YC Content startups
118 Y Combinator companies in Content, 4 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 0.5%, down from 1.1% in the four batches before. About 33% are AI companies by YC’s tags.
- Signal
- Active
- Since 2025
- 11 vs 16 in 2023–24
- Acquired or public
- 32%
- Listed as inactive
- 46%
Share of each batch
Content companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.
Newest entrants
Of 81 Content companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 26 as acquired, 0 as public, 18 as active and 37 as inactive.
Building in Content?
Open problems and funding on Questd for creator economy.
- Andreessen Horowitz · Big Ideas 2026
- Greylock Partners · AI-First Investment Thesis
- Y Combinator · $500K ($125K for 7% + $375K uncapped MFN SAFE)
- Techstars · $220K ($20K for 5% + $200K uncapped MFN SAFE)
Content companies, newest first
118 companies
- Vyra
Autonomous video editing for non-editors.
Fall 2026Content2San Francisco, CA, USA - GrocaloAI
AI brain for creators that runs their social content
Summer 2026Content2Los Angeles, CA, USA - MochiAI
Watch and create anime
Summer 2026Content5Los Angeles, CA, USA - YouArt
Patreon for AI Originals
Spring 2026Content3San Francisco, CA, USA - FlickAI
We Handle AI. You Direct Films.
Fall 2025Content2Santa Barbara, CA, USA - KoyalAI
Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform
Fall 2025Content5San Francisco, CA, USA - NarrativeAI
AI Video Editor
Fall 2025Content3New York City, NY, USA - Pixley AIAI
The first platform where families can create AI cartoons in minutes
Fall 2025Content2San Francisco, CA, USA - cocreate
video production software
Summer 2025Content10San Francisco, CA, USA - KestrollAI
AI video editor
Summer 2025Content2San Francisco, CA, USA - Mosaic
Frontier Video Agents
Winter 2025Content5San Francisco, CA, USA - Diffusion StudioAI
Turn your agent into a professional video editor
Fall 2024Content2BY, Germany - OverlapAI
Multimodal AI agents for video
Summer 2024Content6San Francisco, CA, USA - PalmierAI
Video editor built for AI
Summer 2024Content2San Francisco, CA, USA - RemadeAI
AI-native canvas for creative workflows.
Summer 2024Content4San Francisco, CA, USAAcquired - Browser BuddyAI
A recommendation system for the Internet
Winter 2024Content2San Francisco, CA, USAAcquired - FocalAI
AI video creation tool for TV shows and movies
Winter 2024Content2San Francisco, CA, USAAcquired - HeartByteAI
GenAI Interactive story. Creator write fictions 10x faster.
Winter 2024Content2San Francisco, CA, USA - Magic HourAI
AI media creation platform for creators and developers
Winter 2024Content2San Francisco, CA, USA - Soundry AIAI
Remix any song into any style
Winter 2024Content2Seattle, WA, USAInactive - TrebloAI
Create hit songs with AI
Winter 2024Content4San Francisco, CA, USA - Wuri
App to read fiction stories as visual novels with images, videos,…
Winter 2024Content7Inactive - Y/n
Play your story
Summer 2023Content4San Francisco, CA, USA - DecohereAI
Real-time generative AI
Winter 2023Content4Seattle, WA, USA
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