Cenote
YC Winter 2025 ActiveAI agents for conversational commerce
https://www.joincenote.com/ ↗Thesis fit
Good fit
Within your typical scope; diligence still required.
In your usual scope
Idea match
Moderate
How close the company’s idea is to your thesis statement
Sector
agents, ai
Overlap with sectors you care about
Geography
Unknown
Location unknown — scores 0
Your thesis: “We back exceptional technical founders building AI-first products and infrastructure, deploying $100K checks within 24 hours.”
Founder → stable
Traction → stable
Idea vs market ↓ declining
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Correct facts used on the next screening or memo.
People
No founders linked yet.
YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice
of the directory. Pull this slug with
.venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs cenote
then re-ingest.
Open on YC ↗
Activity & evidence
Similar baseline plays (YC · idea space)
Boom AI
· Active
AI agents that recover lost revenue through real conversations.
founders not scraped yet