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Y Combinator Founders API
Every founder in Y Combinator's public directory - name, title, bio, LinkedIn, Twitter and Hacker News, plus the company they founded with its batch, industry, location and team size.
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Ten real founders from YC's Winter 2025 batch.
| # | ID | First Name | Last Name | HN ID | Avatar Thumb | Current Company | Current Title | Company Slug | Top Company | URL Slug | All Companies Text | YC Industries | YC Parent Industries | YC Subindustries | Current Region | YC Titles | Batches | Is Active | Founder Bio | Full Name | Title | Twitter URL | Linkedin URL | Has Email | Latest YC Company | YC URL | HN URL | Company URL | Role | Company Batch | Company Batch Name | Company Website | Company One Liner | Company YCDC Status | Company Team Size | Company Location | Company Country | Company Twitter URL | Company Linkedin URL |
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1 | 39,977 | Nikhil | Srinivasan | _nvs | Infinite | CEO | infinite | false | Distributed Systems, Infinite | United States of America | true | Cofounder and CEO of Infinite with Raj Lad. Previously platform product lead at Sardine and Coinbase (S12) via acq. Distributed Systems (F1). | Nikhil Srinivasan | Founder/CEO | true | Founder/CEO | W25 | Winter 2025 | Global B2B Stablecoin Processor | Active | 4 | San Francisco | US | ||||||||||||||||
2 | 91,038 | James | Zammit | zammitjames | Roark | CEO | roark | false | Roark | United States of America | true | James Zammit (CEO) is an infrastructure and AI engineer with 10+ years of experience. Previously a Senior Engineer at AngelList, he built core portfolio infrastructure as the company grew from $10B to $124B in assets under management, and led the development of Relay, an AI-powered portfolio manager processing thousands of financial documents each month. He also co-founded a startup showcased at Google I/O 2016 in partnership with Firebase, and received scholarships from Meta and Apple.
| James Zammit | Founder/CEO | true | Founder/CEO | W25 | Winter 2025 | Test, monitor, and improve your voice agents | Active | 3 | San Francisco | US | ||||||||||||||||
3 | 899,367 | Cayden | Pierce | caydenpiercehax | Mentra | CEO | mentra | false | Mentra | United States of America | true | Worked with the inventor of smart glasses. Built the OpenSourceSmartGlasses hardware and demoed at CES. Joined MIT Media Lab to make proactive AI smart glasses. Dropped out of MIT to start Mentra. | Cayden Pierce | Founder/CEO | true | Founder/CEO | W25 | Winter 2025 | Building the open source smart glasses operating system. | Active | 12 | San Francisco | US | ||||||||||||||||
4 | 889,685 | Celia | Manzano | celiamanzz | Rebolt | — | rebolt | false | Rebolt | United States of America | true | Cofounder at Rebolt. Former cloud architect at Salesforce - leading technical sales on key accounts from $150k - $3M. Also worked as solution engineer at Apryse (SDK for document processing) and developed the torque vectoring ECU at UPM Racing (Formula SAE). UPM Aerospace Engineer BS | Celia Manzano | Founder | true | Founder | W25 | Winter 2025 | AI-Powered Company OS | Active | 3 | San Francisco | US | ||||||||||||||||
5 | 995,863 | Leo | Paz | leopaz | Outlit | CTO | outlit | false | Outlit | United States of America | true | Cofounder @ Outlit | Leo Paz | Founder/CTO | true | Founder/CTO | W25 | Winter 2025 | Protect and Grow Long-tail Revenue | Active | 3 | San Francisco | US | ||||||||||||||||
6 | 992,401 | Gaurav | Luhariwala | snorlaxexx | Elip AI | CEO | elip-ai | false | Elip AI | United States of America | true | Born and raised in India. Have previously built and scaled data-driven products for Indian banks and financial institutions - founded Tejas AI with the mission of making financial services more inclusive worldwide.
| Gaurav Luhariwala | Founder/CEO | true | Founder/CEO | W25 | Winter 2025 | Cooking something sweet and salty! | Active | 4 | San Francisco | US | — | |||||||||||||||
7 | 974,285 | Archit | Mehta | 4architmehta | Stamp | CEO | stamp | false | Stamp | United States of America | true | Stamp CEO. Previously graduated at 20, built products with 50k+ users, Software Engineer at Stripe. | Archit Mehta | Founder/CEO | — | true | Founder/CEO | W25 | Winter 2025 | The AI Secretary for Email and Calendar. | Active | 1 | San Francisco | US | |||||||||||||||
8 | 990,840 | Sriman | Gaddam | srimangaddam | Sennu AI | CTO | sennu-ai | false | Sennu AI | United States of America | true | Building Sennu AI | prev @ Confluent | Sriman Gaddam | Founder/CTO | true | Founder/CTO | W25 | Winter 2025 | We turn traditional companies into AI companies | Active | 2 | San Francisco | US | ||||||||||||||||
9 | 979,984 | Saner | Cakir | sanercakir | Outship | CEO | outship | false | Outship | United States of America | true | now: outship.ai – hire amazing engineers by seeing how they use AI
before: robot learning at Berkeley AI Research | Saner Cakir | Founder/CEO | true | Founder/CEO | W25 | Winter 2025 | Hire amazing engineers by seeing how they use AI | Active | 3 | San Francisco | US | ||||||||||||||||
10 | 951,645 | Juan | Pisco | JuanDavidPisco | Cifrato | CEO | cifrato | false | Cifrato | Colombia | true | Building the AI Accounting Agent for Accounting Firms. Exit tripplanner.ai (3M+ users). Technical. | Juan Pisco | Founder/CEO | — | true | Founder/CEO | W25 | Winter 2025 | AI Accountant for Accounting Firms | Active | 17 | Bogotá, Colombia | CO | — |
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curl -X POST "https://api.mindcase.co/v1/data/ycombinator/founders/run?wait=true" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer mk_live_YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"params": {
"batch": "",
"title": "",
"industry": "",
"parent_industry": "",
"subindustry": "",
"region": "",
"query": ""
}
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