We read the entire Combinator directory — plus a16z, AI Grant, South Park Commons & Neo — and surface the companies that fit you, and the gaps still wide open.
Checks ~6,850 companies across YC and 5 other elite programs — a16z Speedrun, a16z, AI Grant, South Park Commons & Neo.
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Analyzing YC, a16z, AI Grant, South Park Commons & Neo
Browse YC, a16z, AI Grant, South Park Commons & Neo by outcome, batch, pivot and team — layered with AI market intel: subcategories, business models and competitive whitespace.
Explore →Add your background and goals (or import LinkedIn / résumé). AI scores which companies and spaces fit you — and explains why, in plain words.
Explore →Spin up variant ideas grounded in real companies across all six programs — each a full brief: wedge, ICP, why now, and who already tried it.
Explore →Editorial memos on the patterns running through 6k+ startups — every claim anchored to the companies behind it. Free to read, no login.
The 2026 cohort isn't selling dashboards to manufacturers anymore — it's selling the labor itself: the quoting clerk, the welder, the sourcing agent, and the maintenance veteran, all as software.
Read the memo →Four consecutive batches of strike drones, counter-UAS turrets, and orbital logistics say the procurement thaw is no longer a thesis — it's a program bet, and the crowded quadrant is already visible.
Read the memo →When thirty funded companies torch their names in a single batch cycle, where they land is the most honest map of what is actually working — drawn by founders spending their own runway.
Read the memo →Three lenses over the whole corpus — where programs disagree, where ideas go to die, and what's heating up.
Category-by-category over/under-indexing between YC, a16z, AI Grant, SPC & Neo — the bets only one of them is making.
Explore →Every company as a point on a 2D manifold — colored by death rate and program presence, so graveyards and goldmines pop out.
Explore →Each industry's share of its cohort year over time, share-normalized — so you see real momentum, not batch-size noise.
Explore →A peek at For You — example matches for a technical, fintech-curious founder. Yours are scored against your own profile.
Economic infrastructure for the internet.
Why it fits — Payments infrastructure rewards a technical founder who likes deep, durable problems with enormous TAM.
Business accounts, corporate cards, and spend management software.
Why it fits — B2B spend management lines up with your fintech leaning and bias for fast execution.
Book accommodations around the world.
Why it fits — Two-sided marketplace dynamics match your consumer + operations instincts.
Tell us your background and goals — we'll surface the startups (and ideas) that match across YC, a16z, AI Grant, SPC & Neo, scored and explained.