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BeeSafe AI (YC W26) — Frontier AI defenses for social engineering attacks

BeeSafe AI is building the frontier model layer for social engineering defense. Cyberattacks have moved from code to conversation: attackers now use AI to carry out long-term, trust-based manipulation across SMS, voice, email, and social platforms, often inside encrypted channels where defenders cannot see, detect, or stop them.

BeeSafe AI is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Frontier AI Defenses for Social Engineering Attacks. The founders listed are Daniel Spokoyny (Founder/CEO), Ariana Mirian (Founder), Nikolai Vogler (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 5, 2026).

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BeeSafe AI

New accelerator entry · 2026-02-05 · the record

Winter 2026
batch
3
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchWinter 2026
Announced2026-02-05
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size3
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Security
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://beesafe.ai/

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BeeSafe AI is building the frontier model layer for social engineering defense. Cyberattacks have moved from code to conversation: attackers now use AI to carry out long-term, trust-based manipulation across SMS, voice, email, and social platforms, often inside encrypted channels where defenders cannot see, detect, or stop them. BeeSafe changes that by deploying undercover AI agents that engage attackers directly, expose hidden infrastructure, and convert live adversarial conversations into actionable intelligence. Each engagement adds to BeeSafe's proprietary dataset of real attacker behavior and trains foundational models that continually learn about counter-persuasion, deception, and manipulation in the wild. BeeSafe is starting in financial crime, where banks already value our data against Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud and money laundering, but the opportunity is far broader. The same data and models that uncover mule networks today can protect consumers, secure enterprises, and strengthen governments against the next generation of AI-powered social engineering attacks tomorrow.

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