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YC companies founded by ex-Blackstone people

19 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at Blackstone before.

Updated weekly, last on November 9, 2026. Roster from Y Combinator's public directory.

Hiring the mostlast 60 days
6 roles
DiligenceSquaredF25
  1. 2VectorShift1
See all 2
Fastest growingteam, 6 months
+93%
AquaS21
  1. 2Happl+64%
  2. 3DiligenceSquared+44%
See all 4
Shrinkingteam, 12 months
−8%
BIOS HealthW17
See all 1
Raised the mostlast 12 months
$15M
AquaS21
  1. 2DiligenceSquared$5M
See all 2
Companies
19
Active
14
Hiring, last 60 days
2
Open roles, 60 days
7
People on these teams
835
Showing 19 of 19 companies
CompanyBatchTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
Modern insurance brokerage.
W18Acquired542−11%−18%0$310MSeries D$200M, Apr 2022
Marketplace for employers to recruit college students and recent grads
W15Acquired96+7%+9%0$37.3MPrivate equity$10M, Oct 2018
AI Operating System for Private Market Investors
S2336−3%+29%1$3MSeed$3M, Feb 2024
Your personalised benefits and engagement platform for global teams
W2236+64%+64%YC$16.6MGrant$11M, Sep 2026
The AI-Native Turnkey Alternative Investment Platform (TAIP)
S2129+93%+142%YC$18.9MSeries A$15M, Sep 2026
Neural interfaces to understand and use nerve data in medicine.
W1723−8%−8%0$46.8MUndisclosed round$20M, Jan 2024
We help security, legal and sales teams answer customer questions
S2217+13%+183%0Pre-seedAug 2022
AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions
F2513+44%+160%6$5.5MSeed$5M, Mar 2026
Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
S20Acquired10−9% 0$2.4MSeed$2.2M, Aug 2021
Estate settlement, from verified discovery to distribution
S248−11%+14%YC$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2024
Real-time governance for enterprise communications
F2460%−14%YC$500KYC investment$500K, Jan 2025
We audit medical claims for self-insured employers and health plans.
S254  0$500KYC investment$500K, Jun 2025
Vercel For GPUs
W25Acquired4  0$500KYC investment$500K, Mar 2025
Helping Startups Grow Organically
S244−78% YC
The Fastest Multimodal Inference OS
W262  YC$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2026
Agent teams for complex work
W252  0$500KYC investment$500K, Feb 2025
Agents for quantitative research and financial data science.
S242  0
AI Analysts for the Buy-Side
W231  0Pre-seedApr 2023
Lead intelligence as a service. We want to be your personal lead…
W14Acquired  0$120KYC investment$120K, Mar 2014

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 ex-Blackstone founded YC companies

How many ex-Blackstone founded YC companies are there?

19 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at Blackstone; 14 are active.

Which ex-Blackstone founded YC companies are hiring?

2 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by DiligenceSquared (6 roles) and VectorShift (1 roles). 8 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.

Which ex-Blackstone founded YC companies are growing fastest?

By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Aqua (+93%), Happl (+64%) and DiligenceSquared (+44%).

Which ex-Blackstone founded YC companies raised the most?

Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Aqua ($15M) and DiligenceSquared ($5M).

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