Here are the 149 AI companies in the current Y Combinator batch, sorted by categories.
You can find the detailed spreadsheet of all 149 companies here:
https://lnkd.in/gkdwRrTb
Here are the summary stats:
-- Out of 235 total YC companies, almost two-thirds were in AI (~63% or 149 companies)
-- Out of the 149 AI companies, 70% were in the application layer, 28% were in tooling, and 2% were in infrastructure/foundational
-- Within the application segment, there were slightly more horizontal companies (59) than there were vertical companies (46)
-- Within the tooling segment, fine-tuning/model training companies (13) were the most popular, followed by data (12), toolkits (11) and model observability/evaluation (5) companies
-- There were only 3 infrastructure/foundational companies in this cohort
Huge shoutout to our new analyst Yi-Tung Sun for his painstaking efforts in putting together the market map and list. We'll be collaborating on new content so please make sure to follow him as well!