YC Requests AI-Native Startups Across Industries

Y Combinator's Spring 2026 'requests for startups', highlighted by investor Eze Sahar (Remagine Ventures), lists priority opportunities including AI-native product-management systems, AI-driven hedge funds, AI-operated agencies, stablecoin financial services, government AI tooling, software-defined metal mills, and multimodal real-time guidance for physical work. The piece notes AI startups raised record funding in 2025—citing 55 companies that raised over $100 million—and signals a shift from coding assistants toward upstream workflows and industrial modernization.