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1.2 billion people struggle with addiction. There will never be enough clinicians to treat them. Koby Conrad believes AI changes that equation. His own story starts much smaller. High 24/7 from 19 to 24. He got sober. Taught himself to code. Built a side project called Sunflower. Years later, that side project became a VC-backed company with a much bigger ambition. Today, Sunflower has: → 500,000+...

Bao's job was automating other people's jobs. So he automated his own. His team used to forward deploy the old way — go into customers' offices, sit next to their teams, watch how the work actually got done, then build the automations by hand. Then they asked the obvious question: why are humans doing all of this? Now Hessian's AI agents construct a digital twin of your business, map your back-off...

Most founders don't need another lawyer. They need a better system. Jessica Hubley spent years in Big Law, served as General Counsel at a venture-backed startup, and built her own practice serving startup founders. She kept seeing the same problem. Not that founders lacked intelligence. They lacked exposure to the legal playbook. They didn't know what kind of lawyer they needed. Or what needed to...

10 coding agents running in parallel. Zero idea which one finished. That was the problem. Around November, Austin Wang and his co-founder Lawrence Chen stopped opening their IDE. They weren't writing code by hand anymore Everything ran through Claude Code and Codex in the terminal 10 panes. 10 agents. 10 copies of the repo. And two problems appeared almost immediately. They couldn't tell what each...

Most companies don't need smarter AI. They need AI they can actually deploy OpenClaw is brilliant but can be brutal to set up. Days of configs.  Agents messaging random contacts on WhatsApp... Tensol: one click. Five minutes. Each AI employee runs 24/7 in its own isolated VM with full company context Connect Slack, GitHub, Sentry, HubSpot, Gmail. Every action logged. Enterprise-grade security buil...

Most companies think they have a documentation problem. They don't. They have a context problem. Every company runs on things that were never written down - they just live in people's heads. That's the insight that led Max Arnold and his co-founders Leon Iwanowitsch & David Korn to start Ontora (YC P26) . Because AI agents can only be as useful as the context they're given. And most organizati...

Every company runs on a hidden workforce. The people who reset the passwords. Clear the MFA requests. Provision the access. Push the tickets through the systems so the rest of the company can work. Seb Poole wants to give that work to agents. Not a better way to track the request. A workforce that completes it. He's seen the problem from the inside. His last company, Frankie Health, was acquired b...

The biggest hedge funds have entire teams building AI. Most asset managers are on their own. But closing that gap isn't about buying more AI. It's about a problem most people get wrong. You can test code by running it. You can't test an investment by buying it. Software engineering and investing aren't the same problem In software, we've moved from autocomplete to agents to long-running agent swar...

Shipping isn't the bottleneck anymore. Attention is. Maanav Agrawal kept seeing the same pattern. Some of the coolest products weren't getting the attention they deserved Meanwhile, companies that consistently shared what they were building were generating inbound He'd lived it himself He saw it in other industries like real estate He saw it across his YC batch and among founders generally The pro...

In 2022, San Francisco leased five million square feet of office space The entire year In Q1 2026 alone: more than four million At the time of this recording (Apr 2026) tenant demand reached 7.5 million square feet The highest ever recorded. OpenAI has accumulated nearly a million square feet in Mission Bay Coinbase, Nvidia, and the Warriors all landed at Mission Rock (It's effectively full - prem...

A single glass of water holds about 20 hours of breathing Leo Kankkunen is building the gear that pulls it out Tankless diving technology that generates breathable oxygen directly from water.  It sounds impossible at first. Then you hear the physics... Then you realize the implications stretch far past diving Water is hydrogen and oxygen. Apply a DC current, swing away the electrons binding them,...

Startups spend more time wiring their outbound tools together than actually talking to potential customers Verbiflow was built to change that It's Outbound Infrastructure for growth teams Outbound used to be a stack One tool for email. Another for LinkedIn. Something else for cold calls. Verbiflow is the system that runs your outbound, all in one place Run sequences through email, LinkedIn, and co...

Most brands don't know if their marketing is working. They launch campaigns. Spend real money. Watch the dashboards. Then hope. Months later, a report arrives explaining what happened.  The campaign is over.  The budget is gone. The market has already moved. That's how brand tracking has worked for years. Henk and Harry are repeat founders with exits behind them - two decades building brand tracke...

The internet got flooded with AI content. Everything started sounding the same. Same hooks. Same cadence. Same “we’re not doing X — we’re doing Y.” Jameson Zaballos thinks that’s exactly why human taste matters more now. Napa is the team behind those viral startup memes you’ve probably already seen. But underneath the memes is a bigger thesis: The future of founder marketing belongs to people who...

Global markets were built for everyone.  Access wasn't. Millions of traders outside the US watch Tesla move. Watch Nvidia earnings. Watch SpaceX rumors explode timelines. But when it's time to act? The door closes. Mochatrade is rebuilding that layer. A perpetual futures platform for US equities. Built for global traders first. Trade TSLA, NVDA, AAPL, and 50+ US stocks Up to 50x leverage 24/7 mark...

The best AI companies aren't replacing bad software. They're giving it a login. Every software company for years has made the same pitch to manufacturers: clean APIs, migrate your stack, rip out your ERP. It never works.  The ERP is the company brain. Years of data.  You can't rip it out any more than you can rip out someone's memory. Nikolas Keller & Co-Founder Lukas Postulka figured out the...

Relationships drive revenue. That's why more companies are investing in dinners, customer events, founder meetups, and community gatherings. But here's what happens after the event: You sourced the attendees You sent the invites You hosted the event Then everyone goes home Now you're digging through Slack messages, WhatsApp chats, notes apps, spreadsheets, and email threads trying to remember: Who...

Chris Bakke never pitched Elon. He just posted good ideas in public for nine months straight. Laskie was sourcing engineers on Twitter while everyone else lived on LinkedIn. Along the way Chris started tweeting his own takes on how Twitter should fix recruiting. Not as a pitch - just because he had strong opinions about what was broken. Elon liked one. Then followed him. For the next nine months C...

Teddy li's first version of Prepse did something reasonable It connected to your call recordings, pulled out the data, and filled in your CRM. customers told him it was a nice add-on. he could have explained why they were wrong. he chose to find out why they were right. So he looked closer, and what the most interested customers actually wanted was underneath it. They didn't just want cleaner data...

AI shouldn't replace therapists. It should help them spend more time being therapists. Not because AI won't get smarter Because good therapy isn't just information It's trust It's compassion It's the human element. Most therapists spend only about half their time doing therapy The other half? Running the business Notes. Paperwork. Marketing. Insurance claims. Klarify automates the work around the...

Most companies don't realize they have a documentation problem until everyone already depends on it. Customers use it. New hires use it. Engineers use it. And when documentation falls out of date, the whole system starts working against itself People stop trusting what they're reading Teams lose context And nobody can fix it, because the problem is everywhere at once The longer it goes unfixed, th...

A production issue shouldn't require a detective Yet that's how most observability works today Most observability tools just dump alerts. Duplicates, no context, and you still fix it yourself Nicolò Magnante  and his cofounder Arseniy Shishaev - who spent years building part of Datadog's metrics product - think that's backwards So they built Superlog. Observability that's meant never to be opened....

AI agents can write code, analyze data, and pass the bar exam They can't order you a pizza because they don't have a phone number Think about how much of the real world still runs on phone numbers SMS verification Delivery coordination Account creation Calling a business... Without one, an agent is stuck behind glass Manav Modi & cofounder Meet Modi built AgentPhone to fix that Give your agent...

Flowscope’s agents can map an entire department in two weeks. Then they automate it. It’s an AI-native consulting firm where agents learn how a business actually runs - process by process - then automate the most manual work directly inside the company’s existing systems Not in quarters. In days. Samuel kept seeing the same pattern every time a consulting firm walked into a large organization: Gre...

99% of session replays are your app working exactly as expected (hopefully) The other 1% is where the friction hides The bugs. The failed onboarding flows. The conversion leaks. No team has time to watch them all. That's the problem Michael Egan and his co-founder kept hitting at their last company. They had analytics. They had session replays. They had ideas to improve conversion. The small fixes...