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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. Y Combinator)

AI GrantY Combinator
B2B
94/51%
Consumer
36/15%
Engineering, Product and Design
29/10%
Infrastructure
17/5%
Content
9/2%
Operations
7/2%
Productivity
7/4%

Y Combinator leans into (vs. AI Grant)

Y CombinatorAI Grant
Fintech
11/1%
Healthcare
11/6%
Finance and Accounting
2/0%
Supply Chain and Logistics
2/0%
Payments
2/0%
Analytics
2/0%
Education
2/0%
In AI Grant, not Y Combinator
  1. Perplexity

    the fastest way to get an answer

    39%
  2. Common Sense Machines

    game-engine ready 3-D content

    44%
  3. Goodfire

    Interpretability tools

    45%
  4. Womp Labs

    Training data optimization

    47%
  5. Poly Corp

    AI-generated textures

    48%
  6. Inception Labs

    diffusion large language models

    49%
  7. Chroma

    programmable memory for AI

    49%
  8. Haize Labs

    AI model hazing

    50%
  9. Pursuit

    Public sector sales

    50%
  10. Espresso AI

    optimize Snowflake queries using LLMs

    50%
  11. Lexica.art

    make AI art

    51%
  12. AniML

    NeRF-generated product videos

    51%
In Y Combinator, not AI Grant
  1. Somos

    Internet for the urban developing world.

    22%
  2. Kidato

    Online school for K12 education in Africa

    23%
  3. Siglo

    Home Internet for urban Latin America

    23%
  4. Rally Tennis

    Join tennis league and play competitively with people nearby

    23%
  5. Oklo

    Emission free, always on power from advanced fission power plants.

    23%
  6. Cardpool
    23%
  7. The Mercer Club

    The Mercer Club is a subscription service that allows men to rent…

    23%
  8. ACLU

    Defender of rights and liberties

    24%
  9. CheqUPI

    India's first UPI wallet for foreign nationals and NRIs

    24%
  10. Culdesac

    We build cities for people, not cars.

    24%
  11. Parenthoods

    Communities for expecting and new parents.

    24%
  12. trii

    One stop investment solution for retail investors in Latam

    24%