacturer\n* Found **dozens of obscure laws in non-English languages, posted only on LinkedIn, Facebook or X**\n* Uncovered regulations hidden behind QR codes, and even one government website that required visitors to watch an ad! \n\n**Who we are:** \n\n**Natalie Aresta-Katz**, previously led a law firm practice research team at Paul, Weiss, tracking laws across dozens of countries and every state. **Ethan Shea** is a former Staff Engineer at Vercel with expertise building agentic infrastructure. They started the company after years of struggling with manual regulatory updates across jurisdictions and languages.\n\n**The ask:** \n\nWe are eager to help **lawyers and researchers** in all areas, including **employment, AI, climate/sustainability, and private equity.** We also work with **companies in regulated industries,** and state and **local government vendors.**\n\nVisit [regbase.com](http://regbase.com) or email us at [founders@regbase.com](mailto:founders@regbase.com) to book a time.\n\nFollow us: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/regbase](https://www.linkedin.com/company/regbase/) | ",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pxj-regbase-al-native-legal-research",
"votes": 28,
"created_at": "2026-04-16T00:35:17.656Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 31411,
"name": "Andco",
"slug": "andco",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c2a1952b4bf4f03f6e4d7c3a1bc30b3b97ba2619.png",
"website": "http://www.useandco.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Our agents retrieve and synthesize all the records law firms need to start a personal injury case. We get police reports, open insurance claims, and retrieve all the medical records and bills needed to build a case.",
"one_liner": "Agents that build personal injury cases",
"team_size": 3,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1777434223,
"tags": [],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": true,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Spring 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/andco",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2026/andco.json",
"year_founded": 2026,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/andcolegal/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/andcolegal",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c2a1952b4bf4f03f6e4d7c3a1bc30b3b97ba2619.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "David Lieb",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1126674,
"full_name": "Ryan Xue",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder/CEO at Andco (X26). Previously co-founder/CEO at Layup (W23). First business hire at Origin, scaling the company from pre-product to hundreds of enterprises and 100K+ users across 40+ countries. Previously consultant at McKinsey and policy fellow at Google.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanxue/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/45d2131a9a31f9a00d74e39bca27bffa7cf17cf0.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1305066,
"full_name": "David Lee",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CTO at Andco. Previously CTO at NoxuData and Founding Director of Engineering at Seek AI (IBM acq). Senior Software Engineer at DataFox (Oracle acq).",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/lee-david3",
"x_url": "https://x.com/dleebuilds",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4303ef465363979bee82ba94d4c725349c817063.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1161905,
"full_name": "Michael Lemm",
"title": "Founder/COO",
"founder_bio": "Co-Founder and COO of Andco (YC X26). Previously Co-Founder and COO of Layup (YC W23). Outside of Andco, I enjoy rooting on Chicago sports teams, firefighting, and trying new local restaurants. ",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-s-lemm/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/mikeslemm",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c46120791468978a4c626eb392f8b95c85691a7a.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [
{
"id": 96305,
"title": "Founding Engineer",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/andco/jobs/zoWNTcb-founding-engineer",
"location": "San Francisco, CA, US",
"type": "Full-time",
"role": "Engineering",
"role_type": "Full stack",
"salary_range": "$120K - $220K",
"equity_range": "1.00% - 3.00%",
"experience": "1+ years",
"visa": "US citizen/visa only",
"skills": []
}
],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 100597,
"title": "Andco: Agentic case workups for personal injury law firms.",
"tagline": "We get personal injury law firms medical, police, and insurance documents - fast and without overhead.",
"body": "**TLDR:** Andco's AI agents run the entire pre-litigation workup for personal injury firms across every channel they use: fax, email, mail, web, SMS, and voice - so they can scale their firm without overhead.\n\n**The first 24 hours of a case, with Andco**\n\nThe moment a PI firm signs a new client, a race starts. Police reports need to be pulled, insurers need to be called, medical providers need to be faxed (yes, still faxed). Our agents go off across all channels in parallel: requesting the police report, opening claims with carriers like Geico and Progressive, identifying UM/UIM coverage, engaging adjusters, requesting records and bills from every treating provider, and running follow-up cadences until everything lands. Roughly 8 hours of legal staff work, done before anyone at the firm sits down at their desk.\n\n\n\n**The Problem**\n\nPersonal injury is a $50B+ industry, and firms live or die on pre-litigation workup speed. The problem: every case requires chasing dozens of documents from police departments, insurance carriers, and medical providers â most of whom still run on fax, mail, and phone. Firms have two options today\n\n1. Hire armies of legal staff + paralegals (expensive, high turnover, caps your caseload)\n2. Outsource to point-solution retrieval vendors (slow, opaque, expensive per-request)\n\nLegal tech built for this has historically been document and case management systems â great for storing things, terrible at actually doing the work. Meanwhile AI tooling in PI has mostly focused on downstream workflows like medical chronologies and demand drafting, which still depend on someone else getting the case context in first.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nAndco runs the pre-lit workup end-to-end. We're the system that actually does the work of getting the context. Our agents operate across fax, email, mail, web, SMS, and voice - the same channels your legal staff uses, plus a few they can't scale on. We're live with PI firms across the US and are exploring pilots with the world's largest injury law firms.\n\nEarly results:\n\n⢠8 hours saved in the first 24 hours of a case\n\n⢠24+ hours saved between intake and demand\n\n**About Us**\n\nWe're a team of repeat founders, ex-lawyers, and builders.\n\n**Ryan Xue (CEO)** â previously founded Layup (W23, exited to Whatfix). Before that: Origin, McKinsey, Google.\n\n**David Lee (CTO)** â 2x founder/CTO. Previously NoxuData and Seek.\n\n**Mike Lemm (COO)** â Layup co-founder (W23, exited to Whatfix). Formerly attorney at Kirkland & Ellis, Harvard Law.\n\n\\\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe publicly launched in March and are scaling as fast as humanly possible. Weâre already live with many high volume firms across the country - handling hundreds of cases and thousands of requests each month. We can serve law firms in all 50 states.\\\n\\\nIf youâre a personal injury law firm that is struggling to scale your prelit process, weâd love to hear from you. First case is on us! \n\nDrop us a note at [founders@useandco.com](mailto:founders@useandco.com). Site: [useandco.com](http://useandco.com)\n\nThanks for your support!\n\n[@Ryan Xue](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1126674) , [@Michael Lemm](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1161905) , and [@David Lee](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1305066)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QAX-andco-agentic-case-workups-for-personal-injury-law-firms",
"votes": 16,
"created_at": "2026-04-30T17:44:34.179Z"
},
{
"id": 91769,
"title": "Layup: Guide your users. Right in your product. Entirely self serve!",
"tagline": "Layup is AI that onboards and guides any user directly in your product.",
"body": "After tons of feedback from early customers (thank you YC community for helping us break stuff!), weâre proud to share that Layup is now fully self-serve with our new point-and-click guide builder.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqtS3ET8KmY\n\nThis is a big moment for the digital adoption space: teams can now launch in-product onboarding and guidance in _minutes_, without waiting on engineering or dragging out implementation cycles. We believe every product deserves a second cursor guiding usersâand now, anyone can set it up instantly.\n\n**Hereâs whatâs new (and included in every plan)**:\\\nâ
**Brand new point-and-click editor**: just click around your product, and we generate the in-product guide, including text for each step.\\\nâ
**Fully redesigned UX**: faster, smoother, simpler.\\\nâ
**Built-in onboarding + feature announcements** to show users what you ship.\\\nâ
**Dynamic guidance**: Layup guides users when they get stuck, directly in your productâno help center required.\\\nâ
**Flow validation + retraining**: we auto-check and fix broken flows.\\\nâ
**Knowledge fallback**: if a flow doesnât exist, we harvest from your product and docs to guide users.\n\n**What weâve learned optimizing Layup to be self-serve**. A few lessons that might resonate if youâre working in onboarding, product education, or support:\\\nâ Onboarding isnât a one-time problem; itâs an ongoing infrastructure challenge. Your UI changes weekly, and your onboarding needs to evolve with it.\\\nâ Nobody wants to âdesign a flowâ or tag individual elements to make one: they want to point, click, and have it just workâso we built exactly that.\\\nâ The most effective guides donât live in a help center or static documentationâthey live interactively inside your product, appearing exactly when users need them.\\\nâ The best support content isnât built manually; itâs harvested from your product and docs, so we built a fallback system that does just that.\n\nLayup reflects these learningsâand weâre still in builder mode.\n\n**Why this matters**\\\nIf youâve tried using a DAP (Pendo, WalkMe, Appcues, etc.), you know the pain: incredibly difficult to set up, flows break, users ignore them, and maintaining them becomes a second job.\n\nWith Layup, you can now:\\\n⨠**Build everything yourself in minutes**.\\\n⨠**Keep your guides alive even when your product changes**.\\\n⨠**Help users even when there isnât a pre-recorded guide.**\n\nWeâre excited to get Layup into more products, making onboarding effortless and guidance instant. If you want to transform how your product guides and supports users, letâs chatâweâd love to get you started with Layup today. We offer a 7-day free trial so you can see the impact for yourself.\\\n\\\nTalk to us here! [**https://cal.com/team/layup/founders**](https://cal.com/team/layup/founders)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ns9-layup-guide-your-users-right-in-your-product-entirely-self-serve",
"votes": 13,
"created_at": "2025-07-01T16:51:37.258Z"
},
{
"id": 88104,
"title": "Layup: Guide every user, anywhere in your product",
"tagline": "The second cursor that onboards, activates, and guides users through your product",
"body": "**TL;DR:** Layup helps guide users anywhere in your product. Our second cursor appears directly in your UI to walk users through step-by-step.\n\nYou invested in building the featuresânow guide every user through how to use them.\\\n\\\n**Update:** When we first launched two months ago, demand for our AI-driven second cursor was so overwhelming that we served everyone we could and then essentially went back into stealth mode to scale our infrastructure. Now, we're relaunching with a slew of new features and upgradesâultra-fast latency, docs referencing, a new, beautiful widget, and \\*\\*dynamic conversational guides\\*\\*âmaking Layup smoother, faster, and more powerful than ever.\n\nAnyone launching a product can now effortlessly create and maintain in-product tutorials, onboarding guides, and feature announcements with literally 0 overhead.\n\n\n\n\\\n**The Problem**\\\nEven products with great UI can fall short if users donât know how to find or use new or complex features.\\\nTraditional onboarding flows and user adoption toolsâlike rigid product tours or static help center articlesâoften fail to engage users or break when your UI changes. Itâs an endless cycle of re-tagging and updating that exhausts product, growth, and support teams.\\\n\\\n**Our Solution**\\\nLayup embeds a **second cursor** that guides your users in real time:\n\n1. **One Line of Code**: Invite Layup as a user and drop a snippet to overlay our widget in your UI.\n2. **Advanced Knowledge Base Referencing**: Instantly surface relevant docs and FAQs in every step of a guidance flow.\n3. **Dynamic Conversations & Guides**: The second cursor and conversation overlay automatically adapt as your UI evolvesâno re-tagging required.\n4. **New, Beautiful Widget**: Keep users engaged with a modern, intuitive design thatâs integrated seamlessly into your product.\n\n\\\n\\\n\\\n**Use Cases**\n\n* **In-product guidance:** Provide instant, hands-on help that points users exactly where they need to click.\n* **Onboarding & activation**: Reduce the learning curve (and time to value) by visually guiding new users through each step.\n* **Feature discovery**: Turn passive observers into power users by highlighting new releases in real time.\n\n**How It Works**\n\n1. **Invite Layup**: Treat us like a user in your product.\n2. **Contextual Learning**: We analyze and index your product workflows, referencing your KB/documentation for context.\n3. **Visual Guides**: Users follow the second cursor and chat overlay step-by-step, reducing friction and confusion.\n4. **Zero Maintenance**: The guides update themselves when your UI changesâno more tedious upkeep.\n\n**Get Started**\\\nReady to ensure every feature you build gets discovered and adopted?\n\n* **Schedule a time with us**: \n* **Learn more** at .",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mv2-layup-guide-every-user-anywhere-in-your-product",
"votes": 8,
"created_at": "2025-02-27T18:16:19.251Z"
},
{
"id": 86022,
"title": "Layup: Guide your users. Right in your product.",
"tagline": "Meet Layup, the second cursor that effortlessly guides your users with just one line of code.",
"body": "**TL;DR:** Layup saves teams hours creating and maintaining in-product guides and help center content. We transform the way users interact with your products by offering real-time, adaptive assistance via a second cursor that spawns directly in your UI.\\\n\\\n**The Problem**\\\nUsers often struggle to discover relevant features or complete the tasks they want, even in products with thoughtfully designed interfaces. They donât want to look through confusing instructions in a help center or be forced to go through a rigid product tour. \\\n\\\nTraditional user adoption platforms like Pendo, Whatfix, and WalkMe are outdated, expensive, and fragile. Product and growth teams invest countless hours tagging and setting up guides, only for them to become obsolete when a UI update is pushed. \\\n\\\nItâs a cycle that drains resources and slows down your ability to support users effectively.\\\n\\\n**Our Solution**\\\nWith just one line of code, Layup powers a second cursor directly within your product that shows users how to do anything.\n\nCheck out our [demo](https://www.loom.com/share/e16cfe3f860441969cfb85a5c5cbd402?sid=1dd5cc59-f98c-4bee-ab38-1eab92764493) here!\n\n**How it Works**\n\n* **Step 1:** Invite Layup as a user to your app and add a single line of code to add Layupâs second cursor/chat widget in your UI.\n* **Step 2:** Set up is as easy as inviting Layup as a user to your product. Weâll learn every workflow in your product and tap into your knowledge base / documentation to contextualize them.\n* **Step 3:** Your users get tailored guidance instantly with a second cursor that guides them through tasks, new features, or onboarding. Layupâs AI adjusts automatically as your UI changes, ensuring users get uninterrupted support!\n\n**Use Cases**\n\n* **Customer support:** instantly show your users what to do rather than direct them to a help center or support chatbot\n* **User onboarding:** reduce the learning curve (and time to value) by visually guiding new users through each step\n* **Feature activation:** turn a passive observer into an engaged user by guiding them through the feature in real-time\n\n**Interested in learning more?**\n\n* If youâre interested in deploying Layup, schedule a time with us [**here**](https://cal.com/team/layup)! You can also check out our site at [**https://layuplabs.ai**](https://layuplabs.ai). Weâll work hand in hand with you to support your needs.",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MNS-layup-guide-your-users-right-in-your-product",
"votes": 18,
"created_at": "2024-12-04T15:55:09.760Z"
},
{
"id": 81374,
"title": "Layup: AI that puts retention & growth on autopilot",
"tagline": "Layup turns your product usage data into touchpoints that drive retention and growth",
"body": "### Do things that donât scale, scalably.\n\nAt YC, itâs hammered into us to build what people want. Itâs why we spend so much time talking to our earliest users, iterating as we see how they use our product, and understanding what they want next. This hands-on, founder-led motionâaka doing the unscalableâis a key accelerant to scaling. But the reality is - as you grow, you canât continue to meaningfully engage with every customer. Retention and growth opportunities are left on the table, and both your revenue and roadmap suffer as a result.\n\n\\\nThatâs precisely why we built Layup. To enable you to act on every customer when it matters most. By integrating with your product usage data, Layup enables you to take optimal actions with customers at key points throughout their journey and retain & expand accounts. Layup is the simplest - and only - tool that you need to run and scale your post-sales growth motion.\n\n[Check out our video demo here!](https://www.loom.com/share/2a1398b080334514971cd4c6e099aed7?sid=3fde563d-53dd-463b-b228-3f26597c1450)\n\n* **A single platform for growth and retention**\n * AI that drafts proactive, personalized outreach to your customers to demonstrate recurring value.\n\n\n\n* **Get 100% actively managed account coverage, instantly**\n * Quickly get the insights you need on every customer and take action to expand accounts faster.\n\n\n\n* **Take the right actions every time**\n * See real-time performance data to know what works and refine your actions to meet your goals.\n\n\n\n### Featured use cases for early-stage companies (weâll set these up for you right out of the box!):\n\n* **_Drive adoption:_** reach out at key phases of onboarding to reduce time to value\n* **_Reengage users:_** reach dormant users to reduce the risk of churn\n* **_Retain and upsell_**: make key touchpoints when plan limit is approaching to drive growth\n\n### How it works\n\nLayup breaks down into two main components:\n\n* **Signals** â surface the best opportunities to take action from your product usage data\n* **Playbooks** â drive effortless personalized emails with AI to optimize growth and retention\n\n### Getting onboarded is easy:\n\n1. Bring your product data and CRM into Layup. We will work directly with you to map your usage data to the product signals that you want to track\n2. Set up playbooks to automate personalized emails when customers take targeted actions in your product\n3. Messages will load directly in your outbox every time a playbook is triggered. Simply review them and hit send\n\n### Our Asks\n\n* Check Layup out! Schedule a demo with us [here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/michael-lemm?uuid=627c0c46-6939-4418-9758-b0124a0ef65d).\n* We are actively working with early design partners to further build out our product and have 3 slots left. If you're interested in using Layup for your team and shaping the future of our product, please reach out at [founders@layuplabs.ai](mailto:founders@layuplabs.ai)!",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LAU-layup-ai-that-puts-retention-growth-on-autopilot",
"votes": 24,
"created_at": "2024-06-07T19:09:26.790Z"
},
{
"id": 70272,
"title": "Layup: Complete your workflows, with just one line đâĄď¸",
"tagline": "Turn prompts into workflows across all of your companyâs software",
"body": "Hey YC! [@Mike Lemm](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-s-lemm/), [@Badal Jain](https://www.linkedin.com/in/badaljain77/), and [I](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanxue/) are very excited to launch [Layup](http://www.layupai.com)! âšđžââď¸âšđ˝âšđťââď¸\n\n# TL;DR\n\n**Layup is every employeeâs AI-powered sidekick that builds workflows across all of their company apps.** With just one prompt, it can do things like create an MSA with data from Salesforce, export it to Google Docs, and instantly share it with the right people.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nBads, Mike, and I have collectively worked across almost every type of company and have experienced firsthand just how tedious and repetitive it can be to find information and execute workflows across a company's full suite of apps. For example, hiring someone might mean pulling down compensation data from Pave, populating an offer letter in Greenhouse, then setting them up in Rippling when the candidate accepts. Even the most simple daily workflows can involve passing information between 3 and 5 different services.\n\nLayup turns this into a one-shot prompt. We're on a mission to help individuals and organizations streamline their daily tasks with simple prompts so that they can focus on what matters most. Weâre moving fast â we now integrate with over 170 applications (and counting!), providing seamless configuration with any companyâs knowledge base.\n\n### **How it works**\n\nWith one simple prompt â initiate instant, customized workflows to complete your everyday tasks.\n\n\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\n⢠Check Layup out! Schedule a chat with us [here](https://calendly.com/mikes_layup/30min?back=1&month=2023-03).\n\n⢠Tell us what you think.\n\n⢠If you know of any other companies that you think would be interested in using Layup, we would appreciate any intros.\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions, ideas, or just want to touch base, hit us up! We'd love to hear from you â [founders@layupai.com](mailto:founders@layupai.com)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHQ-layup-complete-your-workflows-with-just-one-line",
"votes": 230,
"created_at": "2023-03-14T18:11:15.132Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 32124,
"name": "Erinys",
"slug": "erinys",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ecec9425d412cfc7fa1460b155883f078a7f023.png",
"website": "https://erinys.ai",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Erinys provides the technology, intake, back office, and client acquisition needed to launch and scale an AI-native law firm. Lawyers own their firms and make every legal decision; Erinys handles everything around them.",
"one_liner": "We help lawyers start and scale AI-native law firms.",
"team_size": 3,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1786258271,
"tags": [
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Summer 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/erinys",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/erinys.json",
"year_founded": 2026,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/erinysai/",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ecec9425d412cfc7fa1460b155883f078a7f023.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Diana Hu",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 3662807,
"full_name": "Sasha Zyuzin",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Founder at Erinys (YC S26). Presented vulnerability discovery research at Black Hat USA 2025 and spoke at the SANS OSINT Summit 2025. Undergraduate researcher at UMD working across IPv6 botnet detection, malware analysis, and hardware security. Previously taught an OSINT course at UMD and led the university's 1800+ member cybersecurity club.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/azyuzin/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f0284a1adccaf56e9d791717ce08f03d2fe4c099.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 3680893,
"full_name": "Jason Guo",
"title": "Founder",
"founder_bio": "Founder at Erinys (YC S26). Has experience in very diverse parts of the tech stack, from industrial PLCs to kernel exploitation. In-progress computer engineering degree in the University of Maryland.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-guo-225842381/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/796a9fd01db3d5b9c12c815d963a215c4e9e9311.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1511726,
"full_name": "Matthew Pallan",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Founder at Erinys (YC S26). Before Erinys, Matthew led greenfield development at multiple organizations, directing engineering across several product groups. He's a deep technical builder across domains, having engineered sub-290ns trading systems for HFT firms and worked in cybersecurity spanning exploitation and security systems. He scored a perfect 180 on the LSAT and studied Computer Science and Real Estate at the University of Maryland.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/~mp/",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/00dcf64db487dfb28e84e5bc0a965dd6082b6756.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 109878,
"title": "Erinys - Building the first network of AI-native law firms",
"tagline": "The infrastructure for exceptional lawyers to build the firms of the future",
"body": "**TL;DR:** Erinys is building a network of AI-native law firms. Lawyers bring their expertise, judgment, and client relationships. We provide the technology and business infrastructure that lets them launch a new practice or transform an existing one.\n\n\n\n\\\n**The problem**\\\nLawyers spend surprisingly little of their time doing work that requires their unique expertise.\\\n\\\nRunning a practice means finding clients, managing intake, hiring staff, handling billing, overseeing marketing, and keeping the business moving. Small firms burn lawyer hours on it; large firms hire entire teams to manage this. Either way, it kills time or margins.\\\n\\\nThe legal work itself is still built around lawyers producing everything. Lawyers spend hours turning raw information into research, analysis, and first drafts, even as AI becomes capable of producing much of that work. Existing legal software makes individual tasks faster, but leaves the underlying model unchanged.\\\n\\\nWe think that model should flip. AI should produce the first pass. Lawyers should direct, review, decide, and advocate.\n\n**How we solve it**\\\nErinys provides the infrastructure for lawyers to operate this way from the ground up.\\\n\\\nFor lawyers starting a practice, we help launch it. For lawyers with an existing practice, we help transition it onto the same model.\\\n\\\nOur systems run the business behind the practice while AI assists with fact development, legal research, analysis, and drafting under attorney supervision.\\\n\\\nThe result is a firm where lawyers spend more time exercising judgment and serving clients, and less time producing routine work or managing the day-to-day mechanics.\\\n\\\nOne exceptional lawyer can operate with the capabilities that previously required a much larger organization.\\\n\\\n**Why us**\\\nMost legal AI is being built to make the traditional law firm more efficient. We are building the infrastructure for a different kind of law firm, AI-native at its foundation.\n\nBefore Erinys, our founding team worked in offensive security, another high-stakes, sensitive, and deeply adversarial environment. We are bringing that security-first mindset to an industry entrusted with its clientsâ most sensitive information.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWeâre looking for exceptional lawyers.\n\nIf you want to start your own practice, or already have one and want to make it AI-native, we want to talk.\n\nEmail us at [founders@erinys.ai](mailto:founders@erinys.ai) or visit [erinys.ai](http://erinys.ai)",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SaE-erinys-building-the-first-network-of-ai-native-law-firms",
"votes": 19,
"created_at": "2026-08-10T01:00:00.375Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 33804,
"name": "Neomatter",
"slug": "neomatter",
"former_names": [
"Lightfield, Inc.",
"Lightfield"
],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a30dd6a7d86e342da32a42b330195358721c4571.png",
"website": "https://neomatter.com",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "Neomatter connects to a companyâs email, chat, and business systems and does the legal work before it reaches the legal team. It gathers context, applies company policies and past decisions, and presents the completed work to in-house counsel for approval.",
"one_liner": "AI that works for in-house legal teams",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1786835532,
"tags": [
"SaaS",
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Fall 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/neomatter",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2026/neomatter.json",
"year_founded": 2026,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/neomatterai/",
"x_url": "",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a30dd6a7d86e342da32a42b330195358721c4571.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Aaron Epstein",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1633544,
"full_name": "Luke Wagner",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Cancelled my plans for med school to move to San Francisco and co-found Neomatter (F26).",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/lukedwagner",
"x_url": "https://x.com/lukedwagner12",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9a2c49f5763a3e6526cc53dbfe11bf14250aef0c.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 1374397,
"full_name": "Luke Mainwaring",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO at Neomatter. Previously CTO at DAHLIA Intelligence where we built an agentic personal assistant for students. BCS in Computer Science, dropped out.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/luke-mainwaring-850a34203",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/76cc9fa283e84cee7b035d8b118d6292ad7d445c.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 122248,
"title": "Neomatter: The operating system for in-house legal teams",
"tagline": "Every request shows up with the work already done.",
"body": "## **TLDR**\n\nNeomatter is the operating system for in-house legal teams. It plugs into the places your company already works (email, Slack, Salesforce, etc) and picks up legal requests as they come in. When someone sends legal a contract or a question, the work is already done before a lawyer opens it, ready to review and approve.\\\n\\\n\n\n## **The problem**\n\nEvery part of your company runs through legal.\n\nSales needs contracts signed. HR needs employment agreements. Finance needs board approvals. And every department has legal questions.\n\nBut legal teams spend a lot of their time on repetitive work: reviewing the same terms, searching for old agreements, answering familiar questions, and chasing information.\n\nThe software tools haven't solved this. One tool manages contracts, another handles requests, and another tracks approvals. Lawyers still have to piece the work together themselves.\n\nAnd when teams reach capacity, companies hire more lawyers or send work to expensive outside firms.\n\n## **What weâre building**\n\nNeomatter takes a request from start to finish. It gathers context, reviews documents, checks the companyâs policies and precedents, and prepares the work for approval.\n\n## **How it works**\n\nNeomatter monitors the places legal requests already come through (email, Slack, teams, Salesforce, and more) and automatically triages requests to the right lawyer. Nobody has to tag anything or learn a new tool.\n\nThen it does the work. It reads everything, does the redlines, checks it against your teamâs playbooks, drafts the reply, and waits for your decision. By the time you know the matter exists, 90% of the work has already been done. The lawyer opens finished work, checks the sources, writes any edits, and makes the decision.\n\nAnd it can handle anything. Commercial work, employment work, corporate work, a âcan I do this?â question, or anything else a legal team receives. Neomatter does it all.\n\n\n\n## **The team**\n\nWeâre Luke & Luke. We dropped out of university to move to San Francisco.\n\nWe believe AI has fundamentally changed how much work one person can do. After speaking with over 200 in-house legal teams, we realized AI can completely change the way lawyers work.\n\nWeâre building Neomatter to make that happen.\n\n## **The ask**\n\nIf you're a GC, Head of Legal, or in-house lawyer, book a call and we'll show you: \n\nIf you know someone who works in legal at a company, we'd love an intro.\n\nOr reach us directly at [founders@neomatter.com](mailto:founders@neomatter.com).\n\nLuke & Luke",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Vnk-neomatter-the-operating-system-for-in-house-legal-teams",
"votes": 4,
"created_at": "2026-10-15T17:00:00.152Z"
}
]
},
{
"id": 35422,
"name": "Praxis",
"slug": "praxis",
"former_names": [],
"small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aac3b9688bfcfe828ca1449c50d9d85d7e55ad89.png",
"website": "https://runpraxis.ai",
"all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA",
"long_description": "At Praxis, weâve built AI agents that run law firm operations, from first inquiry to paid invoice. Agents do the admin end to end, and the lawyer supervises and approves every step. Firms reply in minutes, onboard clients in days instead of weeks, and spend their time practicing law.\r\n\r\nLawyers spend 62% of their day on admin nobody pays for: intake, conflict checks, chasing documents, engagement letters, follow-ups, billing. Every hour on admin is an hour a client waits, and clients go to the firm that answers first. One law firm owner shared: âEvery month we lose 3-5 clients, $10k each, because weâre 3 paralegals to handle the process, itâs too slow.â\r\n\r\nWeâre live with law firms across the US.",
"one_liner": "AI agents that run law firm operations.",
"team_size": 2,
"industry": "B2B",
"subindustry": "B2B -> Legal",
"launched_at": 1792015189,
"tags": [
"Legal",
"LegalTech",
"AI"
],
"tags_highlighted": [],
"top_company": false,
"isHiring": false,
"nonprofit": false,
"batch": "Fall 2026",
"status": "Active",
"industries": [
"B2B",
"Legal"
],
"regions": [
"United States of America",
"America / Canada"
],
"stage": "Early",
"app_video_public": false,
"demo_day_video_public": false,
"app_answers": null,
"question_answers": null,
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/praxis",
"api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2026/praxis.json",
"year_founded": 2026,
"city": "San Francisco",
"country": "US",
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/runpraxis/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/runpraxis",
"fb_url": null,
"cb_url": null,
"github_url": null,
"logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aac3b9688bfcfe828ca1449c50d9d85d7e55ad89.png",
"app_video_url": null,
"dday_video_url": null,
"company_photos": [
"https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/d0cdfd40eb2852393a040ce80a4ee3e6dbedea22.png"
],
"primary_partner": {
"name": "Nicolas Dessaigne",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne"
},
"founders": [
{
"user_id": 1081032,
"full_name": "Diana Khramina",
"title": "Founder/CEO",
"founder_bio": "Founder at Praxis. Previously GTM Lead of AI Agent at Gorgias, scaling from 0 to 1,000+ paying customers and $8M ARR in under 1 year. Before that, Chief of Staff to the CEO at Gorgias and Senior Consultant at McKinsey & Company. Started career in M&A and Private Equity at Edmond de Rothschild and ISAI.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-khramina/",
"x_url": "https://x.com/KhraminaDianka",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d96d7e2b7bfeb19c00836c5e0f39242f026764e0.jpg"
},
{
"user_id": 2657898,
"full_name": "Maxence Guegnolle--Santi",
"title": "Founder/CTO",
"founder_bio": "Founder at Praxis. Previously AI Engineer at SightCall building multimodal knowledge platforms and video analysis pipelines. Data Engineer at BlaBlaCar, Uber and iOS developer at NextDNS. Studied CS at Ecole 42 & Stony Brook.",
"is_active": true,
"linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mguegnol",
"x_url": "",
"avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0719136e19552a321bd45160e11f7909a15584f5.jpg"
}
],
"jobs": [],
"news": [],
"launches": [
{
"id": 122246,
"title": "Praxis: AI agents that run law firm operations, from first inquiry to paid invoice",
"tagline": "Agents do the work, the lawyer approves every step, and clients get served first.",
"body": "Hi, weâre [Maxence](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mguegnol/) and [Diana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-khramina/), co-founders of [Praxis](https://runpraxis.ai/).\n\n**TL;DR: At Praxis, weâve built agents that run law firm admin tasks end to end. Agents do the work, and the lawyer supervises and approves every step. Firms reply in minutes, onboard clients in days instead of weeks, and spend their time practicing law.**\\\n\\\n[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lxtcy55l5t2dvd82J1_px194DW-Y6RXl/view](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lxtcy55l5t2dvd82J1_px194DW-Y6RXl/view?usp=drive_link)\n\n\\\n**Why we built Praxis**\n\nLaw firms spend 62% of their time on admin tasks they donât bill. Client data lives in tools that donât talk to each other, and legal assistants copy data from one system to another and chase documents by email for weeks. To keep up, law firms hire more assistants.\n\nThis is how costs grow with every new client, and the firm still moves slowly. Replies slow down, follow-ups slip, and clients go to the law firm that serves them first. One firm told us it loses at least $350k a year in clients this way.\n\n**Product**\n\nAt [Praxis](https://runpraxis.ai/), weâve built AI agents that run law firm operations, from first inquiry to paid invoice. Agents do the admin end to end, and the lawyer supervises and approves every step.\\\n\\\nHereâs how it works:\n\n* **Win:** every inquiry answered in minutes, qualified against your rules and conflict-checked, with the engagement letter drafted for your approval.\n* **Onboard:** client data and documents collected and verified at upload. Missing or outdated ones are chased automatically, so work starts in days, not weeks.\n* **Run:** tasks tracked, clients and counterparties chased for the next step, and the client follows progress live in their portal.\n* **Get paid:** invoices are sent, tracked and chased until paid.\n\nFirms reply faster, stop paying people to copy-paste, and spend their time practicing law.\\\n\\\nâĄď¸ **Sign up to get early access to Praxis today at [runpraxis.ai/waitlist](https://runpraxis.ai/waitlist).**\n\n\\\n**Market & timing**\n\nLegal is a \\~$1T services market that's still only 4% software. Every knowledge industry we've digitized flipped that ratio. Legal hasn't yet.\n\nThe first AI wave (Harvey, Legora) created huge market excitement around AI for law firms, but they went after the legal work at large firms: contract review and drafting. Client operations at small and mid-sized firms remain underserved and incumbents like Clio or 8am struggle to become fully AI-native.\n\n**About Us**\n\nWeâre a team of builders whoâve scaled fast-growing startups and worked hands-on with law firms. We believe lawyers shouldnât be buried in low-value work. They should make the judgment calls, while clients feel every bit of the speed. đ¨\n\n**â [Diana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-khramina/), CEO.** Scaled Gorgias's AI Agent from 0 to 1,000+ paying customers in under a year, and worked with law firms at McKinsey.\n\n**â [Maxence](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mguegnol/), CTO.** AI & Data Engineer at Uber and BlaBlaCar, companies serving 100+ million people and he comes from a family of lawyers.\n\n\n\n",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Vni-praxis-ai-agents-that-run-law-firm-operations-from-first-inquiry-to-paid-invoice",
"votes": 8,
"created_at": "2026-10-15T16:00:00.155Z"
}
]
}
]