Lapel (YC X25) — Infrastructure to power every customer interaction
Great service means knowing your customers and making every interaction count. Online, that gets harder as a company grows.
Lapel is a Y Combinator company in the Spring 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Infrastructure to power every customer interaction. The founders listed are Nikolas Huebecker (Founder), Coleman Oates (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 20, 2025).
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Great service means knowing your customers and making every interaction count. Online, that gets harder as a company grows. Customer context is scattered across systems, leaving teams to piece it together.
Lapel unifies that data into a real-time picture of every account and helps teams turn what they know into coordinated action across the customer journey. The result is faster decisions, more proactive service, and interactions that feel more personal. We call it hospitality at scale.
Learn more at lapel.com.
Nikolas Huebecker
Founder
Coleman Oates
Founder
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