21 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at HSBC 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Challenger Bank for consumers in French speaking Africa. | W21 | 327 | 0% | +4% | 0 | $49.1M | Debt$1.5M, Aug 2026 |
Smart micro financing for everyone | S21 | 81 | −9% | −6% | 2 | $167M | Debt$22.9M, Jun 2026 |
StayQrious helps kids in India learn through online group classes,… | W20 | 55 | −2% | −10% | 0 | $2M | Seed$2M, Sep 2020 |
Credit for the emerging economy in Latam | S22 | 40 | +5% | +8% | 0 | Pre-seedAug 2022 | |
The global mobile network for business. | S22 | 37 | +16% | +23% | 0 | $4.4M | Seed$4.2M, Feb 2023 |
Data platform for mission-critical real-time workloads | S20 | 30 | +7% | +7% | YC | $14.3M | Non-equity support$12M, Apr 2024 |
Traceable AI for billion-dollar infrastructure. | W22 | 24 | +4% | +20% | 0 | $3.8M | Non-equity support$234K, Jun 2026 |
Automating Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management with AI Workforce | W23 | 19 | +46% | +27% | 0 | SeedJan 2026 | |
Turn Your Taste Into Hires | F26 | 16 | +45% | +23% | 0 | ||
Grow money and win $1000 every week by saving and playing games | W22Inactive | 12 | −8% | 0 | $5M | Seed$4M, Jan 2023 | |
Building the operating system for developing world merchants | W19 | 10 | 0 | $1.4M | Pre-seed$1.4M, Mar 2019 | ||
Agentic Operating System for Food Supply Chain | S25 | 9 | 0% | +50% | YC | $3.8M | Seed$3.8M, Sep 2025 |
Fast and Data-Driven Immigration Platform | W25 | 7 | −46% | YC | $3.2M | Seed$2.7M, Apr 2025 | |
Compliance guardrails-as-a-service for AI applications | F24 | 7 | 0% | 0% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jan 2026 |
Deliver genes to any cell with AI | S23 | 7 | 0% | +17% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Sep 2023 |
AI-native tax platform to save $1T+ for Americans | W23Acquired | 4 | −20% | 0 | |||
Building Gong.io for offline retail. | S21Inactive | 4 | −20% | 0 | $275K | YC investment$125K, Oct 2021 | |
Digital banking for businesses in Latam. | W20Acquired | 3 | 0 | $27.7M | Debt$25M, Jan 2022 | ||
We produce & sell stainless steel water bottles that enables people… | W15 | 2 | 0 | SeedMar 2015 | |||
Amazon-level personalization for Shopify merchants | W22Inactive | 1 | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Mar 2022 | ||
Treasury management platform for SMBs to optimize idle cash in Latam | S21Inactive | 1 | 0 | $125K | YC investment$125K, Aug 2021 |
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
21 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at HSBC; 15 are active.
1 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Baubap (2 roles). 3 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.
By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): CombineHealth (+46%), Lantern AI (+45%) and Devyce (+16%).
No reported rounds after their YC batch in the last 12 months.