Y Combinator · Nov 2025
YC’s 2025 launch page reframed Proxis around context-aware AI email agents that auto-draft and auto-send replies from connected systems such as CRM, Notion, Drive, Slack, help docs, and email history.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Proxis is a YC S24 startup based in San Francisco that has pivoted from LLM distillation/serving into enterprise AI email agents and internal workflow automation. Its current public-facing product focuses on context-aware AI agents that draft and auto-send email replies using connected company systems, while the site also describes broader internal AI tooling and implementation services.
Primary product
Enterprise AI email agents and internal AI automation built around context-aware drafting, auto-send, and workflow integration.
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Enterprise AI automation, AI email agents, and LLM distillation/serving
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Offices
Business model
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Sep 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2024 · Y Combinator
Investors
Privacy- and permissions-first, lean, closed-beta, and strongly AI-native. The public messaging emphasizes helping non-technical teams adopt AI, onboarding employees to AI tools, and automating internal work across sales, marketing, go-to-market, and engineering.
Compensation
No public salary bands or benefits package were found. The Terms of Service say feedback and suggestions may be used by Proxis without compensation or acknowledgment.
Pricing
Closed beta / waitlist; enterprise pricing not publicly disclosed.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Y Combinator · Nov 2025
YC’s 2025 launch page reframed Proxis around context-aware AI email agents that auto-draft and auto-send replies from connected systems such as CRM, Notion, Drive, Slack, help docs, and email history.
LinkedIn · Jun 2025
A public Proxis post promoting a founder interview about product strategy, rapid iteration, and how Proxis built its AI email agent.
Apple Podcasts / Wharton Tech Toks · Feb 2025
Founder Liam Collins discussed Proxis’s YC journey and the company’s focus on distilling large language models into smaller, faster models for specific tasks.
Y Combinator on LinkedIn · Sep 2024
YC’s launch post described Proxis as a dedicated platform for LLM distillation and serving, highlighting Jackson Stokes as CTO and Liam Collins as CEO.
Hiretop · Sep 2024
An external profile/article described the company as a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, co-founded by Liam Collins and Jackson Stokes, focused on serving Llama models more efficiently.