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S22 companies that shrank this year

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.

Showing 18 of 18 companies on this list
#CompanyTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
1
Invofox is the document parsing and data extraction API for software…
29−17%−31%0$2.5MSeed$2M, Sep 2022
2
Premier growth platform for restaurants
41−11%−31%0$27.6MSeries A$22M, Feb 2025
3
Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure
69−1%−26%YC$13.8MSeries A$11M, Jul 2024
4
Uber for Trucks for Turkey
32−3%−20%0$4MSeed$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$10.5MSeed$10M, Jul 2025
7
Fetii is an AI-driven mobility platform
91−14%−19%0$7.3MSeed$7.3M, Feb 2025
8
Turning the web into a structured database of real world events.
21−5%−16%YC$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2022
9
Inventory management SaaS for Retail & Consumer brands
77−5%−13%0$21.2MSeries A$16.9M, Oct 2024
10
AI fraud prevention and underwriting agent
61 −13%2$19.5MSeries A$15M, Aug 2024
11
Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa
130−4%−13%0$2.2MSeed$1.7M, Jan 2024
12
Open-source platform to turn scripts into internal apps & workflows
23−12%−12%1Pre-seedAug 2022
13
AI-Native Finance OS
18−14%−10%YC$4.5MSeed$4.5M, Aug 2024
14
Document and spreadsheet automation for accountants
31+3%−9%0$600KYC investment$500K, Jul 2022
15
Embedded finance platform for African businesses
34−6%−8%0$3.4MNon-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$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2022
18
GTM AI that books you 5-8 meetings/week
36−14%−3%YC$3.8MSeed$3.8M, Oct 2022

How this works

1. The roster

Every launched company in YC's public directory, with its batch, status, industry and location. New companies show up the week YC lists them.

2. The numbers

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.

3. The lists

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.

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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.

  • Company search for team size, growth and funding
  • Job search with a count by company, for who is hiring and for what
  • A watch that re-runs the search weekly and sends only what changed
# 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

Questions about YC S22 companies

How many YC S22 companies are there?

233 companies were in Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch (S22); 181 are active.

Which YC S22 companies are hiring?

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.

Which YC S22 companies are growing fastest?

By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Lamin (+115%), Levers (+100%) and CODEXA (+86%).

Which YC S22 companies raised the most?

Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Juicebox ($80M), Novig ($75M) and Firecrawl ($75M).

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