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Growth · January 22, 2018

YCDB - The Y Combinator Database

The definitive database of YC companies with all the metrics

YCDB - The Y Combinator Database launched on January 22, 2018 with 61 votes, #761 of 3,021 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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What it does

a database of 1317 companies who went throught the Y Combinator accelerator program between 2005 and 2017 and a whole bunch of metrics about them

The most comprehensive public database of Y Combinator companies and everything you need to know about them - all YC batches

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