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YC Sales startups

136 Y Combinator companies in Sales, 8 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 1%, down from 2.6% in the four batches before. About 63% are AI companies by YC’s tags.

Signal
Active
Since 2025
24 vs 36 in 2023–24
Acquired or public
32%
Listed as inactive
23%

Share of each batch

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

Newest entrants

Of 57 Sales companies from batches up to 2021, YC lists 18 as acquired, 0 as public, 26 as active and 13 as inactive.

  • Frontrunner F26 · Cursor for GTM
  • Ploid F26 · The people data company for the agent era
  • COACH S26 · The AI Coach for in person sales reps.

Building in Sales?

Open problems and funding on Questd for future of work.

Future of Work problems worth solving

Sales companies, newest first

136 companies

  • Frontrunner

    Cursor for GTM

    AI
    Fall 2026Sales2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Ploid

    The people data company for the agent era

    AI
    Fall 2026Sales2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • COACH

    The AI Coach for in person sales reps.

    AI
    Summer 2026Sales4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Nex

    Grok bot for GTM & Revenue teams

    AI
    Summer 2026Sales5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Gojiberry AI

    AI Go-To-Market agents for B2B teams

    Spring 2026Sales7Paris, Île-de-France, France
  • Caretta

    Realtime AI for Sales Calls

    Winter 2026Sales4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Corvera

    The AI sales agent for CPG brands

    AI
    Winter 2026Sales4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Fixture

    An agentic CRM built for Startups

    Winter 2026Sales5
  • Imagine AI

    We reverse engineer B2B growth, starting with LinkedIn.

    AI
    Fall 2025Sales5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • item

    The AI-Native CRM that works for you

    AI
    Fall 2025Sales6San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Karumi

    The Waymo of Personalized demos

    Fall 2025Sales6
  • Leadbay

    Qualified leads for agentic workflows.

    AI
    Fall 2025Sales8San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Ambral

    AI for account management and customer success

    Summer 2025Sales4New York City, NY, USA
  • CLODO

    Planet-scale people discovery.

    AI
    Summer 2025Sales2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Nautilus

    AI platform to grow and to optimize car washes

    Summer 2025Sales4San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Orange Slice

    Agentic sales enrichment spreadsheet

    Summer 2025Sales2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Quotain

    AI sales roleplay built from your real deals

    AI
    Summer 2025Sales2New York City, NY, USA
  • Nomi

    Realtime Sales Copilot

    AI
    Spring 2025Sales5San Francisco, CA, USA
  • throxy

    Vertical AI agents running B2B outbound on autopilot, with human SDRs

    AI
    Spring 2025Sales55London, England, United Kingdom
  • Cenote

    AI agents for conversational commerce

    AI
    Winter 2025Sales2San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Ergo

    Ergo is the context layer that helps revenue teams close more deals.

    AI
    Winter 2025Sales9San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Fuse AI

    Agentic Sales Platform

    Winter 2025Sales12San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Mercura

    AI Quote and Order Automation for Distributors & Manufacturers

    Winter 2025Sales20BY, Germany
  • Peppr AI

    In-call AI teleprompter that helps reps close enterprise deals

    Winter 2025Sales4San Francisco, CA, USA

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