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14,448 startups · 29 programs

Sources and method

Programs

Startups reads the public company lists of 29 accelerators and startup programs. Each program's list comes from its own site (a portfolio page, a public feed or the JSON its portfolio page loads), only where robots.txt and the site's terms allow it, and never from behind a login. Every company row keeps the URL it was read from.

Dates only, no company list: Techstars (its terms of use forbid automated collection), Microsoft for Startups and NVIDIA Inception (not cohort based, no public member list), Station F (no public Founders Program list) and Plug and Play's dates. Hand-checked research loads from official portfolio pages: Neo, Pear VC, Alchemist, Conviction Embed, the AWS Generative AI Accelerator, Google for Startups Accelerator classes, Berkeley SkyDeck, Seedcamp, Betaworks Camp, MassChallenge, Z Fellows and the two HF0 companies its facts page names. On Pear's portfolio grid the names are logos, so a Pear row joins only a company already here by its domain.

One company, several programs

Companies are matched by their website domain: a company in YC and in a16z speedrun is one page listing both. Each company carries its companies.fru.dev registry slug when the registry knows its domain. A company with no website on its program's page stays a separate row.

Y Combinator's public directory

Every company, batch, one-liner, tags, industry, team size, location, website and status comes from YC's public company directory at ycombinator.com/companies, read through the community-maintained yc-oss mirror of the index behind it (mirror last updated 2026-11-09). Status (Active, Acquired, Public, Inactive) is YC's own label.

Founders

Founder names and titles are read from each company's own YC page. People appear only on their company's page; there are no founder pages. A founder's photo comes from Wikimedia Commons (matched through Wikidata by name and company, never by name alone) or from the company's own team page, credited under the list with its license. Where there is no such photo, the founder shows as initials. Nothing is copied from LinkedIn, X or image search.

Categories

AI, data and developer tools come from YC's own tags and industry. Companies YC has not tagged yet (most of the newest batch) are read from their one-liner and description. New untagged companies may be checked by a model in one batched call per week; those carry an Unverified badge until reviewed. A company can be in more than one category; the tile colour in the river is AI first, then data, then developer tools.

Refresh and history

YC every Monday at 11:00 UTC, and on Thursdays too in a batch week (when YC is adding a new batch). The other programs monthly, on the first Monday, because their rosters change around demo days. Every change to status, team size, hiring, stage, name, website, headquarters and program membership is added to an append-only log, shown on Changes and in the API. A company that drops off a program's list is marked, never deleted.

Across fru.dev

Company pages link to the same company on companies.fru.dev, funding.fru.dev, acquisitions.fru.dev and other fru.dev sites when it is there, through the shared company registry.

Notable companies

The registry feed marks a company notable only on a real signal: Y Combinator lists it among its Top Companies; it is public and has a known website; it already appears on another fru.dev site (a funding round, an acquisition, releases, leaders); its team is 250 people or more; or it was acquired, has a known website and had a team of 50 or more (or its program marks the exit without a team size). A few hundred companies across all programs qualify. Notable companies are the ones companies.fru.dev adds from here.

Disclaimer

Startups from Y Combinator's and other accelerators' public company lists, read every week for YC and monthly for eight other programs, plus one-time hand-checked loads from official portfolio pages for the rest; program deadlines and batch dates come from each program's own pages, and dates worked out from past cadence are marked est. Categories a model guessed are marked unverified until checked by hand. The Rising rank adds up public signals from other Glyph sources; it is not investment advice. Not affiliated with Y Combinator or any other program. The list grows as each program adds new companies. Photos from Wikimedia Commons and official company pages, with credit. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners. Anonymous usage stats via Google Analytics. Use Suggest a correction on any company page.