Startuply.vc · May 2026
Profile piece describing Lucidic AI as a four-person San Francisco startup focused on automated simulation-based debugging and optimization for AI agents, with a public revenue claim and competitive-pressure discussion.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Lucidic AI (lucid.ai / lucidic.ai) is a Y Combinator W25 startup building a simulation-driven training, testing, and observability platform for AI agents. The product helps teams debug, evaluate, and automatically improve agent behavior without changing model weights, with an emphasis on reliability and production performance.
Primary product
AI agent training, testing, and optimization platform
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI agent observability and training platform
Offices
Business model
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Stage
Pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed
Latest amount
$500K
Y Combinator
Leadership
Founder and CEO
Founder and CTO
Founder and Chief Scientist
Investors
Founder-led, research-heavy, and customer-feedback driven; the company emphasizes rapid iteration, on-site collaboration in San Francisco, and building reliable agent systems for real production use cases.
Work style
Onsite
Pricing
Not publicly listed; demo/private-beta sales motion (book-a-demo / contact-us).
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$0.4M ARR (reported)
Estimated monthly visits
46
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Startuply.vc · May 2026
Profile piece describing Lucidic AI as a four-person San Francisco startup focused on automated simulation-based debugging and optimization for AI agents, with a public revenue claim and competitive-pressure discussion.
Hacker News · Jul 2025
Launch post for Lucidic AI describing the product as an AI-agent interpretability and debugging tool with traces, trends, evals, grouped failure modes, and time-travel simulation.
Y Combinator · Feb 2025
YC launch page describing Lucidic as an analytics and testing platform for rapid agent iteration, with step-by-step workflow replays and simulation comparisons.
Startup Intros · Feb 2025
Third-party launch coverage summarizing Lucidic’s agent-debugging and simulation product and its YC Winter 2025 debut.