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24 alternatives to ExploreYC
Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data
ExploreYC is an open-source API providing access to data on over 6,600 Y Combinator and a16z portfolio companies. It offers searchable information including funding amounts, company stage, exits through IPO or… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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The definitive database of YC companies with all the metrics
2017 · ycdb.co · its alternatives →
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Interactive list of all 1000+ YC companies
2016 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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Everything you ever wanted to know about YC companies
2018 · ycdb.co · its alternatives →
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YC Companies Map▲180A map of YC companies around the world. Discover YC startups by city, batch, and industry. Powered by FoundersAround.
2025 · yc.foundersaround.com · its alternatives →
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Person search APIfree▲790Hi HN! We’re Abhilash Chowdhary, Chris Pisarski and Manmohit Grewal. We built Crustdata (YC F24). Today we’re launching our web search API for AI agents, which not only returns the most relevant documents from the web but also maps them to the correct entity (person, company or event). Demo video here https://youtu.be/IouWW97hBN8 If you run agents at scale, tokens become a line item. The web data is the worst input: long pages, repeated content, mixed entities, stale claims. The usual web search -> scrape -> summarize + structure forces the agent to spend tokens doing…
2025 · crustdata.com · its alternatives →
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Curated collection of resources for founders applying to YC.
2017 · its alternatives →
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Context.dev▲814Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.
Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →
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OpenVC▲9032,200+ VC firms by thesis. Radically free and open. 🚀
2021 · openvc.app · its alternatives →
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YC’s free online platform to help you find your co-founder
2021 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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YC World▲396Explore Y Combinator companies by country
2017 · world.ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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YC Library▲810The new hub for YC's startup videos, essays, podcasts & more
2023 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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tl;dr we at Escape (YC W23), we scanned 5651+ public APIs on the internet with our in house feedback driven API exploration tech, and ranked them using security, performance, reliability, and design criteria. The results are public on https://apirank.dev. You can request that we index your own API to the list for free and see how it compares to others. Why we did that? During a YC meetup I spoke with a fellow founder that told me how hard it was to pick the right external APIs to use within your own projects. I realized that most of what we build relies on public APIs from external…
2023 · apirank.dev · its alternatives →
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A free unique list of relevant VCs for your startup
2021 · unicorn-nest.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · ycadvice.com · its alternatives →
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- 17IW
2012 · guidetoyc.com · its alternatives →
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Investor Hunt▲547A database of 40k+ investors to raise your seed round 💰
2018 · investorscout.co · its alternatives →
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zero.xyz▲335Give your AI agent access to ~8k tools, APIs and services
May 2026 · zero.xyz · its alternatives →
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YC has it▲219Describe your problem, get the YC startup that solves it
Jul 2026 · ychasit.com · its alternatives →
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Type what you do -> get investors tuned into your industry
2023 · leadspicker.com · its alternatives →
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Hey Everybody! Hope you had a merry christmas Today I had a bit of fun with Claude. Started by scraping YC's startups list, then ran them through OpenAI's embedding service, then UMAP'd the embedding to reduce the dimension to just two coordinates and then just forced Claude to write React that would compile to visualize that. I had fun and I think it's interesting, so take a look! Also note that you won't be able to zoom on mobile (found about this Plotly limitation way too late). If there's interest I can fix this issue by changing plotting libs tomorrow :) Merry christmas
2024 · yc-map.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Investor List▲498A searchable, crowdsourced list of over 1k investors
2016 · investorlist.co · its alternatives →
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YC Careers▲485Browse the career pages of Y Combinator companies
2017 · jonathanzwhite.github.io · its alternatives →
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