How Y Combinator founders are pitching the AI boom

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Garry Tan is a top seed investor.
Garry Tan is a top seed investor.

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Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding.

Fluency wants to use AI agents to transform advertising. See the pitch deck that helped it raise $40M.

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Fluency
The Fluency team, from left: Mike Lane, CEO; Brian McVey, chief revenue officer; Eric Mayhew, president; and Scott Gale, chief technology officer.

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Read the 12-slide pitch deck a fintech firm focused on family offices used to raise $4.2 million

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Dean Palmiter
Dean Palmiter founded Asseta AI after realizing most family offices were using outdated or inefficient tech.

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This AI startup generates content to help companies retain their customers. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $5 million.

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eikona founders
Eikona cofounders Nir Weingarten and Omer Hacohen

Eikona

A father of four raised $4.5 million to help fuel the US manufacturing 'renaissance' with AI. Read his pitch deck.

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Kenneth Cassel wearing a black T-shirt with his arms crossed, standing in front of an American flag.
RMFG founder Kenneth Cassel

RMFG

Marc Benioff, Jack Altman, and Sapphire Ventures invested $9 million in this sales tech startup. Check out its pitch deck.

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Jeeva AI CEO Gaurav Bhattacharya
Jeeva AI raised $9 million to expand its agentic sales platform.

Gaurav Bhattacharya

Read the pitch decks that 9 healthcare AI startups used to raise millions in 2025

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Ambience Healthcare cofounders Nikhil Buduma and Michael Ng.
Ambience Healthcare cofounders Nikhil Buduma, chief scientist, and Michael Ng, CEO.

Ambience Healthcare

Read the 8-page pitch deck a founder backed by Slow Ventures is using to try to solve retail's $25 billion a year return problem

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Adarsh Alphons
The CEO of Adarsh Alphons pivoted his peer-to-peer rental platform into Postmoda, which sells designer returns.

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Two teen founders dropped out of school and raised $3 million out of Y Combinator. Read their pitch deck.

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Georges Casassovici and Mathieu Rihet, standing in front of a white wall with their arms crossed.
Novoflow cofounders Georges Casassovici and Mathieu Rihet.

Novoflow

This startup wants to make buying streaming TV ads as easy as advertising on Google and Meta. See the pitch deck that helped it raise $50M.

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Vibe cofounders
Vibe cofounders Franck Tetzlaff and Arthur Querou.

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