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
5,773 YC companies as a structured data layer is exactly the kind of work that compounds — once the dataset is well-shaped, every downstream question gets cheaper to answer. Did the same thing on the finance side at Eloquens (https://www.eloquens.com/channel/samir-asadov-cfa) building project-finance / DCF / LBO templates as a structured catalogue (renewables-focused), and the lesson that surprised me was: volume isn't the moat, the schema is. Two well-shaped DCF templates with consistent assumption tables beat 200 sloppy ones every time. Curious how you're versioning the 20 years of YC history — do batches stay frozen, or do you re-derive metrics when YC's own definitions evolve (e.g. "AI" tag, "deep tech", etc.)?
Congrats @konstantimb looking to play with it more in the coming days. Subscribed already. The interactive map is pretty cool :)
Love the Wrapped feature--a great iteration on Spotify's idea. How far back does the history go? It would be epic to see the og 2005 YC graphic :)
make sure to subscribe and get emails on newly added companies to YC every day. That way you can see patterns in what YC are searching for and early reach out to companies in very early stages!
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 153 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.
ExploreYC was featured in Developer Tools (512k followers), Artificial Intelligence (467.7k followers) and Data & Analytics (5.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 162k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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.
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Konstantin Borimechkov