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YC companies founded by ex-Instacart people

15 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at Instacart before.

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

Hiring the mostlast 60 days
5 roles
ForageS21
  1. 2Rootly1
See all 2
Fastest growingteam, 6 months
+22%
RootlyS21
  1. 2Cabal+8%
See all 2
Raised the mostlast 12 months
$40M
ForageS21
See all 1
Companies
15
Active
9
Hiring, last 60 days
2
Open roles, 60 days
6
People on these teams
224
Showing 15 of 15 companies
CompanyBatchTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
AI-native on-call and incident response carefully crafted to help…
S2193+22%+27%1$15.2MSeries A$12M, Aug 2023
Payments powering people
S2168−1%+8%5$62MSeries B$40M, Jun 2026
Private workspace for founders, investors, and advisors to collaborate
S2126+8%+4%0$125KYC investment$125K, Aug 2021
AI for SOX testing
S24Acquired8−20%+33%0$4.7MSeed$4.2M, Jan 2026
Manage a swarm of AI agents to get real work done
S236−14%−25%0$500KYC investment$500K, Oct 2023
AI Sales Assistant to increase playbook adoption and win more deals
S2250%0%YC$5.7MSeed$5.2M, Dec 2022
AI-native credentialing and contracting for healthcare
X264  0
Scaling engine for PostgreSQL
X254  YCSeedMay 2025
AI Compliance for Affordable Housing
F262  0$500KYC investment$500K, Jan 2025
No-code data curation for LLM fine-tuning and evaluation.
S22Inactive2  0$3.2MSeed$3.2M, Nov 2022
SQL editor for teams
S19Acquired2  0$17.4MSeries A$14M, Feb 2022
AI Deal Screening Analyst for Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions
W22Inactive1  0$2MSeed$2M, Apr 2022
Your personal hiring page.
S21Inactive1  0$2.1MSecondary$1.2M, Jan 2024
Amazon for Vegans
S18Inactive1  0$2.5MSeed$2.5M, Jul 2019
Your chief servant for shopping insurance
S171  YCSeedAug 2017

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-Instacart founded YC companies

How many ex-Instacart founded YC companies are there?

15 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at Instacart; 9 are active.

Which ex-Instacart founded YC companies are hiring?

2 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Forage (5 roles) and Rootly (1 roles). 5 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.

Which ex-Instacart founded YC companies are growing fastest?

By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Rootly (+22%) and Cabal (+8%).

Which ex-Instacart founded YC companies raised the most?

Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Forage ($40M).

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