Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2005. It has pioneered a new funding model for early-stage startups by investing a modest amount of capital, typically around $150,000, in a large number of companies twice a year. Over a three-month program, Y Combinator collaborates closely with these startups to prepare them for investor pitches and enhance their business strategies. Each funding cycle concludes with Demo Day, where startups present to an exclusive audience of investors. Y Combinator focuses on various sectors, including business software, education, healthcare, and financial technology, among others. In addition to initial funding, it offers ongoing support through its extensive alumni network. Since its inception, Y Combinator has funded over 630 startups, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Gustaf Alstromer

Group Partner

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Verena Prescher

Director of Finance

Geoff Ralston

president

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Arnav Sahu

Principal

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Partner

Past deals in Analytics

Whaly

Seed Round in 2022
Whaly lets business teams build analytics & reports on top of their everyday tools (Hubspot, Postgres, Airtable, Google Ads, etc.) without coding. Your data is automatically synced with Whaly allowing you to build cross sources reports and design impactful dashboards. No more manual data update or #REF hell.

Segna

Seed Round in 2021
Segna’s online data analysis platform focuses on streamlining data analysis, getting you insightful analysis that works anywhere you do, regardless of your industry or skill level. Machine learning enables automated data wrangling that works irrespective of data quality. We’re empowering you to use messier, more complex, or previously unanalyzed data to unlock better results. Combined with an intuitive, beautifully simple user interface, we’ll have you automating everyday analysis and reports in no time. We dramatically decrease the time and expertise required to get insights from raw data—our promise: the total process, easier, more accurately, and in minutes not months.

q&ai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Q&ai gives product leaders insight into how customers think about products and messaging by analyzing their company's sales calls.

Datlo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Dalto is a Data analysis platform for sales and expansion teams.Dalto using artificial intelligence techniques helps companies finding market oppurtunities as new places to work, potential customers, and teams.

Potion

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AI-Based Beauty Product Development Company

Evidence

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Evidence is a developer of an open-source business intelligence platform that allows analysts to create reports and dashboards using a markup language. This innovative approach enables users to establish a trusted, version-controlled reporting system, enhancing the reliability and consistency of outputs. The platform's superset of markdown includes a growing library of components, such as charts and graphs, which support SQL analysts in delivering comprehensive business insights. By moving away from traditional drag-and-drop interfaces, Evidence's solution empowers users to efficiently build and manage their reporting processes.

Zoios

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zoios is a People Analytics platform that helps companies increase wellbeing and performance while keeping employees longer. We do that by collecting and analyzing People Data to provide insights on which groups are highly engaged, too stressed or likely to churn - and which drivers are causing this.

Haystack

Seed Round in 2021
Our mission is to bring the competitive advantage data-driven engineering teams like Google have to everyone. We help teams track their delivery process and optimization opportunities instead of relying solely on gut feelings - resulting in 40% faster delivery on average.

Fountain9

Seed Round in 2021
The world is drowning in data but starving for insights due to scarcity of analytical manpower. fountain9 is building AI powered enterprise analytical products that will automate knowledge discovery and democratize analytics, helping companies extract more value from their data and reach their full potential.

Anakin

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Anakin specializes in providing competitive intelligence software tailored for e-commerce retailers and brands. The company's offerings enable users to gain insights into competitor strategies by delivering real-time data on product assortments and pricing from various e-commerce platforms. Anakin's technology automates the monitoring of competitors’ sales activities, allowing businesses to efficiently gather and analyze web data at scale. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Anakin empowers its clients to stay informed about industry trends and make data-driven decisions in a dynamic market environment.

Scale

Series E in 2021
Scale AI, Inc. is a data platform that specializes in providing high-quality training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a range of annotation tools, including platforms for 3D sensor data, images, videos, text, and documents. Its products support various AI tasks such as content moderation, transcription, and data comparison, and are utilized across multiple sectors including autonomous vehicles, retail, conversational AI, and robotics. Scale AI's technology enables companies to streamline their machine learning processes, allowing teams to concentrate on developing innovative models rather than the labor-intensive task of data labeling. The company serves notable clients in the technology and transportation industries, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of AI development.

Fountain9

Seed Round in 2021
The world is drowning in data but starving for insights due to scarcity of analytical manpower. fountain9 is building AI powered enterprise analytical products that will automate knowledge discovery and democratize analytics, helping companies extract more value from their data and reach their full potential.

June

Seed Round in 2021
June is instant product analytics. We automatically generate graphs of the metrics you should track - just connect your Segment account. We allow every startup to track their metrics the same way companies like Airbnb, Facebook and Slack do.

Mayan

Seed Round in 2021
An analytics platform as a service to help facilitate the discovery, analysis, purchase/sale, and operations of Amazon-FBA brands. One-stop shop for Amazon brand owners to understand everything related to their amazon business.

Haystack

Seed Round in 2021
Our mission is to bring the competitive advantage data-driven engineering teams like Google have to everyone. We help teams track their delivery process and optimization opportunities instead of relying solely on gut feelings - resulting in 40% faster delivery on average.

Datrics

Seed Round in 2021
Datrics offers a cloud-based, no-code analytics and machine learning platform that simplifies the creation of data workflows and artificial intelligence applications for users without coding experience. The platform allows users to upload their data to quickly conduct experiments, prototype, and perform self-service analytics through automated processes. With flexible templates and an intuitive interface, Datrics enables enterprises to efficiently process data, construct and compare models, and analyze market scenarios. This capability significantly reduces the time and cost associated with implementing analytical models, making machine learning accessible to both non-practitioners and professionals within organizations.

Index

Seed Round in 2020
Index wants companies to use its no-code dashboard builder to help visualize their KPIs and track performance. The tool boasts integration with a variety of data providers so that users aren’t forced to manually enter data into another tool. The startup hopes that building embeddable dashboards will help their solution catch fire and that startups will turn to their tool when they want to track progress on goals.

narrator

Series A in 2020
AI Narrator, Inc. develops and operates an online platform that provides data science as a service for startups. The company engages taking care of various data needs ranging from delivering insights to setting up a scalable data infrastructure to answering any data question. Its platform enables companies to make data-driven decisions by leveraging AI and community of experience. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Avo

Seed Round in 2020
Avo creates one source of truth for analytics events and generates personalized tracking libraries that give developers dev time validation that implementation is correct. Avo is a toolbox (UI and dev tool) to define event based analytics, and generate personalized tracking libraries that provide dev time validation of correct implementation. It's like a spell-checker for people to define quality data, and a type-checker for developers to make sure they send analytics according to design.

Avo

Seed Round in 2020
Avo creates one source of truth for analytics events and generates personalized tracking libraries that give developers dev time validation that implementation is correct. Avo is a toolbox (UI and dev tool) to define event based analytics, and generate personalized tracking libraries that provide dev time validation of correct implementation. It's like a spell-checker for people to define quality data, and a type-checker for developers to make sure they send analytics according to design.

Workbase

Seed Round in 2020
Workbase, Inc develops and offers an analytics, visualization, and automation suite of tools for teams. It provides account 360, interactivity, sharing, centralize disparate data, visibility into accounts, reduce tooling clutter, automate analytics to prioritize work, trigger downstream workflows, and customer journey tracking. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Orbiter

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Orbiter software builds machine learning models to analyze business metrics and detect abnormal changes automatically. Automated analytics help teams to move fast and accelerate issue resolution.

API Tracker

Seed Round in 2020
API Tracker is a software company that specializes in tracking and managing APIs. It monitors all API integrations, increases reliability, and features a simple deployment model. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Agnoris

Seed Round in 2020
Agnoris, Inc. is a technology company based in New York that specializes in developing a platform designed to enhance the operations and profitability of restaurants. Founded in 2017 by Daniel Shein and Alexander Matsenov, Agnoris focuses on integrating data from various restaurant systems, providing comprehensive analysis to identify opportunities for improvement. The platform serves as a guest intelligence tool, enabling restaurants to optimize their menu, labor, and delivery processes. By automating data collection and analysis, Agnoris aims to simplify business operations while maximizing sales and engagement, ultimately empowering restaurants to make informed decisions that drive profitability.

Chaos Genius

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Chaos Genius is an Open-source Business Observability tool that helps you monitor your business & system metrics and get automated RCA with multi-dimension drill-downs.

narrator

Seed Round in 2019
AI Narrator, Inc. develops and operates an online platform that provides data science as a service for startups. The company engages taking care of various data needs ranging from delivering insights to setting up a scalable data infrastructure to answering any data question. Its platform enables companies to make data-driven decisions by leveraging AI and community of experience. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Avo

Seed Round in 2019
Avo creates one source of truth for analytics events and generates personalized tracking libraries that give developers dev time validation that implementation is correct. Avo is a toolbox (UI and dev tool) to define event based analytics, and generate personalized tracking libraries that provide dev time validation of correct implementation. It's like a spell-checker for people to define quality data, and a type-checker for developers to make sure they send analytics according to design.

Scale

Series B in 2018
Scale AI, Inc. is a data platform that specializes in providing high-quality training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a range of annotation tools, including platforms for 3D sensor data, images, videos, text, and documents. Its products support various AI tasks such as content moderation, transcription, and data comparison, and are utilized across multiple sectors including autonomous vehicles, retail, conversational AI, and robotics. Scale AI's technology enables companies to streamline their machine learning processes, allowing teams to concentrate on developing innovative models rather than the labor-intensive task of data labeling. The company serves notable clients in the technology and transportation industries, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of AI development.

Zenysis

Series A in 2018
Zenysis Technologies Inc. designs and develops data integration software which helps governments view and analyze all their data in one place. It offers information related to healthcare emergencies, humanitarian crises, and natural disasters for analysis. Zenysis Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Worklytics

Seed Round in 2018
Worklytics is a company that specializes in workforce analytics focused on enhancing productivity and collaboration within organizations. It develops analytical software that employs advanced techniques, including machine learning, to provide real-time insights into employee engagement, performance, and teamwork. The platform connects various productivity tools, enabling organizations to analyze how teams allocate their time and communicate. It also offers features for mapping technical skills, automating performance reviews, and generating comprehensive feedback reports. Additionally, Worklytics provides solutions for assessing employee engagement, burnout, and retention risks, along with tools for continuous feedback and performance management. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, Worklytics aims to help organizations create and cultivate exceptional work cultures that attract and retain talent.

narrator

Seed Round in 2017
AI Narrator, Inc. develops and operates an online platform that provides data science as a service for startups. The company engages taking care of various data needs ranging from delivering insights to setting up a scalable data infrastructure to answering any data question. Its platform enables companies to make data-driven decisions by leveraging AI and community of experience. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Scale

Series A in 2017
Scale AI, Inc. is a data platform that specializes in providing high-quality training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a range of annotation tools, including platforms for 3D sensor data, images, videos, text, and documents. Its products support various AI tasks such as content moderation, transcription, and data comparison, and are utilized across multiple sectors including autonomous vehicles, retail, conversational AI, and robotics. Scale AI's technology enables companies to streamline their machine learning processes, allowing teams to concentrate on developing innovative models rather than the labor-intensive task of data labeling. The company serves notable clients in the technology and transportation industries, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of AI development.

Pit.AI Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Pit.AI Technologies specializes in developing advanced machine learning technologies tailored for quantitative finance. By leveraging nonconventional approaches and innovative machine learning techniques, the company addresses engineering challenges while pushing the limits of existing methodologies. Their focus on artificial intelligence enables them to create effective trading strategies, and early results have shown significant promise in enhancing financial decision-making processes.

ScopeAI

Seed Round in 2017
ScopeAI automates the process of communicating user insights to product and operation teams. The product leverages natural language processing (a form of AI) to extract insights from customer conversations. It integrates with existing support channels such as Zendesk, Intercom, Desk.com (salesforce) to automatically tag and analyze conversations for trends in customer feedback.

Scale

Seed Round in 2016
Scale AI, Inc. is a data platform that specializes in providing high-quality training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a range of annotation tools, including platforms for 3D sensor data, images, videos, text, and documents. Its products support various AI tasks such as content moderation, transcription, and data comparison, and are utilized across multiple sectors including autonomous vehicles, retail, conversational AI, and robotics. Scale AI's technology enables companies to streamline their machine learning processes, allowing teams to concentrate on developing innovative models rather than the labor-intensive task of data labeling. The company serves notable clients in the technology and transportation industries, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of AI development.

Zenysis

Seed Round in 2016
Zenysis Technologies Inc. designs and develops data integration software which helps governments view and analyze all their data in one place. It offers information related to healthcare emergencies, humanitarian crises, and natural disasters for analysis. Zenysis Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

PaveAI

Pre Seed Round in 2016
PaveAI is a media and information company. The company designs and develops a software for analyzing web and marketing data. It analyzes its users customized Google analytics and marketing data, and sends them actionable reports from that data. The software analyzes its user’s goals, whether it’s to increase revenue on an e-commerce site or engagement on a blog, and personalizes their reports for them. Its data science algorithm looks at possible combinations to identify the important insights across all marketing channels.

Interstate Analytics

Seed Round in 2016
Interstate Analytics helps marketers make smarter decisions. The customers of the company are Betabrand, Outdoor Voices, EVERLANE, and JACK ERWIN. It pulls in its users’ visit, conversion, and spends data across all channels and centralizes it in a dashboard. It allows its users to spend less time wrangling data and more time acting on it. It applies attribution models to its users’ data that take into account all consumer touchpoints and makes better spend allocation decisions with accurate performance data. The company deterministically syncs marketing spends and conversion data across devices. Interstate Analytics was founded in 2015.

Prayas Analytics

Seed Round in 2015
Prayas Anaytics helps retailers A/B test their stores, the way eCommerce companies A/B test their websites. This is done by continuously collecting data on customer movement using existing security cameras already in a retailer's stores. Prayas Analytics is a Y Combinator backed company (S15) and is currently working with several retailers including Barneys, Payomatic, and multiple Fortune 200 retailers. The company has been featured in VentureBeat, The National Retail Federation, and Techcrunch. Visit www.prayasanalytics.com for more information.

Valor Water Analytics

Seed Round in 2014
Valor Water Analytics, Inc. specializes in developing analytical solutions for water utilities to enhance financial and resource management. The company offers a range of interactive tools and dashboards that analyze utility sales data, providing insights into revenue performance and opportunities for conservation. Its flagship product, Customer Water Sales Analytics, helps utility finance and conservation managers access disaggregated sales information, key performance indicators, and targeted program insights. Additionally, Valor provides commercial and industrial solutions, including custom water cost calculators and the Valor Technology Platform, which serves as a comprehensive data and business intelligence system. This platform enables utilities to benchmark their performance, reduce costs, conserve resources, and manage financial risks related to water operations. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Valor Water Analytics operates as a subsidiary of Xylem Inc.

Framed Data

Seed Round in 2014
Framed Data takes data from businesses and turns it into actionable insights and decisions. They train, optimize, and store productionized models in their cloud and provide predictions through an API, eliminating infrastructure overhead. They provide dashboards and scenario analysis tools that tell you which company levers are driving metrics you care about.

Posmetrics

Seed Round in 2013
Posmetrics provides innovative iPad-based customer feedback surveys that collect orders of magnitude more data than other technologies, provide relevant, real-time results, and generate actionable recommendations to help businesses and organizations improve their services.

Statwing

Seed Round in 2012
Statwing, Inc. develops data analysis tools. The company offers Statwing, a solution that allows users to analyze tables of data and run a regression analysis; and clean data, explore relationships, and create charts. Its solution is also used to automatically visualize analysis through histograms, scatterplots, heatmaps, and bar charts by exporting to Excel or PowerPoint. Statwing, Inc. offers its solution for survey, marketing analysis, academic research, journalism, and quantified self data applications. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of May 26, 2016, Statwing, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Qualtrics, LLC.

BigCalc

Seed Round in 2012
Financial analytics should just work, no matter how big the data. Analysts and traders shouldn't have to be expert programmers just to test a trade idea. The BigCalc team initially met at college, and then worked in quantitative finance and algorithmic trading at leading firms. Their first hand experience of ever increasing data sets led to the founding of BigCalc.

Amplitude

Seed Round in 2012
Amplitude Analytics, Inc. operates a behavioral web and mobile analytics platform for user-focused companies. Its platform provides behavioral cohort analysis; compass retention indicator; pathfinder conversion, retention, and churn analytics; microscope user analytics; and direct SQL access. The company offers Growth Engine, a product iteration system to help digital businesses build products for systematic growth. Amplitude Analytics, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Freshplum

Seed Round in 2011
Freshplum's goal is to bring the decision-making power of data science to companies who sell goods and services electronically.

DemandSphere

Seed Round in 2010
DemandSphere is the result of the evolution and growth of GinzaMetrics, an enterprise search and content marketing platform with clients around the world in a variety of organizations and roles.The changes to the marketing landscape and, by extension, the roles that marketers play, has meant constant updates to data and insight needs by our users. Where SEO, content, email, social, paid, display, offline, and other channels once lived separately there are growing connective ties between online and offline experiences, and onsite and offsite content needs.