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YC companies founded by ex-Intel people

36 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at Intel before.

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

Hiring the mostlast 60 days
9 roles
GiveCampusS15
See all 1
Fastest growingteam, 6 months
+143%
Specific LabsF25
  1. 2CTGT+117%
  2. 3Meru.com+43%
See all 7
Shrinkingteam, 12 months
−24%
ContraForceS21
  1. 2Upfort−8%
  2. 3ElectroNeek−5%
See all 4
Raised the mostlast 12 months
$29.2M
LuminalS25
See all 1
Companies
36
Active
22
Hiring, last 60 days
1
Open roles, 60 days
9
People on these teams
1,176
Showing 36 of 36 companies
CompanyBatchTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
Learning platform for job seekers with job applications automation
S21533−5%−5%0$9.5MSeries A$8M, Mar 2023
Learning app for school students in Southeast Asia
S21157+13%+15%0$1.7MSeed$1.6M, Jan 2022
The fundraising platform for schools.
S15148+9%+18%9$50MPrivate equity$50M, Sep 2022
The one-stop-shop for auto-parts in Mexico.
W2153+43%+66%0$5.5MSeed$3M, Jan 2023
Robotic Process Automation and Document Processing Platform
W2053 −5%0$23.7MSeries A$20M, Jun 2021
Analytics for impatient people.
W13Acquired28+12%+22%0$46.3MSeries C$18M, Dec 2017
Turnkey security & hassle-free cyber insurance from leading insurers
S1724−8%−8%0$15MSeries A$8M, Oct 2023
Security Delivery Platform to orchestrate AI agents for Service…
S2119 −24%0$3.7MSeed$3.3M, Oct 2024
Real World Environments and Data for AI
F2517+143%+143%0$500KYC investment$500K, Dec 2025
Add comments to your website.
S07Acquired170%+6%0$10.5MSeries B$10M, May 2011
Test, monitor, and improve your voice and chat AI agents
X2516+33%+129%YC$4MSeed$4M, Aug 2025
Making AI run fast on any hardware.
S2513+18%+44%YC$35MUndisclosed round$29.2M, Oct 2026
The deterministic layer for frontier intelligence
F2413+117% YC$7.2MSeed$7.2M, Feb 2025
Building the next generation of wealth
W2212−20%−14%YCSeedMar 2022
Pay by bank and earn rewards
S21Inactive120%0%0Undisclosed roundAug 2021
AI Employees for Healthcare
S259+13%−44%YC$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2025
Airline customer service, fully automated.
S258+14%+33%0$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2025
Co-located trading facility and matching engine on one chip.
W2570%+17%YC$500KYC investment$500K, Jul 2025
Construction Cost Intelligence.
X266  0
Bring your photos to life with Vimmerse
W2260%+20%0$2MSeed$2M, Jun 2024
We optimize inference stacks for teams
W264  0$500KYC investment$500K, Mar 2026
W10Acquired4  0$1MDebt$320K, Mar 2012
Find the best leads with custom intent signals
W233  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2023
We turn traditional companies into AI companies
W252  0$500KYC investment$500K, Mar 2025
We help humans & agents pick tools via Independent Benchmarks
F242  YC
LLM Observability for Developers
W23Acquired2 −80%0$1.5MPre-seed$1.5M, Apr 2023
Copilot for radiologists
W24Inactive1  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2024
End-to-end encrypted AI.
W23Inactive1  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2023
Modern analytics for CPG brands
W23Acquired1  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2023
The solution for fine-grained access control in web3
W21Inactive1  0$125KYC investment$125K, May 2022
Acquired by Brex. Building digital payments infrastructure.
W19Acquired1  0SeedMar 2019
Your chief servant for shopping insurance
S171  YCSeedAug 2017
Cyberfend delivers robust, real-time web and mobile security by…
W15Acquired1  0$3MNon-equity support$3M, Jun 2016
Palantir for sales people
W12Inactive1  0$1.5MSeed$1.5M, Jun 2013
The backend for Augmented Reality.
S17Acquired  0$120KYC investment$120K, Aug 2017
A self-healing platform to enrich and fix server alerts automatically
S14Inactive  0$1MSeed$1M, Nov 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-Intel founded YC companies

How many ex-Intel founded YC companies are there?

36 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at Intel; 22 are active.

Which ex-Intel founded YC companies are hiring?

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

Which ex-Intel founded YC companies are growing fastest?

By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Specific Labs (+143%), CTGT (+117%) and Meru.com (+43%).

Which ex-Intel founded YC companies raised the most?

Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Luminal ($29.2M).

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