Pivot Archive

YC Pivot Tracker

Pivot Rate by Batch

Percentage of companies that pivoted in each YC batch

Note: Newer batches show lower rates as companies have had less time to pivot.

564 pivots

Rocketeer logo

Rocketeer

S23

4 people · Active· Pivot 5/5

6 months ago
Before

Identity & pipeline freshness AI agents for revenue teams

After

Command center top of Claude Code for GTM engineers

AI Sales & MarketingAI Coding Assistants
114°Near Reinvention
Helios logo

Helios

W23

3 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

End-to-end mortgage solution in LatAm

After

Create your AI workforce

Digital Lending & BankingAI Recruiting & HR
114°Near Reinvention
Magnitude logo

Magnitude

S25

2 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

AI workspace for research and writing

After

Open source coding agent

AI Productivity AssistantsAI Coding Assistants
113°Near Reinvention
datafruit logo

datafruit

S25

4 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

AI DevOps Engineer

After

Agents for Enterprise Software Integration Teams

AI DevOps & ObservabilityEnterprise AI Agents
56°Significant Pivot
Basepilot logo

Basepilot

W24

2 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

AI coworkers to automate browser work, in minutes.

After

AI agents for insurance claims

AI Productivity AssistantsAI Insurance Automation
43°Significant Pivot
Cuanto logo

Cuanto

W19

4 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

Building the operating system for Latin America's internet creators

After

Building the operating system for developing world merchants

Developer PlatformsDeveloper Platforms
41°Significant Pivot
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FastJVM

W17

3 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

We Fix Email in Spam

After

Making the JVM faster

AI Productivity AssistantsLLM Development Tools
138°Near Reinvention
Wizwand logo

Wizwand

W22

4 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

Kayak.com for vacation rentals

After

Discover SOTA research papers on AI and Machine Learning

AI Construction & Real EstateAI Investment & Research
130°Near Reinvention
Cora logo

Cora

W24

3 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

Purple is an AI agent for online local marketplace transactions.

After

AI Fitness Coach

Enterprise AI AgentsAI Coding Assistants
125°Near Reinvention
Sharpe logo

Sharpe

S24

3 people · Active· Pivot 3/3

6 months ago
Before

Build working software exceedingly fast in Solar

After

Agents for quantitative research and financial data science.

LLM Development ToolsAI Investment & Research
119°Near Reinvention
Coasts logo

Coasts

F25

2 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

AI-First In-Browser IDE for React Development

After

Localhost service isolation and orchestration for git worktrees

AI Design & PrototypingLLM Development Tools
118°Near Reinvention
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Tambua Health

W20

13 people · Active· Pivot 2/2

6 months ago
Before

Juno is ManusAI for controlling medical imaging& diagnostic device GUI

After

Bloodless, blood diagnostic app

AI Clinical OperationsDigital Health & Telehealth
116°Near Reinvention
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Clam (formerly Baseframe)

W26

2 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

AI agents for hardware design that catch risks and tradeoffs early

After

Enterprise-grade security for broad-access AI Agents like OpenClaw

AI Chip & Hardware DesignAI Compute Infrastructure
108°Near Reinvention
Nerviom logo

Nerviom

F25

1 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

Carbon Fiber Manufacturing at the Speed of Software

After

AI Autopilot for Infrastructure Permitting

Factory Robotics & AutomationAI Insurance Automation
107°Near Reinvention
Clearline logo

Clearline

S22

5 people · Active· Pivot 2/2

6 months ago
Before

Multiplayer agents for your engineering team

After

AI operating system for car dealerships to capture missed revenue

Enterprise AI AgentsAI Sales & Marketing
107°Near Reinvention
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Latted

W24

2 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

We are building the AI Software Developer

After

A Unified Editor For AI Video

AI Coding AssistantsAI Video & Content Creation
106°Near Reinvention
Approxima logo

Approxima

W26

2 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

One package to take your mobile app to production.

After

Your software should build itself.

Consumer Apps & SocialLLM Development Tools
100°Major Pivot
MangoDesk logo

MangoDesk

S25

2 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

Simple platform to create data for AI

After

RL environments for software engineering

AI Data & Analytics ToolsLLM Development Tools
98°Major Pivot
Outship logo

Outship

W25

3 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

Voice AI Customer Support for Financial Services

After

Hire amazing engineers by seeing how they use AI

Voice AI & Customer SupportAI Recruiting & HR
95°Major Pivot
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Letterbook

S23

2 people · Active

6 months ago
Before

AI Personal Assistant like Jarvis

After

AI-native customer support platform

AI Productivity AssistantsVoice AI & Customer Support
92°Major Pivot