Founding Agent, a new voice-agent product for company websites, was announced in early access/waitlist rather than as a generally available product; adoption and product-market fit for this adjacent offering remain unproven.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 28, 2026
Moss (legal entity: InferEdge Inc.) is a YC Fall 2025 developer-infrastructure startup building a real-time semantic-search runtime for conversational AI, voice agents, copilots, and multimodal applications. Its approach keeps retrieval local/on-device or close to the application, avoiding vector-database network round trips.
Primary product
Moss real-time semantic-search/retrieval runtime and SDKs for browser, mobile, edge, server, and cloud applications; it offers sub-10 ms lookups, hybrid semantic-plus-keyword search, metadata filtering, instant index updates, built-in or customer-supplied embeddings, and optional cloud synchronization.
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Team size
1–10 (LinkedIn snapshot); other YC job pages report 5 team members, so public counts vary by date
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI infrastructure; semantic search and retrieval; developer tools
Offices
Business model
Stage
Seed / YC-backed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2025 · Y Combinator
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Sandra Chang
Founding Designer
Founding Product Engineer
Investors
Public hiring and founder materials emphasize technical rigor, ownership, performance engineering, low-latency systems, open-source development, and developer experience. The team describes itself as focused on eliminating retrieval latency in conversational AI; specific benefits are not publicly documented.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public postings show $60,000–$300,000 salary plus 0.10%–0.50% equity for Software Engineer roles, and $120,000–$150,000 plus 0.05%–0.15% equity for Founding Customer Success. Sponsorship is explicitly offered for at least the SDK and backend engineering roles; the customer-success posting is restricted to US citizen/visa-eligible candidates.
Pricing
Developer: free with $5/month credits and unlimited local queries; Hobbyist: $30/month; Start-up: $200/month; Enterprise: custom pricing. Hosted features, sync, session replays, concurrency, support, SLA, SSO, SOC 2/HIPAA support vary by tier.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Founding Agent, a new voice-agent product for company websites, was announced in early access/waitlist rather than as a generally available product; adoption and product-market fit for this adjacent offering remain unproven.
SourceThe repository underwent a broad rebrand from InferEdge to Moss, including package, documentation, and domain references. This appears to be a naming transition, not a shutdown or acquisition.
SourceMoss (YC F25) LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Company milestone post reporting Moss reached 5 million production voice minutes.
Moss (YC F25) LinkedIn · Jun 2026
Company milestone post reporting Moss crossed 1 million minutes of usage.
Moss · Jun 2026
Official product launch post for Founding Agent, a voice AI agent for company websites that answers visitor questions and qualifies prospects.
Moss (YC F25) LinkedIn · Nov 2025
Company announcement that Moss went live on Launch YC and reiterated the product’s real-time retrieval positioning.
Y Combinator · Oct 2025
Official launch post describing Moss’s sub-10ms semantic search runtime, its use for conversational AI, and early traction with enterprise design partners and paying customers.