# Y Combinator

> Y Combinator is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 7,069 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 7,069
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Fund size: $1M
- Last fund: Aug 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/y-combinator
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ycombinator
- Website: http://www.ycombinator.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/YCombinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that provides funding and mentorship to early-stage companies. It offers a program where startups receive guidance from experienced entrepreneurs and investors. The organization helps founders in their business models and develop their products. Y Combinator serves industries such as technology, healthcare, andfinance.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1035 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 782 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 463 | 7% |
| SaaS | 351 | 5% |
| FinTech | 326 | 5% |

578 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1637 | 23% |
| Seed | 1567 | 22% |
| Series A | 331 | 5% |
| Series B | 113 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 96 | 1% |

17 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2263 | 32% |
| India | 122 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 102 | 1% |
| Canada | 88 | 1% |
| Mexico | 46 | 1% |

68 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boris Jabes | Visiting Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boris-jabes |
| Luther Lowe | Head of Public Policy | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luther-lowe |
| Max Kolysh | Visiting Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-kolysh |
| Brad Flora | Group Partner | 223 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-flora |
| Calvin French-Owen | Visiting Group Partner | 31 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvin-french-owen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Discovered Materials | AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips. | $9M | Seed | Aug 10, 2026 |  |
| Naive | Naïve provides infrastructure for AI agents and applications, including compute, databases, identity, payments, communications, model routing, and tool integrations. Its platform enables users to deploy AI agents, build and host applications, automate business operations, and manage agent permissions, spending, credentials, and workflows through aunified infrastructure layer. | $28.5M | Series A | Aug 07, 2026 |  |
| Whatnot | Whatnot is a Los Angeles-based startup that creates a place where avid collectors could come together over shared interests. Whatnot is a marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items. Whatnot was founded in 2019, in California. | $545M | Series G | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Pally | Pally is an AI Agent for your network. | $3.5M | Seed | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| HappyRobot | HappyRobot provides a system that creates and manages a workforce of AI workers. The platform builds fully custom workflows and integrates with a variety of systems. The service helps businesses remove data silos and automate tasks in real time. | $150M | Series C | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Revoy | EV vehicle between the tractor and the trailer to help power the truck and reduce diesel fuel consumption. | $27M | Series A | Aug 02, 2026 |  |
| dili | Dili provides an AI-powered compliance automation platform for construction, infrastructure, energy, and manufacturing projects. The platform automates prevailing wage compliance, certified payroll review, apprenticeship tracking, wage validation, compliance reporting, and audit workflows to help organizations manage regulatory requirements forfederally funded projects. | $15M | Series A | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Henry | Henry is a software company that develops AI-powered workflow automation tools for commercial real estate professionals. Its platform automates underwriting, market research, comparable property analysis, transaction tracking, buyer identification, and pitch deck creation. The platform also builds and maintains proprietary property and transactiondatabases, generates Excel-based underwriting models, and integrates with existing workflows to support investment sales, acquisitions, and brokerage teams throughout the deal process. | $16.5M | Series A | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Terminal | Terminal provides telematics data infrastructure for the commercial fleet industry. The platform connects software companies, insurers, fleet operators, and other businesses with vehicle data from multiple telematics providers through a unified integration layer. It manages data ingestion, provider integrations, consent workflows, and data deliveryto support fleet management, insurance, fuel services, and transportation applications. | $20M | Series A | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Centralize | Centralize is an IT firm that analyzes touch points with the help of tools and stakeholders for pre and post-sales teams. | $15M | Series A | Jul 29, 2026 |  |

10 of 7,069 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 618 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 416 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 350 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 259 deals together
- [Rebel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebel-fund) — VC Fund, 254 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 194 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Y Combinator invest in?

Y Combinator invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 7,069 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Y Combinator?

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### Who are the partners at Y Combinator?

The team at Y Combinator includes Boris Jabes (Visiting Partner), Luther Lowe (Head of Public Policy) and Max Kolysh (Visiting Partner), among 34 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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