companies / apten-ai
Generated UTC · publication cutoff 2026-11-09
Insufficient cited evidence for a two-sentence summary.
verified=2026-09-27 json
| total_raised | 1,000,0001.0M | ○ |
|---|---|---|
| founded | 2024 | |
| hq | San Francisco, USA | |
| industry | unknown | |
| stage | seed |
Apten provides AI-powered SMS and conversational marketing for SMBs, including auto-replies, lead nurture and review requests. It targets local service businesses and SMB owners running customer messaging on their own. AI message handling priced for SMBs replaces enterprise CCaaS pricing that mid-market shops cannot justify.
No cited completed company acquisition recorded.
Dated disclosures. Customer relationships and classifications are historical; ARR is separate from revenue.
No cited disclosure recorded: named customer, disclosed revenue, ARR, count, B2B / B2C, sector, go-to-market.
No cited valuation with an explicit basis is recorded.
Historical post-money / actual annual or stated TTM revenue. Same currency; economic valuation date within 90 days of revenue period end, inclusive. No FX, ARR, annualized revenue, estimates or projections. Conflicts and ambiguous ties are withheld.
No qualifying pair recorded.
| date | type | amount | lead | src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-01 | seed | 1,000,0001.0M | null | ○ |
| person | role | src |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Ho | ceo | YC |
| Daniel Ho | founder | YC |
| Roshan Kumaraswamy | founder | YC |
| investor | src |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | ○ |
Vercel, Next.js, React
| fact | status | src |
|---|---|---|
| Seed, $1.0M | attributed | ○ |
| existence | sourced | YC |
| description | self-reported | WEB |
| date | fact | change | src |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-27latest_round: seed, $1.0M, 2024-06-01, lead: yc → seed, $1.0M, 2024-06-01, lead: null, ○ 2026-09-27 | latest_round | seed, $1.0M, 2024-06-01, lead: yc → seed, $1.0M, 2024-06-01, lead: null | ○ 2026-09-27 |
| 2026-09-24provenance_existence: self-reported → sourced, YC 2026-09-17 | provenance_existence | self-reported → sourced | YC 2026-09-17 |
Records begin 2026-09-24. all_changes