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Manifold launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Deployment-ready robotic labor for the supply chain industry

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
2
Based
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Founders

manifoldindustries.ai ↗

See their funding details ↗

Manifold on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: The US Warehouse industry spends $75bn on labor each year. Yet, only 10% of US warehouses have any form of automation, because existing robotics are too expensive and hard to integrate. Manifold deploys autonomous robots that handle picking, loading / unloading, and palletizing — priced by pick. Integration in hours. No upfront costs. No retrofitting. No need to rebuild the operation around the robot. Our mission is to make it easy for any warehouse to adopt robotics. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Manifold provides autonomous warehouse robots for picking, loading, unloading, and palletizing, priced by the pick." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Nicolas Yeh, Founder/CEO: Founder at Manifold. Grew up in a 3rd-gen supply chain family business (major consumer products supplier to US retailers). Previously at Balyasny Asset Management covering analog semiconductors ($1B+ book). Before that, Hotel Acquisitions at Starwood Capital Group, where he sourced a $60M hotel sale and was sole analyst responsible for asset management of Extended Stay America ($7.6B JV with Blackstone). (source)
  • Joshua Ibrahim, Founder/CTO: Founder at Manifold. PhD in Applied Mathematics from Caltech. Previously Software Engineering Intern at Facebook, working on Messenger P2P services and Instagram's misinformation detection systems. MS and BS in Electrical and Systems Engineering from Penn. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-03-29: "Show HN: Manifold – generate CLI and MCP surfaces from one .NET operation" posted to Hacker News by garume, 2 points and 0 comments. (source)

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Where else to launch Manifold

  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • BetaList ↗
    Self-promotion allowedPaid
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • CoFoundersLab ↗
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    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Invincible Product Hunters (Global) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Telegram channel readers; URL-first, attention-light
  • Launching Next ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • LaunchPedia ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • MicroLaunch ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories

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