168 Y Combinator companies in Manufacturing and Robotics, with team size, growth, open roles and funding.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AI + Robotics for the Built World | W16 | 318 | +2% | −5% | 11 | $347M | Undisclosed round$125M, Aug 2026 |
Quantum coherent supercomputing. | S14Public | 204 | +6% | +19% | 0 | $883M | Grant$100M, May 2026 |
Physical AI data lab | W26 | 95 | +579% | 3 | $8.7M | Seed$8.2M, May 2026 | |
Reshaping industrial quality with AI, hardware, and software | W19 | 91 | +30% | +63% | 24 | $13.3M | Series A$10M, Feb 2022 |
We build robots for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs. | S19 | 90 | +8% | +8% | 1 | $36.4M | Series B$20M, Mar 2026 |
Additive Manufacturing with advanced materials | W17 | 85 | +10% | 1 | $14.3M | Undisclosed round$11.5M, Jan 2026 | |
Robotic production capacity for the pharma manufacturing industry | S16 | 76 | +7% | +31% | 10 | $97.7M | Series B$75M, Oct 2026 |
We Mine Asteroids | W22 | 72 | −4% | +11% | YC | $55.8M | Undisclosed round$216K, Oct 2025 |
On-Demand Electronics Manufacturing | W12 | 66 | +14% | +32% | 8 | $46.4M | Series A$28M, May 2026 |
Software orchestrated mass production of plastics | W21 | 64 | +16% | +49% | 2 | $45.3M | Series A$25M, Jun 2025 |
Powering a better future for textiles. | W18 | 64 | −4% | −40% | 0 | $191M | Undisclosed round$40M, Mar 2025 |
Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment | W20Acquired | 62 | +11% | +5% | 0 | $28.2M | Series A$7M, Nov 2024 |
Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories | W21 | 60 | −2% | +9% | 0 | $6M | Seed$6M, May 2024 |
Industrial data layer for physical RSI | X25 | 56 | +331% | 0 | $7.6M | Seed$6M, Jun 2026 | |
Bathroom cleaning robots for office buildings. | W20 | 52 | +27% | +33% | 0 | $21M | Undisclosed round$13.7M, Feb 2025 |
Orangewood builds amazing robots that people want. | W18 | 45 | −4% | +2% | YC | $5.6M | Undisclosed round$1.5M, Aug 2023 |
Practical, general-purpose robots for repetitive industrial tasks | S24 | 38 | +100% | +192% | YC | $62M | Series A$50M, Oct 2026 |
General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles | S22 | 36 | +16% | +80% | YC | Undisclosed roundFeb 2024 | |
Supplying America's Industrial Base | S25 | 35 | +218% | +600% | YC | $16.8M | Seed$11.5M, Jun 2026 |
Nanotechnology-enabled coatings for automotive and defence sectors | S14 | 33 | +6% | +32% | 0 | $7.9M | Grant$4.3M, Jan 2026 |
Robots that build solar farms | S21 | 31 | +15% | +24% | 15 | $17M | Undisclosed round$17M, Aug 2024 |
AI-native Robotics | S20 | 27 | +29% | +35% | YC | Corporate roundAug 2026 | |
Practical and delightful home robots | S24 | 20 | +25% | +67% | 6 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Sep 2024 |
Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI | F25 | 19 | +111% | +138% | 0 | $6M | Seed$6M, Dec 2025 |
Software Enabled CNC Parts Supplier | W25 | 17 | +6% | +113% | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Mar 2025 |
Making humanoids dexterous enough to thread a needle | W25 | 17 | +42% | +31% | YC | $11M | Seed$11M, Jun 2026 |
Robots to Automate Fulfillment | W24 | 17 | −6% | +13% | 3 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Apr 2024 |
Metal manufacturing, faster, cheaper, and more versatile. | S26 | 16 | +167% | 0 | |||
robots & software for farms | X26 | 16 | +78% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, May 2026 | |
IndustrialNext builds the AI brain for manufacturing -… | W22 | 16 | +45% | +45% | 0 | $12M | Undisclosed round$12M, Jan 2026 |
GreaseBoss verifes industrial machinery is greased correctly | W21 | 16 | +7% | 0 | $1M | Seed$1M, Mar 2021 | |
The spot market for semiconductors | S20 | 15 | +25% | +36% | 0 | $3.8M | Seed$3M, Dec 2025 |
Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit. | W18Inactive | 15 | +7% | +7% | 0 | $4.2M | Seed$4M, Jun 2018 |
Building robotic mushroom farms | S22 | 14 | +8% | 0 | $12.8M | Undisclosed round$12.8M, Aug 2024 | |
Automatic circuit board design. | S18 | 14 | 0% | −12% | YC | $12M | Series A$12M, Sep 2022 |
Industrial Robots that Learn and Operate Like Humans | X25 | 13 | +8% | +8% | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jun 2025 |
Wire Harnesses in as little as 7 days | F24 | 13 | +44% | 1 | |||
Custom Parts, Manufactured in America 🇺🇸 | S24 | 12 | +50% | +140% | 1 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jul 2025 |
Makes guilt-free plastics from food waste | W20 | 12 | −8% | +9% | 0 | $15.1M | Grant$150K, Jun 2023 |
Octopart is a search engine for electronic components | W07Acquired | 12 | 0% | −8% | 0 | $375K | Seed$360K, May 2008 |
AI models that teach robots new skills in hours | S25 | 11 | +83% | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Sep 2025 | |
Reshoring critical metal production | S25 | 11 | +38% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Sep 2025 | |
AI-powered robotics for scientific lab automation. | X25 | 11 | +22% | 0 | SeedJun 2025 | ||
Physical businesses that run themselves | F25 | 10 | +100% | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Dec 2025 | |
Robots with soul | F25 | 10 | +100% | YC | $1.2M | Seed$653K, Feb 2026 | |
Manufacturing the most powerful chips, 15x faster | W25 | 10 | +25% | +25% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jan 2026 |
Automating airport baggage handling with robots. | S24 | 10 | +43% | +67% | YC | $4M | Seed$3.5M, Apr 2025 |
AI for Robot Arms in Factories | W24 | 10 | +11% | +25% | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jul 2024 |
The Fastest Scientific Computing Platform on the Planet | S19 | 10 | +11% | YC | $150K | Series A$150K, Mar 2022 | |
Human Intelligence for Robots | X26 | 9 | YC | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jun 2026 |
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
168 Y Combinator companies are in Manufacturing and Robotics; 145 are active.
19 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Overview (24 roles), Charge Robotics (15 roles) and Gecko Robotics (11 roles). 55 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.
By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Human Archive (+579%), Linewise (+331%) and Nox Metals (+218%).
Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Gecko Robotics ($125M), Multiply Labs ($75M) and Ultra ($50M).