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Open-source data platform and API for Y Combinator startup ecosystem analytics.
• Provides a clean REST API delivering structured data across YC and a16z companies, founders, and funding rounds. • Offers an AI-powered Idea Validator that uses semantic search to detect market crowding across 8,000+ startups. • Visualizes startup ecosystems with interactive 2D maps, 3D globes, and batch analytics dashboards. • Ranks founder leaderboards and tracks live daily updates on new batch additions and active job openings.
Open-source architecture allows community contributions while keeping base API usage 100% free forever. Replaces manual Crunchbase and LinkedIn scraping with a unified, developer-friendly REST API endpoint. Provides semantic search over historical YC batch data instead of relying on basic keyword matching. Offers instant drop-in developer onboarding without requiring complex API sales cycles or subscriptions.
Category: AI & Automation
Team Size: 1
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ExploreYC is an open-source startup intelligence platform and API that indexes data across thousands of Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) portfolio companies. By organizing historical batch statistics, founder profiles, market categories, and funding trajectories, ExploreYC provides deep visibility into startup trends. Founders, investors, and researchers use its semantic search tools, interactive maps, and REST API to validate ideas, track competitors, and evaluate market crowding.
ExploreYC was built in 2026 by developer Konstantin Borimechkov. Tired of manually cross-referencing YC directories, Crunchbase, and LinkedIn to see if startup ideas had been attempted before, he built ExploreYC. He turned scattered accelerator research into an open-source platform offering semantic search, API access, and market intelligence across 11,000+ startups.
