Investors / Y Combinator / Compare with Yellow Rocks
Y Combinator vs Yellow Rocks
Y Combinator lists 5,150 portfolio companies and has joined 3,388 funding rounds; Yellow Rocks lists 42 companies and has joined 5 rounds. Y Combinator comes in most often at Seed (98% of its entries), Yellow Rocks comes in most often at Seed (100% of its entries). 2 companies are on both portfolios, among them Chatfuel and electroneek.com.
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| Y Combinator | Yellow Rocks | |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio companies | 5,150 | 42 |
| Funding rounds joined | 3,388 | 5 |
| Rounds led | 2,960 | 0 |
| Rounds, last 12 months | 579 | 3 |
| Typical round it comes in at | under $1M | $1M to $5M |
| Sites no longer answering | 0% | 0% |
Where they come in
share of entries by stageY CombinatorYellow Rocks
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| Y Combinator | Yellow Rocks | |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% | 0% |
| Seed | 98% | 100% |
| Series A | 1% | 0% |
| Series B | 0% | 0% |
| Growth | 1% | 0% |
Themes
share of checked companiesY CombinatorYellow Rocks
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| Y Combinator | Yellow Rocks | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 33% |
| Fintech | 13% | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 11% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 5% |
| Education | 5% | 9% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 9% |
Companies both back
2Shared companies are those both firms' own portfolio pages list, each checked against the company's site. The same comparison through the API is POST /v1/overlap, for up to 20 firms. How the data is graded
Compare Y Combinator and Yellow Rocks as data
Pull both portfolios and every co-investor through one API key or MCP, and lay up to 20 firms side by side with POST /v1/overlap. A free account adds Ask AI searches and alerts when either firm adds a company.
Work email, sign-in link by email. Already have an account? Log in- Ask AI5 plain-English investor searches a day
- Full listsEvery portfolio row and two-firm overlap
- API and MCP100 REST or MCP calls a month, one key
- AlertsFollow 5 investors for portfolio and fund changes
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/ycombinator.com/portfolio
# also
GET /v1/firms/yellowrocks.vc/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/ycombinator.com/coinvestors