AI Compute Infrastructure
Stable1.9% of YC companies (+0.06pp)
Companies
110
Survival Rate
86.4%
Hiring Rate
24.5%
Recent Pivots
14
AI Compute Infrastructure — Share of YC companies over time
Pivots into AI Compute Infrastructure
Companies that pivoted into this category
Clam (formerly Baseframe)
W262 people · Active
AI agents for hardware design that catch risks and tradeoffs early
Enterprise-grade security for broad-access AI Agents like OpenClaw
DataSuite
W234 people · Active· Pivot 2/2
AI Fact Checking for Lawyers
Dataset Management for AI Trainers
Foundry
F241 people · Active
World Model for Browser Agents
Infrastructure to ship real apps with AI - end-to-end in the browser
LlamaFarm
W227 people · Active
One platform for auth, messaging, payments & AI-ready services.
Build powerful AI projects locally, deploy anywhere
Pivots out of AI Compute Infrastructure
Companies that pivoted away from this category
Narrative
F253 people · Active
The infrastructure for AI video processing
AI-Powered Sports Highlights
BrowserOS
S242 people · Active
Building AI Infra for non-NVIDIA GPUs
Open source Agentic Browser
Nerve
S243 people · Active· Pivot 1/2
Globally replicated and sharded Postgres
Healthcare integrations for developers
Outerport
S242 people · Active· Pivot 1/2
VMware for GPUs
Chain-of-memory reasoning for document understanding
Simplex
S242 people · Active
Synthetic datasets for vision models
Automate browser workflows using code + natural language
Pivots within AI Compute Infrastructure
Companies that changed direction but stayed in this category
nCompass Technologies
W243 people · Active
Deploy hardware accelerated AI models with only one line of code
Optimize performance on GPUs - 10x faster
Lilac
S252 people · Active
Open-Source MLOps platform ensuring your data scientists have GPUs
Spot GPU marketplace that uses idle GPUs from enterprises
Companies (110)
Clam (formerly Baseframe)
Enterprise-grade security for broad-access AI Agents like OpenClaw