These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to study online behavior using vision AI

Summary

Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He’s groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric scooter. Within minutes, though, the 20-year-old Stanford dropout snaps into focus, walking me through how he and his co-founders sold one startup at 19, landed in Y Combinator, and raised $5 million for their next company, Human Behavior. Launched just a few months ago, Human Behaviour is betting that vision AI can do what analytics tools like Mixpanel and PostHog have struggled with: give companies a real understanding of how people use their products, including why they convert or churn. Instead of relying on manually tagged events or clickstream data, Human Behavior claims its AI watches real user session replays and generates insights, answering product teams’ most pressing questions without hours of instrumenting code. The four-month-old YC startup closed its $5 million seed round in just two days (which is becoming a norm for current YC companies), with backers including General Catalyst, Paul Graham, Vercel Ventures, and Y Combinator. “We could’ve done the financial engineering game because we got more offers with higher valuations, but we didn’t want that,” said the CEO. L-R: Amogh Chaturvedi (CEO), Chirag Kawediya (COO), Skyler Ji (CTO)Image Credits:Human Behavior Chaturvedi met his co-founders, Skyler Ji and Chirag Kawediya, both 22, at a hacker house he organized in 2023 as an excuse to live and build with friends after his freshman year at Stanford. Techcrunch event San Francisco | October 27-29, 2025 Their first startup, Dough, was an e-commerce accounting tool they bootstrapped. Like Chaturvedi, Ji dropped out of college (leaving Berkeley) while Kawediya went on to graduate. Although YC was initially skeptical about Dough’s market potential, the team was admitted into the accelerator’s spring batch this year on the assumption they would eventually pivot,...