Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)

Nice, but unfortunately, lots of companies relocate to the US, e.g, Algolia is shown in SF, but it's a French company. It would be nice to have by founders' origin

FYI, clicking on a number to zoom in, and then zooming back out, makes all the numbers disappear.

Soooo basically half of them are in SF, south of Pine St, east of Webster, north of 16th, west of the Powell St BART station AKA Mission Dolores / SOMA / Hayes Valley / Van Ness.

I built this map that shows every YCombinator company worldwide (5,300+ and counting). You can explore by batch, country, or city.

I made this because I was curious about where YC founders are concentrated, and I wanted a more visual way to browse them.

• The map is powered by FoundersAround, a side project where I explore data about founders/startups

• You can filter by batch or region

• Clicking on a cluster shows all companies on it

• Clicking a company shows basic details (logo, description, website, etc)

Ignoring the fact the YC data is often out of date, I think this is really cool, and it speaks to trends in the industry. In particular, I'm surprised how few YC companies end up in Austin or Seattle, which are traditionally thought of as top-tier tech cities. It looks like in recent batches more companies are headed to Austin though, which makes sense.

Humorously there are 83 companies in Remote, OR, which I somehow doubt

The source information is inaccurate though, so take it with a grain of salt. I spot checked a few companies that have moved, and it shows their original locations from a few years ago, not their current locations.

One annoyance with this is all of the NY, USA companies that don't explicitly say NYC end up in Syracuse.

The geocoding needs some work. There are 4 companies indicated as being located in Richmond, Virginia. At least two of them are clearly in Richmond, California. I suspect all of them are in CA.

EquipmentShare is located in Columbia, MO not Columbia, SC.

Hard to believe not a 1 showed up in LA for me

As naive as this may sound, when I first moved to America and was deciding where to base myself, I first had to learn that there was a difference between Silicon Valley (i.e. Peninsula / South Bay) and San Francisco.

From there, San Francisco looks quite small, but many neighborhoods are worlds away from the action - Outer Richmond is not the density of networks you are looking for, for example (better than rest of world, suboptimal for SF).

Co-locating close to the center of these dense founder networks is the best way maximize luck and opportunity.

This map isn't perfect, but it makes it pretty obvious where you should move if you're interested in startups.

Career wise, moving to "the center of the network" is still the best decision I ever made.

How did you pinpoint the exact location?

Did you scrape YC startup directory for this?

looks cool - would be nice if it could view by city.

The data is inaccurate, the map is a vibe-coded mess, and the prompting to buy ad space on the map makes this look like a low-effort cash grab. Too bad, really... the idea of seeing where YC companies have landed showed some promise.

This site crashes Firefox.