# Clean

[Clean on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/clean)

Startup · 4 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](http://www.tryclean.ai/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clean)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cleanailabs/)
- [X](https://x.com/cleanailabs)

## About

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## 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavankumarny) · [X](https://x.com/PavanKumarNY)

### 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejasguptax7/) · [X](https://x.com/TejasGupta67820)

### 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prathampatel2618/)

### 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarisssaans/) · [X](https://x.com/0xcl4r)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clean) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Clarissa Saputra](https://hacklab.so/clarissa-saputra) — Founder/CPO (Present)
- [Pavan Kumar Naguvanahalli Yashavantha](https://hacklab.so/pavan-kumar-naguvanahalli-yashavantha) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [Pratham Patel](https://hacklab.so/pratham-patel) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [Tejas Gupta](https://hacklab.so/tejas-gupta) — Founder/COO (Present)