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Co-founder pitches, sourced and curated.

We scan Reddit, YC, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more. We surface only the ones worth your time.

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Design engineer at YC startup exploring AI agent products

The Idea
Exploring new AI agent products. Early ideas include a life coach agent and a designer agent.

Who It's For

What's Built

Early Traction

Their Background
Design engineer and employee #1 at a YC company that's now reached $180M+ in payments volume.

What They Need
A co-founder to jam on early-stage AI product ideas, particularly on the product and growth side.

Remote AI / ML Domain Expertise
Idea Stage Needs Technical next play
1w ago

Anonymous AI evals platform lead at public tech company exploring AI agent idea

The Idea
An idea in the AI agent world. Specific details not shared publicly.

Who It's For

What's Built

Early Traction

Their Background
Product lead running the AI evals platform at a public tech company.

What They Need
A co-founder to build with on an idea in the AI agent space.

Remote AI / ML Domain Expertise
Idea Stage Needs Sales next play
1w ago

Founding engineering lead at Uber Elevate at the intersection of marketplaces and AI

The Idea
Building at the intersection of marketplaces and applied AI. Specific idea not yet shared.

Who It's For

What's Built

Early Traction

Their Background
Founding engineering lead at Uber Elevate. Currently a senior engineering manager and active angel investor.

What They Need
A co-founder to build at the intersection of marketplaces and applied AI.

Remote Marketplace Domain Expertise
Idea Stage Needs Sales next play
2w ago

Ex-$2m ARR AI founder building insurance brokerage workflow automation

The Idea
AI workflow automation for insurance brokerages.

Who It's For
Insurance brokerages looking to automate manual workflows with AI.

What's Built

Early Traction

Their Background
Co-founded Free2Grow, one of the largest AI voice companies in home services, which reached $2M+ ARR. Previously at TurnPoint, a $1.4B home services company. Based in the Bay Area.

What They Need
A co-founder to build and grow the product.

North America Fintech Domain Expertise
Idea Stage Needs Sales next play
2w ago

Senior SWE from Salesforce and Amex exploring vertical AI in underserved markets

The Idea
Exploring vertical AI opportunities in underserved or antiquated markets: energy, restaurant operations, and financial services are top of mind. Also open to enterprise AI tools or developer infrastructure.

Who It's For
Established industries that haven't been touched by modern software yet.

What's Built

Early Traction

Their Background
Senior software engineer with experience building production systems at scale at Salesforce, American Express, and BMW. Based in NYC.

What They Need
A co-founder to explore and build with in vertical AI.

North America AI / ML Domain Expertise
Idea Stage Needs Sales next play
3w ago

Engineer exploring AI tool for mapping developer activity across GitHub, Jira, and Slack

The Idea
An AI tool that maps what engineers actually do across GitHub, Jira, Slack, and other tools, turning scattered activity into a coherent picture of engineering work.

Who It's For
Engineering teams and managers who want better visibility into how work actually happens.

What's Built

Early Traction

Their Background

What They Need
A co-founder to own the business side.

Remote Devtools Domain Expertise
Initial Validation Needs Technical next play
3w ago

Head of sales at Merge building AI accounting and bookkeeping platform

The Idea
An AI-driven accounting and bookkeeping automation platform with a clear wedge and distribution strategy already in place.

Who It's For
Businesses looking to automate accounting and bookkeeping workflows.

What's Built

Early Traction

Their Background
Previously at KPMG, then scaled two B2B SaaS companies from 0 to $10M+ ARR. Head of sales at Merge, helping scale to $20M+ ARR.

What They Need
A technical co-founder to build the product.

Remote Fintech Domain Expertise
MVP Built Needs Operations next play
3w ago

Bay Area padel club operator with 45% EBITDA margins looking to scale nationwide

The Idea
Operating and scaling padel clubs. One location running in the Bay Area with strong unit economics, looking to take the model nationwide.

Who It's For
Padel players and sports/fitness communities as the sport continues to grow in the US.

What's Built
One location up and running in the Bay Area.

Early Traction
45% EBITDA margins on the first location.

Their Background

What They Need
A co-founder to help scale the model nationwide.

North America Consumer Domain Expertise
Idea Stage Needs Operations next play
1mo ago

Early Venmo team member building fund to acquire and operate SaaS companies

The Idea
A fund that acquires and operates vertical SaaS companies.

Who It's For
Vertical SaaS businesses looking for a buyer or operator partner.

What's Built

Early Traction

Their Background
Really early at Venmo. Founded and sold a vertical SaaS and embedded finance company to Rocket Group.

What They Need
A co-founder to build and run the fund with.

Remote B2B SaaS Domain Expertise
Idea Stage Needs Operations next play
1mo ago

AI product leader from Atlassian building AI-native healthcare admin services

The Idea
AI-native services for healthcare admin, targeting health systems, payers, and revenue cycle. Inspired by YC's Summer 2026 RFS for AI-native services.

Who It's For
Operators inside health systems, payers, and revenue cycle teams who deal with administrative overhead daily.

What's Built

Early Traction

Their Background
Ex-founder and AI product leader. Built and shipped AI systems at Atlassian, filed 6 patents, and drove $60M+ in cost savings.

What They Need
Operators who have lived the pain inside health systems, payers, or revenue cycle.

Remote Healthtech Domain Expertise