Cohorts of 2016
Companies whose accelerator cohort started in 2016. 811 companies.
clusterConsumer 142B2B SaaS 98Commerce and marketplaces 68Healthcare and bio 64Fintech 62Robotics and physical world 37Other 25Developer tools 24Data for AI 23Security and compliance 14Vertical AI agents 14Climate and energy 11Defense and space 9AI infra and compute 6Horizontal AI assistants 4Agent infrastructure 4
| Company | Cluster | Program | Status | Last signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepgramAI Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding. | AI infra and computeSpeech AI infrastructure and APIs | Y CombinatorW16 | Active | checked 2026-08-23 |
| Protonet Protonet provides the easiest way for a small business to run its own… | AI infra and computeSmall business cloud infrastructure | Y CombinatorW16 | Site unreachable | checked 2026-08-17 |