Signals

May 13, 2026

AI Sprawl Gets A System Of Record

New Intel: Oximy is building a network-layer system of record for enterprise AI usage, covering tool discovery, data protection, spend, and compliance. That targets CISOs dealing with uncontrolled AI adoption across the workforce.

Oximy

AI Governance & Observability

YC Winter 26

May 13, 2026

Live Video Gets A VLM API

New Intel: Overshoot is building a sub-200ms API for running vision-language models on live video streams. That opens real-time AI use cases in robotics, sports, gaming, and security where batch video analysis is too slow.

Overshoot

Computer Vision

YC Winter 26

May 13, 2026

Medical Billing Moves To End-To-End Agents

New Intel: Overdrive Health is building end-to-end AI medical billing across eligibility, coding, claims, denials, and patient invoicing. The next expansion likely sits in prior auth and EHR-native reimbursement workflows.

Overdrive Health

Medical Billing

YC Winter 26

May 13, 2026

APIs Get A Payment Rail For Agents

New Intel: Orthogonal is building a marketplace where AI agents can discover, access, and pay for APIs. With MCP support and YC partner density, it could become the payment rail for agent tool use.

Orthogonal

Agentic Payments

YC Winter 26

May 13, 2026

Free API Seeds A Biology Data Flywheel

New Intel: Origin is offering free API access to Axis, its regulatory DNA design model, after benchmarking above AlphaGenome. The play is to seed researcher adoption, then monetize validated biology through pharma partnerships.

Origin

Biotechnology

YC Winter 26

May 13, 2026

Hands Become The Manipulation Data Layer

New Intel: Origami Robotics is pairing robotic hands with matched data gloves for sim-to-real manipulation. Amazon Physical AI Labs buying early points to a path from hardware into manipulation data infrastructure.

Origami Robotics

Robotics Manipulation

YC Winter 26

May 13, 2026

Specs Become The Agent Control Plane

New Intel: OpenSpec is using specs to coordinate 30+ coding agents across teams, repos, IDEs, and planning tools. The enterprise wedge is making agentic coding usable in messy brownfield codebases.

OpenSpec

Developer Tools

YC Winter 26

May 13, 2026

Medical Interpretation Becomes Clinical Documentation

New Intel: Opalite Health is pairing real-time medical interpretation in 150+ languages with EHR documentation. That turns interpreter cost savings into a clinical workflow product for hospital systems.

Opalite Health

Medical Interpretation

YC Winter 26

May 13, 2026

World Models Become Robot Testbeds

New Intel: One Robot is building task-specific world models for training and testing robot policies in simulation. The wedge is realistic manipulation testbeds for VLA models before they hit factories or labs.

One Robot

Robotics Simulation

YC Winter 26

May 13, 2026

Fish Inspection Moves Underwater

New Intel: OctaPulse is using robotics and computer vision to inspect fish in under 30 seconds with 90%+ accuracy. Underwater robotics could expand the product from trout grading into broader aquaculture health monitoring.

OctaPulse

Agriculture

YC Winter 26