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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

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01 · 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.

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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

Fewer trackers than Y CombinatorNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

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
35 ms

Built with

Fonts
Analytics
Marketing automation
  • Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org a:rsweb1-36.invest…
CDN
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
Email delivery
  • Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org a:rsweb1-36.invest…
DNS hosting
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