Asakana

YC company profile

Automating away manual admin for food distributors: texts to ERP

Restaurants send orders to food distributors by email, text, and photo. Someone at the distributor retypes every one of them into the ERP. Asakana does that entry instead: orders land in the ERP already entered, and anything unclear goes to a person before it goes in. Live at US seafood distributors today, returning 40%+ of order-desk time to selling. Founded by a seafood distributor and a Gemini builder.

• YC batch: Fall 2026
• Founded: 2025
• Team size: 4
• Location: San Francisco
• Country: US
• Status: Active
• Industry: B2B
• Stage: Early
• Tags: SaaS, Food & Beverage
• YC partner: Grey Baker

Founders

Yudai Matsuoka — Founder/President

Fish-lover🐟 / Ex-Fisherman / Ex-McKinsey.

• Tuna Distributor: Mitsubishi Corporation (Tokyo)
• Fisherman: Yellowtail fish farm (Kagoshima, Japan)
• Consultant: McKinsey (Tokyo, New York)
• MBA: Columbia Business School / UC Berkeley Haas

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Benjamin Solis-Cohen — Founder/CTO

Co-founder at Asakana. Previously senior AI research engineer at Google launching Gemini in Chrome and computer use agents (e.g. Project Mariner back in 2024). Contributed to the first Gemini Computer Use model paper. 8 years at Google spanning Ads ML and AI research.

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Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.