AI Coding Assistants
Hot4.1% of YC companies (+1.46pp)
Companies
240
Survival Rate
89.2%
Hiring Rate
30%
Recent Pivots
117
AI Coding Assistants — Share of YC companies over time
Pivots into AI Coding Assistants
Companies that pivoted into this category
Medium Biosciences
S216 people · Active
AI-designed Protein Therapeutics
AI-designed Affinity Reagents
StarSling
Sp252 people · Active
Cursor for DevOps
Self-Driving CI
LLM Stats
S252 people · Active· Pivot 2/2
The API for AI phone calls
Independent AI evaluations lab
Eden
S1855 people · Active
Digital platforms that enable an outstanding patient experience
Developing AI to unleash diagnostic abundance.
Keystroke
W244 people · Active· Pivot 2/2
AI platform for analytics engineering
n8n for coding agents
Pivots out of AI Coding Assistants
Companies that pivoted away from this category
Kilvin
F243 people · Active· Pivot 2/2
The Browser Automation IDE
Custom software for non-technical teams.
Polished
W24people · Active· Pivot 3/3
Your App's Copilot
Generate ads. Iterate till perfect.
Stably AI
W228 people · Active
AI Testing that Writes, Runs & Maintains Tests for Every PR & Release
Makers of Orca (OSS Cursor) and Stably (AI testing platform)
Panoptive
S252 people · Active
The simulation and evaluation engine for AI agents
The oversight engine for clinical trials
CallingBox
S252 people · Active· Pivot 1/2
Auto-optimizer for AI agents
The API for AI phone calls
Pivots within AI Coding Assistants
Companies that changed direction but stayed in this category
Rowboat Labs
S243 people · Active· Pivot 2/2
Open-source AI-assisted agent builder
Open-source AI coworker with memory
Bidflow
S252 people · Active
AI Agents that Find Bugs in Your Product
AI Copilot for Electrical Estimating
Vibe Kanban
S2110 people · Active
Modernising legacy code with AI
Plan and review AI generated code
HumanLayer
F243 people · Active
Human-in-the-Loop for AI Agents
Getting AI Coding Agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases
Refresh
Sp252 people · Active· Pivot 1/2
AI Infrastructure for autonomous software creation and interaction
Browser agent based testing in vibe coding workflows