Chima co-founder Kiara Nirghin. Chima participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch.
Chima
More startups than ever are developing artificial intelligence technology or generative AI products at Y Combinator, which kicked off its Winter 2023 Demo Day on Wednesday.
Across the entire cohort, 96 companies have AI or generative AI tags in their descriptions on the YC website. More than 80% of those are based in the Bay Area.
The generative AI tag shows up in YC's database as far back as 2017, but the category has only recently exploded — the current batch has 54 companies identified in the category and close to two-thirds of them are in the Bay Area.
For more details about startups in categories other than AI in the Winter 2023 batch, click here.
OfOne co-founders CEO Will Edwards (center) and CTO Adam Proschek (right) with their first employee Bryan Monti. OfOne participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch.
OfOne
Here are all of the Bay Area startups and founders developing AI or generative AI products:
AI
- AlphaWatch AI (San Francisco) — Jackson Chen and Varun Varahabhotla
- Ariglad (San Francisco/Canada/Denmark) — Ali Avci and Sophie Wyne
- Atri Labs (San Francisco) — Darshita Chaturvedia and Shyam Swaroop
- BabylonAI (San Francisco/Switzerland) — Rangel Milushev and Ahmad Roumie
- Blocktool (San Francisco) — Nicolas Bustamante and Edouard Godfrey
- Bluebirds (San Francisco) — Rohan Punamia and Kunal Punera
- Chart (San Francisco/New York) — Fatih Celikbas
- CorgiAI (San Francisco/Singapore) — Saif Farooqui
- Double (Redwood City) — Wesley Yue and Gonzalo Espinoza Graham
- Extend (San Francisco) — Kushal Byatnal
- Hadrius (San Francisco/New York) — Allen Calderwood, Thomas Stewart and Som Mohapatra
- Haven (San Francisco) — Juan Burgos, Satya Koppu and Pranav Neyveli
- Intently (San Francisco) — Mikalai Melchanka, Slava Solonitsyn and Dmitry Starodubtsev
- JustPaid.io (Mountain View/Netherlands) — Anelya Grant, Daniel Kivatinos and Vinay Datta Pinnaka
- Latent (San Francisco) — Rishabh Jain and Sri Somasundaram
- Layup (San Francisco) — Badal Jain, Michael Lemm and Ryan Xue
- MagnaPlay (San Francisco/Brazil) — Pedro Esteves and Paulo Rodrigues
- Narrative (San Francisco) — Suchit Dubey and Akshit Khurana
- Orchid (San Francisco) — Joseph Pomianowski and Daniel Varga
- Pair AI (San Francisco) — Parth Detroja and Jason Goodison
- Plutis (San Francisco/New York) — Kamil Ali and Asim Hirji
- PoplarML (San Francisco) — Evan Chu and Danna Liu
- pyq (San Francisco/New York/Seattle) — Emily Dorsey and Aman Raghuvanshi
- Rollstack (San Francisco/New York/Paris/Dubai/Morocco) — Saad Bahir, Nabil Jallouli and Younes Jallouli
- Rubber Ducky Labs (San Francisco) — Georgia Hong and Alexandra Johnson
- Scanbase (San Francisco/Los Angeles) — Jeffrey Lange and Steve Roger
- Squak (San Francisco) — Eitan Borgnia, Elijah Sorey and Preston Zhou
- Unstatiq (San Francisco) — Sachin Jaishankar and Nishanth Singaraju
- Untether Labs (San Francisco) — Lucas Della Bella and Aditya Sharma
- Vocode (San Francisco) — Kian Hooshmand and Ajay Raj
Generative AI
- AiFlow (San Francisco) — Josh Gardner and Nicholas Manske
- Anarchy (San Francisco/Switzerland) — Matthew Mirman and James Spoor
- Avoca (San Francisco) — Tyson Chen and Apurva Shrivastava
- Baseplate (San Francisco) — Andrew Luo and Ani Gottiparthy
- BerriAI (San Francisco) — Krrish Dholakia and Ishaan Jaffer
- Buildt (San Francisco) — Yang Li, Alistair Pullen and Sam Stenner
- Cardinal (San Francisco/Austin) — Mor Sela and Wiz
- Chima (San Francisco) — Kiara Nirghin and Nikhara Nirghin
- Clueso (San Francisco/India) — Akash Anand, Neel Balar and Prajwal Prakash
- CodeComplete (San Francisco) — Lydia Ding and Max Lu
- Coldreach (San Francisco) — Hankel Bao and Xiaohan Shen
- Decoherence (San Francisco/Seattle) — Rishi Bhuta and Will Stith
- Defog AI (San Francisco/Singapore) — Medha Basu and Rishabh Srivastava
- EzDubs (San Francisco) — Amrutavarsh Kinagi and Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy
- Fabius (San Francisco) — Andy Day and Neil Madsen
- GradientJ (San Francisco/New York/Austin/Miami) — Oscar A. Martinez and Daniel Bassett
- Helicone (San Francisco) — Scott Nguyen, Barak Oshri and Justin Torre
- Iliad (San Francisco/Pittsburgh) — Matthew Turnshek
- Inkeep (San Francisco/New York) — Nick Gomez and Robert Tran
- Kyber (San Jose/New York) — Sav Gadoo and Arvind Sontha
- Lasso (San Francisco) — Gautam Bose and Lucas Ochoa
- Lightski (San Francisco) — Richard Hwang and Hansen Qian
- Linum (San Francisco) — Manu Chopra and Sahil Chopra
- Lume (San Francisco) — Nicolas Machado, Robert Ross and Nebyou Zewde
- OfOne (Oakland) — Will Edwards and Adam Proschek
- OpenSight (San Francisco/Sunnyvale) — Jeff Huang, Victoria Wan and Ruoni Wang
- Outerbase (San Francisco/Pittsburgh) — Brandon Strittmatter and Brayden Wilmoth
- Parabolic (San Francisco) — Shub Viragi
- Persana AI (San Francisco) — Sriya Maram and Rush Shahani
- Play.ht (Mountain View) — Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel
- Rubbrband (San Francisco) — Abhinav Gopal, Darren Hsu and Jeremy Lee
- Second (San Francisco) — Eric Rowell
- Sidekick (San Francisco/Canada) — Ayan Bandyopadhyay and Jason Fan
- SpeedyBrand (San Francisco/Canada) — Ayush Jasuja, Jatin Mehta and Ranti Dev Sharma
- Stack AI (San Francisco) — Bernardo Aceituno and Toni Rosinol
- Syncly (San Francisco/Boston/Korea) — Joseph Lee, Jongsoo Keum and Kwan Yoon
- Truewind (San Francisco) — Tennison Chan and Alex Lee
- Turntable (San Francisco) — Wally Gurzynski, Justin Leder and Ian Tracey
- UpTrain AI (San Francisco/India) — Sourabh Agrawal, Vipul Gupta and Shikha Mohanty
- Vellum (San Francisco/New York) — Sidd Seethepalli, Noa Flaherty and Akash Sharma
- Waveline (San Francisco/Switzerland) — Kyrill Hux, Nicolas Muntwyler, Jan Schnyder and Stan Wohlwend
- Wild Moose (San Francisco/Israel) — Yasmin Dunsky, Roei Schuster and Tom Tytunovich
- Yuma (San Francisco/Singapore) — Guillaume Luccisano
- Zenfetch (San Francisco/New York) — Akash Mandavilli and Gabe Villasana
