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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

AI Grant leans into (vs. a16z Speedrun)

AI Granta16z Speedrun
B2B
94/76%
Engineering, Product and Design
29/13%
Infrastructure
17/4%
Operations
7/1%
Content
9/5%
Productivity
7/4%
Healthcare IT
3/1%

a16z Speedrun leans into (vs. AI Grant)

a16z SpeedrunAI Grant
Gaming
25/0%
Consumer
43/36%
Social
5/0%
Fintech
6/1%
Consumer Health and Wellness
3/0%
Finance and Accounting
3/0%
Supply Chain and Logistics
2/0%
In AI Grant, not a16z Speedrun
  1. Perplexity

    the fastest way to get an answer

    31%
  2. Goodfire

    Interpretability tools

    36%
  3. Pursuit

    Public sector sales

    37%
  4. Coframe

    automated A/B testing

    38%
  5. ValueBase

    AI property valuation models for municipal governments

    39%
  6. Artificial Analysis

    Independent benchmarks and evaluations

    39%
  7. Dust

    browser copilot for teams

    41%
  8. Womp Labs

    Training data optimization

    41%
  9. Espresso AI

    optimize Snowflake queries using LLMs

    41%
  10. Inception Labs

    diffusion large language models

    41%
  11. Ghostwrite

    automatic email composer

    42%
  12. RunPod

    serverless GPU platform

    42%
In a16z Speedrun, not AI Grant
  1. Clubs Poker

    Clubs Poker aims to be the largest online poker network in North America

    28%
  2. Soundmap

    Top 5 in Music on the App Store :)

    30%
  3. Edgar

    Bringing real money engagement into F2P via sweepstakes

    30%
  4. Cheddr

    Cheddr is a mass-market sports wagering platform legal in 46 states

    31%
  5. Legion

    Greater Things are Coming...

    31%
  6. Matchday

    We are building the home of interactive entertainment for 5 billion soccer fans.

    31%
  7. Spekter Games

    The Future of Gaming is on Super Apps. Spekter Games is a next-gen game publisher on Telegram blendi

    31%
  8. Moku

    We help bring games to market in web3

    32%
  9. SweatPals

    We are turning every corner of the world into a social fitness community.

    32%
  10. 2weeks

    Making breakout hits on the open web for you and your friends.

    32%
  11. Plots

    The world's in-person social network.

    32%
  12. Manifest

    Gen Z mental health. 15.8 million manifestations since the start of Speedrun.

    32%