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Y Combinator Launches of the Week

  • Writer: Karan Bhatia
    Karan Bhatia
  • 3 hours ago
  • 1 min read

(This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date/time of the launch, from earliest to latest.)


1) Sidekick: Founded by Justin So, Sidekick is an AI agent that handles frontline operations over text. Know More At: textsidekick.com


2) Maingen: Founded by Phillip Yan and David Yang, Maingen builds RL environments for industrial operations ($5 trillion slice of the US economy) so frontier labs can train models that actually run factories. Know More At: maingen.ai


3) OpenRelay: Founded by Prashant Patel and Jaden Wang, OpenRelay is distributed, hardware-agnostic AI inference. Know More At: openrelay.inc


4) Cognitio Labs: Founded by Diva Avaya Sharma, Cognitio Labs is an AI back office for food product quality teams. They have launched CoAsync: the AI back office for product quality teams. Know More At: cognitioiq.com


5) Dawn Industries: Founded by Joohyun (CJ) Cha and Robin Lee, Dawn Industries is an automatic diagnosis & fix for industrial automation cells. Know More At: dawnxr.com


6) GUILD: Founded by Kaya Celebi and Erim Gurlemis, GUILD is making aerospace parts faster and cheaper than today’s defense supply chain. Know More At: guildai.co


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