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Markets2026-09-04 · source-backed
The YC S26 company sells "infrastructure that gives AI agents location data, enrichment, and signals for any US address." The framing matters more than the data: the same property and address enrichment Melissa, Smarty and Estated sold as an app-facing API, repackaged with agents as the named consumer. Expect the incumbent data vendors in this category to be repositioned as agent tools within a quarter, because the underlying dataset isn't the differentiator. StartupCorners
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