Retail ecommerce

Glisten AI

Website
Founded 2019Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Glisten AI automatically categorizes and tags product data. With Glisten AI, e-commerce retailers and marketplaces can taxonomize millions of products with ease to enable better search, filtering, recommendations, and analytics.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Allparel, Machine Wash Only, MWO.ai, Glisten

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Alice Deng

Founder

Co-founder & CPO of Slope. Previously, Alice co-founded Glisten AI (YC W20), providing e-commerce product categorization using CV and NLP. Prior to Glisten, she was a product manager at Dropbox. Alice is a UC Berkeley grad, where she led Blueprint, a tech for impact organization and was named under the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2023.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
1team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2019 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite unreachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

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