20 Y Combinator companies in Virtual and Augmented Reality, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Turn physical objects and environments into 3D models in seconds. | W12Public | 527 | +2% | 0% | 14 | $418M | Post-IPO equity$295M, Jul 2021 |
Building the next generation AI creative studio | W21 | 94 | −13% | −38% | YC | $154M | Seed$84M, Jul 2025 |
Scope AR is the leading provider of User Guided Augmented Reality… | S15Inactive | 38 | −12% | −16% | 0 | $11.8M | Undisclosed round$9.7M, Dec 2022 |
Building the open source smart glasses operating system. | W25 | 16 | −16% | −16% | 0 | $8M | Seed$8M, Mar 2025 |
Wordpress for AR & VR | W18Inactive | 10 | 0% | 0% | 0 | Seed (before YC)Nov 2017 | |
Live between worlds, in UNISON, using the headset we're building! | W22 | 9 | 0% | 0% | YC | Pre-seedMar 2022 | |
Audio and Haptics AR interface equipping blind users with super powers | S17Inactive | 6 | 0% | 0% | 0 | $935K | Equity crowdfunding$315K, Jul 2020 |
Catch student behavior problems before they start. | S16 | 5 | −17% | −17% | 0 | $120K | YC investment$120K, Aug 2016 |
Premium immersive cinematic VR entertainment for captive audiences | S16Inactive | 2 | 0 | $1.1M | Seed$1.1M, Oct 2018 | ||
We are a monitoring and analytics plugin for all video chat platforms. | S20Inactive | 1 | 0 | SeedAug 2020 | |||
Augmented Reality mobile app to try and buy tattoos | S18Inactive | 1 | 0 | $160K | YC investment$120K, Jul 2018 | ||
VR space of immersive utilities | W18 | 1 | 0 | $1.1M | Seed$1.1M, Jul 2018 | ||
Disney meets Airbnb Experiences | W19Inactive | ||||||
We create the digital outdoor environment for a movie. | S18Inactive | ||||||
High-performance gloves for VR and AR | W18 | ||||||
The backend for Augmented Reality. | S17Acquired | 0 | $120K | YC investment$120K, Aug 2017 | |||
Experience music and art in augmented reality | W17Acquired | 0 | SeedMar 2017 | ||||
The simplest way to test, manage, and deploy VR/AR apps at scale. | W16Inactive | 0 | $120K | YC investment$120K, Mar 2016 | |||
Augmented reality glasses. | S13Inactive | ||||||
Wearable computing hardware: biosignal gesture recognition | W13Acquired |
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
20 Y Combinator companies are in Virtual and Augmented Reality; 6 are active.
1 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Matterport (14 roles). 2 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.
By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Matterport (+2%).
No reported rounds after their YC batch in the last 12 months.