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.
This is the 2nd launch from ExploreYC . View more
ExploreYC
Launching today
One open-source API for startup data across Y Combinator AND a16z - 6,600+ companies with funding, stage, IPO/M&A exits, and founders. Filter by VC (yc/a16z/all), batch, industry, country, or search. Grab a free API key, read the docs (curl/Node/Python + Swagger), and build in 30 seconds. Plus the full web app: map, analytics, funding data, a live hiring board, and AI tools.
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Launch Team
Congrats on the second launch. Merging both portfolios into one schema sounds like the unglamorous hard part — YC has batches and a public directory, a16z is scattered across press pages. Which fields refused to line up between the two?
ExploreYC
@vollos yea, merging even more portfolios will be hard. still investigating how can the platform scale and how it should change. open for suggestions
This is actually useful for pre-launch validation before building anything you can search your category, see which batches funded similar ideas, check if those companies are still alive ,and figure out where the graveyard is. Has anyone used it that way to kill an idea before wasting six months on it?
How fresh is the data on hiring and funding, and does it pull directly from YC's API or are you scraping public sources to keep it updated?
Voquill
Congrats on the launch! Looks really useful and a nice addition to the original launch.
One thing I'd want to know is how often the data is refreshed and how quickly funding or hiring updates make it into the API.
i tested the filtering options and they saved plenty of time while searching for startups in specific industries. would adding historical funding snapshots help researchers track how companies evolve different years and stages?
Spent way too long doing this manually with YC's directory and a bunch
of half-remembered LinkedIn searches. Having search, funding data, and
hiring boards actually talk to each other in one place is such an
obvious upgrade once you see it.