Y Combinator kicked off its annual summer Demo Day on Wednesday and nearly all of the startups building products and services with AI have founders based in the Bay Area.
Overall, the accelerator's summer cohort was its smallest batch in three years, clocking in around 45% smaller than its winter batch in 2022 when the number of startups accepted exceeded 400.
Yet, nearly three-quarters of the entire summer cohort have founders who are based in the Bay Area, according to YC's website.
Out of the more than 200 startups in the summer cohort, 126 are working on AI-related things, and of those, around 90% have founders who are based in the Bay Area, according to a Bay Area Inno analysis.
Around four dozen companies in the entire batch are specifically building generative AI-related products and services, including three dozen Bay Area companies.
"San Francisco is the new home for YC. We've brought people from around the world to come to San Francisco. We believe putting the most eminent founders of our generation together makes YC in San Francisco just like Rome or Athens in antiquity," YC president and CEO Garry Tan said during the virtual event. "Send us your best and they'll cross pollinate the most potent culture of Silicon Valley across every part of the world."
Here are all 100-plus Bay Area startups that are tagged with "AI" and "generative AI" in Y Combinator's current summer batch.
Artificial intelligence:
Accend (San Francisco/San Mateo) — Pranjal Daga, Yutong Pei and Joseph Zhou
Advent (San Francisco) — Jarrett Perkins and Eric Wang
Agentive (San Francisco/Palo Alto) — Daniel Alberson, Vidyasagar Ranganaboina and Kyle Saunders
AiSDR (San Francisco) —Yuriy Zaremba, Oleg Zaremba
Alguna (San Francisco/United Kingdom) — Aleks Đekić and Jamie MacLeod
Andromeda Surgical (San Francisco) — Nick Damiano and Kartik Tiwari
Arcimus (San Francisco) — Hussein Syed, Omar Dadabhoy
Automorphic (San Francisco) — Govind Gnanakumar, Maaher Gandhi and Mahesh Natamai
Axilla (San Francisco) — Nicholas Charriere and Ben Reinhart
Baserun.ai (San Francisco) —Effy Zhang, Adam Ginzberg
Bronco AI (San Francisco/Austin) —David Zhi LuoZhang, Jeffrey Pan
Cair Health (Palo Alto) — Shehbaz Virk and Ishan Balakrishnan
Can of Soup (San Francisco) — Gabriel Birnbaum and Eric Meier
Cascading AI (Palo Alto/New York) — Lukas Haffer and Isaiah Williams
Cedana (San Francisco) — Neel Master and Niranjan Ravichandra
Cleancard (San Francisco) —Luca Springer, Thomas Carroll
Cyclone (San Francisco/Palo Alto/New York)—Tony Yang, Haoyang Yu
Decoda Health (San Francisco) — Daniyal Afzal and Kevin Cheng
Docsum (San Francisco) — Shaunak Turaga, Alex Leonov
DSensei (San Francisco/Palo Alto) —Yulong Liu, Daiyi Yang
Egress (San Francisco) —Matthew Kiflu, Alex Pedersen
Elythea (San Jose) — Reetam Ganguli and Rishik Lad
Envelope (San Francisco) — Katelyn Strobel and Josh Cockrell Strobel
Every Inc. (San Francisco) — Rajeev Behera and Barry Peterson
Fiber AI (San Francisco) —Adi Agashe, Neel Mehta
Flair Health (San Francisco) — Diva Sharma and Shobha Dasari
FleetWorks (San Francisco/New York) —Paul Singer, Quang Tran
FlowiseAI (San Francisco) — Henry Heng and Chung Yau Ong
Fragment (San Francisco/France) —Olivier Moindrot, Guillaume Genthial
Glaze (San Francisco) — Maggie Zhang, Savannah Liu and Pearl Li
Greenlite (San Francisco/Canada) — Will Lawrence and Alex Jin
Happyrobot (San Francisco) —Pablo Palafox, Javier Palafox, Luis Paarup
Haven (San Francisco/Germany) — Justus Mattern and Konstantin Hohr
Health Harbor (San Francisco) — Alan Liu, Nathan Amin and Gloria Wu
Hegel AI (San Francisco) — Steven Krawczyk and Kevin Tse
Hidden Hand (San Francisco) — Bennett Cohen
Humanlike (San Francisco) —Andy Qin, Vashisht Madhavan
Inari (San Francisco/New York) —Frank Lee, Eric Kim
Intelliga (San Francisco) —Isaiah Granet, Sobhan Nejad
Kite (San Francisco) —Derek Feehrer, Todd Ashley
Langdock (San Francisco/Germany) —Lennard Schmidt, Jonas Beisswenger, Tobias Kemkes
Leafpress (San Francisco) —Devishi Jha, Jianna Liu
Linc (San Francisco) —Rahul Prakash, Shrey Sambhwani, Harsha Srijay
Martin (Sunnyvale) — Dawson Chen, Harsh Deep and Arjun Dixit
Nowadays (San Francisco/Seattle) — Anna Sun and Amy Yan
Olio Labs (Palo Alto) —David Tingley, Tom Roseberry
Onward (San Francisco) —Nikolas Huebecker, Coleman Oates
OpenPipe (San Francisco) —Kyle Corbitt, David Corbitt
Outset (San Francisco) —Aaron Cannon, Michael Hess
Pandan (Redwood City) —Ihsaan Patel, Edward Tiong
Pointhound (San Francisco) — Jay Reno and Jake Malone
ProdTrace (San Francisco) —Saelig Khattar, Jana Mithrakumar
Respaid (San Francisco) — John Banner
Revamp (San Francisco) —Amin Akhtar, Stephen Campbell
Roame (San Francisco) — Tim Qin and Zi Liu
SafetyKit (San Francisco) —David Graunke, Steven Guichard
Sero AI (San Jose) —Ankur Rustagi, Talha Baig
Serra (San Francisco) —Alan Wang, Albert Stanley
Shadeform (San Francisco) —Ed Goode, Ronald Ding, Zachary Warren
Shasta Health (San Francisco) — Srinjoy Majumdar and Pransu Dash
Sidenote (San Francisco/Stanford) —Jason Lin, Scott Hickmann, Schwinn Saereesitthipitak
Silimate (San Francisco/Mountain View) — Ann Wu and Akash Levy
Simbie Health (San Francisco/New York) — Natalia Khosla, Rachel O’Driscoll and Natalia Perina
Sizeless (Berkeley) —Roger de Belsunce, Cornelius von Einem
Sohar Health (San Francisco/United Kingdom/Denmark) — Ashish Mandavia and Lucas Gordon
Sola (San Francisco) —Jessica Wu, Neil Deshmukh
Studdy (San Francisco) —Michael Lam, Alex Lanzoni
Subsets (San Francisco/Denmark) —Martin Johnsen, Matias Ebbesen, Oliver Brandt, Nikolai Skelbo
Surface Labs (San Francisco) —Saharsh Agrawal, Arjun Sahai
Sweetspot (San Francsico/Austin) —Sachin Subramanian, Philip Kung, Andrew Arkhipov
Synaptiq (San Francisco/San Mateo/D.C.) — Ryan Phelps, Jacob Caccamo and Kevin Bastoul
Tailor AI (San Francisco) —Brian Kim, Benjamin Anderson
Talc (San Francisco/Seattle) —Matt Lee, Max Kerr
Twine (San Francisco) —Anand Valavalkar, Divyesh Khatri, Omar Imtiaz
Vizly (San Francisco) —Ali Shobeiri, Sami Sahnoune
Generative AI
Anneal (San Francisco) — Akash Kashyap and Tyler Kahn
AskLio (San Francisco) — Vladi Keil and Lukas Heinzmann
Chatter (San Francisco/Philadelphia) — Anish Agrawal and Kasyap Chakra
Contour (San Francisco) — Arvind Subramanian and Vamsi Saladi
Flint (San Francisco) — Sohan Choudhury and Jinseo Park
Fynt (San Francisco/Bulgaria/United Kingdom) — Nick Gospodinov and Aleksandar Bonin
Giga ML (San Francisco) — Varun Vummadi and Esha Manideep Dinne
Glade (San Francisco) — Daniel Fang and Aaron Lee
Hyperbound (San Francisco/New York) — Sriharsha Guduguntla and Atul Raghunathan
Hyperlight (San Francisco/New York) — Alec Xiang and Jonathan Yin
Infobot (Oakland) — Justin Harvey, Eduardo Faraday and Orestis Lykouropoulos
Inventive AI (Mountain View) — Dhiren Bhatia, Vishakh Hegde and Gaurav Nemade
Khoj (San Francisco/India) — Debanjum Singh Solanky and Saba Imran
Letter AI (San Francisco/Chicago) — Ali Akhtar and Armen Forget
Lingtual (San Francisco) — Tejas Bhakta
Magic Loops (San Francisco) — Adam Williams and Mihai Bulic
Magik (San Francisco) — Daniel Ruiz and Asad Dar
Mano AI (San Francisco/New York) — Nicolas Raga and Omar Mihilmy
MediSearch (San Francisco/United Kingdom) — Eduard Oravkin and Michal Pándy
Metalware (San Francisco) — Ryan Chow and Andrew Nedea
Metoro (San Francisco/United Kingdom) — Chris Battarbee and Tom Pointon
Neum AI (San Francisco/Seattle) — David de Matheu and Kevin Cohen
Osium AI (San Francisco/France) — Sarah Najmark and Luisa Bouneder
Parea (San Francisco/New York) — Joel Alexander and Joschka Braun
Pincites (San Francisco/New York) — Sona Sulakian, Mariam Sulakian and Grey Baker
Remy Security (San Francisco) — Sten Sjöberg and Kevin Kim
Reworkd AI (San Francisco) — Asim Shrestha, Srijan Subedi and Adam Watkins
RightPage (San Francisco/Boston) — Michael Brady and Arjun Murthy
SID (San Francisco/Switzerland) — Maximilian-David Rumpf, Lukas Ruflair and Lotte Seifert
Slingshot (San Francisco) — Flynn Traeger, Moe Khalil, Bryn Hughes and Porter Weisberg
Solve Intelligence (San Francisco) — Chris Parsonson, Angus Parsonson and Sanj Ahilan
Spine AI (San Francisco/Canada) — Akshay Budhkar and Ashwin Venkatesh Raman
Structured (San Francisco/Cupertino/New York) — Amrutha Gujjar and Shivam Singhal
Sudocode (Mountain View/Boston) — Randy Song, Alex Ngai and Tim Baker
Sweep (San Francisco) — William Zeng and Kevin Lu
Vango AI (San Francisco/Berkeley) — Eshaan Moorjani and Rajen Dey
VectorShift (San Francisco/Boston) — Alexander Leonardi and Albert Mao
Watto AI (San Francisco/Seattle) — Rishabh Panwar, Ishita Bhandari and Suryansh Soni
