Your data layer for Y Combinator's startup ecosystem
Explore 5,773+ Y Combinator companies with powerful search, interactive maps, AI-powered company intelligence, hiring insights, funding data, and batch analytics. Find co-founders, validate startup ideas, and discover patterns across 20 years of YC history.
hey PH,
my name is Konstantin, and I'm excited to launch ExploreYC - a comprehensive intelligence platform for exploring Y Combinator's entire portfolio of 5,773+ companies.
as a founder researching YC companies, I found myself jumping between YC's directory, Crunchbase, LinkedIn, and countless browser tabs. I wanted a single platform that could answer questions like:
"Which YC companies in my space are hiring?"
"What patterns do successful AI startups share?"
"How does my startup idea compare to the YC portfolio?"
.. so I built ExploreYC to solve this!
it's key features are:
- Smart Search & Filters: search across 5,773+ companies by name, industry, batch, location, hiring status, real-time data from YC's API + enriched with funding data
- Interactive Global Map: Visualize YC companies worldwide, filter by batch, industry, hiring status, discover geographic clusters and trends
- AI Company Intelligence: get instant AI-powered insights on any YC company, competitive analysis, market positioning, growth indicators
- Advanced Analytics: Batch comparisons and trends over 20 years, Industry distribution and evolution, funding timeline visualization, hiring trends and patterns
- Live Hiring Board: browse 1,400+ YC companies actively hiring, filter by role, location, batch, industry, direct links to career pages
- Startup Idea Validator: check if your idea already exists in YC, find similar companies and their outcomes, get AI-powered validation feedback
- YC Batch Wrapped: beautiful shareable infographics for each batch, industry breakdown, hiring stats, geographic distribution, social sharing optimized
- Funding Analytics: track funding rounds across the portfolio, investor network visualization, funding trends by batch and industry
About ExploreYC on Product Hunt
“Your data layer for Y Combinator's startup ecosystem”
ExploreYC launched on Product Hunt on May 7th, 2026 and earned 152 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Explore 5,773+ Y Combinator companies with powerful search, interactive maps, AI-powered company intelligence, hiring insights, funding data, and batch analytics. Find co-founders, validate startup ideas, and discover patterns across 20 years of YC history.
On the analytics side, ExploreYC competes within Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and Data & Analytics — topics that collectively have 985.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how ExploreYC performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted ExploreYC ?
ExploreYC was hunted by Konstantin Borimechkov. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of ExploreYC including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Konstantin Borimechkov