Fondo · Feb 2026
Third-party launch roundup reiterating the company’s chemical-manufacturing automation pitch and founder backgrounds.
The modern operating system for chemical manufacturing.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Poka Labs is a San Francisco-based, YC S24 industrial AI company building agentic commercial-operations software for chemical manufacturers and adjacent industrials. Its current product automates pricing, quoting, and guided selling on top of messy ERP/CRM/email/PDF data, while older YC materials described an earlier scheduling/production-planning focus. Public funding data is not perfectly consistent across sources, but the clearest recent records point to a September 2024 seed round around $3M. No public company GitHub or X account was located.
Primary product
AI agents for pricing, quoting, and guided selling for industrial manufacturers
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Industrial AI / workflow automation software
6 jobs at Poka Labs
Offices
Business model
Stage
Seed (public sources also describe the financing as pre-seed)
Total raised
$3M
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2024
Latest amount
$3M
Sep 2024 · Y Combinator
Investors
Founder-led, domain-expert, security-first, and fast-moving. Public materials emphasize human-in-the-loop workflows, enterprise security, and a bias toward shipping quickly into messy real-world industrial environments.
Compensation
Public YC job listings show Fullstack / AI Engineer compensation of $150K-$200K base plus 0.50%-1.25% equity, and Founding Deployment Strategist compensation of $140K-$190K base plus 0.50%-0.75% equity.
Pricing
Custom enterprise pricing; demo-led sales
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated monthly visits
2.3K
Fondo · Feb 2026
Third-party launch roundup reiterating the company’s chemical-manufacturing automation pitch and founder backgrounds.
Poka Labs · Nov 2025
Official blog post describing messy chemical lookup pain points, supporting the company’s claims about unstructured industrial data and SKU resolution.
Poka Labs · Dec 2024
Official blog post arguing that chemicals pricing should move beyond rules-based systems toward AI-native pricing that learns continuously from quotes and market signals.
Y Combinator / LinkedIn · Aug 2024
Launch announcement highlighting the product's use of emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, ERPs, and other data to automate production planning and scheduling.
Y Combinator · Aug 2024
YC launch post describing Poka Labs as an AI platform for chemical manufacturing that automates production planning and scheduling.