forming now

Fall 2026 is filling up

YC publishes companies to its public directory continuously, so a batch grows in the open for months. 38 companies are listed for F26 so far - a completed batch has run around 199. The radar re-syncs the directory every day.

Even further ahead: Winter 2027 has 1 listed.

38

listed in F26

38

added since February

240

in S26

11

clusters represented

Batch sizes

Companies listed per batch. The last bar is still growing.

274
W23
220
S23
248
W24
248
S24
94
F24
167
W25
143
X25
166
S25
146
F25
199
W26
196
X26
240
S26
38
F26
1
W27

What F26 is buildingvs S26

Vertical AI agents
9 · 25%+0 pp
Developer tools
3 · 8%+5 pp
Fintech
2 · 6%+1 pp
Consumer
1 · 3%-1 pp
Data for AI
1 · 3%-1 pp
B2B SaaS
1 · 3%-1 pp
Climate and energy
1 · 3%+2 pp

Every company listed so far

antimattrnew

Agent infrastructure · 2 people

voice-first hardware interface for human-agent interaction

voice hardware for agent interaction

Antropi Roboticsnew

Robotics and physical world

Autonomous CNC factories for faster hardware

Autonomous CNC manufacturing

Asakananew

Vertical AI agents

AI order entry for food distributors: emails and texts to ERP

Order entry for food distributors

Asciinew

Agent infrastructure · 3 people

The best cloud VMs for billions of agents

Cloud VMs for AI agents

Capveonnew

B2B SaaS · 2 people

Turning infrastructure demand into action

Government contractor sales enablement

Collarnew

Vertical AI agents · 2 people

AI for Investor Relations and Equity Research

AI agents for private market investment

Coveranew

Vertical AI agents · 2 people

AI-native OS for insurance brokers

AI agents for insurance broker operations

Degla Incnew

Robotics and physical world · 2 people

The fully autonomous intelligence layer in the sky.

autonomous multi-drone mission planning

Dreamscale Labsnew

AI infra and compute · 4 people

Running robot brains in the cloud

Low-latency cloud inference for robotics

Forwardnew

Fintech · 5 people

Unifying Global Private Credit

AI-powered private credit marketplace

GodHandsnew

Developer tools · 2 people

The company knowledge base that updates itself

AI-powered engineering knowledge base

Halmos Labsnew

unclassified · 3 people

Maximum information per experiment, minimum experiments per conclusion

Hemlocknew

Robotics and physical world · 1 people

Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI

force sensing hardware for robot training

herdrnew

Agent infrastructure · 1 people

building the open agent runtime

Agent orchestration and runtime management

Hesper AInew

unclassified · 2 people

AI Claims Investigator for Insurance

Hoppernew

AI infra and compute · 2 people

Fast inference for voice

Voice model serving and inference optimization

Lambda Roboticsnew

Robotics and physical world · 6 people

Robotics for AI Infrastructure

Robots for AI infrastructure deployment

Lantern AInew

Vertical AI agents · 4 people

Turn Your Taste Into Hires

AI recruiting agent for hiring

Lightfieldnew

Vertical AI agents · 2 people

AI that works for in-house legal teams

AI legal intake and triage

Maritimenew

Agent infrastructure · 3 people

The managed cloud for AI agents.

Managed cloud platform for agents

Nodus Computenew

Agent infrastructure · 2 people

Intelligent execution layer for AI workloads

AI workload orchestration

OnePatchnew

Vertical AI agents · 2 people

Automate on-call at agent-scale.

Autonomous incident resolution for SRE

Orca Aerospacenew

Vertical AI agents · 3 people

AI spacecraft operators that lives onboard the vehicle

Autonomous satellite operation

Qokedasnew

Data for AI · 3 people

Data for AI Science

synthetic data from physical signals

Quippynew

Consumer · 1 people

Helps build social skills through daily practice

AI social skills coaching

Commercial insurance for small businesses

SMB commercial insurance

RightNownew

AI infra and compute · 2 people

Enabling Model-Hardware Co-Design at Scale

GPU inference optimization and serverless deployment

Sentient OSnew

Horizontal AI assistants · 2 people

On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.

On-device personal AI agent

Simanticnew

Agent infrastructure · 4 people

Firmware simulation for AI agents

Hardware simulation for AI agents

Simulithicnew

Developer tools · 2 people

Simulate how any product change will perform before shipping.

AI-powered product simulation and testing

Sinternew

Robotics and physical world · 2 people

Accelerating scaled plastics with additive technologies

3D printing for specialty plastics

Talosnew

Climate and energy · 3 people

Predictive maintenance for power infrastructure.

Power grid predictive maintenance

The Subvocal Companynew

Robotics and physical world · 3 people

Talk to your computer without talking

Silent speech wearables

twentyfour26new

Robotics and physical world · 2 people

On Demand CNC Prototyping

Autonomous CNC machining for prototyping

Veeza AInew

Vertical AI agents · 1 people

AI travel agent for people with weak passports, starting with visas.

AI visa application assistant

Velthanew

Vertical AI agents · 2 people

AI native TPA starting with workers comp

AI claims adjuster for insurance

Voreliosnew

AI infra and compute · 2 people

AI that simulates physics 1000x faster

Physics simulation acceleration

Workers IOnew

Developer tools · 2 people

Deterministic Virtual Machines

Release verification and simulation

daily directory sync · radar tracking since 2026-08-16 · "new" = not present in the February 2026 snapshot