11 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at Spotify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Underwriting automation for small business finance | S20 | 65 | +12% | +35% | 1 | $17.8M | Series A$16.6M, Jul 2025 |
Create video by chatting to AI | S22 | 42 | −9% | −19% | 0 | ||
Financial data layer for AI-powered finance and accounting | S20 | 41 | −11% | −5% | YC | $10.1M | Series A$10M, Apr 2025 |
Agentic Finance for your Life and Business | S24 | 14 | +133% | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Sep 2024 | |
AI health coach in your pocket | F25 | 11 | −8% | +38% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Dec 2025 |
Foundation Models for the Brain | W24 | 11 | +10% | −8% | YC | $8M | Seed$1.5M, Dec 2024 |
Automated contract review with AI | W22Acquired | 4 | −43% | 0 | $1.9M | Pre-seed$1.9M, Aug 2022 | |
Understand your users beyond the numbers | X25 | 3 | −57% | −50% | 0 | $5.5M | Seed$5M, Sep 2025 |
Dynamic access controls for all data and databases | W22Acquired | 2 | 0 | ||||
Creating viral AI consumer apps and games | S22 | 1 | YC | $1.5M | Seed$1M, Sep 2022 | ||
The AI context platform for private capital. Everything your firm… | W23 | 528 | 1 | $7.5M | Seed$5M, Sep 2025 |
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
11 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at Spotify; 9 are active.
2 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Heron (1 roles) and Metal (1 roles). 6 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.
By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Heron (+12%) and Piramidal (+10%).
No reported rounds after their YC batch in the last 12 months.