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Captain – Multimodal RAG Search That Scales
Captain connects to S3, SharePoint, and 20+ sources to index video, images, PDFs, and audio, then serves AI agents via a clean REST API or MCP server. YC W26.
#ai-setup#dev-tools#rag
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YC W26 Posts for AI Developers
29 posts tagged #yc-w26
Browse 29 posts tagged YC W26, including practical setup notes, reviews, comparisons, and workflow patterns for engineers working with AI tools.
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Cardboard - Agentic AI Video Editor in Your Browser
Cardboard is a browser-based AI video editor that cuts, captions, reframes and composes footage from a text prompt. From Y Combinator W26.
#ai-video#video-editing#browser-tools
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Chamber (YC W26) – AI Agent for GPU Infrastructure
Chamber is an AIOps platform that puts an AI agent between your team and your GPU fleet. Ask in plain language, get root-cause analysis and automated remediation across Kubernetes and Slurm.
#gpu#ai-agent#dev-tools
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Cardboard - Browser-Based AI Video Editor
Cardboard is a YC W26 AI video editor that runs entirely in your browser. Describe an edit in plain text and it cuts, captions, reframes, and composes your footage.
#ai-video#browser-tool#yc-w26
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Zatanna Kampala - Reverse-Engineer Web Portals into APIs
Kampala from Zatanna captures the real network traffic behind any web portal and exposes it as a stable, callable API endpoint for AI agents.
#ai-tools#api#browser-automation
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Voygr - Real-World Place Intelligence for AI Agents
Voygr gives AI agents and apps fresh, queryable place profiles combining accurate location data with news, events, and web context that Google Maps APIs cannot.
#ai-agent#maps#api
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Cardboard (YC W26) - Browser-Based AI Video Editor
Cardboard is an agentic AI video editor that runs entirely in your browser. Describe an edit in plain language and it cuts, captions, reframes, and composes your footage without installs.
#ai-video#browser-tool#yc-w26
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Cardboard – AI Video Editor in Your Browser
Cardboard is a browser-based AI video editor. Describe your edit in natural language and it cuts, captions, reframes, and composes it. No installs required.
#ai-setup#video#yc-w26
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Sentrial – Catch AI Agent Failures Before Users Do
Sentrial is a YC W26 observability platform that detects silent regressions across AI agent sessions, tool calls, and LLM interactions before end users notice.
#ai-setup#observability#dev-tools
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Sonarly - AI Agent for Production Bug Fixes
Sonarly (YC W26) connects to Sentry and Datadog to triage production alerts, deduplicate noise, and auto-fix bugs with Claude Code. Cut MTTR with AI root cause analysis.
#ai-agent#production-monitoring#yc-w26
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Captain – Automated RAG for Files and Cloud Storage
Captain (YC W26) automates RAG pipeline setup for S3, GCS, and Google Drive. Index unstructured data in minutes with multimodal search across docs, images, and sheets.
#rag#ai-search#cloud-storage
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IonRouter - High-Throughput Inference API
YC W26 inference API with custom IonAttention engine. Drop-in OpenAI replacement, built for NVIDIA Grace Hopper. Per-second billing, no cold starts.
#ai-inference#yc-w26#gpu
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Cardboard – AI Video Editor in Your Browser
An agentic AI video editor that runs in your browser. Describe the edit you want and Cardboard cuts, captions, reframes, and composes footage automatically.
#ai-video#video-editing#browser-automation
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Sonarly - AI Engineer That Fixes Production Alerts
Sonarly (YC W26) deduplicates noisy Sentry and Datadog alerts, runs root-cause analysis, and ships fix pull requests through Claude Code instead of paging on-call.
#ai-agents#dev-tools#observability
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Chamber - AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure
AI agents that autonomously monitor, root-cause, and remediate GPU infrastructure issues. Reduce compute costs, improve GPU utilization, and accelerate ML research. YC W26.
#ai-agents#gpu#infrastructure
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Vela - AI Scheduling Agent for Multi-Party Coordination
Vela is a YC W26 AI agent that reads your emails, calendars, and communication channels to automatically book meetings across candidates, clients, and time.
#ai-agent#productivity#automation
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Kampala – MITM Proxy That Turns App Workflows Into APIs
Kampala is a MITM proxy that reverse-engineers existing app workflows into clean APIs — no brittle browser automation or computer use agents required.
#api#reverse-engineering#yc-w26
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Terminal Use - Filesystem-Based Agents for the Enterprise
YC W26 startup builds deployment infrastructure for sandboxed coding agents, research agents, and document processing tools that need filesystem access to work.
#yc-w26#ai-agents#dev-tools
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Terminal Use – Vercel for Filesystem-Based AI Agents
Terminal Use lets you deploy AI agents that read and write files — coding agents, research agents, and internal tools — in sandboxed environments.
#ai-agent#yc-w26#dev-tools
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Vela – AI Scheduling Agents That Handle Multi-Party Chaos
Vela is a YC W26 AI agent that handles multi-party, multi-channel scheduling across email, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack and phone — booking interviews, following up on.
#ai-agent#productivity#yc-w26
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Voygr – Maps API for AI Agents That Think Beyond Static Data
Voygr provides real-time place intelligence for AI agents—business validation, freshness signals, and web context that Google Maps APIs cannot surface.
#ai-agents#maps-api#dev-tools
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Canary – AI QA Agent Tests PRs Against Real User Workflows
Canary reads your codebase, understands what a pull request changed, generates end-to-end tests for affected user flows, and runs them against preview apps.
#ai-qa#testing#developer-tools
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Captain – Automated RAG Pipeline for Files
Captain automates building and maintaining RAG pipelines for unstructured data. Index S3, GCS, and Google Drive in minutes with one API call.
#rag#ai-setup#vector-search
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Chamber – AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure
Chamber is a YC W26 AI teammate that autonomously monitors, root-causes, and remediates GPU infrastructure issues across multi-cloud.
#ai-ops#gpu#infrastructure
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Kita – VLM-Powered Credit Review Automation
Kita uses vision-language models to automate document-based credit review for lenders in emerging markets, parsing 50+ document types from PDFs to photos.
#fintech#ai-agents#document-ai
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Voygr – Location Intelligence for AI Agents
Voygr is a YC W26 company building a high-fidelity location data layer for AI agents and apps. It validates and enriches place records — addresses, hours.
#ai-agent#api#location-data
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IonRouter – Fast Low-Cost AI Inference API
IonRouter is a YC W26 inference API routing open-source and fine-tuned models via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, built on a C++ runtime optimized for GH200.
#ai-setup#dev-tools#inference-api
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Sentrial – Catch AI Agent Failures Before Your Users Do
YC W26-backed AI agent observability platform. Trace sessions, detect silent regressions, and A/B test prompts in production before failures reach users.
#ai-agents#observability#dev-tools
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Sonarly – AI Agent auto-fixes your production alerts
Sonarly triages alerts, finds root causes, and opens fix PRs on GitHub. 40+ integrations, 84% root-cause accuracy, cuts MTTR 10x. YC W26.
#ai-agent#devops#alerting