Mantle
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About Mantle
YC company profile
The pit crew for machines and robots.
Mantle is a full-stack field service company that deploys, fixes and maintains machines for the companies that build them. We're not a marketplace or software tool, we own uptime directly to provide better, more reliable service without burdening your engineers on support calls.
$500B+ a year is spent to keep machines running in the US, we're coming for all of it.
- YC batch: Fall 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 2
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Hardware, Robotics, AI, Industrial
- YC partner: Pete Koomen
Founders
Kieran White — Founder/CEO
Co-Founder & CEO at Mantle, the pit crew for machines and robots.
Previously founded Curo (YC F24), the world's largest private EV charging network. Curo scaled to 5,000 stations with Uber, Zoox and Google before acquisition by Inspiration Mobility Group ($415M raised).
Before Curo I joined Tesla at 18 as the youngest employee.
Graham Smith — Founder/CTO
Co-Founder & CTO at Mantle, the pit crew for machines and robots.
Previously founded Babylon, the world’s largest fleet of autonomous vertical farms. Babylon raised $22M and deployed 400 farms with Compass, LinkedIn and American Airlines.
Before Babylon I scaled an electronics repair business I started at 14.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.