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The complete YC companies list, with ad data

All 5,906 Y Combinator companies from the first 2005 batch through Summer 2026, with LinkedIn, Google, and Meta ad counts for each. Browse the 100 biggest YC advertisers below, free.

Plus a sample of the ads themselves: 46,944 creatives across three tabs, with titles, formats, links, and run dates. Create a free Adyntel account to unlock it all, along with 50 credits to run the same lookup on any company you want.

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5,906

YC companies

1.52M

ads counted

46,944

sample ad creatives

Apr 2026

data snapshot

The 100 biggest YC advertisers

The biggest YC companies by ad activity, ranked by total active ads across LinkedIn, Google, and Meta. April 2026 snapshot. The full sheet covers all 5,906 companies.

Top 100 of 5,906 companies · 2,013 running ads

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# Company Domain Batch Industry LinkedIn Google Meta Total ads 6-mo change
1 Lattice lattice.com W16 Human Resources 200,424 1,000 0 201,424 +74,228
2 Airbnb airbnb.com W09 Travel, Leisure and Tourism 1,331 200,000 0 201,331 −101,439
3 Bizzy bizzy.io W15 Retail 141,181 0 0 141,181 +141,181
4 UserGems usergems.com S14 Recruiting and Talent 33,850 28 7 33,885 +9,482
5 Faire faire.com W17 Retail 66 20,000 764 20,830 +142
6 DoorDash doordash.com S13 Food and Beverage 603 20,000 0 20,603 +10,078
7 Soomgo soomgo.com W17 Home and Personal 0 20,000 85 20,085 −289
8 Podcast App podcast.app W18 Content 0 20,000 0 20,000 −10,000
9 Strikingly strikingly.com W13 Marketing 0 20,000 0 20,000 0
10 Segment segment.com S11 Analytics 18,691 600 10 19,301 +566
11 Deel deel.com W19 Finance and Accounting 6,873 10,000 1,183 18,056 −1,701
12 Meesho meesho.com S16 Retail 2 6,000 7,827 13,829 −2,302
13 Rippling rippling.com W17 Human Resources 7,405 3,000 1,173 11,578 +3,179
14 Stripe stripe.com S09 2,394 8,000 0 10,394 +1,376
15 Fivetran fivetran.com W13 Infrastructure 6,194 2,000 0 8,194 +401
16 Instacart instacart.com S12 Food and Beverage 131 7,000 835 7,966 +570
17 Photoroom photoroom.com S20 Content 392 5,000 2,007 7,399 +6,320
18 Outschool outschool.com W16 1 7,000 52 7,053 −105
19 Snappr snappr.com W17 37 7,000 0 7,037 +7,002
20 Beacons beacons.ai S19 Social 0 7,000 0 7,000 +2,000
21 Sqreen sqreen.com W18 Security 6,577 0 0 6,577 +462
22 Motion usemotion.com W20 Productivity 464 5,000 29 5,493 −768
23 Codecademy codecademy.com S11 20 5,000 242 5,262 +87
24 AirHelp airhelp.com W14 Travel, Leisure and Tourism 14 5,000 174 5,188 −4,959
25 SmartAsset smartasset.com S12 Consumer Finance 137 5,000 0 5,137 +2,038
26 Octopart octopart.com W07 Manufacturing and Robotics 109 5,000 0 5,109 +1,070
27 CoreOS coreos.com S13 Infrastructure 4,815 0 218 5,033 −563
28 Amplitude amplitude.com W12 Analytics 3,685 1,000 187 4,872 +1,271
29 CTGT ctgt.ai F24 Infrastructure 4,656 0 0 4,656 +1,947
30 Tremendous tremendous.com W11 Payments 2,591 2,000 64 4,655 +779
31 Dropbox dropbox.com S07 Productivity 1,506 3,000 0 4,506 −3,436
32 Coinbase coinbase.com S12 Banking and Exchange 97 4,000 305 4,402 +120
33 Cloudant cloudant.com S08 Infrastructure 4,214 0 0 4,214 +4,214
34 Zapier zapier.com S12 Productivity 777 3,000 406 4,183 −2,219
35 Medumo medumo.com W18 Healthcare IT 4,162 0 0 4,162 +4,162
36 Vanta vanta.com W18 Security 1,025 3,000 25 4,050 −794
37 Weebly weebly.com W07 Marketing 0 4,000 0 4,000 −1,000
38 Quero Education querobolsa.com.br S16 0 4,000 0 4,000 −144
39 Replit replit.com W18 Engineering, Product and Design 397 3,000 314 3,711 +2,764
40 Algolia algolia.com W14 Engineering, Product and Design 636 3,000 33 3,669 +1,006
41 Razorpay razorpay.com W15 Payments 1,395 2,000 210 3,605 +605
42 Honeylove honeylove.com S18 Apparel and Cosmetics 0 2,000 1,443 3,443 +1,841
43 Gusto gusto.com W12 Human Resources 1,079 2,000 330 3,409 −554
44 Goldbelly goldbelly.com W13 Food and Beverage 1 3,000 290 3,291 −878
45 Matterport matterport.com W12 Virtual and Augmented Reality 1,084 2,000 103 3,187 +2,633
46 Reddit reddit.com S05 Content 6 3,000 159 3,165 +1,012
47 Optimizely optimizely.com W10 Engineering, Product and Design 2,219 900 25 3,144 +1,721
48 Whatnot whatnot.com W20 14 400 2,537 2,951 +1,715
49 Legora (formerly Leya) legora.com W24 Legal 2,664 200 0 2,864 +2,166
50 Retool retool.com W17 Productivity 656 2,000 0 2,656 +2,058
51 GoCardless gocardless.com S11 Consumer Finance 1,859 500 82 2,441 −298
52 Pocket heypocket.com W26 0 2,000 425 2,425 +2,425
53 Storylane storylane.io S21 2,114 300 6 2,420 +80
54 Firstbase.io firstbase.io W21 Operations 355 2,000 23 2,378 +2,056
55 Guesty guesty.com W14 Housing and Real Estate 263 2,000 89 2,352 +191
56 Zaraz zaraz.com W20 Engineering, Product and Design 2,284 0 43 2,327 +51
57 PagerDuty pagerduty.com S10 Engineering, Product and Design 1,662 500 164 2,326 −738
58 Vectrix vectrix.io S20 Security 2,284 0 0 2,284 +8
59 Coderhouse coderhouse.com W21 1 2,000 233 2,234 −2,641
60 CyberFend cyberfend.com W15 Security 2,198 0 36 2,234 −267
61 Webflow webflow.com S13 Marketing 1,235 900 82 2,217 +468
62 Speak speak.com W17 Social 207 2,000 0 2,207 +2,036
63 Kovi kovi.com.br W19 Credit and Lending 31 2,000 163 2,194 +1,963
64 Platzi platzi.com W15 16 2,000 174 2,190 +1,055
65 Go1 go1.com S15 Human Resources 1,874 300 15 2,189 +134
66 AgendaPro agendapro.com W21 Marketing 0 2,000 163 2,163 +1,278
67 Rappi rappi.com W16 Food and Beverage 4 29 2,111 2,144 +2,137
68 Lawn Love lawnlove.com S14 Home and Personal 0 2,000 131 2,131 +131
69 Ironclad ironcladapp.com S15 Legal 1,239 800 53 2,092 +797
70 Orange Health Labs orangehealth.in S20 Diagnostics 0 2,000 83 2,083 +921
71 Numeral numeralhq.com W23 Finance and Accounting 1,974 82 0 2,056 +1,116
72 Fountain fountain.com S15 Recruiting and Talent 47 2,000 0 2,047 +1,136
73 Cityfurnish cityfurnish.com W19 Home and Personal 0 2,000 25 2,025 +1,009
74 Apollo.io apollo.io W16 Marketing 0 2,000 25 2,025 +1,211
75 Landeed landeed.com S22 11 2,000 0 2,011 +1,988
76 Twitch twitch.tv W07 Content 2 2,000 0 2,002 +1,100
77 Marathon Education marathon.edu.vn W22 0 2,000 0 2,000 +1,100
78 Substack substack.com W18 Marketing 0 2,000 0 2,000 +2,000
79 Visly visly.app W19 Infrastructure 1,666 0 192 1,858 +1,858
80 Elph elph.com W19 Engineering, Product and Design 1,773 0 71 1,844 +339
81 Brex brex.com W17 Banking and Exchange 1,773 0 71 1,844 +124
82 Tractian tractian.com W21 1,079 600 154 1,833 +576
83 Pry Financials pry.co W21 Finance and Accounting 1,773 0 0 1,773 +1,773
84 CodeStream codestream.com W18 Engineering, Product and Design 1,773 0 0 1,773 −608
85 Humand humand.co W22 Human Resources 1,239 500 25 1,764 +662
86 Jasper.ai jasper.ai W18 1,479 200 0 1,679 −280
87 HockeyStack hockeystack.com S23 Sales 1,551 71 0 1,622 −49
88 Paragon useparagon.com W20 Engineering, Product and Design 1,541 79 0 1,620 −113
89 Kunduz kunduz.com S18 0 900 673 1,573 +311
90 Emburse emburse.com W16 Banking and Exchange 1,163 300 26 1,489 +358
91 Fieldguide fieldguide.io S20 Productivity 1,395 62 24 1,481 +1,352
92 Alaan alaan.com W23 Payments 1,249 200 0 1,449 +405
93 Lawyaw lawyaw.com W18 Legal 1,214 4 222 1,440 +351
94 Datarank datarank.com S13 Marketing 1,371 0 55 1,426 +79
95 Rapportive rapportive.com S10 Productivity 0 0 1,382 1,382 +1,382
96 Checkr checkr.com S14 Human Resources 904 400 66 1,370 +43
97 Sendbird sendbird.com W16 Engineering, Product and Design 852 500 0 1,352 −440
98 Veriff veriff.com W18 Engineering, Product and Design 413 900 11 1,324 +545
99 Superside superside.com W16 Productivity 843 200 243 1,286 −138
100 InfluxData influxdata.com W13 Infrastructure 235 1,000 0 1,235 +76
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What's in the dataset

A Google Sheet with four tabs. Tab one is the full company list. The other three hold a sample of the actual ads, broken out by platform.

5,906 YC companies

Every company from every batch, 2005 through Summer 2026, in a single sortable tab.

Domain and social links

Domain, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Facebook, and X profile URLs for each company.

Ad counts per platform

LinkedIn, Google, and Meta ad counts side by side, plus a total and top platform.

Six-month trend

Volume change since September 2025 so you can spot who is scaling and who pulled back.

Batch, industry, and type

Filter by YC batch, industry, location, and business type (B2B, Consumer, Fintech, and more).

46,944 sample ad creatives

Three extra tabs with actual ads: 27,845 Google, 15,503 LinkedIn, and 3,596 Meta, with titles, formats, links, and dates.

Channel pulse

A label per company: Dormant, Single-Channel, Moderate, or Diversified, based on platform mix.

Location

Headquarters location for each company.

Status

Active, acquired, public, or inactive, for every company in the directory.

Slice the database by what matters

The sheet is built to segment. Here is where the advertisers sit.

By platform

LinkedIn lead947
Google lead865
Meta lead172

By business type

B2B1,111
Fintech256
Consumer228
Healthcare189
Industrials89
Real estate and construction63

By batch era

2023–2026609
2019–2022864
2015–2018359
2005–2014181

By industry (top advertisers)

Engineering, product and design197
Infrastructure99
Productivity85
Marketing66
Operations58
Finance and accounting57
Payments56
Analytics55
Sales54

What we found across all 5,906 companies

Only 34% of YC companies run ads.

2,013 are advertising right now. The rest are dark. Most startups stay off paid far longer than the growth-at-all-costs story suggests, which makes the ones who do advertise the list worth having.

Google and LinkedIn lead. Meta is a distant third.

Of 1.52 million ads tracked, 866K are on Google and 605K on LinkedIn. Meta has 53K. B2B startups lead on LinkedIn, consumer startups lean Google and Meta.

Momentum is expanding.

Since September 2025, 1,196 companies grew ad volume while 825 pulled back. For every two that cut, three added.

Who uses the YC ad activity database?

Agencies prospecting startups

Filter the list to YC companies running ads, then open outreach with a specific note on their ad activity and platform mix.

SaaS and data platforms selling to startups

Score the list by ad activity and route only the companies showing growth signals to sales.

Competitive and market researchers

Track how a whole cohort advertises, by platform, batch, and industry, without browsing ad libraries by hand.

Investors and analysts

Use ad volume and six-month change as an outside-in read on which portfolio or pipeline companies are scaling.

Frequently asked questions

Is the list really free?
Yes. Create a free Adyntel account and the full sheet unlocks. You also get 50 credits to run the same lookup on any companies you want. No credit card.
How many YC companies are there?
There are 5,906 Y Combinator companies in this list, covering every batch from Summer 2005 through Summer 2026. 2,013 of them (34%) are running ads right now.
Do I get the actual ads or just counts?
Both. Tab one has the counts and trends for all 5,906 companies. Three more tabs hold a sample of the ads themselves: 27,845 Google, 15,503 LinkedIn, and 3,596 Meta, with titles, formats, links, and run dates.
Where does the ad data come from?
Public ad libraries: the Meta Ad Library, LinkedIn Ad Library, and Google Ad Transparency Center, pulled through the Adyntel API.
Is this ad spend or ad activity?
Activity. We report active ad counts and creative, not budget or spend estimates.
How current is it?
This snapshot was pulled in April 2026. Ad activity changes daily, so live lookups through Adyntel will differ from the static file.
Can I filter or sort it?
Yes. Every record carries platform counts, totals, six-month change, batch, industry, and business type.