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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

Y Combinator leans into (vs. South Park Commons)

Y CombinatorSouth Park Commons
Retail
2/0%
Supply Chain and Logistics
2/0%
Payments
2/0%
Food and Beverage
2/0%
Education
2/1%
Home and Personal
2/1%
Housing and Real Estate
1/0%

South Park Commons leans into (vs. Y Combinator)

South Park CommonsY Combinator
B2B
81/51%
Engineering, Product and Design
22/10%
Infrastructure
10/5%
Healthcare IT
7/2%
Consumer
19/15%
Security
6/2%
Finance and Accounting
5/2%
In Y Combinator, not South Park Commons
  1. ACLU

    Defender of rights and liberties

    23%
  2. Ohm

    Never jump start your car again.

    28%
  3. Kidato

    Online school for K12 education in Africa

    29%
  4. Siglo

    Home Internet for urban Latin America

    31%
  5. VINEBOX (Usual Beverage Co.)

    Wine by the glass, delivered

    31%
  6. Laguna
    31%
  7. The Supplant Company

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

    31%
  8. Krave Mart

    Grocery Delivery in Pakistan

    31%
  9. Prendea

    Live afterschool classes for Spanish-speaking kids ages 4 to 15.

    31%
  10. The Good Food Institute

    Building a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative.

    31%
  11. RUUF

    Managed marketplace for solar in Latam

    32%
  12. Fixed

    iPhone app to fight your parking tickets.

    32%
In South Park Commons, not Y Combinator
  1. Pascal

    Intelligence upgrade for every building

    42%
  2. Tribes

    Tribes builds an open, decentralized database protocol offering secure, user-driven data storage. Tr

    45%
  3. Perfectly Imperfect

    Perfectly Imperfect gives you a taste of someone else's taste twoish times per week.

    46%
  4. Socket

    Socket is a cybersecurity platform that shields companies from supply chain attacks, keeping their s

    46%
  5. Echo Chunk

    Echo Chunk innovative, self-generating strategy games—like Echo Chess, a daily chess puzzler with a

    47%
  6. System2

    System2 collaborates with elite fitness influencers to boost digital impact and spread accessible, e

    47%
  7. Particle

    A decentralized leverage trading protocol permissionless for any digital asset.

    48%
  8. Preference Models

    Preference Model is building reinforcement learning environments.

    48%
  9. Hologram

    Hologram empowers any artists to create expressive characters, wearables, and more for your communit

    49%
  10. Material Security

    Material Security offers a one-stop solution for keeping Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 safe, de

    49%
  11. Escargot

    Thoughtfully reinventing the greeting card experience

    49%
  12. Equivariant Systems

    Equivariant is working on multi-physics modeling for the semiconductor industry.

    49%