Is your startup idea already in YC?

Describe your idea and see which YC 2026 companies are already building it — how crowded the space is, how they price, and where the open wedge is.

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A real CrackYC answer — “What should I build to get selected at YC?”

Analyzed 373 matched companies

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The batch at a glance

90%

AI-native companies

336 of 373

Median team size

people per company

110

Public pricing evidence

of 373 companies

Where the batch concentrates

Developer, AI Infra & Data

106

Sales, Marketing & Customer Ops

Industrial, Manufacturing & Robotics

Fintech, Insurance & CFO Stack

Healthcare, Bio & Science

Across the 373 companies analyzed in this batch, YC’s revealed preferences show an overwhelming bias toward AI-native architectures built by lean, technical teams. To maximize your chances of selection, build in the dominant developer and AI infrastructure layer, or align with YC’s active Requests for Startups…

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Every number is computed from the enriched dataset — never generated. Answers name the closest companies, and each company card opens into pricing evidence, founder profiles, moat and risk reads, and adjacent companies.

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