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YC Global Footprint

Map the YC company ecosystem across countries and cities.

See where YC companies are founded, which regions have the most active startups, and the cities that anchor each country.

Countries represented

78

Companies tracked

6,177

Active companies

4,323

Top country

US

CountryCompaniesActive rateTop cities
US4,20766%San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles
Unknown75184%N/A
IN19469%Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad
GB16174%London, Cambridge, Oxford
CA14069%Toronto, Kitchener, Montreal
MX8370%Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara
FR5765%Paris, Nantes
NG5686%Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan
SG5372%Singapore
BR5072%São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Maringá
DE5074%Berlin, Munich, Mannheim
ID3093%Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya
CO2979%Bogotá, Medellín, Cali
IL2843%Tel Aviv-Yafo, Haifa
AR1794%Buenos Aires, Córdoba
CL16100%Santiago, Providencia
ES1675%Barcelona, Madrid, A Coruña
DK1450%Copenhagen, Aarhus
AU12100%Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast
EG11100%Cairo
SE1173%Stockholm, Gothenburg
NL1173%Amsterdam, Utrecht, Maastricht
KE1191%Nairobi
PK1080%Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore
CH1090%Zürich, Lausanne, Ecublens
AE1090%Dubai
HK888%Hong Kong
IE888%Limerick, Galway, Dublin
PH863%Makati, Manila, Taguig
CN771%Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai
PE786%Lima, Barranco
VN683%Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi
MY6100%Kuala Lumpur, Cyberjaya
PL5100%Kraków, Warsaw
KR580%N/A
PA5100%Panama City
NO580%Oslo
GH580%Accra
SI475%Ljubljana
SA4100%Riyadh, Jeddah
AT475%Vienna, Graz
MA367%Casablanca
TR3100%Istanbul
BE367%Brussels, Antwerp
EE333%Tallinn
IT250%Padua, Milan
UA250%Kyiv
NZ250%Auckland
ZA250%Cape Town, Johannesburg
FI20%Helsinki
SN250%Dakar
VE2100%Maracaibo, Caracas
LV1100%Riga
BH1100%Manama
RO1100%Bucharest
ET1100%Addis Ababa
HU1100%Budapest
CR10%San José
PR1100%San Juan
BD1100%Dhaka
RU10%Moscow
CI1100%Abidjan
EC10%Quito
SC1100%N/A
IQ1100%Erbil
CY1100%Nicosia
UG1100%Kampala
GE1100%Tbilisi
GR1100%Athens
TZ1100%Dar es Salaam
NP1100%Kathmandu
CZ1100%Prague
JP1100%Tokyo
LT1100%Vilnius
ZM1100%Lusaka
CD1100%Kinshasa
HR1100%Zagreb
DZ1100%N/A

About the YC locations table

This table groups 6,177 Y Combinator companies into 78 countries using the country and city fields in the YC companies dataset. Rows are sorted by company count, and US currently leads with 4,207 companies.

Companies with no country recorded are grouped under Unknown so the counts add up to the full dataset.

How to read each column

  • Country: the country recorded for the company in the YC directory.
  • Companies: how many companies in the dataset are listed in that country.
  • Active rate: the share of those companies whose status is Active, rounded to the nearest whole percent.
  • Top cities: up to three cities with the most companies in that country, most common first.

What you can use it for

  • Regional market research: see how many YC companies are based in a country before you plan a launch or an event there.
  • Hiring and partnerships: find the cities where YC companies cluster so you know where to look for peers, customers, or talent.
  • Investor outreach: compare countries by company count and active rate to decide where to focus.
  • Directory filtering: take a country or city from this table and filter the YC companies directory to see the individual companies.

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