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@ Builders with agents in production

I’m validating a problem around AI feature quality improvements being bottlenecked on AI engineers.

No pitch, just learning how teams measure, improve, and pay for quality today.

🗓️ Book a 30-min chat to compare notes or connect with :linkedin: Massimiliano Ungheretti

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Event @ Miro Office Amsterdam January 21, 2026

• Organizer: ASIF (Amsterdam-based student & recent-graduate VC initiative)
• Event link: https://luma.com/s951oibv
• Format: Intimate fireside chat with Netherlands-based YC founders
• Theme: Applying to YC, surviving the batch, fundraising, sales, hiring, and US vs EU trade-offs

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YC optimizes founders for speed, sales, and ambition. Focus beats brilliance, execution beats ideas, and revenue beats product narratives (pre-series A).

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Founders & Startups

• Deepak Singla, Co-founder of **Fini** (YC S22)

  AI customer support agents for regulated companies (online YC batch)

• Stefan Reuther, Co-founder of Venta AI (YC S23)

  AI sales agents for Germany, focused on mid-market and data quality

• Niek Hogenboom, Co-founder of Minimal AI (YC S25)

  Customer support agents; key differentiator is an agent manager that incorporates human feedback

• Maurits Franken, Co-founder of Orderli (YC S21)

  Restaurant order & payment automation (QR ordering)

Applying to Y Combinator

Founder Backgrounds

• Venta AI: Previously ran an agency; had to exit it before YC
• Minimal AI:
  • ~50 paying customers at application
  • Applied 3 times, doubling revenue each time → accepted
• Orderli:
  • Applied 5 times, last 3 included interviews
  • Built QR ordering pre-COVID → pivoted during COVID → pivoted back post-batch
• Fini:
  • No code, no customers at application
  • Today: expectation is different — no excuse not to have code due to vibe coding