The 18 YC S22 companies whose team shrank the most in the last 12 months (active companies that had 20+ people a year ago).
Updated weekly, last on November 9, 2026. Roster from Y Combinator's public directory.
| # | Company | Team | 6 mo | 12 mo | Open roles | Total raised | Last round |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Invofox is the document parsing and data extraction API for software… | 29 | −17% | −31% | 0 | $2.5M | Seed$2M, Sep 2022 |
| 2 | Premier growth platform for restaurants | 41 | −11% | −31% | 0 | $27.6M | Series A$22M, Feb 2025 |
| 3 | Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure | 69 | −1% | −26% | YC | $13.8M | Series A$11M, Jul 2024 |
| 4 | Uber for Trucks for Turkey | 32 | −3% | −20% | 0 | $4M | Seed$2M, Dec 2022 |
| 5 | Create video by chatting to AI | 42 | −9% | −19% | 0 | ||
| 6 | Build and analyze things with AI | 21 | +40% | −19% | 2 | $10.5M | Seed$10M, Jul 2025 |
| 7 | Fetii is an AI-driven mobility platform | 91 | −14% | −19% | 0 | $7.3M | Seed$7.3M, Feb 2025 |
| 8 | Turning the web into a structured database of real world events. | 21 | −5% | −16% | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Sep 2022 |
| 9 | Inventory management SaaS for Retail & Consumer brands | 77 | −5% | −13% | 0 | $21.2M | Series A$16.9M, Oct 2024 |
| 10 | AI fraud prevention and underwriting agent | 61 | −13% | 2 | $19.5M | Series A$15M, Aug 2024 | |
| 11 | Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa | 130 | −4% | −13% | 0 | $2.2M | Seed$1.7M, Jan 2024 |
| 12 | Open-source platform to turn scripts into internal apps & workflows | 23 | −12% | −12% | 1 | Pre-seedAug 2022 | |
| 13 | AI-Native Finance OS | 18 | −14% | −10% | YC | $4.5M | Seed$4.5M, Aug 2024 |
| 14 | Document and spreadsheet automation for accountants | 31 | +3% | −9% | 0 | $600K | YC investment$500K, Jul 2022 |
| 15 | Embedded finance platform for African businesses | 34 | −6% | −8% | 0 | $3.4M | Non-equity support$2.4M, Nov 2023 |
| 16 | Engineering the future of chemistry for natural resource extraction | 27 | −4% | 0 | |||
| 17 | Building a compensation graph to help companies optimise people spend | 31 | −3% | −3% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Sep 2022 |
| 18 | GTM AI that books you 5-8 meetings/week | 36 | −14% | −3% | YC | $3.8M | Seed$3.8M, Oct 2022 |
Every launched company in YC's public directory, with its batch, status, industry and location. New companies show up the week YC lists them.
Each company is matched to Crustdata by its website. Crustdata adds team size and its change over 6 and 12 months, open roles from job postings, reported funding, and founders' past employers.
Hiring the most counts distinct roles posted in the last 60 days. Growth needs 10+ people today, shrinking 20+ a year ago, so tiny teams do not top the lists. Rebuilt every week.
The numbers on this page come from three Crustdata API calls. Crustdata tags 5,000+ companies with Y Combinator as an investor; swap the filter for any investor, industry or headcount range and track your own list, with founders' work emails one call away.
# 1. every company with Y Combinator as an investor curl https://api.crustdata.com/company/search \ -H "authorization: Bearer $CRUSTDATA_API_KEY" \ -H "x-api-version: 2025-11-01" \ -d '{ "filters": { "field": "funding.investors", "type": "in", "value": ["Y Combinator"] }, "fields": ["basic_info.name", "headcount.total", "headcount.growth_percent", "funding.total_investment_usd"], "limit": 100 }' # 2. open listings per company, last 60 days (limit 0 = counts only) curl https://api.crustdata.com/job/search \ -H "authorization: Bearer $CRUSTDATA_API_KEY" \ -H "x-api-version: 2025-11-01" \ -d '{ "filters": { "op": "and", "conditions": [ { "field": "company.basic_info.company_id", "type": "in", "value": [...] }, { "field": "metadata.date_added", "type": "=>", "value": "2026-08-24" } ]}, "limit": 0, "aggregations": [{ "type": "group_by", "field": "company.basic_info.company_id", "agg": "count" }] }' # 3. the same company filter as a weekly watch: POST /watch/company/search
233 companies were in Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch (S22); 181 are active.
25 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Metriport (20 roles), Firecrawl (16 roles) and Quindar (15 roles). 63 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.
By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Lamin (+115%), Levers (+100%) and CODEXA (+86%).
Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Juicebox ($80M), Novig ($75M) and Firecrawl ($75M).