What is Yuzu?
The GTM action layer for what comes next
Yuzu plugs in where the human is most necessary: between the conversation (recordings and emails) and the system of record. That seam is the heart of your business. It's where the buyer-seller relationship lives and where intent becomes commitment. Day 0 or day 3000, that's the place where it matters most. That’s where Yuzu starts.
Every conversation, email, and signal around your deals carries information. But most of it never reaches the people who could use it. We built the action layer for teams: a system that watches what's happening across your deals, makes sense of what changed, and surfaces the move worth making next.
It begins with revenue teams. It expands to engineering, product, CS, and everyone the signal touches.
What shows up must be genuinely great. We come from B2C, where you have two seconds to get the point across or the reader is gone. That standard is mostly lost in B2B. We're bringing it to enterprise.
Who is Yuzu for?
Day-0 founders making their first sales calls. Series A teams scaling their first AEs. Day-3000 enterprise running thousands of conversations a quarter. Yuzu does the same job at every scale: turn what your buyers are saying into the next move.
If you're building a company that runs on what your buyers actually say, we want to talk.
Why does Yuzu exist?
We’re not building a better mousetrap, we’re building a world without mice
Every company has GTM, the same way every company has engineering. It's where the brand, the trust, the judgment all show up or don't. And it's been running on infrastructure designed for a different decade.
The day-0 founder making their first sales calls and the day-3000 CRO with a thousand reps are working on the same problem: how fast can you learn from what your buyers are telling you and turn it into the next motion?
How has B2B changed?
SaaS used to mean "buy a tool." Now buyers can build the tool. Code is cheap. AI is cheap. The thing you used to pay a vendor for, the thing being built, is no longer the thing.
So what are you actually buying?
Brand. Trust. Judgment. Taste. Innovation. Support. The conviction that the vendor cares whether your business grows. Aggregate intelligence from a hundred or a thousand other customers, distilled into pattern recognition you can't get on your own. Forward-deployed specialization from people who have seen this exact problem at scale and can show up with the answer before you knew to ask the question.
We are all Palantir now. We are all service-as-a-software. The vendors that win are the ones whose taste, speed of thought, and partnership operate at 10x or 100x what the buyer could do alone.
If they don't, the buyer builds it themselves and moves on.
What do we believe?
Five principles we’re building on:
- Build for the humans on both sides. Partnership flows through people. AEs, engineers, and product on the vendor side. Champions, CFOs, founders on the buyer side. Yuzu exists to make all of them sharper, more present, and more anticipatory than they could be alone.
- Learn faster than the world is changing. AI made the output of work cheap. The bottleneck moved from capacity to judgment. Day-0 founder or day-3000 CRO, the teams that learn in real time pull ahead. The ones drowning in their own automation fall behind.
- Ship the next action, not the console. Dashboards are leftover thinking from when the CRM was the deliverable. If the agent can fill the field, the human shouldn't have to read it. The product is what to do next, surfaced with the evidence behind it. The data is there to interrogate when the human's gut fires.
- Make the human and the agent get sharper together. It's a partnership, not a handoff. The agent handles the default. The human can take it or override it. The system watches what the human chose and learns. The human learns to direct the agent. Both sides level up.
- Anticipate. Don't wait to be asked. Omotenashi. The deck arrives before it's requested. The follow-up addresses the objection that came up 40 minutes in. The feature brief lands because three buyers mentioned the same gap last week.
Who is building Yuzu?
Yuzu Labs. Founded 2025, San Francisco by:
Emmie Chang. CEO and Co-Founder. At NASA, designed hardware for the International Space Station. Bootstrapped two businesses to $2M in revenue, one built on the Salesforce platform. Scaled B2C products to 1M users. YC alum.
Andrew Correa. CTO and Co-Founder. Scaled two companies past $20M ARR as COO/CTO, managed 100+ people by 26, ships production code and hardware. Founded an LLM training company ($0 to $10k/mo, public-company clients) with peer-reviewed ML research on arXiv accepted to a NeurIPS workshop.