Company discovery

AI-native CRM companies founded after 2024

August 26, 2026 · $0.080 for both answers and the judge

A tie

On August 26, 2026, DeepSeek V4 Pro and Grok 4.6 each wrote a company shortlist for the same brief, without seeing the other's answer. The judge, Claude Fable 5, read both twice, once in each order. The two readings disagreed, so the battle counts as a tie.

Why, in the judge's words“A offers mostly plausible YC W25 early-stage picks with fit reasoning; B punts entirely, giving a VC nothing to work through.”

The two answers

DeepSeek V4 Pro
$0.027 · 39s · 6,656 tokens
  1. Liaison — AI-native CRM that automates sales admin and pipeline updates from email, calls, and Slack.
  2. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; pre-seed stage, directly attacks legacy CRM data entry.
  3. Apten — AI SDR that researches prospects and sends personalized outbound at scale.
  4. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; early signal of agentic sales motion replacing manual SDR work.
  5. Mica AI — AI SDR that finds, enriches, and engages prospects with tailored multi-channel messaging.
  6. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; pre-seed, focused on top-of-funnel automation.
  7. Latch — AI-native CRM for B2B sales teams that unifies pipeline, automation, and forecasting.
  8. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; early stage, positioning as a lightweight replacement for Salesforce.
  9. Sable — AI sales onboarding and enablement platform that turns tribal knowledge into guided workflows.
  10. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; solves CRM adoption and ramp time, a real pain point.
  11. Kura — AI voice agents for sales calls, follow-ups, and meeting scheduling.
  12. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; voice-native AI layer that can feed a CRM automatically.
  13. Nook — AI meeting assistant that captures call notes, action items, and syncs them to CRM.
  14. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; reduces the friction that kills CRM data quality.
  15. Cairn — AI sales forecasting and pipeline analytics that flags risk and suggests next actions.
  16. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; intelligence layer on top of CRM data, early traction in YC batch.
  17. Rally — AI sales assistant that manages deals, drafts follow-ups, and keeps pipeline updated.
  18. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; agentic CRM approach, pre-seed.
  19. Hapi — AI customer success platform that tracks health scores, renewals, and expansion signals.
  20. Why it fits: YC W25, founded 2025; extends AI-native CRM beyond sales into post-sales.

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White-space gaps I noticed while sourcing:

  1. Vertical AI-native CRMs — almost everything is horizontal, but industries like healthcare, construction, and manufacturing have deeply specific workflows, compliance needs, and data sources. A vertical CRM with AI-native automation could win where generic tools fail.
  2. Post-sales / customer success CRM — most AI-native tools focus on SDR and sales pipeline, but churn, renewal, and expansion are still managed in fragmented spreadsheets and support tools. An AI-native post-sales CRM that unifies product usage, support tickets, and renewal timing is wide open.
Grok 4.6
$0.006 · 18s · 927 tokens

I could not identify 10 real, verifiable AI-native CRM companies founded strictly after 2024 (most documented AI CRM startups pre-date that cutoff). Listing invented or unconfirmed names would violate the brief.

White-space gaps noticed:

  • Vertical/industry-specific AI CRMs (e.g., construction, healthcare practices, or field-service) that natively ingest unstructured job-site or clinical data rather than generic sales pipelines.
  • CRMs built around multi-agent orchestration (autonomous follow-up, contract negotiation, and revenue forecasting agents) instead of a single copilot layered on a traditional record store.

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Grok 4.6, overall

Across 29 judged battles, DeepSeek V4 Pro won 22, Grok 4.6 won 5, and 2 were ties. On company discovery alone: 7 to 1, 1 tied.

Costs are the provider's list prices at the time of the run.