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Active · Catch wrong LLM answers before your customers do

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Competitors

AIPylonShared: answer before, supportYC W23San FranciscoStartup →AIAcquiredForethoughtShared: customer supportSPC 2018San FranciscoStartup →OtherPositronShared: running, model, inferenceStartup →
Companies closest to Latent
Company
PylonShared: answer before, supportYC W23ActiveAI
ForethoughtShared: customer supportSPC 2018 +1AcquiredAI
Positronnot in a program hereShared: running, model, inferenceElsewhereOther

Adjacent

AIPromptArmorShared: llm, securityYC W24San FranciscoStartup →OtherInactiveObservaShared: catch, before, securityYC W21RemoteStartup →AIOpenToolsShared: llmYC S23San FranciscoStartup →AIOutverseShared: customer supportSeedcamp 2021Startup →OtherPerplexityShared: answerAI Grant Batch 1Startup →
Companies next to Latent
Company
PromptArmorShared: llm, securityYC W24ActiveAI
ObservaShared: catch, before, securityYC W21InactiveOther
OpenToolsShared: llmYC S23ActiveAI, Devtools
OutverseShared: customer supportSeedcamp 2021Not statedAI
PerplexityShared: answerAI Grant Batch 1Not statedOther

Also from F26 in AI

All of F26
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Company
0.securityThe autonomous cybersecurity teamteam of 2ActiveAI, Devtools
Acyclic LabsAgent swarms that make long-running tasks exponentially fasterteam of 2ActiveAI, Devtools
Adalat AIAI OS transforming courts, accelerating justiceteam of 80hiringActiveAI
Adside.aiAI agency that manages paid ads on Meta, Google, LinkedIn, etc.team of 2ActiveAI
Agent 37Cloud Sandbox for AgentsActiveAI, Devtools
Agent RelayLet your teams' coding agents message each otherteam of 2ActiveAI, Devtools

About Latent

Latent catches wrong or unsupported LLM answers before they reach your users. Instead of running a second model to check every output, it reads the model's own internal state as it generates, so every request is verified with no added latency, no extra inference cost, and nothing leaving your deployment. Teams running LLMs in production, in finance, legal, healthcare and customer support, get a review queue of the answers most likely to be wrong, calibrated to their own model and traffic, with a plain explanation of why each one was flagged.

YC batch
F26 · Fall 2026
Status, per YC
Active
Category
AI
Team size
1
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded
2026
Checked
6h ago

YC tags: AI

Changes seen

TagsOct 26, 2026

No longer tagged Fraud Detection.

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Joined a programOct 8, 2026

Joined Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch (F26).

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Latent in F26: 219 companies, 89% AI

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Which YC batch was Latent in?

Latent was in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch (F26).

Is Latent still active?

Y Combinator lists Latent as active.

Where is Latent based?

Latent lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.