The Y Combinator Top companies stack

Y Combinator's Top Companies list, the highest-valued startups among the 5,000 it has funded since 2005

Companies
74
Tools identified
420
Categories
16
Last update
Oct 2026

About the cohort

74 companies

See all 74 companies

Most adopted tools

Across all 16 categories

04DocuSign

IT & Infrastructure

71 of 74 companies Β· 16 tools identified

Productivity & Collaboration

58 of 74 companies Β· 46 tools identified

Developer & Engineering

57 of 74 companies Β· 51 tools identified

Artificial Intelligence

54 of 74 companies Β· 15 tools identified

03ElevenLabs
04Rovo
05Agentforce

HR & Talent

51 of 74 companies Β· 37 tools identified

01Greenhouse
03Lattice
04Ashby
05Remote

Security & Compliance

40 of 74 companies Β· 25 tools identified

Data & Analytics

39 of 74 companies Β· 31 tools identified

Marketing

36 of 74 companies Β· 43 tools identified

01AirOps
02Brevo
03Metadata
04Webflow
05AppsFlyer

Commerce

33 of 74 companies Β· 11 tools identified

02Checkout
03Adyen
04Akeneo
05Global Payments

Sales

33 of 74 companies Β· 67 tools identified

02Qualified
03Reachdesk
04CaptivateIQ
05FullEnrich

Design & Creative

32 of 74 companies Β· 11 tools identified

Finance

24 of 74 companies Β· 21 tools identified

03Pigment
04Recurly
05Spendesk

Customer Experience

23 of 74 companies Β· 23 tools identified

03Zendesk
04Decagon
05Gainsight

Industry Software

11 of 74 companies Β· 12 tools identified

01Plaid
02Autodesk
03Alchemy
043Commas
05Belvo

Operations

10 of 74 companies Β· 6 tools identified

02DualEntry
03Parabola
04Moffi
05NetSuite

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