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Yellow is a technology company.
Yellow has raised $163.0M across 10 funding rounds.
Key people at Yellow.
Yellow was founded in 2018 by Sacha Michaud (Co-founder and General Partner) and Oscar Pierre (Co-Founder) and Adam Lasri (Co-founder and General Partner).
Yellow has raised $163.0M in total across 10 funding rounds.
Yellow.ai develops an Agentic AI platform designed for enterprise customer and employee experience automation. The platform leverages over fifteen large language models to facilitate human-like conversations across various channels, including voice, chat, and email. Key capabilities include an AI Agent Builder for rapid deployment, a Conversational Knowledge Base utilizing Agentic RAG for intelligent responses, and AI Copilot tools for performance optimization, alongside robust automation for customer service and internal operations.
The company was founded in 2016 by Raghu Ravinutala and Rashid Khan, initially operating as Yellow Messenger. Their entrepreneurial journey began from a shared frustration with inefficiencies in customer support and a vision to bridge existing gaps through advanced AI solutions. This core insight drove the development of their conversational AI platform, aiming to transform how brands engage with their audiences by automating interactions.
Yellow.ai's products serve a broad client base of over 1300 global brands across diverse sectors such as BFSI, healthcare, utilities, and retail. The company's mission is to automate customer service functions, thereby enabling human teams to concentrate on building more meaningful customer relationships. Ultimately, Yellow.ai envisions delivering a fully autonomous customer experience in every interaction, consistently pushing the boundaries of conversational AI.
Yellow was founded in 2018 by Sacha Michaud (Co-founder and General Partner) and Oscar Pierre (Co-Founder) and Adam Lasri (Co-founder and General Partner).
Yellow has raised $163.0M in total across 10 funding rounds.
Yellow's investors include 14Peaks Capital, 2150, Bling Capital, byFounders, Casa Verde Capital, Expa, Iterative, Locus Ventures, MetaProp Ventures, QED Investors, Ameet Ranadive, Balaji Srinivasan.
Yellow is an AI startup founded in 2023 and based in Palo Alto, California, that builds advanced 3D generation tools to empower digital creators, game developers, and studios.[1][5] It serves professional game-makers, creative studios, and digital world builders by solving the challenges of time-intensive 3D content creation, enabling rapid scaling of immersive experiences through AI-driven software.[1] With a fully distributed global team, Yellow focuses on amplifying human creativity rather than replacing it, targeting industries like gaming, virtual production, and metaverse development amid surging demand for efficient 3D assets.[1]
Yellow emerged in March 2023 from a team of leading scientists, technologists, and creative professionals with expertise in AI, graphics, gaming, and product development.[1] Headquartered in Palo Alto but operating remotely across the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Poland, and beyond, the company was co-founded by Mandeep Waraich as CEO, bringing a focus on transforming cutting-edge 3D AI research into practical tools.[1][5] Early momentum stems from this interdisciplinary blend, positioning Yellow to address the bottlenecks in professional 3D workflows from day one.[1]
Yellow distinguishes itself in the AI-3D space through:
Yellow rides the explosive growth of generative AI in 3D content creation, fueled by trends in gaming, AR/VR, and metaverses where high-quality assets are essential but labor-intensive.[1] Timing is ideal post-2023 AI breakthroughs, as studios face scaling pressures amid rising demand for immersive digital worlds—Yellow's tools cut development timelines, aligning with market forces like Unity and Unreal Engine integrations.[1] By empowering creators globally, it influences the ecosystem, democratizing advanced 3D for indie devs to AAA studios and accelerating adoption in virtual production.[1]
Yellow is poised to capture a slice of the booming 3D AI market as game engines and metaverses evolve toward real-time generation. Expect expansions in developer tools, partnerships with platforms like Roblox or Epic, and deeper AI integrations for photorealistic assets. Trends like agentic AI and multimodal models will shape its path, potentially evolving Yellow into a cornerstone for next-gen digital worlds—transforming raw ideas into scalable realities, just as it set out to do.[1]
Key people at Yellow.
Yellow has raised $163.0M across 10 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $10.0M Seed in September 2024.
| Date | Company | Round | Lead Investor(s) | Co-Investor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 2025 | Edailabs | $5.9M Seed | Educapital | Breega, DMG Ventures, Seedcamp |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Afori | $5.0M Seed | General Catalyst | Celonis, Greylock, Garrett Koehn, Mandeep Singh, Oscar Pierre, Booom, Alexander Rinke, Christopher Leifeld, Christopher Lohmann, Mehdi Ghissassi, Mustafa Suleyman |
| Sep 1, 2025 | Alpic | $6.0M Seed | Partech Ventures | Hanabi Capital, Insight Partners, LGF, Motier Ventures, Next47, Mandeep Singh, Mike Krieger, Vinay Hiremath, Drysdale, Galion.exe, Irregular Expressions, K5 Global, Kima Ventures |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Zenline AI | $2.0M Seed | Seedcamp | Motier Ventures, Arc Investors, First Momentum Ventures |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Kiku | $5.0M Seed | Cherry Ventures | Concept Ventures, Felipe Navio, Fredrik Hjelm, Juan Urdiales, Oscar Pierre |
