23 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at BlackRock 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Digital trade finance and B2B commerce company | S15 | 444 | +5% | +16% | YC | $578M | Debt$50M, Oct 2025 |
Scheduling and payments for experiences | S20Acquired | 127 | −3% | −9% | 0 | SeedAug 2020 | |
Instrumentl automates grant discovery and management for nonprofits. | S16 | 121 | +6% | +9% | 1 | $55M | Private equity$55M, Apr 2025 |
AI agents for insurance and benefits | S22 | 80 | +43% | +135% | YC | $24.4M | Undisclosed round$50K, Mar 2026 |
A payment network connecting nonprofits to the $326B in DAFs | S22 | 50 | +22% | +43% | 6 | $15M | Series A$11M, Aug 2024 |
Secure secrets. Prevent breaches. Keep teams moving. | W19Acquired | 50 | +9% | +19% | 0 | $28.8M | Series A$20M, Feb 2023 |
Generative AI for frontline worker hiring | W19 | 39 | −2% | −5% | YC | $8.4M | Seed$7M, Apr 2022 |
An AI-powered supply chain compliance engine | W24 | 22 | +10% | +69% | YC | $3.8M | Seed$3.3M, Jun 2024 |
AI Insurance is the platform that runs insurance companies | W19 | 19 | −5% | −21% | 0 | $5M | Seed$3.8M, Mar 2022 |
AI-Native IP Enforcement | X25 | 18 | +38% | +100% | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Mar 2025 |
Grow money and win $1000 every week by saving and playing games | W22Inactive | 12 | −8% | 0 | $5M | Seed$4M, Jan 2023 | |
Highly customizable and blazingly fast analytics for asset managers. | S24 | 8 | 0 | $3M | YC investment$500K, Sep 2024 | ||
Smart electric & water meters as a service | S22 | 6 | +20% | +20% | 0 | $150K | Grant$150K, Nov 2022 |
Prime brokerage for prediction markets | X26 | 4 | 0 | $9M | Seed$8.5M, Jul 2026 | ||
Your always-on red team. | S25 | 4 | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jan 2026 | ||
Speed up customer implementation with AI | W23Acquired | 4 | −33% | 0 | $4.7M | Seed$4.2M, Nov 2024 | |
Your AI Partner for SAP Development | W23 | 3 | 0 | ||||
The World Model for Corporate Governance | S26 | 2 | 2 | ||||
The AI agent harness for payment teams | X26 | 2 | YC | ||||
Let your agent build dashboards and reporting. | X25 | 2 | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jan 2026 | ||
AI-Powered Assistant for Procurement and Strategic Sourcing | S21Acquired | 2 | 0 | $4.3M | Seed$4.2M, May 2022 | ||
Nanoparticle tracers for reservoir characterization during hydraulic… | S16Inactive | 2 | 0 | $120K | YC investment$120K, Aug 2016 | ||
Agents that move money, trade stocks, and file taxes. | X26 | 1 | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jun 2026 |
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
23 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at BlackRock; 17 are active.
3 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Chariot (6 roles), Pennant (2 roles) and Instrumentl (1 roles). 10 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.
By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Pasito (+43%), Third Chair (+38%) and Chariot (+22%).
Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: River Markets ($8.5M) and Pasito ($50K).