Analytics Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2026

Mixpanel is analytics for builders that need answers from their data at their fingertips. When everyone in the organization can see — and learn from — the impact of their work, they are poised to make better decisions. Companies like OpenAI, Netflix, Pinterest, sweetgreen, CNN, samsara, Uber, and Yelp use Mixpanel to understand their customers, measure progress, and endeavor to make better decisions.

Since graduating from YC, Amplitude (W12) has made it to IPO and beyond by helping cutting edge startups become category leaders. We’ve pioneered the digital analytics category to become the go-to solution for AI pioneers (Cruise, Midjourney), apps that touch millions of consumers (Doordash, Coinbase), and the best in B2B (Atlassian, Rippling, Canva). With product analytics, experiment, CDP, session replay, and more, Amplitude’s digital analytics platform shows you what your users love, where they’re getting stuck, and what keeps them coming back. You want to build a generational business, and we have the capabilities and pricing plans to guide you every step of the way. Check out our special deal for YC companies and get started on your analytics journey.

DiligenceSquared delivers AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions - like the $500k McKinsey reports, but automated, auditable, and at a fraction of the cost. When Private Equity funds evaluate deals, they pay firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain $500K-$1M for market due diligence. The process takes weeks, and the output is a static PowerPoint that's impossible to audit. A single large-cap PE fund can spend >$30M annually on this and the total market is $10B per year. Our AI agents conduct expert interviews and synthesize insights with every claim linked to source transcripts. No black box, no "trust me" slides, and no 10x mark-up for human labor. Frederik bought these reports as a Principal at Blackstone. Soren sold them as a Principal at BCG. Harshil is a repeat founder and former Software Engineer at Google. We've seen both sides and know what matters in due diligence - and now we automate it. Our clients already include 8 leading private equity funds with over $2.4 trillion in combined AUM.

PlayVision is the AI Moneyball for Sports: the future for scouting, recruiting, and playing the game. Basketball teams upload their practices or games, and PlayVision uses AI and computer vision to automatically tag and analyze the film, giving coaches and scouts 10 times the information on their players and their opponents. PlayVision also uses algorithms to rank every single college and professional basketball player in the country with over 40 different metrics from tracking and play-by-play data. Check out our website at withplayvision.ai, and follow our instagram @playvisionai!

Lapis helps businesses run ads on Meta, Linkedin, and Google.

For our first product, we built Rao: an AI coding assistant into RStudio — an IDE used by up to 5 million data scientists and statisticians who use the R programming language to analyze data. Rao could read, write, and edit code while understanding the user's context (codebase and environmental variables).

Ensuring every approved drug reaches patients who need it. Auditable AI to satisfy regulators and payors 10x faster. We Synthesize fragmented pharma and device data to prove safety, optimize market access, and anticipate regulatory response. Members of our team worked in software engineering at Apple and AI at NVIDIA, helped start a large-cap pharma clinical trial, and trained at Harvard Medical School.

nao is an open source framework to build and deploy analytics agent. Create the context of your analytics agent with nao-core cli: data, metadata, modeling, rules, etc. Deploy a UI for anyone to chat with your agent and run analytics on your data.

Growth and product teams are drowning in disconnected data—HubSpot, Salesforce, Stripe, PostHog, QuickBooks. The result: leaders can’t trust dashboards, data teams get buried in ad-hoc requests, and deal teams burn days stitching context instead of driving revenue. We have built Lopus, an AI-powered grwith analytics platform, that unifies structured and unstructured data into one governed workspace. Powered by an agentic semantic layer, it understands your company definitions, joins marketing + CRM + billing + product, and delivers fast, explainable answers with lineage back to the source—turning every question into a lever for growth, so leaders know what is actually driving pipeline and converting to revenue. Made for Founders, GTM, and Product leaders.

Operand builds and deploys AI systems that help companies run their business better—using data, machine learning, and decision systems to drive day-to-day strategy execution. They work with leading retailers, manufacturers, distributors, and capital allocators on guiding everything from pricing, forecasting, allocation, diligence, and more.

Roark helps teams test, monitor, and improve their voice agents. Voice AI is exploding, but reliability is still the #1 challenge. Teams spend hours manually testing agents and still miss failures. In the last 6 months, Roark has processed over 10M minutes of calls, powering monitoring and simulation for teams across the Voice AI ecosystem (including YC companies). We close that gap by combining: 📊 Monitoring & Evaluation - 40+ built-in metrics (latency, instruction-follow, sentiment, etc.), custom dashboards, alerts, and the ability to define your own. Up to 15 speakers with automatic speaker identification. 🎭 Simulations & Personas - end-to-end phone/WebSocket simulations for inbound and outbound agents, with configurable personas (accents, languages, speech & behavior profiles). Define tests as conversations with a graph-based approach, so you can easily branch into edge cases and variants. 🔁 Full lifecycle loop - failed calls automatically become repeatable tests, so every failure makes your agent stronger. Roark is the missing QA layer for Voice AI - helping teams ship agents they can trust.

Sharpe is an AI data science agent purpose-built for quantitative finance, deployed on-premises at some of the world's most demanding trading firms and hedge funds. It absorbs your internal documentation, enforces your firm's methodology, and delivers completed, cited Jupyter notebooks at petabyte scale. Sharpe gives every analyst on your desk the institutional knowledge and output of your best.

MinusX is a chrome extension that adds a side chat to your analytics apps (Jupyter, Metabase, Grafana, Tableau, etc). Given an instruction, our agent operates your apps - by clicking & typing, just like you do - to analyze data and answer queries. We believe an AI Data Scientist is a scientist, not yet-another-new-analytics-platform. MinusX interoperates with you in tools you already love and use, and as a matter of philosophy, gets out of the way.

1. You explain your problem. 2. Kater identifies the most important data questions to ask. 3. Kater writes the code. 4. You get insights in seconds rather than weeks. Kater.ai flips the script on enterprise analytics by making every user an expert analyst. It uses a continuous classification engine to turn a single business question into a contextualized package of questions that is specific to your needs. Kater puts the power of data into the hands of business experts while ensuring they use trusted data that is specific to their persona. No more waiting for data analysts. No more wasted time on analysis misfires and rework. Yvonne was a data engineer and analyst who built the entire data stack at CREXi. Robin led engineering in Microsoft. Data is the new oil. Companies are data-rich, insight-poor. We're helping companies become insight-rich. This is the future of data.

GetCrux is the AI Creative Strategist to launch winning ads. Creatives have become the biggest lever to win on ad platforms. Yet, there is no clear way to figure out why something works. Marketers end up guessing and replicating the best performing ad, only to see it fail - with high CAC & wasted dollars. GetCrux helps performance marketers find winning patterns in their ad creatives across 100+ parameters like hooks, messaging, storyline, music, pacing, and recommend exactly what to launch next.

BetterBasket provides grocery retailers with AI agents for pricing, competitive intelligence and promotion optimization, with the aim of helping teams boost revenue, manage margin targets and automate decisions using real-time data across operations.

Outset offers AI-powered user interviews to conduct qualitative research. Traditional surveys are fast but lack depth while live interviews produce high quality data but are slow and expensive. Outset uses LLMs to lead interviews and synthesize results so researchers get high quality data 100 times faster.

Siftly helps brands measure, improve, and scale their visibility inside AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. We track how your brand is surfaced, compared, and recommended and give you actionable insights to win AI-driven discovery. Think of it as SEO for the AI era, built for B2B, B2C, D2C, and e-commerce growth teams.

Mix Python, SQL, charts, and dynamic text in a fast, shareable, collaborative medium. Build and share data-rich docs and apps your team will love

GrowthBook is an open source platform to help companies make data-driven product decisions with feature flags and A/B tests. Existing SaaS solutions like LaunchDarkly require a company to send all of their data to them. This results in high costs, data compliance issues, and vendor lock-in. As a result, many companies end up building their own platforms in-house, which can take thousands of hours of work and lots of headaches. To solve this, GrowthBook uses a company's existing data infrastructure and business metrics. We believe feature flags and experimentation are the right way to build products at scale and that they will become a standard part of the development process. GrowthBook is well positioned to be a leader in this growing market.

PromptLoop helps GTM teams automate account research and data enrichment at scale. We turn manual web scraping and qualification workflows into automated processes, enabling teams to enrich thousands of accounts with detailed company data and buying intent markers in minutes. Why PromptLoop? Sales and marketing teams traditionally spend hours manually researching accounts or rely on outdated data providers. We automatically crawl and extract precise data points from company websites, social profiles, and public sources at 10% the cost of manual research, with built-in quality controls and strict sourcing. Teams can process 10k+ accounts simultaneously, turning raw URLs into actionable qualification data tailored to your goals.

Cloudthread is an analytics platform that helps engineering teams build cost efficiently in the cloud. We were behind Lyft's internal cloud cost management system and now we use that deep expertise to help organizations save hours of engineering time, reduce cloud bills, and prevent costly re-architectures.

We are building an open-source standard to monitor ML models in production. The tool is used by enterprise data science teams to operate their models reliably and detect and resolve issues.

Varos AI delivers the work of business analysts 10x faster, better & cheaper with AI agents built for discovery. Arthur, our AI agent, acts as a Senior Business Analysts and works for you 24/7 in any language. He conducts intelligent 10-15 minutes voice or text-based interviews with your teams to rapidly capture the institutional knowledge you need to execute on projects. He learns from each conversation, cross-references information, and analyzes all the findings to deliver actionable insights. Arthur is an expert at capturing mapping & optimizing complex processes, gathering knowledge from employees' heads and documenting it, supporting automation projects, uncovering root causes to significant problems and more. All this information gathered is turned into a private, secure knowledge base that can be used by the org → turning tribal knowledge into institutional knowledge. For example, Arthur unblocked a critical system migration for a large financial system in 3 days by interviewing 100+ operators in the org, replacing a $1m & 6 month engagement of a consulting firm. Backed by Y Combinator, Mosaic General Partnership, and leading financial institutions ($8.5m in funding).

Bluelight gives home service contractors the power of real-time data to optimize and scale their business.

Polytomic is a no-code web app to sync data between your internal databases, business systems (e.g. Stripe, Salesforce, etc), data warehouses, spreadsheets, and even HTTP APIs.

Index is a next-generation business intelligence (BI) tool designed for data teams and analysts to rapidly create, share, and explore interactive dashboards. By combining powerful SQL capabilities with a collaborative workspace, Index simplifies complex data visualization and enables teams to make faster, data-driven decisions.

Jitsu is the fastest, most durable way to collect event data from every source - web, app, email, chatbot, CRM - into your data warehouse. 100% open-source. Purpose built, secure and ready in minutes.

React Library, API, and Management Toolkit, purpose built for customer-facing dashboards.

PostHog helps engineers build better products. We provide everything they need to make sure they are building something that people want. This means - product analytics, session replays, feedback tools, feature flags, experimentation, LLM observability, and a data warehouse (with SQL) with one click data imports from the places you use. We've been averaging ~10% monthly revenue growth, we are [default alive](http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html), and we didn't raised a huge / now-overpriced round in 2021. While others are focused on layoffs and struggling to grow into huge valuations, we're focusing on an awesome product for end users, hiring (a handful of) exceptional team members and seeing fantastic increases in revenue as a result. Check out posthog.com/careers if you want to be part of this journey.

Avo fixes data quality in product analytics. Avo helps teams like Ikea, Wolt, Fender, Sixt and Condé Nast to plan, implement and monitor analytics, so they don't fly blind and fail to build great user experiences Start your step-by-step path to settle your analytics debt: Step 1: Better tracking plan management. Avo is a better alternative to the "tracking plan spreadsheet", keeping your data quality high and your schema sync'd with all downstream tools. Import your tracking plan for an instant audit, then design more scalable data for every feature release, even before you're an expert. Step 2: Better data validation. Avo is ongoing observability of actual tracking compared with tracking plan. One-time install the Avo Inspector SDK to see what's wrong with your tracking today so you can start making it better. Step 3: Better analytics release workflow. Avo is the self-serve analytics governance, changing how PMs, devs and data scientists collaborate to plan, implement and verify their product analytics. What used to take Patreon 1-4 days for every feature release, now takes 30-60 minutes.

College Pulse is the leading research and analytics company focused on college students. We have built the largest database of college student opinion with over 700K student panelists from 1500 universities in all 50 states, and we use our student panel to help our clients better understand the college demographic. Our ambition is to become a unique part of the global internet infrastructure - like Google for search, Facebook for social, Amazon for retail, we want it to be Pulse for public opinion.

Poll Everywhere turns any presentation into a two-way conversation - directly in your PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slide deck. Participants respond to questions live using mobile phones and the results appear instantly in beautiful, animated displays. Poll Everywhere engages everyone at conferences, town halls, training sessions, marketing events, and everyday meetings. Learn more about how organizations like HP, Volvo, KPMG, and over 75% of the Fortune 500 use Poll Everywhere to get results.

Helicone.ai is creating an advanced observability platform tailored for developers working with Large Language Models (LLMs). Our goal is to simplify and enhance the operational side of deploying these models, making it easier for developers to monitor, manage, and optimize their AI applications at scale. Helicone provides a unified view of performance, cost, and user interaction metrics for various LLM providers, like OpenAI, Anthropic, and LangChain, empowering developers to make their LLM deployments more efficient, reliable, and cost-effective. ### Key Features 1. **Centralized Observability**: Our platform captures and visualizes detailed logs and metrics across all LLM deployments. With tools for prompt management, performance tracing, and debugging, Helicone provides real-time insights into the inner workings of your LLMs. 2. **LLM Performance Optimization**: Helicone supports prompt experimentation, success rate tracking, and fine-tuning, allowing you to continuously improve response quality and efficiency. This level of insight makes it easier to deliver high-performing, cost-effective AI applications. 3. **Flexible Data Management**: We understand that data privacy is critical. Helicone supports deployment options for dedicated instances, hybrid cloud integrations, or self-hosted environments, allowing clients to maintain control over their data and ensuring compliance with privacy standards. ### Built for Developers and Data Scientists Helicone is designed to meet the needs of engineers and data scientists who require transparency and control over their LLMs. From chatbots to document processing systems, Helicone equips you with the insights needed to track costs, understand user interactions, and optimize outputs—all from one intuitive platform. By combining observability with LLM-specific insights, Helicone is redefining AI monitoring, empowering developers to deploy and scale their AI models with confidence.

Brewit helps companies to create their role-specific BI agents, trained on their database (through feeding sample queries, metric definitions, column descriptions, etc. to create a semantic layer) that can answer data questions/provide data insights (write SQL, generate plots) through a natural language experience.

HypaHub is a Cloud-Based Bioinformatics and AI Platform. It is the first HIPAA-compliant Bioinformatics SaaS that runs natively on users' clouds, providing both operation- and price-transparency. Our product is a one-stop shop to access complex technologies designed for scientists building data applications or performing data analytics to extract insights. It automates the creation and manages the operation of computing resources, eliminating the need for enterprises to set up and maintain a high-end R&D cloud infrastructure.

There is more text generated than any one person or team can read. A single product team can not hope to sift through their thousands of feedback responses and determine the signal amongst the noise. Hyperglue enables operators, product managers, and analysts to instantly access machine intelligence on large text datasets without the engineering or headcount overhead required to deploy natural language AI within their business.

Trendpop is the leading analytics and insights platform for short-form video marketing. We’re on a mission to help anyone go viral on social video platforms. We’re a deeply technical team that has taken a data-first approach to this problem: our core engine has collected over a billion social video posts that are analyzed with state-of-the-art algorithms to understand the recommendation algorithms that power virality. Trendpop was co-founded by Yoav Zimmerman (CEO) and Jonathan (Yoni) Ben-tzur (CTO) in August 2020, raising money from YCombinator (W21) to build Trendpop and growing to profitability in 12 short months. In January 2022, Trendpop was acquired by Collab, a veteran company in the digital creator space and an official TikTok creative and marketing partner. Today, Trendpop powers the TikTok marketing programs of top major record labels in North America and is quickly expanding to new markets in the film, television, beauty, and DTC eCommerce industry. Trendpop is currently used by leading marketing and A&R professionals in the music industry (both indie and major) to help their artists go viral on TikTok and hundreds of brands and creators who consistently win on social video.

Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability platform for Snowflake. Enable Snowflake Observability to reduce Snowflake costs and optimize query performance.

Explo allows you to build customer-facing dashboards and reporting, lightning-fast. With Explo, you can create custom white-labeled dashboards for your application, share custom reports, or embed an AI report builder. - Dashboards: build fully white-labled dashboards for your application or enable your users to create their own dashboards from a library of charts you create - Report Builder: embed a full self-service analytics experience into your application, allowing your users to create their own tables and charts from scratch - Email: cadenced and one off emails to share analytics and data with your users - Explo AI: embed an AI experience into your product to enable your users to gain insights into their data Explo is built for product teams and developers. We power analytics of all sizes from YC companies to Fortune 500 companies.

Memfault is the first IoT reliability platform that empowers teams to build more robust devices with software at scale. We believe that device reliability engineering will transform how developers build and operate IoT and edge devices with more productivity and more collaboration. As IoT applications continue to grow in complexity, it is more important than ever for developers to have Memfault’s performance monitoring, device debugging, and OTA update capabilities built into their fleet of devices for proactive device operations. We built Memfault to enable developers with a more scalable and sustainable process to accelerate go-to-market, de-risk product launches, cut product costs, and deliver overall superior products.

Askdata lets users interact with data through natural language. 1. Users can connect their Apps and Data. 2. Start making questions like "Show me revenue for 2018" 3. Receive personalized data insights.

Second Measure is a Silicon Valley technology company and leading provider of data analytics that deliver valuable insights into company performance and consumer behavior. Investors use these tools for screening/sourcing, thesis validation/diligence, and intra-quarter KPI prediction. Consumer brands use these tools for competitive benchmarking and to make key decisions on product strategy, partnerships, and growth marketing. Second Measure is based in San Mateo, CA with an additional office in New York. We’re proudly backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Citi Ventures, Y Combinator, and other top investors. We'd love to hear from you if you're passionate about data, working with a bright team, and want to be a part of a growing startup.

Smarking is a group of hyper-driven MIT PhDs, data scientists, engineers, transportation experts, and battle-tested business professionals working to solve the notorious parking problem via a unique enterprise approach. Smarking aims to enable highly efficient urban mobility by digitizing parking spaces and distributing parking inventory dynamically, in order to get the world ready for the connected, shared, and autonomous future. Backed by top VCs like Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures, Smarking has brought its solution to over 2,500 parking locations across North America. For the first time, cities, parking asset owners, and parking operators can make data-driven decisions easily. Smarking also launched the industry’s first fully automatic dynamic pricing engine, producing 40%-400% revenue uplifts for online sales at at parking locations Chicago, NYC, Boston, and many other cities.

Predictive analytics for user churn. We use machine learning to help you identify when, and why, your users are leaving. We're building data science tools and predictive analytics solutions for businesses who want value without headcount. Our platform will also include ways for people to collaborate on datasets and analyses. Data science is a high demand field and want to democratize it for all companies to use. Framed Data was acquired by Block in 2016.

Heap automates away the annoying parts of user analytics. No manual event tracking. No messy tracking plans. No custom ETL pipelines. Just insights. For everyone on your team.

6sense's mission is to empower marketing and sales teams with 100 percent visibility into buyers; who they are, needs and timing. 6sense provides marketers with omni-channel connectivity and visibility from brand to demand to revenue. 6sense's patent-protected predictions power all downstream sales and marketing systems with intelligence on who is in an active buying cycle, what products, when they will buy and where they are in the buyer's journey. 6sense enables intelligent growth resulting in new pipeline, higher marketing to sales conversions, larger opportunity size and increased sales productivity and effectiveness with teams focusing on the right buyers with a need now. Visit us at: http://www.6sense.com/ Learn more about us at http://www.6sense.com Keep up to date on industry trends by following us on Twitter: @6SenseInc

Web-based statistical analysis software that speaks in plain english instead of arcane stats jargon.

Chartio is a cloud-based data exploration solution for all. Easily connect your data and create powerful dashboards in minutes, without any SQL knowledge.

PageLever is the leading analytics platform for measuring your brand’s presence on Facebook. 4 of the top 10 Facebook pages rely on PageLever, as well as brands like YouTube, MTV, and Intel. In January 2013, PageLever was acquired by Unified Social.