Overview
Y Combinator. (Previously enriched.). HQ: Mountain View, CA. Founded: 2005. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA. Founded in 2005. Operates as a brain company in the physical AI sector. Key facts: HQ: Mountain View, CA, Founded: 2005.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
HQ
Founded
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Y Combinator has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1AssemblyAI1× joint1 total
- 2Cox Enterprises1× joint1 total
- 3Founders Fund1× joint2 total
- 4Gecko Robotics1× joint4 total
- 5Iron Ox1× joint1 total
- 6USIT1× joint1 total
Most recent
- Gecko Robotics Series D (2025)2025-06-12with Gecko Roboticsoperating
Relationships
Former / Previously (1)
- Brad Lightcap Y Combinator Continuitysecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Y Combinator.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Y Combinator in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
3 total · 1 operating · 2 just announced
Every company Y Combinator has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Gecko Robotics Series D (2025)2025-06-12with Gecko Roboticsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1AssemblyAI1× joint1 total
- 2Cox Enterprises1× joint1 total
- 3Founders Fund1× joint2 total
- 4Gecko Robotics1× joint4 total
- 5Iron Ox1× joint1 total
- 6USIT1× joint1 total
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—just announced
- technology—just announced
- investment2025-06-12operating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Y Combinator’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipGecko Robotics Series D (2025)
2025-06-12Gecko Robotics raised a $125 million Series D (announced June 12, 2025) at a $1.25 billion valuation, reaching unicorn status; led by Cox Enterprises, with continuing investors USIT, XN, Founders Fund, and Y Combinator.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-05
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Review state
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Last reviewed 2026-08-05
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Methodology surface for Y Combinator.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Y Combinator from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Kanu AI emerges from stealth with $11.7M to turn employee workflows into custom software
Founded by Y Combinator alum and former machine learning engineer Karan Grover, Seattle-based Kanu AI has raised $11.7 million to solve a persistent enterprise problem: valuable…
Exclusive: Hop Aero Raises $11M for Suborbital Point-to-Point Delivery
The suborbital point-to-point logistics company announced $11M in funding today following its participation in the summer Y Combinator batch. The post Exclusive: Hop Aero Raises…
Invertix: Munich Energy A.I. Start-Up Earns Its Y Combinator Knighthood
Seven months after its founding, it has already made it to Silicon Valley: Invertix, a Munich start-up building A.I. to run energy infrastructure, has been admitted to Y…
Invertix: Münchner Energie-KI-Startup holt sich den YC-Ritterschlag
Sieben Monate nach der Gründung schon im Silicon Valley: Das Münchner Startup Invertix, das KI für den Betrieb von Energieinfrastruktur entwickelt, ist in den Herbstjahrgang (Fall…
ByteAsk Raises $1 Mn in Y Combinator-Led Pre-Seed Round, Plans C++ AI Model
Ascendants ByteAsk Raises $1 Mn in Y Combinator-Led Pre-Seed Round, Plans C++ AI Model The Anirudha Kulkarni and Pratyush Saini-founded startup is building AI coding agents for C…
Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 23, 2026: Accel, JPMorgan, S32, T. Rowe Price, Y Combinator & More
Venture money today is not clustering around generic AI applications. It is moving toward companies that control something harder to reproduce: autonomous systems with battlefield…
Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment
Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Los Angeles-based venture capital…
Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 22, 2026: General Catalyst, Goldman Sachs, Greylock, M13, Y Combinator & More
Venture capital today is clustering around a surprisingly consistent idea: the next layer of AI value is shifting away from the model itself and toward the systems that make AI…
a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school
This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade school, Y Combinator, and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.
Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation
Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.
YC Proven TesterArmy Raises €1M for AI Agents That Test Software
The San Francisco- and Warsaw-based startup uses AI agents that follow user journeys in plain language, no test scripts, no source-code access, and raised its pre-seed from Y…
Y Combinator Still Busiest Startup Investor In August As Nvidia Ramps Up Its Dealmaking Pace
We ranked August’s most active startup investors across several categories, including lead backers, prolific venture dealmakers, highest spenders and seed investors, which were…
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Heat Index
Serious56/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Y Combinator against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
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Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 3, 2026