Founders shut down $250k/year SaaS to build voice-first agent hardware, land in YC F26
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-14
antimattr's founders shut down a bootstrapped SaaS doing $250k/year with Fortune 500 clients to build hardware: they put in $20k of their own money, met 120+ manufacturers across China, moved to the US with under 3 months of runway, got rejected by YC once, reapplied, and landed in YC F26.
antimattr is building a voice-first hardware interface for human-agent interaction, backed by WTFund and a $25k grant from Nikhil Kamath.
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