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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.

Ali Abouelatta

Cofounder of Lazyweb (a16z Speedrun). Previously grew subscriptions and built native ads at Duolingo. Writes First1000 (90,000+ subscribers).

Published 2026-09-19 · Updated 2026-09-19

Akon Labs

GitNexus code intelligence for agents, from local open source to self-hosted enterprise graphs.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

Agnost AI

Agnost reads production conversations and traces to show what users wanted, where agents broke and what teams should fix next.

B2B; Analytics Y Combinator Summer 2026

Agent FM

Agent FM describes a desktop surface for supervising coding agents and delegating reviewable work across files, browser and business apps.

Artificial Intelligence; Developer Tools; Productivity Y Combinator Summer 2026

Billow AI Labs

An AI finance worker for month-end close and accounting workflows, with a small paid pilot before a broader commitment.

B2B · Finance and Accounting Y Combinator Summer 2026

Archal

API sandboxes, built for AI agents

AI / Developer Tools / Infrastructure Y Combinator Summer 2026

Erinys

Operating infrastructure for lawyers who want to launch AI-native firms.

B2B; Legal Y Combinator Summer 2026

TryNearby

TryNearby sells a $399/month recurring local-creator program to restaurants, with matching, booking and creator messaging automated.

B2B; Marketing Y Combinator Summer 2026

Bernard

Bernard describes AI employees that capture appliance-service calls, build fulfillable schedules and prepare technicians with diagnosis and parts context.

Home Services; Artificial Intelligence Y Combinator Summer 2026

Glen

A shared memory and learning layer for teams whose agents need company context across tools and providers.

B2B · Productivity Y Combinator Summer 2026

Pluto

LinkedIn for agents

AI / Recruiting Y Combinator Summer 2026

Pango

Agentic OS for e-commerce operations.

B2B; Retail, Logistics, E-commerce Y Combinator Summer 2026

COACH

Conversation analysis and personalized coaching for distributed in-person sales reps.

B2B; Sales Y Combinator Summer 2026

Fabraix

Fabraix red-teams customer-facing AI agents across prompts, tools, data and environments, with Nyx case studies and benchmark claims.

B2B; Security Y Combinator Summer 2026

Donkey

Donkey describes an AI-native trading company that finds factories, packs containers and gives small importers one delivered price.

Logistics; Manufacturing; Supply Chain Y Combinator Summer 2026

Egoist Machines

A portable, permissioned context layer for consumers and agents that need memory across AI apps.

Consumer Y Combinator Summer 2026

Grocalo

AI brain for creators that runs their social content

Consumer / Content / Creator Economy Y Combinator Summer 2026

Instaplay

A social AI game maker for prompt-created multiplayer games.

Consumer; Gaming Y Combinator Summer 2026

Tsenta

Tsenta automates the repetitive parts of job hunting while showing candidates what was found, tailored, submitted and still needs attention.

Consumer; Job and Career Services Y Combinator Summer 2026

Bloomy

Bloomy describes diagnostics, standards-aligned lessons, a 90% mastery gate and Socratic AI tutoring across K–12 learning paths.

Education; Artificial Intelligence; eLearning Y Combinator Summer 2026

Agentcard

A payment boundary for agent products that need user-approved online spending without exposing raw card details.

Fintech Y Combinator Summer 2026

Ekpa

Building Autonomous Research Agents for Trading

Fintech / Asset Management Y Combinator Summer 2026

TovenAI

An evidence-linked AI compliance layer for institutional trading operations.

Fintech; Banking and Exchange Y Combinator Summer 2026

Arbital

Arbital gives experienced traders one terminal for memecoins, stocks, tokenized equities, perps and automated strategies.

Fintech; Trading Y Combinator Summer 2026

Denta

Denta targets employer dental benefits with direct plans, self-funded options and software-led claims processing.

Healthcare; Fintech; Health Insurance Y Combinator Summer 2026

Verdant

A local-government system of record and agent layer starting with permitting, with staff kept in control of decisions.

Government Y Combinator Summer 2026

Avoca Systems

The AI operating system for radiology networks

Healthcare / Radiology Operations Y Combinator Summer 2026

Illume Labs

A private-beta longitudinal health-data companion with conversational insights.

Healthcare; Consumer Health and Wellness Y Combinator Summer 2026

Atlas Discovery

Atlas Discovery is building a pharma R&D engine for neglected diseases through drug-repurposing agents, clinical-trial prediction and biological models.

Healthcare; AI-powered Drug Discovery Y Combinator Summer 2026

Elite

Elite describes a healthcare front office that answers calls, applies specialty rules, writes to EHRs and escalates complex interactions.

Healthcare; Artificial Intelligence Y Combinator Summer 2026

Allia Health

An operating system for behavioral-health practices that connects clinical workflow and revenue cycle instead of adding another point tool.

Healthcare · Healthcare Services Y Combinator Summer 2026

WonderTx

Extrapolative AI to unlock First-in-Class drugs

Healthcare / Therapeutics Y Combinator Summer 2026

83 Sciences

A materials-discovery workflow built around unpublished lab data and real experimental validation.

Industrials Y Combinator Summer 2026

Molagri

Molagri is developing resistance-aware, species-specific biopesticides from engineered VLPs for agricultural crop protection.

Industrials; Agriculture Y Combinator Summer 2026

Ethos Space Resources

Ethos Space Resources describes processing lunar regolith into materials and building landing, power and construction infrastructure for space.

Aerospace; Energy; Industrial; Hard Tech Y Combinator Summer 2026

Almanac

Almanac gives small teams an agent-readable, self-updating context layer across projects, customers, people and company work.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

Assemble

Agentic IT implementation with traceability, review gates, verification, and rollback.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

Async

AI agents that run small businesses

B2B / AI Agents Y Combinator Summer 2026

Axelrod

A hospitality operations layer whose fit depends on supervised browser agents, clean SOPs and safe boundaries around reservations and money-moving work.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

Belvedir

Belvedir describes a trace-to-model-to-deployment loop with private data, customer-owned improvement and gradual traffic routing.

Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Developer Infrastructure Y Combinator Summer 2026

Bizmark

Bizmark is an operations layer for manufacturers, distributors and retailers that turns fragmented records into governed decisions and workflows.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

Callbook AI

An AI collections agency and API for lenders, fintechs, insurers, and other portfolio owners.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

CarSignal

The AI Operating System for Auto Shops.

Automotive / SaaS Y Combinator Summer 2026

Chromie

A GovCon capture and proposal operating layer for contractors that need earlier signals, defensible go/no-go decisions and retained institutional knowledge.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

Conifer

Conifer combines local inference, model/provider routing, caching and a unified gateway for teams managing token cost and data boundaries.

Artificial Intelligence; Developer Tools; Security; B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

CueBench

CueBench offers hard, measurable scientific tasks and leaderboards for teams post-training models beyond generic benchmarks.

B2B; Reinforcement Learning Y Combinator Summer 2026

Daqstra

Daqstra is the orchestration and evidence layer around the fragmented instruments and systems used in hardware testing.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

Datoric

Training-data collection and QA infrastructure for robotics and physical-AI model teams.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

DeepReach Inc.

Network for Physical AI Data Business

AI / Robotics Data Y Combinator Summer 2026

Dock

An early-access multi-agent workspace whose value depends on useful handoffs, durable memory and safe approval boundaries.

B2B Y Combinator Summer 2026

Dream

Dream turns every asset pass through a gate into a visual condition record and flags new damage for fleets, rentals and dealerships.

Hardware; Machine Learning; Computer Vision; B2B 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.

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