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The AI-native YC alumni fund. Backing breakout YC founders building in AI infra and applied AI.

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Orbital data centersS24
Philip Johnston
Starcloud
Fullstack AI insurance carrierS24
Nico Laqua
Corgi Insurance
TypeScript agent frameworkW25
Sam Bhagwat
Mastra
Data & RL envs for computer useP25
Jerry Wu
Halluminate
AI support agentsS24
Mads Liechti
Parahelp
Open source browser agentsW25
Magnus Müller
Browser Use
Billing infra for AIS25
Ayush Rodrigues
Autumn
The IDE for the AI agents eraP26
Kiet Ho
Superset
Human identity verificationW26
Alberto Rosas
Didit
Compact nuclear reactorsP26
Assil Hamili
Apollo Atomics
AI infra for real-time visionW26
Zak El hjouji
Overshoot
AI-native ObservabilityP26
Sherwood Callaway
Sazabi
Marketplace for multimodal dataW26
William Namgyal
Luel
Building the future of trustsF25
Nimit Maru
Sava
Cloud desktops for agentsP25
Francesco Bonacci
Cua
Lovable for internal appsP25
Quang Hoang
Vybe
AI technical writerW25
Prithvi Ramakrishnan
Promptless
AI-powered risk & complianceS23
Kalyani Ramadurgam
Kobalt Labs
AI-native law firmW26
Ryan Walker
General Legal
Sovereign StarlinkS26
Edward Ge
Exosat
AI for tax accountantsS24
Kash Ali
TaxGPT
Orbital data centersS24
Philip Johnston
Starcloud
Fullstack AI insurance carrierS24
Nico Laqua
Corgi Insurance
TypeScript agent frameworkW25
Sam Bhagwat
Mastra
Data & RL envs for computer useP25
Jerry Wu
Halluminate
AI support agentsS24
Mads Liechti
Parahelp
Open source browser agentsW25
Magnus Müller
Browser Use
Billing infra for AIS25
Ayush Rodrigues
Autumn
The IDE for the AI agents eraP26
Kiet Ho
Superset
Human identity verificationW26
Alberto Rosas
Didit
Compact nuclear reactorsP26
Assil Hamili
Apollo Atomics
AI infra for real-time visionW26
Zak El hjouji
Overshoot
AI-native ObservabilityP26
Sherwood Callaway
Sazabi
Marketplace for multimodal dataW26
William Namgyal
Luel
Building the future of trustsF25
Nimit Maru
Sava
Cloud desktops for agentsP25
Francesco Bonacci
Cua
Lovable for internal appsP25
Quang Hoang
Vybe
AI technical writerW25
Prithvi Ramakrishnan
Promptless
AI-powered risk & complianceS23
Kalyani Ramadurgam
Kobalt Labs
AI-native law firmW26
Ryan Walker
General Legal
Sovereign StarlinkS26
Edward Ge
Exosat
AI for tax accountantsS24
Kash Ali
TaxGPT
Orbital data centersS24
Philip Johnston
Starcloud
Fullstack AI insurance carrierS24
Nico Laqua
Corgi Insurance
TypeScript agent frameworkW25
Sam Bhagwat
Mastra
Data & RL envs for computer useP25
Jerry Wu
Halluminate
AI support agentsS24
Mads Liechti
Parahelp
Open source browser agentsW25
Magnus Müller
Browser Use
Billing infra for AIS25
Ayush Rodrigues
Autumn
The IDE for the AI agents eraP26
Kiet Ho
Superset
Human identity verificationW26
Alberto Rosas
Didit
Compact nuclear reactorsP26
Assil Hamili
Apollo Atomics
AI infra for real-time visionW26
Zak El hjouji
Overshoot
AI-native ObservabilityP26
Sherwood Callaway
Sazabi
Marketplace for multimodal dataW26
William Namgyal
Luel
Building the future of trustsF25
Nimit Maru
Sava
Cloud desktops for agentsP25
Francesco Bonacci
Cua
Lovable for internal appsP25
Quang Hoang
Vybe
AI technical writerW25
Prithvi Ramakrishnan
Promptless
AI-powered risk & complianceS23
Kalyani Ramadurgam
Kobalt Labs
AI-native law firmW26
Ryan Walker
General Legal
Sovereign StarlinkS26
Edward Ge
Exosat
AI for tax accountantsS24
Kash Ali
TaxGPT

Investing at the frontier of YC x AI

We invest in YC founders building the next AI stack, from physical infrastructure and developer tools to computer use, frontier evals, agentic coding, vertical agents, and full-stack AI companies.

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Starcloud
Why we invested

Starcloud

Earth-bound data centers are hitting hard limits just as AI demand goes vertical. Starcloud moves compute to orbit — in 2025 it successfully deployed and ran inference on the first GPUs ever sent to space.

YS24$170M Series A$1.1B valuation
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For YC founders, by YC founders

We invest exclusively in YC founders because it's the most concentrated startup ecosystem in the world. As YC alumni ourselves, we know the community from the inside — and the data shows why that focus matters.

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