Why it ranks
How the rank works- team of 5Team size · YC's directory+4
- went through YCProgram · this site+4
- hiringHiring · Titles (titles.fru.dev), YC+2
A sum of public facts, not a judgement and not investment advice.
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI, Devtools | Active | YCF26 | |
| AI | Not stated | AWS GenAIInaugural cohort | |
| AI | Not stated | Plug and Play | |
| AI | Active | YCS17 | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | YCW26 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | Not stated | Antler2023 | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | YCF24 | |
| AI | Active | YCW26 | |
| AI | Acquired | YCS21 | |
| AI | Active | YCW25 |
Also from F25 in AI
All of F25| Company | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AI, Devtools | Active | |
| AI, Devtools | Inactive | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | |
| AI, Devtools | Active | |
| AI, Devtools | Active |
Founders
- Sri Raghu MalireddiFounder/CEO
About Moss
Moss is building the real-time semantic search runtime for conversational and multimodal AI. Our system enables voice agents, copilots, and chat interfaces to retrieve, reason, and respond in sub-10 ms, delivering the responsiveness that makes AI interactions feel truly natural. If you’ve ever built a conversational or voice AI product, you’ve felt the lag. That moment when an agent pauses and the illusion of intelligence breaks. The bottleneck is almost always retrieval. Each query hops across networks and databases, adding delay and cost. Moss eliminates that gap by keeping retrieval close to where the agent runs. Moss runs natively across browsers, mobile devices, and servers with an optimized vector index built in Rust and WebAssembly. It enables teams to build AI products that feel instant, contextual, and adaptive. The experiences that sustain engagement and unlock new kinds of interaction. For our customers, this translates into tangible business value: stronger user retention, higher conversion, and entirely new product categories made possible by real-time understanding. Moss is already powering production pilots across voice AI and developer platforms, achieving sub-10 ms retrieval and 70–90% token savings compared to traditional pipelines.
- YC batch
- F25 · Fall 2025
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- AI, Developer tools
- Team size
- 5
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2024
- Checked
- 6h ago
YC tags: Developer Tools, SaaS, AI
Moss: questions
Which YC batch was Moss in?
Moss was in Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch (F25).
Is Moss still active?
Y Combinator lists Moss as active.
Who founded Moss?
Moss's founders, as listed on its YC page: Sri Raghu Malireddi (Founder/CEO).
Where is Moss based?
Moss lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.