ExploreYC
Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data
Details
- External ID
- 1190010
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ExploreYC
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- July 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 571
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9357798165137615
- Tags
- API, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- api for startup and vc company data
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes ExploreYC is a standard REST API and dashboard backed by a database populated with publicly scraped startup datasets from YC, a16z, and Product Hunt, which can be generated quickly using Next.js and Postgres.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 16 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 17 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 226 days after the earliest competitor.
- Crustdata (YC F24) · hn · 2026-02-25 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Foundertrace · hn · 2026-01-03 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- nestjs-api-starter · github · 2026-09-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- YC has it · ph · 2026-07-24 · 220 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- YXC Code · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- aayans-yc-indexor · github · 2026-09-22 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Your Company Brain · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- We review YC applications for free · hn · 2026-01-29 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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