29 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at Barclays before.
Updated weekly, last on November 9, 2026. Roster from Y Combinator's public directory.
| Company | Batch | Team | 6 mo | 12 mo | Open roles | Total raised | Last round |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ai-native finance platform for the Middle East | W23 | 367 | +25% | +79% | 3 | $55M | Series A$48M, Aug 2025 |
The one-stop shop for mom-and-pop stores in Pakistan to buy inventory. | W20 | 262 | +1% | +3% | 0 | $18.9M | Undisclosed round$17M, Jan 2022 |
Cross-Border Payments and FX Simplified | W19 | 258 | −3% | +5% | 15 | $12.3M | Grant$100K, Oct 2024 |
Operating system for creative agencies | W14Acquired | 112 | −7% | −4% | 0 | $2.3M | Undisclosed round$1.7M, Jan 2017 |
Applied AI for Construction | W22 | 101 | +29% | +46% | 3 | $18.4M | Series A$15M, Jul 2026 |
Grow Your Wealth With Baraka | S21 | 74 | −3% | +1% | YC | $25.2M | Series A$20M, Nov 2022 |
Open-source, serverless vectordb for production-scale generative AI | W22 | 66 | +35% | +94% | 9 | $41M | Series A$30M, Jun 2025 |
Software to run car washes moving to a monthly subscription model | W21 | 62 | −9% | −37% | 1 | $35M | Series B$20M, Apr 2023 |
[Acquired by HubSpot in 2026] Autonomous sales platform to auto-email… | S20Acquired | 52 | −52% | −53% | 0 | $21.9M | Series A$6M, Feb 2025 |
AI agents that run insurance operations | S23 | 22 | +22% | +100% | 1 | $4.8M | Seed$2.3M, Sep 2025 |
| W23 | 20 | +25% | +33% | 0 | SeedJan 2025 | ||
Building the NASDAQ for Real Estate. | S19 | 19 | +6% | +6% | 0 | $5M | Undisclosed round$3M, Feb 2022 |
Open-source agents to build predictive ML models from a prompt | X25 | 11 | +57% | +57% | YC | $2.1M | Seed$2.1M, Aug 2025 |
Modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry. | S22 | 10 | −9% | +25% | YC | Pre-seedAug 2022 | |
Affogato AI, Your Agent for instant TikToks, Reels, and ads. | S21 | 10 | −9% | −50% | 0 | SeedJan 2024 | |
API for performance-based payroll | W26 | 8 | +60% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Mar 2026 | |
AI Co-Pilot for Chemical Process Optimization | S24 | 8 | 0% | 0% | YC | $3.6M | Grant$1.5M, Mar 2025 |
Eliminating accrual spreadsheets for faster month-end | W25 | 7 | YC | SeedMar 2025 | |||
We help lawyers start and scale AI-native law firms. | S26 | 5 | 0 | ||||
Training company-specific models that approve AI actions. | S26 | 4 | 0 | ||||
The Bloomberg Terminal of Sports Betting | W24Inactive | 4 | −43% | −43% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Mar 2024 |
AI-native custom software + data analytics for real economy operations | S25 | 3 | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Sep 2025 | ||
Conversational AI surveys with intelligent follow-up questions | W24 | 3 | 0 | ||||
Digital banking for businesses in Latam. | W20Acquired | 3 | 0 | $27.7M | Debt$25M, Jan 2022 | ||
AI-native, hardware procurement marketplace | W26 | 2 | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Apr 2026 | ||
AI-assisted CX tool built with your knowledge. | S22Inactive | 1 | 0 | $4.3M | Seed$3.8M, Sep 2022 | ||
Recurring payments solution for businesses in India. | S17Acquired | 1 | 0 | $120K | Seed$120K, Dec 2017 | ||
Marketplace for private chefs | W22 | 128 | YC | $2.4M | Equity crowdfunding$901K, Dec 2024 | ||
An enterprise health benefits platform that rewards employees for… | W16Inactive | 0 | $120K | YC investment$120K, Mar 2016 |
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
29 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at Barclays; 22 are active.
6 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Verto (15 roles), LanceDB (9 roles) and Alaan (3 roles). 9 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.
By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Plexe (+57%), LanceDB (+35%) and Agave (+29%).
Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Agave ($15M).