Y Combinator’s hottest startup, Origami Agents, secures $2M seed round to supercharge sales teams with AI

Y Combinator-backed startup Origami Agents has raised $2 million in seed funding to build AI research agents that augment, rather than replace, human sales teams, breaking from the industry trend of AI avatars automating sales roles.

The San Francisco-based company, founded just four months ago, has already reached $50,000 in monthly recurring revenue during its eight-week beta period, making it the fastest-growing startup in Y Combinator’s current batch, according to its founders.

“Only humans can close big deals, but AI can make them much smarter and faster,” Kenson Chung told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview. The 22-year-old dropped out of University College London‘s computer science program to co-found Origami Agents. The company’s AI agents perform the tedious research work that typically consumes up to three ...