TL;DR: Riften is a Y Combinator Summer 2026 startup Earned intelligence for every company, currently active with an early-stage team.
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Intelligence will be the most valuable asset a company owns. Today, almost every company rents it. Companies pay a handful of labs one token at a time. Each dollar buys an answer, not an asset. They spend more, but own nothing more. Riften reverses that. Change one environment variable and Riften becomes the gateway for a company's AI traffic. We route each request to the lowest-cost model that can do the job, serving most work on open-weight models we host. Customers save money immediately without rebuilding their products. The gateway is the entry point. Over time, Riften turns the company's work into private models built on open weights and shaped around the business. What begins as cheaper inference becomes an intelligence stack the company owns, runs on infrastructure it controls, an…
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Yes. Riften was funded by Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 batch. Earned intelligence for every company
Intelligence will be the most valuable asset a company owns. Today, almost every company rents it. Companies pay a handful of labs one token at a time. Each dollar buys an answer, not an asset. They spend more, but own nothing more. Riften reverses that. Change one environment variable and Riften becomes the gateway f…
Riften was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.
Riften is currently listed as Active in Y Combinator's directory.
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