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Mux

YCombinator

Video infrastructure for developers

Mux is an API-first video platform designed by experts to make world-class video streaming and analytics possible for every development team. Self-optimizing videos take the guesswork out of encodings, delivery, and renditions. Mux makes your video look beautiful on every device, every time. We offer two products, Mux Video and Mux Data. Mux Video is a simple API to advanced video streaming. Powered by data and designed by video experts, Mux Video makes beautiful video possible for every development team. Post a video or live stream with a single API call, and watch it within seconds. Mux Video handles the encoding, storage, and delivery. QoE and performance analytics provided by Mux Data is included by default for every Mux video stream.This real-time data is used to create the right renditions for every device and title, resulting in greater reliability and better viewer experiences. Mux Data is a Quality of Experience analytics platform that measures the performance metrics that actually matter to viewers: rebuffering, startup time, video quality, and errors. Our intuitive dashboard quickly gives users the insight to find issues and make improvements through features like A/B testing, industry-wide scores, alerts, and detailed information about every single video view. The product works out of the box on HTML5, iOS, Android, and major OTT platforms. All data is available via exports and APIs, making it easy to integrate Mux Data into other systems.

Napkin Math

YCombinator

AI nutrition coach in your pocket

Napkin Math is the personalized AI food journal that people love to use. We gamify nutrition tracking so people are 2x more likely to stick with us than other trackers. Claire, Manuel, and I (best friends for 10 years from MIT) are obsessed with how we can make nutrition fun, and turn fun into health outcomes. === Existing consumer health apps focus on scaling a one-size-fits-all solution: calorie deficits. But they don’t answer the questions you actually have. Food is deeply personal, and so is Napkin Math: Get the fuel you need for marathon training, while understanding you eat catered office lunches five days a week. Discover what’s triggering your stomach irritation, without sacrificing your weekly dinner with friends. Napkin Math tailors a plan for not only your specific health goal, but also your life.

Narrative

YCombinator

AI-Powered Sports Highlights

Narrative automates the creation and distribution of high-quality sports highlight videos for broadcasters, teams, and leagues.

Nautilus

YCombinator

AI platform to grow and to optimize car washes

Nautilus is the first modern platform built for car washes, replacing expensive legacy systems that cost operators thousands monthly. Nautilus delivers mobile-first e-commerce, membership management, and automated marketing. Learn more at nautilus.co.

Ndea

YCombinator

Building AGI that can innovate.

Ndea is building frontier AI systems that blend intuitive pattern recognition and formal reasoning into a unified architecture. # AI for Scientific Advancement Unlike all life before us, humanity's ascent is a story of ingenuity, not just biological evolution. Our progress has been driven by the curiosity to acquire knowledge, the ability to pass it on, and an intrinsic drive to innovate. We build technology which gives us leverage beyond our biology. We stand at the top of a knowledge and technology colossus that we collectively created over the past ten thousand generations. Scientific progress has helped us overcome burdens that long defined human life — famines, plagues, and widespread illiteracy. Science will continue to redefine the boundaries of the human condition. Today, the acceleration of scientific progress hinges on one factor: AI capable of independent invention and discovery. This capacity is the gateway to advancements beyond our wildest imagination. # A New Research Lab We're starting Ndea — an AI research and science lab. The name - like 'idea' with an 'n' - is inspired by the Greek concepts ennoia (intuitive understanding) and dianoia (logical reasoning), capturing our first goal to merge deep learning with program synthesis. Ndea is entirely focused on developing and operationalizing AGI to realize unprecedented scientific progress in our lifetime for the benefit of all current and future generations. Building AGI alone is a monumental undertaking, but our mission is even bigger. We're creating a factory for rapid scientific advancement — a factory capable of inventing and commercializing N ideas. From our vantage point today, we see many 'known' frontiers like self-driving vehicles, drug discovery, sustainable energy, robotics, and space exploration. While AGI will benefit all of these, the most exciting adventure lies in the 'unknown'. AGI promises discoveries and progress we cannot imagine today.

Nebula Security

YCombinator

Our AI agent finds vulnerabilities that Mythos can't

Nebula Security is an AI-native cybersecurity company founded by world-class hackers. Nebula Security provides Mythos-level cybersecurity reviews and product security auditing, conducted by our state-of-the-art AI agent and world-class hackers themselves, covering everything from code-level vulnerabilities to architectural weak points. We were the first team to build an nginx RCE and the first to root Android 17. Our co-founders include members of the world’s No. 1 CTF team, DEF CON winners, Black Hat speakers, and PhD in cybersecurity. We have won $400K in bug bounties by exploiting the Linux kernel and Chrome browser. “Audited by Nebula Security” is a mark of serious security credibility: a signal to customers, investors, and partners that your product has been reviewed by the world’s best hackers.

Nessie

YCombinator

A shared context layer for you, your team, and your agents.

Knowledge work is being restructured by AI. Strategy happens in Claude. Research happens in ChatGPT. Building happens in Claude Code. The people defining the next decade of work are already thinking with AI every day. But none of that thinking compounds. Every session starts from zero. The reasoning behind decisions, the context behind strategies, the evolution of ideas across hundreds of conversations - all of it evaporates. Nessie is the infrastructure that makes it permanent. We auto-sync AI conversations and agent traces across every major provider - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, and more - and turn them into a context layer that is queryable, reusable, and shareable by you, your team, and your agents. No browser extension. No manual capture. Your thinking flows in automatically and compounds over time. Where we are going: the AI-native organization runs thousands of agents that are powerful but amnesiac, and Nessie is the layer that integrates what the organization knows, what it has decided, and how its thinking has evolved. Science has journals, law has case law, software has git; AI-native knowledge work has had nothing. We are building it. We are two Yale CS grads and former Amazon engineers. Backed by BoxGroup, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, Precursor, and more. https://nessielabs.com

Netter

YCombinator

AI native Palantir for mid market.

Netter (YC P26) helps companies regain control over their data, so teams can pilot their activities with high precision. Most companies are sitting on years of valuable data, spread across different formats and disconnected tools that don't talk to each other. Netter brings technical capacity to companies that don't have an army of data engineers, and tackles their most complex data challenges. - A nursing home group was chasing unpaid invoices manually across disconnected tools. Netter centralized the collection workflows, automated reminders, real-time visibility, task routing. - A retail chain had years of loyalty card data sitting unused. Netter cross-referenced it with public demographic data to build precise customer segments and trigger the right promotions to the right people.

New Story

YCombinator

We pioneer solutions to end the global housing crisis by empowering…

Since its inception, NS has raised over $80 million to build thousands of homes across Latin America and impact ~20,000 individuals. In 2021, NS launched a venture capital fund, Hometeam Ventures, focused on early-stage construction and housing innovations. NS graduated from Y Combinator and is a 4x recipient of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company.