Y Combinator (YC), widely recognized as one of the world's most influential start-up accelerators, has announced its Spring 2025 batch.

The new cohort includes a whopping 70 start-ups working on agentic artificial intelligence (AI).

Each of these innovative companies will receive an investment of $500,000 from YC as part of the three-month accelerator program.

YC managing partner transitions to partner emeritus role

In a related development, Dalton Caldwell, the managing partner at YC, has transitioned to the role of partner emeritus.

With over 12 years of experience and involvement in guiding 25 batches and over a thousand start-ups through YC's application process, Caldwell was instrumental in the accelerator's operations.

He is now co-founding Standard Capital, an AI-native Series A firm.

Partners Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas promoted to general partners

In May, visiting partners Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas were promoted to general partners at YC.

They will now work closely with founders across multiple batches in the start-up accelerator program.

This comes after Michael Seibel, a longtime group partner at YC, also transitioned to a partner emeritus role after more than 12 years of service.

Cohesive, Docket, and Daxa are some notable AI start-ups

Among the notable agentic AI start-ups in the latest YC batch are Cohesive, Docket, and Daxa.

Cohesive is an agentic CRM for blue-collar businesses, while Docket is an AI agent for web testing.

Daxa is an AI-powered tool that monitors user behavior and feedback in real-time to proactively detect issues and uncover opportunities to improve product performance.

Other innovative companies in YC's Spring 2025 batch

Other innovative start-ups in YC's Spring 2025 batch include PrismAI, VoiceOS, Kirana AI, Sava, Aegis, and Cascade Space.

PrismAI is an AI that watches session replays and tells developers what to fix.

VoiceOS builds voice AI agents for volume hiring.

Kirana AI is developing an AI system that acts as a full-time store manager, while Sava is revolutionizing sheet metal manufacturing with robots.