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24 alternatives to What YC Is Really Betting On?
An X-ray of 793 YC startups
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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An X-ray of 793 YC startups
Mar 2026 · yctrends.com · its alternatives →
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Discover the 9,000 founders who went through YC
2023 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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The definitive database of YC companies with all the metrics
2017 · 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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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’s free online platform to help you find your co-founder
2021 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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NextDoor.Company▲463Find startups hiring nearby you on a beautiful map. 500+ startups. 1200+ live job openings (updated twice weekly). Work mode filters (Remote, Hybrid, On-site). Funding, valuation, and revenue details. Key investors & founder profiles. All cross-checked & verified social links.
Aug 2026 · nextdoor.company · its alternatives →
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ExploreYC▲565Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data
Jul 2026 · exploreyc.com · its alternatives →
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Incubator List▲380Curated list of 400+ startup accelerators, incubators & VCs
2020 · incubatorlist.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by PG’s tweet about a chain of 4 YC startups where the founder worked at a YC startup, I vibe coded and generated these genealogy chains for all ~6k YC startups. And to make these trees easily accessible I packaged them into a hosted webapp. Few noteworthy YC startups which have had huge impact in YC ecosystem Airbnb - 83 YC startups spawned Stripe - 67 YC startups spawned Dropbox - 50 YC startups spawned Justin.tv/Twitch - 47 YC startups spawned More recently founded YC startups which have spawned a lot more YC startups Rappi - 21 YC startups spawned Brex - 20 YC startups…
Jan 2026 · foundertrace.com · 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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2020 · ycadvice.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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Practice your interview with 60+ real questions
2021 · startupandvc.com · its alternatives →
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2023 salary data from founders across the globe
2023 · pilot.com · its alternatives →
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Learn how to start a startup, with help from Y Combinator
2022 · startupschool.org · its alternatives →
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How much money can your startup investment make you?
2016 · its alternatives →
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Newsletter insights sourced from 100's of YC companies
2019 · demandcurve.com · its alternatives →
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LookUp YC▲143Ask questions and get advice from Y Combinator videos
2023 · lookup-yc.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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StartupXplorer▲158Brilliant startup ideas: your vision, our 'X for Y' magic
2023 · squidandfish.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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