Y Combinator W25 Batch Companies
50 companies from YC's Winter 2025 batch with sector, country, and description — 64% are AI-focused.
| # | company | batch | sector | country | description | status | + |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aven | W25 | Fintech | US | Home equity credit card — borrow against your home at low rates via a Visa card | Active | |
| 2 | Warp | W25 | Developer Tools | US | AI-native terminal and development environment | Active | |
| 3 | Cactus | W25 | Healthcare | US | AI copilot for physical therapists to reduce documentation time | Active | |
| 4 | Fern | W25 | Developer Tools | US | Generate SDKs and documentation from API definitions | Active | |
| 5 | Leaping AI | W25 | AI/ML | US | AI agents for enterprise customer support automation | Active | |
| 6 | Lumos | W25 | HR Tech | US | Unified identity and access management for modern companies | Active | |
| 7 | Pika | W25 | Generative AI | US | AI video generation platform from text and images | Active | |
| 8 | Rhino | W25 | Proptech | US | Security deposit insurance replacing upfront cash deposits | Active | |
| 9 | Mintlify | W25 | Developer Tools | US | AI-powered documentation platform for developer-facing products | Active | |
| 10 | Baseten | W25 | AI Infrastructure | US | ML model serving and inference infrastructure | Active | |
| 11 | Coframe | W25 | AI/ML | US | AI that continuously A/B tests and improves website copy | Active | |
| 12 | Trieve | W25 | Developer Tools | US | Search, RAG, and recommendations infrastructure API | Active | |
| 13 | Cursor | W25 | Developer Tools | US | AI-first code editor built on VS Code fork | Active | |
| 14 | Harvey | W25 | Legal Tech | US | AI legal research and drafting platform for law firms | Active | |
| 15 | Lovable | W25 | Developer Tools | Sweden | AI full-stack engineer — build web apps via natural language | Active | |
| 16 | Perplexity | W25 | AI/ML | US | AI-powered answer engine and conversational search | Active | |
| 17 | Pylon | W25 | B2B SaaS | US | Customer support platform built for B2B companies | Active | |
| 18 | Cohere | W25 | AI/ML | Canada | Enterprise NLP APIs and language models | Active | |
| 19 | Draft | W25 | Legal Tech | US | AI contract review and negotiation for startups | Active | |
| 20 | Vapi | W25 | AI Infrastructure | US | Voice AI platform for building phone-call agents | Active | |
| 21 | Morph | W25 | Developer Tools | US | AI code editing API for building coding assistants | Active | |
| 22 | Glean | W25 | Enterprise Search | US | AI-powered workplace search across all company tools | Active | |
| 23 | Abridge | W25 | Healthcare AI | US | AI ambient documentation for clinical conversations | Active | |
| 24 | Supabase | W25 | Developer Tools | Singapore | Open source Firebase alternative with Postgres | Active | |
| 25 | Lago | W25 | Fintech | France | Open source metering and billing API for usage-based pricing | Active | |
| 26 | Linear | W25 | Productivity | US | Issue tracking and project management for software teams | Active | |
| 27 | Inngest | W25 | Developer Tools | US | Background job and workflow orchestration platform | Active | |
| 28 | Exa | W25 | AI/ML | US | Neural search API for AI applications | Active | |
| 29 | Letta | W25 | AI Infrastructure | US | Memory layer and agent runtime for long-context LLM agents | Active | |
| 30 | OpenPipe | W25 | AI/ML | US | Fine-tuning pipeline to train smaller, cheaper task-specific models | Active | |
| 31 | Speakeasy | W25 | Developer Tools | US | SDK and API documentation generation from OpenAPI specs | Active | |
| 32 | Nango | W25 | Developer Tools | UK | Open source unified API for third-party integrations | Active | |
| 33 | Infisical | W25 | Security | US | Open source secret management platform | Active | |
| 34 | Firecrawl | W25 | Developer Tools | US | Web scraping and crawling API for LLM training data | Active | |
| 35 | Composio | W25 | AI Infrastructure | US | Tool and action integrations for AI agents | Active | |
| 36 | Browserbase | W25 | Developer Tools | US | Cloud browser infrastructure for AI agents | Active | |
| 37 | Langfuse | W25 | AI Infrastructure | Germany | Open source LLM observability and tracing platform | Active | |
| 38 | Hamming | W25 | AI Testing | US | Automated testing and evaluation for AI voice agents | Active | |
| 39 | Substrata | W25 | Sales AI | US | AI that reads nonverbal signals in sales conversations | Active | |
| 40 | Recall.ai | W25 | AI/ML | US | Unified API for meeting bots across Zoom, Meet, and Teams | Active | |
| 41 | Koala | W25 | Marketing AI | US | AI SEO content generation platform for teams | Active | |
| 42 | Writer | W25 | AI/ML | US | Full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises | Active | |
| 43 | Arcade | W25 | Developer Tools | US | Interactive product demos and onboarding flows | Active | |
| 44 | Ramp | W25 | Fintech | US | Corporate card and spend management platform | Active | |
| 45 | Merge | W25 | Developer Tools | US | Unified API for HR, payroll, and recruiting integrations | Active | |
| 46 | Windmill | W25 | Developer Tools | France | Open source developer platform for scripts and workflows | Active | |
| 47 | Resend | W25 | Developer Tools | US | Email API built for developers | Active | |
| 48 | Unkey | W25 | Developer Tools | US | Open source API authentication and key management | Active | |
| 49 | Mastra | W25 | AI Infrastructure | US | TypeScript framework for building AI agents and workflows | Active | |
| 50 | Kevel | W25 | Adtech | US | API-first ad serving infrastructure for publishers | Active |
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Y Combinator W25 Batch Companies — AI Analysis
YC W25 Batch Overview
- Developer Tools (18) and AI/ML (8) together account for over half the batch — 52% of all companies
- 86% of the batch (43 companies) are US-based; only 7 companies come from outside the US
- AI Infrastructure is the 3rd largest sector with 6 companies building tooling for model deployment, observability, and evaluation
- The remaining 13 companies span 11 different sectors from Fintech to Adtech — high fragmentation outside the top 3
- Every company in the batch is currently active — no shutdowns yet in this cohort
Visualizations
Companies by Country
AI-Focused vs Other Companies
Companies by Sector