Mira Halberg
Agentic CRM
Halberg Co. — Toronto, Canada · Founded 2024 · Headcount 4
Building an agentic CRM that runs itself.
Archive
Operators
Small founder-led software companies the publication covers on a recurring basis. The list is short. Each name on it has been independently confirmed against the operator's own public materials.
Devanshu Rao
Developer tools
Rao Code Reviews — Bangalore, India · Founded 2025 · Headcount 2
An agent that reviews code instead of writing it.
Augusta Chen
Research agents
Chen Research — Taipei, Taiwan · Founded 2024 · Headcount 1
A solo founder shipping a research-agent platform.
Renée Okafor
AI infrastructure
Yoke Systems — Lagos, Nigeria · Founded 2023 · Headcount 7
AI infrastructure for operator-class teams in West Africa.
Yusuf Bensaid
Logistics agents
Bensaid Routes — Casablanca, Morocco · Founded 2024 · Headcount 5
An agentic logistics tool for last-mile operators.
Tom Drysdale
Developer tools
Drysdale Tools — Edinburgh, Scotland · Founded 2025 · Headcount 1
An ex-Stripe engineer turned solo agentic builder.
The Helix Labs team
Agentic memory
Helix Labs — Berlin, Germany · Founded 2024 · Headcount 3
A three-person infrastructure startup for agentic memory.
The Carbide collective
Open-source agents
Carbide — Distributed (Mexico City, Porto, Bangkok) · Founded 2023 · Headcount 9
Open-source agent builders publishing under one shared name.
Paloma Ruiz
Strategy agents
Ruiz Strategy — Mexico City, Mexico · Founded 2025 · Headcount 2
Agentic competitive-intelligence for mid-market operators.
Tova Eberhardt
Agentic studio
Cottage AI — Camden, Maine · Founded 2024 · Headcount 2
A two-person Maine-based agentic-studio for small operators.
Northwood Stack maintainers
Open-source orchestration
Northwood Stack — Distributed (Boston, Reykjavik, Singapore) · Founded 2023 · Headcount 4
An open-source orchestration library used by operator-class teams.