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Y Combinator

Accelerator · Founded 2005 · San Francisco, United States

#1 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 0.1% of investors worldwide

Y Combinator (YC) is a startup fund and program

7,127 Portfolio companies+84% in 5 years
131 Unicorns
22 Decacorns
10,165 Investments
Aug 2026 Last investment
02 · Biggest holdings

Y Combinator’s biggest current holdings.

Y Combinator is a named shareholder in 40 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $11.1B in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 12 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 KalshiFintech · Decacorn 7% $22.0B $1.5B
  2. 2 WhatnotMedia · Decacorn 6% $20.0B $1.2B
  3. 3 DeelJobs Recruitment · Decacorn 6% $17.3B $1.0B
  4. 4 SupabaseEnterprise Software · Unicorn 7% $10.5B $735M
  5. 5 ZeptoFood · Unicorn 9.5% $7.0B $665M
  6. 6 ReplitEnterprise Software · Unicorn 7% $9.0B $630M
  7. 7 18.5% $3.0B $555M
  8. 8 3.5% $12.6B $441M
  9. 9 5% $6.1B $305M
  10. 10 7.5% $4.0B $300M
  11. 11 7% $4.2B $290M
  12. 12 5% $5.6B $280M

Showing the 12 largest of 40 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Y Combinator’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Y Combinator also appears inside investor groups in 6Sense, Docker, Flexport, Flock Safety, GrubMarket, Gusto, Human Interest, OpenSea and 4 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

Y Combinator’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Y Combinator’s transaction record.

$47B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $97BTravel
$39B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $92BFood
$86B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $38BFintech
$29B acquisition · 2025
Entered SeedEnterprise Software
$6.4B IPO · 2024
Entered SeedNow $28BMedia
$18B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $623MHealth
$9.0B IPO · 2025
Entered SeedNow $16BFintech
$9.0B IPO · 2022
Now $15BFintech
$8.7B IPO · 2025
Entered SeedNow $11BFashion
$11B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $5.3BSecurity
$9.9B IPO · 2023
Entered SeedNow $11BFood
$9.2B IPO · 2018
Entered SeedNow $11BSecurity
04 · Portfolio analysis

Where Y Combinator’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 7,127 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA5,969
  2. India262
  3. UK231
  4. Canada198
  5. Mexico102
  6. France86
  7. Germany83
  8. Singapore66
  9. Brazil61
  10. Nigeria53
  11. Indonesia41
  12. Israel37
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software2,056
  2. Fintech1,099
  3. Health787
  4. Marketing525
  5. Media403
  6. Education329
  7. Security267
  8. Food263
  9. Transportation262
  10. Jobs Recruitment230
  11. Real Estate223
  12. Robotics202
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed7,065
  2. Series A44
  3. Series B+15
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth6,109
  2. Breakout Stage1,213
  3. Late Growth334
  4. Mature10
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside Y Combinator’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 7,127 tracked.

OpenAI
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$852B
Cruise
Robotics
$850M
Stripe
Fintech · Centicorn
$159B
Airbnb
Travel · Decacorn
$97B
Instacart
Food · Decacorn
$11B
Ramp
Fintech · Decacorn
$44B
Kalshi
Fintech · Decacorn
$22B
Flexport
Transportation · Unicorn
$8.0B
Zepto
Food
$400M
DoorDash
Food · Decacorn
$92B
Relativity
Space · Unicorn
$4.2B
Opendoor
Real Estate · Unicorn
$4.4B
Rappi
Food · Unicorn
$5.2B
Monzo Bank
Fintech · Unicorn
$5.9B
Rippling
Fintech · Decacorn
$17B
Scale
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$29B
Ginkgo Bioworks
Health
$623M
Whatnot
Media · Decacorn
$20B
Faire
Home Living · Decacorn
$13B
Helion Energy
Energy · Decacorn
$16B
Meesho
Fashion · Decacorn
$11B
Stoke Space
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.5B
Reddit
Media · Decacorn
$28B
Brex
Fintech · Unicorn
$5.2B
Circle
Fintech · Decacorn
$15B
Bird
Telecom · Unicorn
$3.8B
Supabase
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$11B
Deel
Fintech · Decacorn
$17B
Astranis
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.8B
Replit
Education · Unicorn
$9.0B
Legora
Legal · Unicorn
$5.6B
Flock Safety
Security · Unicorn
$7.5B
EquipmentShare
Real Estate · Unicorn
$7.2B
Razorpay
Fintech · Unicorn
$7.5B
GrubMarket
Food · Unicorn
$4.5B
Fivetran
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$5.6B
Boom Supersonic
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.2B
Gusto
Fintech
$9K
Alto Pharmacy
Health · Unicorn
$1.5B
Solugen
Chemicals · Unicorn
$2.0B
GoCardless
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.2B
Dropbox
Security · Decacorn
$11B
Groww
Fintech · Decacorn
$16B
Zenefits
Jobs Recruitment
$200M
Human Interest
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.3B
Checkr
Legal · Unicorn
$4.6B
Coinbase
Fintech · Decacorn
$38B
Docker
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$2.1B
Xendit
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.2B
Vanta
Security · Unicorn
$4.2B
Guesty
Real Estate
$360M
Goat
Fashion · Unicorn
$3.7B
Flutterwave
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.2B
Matterport
Real Estate · Unicorn
$1.5B
GitLab
Security · Unicorn
$5.3B
6Sense
Marketing · Unicorn
$5.2B
OpenSea
Fintech · Decacorn
$13B
Alpaca
Fintech
$540M
Podium
Marketing · Unicorn
$3.0B
Go1
Education · Unicorn
$2.0B
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Y Combinator’s portfolio founders come from.

200 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States145
  2. India10
  3. Singapore7
  4. Netherlands5
  5. Argentina4
  6. United Kingdom4
  7. Israel3
  8. Sweden3
  9. Australia2
  10. Brazil2
UniversityCount
  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology23
  2. Stanford University18
  3. Harvard University10
  4. University of California, Berkeley9
  5. Columbia University5
  6. Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
  7. University of Michigan4
  8. University of Southern California4
  9. Carnegie Mellon University3
  10. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google10
  2. McKinsey & Company7
  3. Meta7
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
  5. Square6
  6. Deloitte5
  7. Goldman Sachs5
  8. MIT Media Lab5
  9. MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab5
  10. ClearCarbon4