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Y Combinator · Competitive talent map · September 2026

# Where 3,700+ YC startups build their teams

Filter the globe by industry and watch it light up with where the best YC startups actually hire. **3,707** companies, **215,949** people, **46** countries — **719** of them already have a team in Latin America.

Includes YC batches through 2027; workforce snapshot as of September 2026.

3,707

YC companies mapped

215,949

Indexed public profiles

46

Countries with YC talent

719

Already hiring in LATAM (n=3,159)

21,585

Profiles in Latin America

10%

Of all indexed talent

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| Company | Industry | Batch | YC team | Indexed profiles | Global | LatAm | HQ | Top hub |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Image: DoorDash logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d13287c52acc96909f32342e85c26a33cfdac310.png) DoorDash IPO Top | Consumer | Summer 2013 | 8,600 | 20,982 | 9% | 823 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Airbnb logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3e9a0092bee2ccf926e650e59c06503ec6b9ee65.png) Airbnb IPO Top | Consumer | Winter 2009 | 6,132 | 14,858 | 47% | 1,781 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Stripe logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e5ccedd9995f6524b4a0379062eb67f7c991613e.png) Stripe Active Top | Fintech | Summer 2009 | 7,000 | 9,091 | 35% | 435 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Instacart logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9750fca21baaee75e035f1baaf58df8e2f5dcc67.png) Instacart IPO Top | Consumer | Summer 2012 | 3,000 | 7,849 | 13% | 7 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Zepto logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b419835c59c3d3a4db7e0aaf094b54bb5cee0adb.png) Zepto Active Top | Consumer | Winter 2021 | 1,300 | 7,533 | 100% | 2 | MH, India | India |
| Image: Meesho logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e219c412cfa3b69bc5211d8d7473cf06bfe6593.png) Meesho IPO Top | B2B | Summer 2016 | 1,450 | 6,147 | 99% | 7 | Bengaluru, KA, India | India |
| Image: Rippling logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2758f61527dbe7c44609bc669149123e07509b8d.png) Rippling Active Top | B2B | Winter 2017 | 2,500 | 5,239 | 37% | 16 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Rappi logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/44285cf605c3f1d288f2fb7c2f002f859ab92d0b.png) Rappi Active Top | Consumer | Winter 2016 | 4,800 | 4,418 | 99% | 4,289 | Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia | Colombia |
| Image: Coinbase logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1169cb0b69fa7b338b5d51c2d3805f8f988bdfa5.png) Coinbase IPO Top | Fintech | Summer 2012 | 6,112 | 4,254 | 32% | 112 | Los Angeles, CA, USA; Remote | United States |
| Image: Deel logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2b5c8a17f0ab4fa9a72447d94bc3194dc17fce9b.png) Deel Active Top | B2B | Winter 2019 | 5,000 | 3,787 | 80% | 668 | San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | United States |
| Image: Razorpay logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b6a6aaf9a84fa4b7ddb53cabda7443c142a5a154.png) Razorpay Active Top | Fintech | Winter 2015 | 2,700 | 3,127 | 100% | 4 | Bengaluru, KA, India | India |
| Image: Scale AI logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c45a78eb56f4a95e41a3a77960b00fdfb4cd918.png) Scale AI Active Top | B2B | Summer 2016 | 500 | 3,035 | 42% | 555 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: EquipmentShare logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ad05853522c217d92c372ba8883ff6b45dd83d99.png) EquipmentShare IPO Top | Real Estate and Construction | Winter 2015 | 5,400 | 2,946 | 2% | — | Columbia, MO, USA | United States |
| Image: Gusto logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6ce7845c2e268525f5f04915212ac0a106fb7e3d.png) Gusto Active Top | B2B | Winter 2012 | 2,400 | 2,699 | 4% | 16 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Nourish logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b70d9d7af0fb76e7a955031b3dbd9e94d8f6f31e.png) Nourish Active | Healthcare | Winter 2021 | 250 | 2,211 | 1% | 3 | New York City, NY, USA | United States |
| Image: Dropbox logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f09464ae6ddf165ef871115af711c89d6530057f.png) Dropbox IPO Top | B2B | Summer 2007 | 4,000 | 1,996 | 13% | 19 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: GitLab logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/af0d32f65e9007b7edbde422787633e338fa9bff.png) GitLab IPO Top | B2B | Winter 2015 | 2,000 | 1,742 | 45% | 30 | San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | United States |
| Image: Y Combinator logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2db694dd7905db37d037821a2fdaf9fa0708a964.png) Y Combinator Active | Fintech | Unspecified | 100 | 1,709 | 73% | 41 | Unspecified | United States |
| Image: Relativity Space logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/69fc3eaa7d024cb1636c3fb74c1b9ff45b63ca30.png) Relativity Space Active | Industrials | Winter 2016 | 2,500 | 1,609 | 1% | — | Los Angeles, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Groww logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0ae62cb1672e8223d9b0ae2e5b7ecde4ae763c5e.png) Groww IPO Top | Fintech | Winter 2018 | 1,050 | 1,554 | 99% | 1 | Bengaluru, KA, India | India |
| Image: Flexport logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54997aad4067ac1994f422a49a5473fa603f5354.png) Flexport Active Top | B2B | Winter 2014 | 3,000 | 1,372 | 21% | 46 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Vanta logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0660fb546ece5e50a895e790c299dcaaeeefad32.png) Vanta Active | B2B | Winter 2018 | 700 | 1,190 | 13% | 14 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Whatnot logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/448fec72747426b9340a6c62d2889b4cc976d888.png) Whatnot Active Top | Consumer | Winter 2020 | 731 | 1,138 | 9% | 3 | Los Angeles, CA, USA; Remote | United States |
| Image: Fivetran logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d6b5710a13038fe1daa1421a986e1f4a7839a65a.png) Fivetran Active Top | B2B | Winter 2013 | 1,200 | 1,053 | 36% | 1 | San Francisco, CA, USA; Oakland, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Substack logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5fdff68c6d284e1d2cbab6306ca3f1e7774d4d36.png) Substack Active | B2B | Winter 2018 | 90 | 1,053 | 43% | 38 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Clipboard logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2faf8d8d822c59f1eac78a6bce3d6ba75c760df7.png) Clipboard Active Top | Consumer | Winter 2017 | 1,000 | 1,015 | 22% | 22 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Extern logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/580dd6a5c00e2c92b90e16d46f81b1a7844b8314.png) Extern Active | Consumer | Winter 2017 | 30 | 980 | 18% | 12 | San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | United States |
| Image: Flock Safety logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ee69b5c905088288ff0fc007921dde14514a40a1.png) Flock Safety Active Top | B2B | Summer 2017 | 1,000 | 975 | 1% | 3 | Atlanta, GA, USA | United States |
| Image: ShipBob logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a7fe6af4f0d7680132345ae356f0c1abe1939e2a.png) ShipBob Active Top | B2B | Summer 2014 | 1 | 973 | 44% | 11 | Chicago, IL, USA | United States |
| Image: Faire logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ccfa8cd66f2a1d09da157956ae8b5686f3b2fe5.png) Faire Active Top | B2B | Winter 2017 | 900 | 954 | 44% | 13 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Instawork logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1712f8a08b08bb04e192934a1098d1b5144c875b.png) Instawork Active | B2B | Summer 2015 | 500 | 949 | 23% | 3 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Weave logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5d33fe7ddb69049aa965ac936b584f1efc32afd2.png) Weave IPO Top | B2B | Winter 2014 | 600 | 927 | 18% | 7 | Lehi, UT, USA | United States |
| Image: PagerDuty logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/18fd6f870541d2398827dedc9e57678e8770c424.png) PagerDuty IPO Top | B2B | Summer 2010 | 950 | 917 | 46% | 110 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Zip logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1927688a0e9eda1caab52b030e0c7e5dd379fa2d.png) Zip Active | B2B | Summer 2020 | 500 | 828 | 32% | 5 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Cambly logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5c774e23b82a6ee8805cd340a8dd9d8e468279de.png) Cambly Active | Education | Winter 2014 | 200 | 799 | 44% | 83 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Cashfree Payments logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7eb68658869d911582ae784bc8ff049cb6b4a898.png) Cashfree Payments Active | Fintech | Summer 2017 | 200 | 782 | 99% | 1 | Bengaluru, KA, India | India |
| Image: Checkr logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/211825b572def7bbe7c182d84f166129bc978b6b.png) Checkr Active Top | B2B | Summer 2014 | 800 | 760 | 17% | 107 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: ACLU logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cabb84499361a6851eec31b34582727ae4e362a2.png) ACLU Active | Unspecified | Winter 2017 | 501 | 760 | 0% | — | New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA | United States |
| Image: Podium logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d90bc164db5dd25a81e6dcfa222470eadf2c783a.png) Podium Active Top | B2B | Winter 2016 | 1,000 | 758 | 13% | 52 | Lehi, UT, USA | United States |
| Image: Apollo.io logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0a49f4798e2c18e124af4300f4cb523e8d272577.png) Apollo.io Active | B2B | Winter 2016 | 800 | 713 | 53% | 118 | San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | United States |
| Image: Zapier logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/59fbaea3a4a565dd0eb1b1228ea2d6fd35e22ad8.png) Zapier Active Top | B2B | Summer 2012 | 700 | 700 | 31% | 12 | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Remote | United States |
| Image: Coderhouse logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a1c8c29877a4d8a5ed4f7ead913bc94a7359a143.png) Coderhouse Active | Education | Winter 2021 | 225 | 695 | 99% | 674 | Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina | Argentina |
| Image: Outschool logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8d4f5bc63953a4887b889e74645b81f6aa339942.png) Outschool Active | Education | Winter 2016 | 107 | 685 | 13% | 3 | San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | United States |
| Image: Magic logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/776561775e16de7555470b2a89bb97649da650c3.png) Magic Active | B2B | Winter 2015 | 350 | 677 | 89% | 32 | Washington, DC, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | Philippines |
| Image: Aspire logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/753f62b42ec2f778dd6395d3ae91802c52ab6b5a.png) Aspire Active | Fintech | Winter 2018 | 500 | 672 | 67% | 4 | Singapore, Singapore | India |
| Image: Ironclad logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/617ef74a3e62398db60a2179add2a7f75d8bbd18.png) Ironclad Active | B2B | Summer 2015 | 700 | 666 | 8% | 8 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: BillionToOne logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7374f48e30f2dabadb3413903af69fcda589d67f.png) BillionToOne IPO | Healthcare | Summer 2017 | 300 | 663 | 2% | — | San Francisco, CA, USA; Menlo Park, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Human Interest logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b1d2338596e801f39e8a6c668164ac020956c28f.png) Human Interest Active | B2B | Summer 2015 | 765 | 661 | 2% | — | San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | United States |
| Image: Amplitude logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fa98c8a53255b3fd2e9d4a65dbb47eec293729f1.png) Amplitude IPO Top | B2B | Winter 2012 | 750 | 657 | 15% | 11 | San Francisco, CA, USA | United States |
| Image: Tractian logo (https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a76ce0d932f5b9149b08c23515c1d62bbef3229.png) Tractian Active | Industrials | Winter 2021 | 530 | 657 | 65% | 417 | Atlanta, GA, USA | Brazil |

Showing 50 of 3,707 companies

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Talent by function

## What YC startups hire for

Across the 300 largest YC teams, engineering leads — but operations, sales and customer success together outweigh it. Open any company on the map to see its own mix and what that team would cost in LATAM, or go straight to the LATAM salary benchmarks (https://www.hireslink.com/latam-salaries).

- Engineering **34,229** · 37.4%
- Operations **15,434** · 16.8%
- Sales / BD **15,411** · 16.8%
- Customer Success / Support **7,227** · 7.9%
- Marketing **7,005** · 7.6%
- AI / Data **4,910** · 5.4%
- Product **4,303** · 4.7%
- Design **3,086** · 3.4%

n = 300 largest YC teams · 91,605 indexed profiles classified by function. Directional, not verified headcount.

Engineering in LATAM from $5,000/mo → benchmarks: https://www.hireslink.com/latam-salaries/tech-ai
Sales / BD from $4,800/mo → benchmarks: https://www.hireslink.com/latam-salaries/revenue-growth
Operations from $2,000/mo → benchmarks: https://www.hireslink.com/latam-salaries/operations

### Download the full 3,707-company directory (CSV)

Team size, indexed profiles, countries, LATAM headcount and YC links for every company.

### Get your personalized industry report

Where companies like yours hire, by country and function, and the LATAM cost of the same team.

The scaling curve

## The bigger they get, the more they hire in LATAM

This is the clearest pattern in the dataset: **8%** of YC companies with 1–10 people have someone in Latin America, against **70%** of those above 1,000. Hiring in the region is not the exception — it's what YC companies do as soon as they can scale. Base: 3,532 companies with a YC-reported team size; 62 companies whose indexed profiles exceed their YC-reported size by more than 3× are excluded, because the YC figure freezes at graduation.

Has a team abroad Has a team in Latin America

### Global & LATAM adoption by size

% of companies · by team size

| Team size | Companies | % with talent abroad | % hiring in LATAM |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1–10 2,256 companies | 34% 8% | | |
| 11–50 794 companies | 70% 29% | | |
| 51–200 335 companies | 87% 50% | | |
| 201–1K 120 companies | 92% 54% | | |
| 1K+ 27 companies | 93% 70% | | |

Source: HiresLink — YC Talent Map (September 2026). YC directory (yc-oss) + indexed public workforce data.

The ranking

## Top talent hubs, beyond the obvious

The US leads — no surprise. The story is **who's #2**: India alone holds more indexed YC talent than the next eight countries combined. Latin America shows up strong across six countries, and with the timezone India can't offer.

Global hub Latin America

### Indexed YC talent by country

Top 15 · all industries

| Country | Indexed people | Share of total | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| United States | | 123,822 | 57.3% |
| India | | 43,505 | 20.1% |
| Canada | | 9,366 | 4.3% |
| United Kingdom | | 7,966 | 3.7% |
| Brazil | | 6,284 | 2.9% |
| Mexico | | 5,581 | 2.6% |
| Colombia | | 4,851 | 2.2% |
| Argentina | | 3,298 | 1.5% |
| Philippines | | 3,293 | 1.5% |
| Spain | | 2,319 | 1.1% |
| Germany | | 2,118 | 1.0% |
| Chile | | 1,341 | 0.6% |
| Israel | | 891 | 0.4% |
| Portugal | | 884 | 0.4% |
| Uruguay | | 222 | 0.1% |

◆ The HiresLink thesis

## India proved the offshore model. Latin America is the next one — and it's still wide open.

The best YC companies already run huge teams offshore: **43,505** indexed profiles in India alone. Latin America — strong U.S. time-zone overlap, overlapping workday, deep engineering talent — sits at **21,585**. And **2,440** companies with workforce data show **no observed presence** in the region yet (a further 548 have no workforce data at all, so they are not counted either way).

43,505

India · indexed public profiles

21,585

Latin America · indexed public profiles

23%

Companies already in LATAM (n=3,159)

India vs. Latin America — indexed YC talent, to scale.

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The cohort

## 3,707 companies, sized and sorted

Indexed professional headcount from public workforce data — directional, but consistent across every company. It shows where teams actually sit, not where the HQ is registered.

### By team size

Number of companies

| 1–10 | | 2,256 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 11–50 | | 794 |
| 51–200 | | 335 |
| 201–1K | | 120 |
| 1K+ | | 27 |

### By HQ region

Where they're headquartered

| North America | | 2,923 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Europe | | 317 |
| Asia-Pacific | | 198 |
| Latin America | | 105 |
| Other | | 101 |
| Middle East & Africa | | 63 |

### Top LATAM countries

Indexed public profiles

| Brazil | | 6,284 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mexico | | 5,581 |
| Colombia | | 4,851 |
| Argentina | | 3,298 |
| Chile | | 1,341 |
| Uruguay | | 222 |
| Peru | | 4 |
| Costa Rica | | 2 |
| Panama | | 1 |
| Ecuador | | 1 |

### By industry

Number of companies

| B2B | | 1,716 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Healthcare | | 399 |
| Fintech | | 316 |
| Industrials | | 282 |
| Consumer | | 276 |
| Real Estate and Construction | | 74 |
| Education | | 58 |
| Government | | 26 |
| Unspecified | | 12 |

### How far they've scaled

Current status

| Active | | 3,684 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Public | | 23 |

The directory

## A crawlable snapshot of the largest YC teams

This 100-company snapshot keeps the core research visible to search engines. The interactive directory above holds all 3,707 companies, with filters for industry, company size, HQ region and status, sortable columns and full company profiles.

| # | Company | Industry | Batch | Indexed | Countries | % outside US | LATAM | Top hub |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | DoorDash San Francisco, CA, USA | Consumer | Summer 2013 | 20,982 | 13 | 9% | 823 | United States |
| 2 | Airbnb San Francisco, CA, USA | Consumer | Winter 2009 | 14,858 | 15 | 47% | 1,781 | United States |
| 3 | Stripe San Francisco, CA, USA | Fintech | Summer 2009 | 9,091 | 14 | 35% | 435 | United States |
| 4 | Instacart San Francisco, CA, USA | Consumer | Summer 2012 | 7,849 | 13 | 13% | 7 | United States |
| 5 | Zepto MH, India | Consumer | Winter 2021 | 7,533 | 5 | 100% | 2 | India |
| 6 | Meesho Bengaluru, KA, India | B2B | Summer 2016 | 6,147 | 11 | 99% | 7 | India |
| 7 | Rippling San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2017 | 5,239 | 13 | 37% | 16 | United States |
| 8 | Rappi Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia | Consumer | Winter 2016 | 4,418 | 14 | 99% | 4,289 | Colombia |
| 9 | Coinbase Los Angeles, CA, USA; Remote | Fintech | Summer 2012 | 4,254 | 13 | 32% | 112 | United States |
| 10 | Deel San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | B2B | Winter 2019 | 3,787 | 15 | 80% | 668 | United States |
| 11 | Razorpay Bengaluru, KA, India | Fintech | Winter 2015 | 3,127 | 5 | 100% | 4 | India |
| 12 | Scale AI San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2016 | 3,035 | 15 | 42% | 555 | United States |
| 13 | EquipmentShare Columbia, MO, USA | Real Estate and Construction | Winter 2015 | 2,946 | 4 | 2% | — | United States |
| 14 | Gusto San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2012 | 2,699 | 8 | 4% | 16 | United States |
| 15 | Nourish New York City, NY, USA | Healthcare | Winter 2021 | 2,211 | 8 | 1% | 3 | United States |
| 16 | Dropbox San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2007 | 1,996 | 14 | 13% | 19 | United States |
| 17 | GitLab San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | B2B | Winter 2015 | 1,742 | 12 | 45% | 30 | United States |
| 18 | Y Combinator Unspecified | Fintech | Unspecified | 1,709 | 43 | 73% | 41 | United States |
| 19 | Relativity Space Los Angeles, CA, USA | Industrials | Winter 2016 | 1,609 | 4 | 1% | — | United States |
| 20 | Groww Bengaluru, KA, India | Fintech | Winter 2018 | 1,554 | 4 | 99% | 1 | India |
| 21 | Flexport San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2014 | 1,372 | 10 | 21% | 46 | United States |
| 22 | Vanta San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2018 | 1,190 | 11 | 13% | 14 | United States |
| 23 | Whatnot Los Angeles, CA, USA; Remote | Consumer | Winter 2020 | 1,138 | 8 | 9% | 3 | United States |
| 24 | Fivetran San Francisco, CA, USA; Oakland, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2013 | 1,053 | 6 | 36% | 1 | United States |
| 25 | Substack San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2018 | 1,053 | 15 | 43% | 38 | United States |
| 26 | Clipboard San Francisco, CA, USA | Consumer | Winter 2017 | 1,015 | 12 | 22% | 22 | United States |
| 27 | Extern San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | Consumer | Winter 2017 | 980 | 9 | 18% | 12 | United States |
| 28 | Flock Safety Atlanta, GA, USA | B2B | Summer 2017 | 975 | 5 | 1% | 3 | United States |
| 29 | ShipBob Chicago, IL, USA | B2B | Summer 2014 | 973 | 9 | 44% | 11 | United States |
| 30 | Faire San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2017 | 954 | 8 | 44% | 13 | United States |
| 31 | Instawork San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2015 | 949 | 6 | 23% | 3 | United States |
| 32 | Weave Lehi, UT, USA | B2B | Winter 2014 | 927 | 9 | 18% | 7 | United States |
| 33 | PagerDuty San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2010 | 917 | 10 | 46% | 110 | United States |
| 34 | Zip San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2020 | 828 | 11 | 32% | 5 | United States |
| 35 | Cambly San Francisco, CA, USA | Education | Winter 2014 | 799 | 14 | 44% | 83 | United States |
| 36 | Cashfree Payments Bengaluru, KA, India | Fintech | Summer 2017 | 782 | 4 | 99% | 1 | India |
| 37 | Checkr San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2014 | 760 | 7 | 17% | 107 | United States |
| 38 | ACLU New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA | Unspecified | Winter 2017 | 760 | 2 | 0% | — | United States |
| 39 | Podium Lehi, UT, USA | B2B | Winter 2016 | 758 | 12 | 13% | 52 | United States |
| 40 | Apollo.io San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | B2B | Winter 2016 | 713 | 11 | 53% | 118 | United States |
| 41 | Zapier San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Remote | B2B | Summer 2012 | 700 | 11 | 31% | 12 | United States |
| 42 | Coderhouse Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina | Education | Winter 2021 | 695 | 13 | 99% | 674 | Argentina |
| 43 | Outschool San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | Education | Winter 2016 | 685 | 6 | 13% | 3 | United States |
| 44 | Magic Washington, DC, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | B2B | Winter 2015 | 677 | 13 | 89% | 32 | Philippines |
| 45 | Aspire Singapore, Singapore | Fintech | Winter 2018 | 672 | 11 | 67% | 4 | India |
| 46 | Ironclad San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2015 | 666 | 7 | 8% | 8 | United States |
| 47 | BillionToOne San Francisco, CA, USA; Menlo Park, CA, USA | Healthcare | Summer 2017 | 663 | 5 | 2% | — | United States |
| 48 | Human Interest San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | B2B | Summer 2015 | 661 | 4 | 2% | — | United States |
| 49 | Amplitude San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2012 | 657 | 10 | 15% | 11 | United States |
| 50 | Tractian Atlanta, GA, USA | Industrials | Winter 2021 | 657 | 6 | 65% | 417 | Brazil |
| 51 | AccioJob Gurugram, HR, India | Education | Winter 2019 | 588 | 5 | 95% | — | India |
| 52 | Benchling San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2012 | 577 | 8 | 8% | 2 | United States |
| 53 | HackerRank San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2011 | 541 | 10 | 79% | 8 | India |
| 54 | Unschool Hyderabad, Telangana, India | Education | Winter 2021 | 540 | 5 | 99% | — | India |
| 55 | Superside Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Remote | B2B | Winter 2016 | 535 | 14 | 89% | 317 | Argentina |
| 56 | Guesty New York City, NY, USA | Real Estate and Construction | Winter 2014 | 519 | 11 | 82% | 17 | Israel |
| 57 | Skill-lync Chennai, TN, India | Education | Winter 2019 | 516 | 4 | 97% | — | India |
| 58 | Loop Health MH, India | Healthcare | Winter 2020 | 513 | 10 | 95% | 16 | India |
| 59 | Titan New York City, NY, USA | Fintech | Summer 2018 | 508 | 12 | 64% | 27 | India |
| 60 | Docker San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2010 | 482 | 10 | 29% | 6 | United States |
| 61 | GoCardless London, England, United Kingdom | Fintech | Summer 2011 | 481 | 5 | 97% | — | United Kingdom |
| 62 | Zeitview Los Angeles, CA, USA; Santa Monica, CA, USA; Remote | Industrials | Winter 2015 | 473 | 11 | 71% | 10 | India |
| 63 | HENRY Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina; Remote | B2B | Summer 2020 | 472 | 13 | 85% | 359 | Argentina |
| 64 | Legacy New York City, NY, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA | Healthcare | Summer 2019 | 471 | 11 | 16% | 31 | United States |
| 65 | Astranis San Francisco, CA, USA | Industrials | Winter 2016 | 462 | 3 | 1% | — | United States |
| 66 | Prolific London, England, United Kingdom | B2B | Summer 2019 | 447 | 14 | 67% | 30 | United Kingdom |
| 67 | Codingal Bengaluru, KA, India | Education | Winter 2021 | 446 | 4 | 100% | — | India |
| 68 | Khatabook Bengaluru, KA, India | Fintech | Summer 2018 | 444 | 2 | 100% | — | India |
| 69 | Kiwify SC, Brazil; Remote | Education | Winter 2021 | 433 | 4 | 100% | 428 | Brazil |
| 70 | Jasper.ai Austin, TX, USA; Salt Lake City, UT, USA | B2B | Winter 2018 | 432 | 11 | 42% | 13 | United States |
| 71 | Orange Health Labs Bengaluru, KA, India | Healthcare | Summer 2020 | 427 | 2 | 100% | 1 | India |
| 72 | Carrot Fertility San Francisco, CA, USA | Healthcare | Summer 2017 | 424 | 12 | 10% | 6 | United States |
| 73 | Conduit San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2023 | 413 | 4 | 20% | — | United States |
| 74 | Lattice San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2016 | 407 | 8 | 14% | 11 | United States |
| 75 | Ginkgo Bioworks Boston, MA, USA | Healthcare | Summer 2014 | 400 | 7 | 2% | 1 | United States |
| 76 | Helion Energy Seattle, WA, USA; Everett, WA, USA | Industrials | Summer 2014 | 400 | 4 | 2% | — | United States |
| 77 | Algolia San Francisco, CA, USA; Paris, Île-de-France, France | B2B | Winter 2014 | 398 | 9 | 31% | 2 | United States |
| 78 | Mixpanel San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2009 | 380 | 9 | 28% | 8 | United States |
| 79 | Hightouch San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2019 | 380 | 7 | 15% | — | United States |
| 80 | GOAT Group Los Angeles, CA, USA | Consumer | Winter 2011 | 378 | 8 | 11% | 1 | United States |
| 81 | 99minutos Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico; Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile; Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia; Lima, Callao Region, Peru | B2B | Winter 2020 | 368 | 5 | 100% | 367 | Mexico |
| 82 | SkydropX Monterrey, N.L., Mexico | B2B | Summer 2018 | 349 | 7 | 99% | 344 | Mexico |
| 83 | SingleStore San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2011 | 348 | 8 | 53% | — | United States |
| 84 | Replit San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2018 | 348 | 8 | 6% | 6 | United States |
| 85 | Stoke Space Seattle, WA, USA | Industrials | Winter 2021 | 334 | 3 | 1% | — | United States |
| 86 | Drip Capital MH, India | Fintech | Summer 2015 | 332 | 4 | 91% | 2 | India |
| 87 | Modern Health Boston, MA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | Healthcare | Winter 2018 | 332 | 15 | 21% | 16 | United States |
| 88 | Simetrik Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia; Remote | B2B | Winter 2018 | 331 | 8 | 95% | 293 | Colombia |
| 89 | Papa Miami, FL, USA | Healthcare | Summer 2018 | 329 | 10 | 8% | 5 | United States |
| 90 | Conta Simples São Paulo, SP, Brazil | Fintech | Summer 2020 | 327 | 5 | 100% | 322 | Brazil |
| 91 | Ashby San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | B2B | Winter 2019 | 325 | 9 | 26% | 4 | United States |
| 92 | Matterport San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA | Consumer | Winter 2012 | 323 | 8 | 11% | 3 | United States |
| 93 | Retool San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Winter 2017 | 306 | 6 | 11% | 1 | United States |
| 94 | Emergent San Francisco, CA, USA | Consumer | Summer 2024 | 304 | 4 | 90% | 2 | India |
| 95 | H1 New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA | Healthcare | Winter 2020 | 297 | 3 | 56% | — | India |
| 96 | Panorama Education Los Angeles, CA, USA | Education | Summer 2013 | 293 | 5 | 9% | 19 | United States |
| 97 | Front San Francisco, CA, USA | B2B | Summer 2014 | 293 | 9 | 32% | 72 | United States |
| 98 | Onebrief Honolulu, HI, USA; Remote | B2B | Summer 2021 | 287 | 4 | 1% | — | United States |
| 99 | ClassDojo San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | Education | Summer 2012 | 286 | 9 | 13% | 17 | United States |
| 100 | Howdy.com Austin, TX, USA | B2B | Winter 2021 | 281 | 11 | 91% | 248 | Argentina |

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## Methodology

**How the sample was built.** Company universe: the public Y Combinator directory (yc-oss), every company listed with Active or Public status — 3,707 in total, across batches through 2027. No manual selection and no ranking filter: if a company is in the directory with one of those two statuses, it is in the map.

**Workforce geography.** Indexed public professional profiles, scoped to current roles and filtered by title to exclude non-employees. 3,159 companies have at least one indexed profile; 548 have none and are reported separately rather than as zeros. **YC-reported team size** is YC's own figure and freezes at graduation, so for older companies it can sit far below indexed profiles — 62 companies diverge by more than 3× and are excluded from the size curve. Indexed counts are **directional**, not verified headcount, and consistent across companies for comparison. Workforce snapshot as of September 2026. **Includes YC batches through 2027; workforce snapshot as of September 2026.** HiresLink is not affiliated with Y Combinator.

## How to cite this data

HiresLink, “YC Talent Map: where 3,707 Y Combinator startups build their teams” (September 2026). Available at https://www.hireslink.com/yc-talent-map

## Frequently asked questions

### Where does this data come from?

The company universe comes from the public Y Combinator directory (yc-oss), 3,707 companies including batches through 2027. Talent geography comes from indexed public professional profiles, scoped to current roles. 3,159 companies have workforce data; 548 have none and are never counted as zeros. Counts are directional and comparable across companies, not verified headcount.

### How many YC companies hire in Latin America?

719 of the 3,159 companies with workforce data have at least one team member in Latin America (23%), totalling 21,585 indexed profiles across 10 LATAM countries. Another 2,440 have workforce data but no observed LATAM presence.

### Which LATAM country do YC startups hire in most?

Brazil leads with 6,284 indexed profiles, followed by Mexico (5,581), Colombia (4,851), Argentina (3,298), Chile (1,341).

### Can I cite or reuse this data?

Yes — cite it as HiresLink, "YC Talent Map", with a link to this page. The aggregates on this page are free to quote.

## Related

- LATAM Talent Intelligence Report 2026 (https://www.hireslink.com/resources/latam-talent-intelligence-2026) — salary benchmarks for 77 roles across 8 countries.
- Hire Latin American developers (https://www.hireslink.com/candidates/developers) — vetted, bilingual, US timezone.
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