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YC Productivity startups

230 Y Combinator companies in Productivity, 23 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 2.9%, down from 3.2% in the four batches before. About 47% are AI companies by YC’s tags.

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Crowded
Since 2025
43 vs 33 in 2023–24
Acquired or public
29%
Listed as inactive
33%

Share of each batch

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

Newest entrants

Of 133 Productivity companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 37 as acquired, 1 as public, 51 as active and 44 as inactive.

  • Grep AI F26 · Self-improving agents that automate your growth bottlenecks
  • River F26 · The AI computer.
  • Sentient OS F26 · On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.

Building in Productivity?

Open problems and funding on Questd for future of work.

Future of Work problems worth solving

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230 companies

  • Grep AI

    Self-improving agents that automate your growth bottlenecks

    AI
    Fall 2026Productivity6San Francisco, CA, USA
  • River

    The AI computer.

    AI
    Fall 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Sentient OS

    On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.

    AI
    Fall 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Spacesheep

    Documents of the future: the collaboration surface for people and…

    AI
    Fall 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Glen

    Institutional Learning Layer for Every Agent in Your Company

    AI
    Summer 2026Productivity1San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Marker

    Platform + FDEs that rebuild enterprises agent-first

    AI
    Summer 2026Productivity3San Francisco, CA, USA
  • OneCLI

    AI teammates for your business-critical work.

    AI
    Summer 2026ProductivitySan Francisco, CA, USA
  • rekursiv.ai

    Scale AI scientists whose own breakthroughs accelerate the next.

    AI
    Summer 2026Productivity5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • screenpipe

    Turn your company's computer work into AI agents.

    AI
    Summer 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Aster

    Automating open-ended research.

    Spring 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • GBrain

    A personal or team assistant that works while you sleep

    AI
    Spring 2026Productivity3San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Hyper

    Company brain that powers your AI employees

    Spring 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • OpenWork

    The open source alternative to Claude Cowork

    Spring 2026Productivity4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Reason Machines

    Reason Machines builds Reason Agent, the autonomous software engineer…

    Spring 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Savant

    Company brain every AI-native enterprise runs on

    Spring 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Tasklet

    Agents that own the work

    Spring 2026Productivity8San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Userlens

    Let agents talk to your customers

    AI
    Spring 2026Productivity4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Cofia

    AI automations that implement themselves

    Winter 2026Productivity3New York City, NY, USA
  • Emdash

    Agentic Development Environment

    Winter 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Quotient Labs

    Use Claude Code at 47% less cost in one line of installation.

    AI
    Winter 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Robby

    AI agents that grow revenue for home services businesses

    Winter 2026Productivity3New York City, NY, USA
  • Sila

    Agentic Messenger

    Winter 2026Productivity2
  • Unisson

    AI agents that automate B2B software implementation

    Winter 2026Productivity2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Clicks Health

    AI agents for your healthcare back-office operations.

    AI
    Fall 2025Productivity8San Francisco, CA, USA

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