alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Foundertrace – chain of YC startups founded by its employees
Inspired by PG’s tweet about a chain of 4 YC startups where the founder worked at a YC startup, I vibe coded and generated these genealogy chains for all ~6k YC startups. And to make these trees easily accessible I packaged them into a hosted webapp.
Few noteworthy YC startups which have had huge impact in YC ecosystem
Airbnb - 83 YC startups spawned
Stripe - 67 YC startups spawned
Dropbox - 50 YC startups spawned
Justin.tv/Twitch - 47 YC startups spawned
More recently founded YC startups which have spawned a lot more YC startups
Rappi - 21 YC startups spawned
Brex - 20 YC startups spawned
Scale AI - 19 YC startups spawned
Comments
This is awesome! One note, some of the batch years are wrong, I see someone from S24 marked as S19.
Very cool! It looks like you've purchased the data from a vendor, is that right? I love graphs of all kinds, so I was hoping to fetch the raw data and have a look at it with pyvis/networkx.
PG's tweet that inspired this https://x.com/paulg/status/1994904099566031300