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Y Combinator
Who runs Y Combinator, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest startup accelerator alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Techstars
Measured from Y Combinator’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Y Combinator01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Y Combinator
Y Combinator ycombinator.com
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.
Wikidata: American startup accelerator
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Y Combinator tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
11 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Y Combinator
None of the 60 sites closest to Y Combinator match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Y Combinator adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 17 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 43 ms
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- PostHog page source: posthog.init(
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org a:rsweb1-36.invest…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56309eb1c83c0af-HAM
- Languages & backends
- Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
- Site search
- Algolia page source: algoliasearch
- Maps
- Google Maps page source: maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms37374900
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org a:rsweb1-36.invest…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1914.awsdns-47.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=WG0sP5Alm7N6h1Te
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=asc63coma4mv
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 23YLYcfP-tmEiWdemh9h6Wi6DIxisMtUtcowUJBSvH0
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-QbhxxK0G0JK0dnyZ4YTsNAfw
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_2ndw8KZxSRa8PT8NmdyXvw
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Atlassian · not on ycombinator.com 10/20
- OpenAI 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ycombinator.com 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ycombinator.com 8/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- DocuSign · not on ycombinator.com 7/20
- Next.js · not on ycombinator.com 7/20
- React · not on ycombinator.com 7/20
- Stripe · not on ycombinator.com 7/20
- Zoom 6/20
- Adobe · not on ycombinator.com 6/20
- Notion · not on ycombinator.com 5/20