Meet the most promising companies from the latest @ycombinator batch 👀
One big takeaway:
AI agents need more than intelligence.
They need memory, identity, observability, compliance, insurance and power.
My latest @Forbes deep dive 👇
forbes.com/sites/dariashu…
Our @ycombinator launch video went viral.
- 90 demo calls booked
- 3x revenue in the last 2 weeks
- 150+ new people added to the waitlist
We only started monetizing 3 weeks ago, but we're getting a clear signals.
Teams don't want another personal memory tool, they want one shared brain their whole team and their agents can pull from.
Memory Store (@memorydotstore) gives your team and AI agents a shared company brain.
Your team's knowledge & decisions are scattered across slack, emails, and people's heads. Memory Store turns them into a living wiki for your agents and teammates.
Congrats on the launch,
@eladgil been talking to companies about this.
there are still lot of bottlenecks. and the biggest one is the way decision making works in orgs.
the differential between companies realizing this and adopting v/s the ones that are not, is huge.
Previously i had a dump of all my slack messages and gave my agents a grep tool.
For a long time the grep tool got shit done.
But when memory store started referencing old conversations with abstract search terms - it gave me superpowers.
The reason this is so useful is because, most ideas at our company have been discussed before in some form or shape.
It is hard to refer to them, or even remember that we had talked about this. But @memorydotstore consitently digs out gold.
. @memorydotstore might be the latest ai tool that crossed the novelty chasm into actually being useful.
Most ai tools i used off late are hard to use beyond the first couple demo runs.
The others in this category are - codex, claude design, (far third) openclaw. S tier.
you don't notice a memory tool filling up
you notice the day it's gone
@madhavanmalolan didn't see the value at first - i actually took him off my lead list.
weeks later he sent me this 👇
you don't notice a memory tool filling up
you notice the day it's gone
@madhavanmalolan didn't see the value at first - i actually took him off my lead list.
weeks later he sent me this 👇
we put YC stickers on our apartment window.
i thought it was cringe but..
30+ founders have stopped by for coffee since and it's become my favorite part of the batch.
210 startups in this batch all within a few blocks and we still barely meet because everyone's heads-down
Geoffrey Moore says startups die in the chasm because pragmatist buyers demand a "whole product." These folks won't tolerate gaps. They need references. They need the complete solution. The chasm is lethal because because the buyers won't buy without perfection.
But Moore's
Memory Store (@memorydotstore) gives your team and AI agents a shared company brain.
Your team's knowledge & decisions are scattered across slack, emails, and people's heads. Memory Store turns them into a living wiki for your agents and teammates.
Congrats on the launch,
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