21 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at Qualcomm 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Professional website design and publishing platform. | S13 | 1,847 | +9% | +16% | 46 | $335M | Undisclosed round$400K, Apr 2025 |
Enterprise-grade AI for revenue assurance | W22 | 160 | +8% | +55% | 1 | $46.4M | Series B$25M, Aug 2026 |
We're crowdsourced Gartner so IT executives can learn directly from… | W18Acquired | 69 | +13% | +21% | 0 | $10.6M | Series A$6.5M, Apr 2020 |
No-code email marketing platform to send forms & widgets within emails | S21Acquired | 45 | −10% | −48% | 0 | $2.3M | Seed$2M, Jun 2021 |
Trust Center platform that scales customer security reviews | S20Acquired | 33 | −13% | −35% | 0 | $53.1M | Series B$33M, Apr 2024 |
AI agents for the consumer lending industry | S25 | 22 | +29% | +144% | 3 | SeedSep 2025 | |
Segment for global payments | S21Acquired | 19 | +6% | 0 | $4M | Undisclosed round$4M, Jan 2023 | |
Frontier Video Agents | W25 | 13 | +117% | +117% | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Mar 2025 |
Next-generation, modular electric vehicles | W22 | 13 | −7% | −13% | YC | $2.2M | Equity crowdfunding$892K, Sep 2026 |
Get your brand discovered and recommended by ChatGPT | W22 | 10 | +11% | +100% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Mar 2022 |
The medical record & infrastructure stack for digital health companies | S21 | 9 | +13% | +13% | YC | $1.5M | Seed$505K, Jan 2023 |
A social feed for interactive AI Creations | W24 | 6 | 0 | ||||
The best model-agnostic Grokbot alternative | W26 | 4 | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Mar 2026 | ||
The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants. | S26 | 3 | YC | ||||
Optimize performance on GPUs - 10x faster | W24 | 3 | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Apr 2024 | ||
Fast Models Optimized for Coding Agents | S23 | 3 | YC | $22.5M | Seed$22M, May 2026 | ||
Automate your cyber security risk assessments | S21Acquired | 3 | 0 | $2.6M | Seed$2.5M, Nov 2021 | ||
In-call AI teleprompter that helps reps close enterprise deals | W25 | 2 | −67% | YC | SeedMar 2025 | ||
On demand veterinary house calls. | W15Inactive | 2 | 0 | $1.1M | Seed$365K, Sep 2016 | ||
Remote Shell Access in the Browser | W23 | 1 | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Apr 2023 | ||
Local news, information and classifieds for India's small town users | S19 | 1,263 | 63 | $29.8M | Series B$14.6M, Apr 2023 |
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 Qualcomm; 15 are active.
4 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Lokal (63 roles), Webflow (46 roles) and Veritus (3 roles). 8 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.
By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Mosaic (+117%), Veritus (+29%) and Siftly (+11%).
Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Arintra ($25M), Morph ($22M) and Olympian Motors ($892K).