Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)

https://yc.foundersaround.com/

by leonagano • 11 months ago

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yc.foundersaround.com

leonagano10• 11 months ago

I built this map that shows every YCombinator company worldwide (5,300+ and counting). You can explore by batch, country, or city.

I made this because I was curious about where YC founders are concentrated, and I wanted a more visual way to browse them.

• The map is powered by FoundersAround, a side project where I explore data about founders/startups

• You can filter by batch or region

• Clicking on a cluster shows all companies on it

• Clicking a company shows basic details (logo, description, website, etc)

ProllyInfamous• 11 months ago

Love that all the WFH jobs land in some tiny little West Coast town named Remote, California, that clearly couldn't support 83 yCombs.

aaa_2006• 11 months ago

This is really cool. A big YC advantage is instant access to 5,000 plus peer companies as warm leads. That built in network makes early cross selling much easier than starting cold.

soared• 11 months ago

Doesn’t seem to work on mobile iOS - clicking an icon of “2” doesn’t open anything, and then zooming back out the icons didn’t reload for the zoomed out area

blinkers• 11 months ago

Did you scrape YC startup directory for this?

leonagano10• 11 months ago

yep

wordpad• 11 months ago

What did you use to do it?

ecshafer• 11 months ago

One annoyance with this is all of the NY, USA companies that don't explicitly say NYC end up in Syracuse.

BugsJustFindMe2• 11 months ago

The source information is inaccurate though, so take it with a grain of salt. I spot checked a few companies that have moved, and it shows their original locations from a few years ago, not their current locations.

leonagano10• 11 months ago

Would be nice to know which ones, as the data comes from YC website

BugsJustFindMe2• 11 months ago

I agree, it would. Well, I'll tell you what. Given that you're trying to sell sponsored ads, you can offer to pay me for the information. Or you can do the legwork on cleaning it up.

seanp2k2• 11 months ago

Soooo basically half of them are in SF, south of Pine St, east of Webster, north of 16th, west of the Powell St BART station AKA Mission Dolores / SOMA / Hayes Valley / Van Ness.

leonagano10• 11 months ago

Forgot to add on the website, but location is city-wide. The markers are at random addresses in the city

codingdave• 11 months ago

The data is inaccurate, the map is a vibe-coded mess, and the prompting to buy ad space on the map makes this look like a low-effort cash grab. Too bad, really... the idea of seeing where YC companies have landed showed some promise.

MarcelOlsz• 11 months ago

The UFO is cute but it's not $350 cute.

MangoToupe• 11 months ago

It's kind of funny: a human couldn't add this many bugs if they tried to.

serial_dev• 11 months ago

Idea is interesting. It looked great… until you actually tried to actually use the web app. Then nothing worked.

onion2k2• 11 months ago

This is a challenge, right?

h1fra2• 11 months ago

Nice, but unfortunately, lots of companies relocate to the US, e.g, Algolia is shown in SF, but it's a French company. It would be nice to have by founders' origin

deadbabe3• 11 months ago

Origins don’t matter, it’s a vanity metric. You can’t control where you originate from so that’s not actionable data. What matters more is seeing where companies are ultimately establishing themselves.

h1fra2• 11 months ago

Yeah but if you only sample YC, then ofc everybody ends up in SF, which is also a vanity metric because all of them are actually located in Delaware

Muromec• 11 months ago

That's a bit inaccurate too, because your r&d and sales could be in two different places.

Raising money in US, selling in Western Europe or US and having R&D in Eastern Europe is a thing

onion2k2• 11 months ago

That's just a measure of where is most friendly to founding a company. Either that or there's something in the water in Delaware...

diego_moita• 11 months ago

This site crashes Firefox.

whatamidoingyo• 11 months ago

It didn't crash Firefox for me.

Kiran_p• 11 months ago

How did you pinpoint the exact location?

dschep2• 11 months ago

Seeing as several are in entirely the wrong city, one is in the Tidal Basin in DC, another on the National Mall.. they clearly don't.

dschep2• 11 months ago

The geocoding needs some work. There are 4 companies indicated as being located in Richmond, Virginia. At least two of them are clearly in Richmond, California. I suspect all of them are in CA.

leonagano10• 11 months ago

thank you for pointing out. Will review them

leonagano10• 11 months ago

I fixed them. Thank you

mceoin• 11 months ago

As naive as this may sound, when I first moved to America and was deciding where to base myself, I first had to learn that there was a difference between Silicon Valley (i.e. Peninsula / South Bay) and San Francisco.

From there, San Francisco looks quite small, but many neighborhoods are worlds away from the action - Outer Richmond is not the density of networks you are looking for, for example (better than rest of world, suboptimal for SF).

Co-locating close to the center of these dense founder networks is the best way maximize luck and opportunity.

This map isn't perfect, but it makes it pretty obvious where you should move if you're interested in startups.

Career wise, moving to "the center of the network" is still the best decision I ever made.

thaack• 11 months ago

EquipmentShare is located in Columbia, MO not Columbia, SC.

msdrigg2• 11 months ago

The other two companies labeled as Columbia SC are actually Columbia Maryland too haha

leonagano10• 11 months ago

Will fix that

leonagano10• 11 months ago

fixed

guywithahat• 11 months ago

Ignoring the fact the YC data is often out of date, I think this is really cool, and it speaks to trends in the industry. In particular, I'm surprised how few YC companies end up in Austin or Seattle, which are traditionally thought of as top-tier tech cities. It looks like in recent batches more companies are headed to Austin though, which makes sense.

Humorously there are 83 companies in Remote, OR, which I somehow doubt

msdrigg2• 11 months ago

3 companies in columbia sc but further investigation yields columbia md for 2 and columbia mo for the third. So state data seems pretty non-existent

jedberg• 11 months ago

FYI, clicking on a number to zoom in, and then zooming back out, makes all the numbers disappear.

leonagano10• 11 months ago

So, then, on the list, there's a button "Show All Companies", if you click, all numbers appear again

mxpxrocks10• 11 months ago

looks cool - would be nice if it could view by city.

ProofHouse• 11 months ago

Hard to believe not a 1 showed up in LA for me

boredumb• 11 months ago

Who knew the rural town of Remote, Oregon was such a startup hub these days.

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