Hesper AI
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About Hesper AI
YC company profile
AI Claims Investigator for Insurance
Hesper AI builds AI agents that investigate P&C insurance claims end to end.
Hesper’s agents read the claim file, detect tampered documents, verify facts, check coverage, flag inconsistencies, and produce an audit-ready case file in minutes, so insurers can check every claim.
We work with Claims and SIU orgs at Carriers, MGAs and TPAs,
- YC batch: Fall 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 3
- Location: New York City, NY
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Fintech
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Insurance, Fraud Detection, AI
- YC partner: Nicolas Dessaigne
Founders
Pankaj Dhariwal — Founder/CEO
Previously Engineering Manager at Nanonets(YC W17), where he built Flow (Accounts Payable product) from scratch to $200K ARR and scaled the engineering team from 7 to 25. Earlier, first engineer on the Export-Import team at Shipsy, building the global container tracking and ETA prediction system from the ground up.
Dual degree in Electronics & Economics from BITS Pilani.
Nitish Badu — Founder/COO
Nitish Badu is the Co-founder/COO of Hesper AI.
Previously, he scaled revenue at Nanonets (YC W17) to $4M in ARR, where he built out the GTM motion, outbound and partnerships. He has approximately 4 years of experience driving go-to-market and revenue for B2B AI companies.
Before that, he was GTM Lead at Super.AI. He holds a degree from BITS Pilani.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.