What it sells
AI applied research lab building synthetic sapience; human-like AI
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedIndividual consumers (inferred).
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
AI agents feel like machines; people want agents with personality and memory.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Talk to a yokai voice agent with memory and personality that lives on the internet when idle and follows work (e.g. joins calls).
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Waitlist signup for yokai launch.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2024 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.