YC Continuity

Zepto is an Indian quick-commerce platform that delivers groceries, household essentials, and electronics to customers in approximately 10 minutes through a network of hyper-local dark stores. Founded by two Stanford dropouts, the company operates over 900 dark stores across major Indian cities.

Live-stream shopping marketplace where buyers and sellers connect in real-time video auctions. Originally focused on collectibles like Funko Pops and Pokemon cards, now expanded to dozens of categories including sports cards, sneakers, fashion, electronics, and art.

Automated data movement platform that reliably moves data from 700+ sources including SaaS applications, databases, and files to data warehouses, data lakes, and other destinations.

Synthetic biology company that builds an automated platform for programming cells, enabling customers across pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and industrial chemicals to harness the power of biology.

AI-powered background check platform that modernizes the hiring process for companies of all sizes, serving over 100,000 customers including Uber, DoorDash, and Instacart.

Groww is India's largest direct-to-consumer digital investment platform, offering mutual funds, stocks, IPOs, ETFs, digital gold, and derivatives trading. Founded by four former Flipkart employees, the company grew from a mutual fund distribution platform to a full-service brokerage serving millions of retail investors across India. A Y Combinator alumnus (W18 batch), Groww was YC's first company to list on an Indian stock exchange.

AI-powered customer communication and lead conversion platform for local businesses. Helps over 100,000 businesses manage reviews, messaging, payments, and marketing from a single dashboard. Originally founded as RepDrive, a Y Combinator W16 alumnus.

Benchling is a cloud-based life sciences R&D platform that helps biotech and pharmaceutical companies manage experiments, track data, and accelerate research and development. The platform replaces physical lab notebooks and spreadsheets with collaborative, AI-ready digital tools used by over 1,200 customers worldwide.

Visual web development platform that lets designers and developers build professional, custom websites without writing code, generating clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in real time. Bootstrapped for five years before raising venture capital.

Customer data infrastructure platform that collects, cleans, and routes customer data to hundreds of analytics, marketing, and data warehouse tools through a single API. Founded by four MIT students as part of Y Combinator S11.

Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs and fabricates superconducting quantum processors, integrates them into quantum computers, and delivers access through its Quantum Cloud Services platform. The company operates the world's first dedicated quantum chip foundry.

Construction productivity software that digitized blueprints and project documents for mobile access on job sites, enabling real-time collaboration across construction teams. Acquired by Autodesk for $875 million in 2018.

CoreOS developed Container Linux, a lightweight Linux-based operating system designed for massive server deployments, along with key container infrastructure tools including etcd, rkt, and the Tectonic Kubernetes platform. Founded through Y Combinator (S13), the company built open source infrastructure to enable Google-scale operations for any organization. CoreOS was a founding member of both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Acquired by Red Hat in January 2018 for $250 million.