startup trends, measured

Where startups and venture capital are heading

Startup Radar tracks 20,502 companies across six accelerator portfolios, classifies each one into a fixed taxonomy, and follows what happens to them next - which clusters are rising, which are crowded, and where the windows are open.

Talk to the radar

Tell it what you do and it finds ideas that fit you, checks how crowded they already are, and sums up a founding team. Works here, or from your own Claude through the connector.

20,502

companies tracked

6,189

Y Combinator

5,604

Techstars

5,411

Plug and Play

2,267

500 Global

790

SOSV

241

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Batch Live

The batch forming right now: who is listed so far and how its mix differs from the last one.

Trends

Cluster shares across YC batches, from the last two years back to 2009.

Trajectory

What happened to a cohort over six months: acquired, shut down, repositioned.

Gaps

What YC is asking for against how many companies already build there.

Idea Check

Type your idea, see how many tracked startups already build it and how alive they are.

Idea Lab

Pick a vertical, get fictional startup concepts grounded in the cluster's real data.

Public Money

What the state funds through grants - and where it diverges from what founders build.

AI Visibility

How readable these startups are to AI assistants, by cluster, batch and accelerator.

Overlap

Companies that went through several programs, and founders on their second company.

Startup Digest

A weekly email on where startups and capital are moving: cluster shifts, what happened to last season's companies, open windows, candidate ideas.

17,885 companies classified · last sync 2026-08-19 · sources synced daily