Explore 5,773+ Y Combinator companies with powerful search, interactive maps, AI-powered company intelligence, hiring insights, funding data, and batch analytics. Find co-founders, validate startup ideas, and discover patterns across 20 years of YC history.
Since launching ExploreYC, the #1 request in my inbox has been some version of: "This is great, but can I get the underlying data?" Founders wanted it for competitor research. Investors wanted it for sourcing. Job-seekers wanted to filter every company that's hiring. Data nerds just wanted to play. So today we're launching the YC Companies Database
What it is:
A single searchable, sortable table of every Y Combinator company with the columns that actually matter:
I was prepping my YC application. I wanted to know: has anyone already done this idea?
YC's search gave me nothing useful. So I spent a weekend scraping their Algolia API, built a local database, ran embeddings against my pitch... and found 3 companies that had tried it.
make sure to subscribe and get emails on newly added companies to YC every day. That way you can see patterns in what YC are searching for and early reach out to companies in very early stages!
ExploreYC
make sure to subscribe and get emails on newly added companies to YC every day. That way you can see patterns in what YC are searching for and early reach out to companies in very early stages!
ExploreYC
let's see how we do