Skip to content
ExploreYC — Startup Profile
Startup

ExploreYC

Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data

Development & IT

Astracia Signal Score

Compare with similar →

Not enough public signals for a score yet. Missing signals are not a sign of weakness.

Built with

All tools →

Connections

No public connections on record yet.

About the startup

One open-source API for startup data across Y Combinator AND a16z - 6,600+ companies with funding, stage, IPO/M&A exits, and founders. Filter by VC (yc/a16z/all), batch, industry, country, or search. Grab a free API key, read the docs (curl/Node/Python + Swagger), and build in 30 seconds. Plus the full web app: map, analytics, funding data, a live hiring board, and AI tools.

Similar products in Development & IT

Browse category →

Products from the same category with overlapping descriptions or details. They are not reviewed alternatives; compare features and current plans before choosing.

Product

Sovereon LLP

Building micro-SaaS to solve specific pain points.

Codux

Control plane for AI coding CLIs

AI4TOOLS

Write, code, translate — one AI platform, free to start

Tabnxt

The smartest Chrome tab manager now has AI Super Search 🧠

FreeClientToolbox

200+Client-Side Web Utilities. Zero servers, zero data leaks

briefroom

Built for AI agents. Reviewed by humans.

AutoCoder.dev

Fully Autonomous Coding

PasteSheet

Google Sheet → JSON API + MCP server, instantly

Browse category →

Selected by category and available use-case details. A topic match does not establish equivalent features.

Product

Apibara.tech

Developer APIs for auctions, media and AI agents

wrist/off 2.0

Deploy to prod from your watch!

amux - The Agent Control Plane

Run a parallel AI coding team from your browser or phone

HarborClient

Your work in a safe harbor that you control.

AI Readiness Index (AIRI)

A Strategic Assessment Built For C-Suite

Festival API

Film festival database for filmmakers and developers

Recently added in Development & IT

Browse category →

Added to this directory in the past 30 days. Dates refer to the directory listing, not the product launch.

Product

Checkcraft

Automation the verification of APIs, logs and DB data

MR Creator

Create merge requests from many branches in one click

GitHub

Fast, local-first dashboard for Azure DevOps

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray)

GNOME 51, Rust coreutils, and a refreshed Linux desktop

Explore expertise in Development & IT

See all →

Profiles grouped by topic. This does not confirm an offer, availability or a connection to this profile.

Profile

Yan Cui

Independent Consultant.

Milad Azami

Freelancer & Online Instructor |

Gerd

Senior IT-Consultant - "If the plan doesn‘t work, change the plan but never the goal."

Media about Development & IT

See all →

Shows and channels grouped by topic. A recommendation does not mean this profile was featured or endorsed.

Show

Dmytro’s Substack

Newsletter · Dmytro Krasun

TechnoBizzVault

Newsletter

Tech World With Milan Newsletter

Newsletter · Dr Milan Milanović

Founder stories from Development & IT startups

See all →

Retold founder accounts from startups in the same category, each linked to the original.

Story

BrowserStack: An Argument Over Who Would Do the Testing Became a Bootstrapped, Profitable Unicorn From Mumbai

IIT Bombay roommates Ritesh Arora and Nakul Aggarwal went through two failed startups before an argument in 2011 about testing a website for their consulting business. Neither wanted to do the tedious job of checking it

AssemblyAI: The Cisco Engineer Who Wanted a "Twilio-Style" API for Speech and Applied to YC After the Deadline

AssemblyAI was founded in late 2017 by Dylan Fox, a machine learning engineer who had spent two years at Cisco working on collaboration products. While shopping for speech recognition APIs, he found the vendors antiquate

Buildkite: The Former Magician Who Built a CI Tool After Hours and Promised Investors "One and Done"

Buildkite began as Buildbox, a side project Keith Pitt started while working as a developer at Envato in Melbourne, after a security risk assessment showed how much code and secrets hosted CI tools demanded. After two ye

CircleCI: The Mozilla Compiler Engineer and the Stranger Who Pitched the Same Idea in the Same Week

CircleCI was founded in September 2011 by Paul Biggar, a Trinity College Dublin PhD who had worked on Firefox's JavaScript engine at Mozilla, and Allen Rohner, a programmer he had never met. Frustrated by slow internal c

Browse Development & IT categories

See all →

Subcategories in the same part of the directory, with the number of listed products.

Category

Code editors & coding assistants

2,601 listed products

Website & app builders

1,748 listed products

Cloud infrastructure & DevOps

1,198 listed products

Monitoring & IT management

648 listed products

Version control & code review

545 listed products

Software testing & QA

445 listed products

APIs & backend platforms

281 listed products

Blockchain development

211 listed products