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Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Call Center formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Evidence that these companies achieve fully autonomous call handling with no human escalation layer or oversight product being built or adopted.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the AI Assistant formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future batches show no growth in onboarding/change-management startups tied to AI assistant rollouts, this prediction does not hold.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the API formation · Not featured (review: rejected)

Wrong if: If AI-API hybrid companies like Andi report no significant debugging/testing friction or if no new AI-specific API testing tools emerge in coming batches.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Marketing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no new vertical-specific marketing startups (e.g., healthcare, finance, legal) appear in the next window while generic B2B marketing tools continue to dominate, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Reinforcement Learning formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If none of these companies or new entrants launch monitoring/observability-specific products within the next year, this is disproven.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Search formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Enterprise search startups in future batches build in-house document parsing rather than integrating with or spawning dedicated parsing providers.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Housing and Real Estate formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: IronLedger and Automax.ai continue building fully proprietary parsing without any shared schema or partnership despite overlapping customer bases.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the AI Assistant formation · Not featured (review: rejected)

Wrong if: If no hosting/fine-tuning infra startups targeting open-source assistants like AnythingLLM appear in coming batches, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Sales formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no new YC company emerges in the next 3 batches focused on lead/data deduplication or verification for sales tools, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the API formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If no new API aggregation startups emerge in adjacent fragmented verticals (e.g., insurance, logistics) within the next 3-4 YC batches.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Marketing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If a subsequent YC batch shows no new startups building attribution, measurement, or verification tools specifically for AI-generated marketing content, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Marketing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no additional consumer- or gaming-focused marketing startups appear in the next window and all growth remains concentrated in B2B tagged companies, this is disproven.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Neobank formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If new neobank YC batches continue building custom core banking stacks in-house rather than adopting third-party BaaS platforms, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Health & Wellness formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Arketa-like tools remain strictly single-vertical with no cross-vertical expansion or new multi-vertical SaaS entrants appear in later batches, this fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Legal formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Future Legal-tagged companies remain concentrated in generic contract/drafting use cases with no new vertical-specific entrants.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Conversational AI formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: No dedicated call-QA/evaluation startups emerge in future batches despite continued growth of voice-agent companies like Vocode and Toma.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Conversational AI formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Future batches show no new vertical-specific (industry-locked) conversational AI companies beyond horizontal customer support tools.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Healthcare IT formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If no new YC companies targeting voice AI for other healthcare specialties (beyond dental) appear in the next 2-3 batches, this prediction is disproven.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Healthcare IT formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If none of these companies converge on using a shared third-party eligibility/verification API within a year and each continues building bespoke payer integrations without friction, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Telemedicine formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If mental health telemedicine startups in future batches solve matching/billing entirely in-house with no emergence of shared infrastructure or API providers for this niche.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Drug Discovery and Delivery formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If new entrants in this formation increasingly build fully in-house wet-lab capacity rather than outsourcing, demand for third-party automated lab infrastructure will not materialize.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Advertising formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If a year from now no startups or product lines emerge offering compliance/brand-safety review specifically for AI-generated ad creative, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Mental Health Tech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies report no difficulty sourcing qualified specialized practitioners as they scale, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Call Center formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: No compliance/QA-focused startup or product targeting AI call center auditing in health/dental emerges within the timeframe despite continued growth of Arini/Dodo/Careforce.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Call Center formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Future YC batches show no new call-center-tagged companies outside health/dental and legal/sales, indicating the pattern isn't generalizing.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Automation formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these automation startups' customers report low failure/exception rates requiring no human handoff tooling, this prediction does not hold.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Automation formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If a majority of these RPA/automation startups continue shipping their own bespoke auth/permission systems without adopting or demanding a shared identity layer over the next batches, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Hardware formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If subsequent batches show no new entrants combining generative AI with manufacturing handoff tooling, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Hardware formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future YC batches show hardware startups solving sourcing in-house without new vendor-matching platforms emerging, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Manufacturing formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If robotics/CV manufacturing startups in the next 2-3 batches report no need for dedicated model versioning/update tooling and instead rely on generic MLOps or in-house scripts, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Manufacturing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these AI-manufacturing startups report smooth native integration with existing ERP/MES systems without needing separate middleware, this prediction is disproven.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Finance and Accounting formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If procurement and payables tools remain siloed with no new reconciliation-focused startups or features appearing in subsequent batches, this is disproven.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Workflow Automation formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No new startups appear connecting customer-support AI agents directly to internal workflow automation systems in coming batches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Workflow Automation formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: No YC-backed compliance/audit-for-agents startups emerge targeting healthcare or legal workflow automation companies over the next several batches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Workflow Automation formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Skyvern, Sola, or new entrants continue building fully custom browser/RPA stacks with no adoption of shared open infrastructure.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Finance formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future batches show these AI finance assistants shipping without any citation-to-source, confidence-scoring, or human-review features, and no new startups emerge offering verification/audit tooling for financial AI outputs.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Industrial formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies pivot away from sales/procurement workflows toward pure automation hardware, or if adoption stalls due to industrial buyers refusing AI-mediated sales.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Reinforcement Learning formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If new RL startups continue building fully custom environments in-house with no adoption of shared/marketplace environment platforms over the next year, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Defense formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If swarm drone companies build and keep all coordination software fully in-house with no separate middleware startups appearing in the next 2-3 batches, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Defense formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If hardware-focused entrants like Icarus or Arlo Industries never adopt or seek third-party AI perception software and instead all ship fully proprietary stacks with no cross-company convergence, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Customer Support formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No YC-backed startups emerge in the next 2-3 batches offering AI support evaluation, QA, or accuracy-benchmarking tools despite continued growth of AI ticket-resolution companies.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Asset Management formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Finary and FrontPage pivot away from community features toward pure transactional tools, or no new entrants combine community with asset management, this fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Asset Management formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies show no signs of regulatory friction or partner with existing brokerage-as-a-service providers rather than building compliance internally, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Sales Enablement formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future YC batches show sales enablement companies consolidating features in-house rather than new integration/orchestration startups emerging to connect them, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Investing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Female Invest, Levo, and Stock Unlock all remain pure education businesses with no added investing/brokerage features or partnerships over the next year, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Customer Success formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these AI-CS companies build and maintain their own siloed data integrations without any shared/third-party context layer emerging by the next window, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Security formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No independent benchmarking or evaluation startup for AI-driven security tools appears in the next two YC batches despite continued growth of this cluster.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Security formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Enterprises continue managing compliance evidence per-vendor with no aggregation startup gaining traction in subsequent batches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Design formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No new startups or product features emerge in the next 12 months offering standardized design-output evaluation, ranking, or benchmarking across multiple AI design tools.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Aerospace formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these AI companies report smooth native integrations with legacy aerospace systems without needing separate middleware providers, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Aerospace formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Vendra or similar supply-chain startups ship end-to-end aerospace part sourcing without any dedicated compliance/certification tooling emerging in subsequent batches, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Databases formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future YC batches show no growth in data-labeling/metadata-tagging startups alongside continued database formation growth, the prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Databases formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If enterprises using ParadeDB or Lantern report no conflicts or ops overhead when combining multiple Postgres extensions, or if no dedicated extension-management tooling emerges in the next few YC batches, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Big Data formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no observability/data-quality-monitoring startups targeting infra like bluedoor/Archil appear in the Big Data tag over the next 3-4 batches, this is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Search formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No YC company emerges in the next 2-3 batches offering search/RAG evaluation, benchmarking, or observability tooling as its core product.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Aviation and Space formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If Astro Mechanica, Ares Industries, or Reditus Space announce proprietary in-house simulation engines instead of adopting or partnering with Elodin/Navier-style platforms within the next few batches, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the LegalTech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no new YC companies over the next 3 batches combine LegalTech tags with additional regulated verticals (health, civic, fintech) beyond what's already listed, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Documents formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: No independent benchmarking or eval startup for document-extraction accuracy emerges within the window, and enterprises continue selecting vendors via ad-hoc trials.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Documents formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Extraction companies build and retain their own end-to-end integrations rather than a separate orchestration layer emerging or being adopted.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Telehealth formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future YC telehealth companies show no mention of licensure/credentialing partners or build this in-house without friction, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Telehealth formation · Not featured (review: rejected)

Wrong if: If subsequent telehealth batches show no growth in AI-tagged companies alongside telehealth, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the GovTech formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If these companies report closing government contracts at normal enterprise speed without hitting security-accreditation delays, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the GovTech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies ship fully autonomous decision pipelines without added human-review tooling and face no pushback from agencies, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Data Labeling formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Sureform or Cartpole ship production systems without any third-party or internal QA/audit tooling for label accuracy over the next year, this prediction is false.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Data Labeling formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no new YC company emerges targeting a specific vertical labeler pool (medical, legal, robotics-specific) within the next 3-4 batches, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Creator Economy formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: Vertical creator tools like TagMango or Wabi build proprietary payment stacks instead of adopting or partnering with API providers like Dots.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Electric Vehicles formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no new YC company emerges building a multi-network charging aggregation API within the next 3-4 batches, and Statiq/Emobi remain the only players touching this layer, the prediction fails.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Infrastructure formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If a year from now Amika/SF Tensor-style infra companies report customers are satisfied with existing cloud billing/logging tools and no new observability-for-agents startups appear in YC batches.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Manufacturing and Robotics formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Cortex AI and Piggy Robotics both build fully in-house labeling/eval stacks with no third-party tooling emerging by the next window, this prediction fails.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Robotics formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No startup emerges in the next 2-3 batches offering cross-provider robot data/eval benchmarking, and existing players like Cortex AI build proprietary closed evaluation instead.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Housing and Real Estate formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Goldbridge or a successor fails to launch any yield/interest product on held rent balances within a year of raising the observation.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Engineering, Product and Design formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Langfuse, Vellum, and DrDroid remain isolated point solutions with no emerging integration or shared schema for traces/evals within 12 months, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the AI Assistant formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no vertical-specific eval/compliance tooling startups emerge in YC batches over the next 12 months despite continued growth of healthcare/legal AI assistants, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Hard Tech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these robotics companies scale to multi-site deployments using only in-house coordination software with no emergence of a dedicated third-party orchestration/safety layer startup, this prediction does not hold.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the API formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If Kable and Wingback fail to gain traction or usage-based billing remains solved ad-hoc by each API company without any shared infrastructure emerging by 2025.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Marketing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future batches show marketing and sales tools remaining strictly siloed with no cross-functional integration startups emerging, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Neobank formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these niche neobanks report using standard bureau-based underwriting with no adoption of alternative-data scoring vendors, the prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Health & Wellness formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future wellness startups continue building fully closed, non-interoperable data stacks with no demand for shared APIs or aggregation tooling, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Conversational AI formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No new companies emerge offering permissioning, tool-routing, or access-control middleware for conversational/voice agents within the next batches.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Telemedicine formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these narrow telemedicine startups continue building fully in-house clinical infrastructure without adopting or spawning shared vertical EHR/billing tools within a year.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Advertising formation · Not featured (review: rejected)

Wrong if: If no compliance-review tooling targeting AI marketing in regulated industries appears in the next few batches despite continued telehealth-marketing crossover, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Mental Health Tech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If none of these companies or their successors launch or partner on insurance billing/credentialing products within the window, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Automation formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If builder-platform users report few reliability issues and no demand for dedicated testing tools emerges in subsequent YC batches, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Finance and Accounting formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future YC batches show finance/accounting startups building and maintaining bespoke integrations rather than adopting a common accounting-data API layer, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Finance formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If enterprises adopt these AI finance tools at scale without requiring any dedicated compliance certification or audit trail product, and no new compliance-focused startups appear in subsequent batches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Industrial formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If none of these hardware companies report component sourcing as a bottleneck, or no new supply-visibility-specific startups emerge in the next 2-3 batches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Reinforcement Learning formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No emergence of standalone reward-auditing products or features within RL-tagged startups over the next 9-12 months would falsify this.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Defense formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies close government contracts within 12 months without any third-party certification or compliance startup emerging to serve them, this prediction is false.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Customer Support formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Customer support startups converge on a single dominant platform rather than fragmenting, eliminating the integration-middleware need Vessel anticipates.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Sales Enablement formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If sales teams keep adopting new point tools without any emergence of measurement/attribution startups or features, this prediction is disproven.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Security formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No startup emerges building agent-specific identity/authorization primitives (as opposed to human auth) within the next 9-12 months.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Big Data formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Upsolve AI, Voker or similar embedded-analytics startups ship and scale without any dedicated metering/billing product emerging in the ecosystem, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Search formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Onyx and Trieve themselves capture all hosting demand without a separate managed-hosting company emerging, or self-hosting remains dominant with no commercial hosting layer appearing.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Aviation and Space formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If aerospace hardware startups in upcoming batches report no manufacturing capacity or lead-time constraints, or if no new YC company explicitly targets aerospace contract manufacturing as its core offering, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the LegalTech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no dedicated legal-data infrastructure/API startups appear in YC batches within the next year despite continued growth of LegalTech AI application companies, this prediction is disproven.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Documents formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Document-generation-focused startups fail to appear or grow in subsequent YC batches despite continued extraction-side growth.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Telehealth formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no new fintech-tagged telehealth companies or partnerships emerge in the next few batches, this prediction fails.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Infrastructure formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If agent-infra startups continue building ad hoc queuing/state solutions in-house rather than adopting dedicated durable-stream providers like s2.dev over the next several batches.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Housing and Real Estate formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies begin building unified integrations or a shared property ID standard emerges natively within one of them without a separate infrastructure company appearing.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the AI Assistant formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If enterprises continue integrating single AI assistants without demand for cross-assistant orchestration tools appearing in future YC batches, this is falsified.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Hard Tech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If 1849 bio and Biocartesian close major deals or raise rounds purely on internal data without any third-party validation startup or service being adopted by them or peers, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Hard Tech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If deepsilicon, Zettascale, and Conductor Quantum-type startups report no unusual difficulty accessing fab/test capacity through existing foundry or university channels within a year, this need is overstated.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Sales formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no auditing/compliance-focused startups targeting AI sales agents appear in subsequent YC batches, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the API formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If fintech API companies like Valari and SnapTrade continue building in-house identity verification without adopting or spawning shared middleware providers.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Neobank formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no aggregation-focused startups appear in subsequent batches despite continued neobank proliferation, this prediction is falsified.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Neobank formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these neobanks show no cross-border expansion attempts and no new startups emerge offering multi-jurisdiction compliance tooling within the window, this is falsified.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Health & Wellness formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If wellness startups in coming batches show no attempts to integrate with HSA/FSA rails or insurance billing, this prediction is disproven.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Health & Wellness formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these marketplaces scale successfully with informal vetting and no dedicated credentialing startups emerge, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Legal formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Legal teams continue adopting these tools as fully standalone products with no emergence of an integration/orchestration startup in the next window.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Conversational AI formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Existing conversational AI companies build escalation/handoff features in-house with no separate infrastructure vendor appearing in subsequent batches.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Healthcare IT formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If none of the healthcare IT AI companies in this cohort face documented compliance/audit incidents or build internal audit tooling within a year, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Healthcare IT formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If provider customers of these companies report no integration pain or if no new YC startup emerges specifically targeting cross-tool data unification in healthcare IT within the next year, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Telemedicine formation · Not featured (review: rejected)

Wrong if: If no new startups emerge building AI decision-support products that plug into existing telemedicine consult data within the next several batches.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Telemedicine formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future batches show telehealth startups expanding across states/countries without any new licensing, compliance-as-a-service, or credentialing startups appearing in YC data.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Drug Discovery and Delivery formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies show no signs of pursuing data partnerships or licensing deals with pharma/each other, standardization pressure won't emerge.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Drug Discovery and Delivery formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies report no unusual regulatory or IP delays tied to AI-generated candidates compared to traditional discovery, this need is overstated.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Drug Discovery and Delivery formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If discovery-focused companies in this cohort successfully in-house delivery engineering without spinning off or partnering with dedicated delivery startups, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Advertising formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future batches show ad-agent companies building full-stack solutions themselves rather than a separate orchestration layer emerging, this is falsified.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Advertising formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If existing analytics incumbents absorb this need without new dedicated startups appearing in future batches, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Mental Health Tech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If employers continue purchasing each mental health point solution separately with no aggregator gaining traction, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Mental Health Tech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies scale to significant revenue/users without any third-party or in-house clinical validation studies being published or required, this is falsified.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Call Center formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No emergence of measurement/benchmarking tools or case-study-driven ROI standards despite continued multiplication of call-center AI vendors across batches.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Construction formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: A future batch shows no integration partnerships, APIs, or shared-data announcements between scheduling, marketplace, and fintech construction startups.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Construction formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: None of the marketplace companies (Ladder, Oico, Machine26) partner with or build underwriting/credit infrastructure, and Truss remains isolated as the only fintech player in the space.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Construction formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: No new company or product emerges within the window that offers insurance, liability, or risk-scoring products specifically tailored to robotic/automated construction equipment.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Automation formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If enterprises adopt these automation tools at scale without new audit/observability products emerging or being requested, the prediction is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Hardware formation · Not featured (review: rejected)

Wrong if: If hardware startups continue relying on generic cloud providers without new specialized infrastructure startups appearing, this fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Hardware formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no new startups or products emerge addressing robotics safety/compliance certification within the window, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Manufacturing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Vendra/Distro-style platforms scale significantly without third-party verification services emerging or being demanded by their customers, the prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Manufacturing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If defect rates and QA processes in these AI-driven manufacturing companies remain handled in-house without spawning separate inspection-as-a-service vendors over the next year, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Finance and Accounting formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies expand internationally without spinning off or partnering with dedicated compliance/tax infrastructure providers, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Finance and Accounting formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no new startups or products emerge offering audit/QA on top of AI bookkeeping tools within the window, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Workflow Automation formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: These healthcare workflow companies show no convergence on shared integration standards or a common middleware provider emerges and fails to gain traction among them.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Finance formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If subsequent batches show no standalone data-integration/connector startups targeting finance, and existing companies report ingestion is a solved, trivial problem rather than a repeated pain point.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Finance formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future batches show consolidation toward fewer, more generalized finance AI assistants rather than continued vertical fragmentation into new niches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Industrial formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies show no signs of compliance bottlenecks (e.g., raise funding and ship products without third-party regulatory tooling) within the next few batches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Industrial formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these robotics companies each build fully vertical stacks with no shared middleware need emerging, and no new fleet-management startups appear in subsequent batches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Reinforcement Learning formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no additional robotics-focused RL companies with sim-to-real tooling appear in the next 2-3 batches, this prediction is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Defense formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these hardware startups report no manufacturing bottlenecks and continue relying on existing generic contract manufacturers without new defense-specific fabrication startups appearing, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Real Estate formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: These fintech-real-estate companies scale to multiple states without any new compliance-infrastructure startups or partnerships emerging to serve them.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Real Estate formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: WeReno, Express Building, and similar renovation-finance startups continue building fully in-house underwriting with no emergence of a shared underwriting infrastructure provider.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Real Estate formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No dedicated real-estate data/verification API startup appears in YC batches within the next 12-18 months despite continued growth of AI-driven proptech tools.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Customer Support formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Ariglad, Inkeep, and similar companies build and maintain their own ingestion pipelines in-house with no emergence of a shared/standalone ingestion infra startup.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Customer Support formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: AI support companies report near-zero escalation demand or fold escalation UX natively without a separate tooling category emerging.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Asset Management formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If subsequent batches show crypto and traditional asset management companies remaining strictly separated rather than converging into hybrid products, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Asset Management formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If a wave of these companies announce building proprietary custody/execution stacks instead of using third-party infra providers, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Sales Enablement formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If subsequent batches show no new vertical-specific (fintech, healthcare, legal) sales enablement entrants beyond generic B2B tools, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Sales Enablement formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no startups or features emerge addressing accuracy/compliance auditing of AI-generated sales materials within the next few batches, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Investing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No new startup or product emerges offering shariah or similar niche-compliance screening as a service to other investing apps within the window.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Investing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these regional investing apps build and maintain their own brokerage/custody stacks in-house without any new infra vendor emerging to serve them, this prediction is false.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Investing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If new multi-asset investing startups continue to build separate integrations for crypto and equities rather than adopting a unified API, the prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Data Engineering formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Airbyte/Supabase-style companies achieve enterprise revenue primarily through their own hosted SaaS rather than third-party managed/support providers emerging.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Data Engineering formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If future YC batches show no meta-observability or lineage-aggregation startups emerging and existing observability tools consolidate via M&A instead of a new integration layer.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Customer Success formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies remain narrowly scoped and no multi-tag 'full-stack CS platform' emerges or acquires others within the next year, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Customer Success formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No dedicated QA/verification startups or features targeting CS-generative-AI outputs appear in the next 2-3 batches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Security formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: AI security vendors in this cluster continue relying on standard third-party APIs with no growth in confidential-compute-specific offerings for security data.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Design formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No hardware-focused design AI startups appear in the next 2-3 YC batches beyond Adam.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Design formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Existing AI design tools (Onlook, a0.dev) natively solve cross-tool export/import without any new interop startups appearing in subsequent batches.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Design formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No demand signal (customer complaints, new compliance startups, or feature additions) around IP provenance emerges among these design-AI companies within a year.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Aerospace formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If none of these defense-adjacent aerospace companies report export-control friction or if no compliance-automation startup targeting this niche appears within a year, this prediction is disproven.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Aerospace formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If Navier AI or Elodin customers achieve certification/deployment using only their existing simulation tools with no additional verification-layer startups appearing in the next few batches, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Databases formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If companies in this space continue building isolated point-to-point integrations without demand for a general standardized sync layer, this prediction is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Databases formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If open-source database companies in this cluster predominantly partner with AWS/GCP/Azure rather than neutral clouds like Ubicloud, this prediction does not hold.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Big Data formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Syntra, Sharpe and similar vertical big-data companies build compliance entirely in-house with no new specialized compliance-infra startups appearing in subsequent batches, this prediction is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Big Data formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If new Big Data batch entrants keep building isolated, non-interoperable labeling/metadata formats with no emergence of shared schema or metadata-exchange startups within 12 months, this is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Cloud Computing formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If checkpointing/migration remains a bespoke, single-vendor feature with no emergence of shared protocols or open-source standards adopted across at least two of these companies within a year, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Cloud Computing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no new YC-backed startups emerge in the next 12 months offering multi-cloud cost observability or FinOps tooling specifically targeting these infra-as-code/serverless platforms, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Search formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Consumer search startups in later batches show no reliance on shared/third-party crawling or indexing infrastructure and instead build fully custom pipelines with no consolidation.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Aviation and Space formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If none of the newly funded aerospace/defense startups in the next window report certification or compliance workflow as a major blocker, or no new startup emerges specifically targeting this compliance layer, the prediction is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Aviation and Space formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If satellite operators in this cohort continue building bespoke point-to-point downlink deals rather than adopting a shared relay/brokering layer over the next 12 months, the prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the LegalTech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If law firms and legal teams instead consolidate around a single all-in-one platform rather than needing integration middleware, or if no orchestration startups appear, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the LegalTech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If a year from now no company or product emerges offering verification, citation-checking, or malpractice-insurance products targeted at AI legal drafting tools, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Oncology formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If none of these companies raise funding rounds or job postings referencing outsourced specialized preclinical testing within 12 months, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Oncology formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies report no manufacturing capacity constraints or all secure in-house manufacturing without relying on shared CDMO services, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Documents formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: None of these companies or new entrants adopt third-party audit/certification tooling for AI document outputs within 12 months.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Telehealth formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no marketplace/aggregator telehealth startups appear in subsequent batches and vertical players instead consolidate via M&A, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the GovTech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Permitify and Tire Swing scale to dozens of jurisdictions without needing shared parsing/normalization tooling, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the GovTech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If government agencies accept these CV outputs directly without any independent verification or certification step emerging, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Data Labeling formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Liva AI and Sciloop remain siloed with no interoperable or portable reputation/credentialing system emerging among labeling marketplaces within 12 months, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Data Labeling formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no company or product addressing synthetic/human label reconciliation appears in YC batches through 2026, this prediction is disproven.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Creator Economy formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No new YC company emerges targeting creator tax/accounting/compliance within the next 12 months despite continued growth in creator payments startups like Dots and Flowbo.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Creator Economy formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: Flowbo and similar cash-advance startups continue underwriting entirely in-house with no separate scoring infrastructure emerging or being adopted.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Electric Vehicles formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If OneKey, Zitara, and Coulomb AI continue operating on fully siloed proprietary data with no emergence of shared APIs or standards bodies over the next batches, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Electric Vehicles formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Revoy and Moxion-style companies fail to attract dedicated logistics/depot-network startups in subsequent batches and instead rely solely on existing fixed charging infra, this prediction is falsified.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Infrastructure formation · Featured on Predictions

Wrong if: If no additional expert-credentialed data marketplaces beyond Sciloop's math/physics niche appear in subsequent YC batches, indicating the model doesn't generalize.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Infrastructure formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Hyperspell and similar companies continue to grow purely as point solutions without any emergent standard/protocol adoption across competitors within the next batch cycles.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Manufacturing and Robotics formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If factories adopt single-vendor vision stacks with no demand for cross-vendor validation or certification standards emerging in the next 12 months, this is wrong.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Manufacturing and Robotics formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If manufacturing/robotics startups in this cluster continue building their own bespoke simulation stacks instead of adopting shared simulation infrastructure like Axial's, this prediction is falsified.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Robotics formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Defense robotics programs continue relying solely on in-house validation without any startup or dedicated service emerging to independently verify sim-to-real transfer fidelity.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Robotics formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Robotics startups in future batches continue building fully vertically-integrated stacks with no adoption of shared middleware or OS layers, and Lightberry-style companies remain hardware-specific.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Housing and Real Estate formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No emergence of dispute-logging, insurance, or compliance tooling specifically for AI property agents within the next batches despite continued scaling.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Oncology formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies proceed to clinical trials without adopting or partnering with biomarker/stratification platforms, this prediction is falsified.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Hard Tech formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If Starcloud and similar orbital-compute startups scale to multiple satellites without any new third-party orbital power/thermal management vendor emerging in YC or adjacent ecosystems, this prediction fails.

Registered August 15, 2026 · from the Construction formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: General contractors continue to manage each robotics vendor's equipment independently with no shared fleet-management or scheduling tool emerging across these robotics companies.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Real Estate formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: A significant AI-driven property management error/lawsuit occurs and no oversight/audit tooling emerges in response within the tracked window.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Data Engineering formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If subsequent batches show no cost-observability-for-data-stack startups and instead cost concerns are folded into existing warehouse billing dashboards.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Data Engineering formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no dedicated semantic-layer or metrics-store startups appear in subsequent YC batches despite continued growth of the ELT/visualization cluster.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Customer Success formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: No independent benchmarking service or comparative evaluation product for CS-focused generative AI tools appears within the forecast window.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Cloud Computing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If no startup or open-source project emerges within 12-15 months that translates between visual infra design tools and code-based IaC formats used by companies like Arroyo, this prediction fails.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Cloud Computing formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If none of these companies or new entrants build marketplace/brokerage functionality allowing customers to switch between compute backends within 15 months, this prediction does not hold.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Oncology formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If these companies successfully file INDs using only in-house regulatory teams or generic consultancies without new specialized firms emerging, this is falsified.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Creator Economy formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Creators and creator-tool startups show no demand for cross-tool analytics integration, and Trendpop-like products remain single-purpose without expanding into aggregation.

Registered August 23, 2026 · from the Electric Vehicles formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: If commercial EV/aviation/maritime companies in this cluster secure financing entirely through traditional lenders without any new specialized fintech entrants emerging in future batches, this prediction is wrong.

Registered August 25, 2026 · from the Robotics formation · Not featured (review: needs work)

Wrong if: Piggy Robotics or similar consumer robots ship at scale without any new certification, insurance, or safety-standard body emerging within the timeframe.