Apten (YC S24)

Your sales/marketing teams probably aren't touching base with leads as often as they should be. One of our solar customers recently onboarded with Apten (YC S24) and let the AI SMS agent automate 90% of their sales busywork by reaching out to old leads in their CRM. The results: ? 8 deals closed in just 30 days ? More deals in the pipeline ? Over $200k in revenue generated With SMS, Apten makes it easy to deliver personalized, 24/7 responses & follow-ups at scale.

There are 131 startups in Y Combinator's S24 batch. These 8 should be on your radar! ???? 1. Arctic Capture (YC S24) Ankit, Vignesh and Connor genetically engineer bacteria to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Additionally, they use advanced robotics to harvest the bacteria in a cost-efficient manner before preparing them for long-term storage to safely store away the carbon for millions of years. 2. Argil (YC S24) Brivael and Laodis are building a video generation engine for the creator economy. Argil allows users to create engaging AI-generated videos with customizable avatars, perfect for social media, education, and marketing. With just a 2-minute video, Argil can clone your likeness to produce content in any language. Their advanced algorithms source and control body language for maximum realism, making it easy to produce high-quality videos effortlessly. 3. Sorcerer (YC S24) Austin, Maxmillion and Alessandro are solving inaccurate weather forecasts (we need you guys in Scotland!). Sorcerer makes 1000x better weather balloons. 4.5 billion people lack access to accurate weather data, so we’re bringing it to them one balloon at a time. 4. Lumen Orbit (YC S24) Philip, Ezra, and Adi are building?a network of megawatt-scale data centers?in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs give us access to?abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in?space. 5. Mito Health (YC S24) Tee-Ming, Joel, Kenneth and Ryan use blood work at regular labs to help craft personalized plans using AI with a doctor in the loop. The insights are highly individualized to help you make positive steps to better your health. 6. Rastro (YC S24) Augustin, Baptiste and Papa are building a personalized interior designer, delivering carefully curated product recommendations directly to your inbox. Users can select which items they love and have them shipped to their doorstep, all for a transparent 10% commission on purchases. Leveraging advanced algorithms, Rastro sources products from 46 platforms, considering factors like style, materials, and location to match your unique taste and needs. 7. &AI Caleb and Herbert streamline patent due diligence. By using AI to understand the inventive aspects of patents and automate the creation of work products, they enable attorneys to instantly and comprehensively find prior art, produce robust claim language, invalidate weak patents and more. 8. Apten (YC S24) Daniel and Roshan came up with an AI assistant that helps businesses qualify and nurture leads over SMS text. You are able to customize Apten, and it'll proactively reach out, respond at any time, and always remember to follow-up. ____ Enjoy this? Follow Oliver Alan Stafurik for daily startup & VC tips and subscribe to my free newsletter: https://lnkd.in/epi4V5uF ???

There are 131 startups in Y Combinator's S24 batch. These 8 should be on your radar! ???? 1. Arctic Capture (YC S24) Ankit, Vignesh and Connor genetically engineer bacteria to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Additionally, they use advanced robotics to harvest the bacteria in a cost-efficient manner before preparing them for long-term storage to safely store away the carbon for millions of years. 2. Argil (YC S24) Brivael and Laodis are building a video generation engine for the creator economy. Argil allows users to create engaging AI-generated videos with customizable avatars, perfect for social media, education, and marketing. With just a 2-minute video, Argil can clone your likeness to produce content in any language. Their advanced algorithms source and control body language for maximum realism, making it easy to produce high-quality videos effortlessly. 3. Sorcerer (YC S24) Austin, Maxmillion and Alessandro are solving inaccurate weather forecasts (we need you guys in Scotland!). Sorcerer makes 1000x better weather balloons. 4.5 billion people lack access to accurate weather data, so we’re bringing it to them one balloon at a time. 4. Lumen Orbit (YC S24) Philip, Ezra, and Adi are building?a network of megawatt-scale data centers?in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs give us access to?abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in?space. 5. Mito Health (YC S24) Tee-Ming, Joel, Kenneth and Ryan use blood work at regular labs to help craft personalized plans using AI with a doctor in the loop. The insights are highly individualized to help you make positive steps to better your health. 6. Rastro (YC S24) Augustin, Baptiste and Papa are building a personalized interior designer, delivering carefully curated product recommendations directly to your inbox. Users can select which items they love and have them shipped to their doorstep, all for a transparent 10% commission on purchases. Leveraging advanced algorithms, Rastro sources products from 46 platforms, considering factors like style, materials, and location to match your unique taste and needs. 7. &AI Caleb and Herbert streamline patent due diligence. By using AI to understand the inventive aspects of patents and automate the creation of work products, they enable attorneys to instantly and comprehensively find prior art, produce robust claim language, invalidate weak patents and more. 8. Apten (YC S24) Daniel and Roshan came up with an AI assistant that helps businesses qualify and nurture leads over SMS text. You are able to customize Apten, and it'll proactively reach out, respond at any time, and always remember to follow-up. ____ Enjoy this? Follow Oliver Alan Stafurik for daily startup & VC tips and subscribe to my free newsletter: https://lnkd.in/epi4V5uF ???

Teaching your AI SMS agent about your business is easier than ever. Connect your Notion, Confluence, Drive, website, and much more to Apten for smarter interactions with your customers. With full context on your business, Apten is now better equipped to answer questions from your leads. If it still can't find the answer, you'll get notified so you can step in! Powered by the amazing folks at Carbon who make it easy to bring your data, wherever it is!

Moments like these are what make a founder's experience so special - I couldn't stop smiling when I got this message We recently finished onboarding a new home services customer onto Apten (YC S24), and here's what she had to say! For context, Apten is able to dynamically schedule follow-ups based on the context of the conversation. In this case, the lead said they were traveling and wouldn't be free for another 2 weeks - accordingly, a follow-up was automatically scheduled for 2 weeks later ?

Generating leads won't help if they don't convert Running FB/Google ad campaigns is a great way to generate inbound leads, but it's important to have the right systems to actually convert them. Emails have low open rates People don't like picking up calls these days SMS? People actually open their texts Traditional SMS automation/drip texting is the current solution, but the follow-up texts are generic and it's not able to respond immediately if a lead replies. Apten (YC S24) fills in the gaps by: -proactively reaching out + responding at any time -personalizing its follow-ups based on the conversation and what it knows about the lead -pulling in information when needed + executing actions with webhooks that work with your systems/tools If you're running google/FB ads and want to try out AI SMS, Roshan and I are happy to chat :)

Our metrics page now shows the number of leads tagged each day. Tags in Apten help companies organize their leads on autopilot - and measuring how many leads are getting tagged can track metrics like: - conversions - sentiment - customer requests and anything else :)

?? Apten now support Organizations! Invite your teammates to help you manage & monitor conversations with leads. ?? Check out this video for a quick demo of how to set up an org and add your team! p.s. Existing customers are already ported over - no setup needed!