Y Combinator (YC)

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionAI

Y Combinator funds early-stage startups through a three-month accelerator in San Francisco, with four batches a year and a standard $500,000 investment for accepted companies.

The investment consists of $125,000 for 7% of the company and $375,000 on an uncapped SAFE with a most-favoured-nation provision. The second SAFE adds to YC’s ownership when it converts, so the full $500,000 is not exchanged for a fixed 7% stake.

During the batch, founders work with YC partners in individual and group office hours, build toward Demo Day and use the alumni community for feedback, hiring and introductions. Companies can apply before launch; YC also accepts businesses that already have users and revenue.

Sources
Rounds participated in
106
Confirmed lead rounds
2
90 roles undisclosed
New companies
106
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$6.3B
103 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series A34
Seed29
Series B18
Series C+15
Undisclosed7
1 more
Pre-seed3

By primary sector

AI31
Fintech18
Healthtech16
Enterprise software13
Developer tools10
12 more
Cybersecurity3
Proptech3
Ecommerce2
Logistics2
Biotech1
Climate tech1
Defense tech1
Edtech1
Hardware1
Mobility1
Robotics1
Space tech1

By country

United States88
France4
Germany4
Sweden4
Belgium2
2 more
India2
United Kingdom2

Rounds

106 in this selection
Solidroad

Provides AI-powered quality assurance and training for customer support teams

$25MSeries A
Role not disclosed
HockeyStack

Builds revenue intelligence platform with AI agents for enterprise sales

UndisclosedUndisclosed
Role not disclosed
AfterQuery

AfterQuery creates specialist datasets and reinforcement-learning environments for AI labs and enterprises.

$30MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Luminai

Luminai provides AI-based automation software for healthcare operations.

$38MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Plume

Develops AI platform for renewable energy site intelligence and permit processing

Role not disclosed
Latent

Develops a clinical-reasoning system for medication-access workflows.

$80MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Variance

Builds AI investigative agents for risk and compliance

$21.5MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Starcloud

Builds orbital data centers running AI GPU compute in space

$170MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Conntour

Provides AI-powered video surveillance platform for security personnel

$7MSeed
Role not disclosed
Glimpse

Provides AI-powered platform to automate financial deduction processes for retailers

$35MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Lucid Bots

Lucid Bots develops autonomous exterior-cleaning robots and software for professional cleaning businesses.

$20MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Mandel AI

Develops AI supply chain coordinator to automate supplier communication and procurement

$3.9MSeed
Role not disclosed
Conduit

Provides AI-powered dock and yard management systems to automate warehouse shipping and receiving

$6MSeed
Role not disclosed
Spade

Data and AI platform transforming how financial institutions use transaction data

$40MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Parallel

Develops AI agents to automate hospital administrative workflows

$20MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Laminar

Open-source observability platform for tracing and debugging long-running AI agents

$3MSeed
Role not disclosed
Understood Care

Combines human advocates and AI-powered automation to deliver personalized patient advocacy at scale

$8.4MPre-Seed+Seed
Role not disclosed
Gumloop

Provides AI-powered automation tools for non-technical employees to build and deploy autonomous agents

$50MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Replit

Provides AI-powered development platform for software creation and deployment

$400MSeries D
Role not disclosed
Juicebox

Develops AI recruiting software for finding and contacting candidates before they apply.

$80MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Escape

Develops AI agents to automate security testing and remediation across the development lifecycle

$18MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Legora

Legora develops AI software for law firms and in-house legal teams.

$550MSeries D
Role not disclosed
Science Corporation

Develops brain-computer interface retinal implants to restore vision in patients with retinal diseases

$230MSeries C
Role not disclosed
Lio

Provides a virtual, agentic procurement department for enterprise companies

$30MSeries A
Role not disclosed
14.ai

14.ai built a managed AI customer-service business; its founding team now operates GloGlo, focused on type 1 diabetes.

$3MSeed
Role not disclosed
Trace

Builds workflow orchestration systems to provide context for AI agents in enterprises

$3MSeed
Role not disclosed
Encord

Provides AI-native data infrastructure for physical AI systems

$60MSeries C
Role not disclosed
Harper

AI-native commercial insurance brokerage matching small businesses with carriers for coverage

$46.8MSeed+Series A
Role not disclosed
Letter AI

Provides AI-native revenue enablement platform for go-to-market teams

$40MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Onshore

Builds AI-powered platform to help businesses claim and defend tax incentives like R&D credits with automation and expert review

$31MSeries B
Role not disclosed