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

What they're building

CrowdStrike for AI Agents

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

traceforce.ai ↗

See their funding details ↗

Traceforce on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: AI apps such as ChatGPT and Claude have become part of everyone's daily workflow, but they introduce new security risks that traditional security tools weren't built to handle. Security teams at companies from startups to Fortune 500s, are struggling to keep up. Traceforce gives a company’s security team visibility of how AI apps are being used across company’s devices, and the ability to detect and prevent security breaches and unsafe actions as early as possible. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "On-device AI security platform. Monitor and control AI apps, MCPs, and CLI agents. 15-minute setup, automated remediation, real-time threat blocking." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Xia Hua, Founder/CEO: Founder at Traceforce. Previously Director of Engineering at Clumio, managing all flagship ransomware protection products. PhD in Applied Math from MIT. (source)
  • Varun Wadhwa, Founder/CTO: Co-founder & CTO at TraceForce. Previously Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, leading high-performance database systems for RAG. Before that, Staff Software Engineer at Clumio, leading distributed data infrastructure and backup. Earlier built distributed payments systems at Microsoft. BS in EECS, UC Berkeley. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2025: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-07-16: "Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps" posted to Hacker News by XiaHua, 44 points and 28 comments. (source)

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Where else to launch Traceforce

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Dev Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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