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YC Operations startups

154 Y Combinator companies in Operations, 23 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 2.9%, up from 1.6% in the four batches before. About 51% are AI companies by YC’s tags.

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Crowded
Since 2025
35 vs 41 in 2023–24
Acquired or public
21%
Listed as inactive
21%

Share of each batch

Operations companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.

Newest entrants

Of 63 Operations companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 13 as acquired, 0 as public, 37 as active and 13 as inactive.

  • GodHands F26 · Turn how your team works into playbooks and agents.
  • Hickory & Company F26 · Hickory offers agentic compliance and BSA for banks and fintechs
  • Kiwi F26 · Kiwi is your GTM agent's favorite data engineer.

Building in Operations?

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Future of Work problems worth solving

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154 companies

  • GodHands

    Turn how your team works into playbooks and agents.

    AI
    Fall 2026Operations2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Hickory & Company

    Hickory offers agentic compliance and BSA for banks and fintechs

    Fall 2026Operations3Salt Lake City, UT, USA
  • Kiwi

    Kiwi is your GTM agent's favorite data engineer.

    AI
    Fall 2026Operations2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Sona8

    Voice agents survey employees to map, improve & automate workflows

    AI
    Fall 2026Operations5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Bernard

    AI employees that run home appliance repair companies

    AI
    Summer 2026Operations9New York City, NY, USA
  • Kebra

    AI For The Skilled Workforce

    AI
    Summer 2026Operations2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Rational

    First Zero-human Accounting Firm

    AI
    Summer 2026Operations2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Sidekick

    AI agent that manages manufacturing operations over text

    AI
    Summer 2026Operations1San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Snowstone

    AI-Driven Value Creation and Margin Expansion for Private Equity

    AI
    Summer 2026OperationsSan Francisco, CA, USA
  • Zaplar

    Agentic Hotel Operating System

    AI
    Summer 2026Operations7Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
  • Arzana

    Adaptive AI built for manufacturers

    Spring 2026Operations13New York City, NY, USA
  • Autostep

    The P&L for knowledge work

    Spring 2026Operations1San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Callab AI

    Human-centered AI for contact centers.

    Spring 2026Operations7San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Modern

    Modern automates the entire order-to-cash process for B2B companies.

    AI
    Spring 2026Operations2Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • Ontora

    AI agents that interviews every employee to hand context to AI tools.

    AI
    Spring 2026Operations3Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Smartbase

    AI-native ERP for manufacturers

    Spring 2026Operations2San Francisco, CA, USAInactive
  • Trellis

    Agents that run short-term rental operations end-to-end

    Spring 2026Operations5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Walter

    AI Employee for Manufacturing Operations

    Spring 2026OperationsSan Francisco, CA, USA
  • Bubble Lab

    Turn gatherings into lasting relationships.

    AI
    Winter 2026Operations2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • EigenPal

    AI Document Workflows for Enterprises

    Winter 2026OperationsSan Francisco, CA, USA
  • MochaCare

    Agentic Management Service for Care Organizations

    Winter 2026Operations2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Pollen

    AI employees trained on your firm's workflows.

    Winter 2026Operations3San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Terminal Use

    AI-native transformation for operations-heavy companies

    Winter 2026Operations4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • MadeThis

    The autonomous business platform

    AI
    Fall 2025Operations3San Francisco, CA, USA

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