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YC Summer 2026 companies

A selected Summer 2026 YC company sample organized for founders comparing adjacent products, buyers, and public evidence.

By Ali Abouelatta
Published Sep 19, 2026

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All approved published company profiles with exact recorded program and cohort membership.

Every member carries the exact public cohort label Summer 2026; use the company summaries to compare products, buyers, and language within that batch.
This is a selected researched sample, not a claim that the page contains every company originally funded in Summer 2026.

B2B
Akon Labs
GitNexus code intelligence for agents, from local open source to self-hosted enterprise graphs.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B · Analytics
Agnost AI
Agnost reads production conversations and traces to show what users wanted, where agents broke and what teams should fix next.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Artificial Intelligence · Developer Tools · Productivity
Agent FM
Agent FM describes a desktop surface for supervising coding agents and delegating reviewable work across files, browser and business apps.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B · Finance and Accounting
Billow AI Labs
An AI finance worker for month-end close and accounting workflows, with a small paid pilot before a broader commitment.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure
Archal
API sandboxes, built for AI agents
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B · Legal
Erinys
Operating infrastructure for lawyers who want to launch AI-native firms.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B · Marketing
TryNearby
TryNearby sells a $399/month recurring local-creator program to restaurants, with matching, booking and creator messaging automated.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Home Services · Artificial Intelligence
Bernard
Bernard describes AI employees that capture appliance-service calls, build fulfillable schedules and prepare technicians with diagnosis and parts context.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B · Productivity
Glen
A shared memory and learning layer for teams whose agents need company context across tools and providers.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
AI / Recruiting
Pluto
LinkedIn for agents
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B · Retail, Logistics, E-commerce
Pango
Agentic OS for e-commerce operations.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B · Sales
COACH
Conversation analysis and personalized coaching for distributed in-person sales reps.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B · Security
Fabraix
Fabraix red-teams customer-facing AI agents across prompts, tools, data and environments, with Nyx case studies and benchmark claims.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Logistics · Manufacturing · Supply Chain
Donkey
Donkey describes an AI-native trading company that finds factories, packs containers and gives small importers one delivered price.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Consumer
Egoist Machines
A portable, permissioned context layer for consumers and agents that need memory across AI apps.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Consumer / Content / Creator Economy
Grocalo
AI brain for creators that runs their social content
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Consumer · Gaming
Instaplay
A social AI game maker for prompt-created multiplayer games.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Consumer · Job and Career Services
Tsenta
Tsenta automates the repetitive parts of job hunting while showing candidates what was found, tailored, submitted and still needs attention.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Education · Artificial Intelligence · eLearning
Bloomy
Bloomy describes diagnostics, standards-aligned lessons, a 90% mastery gate and Socratic AI tutoring across K–12 learning paths.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Fintech
Agentcard
A payment boundary for agent products that need user-approved online spending without exposing raw card details.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Fintech / Asset Management
Ekpa
Building Autonomous Research Agents for Trading
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Fintech · Banking and Exchange
TovenAI
An evidence-linked AI compliance layer for institutional trading operations.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Fintech · Trading
Arbital
Arbital gives experienced traders one terminal for memecoins, stocks, tokenized equities, perps and automated strategies.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Healthcare · Fintech · Health Insurance
Denta
Denta targets employer dental benefits with direct plans, self-funded options and software-led claims processing.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Government
Verdant
A local-government system of record and agent layer starting with permitting, with staff kept in control of decisions.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Healthcare / Radiology Operations
Avoca Systems
The AI operating system for radiology networks
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Healthcare · Consumer Health and Wellness
Illume Labs
A private-beta longitudinal health-data companion with conversational insights.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Healthcare · AI-powered Drug Discovery
Atlas Discovery
Atlas Discovery is building a pharma R&D engine for neglected diseases through drug-repurposing agents, clinical-trial prediction and biological models.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Healthcare · Artificial Intelligence
Elite
Elite describes a healthcare front office that answers calls, applies specialty rules, writes to EHRs and escalates complex interactions.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Healthcare · Healthcare Services
Allia Health
An operating system for behavioral-health practices that connects clinical workflow and revenue cycle instead of adding another point tool.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Healthcare / Therapeutics
WonderTx
Extrapolative AI to unlock First-in-Class drugs
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industrials
83 Sciences
A materials-discovery workflow built around unpublished lab data and real experimental validation.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industrials · Agriculture
Molagri
Molagri is developing resistance-aware, species-specific biopesticides from engineered VLPs for agricultural crop protection.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Aerospace · Energy · Industrial · Hard Tech
Ethos Space Resources
Ethos Space Resources describes processing lunar regolith into materials and building landing, power and construction infrastructure for space.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B
Almanac
Almanac gives small teams an agent-readable, self-updating context layer across projects, customers, people and company work.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B
Assemble
Agentic IT implementation with traceability, review gates, verification, and rollback.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B / AI Agents
Async
AI agents that run small businesses
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B
Axelrod
A hospitality operations layer whose fit depends on supervised browser agents, clean SOPs and safe boundaries around reservations and money-moving work.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Developer Infrastructure
Belvedir
Belvedir describes a trace-to-model-to-deployment loop with private data, customer-owned improvement and gradual traffic routing.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B
Bizmark
Bizmark is an operations layer for manufacturers, distributors and retailers that turns fragmented records into governed decisions and workflows.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B
Callbook AI
An AI collections agency and API for lenders, fintechs, insurers, and other portfolio owners.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Automotive / SaaS
CarSignal
The AI Operating System for Auto Shops.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B
Chromie
A GovCon capture and proposal operating layer for contractors that need earlier signals, defensible go/no-go decisions and retained institutional knowledge.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Artificial Intelligence · Developer Tools · Security · B2B
Conifer
Conifer combines local inference, model/provider routing, caching and a unified gateway for teams managing token cost and data boundaries.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B · Reinforcement Learning
CueBench
CueBench offers hard, measurable scientific tasks and leaderboards for teams post-training models beyond generic benchmarks.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B
Daqstra
Daqstra is the orchestration and evidence layer around the fragmented instruments and systems used in hardware testing.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B
Datoric
Training-data collection and QA infrastructure for robotics and physical-AI model teams.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
AI / Robotics Data
DeepReach Inc.
Network for Physical AI Data Business
Y Combinator Summer 2026
B2B
Dock
An early-access multi-agent workspace whose value depends on useful handoffs, durable memory and safe approval boundaries.
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Hardware · Machine Learning · Computer Vision · B2B
Dream
Dream turns every asset pass through a gate into a visual condition record and flags new damage for fleets, rentals and dealerships.
Y Combinator Summer 2026

How this collection was assembled

Includes all of our approved published profiles with recorded Y Combinator Summer 2026 membership. This remains a researched subset of the public program roster, not a complete intake list or a quality ranking.

How this collection was assembled

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