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.
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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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The API-first cut of this is the version I'd actually reach for, @konstantimb . Non-expiring key in 30 seconds, standard X-RateLimit-* + Retry-After headers, and interactive Swagger — that's the boring DX most data APIs skip, and it's exactly what makes one safe to wire into a pipeline.
Open-sourcing the whole ingestion side on top of that is a real trust signal when the dataset leans on scraped sources. Great comeback launch 👌
Love how the map view makes it easy to spot YC clusters by city, and the AI summaries save me from clicking into dozens of pages when I'm researching a space.
ExploreYC
@yegendilar30632 haha yea - US is quite the cluster
This is pretty useful for founder research. I like that it’s not just a directory, but something developers can actually build on top of.
Is it free?
DrDroid
Amazing man! You just unlocked the big power.