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Instance

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Automated evals for robot policies

We’re automating robot evaluation– the loop where you wait for your robot to roll out, judge its success, and then reset the scene. We're starting with step one: a success detector that automatically tells you whether your robot actually completed its task along with detailed subtask breakdown. We're MIT computer scientists & friends since middle school, with backgrounds at NASA JPL, SpaceX, and AWS. Book a demo with founders@instancelabs.ai.

San FranciscoY Combinator LogoSummer 2026ActiveArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsData LabelingSan Francisco
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Instaplay

YCombinator

AI-Native Social Platform, Starting with Games

Instaplay is an innovative startup in the tech space.

San FranciscoY Combinator LogoSummer 2026ActiveArtificial IntelligenceGamingSan Francisco
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Instawork

YCombinator

A flexible work app that connects businesses with hourly workers.

Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for hourly workers and hospitality businesses. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. Workers need a better way to find great local jobs and businesses need a better way to find quality workers fast.

San FranciscoY Combinator LogoSummer 2015ActiveMarketplaceSan Francisco
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Instinct

YCombinator

Trade your instinct

We believe in the next generation of finance where everyone around the world can access the global market and liquidity from the tip of their hands. We are building the best mobile trading app that will enable this vision. Hyperliquid is the house of all finance, Instinct is the app of all finance. Hyperliquid.

San FranciscoY Combinator LogoWinter 2026ActiveArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningTradingCryptocurrencySan Francisco
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Insurf

YCombinator

The AI-Native Decision Infrastructure for Health Insurance

Insurf is the AI-native data and decision layer for health insurance. Our first product, Inveto, automatically turns denied healthcare claims into source-cited, physician-attested appeals, recovering revenue practices lose today. Every claim it resolves builds the coverage-decision graph, the proprietary dataset of real payer behavior that powers our next product, Surely, which prices the true cost of a health plan for employers and brokers.

San FranciscoY Combinator LogoSummer 2026ActiveArtificial IntelligenceHealth TechAutomationSan Francisco
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Intelligence Factory

YCombinator

Human Intelligence for Robots

Robotics is the new paradigm. With hardware converging, Intelligence is the biggest bottleneck. Our world was built for humans and we're giving robots the ability to reason and act like us. The way we learn any task - by seeing, doing, and feeling - is how we train robots. We're building general intelligence that works on any robot and fits seamlessly within our world.

San FranciscoY Combinator LogoSpring 2026ActiveSan Francisco
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Interfaze

YCombinator

AI model built for high accuracy deterministic tasks

Interfaze is an AI model built on a new architecture that merges specialized DNN/CNN models with transformers for tasks that require deterministic output and high consistency like Document intelligence, Object detection, Classification, Audio understanding and more. Interfaze outperforms large lab models like Gemini flash, Claude Sonnet and the GPT-5.4 mini series Architecture paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04101 Full open benchmarks: https://interfaze.ai/leaderboards

San FranciscoY Combinator LogoSpring 2026ActiveSan Francisco
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Interfere

YCombinator

Production visibility for teams that ship fast

Interfere is the experience layer for modern product teams. Detect, triage, and fix bugs automatically – no human required. Interfere finds issues in your app, understands what's happening, and owns resolution from first signal to production.

New York City, NYY Combinator LogoSummer 2025ActiveArtificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsDesign
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InventoryQuant

YCombinator

We automate the inventory process in insurance

We automate inventory and contents processing for insurance and insurance-adjacent industries, including public adjusters, restoration contents, and insurance companies. We also handle various inventory and estimate adjacent processes that cost many billions of dollars a year and thousands of years of man hours.

San FranciscoY Combinator LogoWinter 2026ActiveInsuranceAISan Francisco
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Inviscid AI

YCombinator

Real-time Physics Simulations for Industrial Facilities & Data Centers

Inviscid AI builds physics-informed AI solutions that transform how buildings and data centers operate. By combining real-time IoT sensor data with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling, we create digital twins that simulate building performance in real time and autonomously optimize operations. Our platform optimizes airflow patterns and ventilation strategies to eliminate dead zones, improve air distribution, and reduce the load on mechanical systems. On the energy side, we minimize HVAC power consumption, reduce cooling costs, and lower overall operational expenses while maintaining optimal thermal comfort and indoor air quality. Beyond immediate operational efficiency, we optimize equipment scheduling and maintenance cycles by predicting system behavior under different conditions, allowing facilities managers to proactively address issues before they become problems. Our physics first approach ensures that we're not just optimizing against historical patterns, but optimizing based on a deep understanding of how air, heat, and energy actually move through your building, enabling us to find solutions that traditional rule-based or purely data-driven systems would miss.

Singapore, SingaporeY Combinator LogoWinter 2026Active
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