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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

Neo leans into (vs. AI Grant)

NeoAI Grant
Fintech
11/1%
Industrials
14/7%
Healthcare
11/6%
Finance and Accounting
3/0%
Consumer Finance
3/0%
Supply Chain and Logistics
2/0%
Social
2/0%

AI Grant leans into (vs. Neo)

AI GrantNeo
B2B
94/77%
Consumer
36/20%
Infrastructure
17/8%
Content
9/1%
Engineering, Product and Design
29/21%
Operations
7/1%
In Neo, not AI Grant
  1. Inertia
    20%
  2. Asoka
    21%
  3. drift
    22%
  4. Crosby
    23%
  5. moment
    24%
  6. Altara
    24%
  7. aloft
    24%
  8. Shriya Co
    25%
  9. close
    25%
  10. Zeal
    25%
  11. gpt
    25%
  12. Bluegill
    25%
In AI Grant, not Neo
  1. Perplexity

    the fastest way to get an answer

    37%
  2. Womp Labs

    Training data optimization

    40%
  3. AniML

    NeRF-generated product videos

    41%
  4. Goodfire

    Interpretability tools

    42%
  5. Consensus

    LLM-powered search for research

    42%
  6. Coframe

    automated A/B testing

    42%
  7. Pursuit

    Public sector sales

    42%
  8. Inception Labs

    diffusion large language models

    42%
  9. Recraft

    generate vector art and 3D images

    43%
  10. Kino AI

    organize video assets

    43%
  11. RunPod

    serverless GPU platform

    43%
  12. ValueBase

    AI property valuation models for municipal governments

    43%