YCW20· AI· DevtoolsAden
Open source agent generation framework
ActiveChecked 18h ago
Founders
Not read from YC yet; the weekly run fills these in.
Same space
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Adjacent
Overlapping tags, a different niche.
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Unsloth AIS24Open-Source Reinforcement Learning (RL) & Fine-tuning for LLMs.Shared: developer tools, infrastructureActive
MemorableS27reducing agent reasoning into a graph search problemShared: developer tools, infrastructureActive
HiroS23Agents that handle security workShared: developer tools, infrastructureActive
Also from W20 in AI
Batchmates in Winter 2020.
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PostHogW20The single platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new featuresActive
ReplicateW20Run machine learning models in the cloudAcquired
About Aden
https://github.com/adenhq/hive
San Francisco, CA, USA
Aden: questions
Which YC batch was Aden in?
Aden was in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch (W20).
Is Aden still active?
Y Combinator lists Aden as active.
Where is Aden based?
Aden lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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