Why it ranks
How the rank works- went through YCProgram · this site+4
A sum of public facts, not a judgement and not investment advice.
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI | Active | YCS22 | |
| AI | Active | YCF24 | |
| AI | Not stated | Antler2023 | |
| AI | Not stated | Plug and Play | |
| AI | Active | YC +1S24 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | Active | YCF24 | |
| AI | Not stated | Antler2023 | |
| AI | Active | YCW23 | |
| AI, Data, Devtools | Active | YCS20 | |
| AI | Active | YCF25 |
Also from S26 in AI
All of S26About Snowstone
Snowstone helps private equity firms drive operational value creation with AI. It's like a performance improvement engagement from a top consulting firm, but built from the company's own data, delivered in one week, and with every finding traced to its source. Today, private equity firms rely on consultants to find where portfolio companies can improve. That work depends on interviews and data requests, so the conclusions are secondhand, biased by internal politics and hard to check. Snowstone goes straight to the source data. It analyzes how a portfolio company actually operates and identifies automation potential, duplicated work, process bottlenecks and key-person risk, each quantified by its EBITDA impact.
- YC batch
- S26 · Summer 2026
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- AI
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2026
- Checked
- 10h ago
YC tags: Finance, Operations, AI
Changes seen
Renamed from Cerenovus.
Moved its website from cerenovus.ai to snowstone.ai.
Team went from 5 to not stated people.
Former name added: Cerenovus.
Website link changed from https://www.cerenovus.ai/ to https://snowstone.ai.
Rewrote its one-liner; it read "AI that finds value creation opportunities across enterprise…"
Newly tagged Finance, Operations and AI.
Snowstone: questions
Which YC batch was Snowstone in?
Snowstone was in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch (S26).
Is Snowstone still active?
Y Combinator lists Snowstone as active.
Where is Snowstone based?
Snowstone lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.