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YC companies founded by ex-Qualcomm people

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.

Hiring the mostlast 60 days
63 roles
LokalS19
  1. 2Webflow46
  2. 3Veritus3
See all 4
Fastest growingteam, 6 months
+117%
MosaicW25
  1. 2Veritus+29%
  2. 3Siftly+11%
See all 5
Raised the mostlast 12 months
$25M
ArintraW22
  1. 2Morph$22M
  2. 3Olympian Motors$892K
See all 3
Companies
21
Active
15
Hiring, last 60 days
4
Open roles, 60 days
113
People on these teams
3,530
Showing 21 of 21 companies
CompanyBatchTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
Professional website design and publishing platform.
S131,847+9%+16%46$335MUndisclosed round$400K, Apr 2025
Enterprise-grade AI for revenue assurance
W22160+8%+55%1$46.4MSeries B$25M, Aug 2026
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W18Acquired69+13%+21%0$10.6MSeries A$6.5M, Apr 2020
No-code email marketing platform to send forms & widgets within emails
S21Acquired45−10%−48%0$2.3MSeed$2M, Jun 2021
Trust Center platform that scales customer security reviews
S20Acquired33−13%−35%0$53.1MSeries B$33M, Apr 2024
AI agents for the consumer lending industry
S2522+29%+144%3SeedSep 2025
Segment for global payments
S21Acquired19 +6%0$4MUndisclosed round$4M, Jan 2023
Frontier Video Agents
W2513+117%+117%YC$500KYC investment$500K, Mar 2025
Next-generation, modular electric vehicles
W2213−7%−13%YC$2.2MEquity crowdfunding$892K, Sep 2026
Get your brand discovered and recommended by ChatGPT
W2210+11%+100%0$500KYC investment$500K, Mar 2022
The medical record & infrastructure stack for digital health companies
S219+13%+13%YC$1.5MSeed$505K, Jan 2023
A social feed for interactive AI Creations
W246  0
The best model-agnostic Grokbot alternative
W264  0$500KYC investment$500K, Mar 2026
The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.
S263  YC
Optimize performance on GPUs - 10x faster
W243  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2024
Fast Models Optimized for Coding Agents
S233  YC$22.5MSeed$22M, May 2026
Automate your cyber security risk assessments
S21Acquired3  0$2.6MSeed$2.5M, Nov 2021
In-call AI teleprompter that helps reps close enterprise deals
W252 −67%YCSeedMar 2025
On demand veterinary house calls.
W15Inactive2  0$1.1MSeed$365K, Sep 2016
Remote Shell Access in the Browser
W231  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2023
Local news, information and classifieds for India's small town users
S191,263  63$29.8MSeries B$14.6M, Apr 2023

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-Qualcomm founded YC companies

How many ex-Qualcomm founded YC companies are there?

21 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at Qualcomm; 15 are active.

Which ex-Qualcomm founded YC companies are hiring?

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.

Which ex-Qualcomm founded YC companies are growing fastest?

By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Mosaic (+117%), Veritus (+29%) and Siftly (+11%).

Which ex-Qualcomm founded YC companies raised the most?

Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Arintra ($25M), Morph ($22M) and Olympian Motors ($892K).

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