Clean
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About Clean
YC company profile
We predict when a company is about to buy.
Every B2B sale comes down to timing. Clean reads thousands of signals across 1,000+ live sources, puts them in order, and predicts the moment a company is ready to buy, plus who to reach and what to say. Our customers have generated over $1M in revenue with Clean. Next, we're building the timing layer every AI sales agent will run on.
- YC batch: Fall 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 5
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: B2B
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Deep Learning, SaaS
- YC partner: Aaron Epstein
Founders
Pavan Kumar Naguvanahalli Yashavantha — Founder/CEO
Founder @ Clean. 2x founder. Prev. Head of Community @ Cliqk, growing it to 10k+ users, 300k in revenue & 28M+ views. Enterprise Sales @ Cisco at 18. Ex. UCSD.
Tejas Gupta — Founder/COO
Founder at Clean (YC F26). Previously ML Engineer at Todd Agriscience, where he built the AI platform that anchored a $40M raise and served 6k+ farmers. Founded DocIQ (100+ users, 20 paying customers in weeks). Won HackHarvard 2025. CS @ Arizona State.
Pratham Patel — Founder/CTO
Founder at Clean (YC F26). Previously built Lokus (5K+ users in 24 hours). Research intern at Dhirubhai Ambani University, where he built RL pipelines using GRPO that achieved 20% higher accuracy than PPO for medical LLM question-answering. At DAIICT, built an LLM self-correction framework using PPO that improved math reasoning accuracy by 60% on GSM8K benchmarks. BS Computer Science at Gannon University.
Clarissa Saputra — Founder/CPO
Co-founder at Clean (YC F26). International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) and Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO). Prev. Ruangguru. AAAI 2026. Existential Robotics Lab.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.