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YC companies founded by ex-Lyft people

38 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at Lyft before.

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

Hiring the mostlast 60 days
4 roles
DatafoldS20
  1. 2Eventual2
  2. 3Candid Health2
See all 4
Fastest growingteam, 6 months
+50%
LoulaW23
  1. 2Datafold+20%
  2. 3Terrakotta+20%
See all 9
Raised the mostlast 12 months
$120M
Candid HealthW20
  1. 2Vori$22M
  2. 3Terrakotta$500K
See all 3
Companies
38
Active
20
Hiring, last 60 days
4
Open roles, 60 days
9
People on these teams
1,216
Showing 38 of 38 companies
CompanyBatchTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
Digital meets physical for big chain restaurants
S10Public358+3%+4%1$214MUndisclosed round$10M, Sep 2026
The autonomous revenue cycle management platform.
W20243+19%+45%2$220MSeries D$120M, Jul 2026
AI Applied Research
W2462−2%+5%0$17.5MSeries A$17M, Jun 2025
Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment
W20Acquired62+11%+5%0$28.2MSeries A$7M, Nov 2024
An AI-powered digital grocer that delivers in under 60 mins.
S16Inactive54+2%+6%0$34.4MSeries B$19.4M, Oct 2021
Stripe for HSA/FSA payments
S2351+13%+31%YC$18.2MSeries A$15M, Sep 2025
Vori is a modern operating system for supermarkets
W2048−27%+7%YC$32.1MSeries B$22M, May 2026
SDK for scanning and verifying credit cards and photo IDs in mobile…
S19Acquired48+4%+12%0$150KYC investment$150K, Aug 2019
Investment management platform for real estate
W2242+11%+11%0$4.5MSeed (before YC)$3.5M, Nov 2021
Building the AI data engine for any modality and scale
W2240+11%+5%2$30MSeries A$20M, Jun 2025
Automating manual and repetitive data engineering tasks with AI
S2036+20%+3%4$26.2MUndisclosed round$4M, May 2025
Open-Core Pricing and Billing Engine
S22Inactive220%0%0SeedOct 2022
Enabling birth & postpartum doulas to easily accept insurance.
W2321+50%+75%0SeedJan 2026
Building The Next Generation of Night Vision Devices
W2419+6%+36%YC$6MSeries A$5.5M, Sep 2025
AI platform for phone-first sellers
W2418+20%+100%YC$500KSeed$500K, Jan 2026
Authorization and access control as a service.
S21Acquired13−7%−7%0$125KYC investment$125K, Aug 2021
Open Source AI Agent to automate browser workflows via an API
S2312 +20%YC$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2023
AI for SOX testing
S24Acquired8−20%+33%0$4.7MSeed$4.2M, Jan 2026
Crypto Neo-Bank (WhatsApp moment for bank accounts)
W22Acquired8−56%−50%0$4.3MSeed$4.3M, Mar 2022
Driverless Trucks, for real.
S16Inactive70%0%0$20.3MSeries A$16.5M, Mar 2018
Unifying how the optical industry does business.
W2360%+20%0$3.7MSeed$3.7M, Oct 2023
AI-native learning for every school
S265  YC
RL environments and training data for frontier AI labs
X255−17%−17%YCSeedJun 2025
The Open-Core Security Graph
W2550% YC$4.7MSeed$4.2M, Oct 2025
AI lab in San Francisco
W224  0$2.1MPre-seed$2M, Jun 2022
Self-improving content bank for marketing
W24Acquired3−40%−40%0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2024
The personal AI agent that keeps up with your work and life.
X262  0$500KYC investment$500K, Jun 2026
Building AI Native Customs Brokerages
X262  0
Tech and platforms for human creators and the entertainment industry
S242  0$500KYC investment$500K, Sep 2024
Autofix your software dependencies
W23Acquired2  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2023
serverless platform for real-time data
S22Inactive2  0$500KYC investment$500K, Aug 2022
AI-powered code security
X25Acquired1  0$500KYC investment$500K, Jun 2025
Test, evaluate & observe your LLM applications
S231  0$500KYC investment$500K, Jun 2023
Cloud-native stream processing
W23Acquired1  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2023
The card that rewards you with stock
S21Inactive1  0$125KUndisclosed round$125K, Dec 2021
Eliminate Cloud Waste. Attribute and Track Savings. Engage Engineers.
S21Acquired1  0$3.1MSeed$3M, Dec 2021
Zaam is an end-to-end SaaS solution for business onboarding.
W20Inactive1  0$150KYC investment$150K, Mar 2020
Software for robotaxi operations.
S18Inactive  0Non-equity supportDec 2019

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-Lyft founded YC companies

How many ex-Lyft founded YC companies are there?

38 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at Lyft; 20 are active.

Which ex-Lyft founded YC companies are hiring?

4 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Datafold (4 roles), Eventual (2 roles) and Candid Health (2 roles). 11 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.

Which ex-Lyft founded YC companies are growing fastest?

By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Loula (+50%), Datafold (+20%) and Terrakotta (+20%).

Which ex-Lyft founded YC companies raised the most?

Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Candid Health ($120M), Vori ($22M) and Terrakotta ($500K).

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