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Inventive AI

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Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & questionnaire response management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows. **Core benefits and features:** - **10X Faster Drafts With Highly Accurate Responses**: Using Inventive’s proprietary AI-system you can get first drafts 10 times faster, with accurate responses rooted in your kn

Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & questionnaire response management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.

**Core benefits and features:**

- **10X Faster Drafts With Highly Accurate Responses**: Using Inventive’s proprietary AI-system you can get first drafts 10 times faster, with accurate responses rooted in your knowledge sources, that you and your team can collaborate on to refine.

- **Single Hub for All Your Knowledge Sources:** Inventive offers a centralized hub for all your knowledge sources. You can upload previous RFPs and relevant documents; integrate with your internal data systems such as gDrive. Sharepoint & more; upload Q&A from legacy tools or spreadsheets; and even add information from your websites.

- **Fight Stale Content With AI Content Manager:** Inventive’s AI content manager proactively flags conflicting content by identifying issues within your sources, so you only use fresh and relevant content in your responses.

- **Higher Productivity & Competitive Advantage With AI Agents:** Inventive offers a suite of AI agents designed to boost productivity and give you a competitive advantage. These agents can help with researching competitors, brainstorming ideas, and more.

Built by a customer-obsessed team comprising an ex-exec from a Fortune 500 company and ex-AI team from Google & Stanford. Backed by top Silicon Valley investors including YCombinator.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Inventiv AI

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Dhiren Bhatia

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Inventive AI. Most recently, Founder & CEO at Viewics (acquired by Roche) - a SaaS analytics platform and suite of applications for health systems and clinical laboratories. MBA (UC Berkeley) | MS (Texas A&M University) | BE (University of Mumbai)

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Vishakh Hegde

Founder/CTO

I previously led ML efforts at Ambient AI (yc17 / a16z). Studied ML and AI at Stanford. Went to IIT Madras for undergrad. I've published papers in ML/AI and have also authored a book deep learning (link: https://a.co/d/07ZnJwZ). Always looking to solve *real* problems. Love tinkering with technology.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Gaurav Nemade

Founder

Previously, Product Manager at Google AI & Google Brain and the first PM on Google's LLM platform - LaMDA that powered Google Bard. Studied CS from IIT Roorkee.

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

Founded 2023 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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