CAMBRIAN SIGNAL
YC DATA · 6,168 COMPANIES · AUGUST 14, 2026
STARTUP CATEGORY EMERGENCE · 2021–2026

Time runs left to right · each circle is a category signal first surfaced in its YC batch.

CURRENT BATCHS26YC DATA · 71 formations · S21–S26
S26HealthcareServices10 CO.Health & Wellness19 CO.Data Engineering29 CO.Drug Discovery13 CO.Telemedicine15 CO.Online Learning12 CO.Real Estate9 CO.Genomics6 CO.Telehealth13 CO.Mental Health Tech19 CO.Construction23 CO.Finance andAccounting44 CO.Neobank28 CO.Social6 CO.Asset Management19 CO.Credit Card13 CO.Hedge Fund19 CO.Bank Account17 CO.Retail14 CO.Sales Enablement16 CO.Investing18 CO.Customer Success13 CO.Digital Asset10 CO.Sales46 CO.API55 CO.Marketing32 CO.Consumer Healthand Wellness17 CO.Food Delivery7 CO.Search Engine9 CO.Generative Models8 CO.Tax Filing7 CO.E-commerce19 CO.AI Assistant59 CO.Conversational AI15 CO.Sales Leads12 CO.Search10 CO.Engineering, Productand Design159 CO.Automation34 CO.Crypto / Web38 CO.Coding Agent30 CO.WorkflowAutomation29 CO.Humanoid Robots10 CO.Clinical Trial6 CO.Infrastructure35 CO.Healthcare Agents30 CO.Legal12 CO.Video Editor15 CO.Healthcare IT27 CO.Payments11 CO.Voice Agent23 CO.Aviation and Space14 CO.LegalTech14 CO.Telecommunications6 CO.Manufacturing andRobotics26 CO.Hardware22 CO.Hard Tech23 CO.Open Source20 CO.Supply Chain11 CO.Analytics12 CO.Browser Agents9 CO.Design8 CO.ReinforcementLearning16 CO.Operations11 CO.GovTech9 CO.Data Labeling6 CO.Digital Health6 CO.Security20 CO.Defense6 CO.Developer Tools50 CO.Drug Discoveryand Delivery8 CO.Advertising7 CO.
YC BATCH
S21W22S22W23S23W24S24F24W25Sp25S25F25W26Sp26S26