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

Sam Altman

President

Trevor Blackwell

Founder

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Paul Buchheit

Group Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Nicolas Dessaigne

Partner

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Diana Hu

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Jessica Livingston

Co-Founder and Partner

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

4648 past transactions

Zip

Series C in 2023
Zip provides one place for any employee to initiate a purchase or vendor request. Each request is correctly routed for approval across procurement, finance, IT, data security, legal, and other teams, and Zip integrates into all major ERP and P2P solutions to create a PR or draft PO.

Penguin AI

Grant in 2023
Penguin AI helps b2b GTM teams automate growth by identifying the exact people visiting your site and automating outbound and other actions to convert them into pipeline.

Openlayer

Seed Round in 2023
Unbox is a novel, collaborative error analysis platform that "opens up" machine learning models by detecting and eliminating failure patterns and biases. Unbox makes it easy to keep track of all models and datasets, allowing the team to focus on building production-ready models.

HockeyStack

Seed Round in 2023
HockeyStack is the only SaaS analytics tool that can natively integrate with your tech stack and unify your marketing, sales, revenue, and product data to uncover what drives revenue. Using HockeyStack, you can answer questions, such as the LTV of a campaign, churn rate of each marketing channel, or the exact MRR a blog post brings.

Replit

Series B in 2023
Repl.it lets you start coding in your favorite programming language in 2 seconds; it lets you build and deploy apps right from your browser. The founders wanted to build something to solve their own problem -- back in school they were tired of setting up their development environment on every machine they wanted to code on, and they dreamed of a world where you could just open a tab in the browser and start working. They built Repl.it to give developers access to simple, powerful tools and a community of hackers, aspiring programmers and teachers. They make it possible to learn, practice and build, all in the same place.

Axle

Seed Round in 2023
Axle is an open platform for consumer-permissioned insurance data. With Axle, companies can instantly verify insurance and monitor ongoing coverage, helping them create a frictionless experience for their customers and reduce operational risk through better-informed decisions.

DAGWorks

Pre Seed Round in 2023
DAGWorks is developing a collaborative open-core platform for data science teams to develop, produce, and maintain machine learning ETLs while leveraging a company's existing MLOps and data infrastructure.

Lavo Life Sciences

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Lavo Life Sciences is an early-stage startup that creates drug development software tools. Lavo Life Sciences' AI-accelerated quantum chemistry methods make pharmaceutical property prediction less expensive and more robust than existing solutions.

OneText

Pre Seed Round in 2023
OneText offers text-based services to individuals and businesses to help them purchase goods and services from third-party vendors .

CorgiAI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
CorgiAI is an API-based end-to-end fraud detection + prevention product suite, built on a core of customizable and explainable AI

Berry

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Berry offers an AI CSM that scales customer success for SaaS companies. It onboards, trains and grows accounts for you non-stop. It’s a 10x hire to your team - at a fraction of the cost.

Matano

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Matano is an open source security lake platform that provides serverless, zero-ops security log analytics for AWS accounts. Matano empowers users to own their security data and avoid vendor lock-in.

Viddy

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Viddy enables e-commerce brands to increase conversion rates and engagement by adding shoppable, interactive video experiences to their websites. The most engaging experiences today are increasingly filled with short-form videos, swiping, and scrolling (think TikTok, Instagram Stories, etc.).Viddy brings those same familiar video experiences to e-commerce websites with much higher purchase intent.

Sorted

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Sorted is a tool for organizing all of your tools. Startups make extensive use of digital tools, which can be difficult to manage Sorted allows you to manage access, costs, workflow automation, and tool provisioning all in one place, and it only takes 2 minutes to set up.

Storyboarder

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Storyboarder is a company based out of 1715 Giles St, Austin, Texas, United States.

Omnistrate

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Omnistrate is a control-plane-as-a-service that transforms the user's docker image into a multi-cloud SaaS service. With the help of Omnistrate, businesses and service providers in the world can give the professionals who actually create, deploy, and oversee the life cycle of the applications access to the power of application automation.

Luca

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Pricing Strategy is one of the most powerful levers that retailers have at their disposal to create growth, yet it is underleveraged. Most retail pricing teams settle for making decisions in spreadsheets, shooting in the dark, and working backward from a cost-plus margin target, leaving a LOT of money on the table. Our founders experienced these problems at scale when they built pricing tech at Uber that made Uber a billion dollars in profit a year. They realized that retail was lacking the same quality and sophistication of price tooling. So, they built Luca. Luca is an AI-powered co-pilot for retail operators, which constantly identifies revenue and profit headroom, makes recommendations for price adjustments and saves countless work hours along the way. Luca is backed by Y Combinator, Menlo Ventures, and others.

Outerbase

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Outerbase is a collaborative interface that sits on top of your databases.

Apollo Group

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Apollo is a diversified technology group that specialises in building consumer marketplaces in frontier markets. Our first consumer brand is called Pluto, a platform for consumers to hire fully-trained service providers in Pakistan.

Holacasa

Seed Round in 2023
Holacasa helps real estate brokers with a end-end mortgage solutions to offers the customers, having instant quote, pre-qualify and apply to their mortgage fast and simple with a white-label solution, and Real Estate companies to have dashboards, real time status and a raking of their potential leads.

Common Paper

Venture Round in 2023
Developer of contract collaboration software designed to improve the process of commercial contracting. The company's platform builds an integrated web and creates open-source versions of commonly used agreements and contracts designed to help move deals forward and faster, enabling clients to build trusted templates using standard agreements, then negotiate, sign, and manage contracts in a single workflow.

Pigeon

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Streamlined and secure file sharing for business

Booth AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Booth AI enables companies to supercharge their creative output with a generative-AI powered image production platform. Booth AI replaces complicated, labor intensive, time consuming and expensive commercial product lifestyle photoshoots. Brand managers, merchandisers, and marketers can produce beautiful lifestyle images in a matter of seconds at a fraction of the cost of traditional photoshoots.

Depot

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Depot is a cloud-based Docker image development service that provides managed persistent cache and native multi-architecture compatibility.

Keyval

Seed Round in 2023
Keyval helps developers by generating distributed traces, metrics, and logs for any application.

Finta

Seed Round in 2023
Finta is the simplest way for startups to manage taxes, bookkeeping, and track financial metrics - all in one platform. It replaces your expense bookkeepers, Quickbooks, and Google Sheets. Finta gives you squeaky clean books, files your taxes compliantly on time, and access to a dashboard to track burn, cash, runway, and everything else about your finances. Finta lets you easily integrate with modern tech tools like Brex, Ramp, Mercury, Stripe, Gusto, Rippling, Pulley, Carta, and more. Finta is the source of truth for your financial data as you scale.

NuMind

Seed Round in 2023
NuMind allows users to design unique machine learning models to automatically interpret text. Ideal for sentiment analysis, topic detection, content control, and more. There is no need for special knowledge.

Curacel

Seed Round in 2023
Curacel is building the largest healthcare data platform in Africa. We deliver productivity tools and IT infrastructure to healthcare stakeholders across the continent, empowering them to digitize business processes, connect with stakeholders across the spectrum, and make decisions based on data that is otherwise unavailable. Curacel’s vision is to build a connected healthcare ecosystem for low income economies, to optimize the use of scarce resources, improve patient outcomes, and inform research, policy-making and public health in Africa with 360 degree data for the first time.

Wyndly

Seed Round in 2023
Wyndly is fixing allergies. We give you lifelong allergy relief with personalized, prescription treatment and phenomenal online care. We’re making an allergy-free life easy and accessible to the 60 million Americans who suffer from environmental allergies.

Turntable

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Turntable is an AI-powered data discovery, contextualization, and transformation toolkit. To begin, they're working to reduce the time and cost of data transformation within DBT, an open-source data engineering platform.

Riot

Series A in 2023
Riot develops of a security platform designed for fighting phishing attempts. Riot's security platform runs fake phishing campaigns on employees and secures products and internal tools by two-factor authentications, enabling companies to educating their employees about security breaches.

Orderli

Seed Round in 2023
Orderli is the platform for restaurants, we help you sell more and efficiently through our QR based ordering solution.

Snab

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Snab aims to automate, digitize, and simplify business payments and cash collections, as well as the treasury management of businesses. They digitise and automate treasury and business payments by providing a seamless experience.

CodeComplete

Seed Round in 2023
CodeComplete is an AI coding assistant for enterprises.

Finley Technologies

Series A in 2023
Developer of debt management software designed to simplify capital raising and management. The company's software features the ability to automate debt capital operations, ensure credit agreement compliance, and centralize knowledge from across the organization, enabling financial companies to automate due diligence, and compliance, and streamline ongoing reporting with capital providers.

Accord

Series A in 2023
Accord is a customer-facing collaborative workspace, built for B2B sales. It’s as flexible as Sheets, structured for collaboration like Asana, but uniquely client-facing, so that buyers & sellers can stay on the same page. If you’re familiar with B2B sales, think “Mutual Evaluation Plans” with superpowers.

Cypher Wallet

Seed Round in 2023
Existing Crypto Wallets are too geeky for mainstream users. We are building a multi-chain crypto wallet simplifying user experience for the mainstream users along with a crypto card.

Nucleus

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Developers use Nucleus to define microservices and deploy them on the Nucleus platform, which configures many aspects of their security, observability, and other properties automatically. In order to fit with established developer workflows, Nucleus is offered through a command-line interface. It also comes with prebuilt connectors for tools like Hashicorp, Cloudflare, and Okta.

AiFlow

Pre Seed Round in 2023
AiFlow Powers Executive Search and Board Advisory at the Speed of AI. In today's competitive landscape, quickly delivering exceptional candidates is essential for building long term partnerships with clients. AiFlow empowers your firm to exceed expectations through the power of artificial intelligence. Our AI possesses unparalleled insights into C-level and board candidates, enabling search firms to deliver the absolute highest quality candidates at unprecedented speeds.

Craftwork

Seed Round in 2023
Craftwork is a full-service home painting company that uses software to dramatically improve the homeowner and operator experience.

Juicebox

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hiring on autopilot.

Remedial Health

Seed Round in 2022
Remedial Health is a company focused on enhancing access to medicines for healthcare retail businesses, including large pharmacies and small chemist shops. By utilizing advanced technology, it develops a pharmacy operations and procurement management platform that facilitates direct ordering from manufacturers and registered distributors. This platform supports both large and small retailers in streamlining their dispensing and workflow management processes, ensuring just-in-time stock availability. Additionally, Remedial Health provides financing options and a diverse selection of inventory, thereby improving the efficiency and effectiveness of medicine procurement for its clients.

Bloom

Seed Round in 2022
Bloom, formerly known as Together, is a startup based in Oakland, California, supported by YCombinator. The company aims to foster social connections through its unique dating community, which organizes group dates in parks. Members specify their preferences for potential partners, and Bloom coordinates meetups with 6 to 8 participants, ensuring a safe and enjoyable atmosphere. With a strong emphasis on consent and a referral-based community, Bloom positions itself as a secure platform for individuals seeking to meet new friends and partners. Additionally, the Bloom Community caters to sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture groups, providing them with a safe online environment to connect.

Bloom

Seed Round in 2022
Bloom, formerly known as Together, is a startup based in Oakland, California, supported by YCombinator. The company aims to foster social connections through its unique dating community, which organizes group dates in parks. Members specify their preferences for potential partners, and Bloom coordinates meetups with 6 to 8 participants, ensuring a safe and enjoyable atmosphere. With a strong emphasis on consent and a referral-based community, Bloom positions itself as a secure platform for individuals seeking to meet new friends and partners. Additionally, the Bloom Community caters to sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture groups, providing them with a safe online environment to connect.

Andi

Seed Round in 2022
Andi is building search for the next generation - visual, conversational and factually accurate. Search is broken. Results are overwhelmed with ads, clickbait and spam. Andi solved this by pioneering conversational search, the first smart search assistant using generative AI to find the right answers and give you clear summaries of the best results, like chatting with a smart friend. Free for anyone to use, Andi is ad-free and completely anonymous with no personal data tracking.

91Squarefeet

Series A in 2022
91Squarefeet is a retail design and development company that helps offline businesses scale up.

GroMo

Series A in 2022
GROMO has the vision to provide access of financial products such as Loans, Insurance, and Investments, to the underserved and unpenetrated Tier 2 cities and beyond, what they call The Real Bharat, through a disruptive digitally enabled social commerce model.

Tailor

Seed Round in 2022
Tailor is a Headless ERP that enables businesses to create their own customized ERP with no coding.

Duplo

Seed Round in 2022
Duplo enables businesses across Africa to reduce their reliance on cash payments through the use of virtual accounts, digital wallets and cards.

Grey

Seed Round in 2022
Grey is simplifying sending and receiving foreign payments for freelancers, remote workers, and businesses. Founded in 2020 by Idorenyin Obong and Femi Aghedo, Grey is the easiest way to send and receive international payments in Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania without restrictions. Our users can open a free foreign bank account, receive payments from 80+ countries, and convert to their local currency to spend or hold. Our mission is to make it easier for digital nomads to live and work in the modern world. With a Money Service Business license from FINTRAC in Canada & FinCEN in the USA, Grey has made it possible for people to send money across borders quickly.

Complete

Seed Round in 2022
Complete helps teams get compensation right from the very beginning. Through their communication tools -- like interactive offer letters and total reward statements -- in addition to real-time dashboards, companies are able to make smart decisions, efficiently.

Positive

Venture Round in 2022
Positive Food is a food company.

Craniometrix

Seed Round in 2022
Craniometrix is a D2C SaaS solution that screens cognitive impairment in a simple, cost-effective, and accurate manner. they help to detect of Alzheimer's disease, even years before symptoms appear.

Grai.io

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Grai is data lineage made simple. Understand & test how your data relates together across databases, warehouses, APIs and dashboards.

Maya Labs

Grant in 2022
Developer of virtual assistant software designed to build and democratize general-purpose machine intelligence. The company's software reduces the time it takes to automate complex, custom tasks from days to minutes across the browser, desktop, apps, and application programming interfaces to build a machine that can think, learn, and program itself to do a wide variety of tasks as well as a human can, enabling users to automate their tasks and improve their output by order of magnitude.

Craze

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Craze is a gaming application that allows users to trade real-world events like stocks.

AlgoTest

Pre Seed Round in 2022
At https://algotest.in/, we are continuously building tools to help retail traders make better decisions for their investments. Our first product is a free options backtester for India. Our experience in the markets spans geographies and market segments - strategies we've worked on range from electronic options market-making in some of the deepest options markets in the world (CBOE, AMEX, PHLX, ARCA, ISE), to backtested factor-based market-taking strategies in NSE's F&O segment. Members of our team have manually entered into trades where the hold time was as large as 6+ months, as well as written algos where the average hold time has been 10 seconds or less. We invite you to leverage our extensive experience and evaluate your trading strategies for free. Sign up Now at AlgoTest.in!

Entvin

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Entvin makes it easy for sales-driven companies to plan, track and calculate incentives/commissions to improve speed & transparency within the organization. It’s a scalable platform that companies can setup in a day, connect to their CRM and calculate commissions automatically instead of using excel.

PayO

Pre Seed Round in 2022
PayO is an accounting and payments application designed specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises. It simplifies billing, stock management, payment collections, and supplier payments. The platform operates as a neo-banking solution, creating a connected network of buyers, suppliers, and banks to automate business billing processes. This includes managing payables and receivables, facilitating e-payments, and enabling immediate auto-reconciliation of transactions. By streamlining these financial operations, PayO helps businesses enhance efficiency and improve their overall financial management.

Bemlo

Seed Round in 2022
Bemlo matches nurses and doctors with the best jobs in healthcare.

Gym Class

Seed Round in 2022
Gym Class is a virtual reality basketball app available on Meta Quest App Lab. It combines the enjoyment, fitness, socialization, and entertainment aspects of real-world sports in VR basketball. Gym Class, which uses physics and high-fidelity graphics, includes realistic basketball mechanics, full-body avatars, and immersive environments. Players from all over the world can connect and play basketball games on a customizable digital court, as well as socialize.

Neurolytic Healthcare Ltd.

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Neurolytic Healthcare Ltd. is a company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, specializing in the design, development, manufacturing, and delivery of digital and genomic-based diagnostic tools and medical devices aimed at treating migraine and related neurological disorders. Established in 2016, the company focuses on personalized medicine by integrating genetic and biomarker data to enhance diagnostic accuracy and assist clinicians in determining optimal treatment strategies. Its product offerings include a diagnostic support tool, a pharmacogenetic test, and a mobile application designed for predicting migraine events. Through these innovative solutions, Neurolytic Healthcare aims to improve the management and treatment of neurological conditions.

Pivo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pivo is a financial hub that allows small & medium businesses across Africa access to all the financial services they need in one place.

Garage Mobility

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Garage is Africa’s premier automotive technology company, connecting regional and global manufacturers and distributors with fleets, retailers and mechanic shops and providing best in class software for inventory management, shop management and eCommerce.

Chowdeck

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.

DigiBuild

Seed Round in 2022
DigiBuild is the Most Powerful Construction Software Ever Created.

Noloco

Seed Round in 2022
Noloco is a no-code client portal builder for agencies and SMBs to centralize and automate client interactions through tailor-made client portals.

Strac

Seed Round in 2022
Strac is a software startup building tech that plugs into a company’s website or mobile app to secure sensitive customer data.

Persephone Biome, Inc.

Seed Round in 2022
Persephone Biome, Inc. is a San Diego-based company focused on researching and developing products and therapies that modify gut microbial metabolism, particularly in relation to cancer treatment. Established in 2017, the company is creating innovative solutions aimed at enhancing the efficacy of oncology drugs by retuning the gut microbiome. This includes the development of a pill containing beneficial gut bacteria. In addition to its therapeutics, Persephone Biome aims to offer nutritional products that support the human gut microbiome, producing functional foods and beverages that cater to the growing consumer demand for health-oriented products. The company has plans to enter clinical trials to further advance its initiatives in the field of microbiome-directed therapies.

AssemblyAI

Series B in 2022
AssemblyAI Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a robust speech-to-text application programming interface (API) designed for developers. Established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a high-accuracy API powered by advanced deep neural networks, ensuring continuous improvements to its transcription capabilities. AssemblyAI's API allows developers to create customized chat interfaces and voice-powered applications, enabling the transcription of phone calls and other audio sources. The service is designed for easy integration, supporting multiple programming languages, and it can handle large volumes of audio files or streams with low latency. AssemblyAI also offers dedicated customer support, including access to account managers and engineers available around the clock to assist users.

Bobidi

Seed Round in 2022
Bobidi helps AI companies test and validate their models in the real world very fast and improve them 10x more efficiently. The underlying magic is that they run a global gamified community that is incentivized to test and find the edge cases that the model missed. The whole process would be up to 10x more efficient than the industry norm that takes as long as a couple of months.

Swadesh

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Swadesh is a digital banking experience built from the ground up, specifically for the Indian diaspora. They make it delightful for its customers to invest, remit and manage their money in India from abroad.

Fieldproxy

Seed Round in 2022
Fieldproxy helps managers within large retail and FMCG organizations to easily create and assign data collection tasks to their fieldforce

Kindly

Seed Round in 2022
Kindly is a fertility care platform focused on making infertility treatments and assisted fertilization procedures more affordable and accessible. The company utilizes an AI and computer vision tool to assist embryologists in selecting the optimal embryo, thereby enhancing the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Additionally, Kindly develops nutraceutical products aimed at improving sexual health and wellness. The platform also addresses various sexual health concerns through at-home diagnostic tests, including semen analysis and tests for conditions like polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). By offering telehealth consultations alongside these services, Kindly provides comprehensive solutions for both male and female reproductive health issues, such as low libido, irregular periods, and menstrual pain.

Dapi

Seed Round in 2022
Dapi Ltd is a fintech company that specializes in developing application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate payments between consumer bank accounts and businesses. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the company provides a suite of open banking APIs designed to connect customer bank accounts, initiate payments, and access financial data in real-time. Dapi acts as an intermediary between financial applications and banks, enabling developers to create solutions such as digital wallets, budget trackers, and investment applications. Its services allow fintech companies to initiate payments through banks and offer financial services based on customer bank statement data. Dapi operates in multiple countries, including the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and Kuwait, and has demonstrated significant demand for its offerings, achieving substantial growth in annual recurring revenue.

Fuell

Series A in 2022
Fuell Technologies, S.L. is a Madrid-based company that specializes in issuing corporate credit cards and providing expense management software for businesses. Founded in 2019, Fuell's platform integrates a corporate card with expense management tools, allowing companies to manage spending in real-time and set budgets without the need for traditional expense reports. The service includes features such as automatic budget updates, credit increases as businesses grow, and cashbacks on various expenditures, including rideshare, fuel, dining, and recruitment services. This innovative approach aims to streamline financial management, offering businesses greater control over their expenses and enhancing operational efficiency.

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.

Integrated Reasoning

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Integrated Reasoning builds computer hardware to efficiently solve optimization problems. We're making faster and cheaper to solve problems like scheduling airline pilots or packing boxes into trucks.
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