Stealth Startup Spy #186 - Y Combinator F24
An early look at the Y Combinator Fall 2024 batch months before demo day! Full list available for download.
We are giving you early access to the Y Combinator Fall 2024 batch.
This is their first ever Fall batch which will double the number of cohorts per year — meaning that YC will be in session year-round for almost the entire year.
With the increase in frequency of startups joining the accelerator, it makes it even harder to keep up without the use of data or AI.
Every time a YC founder announces they have joined an upcoming batch, we get an instant alert, and our team logs it.
For example, we’re already picking up stealth activity for the YC Winter 2025 batch which won’t have demo day until April 2025…
With YC F24 Demo Day coming up quick the first week in December after the Thanksgiving holiday, the window to get early access is closing fast. This is your opportunity to analyze the upcoming batch and connect with founders ahead of demo day.
Download Full YC F24 Batch List
Here are some of the highlights from the upcoming Y Combinator Fall 2024 batch.
80% are building in AI
87% B2B vs 11% B2C & 2% B2B2C
Average team size is between 2 & 3
14% are women-founded companies
22% are founded by Former FAANG employees
13 companies are still in stealth mode
FYI - This dataset is a 3-sheet report with full founder profiles and emails, company details and this full market map. (Limit is 50 downloads)
Here’s some of the latest stealth activity from this batch (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
Yuhang Song: Founder at Circlemind
Background: Awarded J.P. Morgan AI Research Award, first-authored a Nature Neuroscience paper, cofounded Fractile, raised $15M in two years and exited
Circlemind: Intelligent memory & retrieval for AI
Edward Aryee: Co-Founder & CTO at SRE.ai
Background: Ex-Tech Lead, Search (Translate) at Google, ex-Microsoft
SRE.ai: An AI-powered automation platform for Salesforce development teams.
Daniel Hsu: Co-Founder at Bramble
Background: Ex-Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, UC Berkeley CS
Bramble: AI-powered buyer real estate brokerage with a simple flat fee
Kenson Chung: Co-Founder & CTO at Origami Agents
Background: Ex-Director at Kickstart Global, UCL CS
Origami Agents: Agents that find companies actively looking for your solution
Akkshay Khoslaa: Co-Founder & CEO at Asha Health
Background: Ex-PM, Gen AI x Sales at Google, On Deck Fellow, ex-Engineering & Product at Meta, ex-Microsoft
Asha Health: Asha helps medical practices launch their own AI clinic
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Ransika Liyanage: Co-Founder at Stealth
Background: Ex-Deloitte, ex-Tesla
Aditya Tewari: Co-Founder at Stealth
Background: Ex-Palantir, ex-Nike
Justin Zhou: Co-Founder at Stealth
Background: Ex-Member of the Technical Staff at Infinitus Systems, ex-Cloudflare, UPenn CS
Dara Moini: Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth
Background: Ex-Software Engineer at IMC Trading, Johns Hopkins CS
Manil Lakabi: Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth
Background: Ex-Scale AI, ex-Meta, ex-LinkedIn
Most of these founders and companies are not yet listed in the YC directory and we will constantly update the dataset as founders continue to exit stealth.
Notice: This link will be taken down at 50 downloads and before 11:59pm EST on Friday of next week....
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.