Ontora
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About Ontora
YC company profile
AI agents that interviews every employee to hand context to AI tools.
Ontora is an AI Agent that interviews every employee to map how work actually gets done and identify bottlenecks. Consultants spend months doing this manually; Ontora does it in hours.
- YC batch: Spring 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 3
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Country: DE
- Status: Active
- Industry: B2B
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Robotic Process Automation, Enterprise, AI
- YC partner: Tom Blomfield
Founders
Leon Iwanowitsch — Founder/CEO
AI Consulting for Enterprise; 🇨🇭 University of St.Gallen (Europe's #1 Business School), Built Europe's largest Early-Stage StartUp Conference (7k participants e.g. Eric Schmidt), Helped raise 15m Solo GP Fund, Angel Investor
Maximilian Arnold — Founder/COO
1st AI Engineer @ Porsche in procurement. CS at CODE University and Stanford. Won +$80k in hackathons. Built the official honors exchange partnership to Stanford.
David Korn — Founder/CTO
AI Projects @ Google, exited previous company to beglaubigt.de (YC F24), Computer Science at CODE University (founded by the largest German Unicorn founders)
How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
Max led process optimization at Porsche. David built data pipelines in finance. Leon built AI automations at consultancies. They all noticed critical knowledge is trapped inside people's heads and never reaches the people who need it.
The team then felt inspired to work on the problem after a tour to Stockholms fastest scaling startups organized by Max, where all three decided to quit their jobs and start a company.
What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
Every company already has the answers to most of the questions leadership is asking.
The problem: those answers are scattered across hundreds of people, and there's never been a practical way to ask every single employee.
So leaders make crucial decisions with partial information or spend months and millions on external consultants to retrieve what the org already knows.
What we're building
Ontora is an AI agent that has a real conversation with every employee in your company within hours.
It learns, follows up, and surfaces what people actually do and where they get stuck.
We deliver two things: a synthesized answer to the specific question leadership couldn't crack in their last business review (themed insights, process maps, automation roadmap with ROI), and a continuously refreshed operational context that humans and AI agents can both reason over.
What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
Answers in hours instead of months. We imagine truly intelligence native companies that unlock the last proprietary data source left in the enterprise: operational knowledge living in your employees heads.
Enabling cost reduction, post-merger integration, and AI transformation… within hours and at a fraction of the cost of traditional consulting.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.