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Accelerator gap map

All 6 programs in one embedding space — what each funds that the others don’t, by theme and by company.

Y Combinator vs. all others

overlap 51% / 55% · 897 non-YC companies

YC leans into (vs. all others)

YCOthers
Home and Personal
2/0%
Retail
2/1%
Fintech
11/9%
Healthcare
11/10%
Payments
2/1%
Operations
2/1%

The other programs lean into (vs. YC)

OthersYC
B2B
79/51%
Consumer
30/15%
Engineering, Product and Design
20/10%
Gaming
8/1%
Infrastructure
9/5%
Industrials
9/7%
Productivity
6/4%
Show the distinctive companies ↓
In YC, not in any other program
  1. The Supplant Company

    A brand-new blend of sugars – made from plant fiber!

    31%
  2. No Lean Season

    A bus ticket out of poverty

    33%
  3. ACLU

    Defender of rights and liberties

    34%
  4. Leon & George

    Buying and owning indoor potted plants made easy.

    34%
  5. Immunity Project

    The free HIV vaccine.

    36%
  6. Drive Pulse

    Device tracks & monitors your car

    36%
  7. Krave Mart

    Grocery Delivery in Pakistan

    36%
  8. Ohm

    Never jump start your car again.

    36%
  9. VenoStent

    Absorbable wrap for blood vessels

    36%
  10. Cinder

    The World’s First Countertop Precision Grill – using two ceramic…

    36%
  11. Shiok Meats

    Shiok Meats is a cell-based clean shrimp company, the first of its…

    36%
  12. jEugene

    jEugene highlights undefined terms and unused definitions in legal…

    36%
In the other programs, not in YC
  1. CrosbyNeo
    27%
  2. Yuppa16z (portfolio)
    27%
  3. Konga16z (portfolio)
    28%
  4. AsokaNeo
    28%
  5. Improbablea16z (portfolio)
    28%
  6. Journeraa16z (portfolio)
    28%
  7. Samsaraa16z (portfolio)
    29%
  8. Tlona16z (portfolio)
    29%
  9. Honora16z (portfolio)
    29%
  10. Knoa16z (portfolio)
    30%
  11. Tenfolda16z (portfolio)
    30%
  12. Cazenaa16z (portfolio)
    30%

Overlap matrix

Y Combinatora16z Speedruna16z (portfolio)AI GrantSouth Park CommonsNeo
Y Combinator (5953)
—
50
39
41
47
46
a16z Speedrun (235)
60
—
43
46
49
48
a16z (portfolio) (164)
44
34
—
31
34
39
AI Grant (70)
56
48
45
—
50
51
South Park Commons (165)
58
48
40
43
—
47
Neo (263)
54
44
41
43
45
—

Row → column: median similarity of the row program’s companies to their nearest in the column program. Higher = more overlap.

Compare any two

AY Combinatora16z Speedruna16z (portfolio)AI GrantSouth Park CommonsNeo
BY Combinatora16z Speedruna16z (portfolio)AI GrantSouth Park CommonsNeo

a16z (portfolio) leans into (vs. AI Grant)

a16z (portfolio)AI Grant
Healthcare
15/6%
Fintech
10/1%
Social
6/0%
Therapeutics
3/0%
Analytics
2/0%
Gaming
2/0%
Education
2/0%

AI Grant leans into (vs. a16z (portfolio))

AI Granta16z (portfolio)
B2B
94/76%
Engineering, Product and Design
29/20%
Operations
7/0%
Content
9/2%
Infrastructure
17/12%
Healthcare IT
3/0%
Marketing
3/1%
In a16z (portfolio), not AI Grant
  1. Journera
    18%
  2. Fanatics
    19%
  3. Honor
    20%
  4. Julep
    20%
  5. Golden
    21%
  6. Tidemark
    21%
  7. Kong
    21%
  8. Cyngn
    21%
  9. Arimo
    22%
  10. Factual
    22%
  11. Asana
    22%
  12. Hatch
    22%
In AI Grant, not a16z (portfolio)
  1. Perplexity

    the fastest way to get an answer

    28%
  2. Pursuit

    Public sector sales

    30%
  3. Ghostwrite

    automatic email composer

    30%
  4. Artificial Analysis

    Independent benchmarks and evaluations

    34%
  5. AniML

    NeRF-generated product videos

    34%
  6. Recraft

    generate vector art and 3D images

    34%
  7. Akool

    personalized visual marketing content

    35%
  8. Dust

    browser copilot for teams

    35%
  9. Womp Labs

    Training data optimization

    36%
  10. Coframe

    automated A/B testing

    36%
  11. Inception Labs

    diffusion large language models

    36%
  12. Birch

    automating complex call center operations in regulated industries

    37%