Digital Workers of California, Inc.
Hyperspell is the memory and context layer for AI agents, providing infrastructure that connects to company tools and user data to give AI agents persistent memory so they can recall, reason, and remember across interactions - turning disconnected agents into informed AI coworkers.
Founding Story
Conor Brennan-Burke and Manu Ebert originally built Echo AI, an AI assistant for product managers. While building Echo AI, they discovered the fundamental infrastructure problem: AI agents lack context and memory about the real-world environment they operate in. Agents were superintelligent on standardized tests but wouldn't last a day at a real job because they couldn't remember or understand the context humans naturally build from hundreds of data points across dozens of interactions. They pivoted to build Hyperspell to solve this core infrastructure gap, creating the memory and context layer that their original product needed. They applied to Y Combinator 6 times before being accepted into the F25 batch.
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Leadership
Founders
Conor Brennan-Burke
Left school at 12 to teach himself, started college at 13. Previously led a $30M-$50M ARR API business (Continuous Safety API portfolio) at Checkr serving 10M+ workers and 90+ customers including Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub. Also worked at BCG (Boston Consulting Group). Bootstrapped a previous startup called Echo AI (an AI assistant for product managers) before pivoting to Hyperspell.
Manu Ebert
Former neuroscientist turned serial founder. 25 years of coding experience, founded 4 companies with 2 exits. 15+ years of machine learning experience. Founded summer.ai (Machine Intelligence consulting firm) which was acquired by Airbnb. Built Airbnb's first Knowledge Graph. PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University of Osnabrück (2008-2011). Participated in On Deck Founders program.
Executive Team
Conor Brennan-Burke
Co-Founder and CEO
Previously led $30M-$50M ARR API business at Checkr, worked at BCG, started college at 13
Manu Ebert
Co-Founder
Serial founder with 2 exits, 15+ years ML experience, built Airbnb's first Knowledge Graph
Business Model
Revenue Model
Hybrid model: API usage-based pricing, subscription tiers (free developer tier, usage-based core tier, enterprise annual contracts), and connector pack add-ons. Product-led growth (PLG) strategy to attract developers followed by enterprise sales for high ACV contracts.
Pricing Tiers
Limited connectors and vectors for development and proof-of-concept
Pricing based on ingestion, storage, and retrieval usage. One OpenAI-compatible API for many LLMs, custom models, reasoning mode, built-in review mode
Committed annual contract value (ACV), SLAs, premium features including VPC or on-premises deployment options, connector packs as add-ons
Target Markets
- Product engineering teams at SaaS companies (50-2,000+ employees)
- Customer support teams with high ticket volumes
- Internal developer platform teams
- Sales enablement teams
- ISVs building agent-enabled products
- Regulated verticals (finance, healthcare, legal)
- Adding context and institutional knowledge to AI agents
- Enabling agents to recall, reason, and remember across company knowledge
- Building search applications and help desk applications
- On-screen assistants with persistent memory
- Embedded customer support bots with context awareness
- CRM personalization tools
- Eragon
- Entelligence
- Micro
- Hobbes
History & Milestones
Accepted into Y Combinator Fall 2025 (F25) batch after being rejected 6 times previously
YC Fall 2025 Demo Day (44th Demo Day)
Achieved SOC 2 certification and GDPR compliance
Legal entity Digital Workers of California, Inc. (or Ltd.) incorporated
Pivoted from Echo AI (AI assistant for product managers) to Hyperspell after identifying infrastructure gap
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Hyperspell
2moMemory and context layer for AI agents that connects to user data sources for automatic memory and context-aware responses.
