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VOYGR

Real-world place intelligence for AI apps and agents

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveB2B

What they do

Problem

AI apps and agents lack accurate, up-to-date, semantically rich local place context to answer real-world queries and take actions reliably.

Solution

VOYGR provides an intelligent maps/search API that combines core place data with fresh web context (news, articles, events) to create queryable, expanded place profiles for AI reasoning.

Who it's for

Developers building AI applications and agentic systems that need real-world local search and place intelligence.

Founders

Vlad Baskakov
Founder

Vlad is the co-founder and CEO of VOYGR. He brings firsthand experience from Google Maps, where he led Product Strategy and GTM, bootstrapping new API products, shaping Maps–Gemini data sharing, and driving key improvements in merchant experience and offline ads. He has 15+ years of Growth and GM experience across mapping and its core markets – ridesharing and travel. He previously worked at McKinsey and holds an MBA from Harvard.

Yarik Markov
Founder

CTO, 20 years in tech, 10+ years of leading Infra/ML/Search at Google/Meta/Apple

Open roles 3

Founding Product Engineer
New York, NY, US / San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $150K - $200K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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Full-Stack Engineer
Remote · Full-time · $4K - $10K / monthly
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Sales Development Representative (SDR) – VOYGR (Remote) | YC W26
New York, NY, US / San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US) · Full-time · $60K - $100K
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