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YC companies founded by ex-Twitch people

13 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at Twitch before.

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

Hiring the mostlast 60 days
5 roles
ZerocaterW11
See all 1
Shrinkingteam, 12 months
−5%
InkeepW23
  1. 2Zerocater−5%
See all 2
Companies
13
Active
9
Hiring, last 60 days
1
Open roles, 60 days
5
People on these teams
1,554
Showing 13 of 13 companies
CompanyBatchTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
Self-driving cars.
W14Acquired1,342−5%−14%0
Zerocater is revolutionizing how companies feed their employees
W11161−1%−5%5$37.9MSeries C$15M, Feb 2023
Build AI Agent teammates and automations in code or no-code
W2320−17%−5%YC$13MSeed$13M, Sep 2025
The best AI chat you've ever used
W227+17%+40%0
Accelerating world models.
X256  0
Florin is an AI-native insurance company that runs autonomously
S264  0$500KYC investment$500K, Jul 2026
Jam.gg, play couch games online with friends
S20Inactive4  0$14.9MSeries A$12M, Oct 2021
Building AI systems that improve from experience.
F243−40% 0$500KYC investment$500K, Dec 2024
Most powerful coding agent for Android engineers
W243−62%−40%YC$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2024
Self-optimizing inference cloud for faster, cheaper AI
F262  0
AI and Embeddings.
W241  0$500KYC investment$500K, Apr 2024
The solution for fine-grained access control in web3
W21Inactive1  0$125KYC investment$125K, May 2022
Exec is a house cleaning service that users can book from their…
W12Acquired  0$3.3MSeed$3.3M, May 2012

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-Twitch founded YC companies

How many ex-Twitch founded YC companies are there?

13 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at Twitch; 9 are active.

Which ex-Twitch founded YC companies are hiring?

1 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Zerocater (5 roles). 2 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.

Which ex-Twitch founded YC companies are growing fastest?

None of these companies has enough team history yet to rank.

Which ex-Twitch founded YC companies raised the most?

No reported rounds after their YC batch in the last 12 months.

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