Mantle blog · Apr 2026
Explains Mantle’s thesis that enterprise agents fail without live context and positions Mantle as a semantic context layer with zero-copy access, entity resolution, and MCP delivery.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Mantle is a YC F25 AI-native context engine for enterprise agents: it reads company data in place, resolves entities across connected tools, builds a knowledge graph, and serves source-grounded context to AI agents over MCP so teams can automate back-office workflows without ETL or data copying.
Primary product
AI-native semantic context layer / context engine for enterprise agents
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Enterprise AI infrastructure / context engines
Offices
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Business model
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Dec 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Dec 2025 · Y Combinator
Investors
Public signals suggest a small, developer-led team that ships in the open, writes technical blog posts about architecture choices, and emphasizes speed, clarity, and building AI-native infrastructure.
Pricing
Free tier for one source, usage-based Pro, and custom Enterprise pricing
Differentiators
Technology
Mantle blog · Apr 2026
Explains Mantle’s thesis that enterprise agents fail without live context and positions Mantle as a semantic context layer with zero-copy access, entity resolution, and MCP delivery.
Mantle blog · Apr 2026
Argues that entity resolution should be a first-class primitive and describes Mantle’s approach to resolving identities across tools into one canonical entity.
Mantle blog · Apr 2026
Details Mantle’s zero-copy architecture, emphasizing no extraction/loading, no duplication, and real-time queries against source systems.
Y Combinator · Oct 2025
Official YC launch page describing Mantle as a way to build internal agents that automate repetitive back-office work with one prompt.
LinkedIn · Sep 2025
Founder post announcing Mantle’s acceptance into Y Combinator and describing the mission to make every company AI-native.