Stealth Startup Spy #169 - Y Combinator S24
The Y Combinator S24 Demo Day is around the corner! Here's a final look at the full YCS24 batch.
Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 Batch Demo Day is next week.
Garry Tan and the other YC Partners made the decision to move from 2 cohorts a year (Winter and Summer) to 4 cohorts a year (one each season - Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer).
They have mentioned specifically that they will move from ~250 startup cohorts to ~125 each. So, it’s still around 500 per year.
This will be the last “large” batch so if you want early access to all founders and companies before demo day, here’s the full look at the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.
YC continues to be a rallying point for some of the most exciting early-stage founders in the world.
The velocity of new companies and innovation going through these batches will only now increase with 4 batches. It now is a year-round, always on effort to keep tabs on these founders getting quietly admitted and building in stealth.
This is only possible leveraging data and the proprietary systems we’ve built at Gravity.
By being a committed follower of our newsletter, you can have the same access. (Shout out to all of you who’ve I’ve had the chance to meet personally!)
So let’s dive into the final highlights from the upcoming Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch. Download Full YC S24 Batch List
77% are building in AI (Up from 70% in the YC W24 batch and 57% of YC Summer 2023)
29% of the batch still has an element of remote teams (either fully or hybrid)
15% are women-founded companies
Only 6% of the companies have solo founders. The most common structure is having two founders, which accounts for ~65% of the total companies.
8 founders are still “working” at their old employers while participating in YC
Moment Robotics, a startup to automate the movement of goods within hospitals, have already joined Kyle Vogt’s The Bot Company even before demo day
FYI - This data set contains Founder Names, Job Title, FounderDNA, Email, Company, Website, Descriptions, and much more.
We’ve tracked everything through stealth mode announcements, pivots, name changes and rebrands making this the most complete data set of YC S24 batch founders.
If you are one of the 97 investors who got early access to this list, filter the “Date Added” column to see all the new changes.
Here’s some founder highlights of the latest and final stealth activity from this batch that happened right before demo day (full list available here)
🕵️♂️ Founders Coming Out of Stealth
Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode
Luis Mario Garcia : Co-Founder and CEO at Seals AI
Background: 2x YC Founder, built a grocery delivery startup (YCW20) and grew it to $6.3M
Seals is a suite of AI employees for wholesalers.
Julia Turc : Co-Founder at Storia AI
Background: 10+ years in NLP, Ex-Google Research
Storia is an open source AI copilot that knows your company's code and its context
David Zhu : Co-Founder at Hey Revia
Background: Previously at Google, Brex
Hey Revia is a voice AI that handles complex phone calls for healthcare providers.
Senta Knuth : Co-Founder at Overstand Labs
Background: Ex-Oliver Wyman, ex-Palantir
Overstand Labs is a cross-selling engine designed for enterprise software companies.
Ben Warren : Co-Founder and CTO at Snowpilot
Background: Ex-Microsoft, ex-Census (backed by a16z & Sequoia)
Snowpilot is a spreadsheet-like UI with the full power of a data warehouse.
Get access to all of the founders and companies before demo day next week!
Looks like we’ve already picked up 25+ founders who have been accepted into YC’s first Fall batch. More on this in future newsletter issues…
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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