a1base.com · San Francisco, CA 94107, USA · founded 2025 · team ~2 employees (two co-founders listed on About page) · Y Combinator Winter 2025 (YC W25); prior founders of Forage (YC W19, acquired) · trust 0/4
The human-facing communication, trust, and identity layer for AI agents.
| Company name | A1Base (legal: A1Base Inc.; rebranding to A1Zap by A1Base)
source: https://a1base.com (homepage redirect notice and footer '© 2026 A1Base Inc.') |
| Tagline / one-liner | The human-facing communication, trust, and identity layer for AI agents.
source: https://a1base.com/about |
| HQ city / region | San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
source: https://a1base.com (footer) and https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/a1zap-by-a1base |
| Year founded | 2025
source: https://a1base.com/about ('A1Base was founded in 2025 by two developers…') |
| Team size | ~2 employees (two co-founders listed on About page)
source: https://a1base.com/about plus LinkedIn snippets stating '2 employees' |
| Funding / stage | Y Combinator Winter 2025 (YC W25); prior founders of Forage (YC W19, acquired)
source: Multiple LinkedIn posts and https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/a1zap-by-a1base |
| Founders | Pasha Rayan (CEO) — previously CTO/co-founder of Forage (YC W19); Pennie Li (CTO) — early engineer at Forage, former CTO of Truffle, BCompSci/BCom (FinTech) UNSW '18
source: https://a1base.com/about |
| Legal entity | A1Base Inc.
source: https://a1base.com (footer '© 2026 A1Base Inc. All rights reserved.') |
| Public contact email (on domain) | founders@a1base.com
source: https://a1base.com/contact ('Email us at founders@a1base.com'); founder emails pasha@a1base.com and pennie@a1base.com also listed on /about |