Ismail Pelaseyed

Ismail Pelaseyed is co-founder and CEO of Superagent, a YC-backed platform for building AI agents. With Alan Zabihi he works on open, developer-friendly agent infrastructure aimed at teams that want control of prompts, tools, and deployment.

Open agent platform

Superagent's materials emphasize building and hosting agents with transparent components. Pelaseyed is listed as CEO on the YC company page.

Seed-stage builder motion

As an early YC company, Superagent sells mostly to developers experimenting with agent workflows. Public presence is GitHub- and docs-heavy rather than enterprise keynote-heavy.

On owning the agent stack

He positions Superagent against closed agent builders that hide too much. That ownership pitch is the early-stage watch reason while category coverage on AIR expands.