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YC companies founded by ex-Coinbase people

31 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at Coinbase before.

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

Hiring the mostlast 60 days
1 role
LiteLLMW23
See all 1
Fastest growingteam, 6 months
+143%
Specific LabsF25
  1. 2LiteLLM+100%
  2. 3Pierre+53%
See all 7
Raised the mostlast 12 months
$15M
diliS23
  1. 2Orthogonal$4.3M
See all 2
Companies
31
Active
26
Hiring, last 60 days
1
Open roles, 60 days
1
People on these teams
399
Showing 31 of 31 companies
CompanyBatchTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
Connecting the world by simulating it
W22107+1%+3%YC
Automating Compliance for Construction
S2362+51%+148%YC$21.8MSeries A$15M, Jul 2026
Call every LLM API like it's OpenAI [100+ LLMs]
W2326+100%+333%1
Pierre is a new, opinionated, git platform.
W2323+53%+77%0SeedJan 2025
AI for Government Contracting.
S2319+36%+36%YC$2.3MSeed$2.2M, Aug 2024
Real World Environments and Data for AI
F2517+143%+143%0$500KYC investment$500K, Dec 2025
Self-improving agents that automate your growth bottlenecks
F2616+23%−6%0$6.8MSeed (before YC)$5M, Aug 2023
The easiest way to buy 74k+ crypto tokens with USD
S17Acquired150%0%0$7.1MSeries A$7M, Feb 2021
Crypto Neo-Bank (WhatsApp moment for bank accounts)
W22Acquired8−56%−50%0$4.3MSeed$4.3M, Mar 2022
Intelligence that moves the world
F257  0$500KYC investment$500K, Dec 2025
Agentic Payments for APIs
W266  YC$4.8MSeed$4.3M, Jun 2026
Open-source AI coworker with memory
S246  0$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2024
Relationship Coverage for Deal Teams
W2360%−14%0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2023
AI to fight financial crime
W265  0$500KYC investment$500K, Mar 2026
Payment infrastructure for AI agents
F255  0$500KYC investment$500K, Dec 2025
derivative layer for prediction markets
X264  YC$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2026
Training Data for Recursive Self-Improvement
F254−33% 0$500KYC investment$500K, Dec 2025
The planning layer for teams that build with coding agents
F254  YC$500KYC investment$500K, Dec 2025
Building the infrastructure for AI to interact with software
W263  YC$500KYC investment$500K, Mar 2026
Affordable, intelligent humanoid robots built to deploy at scale
S262  YC
Derivatives Exchange for Compute
S262  0
The growth OS for plaintiff-side law firms
S252  0
Deploy Machine Learning Models with One Command
W232  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2023
serverless platform for real-time data
S22Inactive2  0$500KYC investment$500K, Aug 2022
Fuzzing as a Service
W19Acquired2  0$2.9MSeed$2.7M, Apr 2019
The tiny computer built for voice AI.
W261  0$500KYC investment$500K, Mar 2026
Platform to build, use, and monetize fully autonomous agents
S241  0
AI Agent for DevOps Workflow Automation
W241  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2024
The open source Postman alternative.
S231  0$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2023
Open source build tool for monorepos and large codebases
W23Inactive1  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2023
AI Grading for Teachers
S2539  0$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2025

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-Coinbase founded YC companies

How many ex-Coinbase founded YC companies are there?

31 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at Coinbase; 26 are active.

Which ex-Coinbase founded YC companies are hiring?

1 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by LiteLLM (1 roles). 9 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.

Which ex-Coinbase founded YC companies are growing fastest?

By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Specific Labs (+143%), LiteLLM (+100%) and Pierre (+53%).

Which ex-Coinbase founded YC companies raised the most?

Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: dili ($15M) and Orthogonal ($4.3M).

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