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YC companies founded by ex-VMware people

11 Y Combinator companies with a founder who worked at VMware before.

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

Hiring the mostlast 60 days
11 roles
AtomicS20
  1. 2Mutiny3
See all 2
Fastest growingteam, 6 months
+50%
QFEXX25
  1. 2Mutiny+8%
  2. 3Atomic+4%
See all 3
Shrinkingteam, 12 months
−26%
PacesS22
  1. 2Honeydew−12%
  2. 3Mutiny−4%
See all 3
Raised the mostlast 12 months
$9.5M
QFEXX25
See all 1
Companies
11
Active
9
Hiring, last 60 days
2
Open roles, 60 days
14
People on these teams
234
Showing 11 of 11 companies
CompanyBatchTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure
S2269−1%−26%YC$13.8MSeries A$11M, Jul 2024
Your AI agent for creating anything customer-facing, in minutes.
S1852+8%−4%3$71.6MSeries B$50M, Apr 2022
API that lets companies embed investment accounts into their services
S2049+4%+14%11$55.1MUndisclosed round$30M, Aug 2025
The home for shared data logic
W2330−9%−12%0$575KSeed$75K, May 2025
24/7 Global Stock Exchange
X2512+50%+50%YC$10MSeed$9.5M, Mar 2026
PowerRouter helps sales teams with lead routing in Salesforce
W2160%0%0$125KYC investment$125K, Mar 2021
AI Agents for Lending Operations
S245  0$500KYC investment$500K, May 2025
AI-powered Application Control
S215−17%−17%0$125KYC investment$125K, Jan 2023
No-code workflow tool
W215−17%−17%0$4MSeed$3.9M, Sep 2021
#1 Data platform for restaurants. Acquired by Thanx
W19Acquired1  0$2.3MNon-equity support$100K, Jul 2020
Using AI to predict biochemistry for manufacturing and therapeutics
W15Inactive  0$2.2MSeed$2.1M, May 2015

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-VMware founded YC companies

How many ex-VMware founded YC companies are there?

11 Y Combinator companies have a founder who worked at VMware; 9 are active.

Which ex-VMware founded YC companies are hiring?

2 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Atomic (11 roles) and Mutiny (3 roles). 4 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.

Which ex-VMware founded YC companies are growing fastest?

By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): QFEX (+50%), Mutiny (+8%) and Atomic (+4%).

Which ex-VMware founded YC companies raised the most?

Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: QFEX ($9.5M).

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