Zep AI Raises the Bar: Building the Agent Context Layer with $24K+ GitHub Stars

Zep AI (YC W24) is the context engineering platform for AI agents. The company has achieved 50% month-over-month ARR growth, serves 240+ customers including Fortune 500s, and its open-source engine Graphiti has accumulated 24,000+ GitHub stars.

What Zep Does

Zep solves one of the hardest problems in production AI: getting the right context to agents at the right time. The platform builds context graphs from conversations and business data, then assembles personalized, token-efficient context with sub-200ms retrieval.

Open Source: Graphiti

Graphiti is Zep's open-source temporal context graph engine. It's becoming foundational infrastructure for agent memory — enabling AI systems to maintain rich, evolving context across sessions.

Current Hiring

• Lead Forward Deployed Engineer ($175K-$250K + equity)
• Developer Relations Lead ($175K-$250K + equity)
• Founding GTM ($180K-$220K + equity)

All roles are SF-based or remote (US). The company is seed-stage with a team of 5, offering significant equity (0.5%-1.5%).