Ishaan Makkar is Founder and CEO of Hexa (YC P26), an AI-powered workflow automation platform built specifically for manufacturers and distributors.

Ishaan co-founded Hexa alongside Mann Patira after participating in FR8, a frontier tech accelerator for exceptional young builders, before being accepted into Y Combinator's P26 batch.

Ishaan identified that over 54% of manufacturing companies still rely on spreadsheets for core operations, and that existing software tools are built without understanding how manufacturers actually work.

Hexa is backed by Y Combinator (P26 batch) and automates operational workflows inside the ERP and CRM systems manufacturing teams already use, requiring no new platforms or ripped-out processes.

Hexa is targeting one of the least digitized industries in the world, addressing the back-office gap that leaves millions of manufacturing workers reliant on manual email threads and copy-paste data entry.