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Trace

Y Combinator LogoWinter 2025
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San Francisco
 
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Voice AI Customer Support for Financial Services

We started Trace because we believe AI should wow customers, not frustrate them. As a result, we prioritize reliability and seamless customer interactions. Trace AI agents resolve calls end-to-end, securely integrating with bank systems and external APIs. So far, our agents handle quoting, application, and transaction tracking calls for our partners — but we’re still searching for new exciting use cases. Question to all fintechs/banks: Which customer requests keep coming back to you? We’d love to learn how you handle them now and if they are ripe for automation.
Active Founders
Saner Cakir
Saner Cakir
 

Saner Cakir, Founder & CEO

Saner (CEO @ Trace) has a remarkable track record of building reliable AI solutions for high-stakes applications. While studying Electrical Engineering and CS at UC Berkeley, he contributed to multiple publications in robot learning and computer vision at BAIR Lab. Before Trace, Saner co-built an AI copilot for surgeons that helped save lives during cardiothoracic surgeries at UCSF.
Kayla Lee
Kayla Lee
 

Kayla Lee, Founder & CRO

Kayla (CRO @ Trace) did her bachelor’s and master’s in CS at UC Berkeley, where she led groundbreaking NLP research under Professor Dan Klein. Before Trace, Kayla co-built an AI copilot for surgeons that helped save lives during cardiothoracic surgeries at UCSF. Kayla was also a national-level athlete in fencing and lacrosse — her unwavering perseverance and laser focus have become core values of Trace.
Trace
Trace
Founded:2024
Batch:Winter 2025
Team Size:3
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Gustaf Alstromer
 
Company Launches
Trace 📞 - AI Customer Support Agents for Banks and Fintechs
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Hey! Saner and Kayla from Trace here.

TL;DR: Trace (tracetec.co) builds voice AI agents to handle customer support for fintechs and banks. Beyond answering generic questions, our AI agents can actually take actions like "replace my card" or "dispute this charge" while maintaining human-like conversation.

Here is a quick demo

Problem

Customer service is one of the largest operational spends across banks (15% opex), insurance (40% opex), and fintechs. However, call centers offer inconsistent service quality despite the cost.

Existing AI solutions only read off of public documents and deflect the user — they can’t access account-specific data or take actions like human agents would. In financial services, this causes extreme user frustration.

Solution

Trace AI agents securely integrate with core systems to offer instant, 24/7 resolution over the phone. So far, we achieve 95% end-to-end resolution of calls across quoting, card applications, transaction tracking, and more — all while following policy and never leaking sensitive data. With under 0.2s time to first token, we are also optimized for seamless interactions over voice.

Team

We are all ex Berkeley researchers, specialized in building reliable AI solutions for high-stakes applications. Saner (CEO) built an AI copilot that helped UCSF cardiothoracic surgeons save real lives. Kayla (CRO) led a project at the Berkeley NLP Group that laid the foundation for Trace’s tech.

Ask

If you know any decision-makers at:

  • fintechs
  • banks
  • insurance providers
  • BPOs,

please contact founders@tracetec.co — we’d love to get their perspective!