Exclusive: Yellow.ai Lays Off Over 100 Employees Amid Automation Push

by · Inc42

SUMMARY

  • The layoffs, which accounted for about 30% of the startup’s workforce, were carried out in multiple phases and largely affected engineering and product teams
  • This was not the first round of layoffs in 2025; Yellow.ai had also cut around 40–50 jobs in August
  • Without confirming the number of employees laid off, Yellow.ai attributed the exercise to the change in enterprise AI landscape with the emergence of agentic AI technologies