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Companies funded by Y Combinator

The most prolific seed accelerator in the world, batch class twice a year.

Ranked by current headcount across companies in Y Combinator's disclosed portfolio. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    DoorDash· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 80.7k employees
    • Founded 2013
  2. 2
    Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 68.6k employees
    • Founded 2007
  3. 3
    Instacart· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 24.8k employees
    • Founded 2012
  4. 4
    Meesho· Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    • post ipo secondary
    • 23.9k employees
    • Founded 2015
  5. 5
    Aster DM Healthcare· United Arab Emirates
    • Series B
    • 19.7k employees
    • Founded 2023

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Y Combinator’s portfolio is a curated bet on the next wave of category-defining companies. The list above ranks Y Combinator-backed companies by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 3,614 matching companies in our index, the depth of senior engineers, founders, and operators is significant.

Y Combinator’s companies tend to share a profile - strong technical founders, fresh capital, and access to the Y Combinator network. Hiring from these companies often means hiring from one of the most curated talent pools in tech.

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