Developer Platforms
Cold3.4% of YC companies (-0.90pp)
Companies
208
Survival Rate
77.4%
Hiring Rate
14.9%
Recent Pivots
27
Developer Platforms — Share of YC companies over time
Pivots into Developer Platforms
Companies that pivoted into this category
Corsair
W252 people · Active
AI Value Creation Team for Private Equity
The TypeScript Integration Framework
ReJot
W252 people · Active
Sync engine to share data across engineering teams in enterprises
We turn complex API integrations into drop‑in full‑stack libraries
Clarm
Sp252 people · Active
Perplexity for internal docs
Sales for developers
Opslane
S241 people · Active· Pivot 2/2
Build Scalable Data Pipelines in minutes not months
Deploy to Kubernetes in minutes
EasyCode
W224 people · Active
ChatGPT that understands your codebase.
Where vibe coders finish their projects
Pivots out of Developer Platforms
Companies that pivoted away from this category
Olive
W252 people · Active
Build admin dashboards with a prompt.
AI Applicant Screening
Taro
S226 people · Active
On-demand career courses for software engineers
Help high-growth tech companies hire strong engineers
Upshift
F242 people · Active· Pivot 1/2
Build your developer ecosystem in minutes instead of months
Cloud workspace for coding agents
idemeum
S2110 people · Active
Passwordless application management platform.
Endpoint Protection Platform
Same
W245 people · Active· Pivot 1/2
Make websites fast, automatically
Copy any UI and make it yours
Pivots within Developer Platforms
Companies that changed direction but stayed in this category
Cuanto
W194 people · Active
Building the operating system for Latin America's internet creators
Building the operating system for developing world merchants
Wavedash
Sp253 people · Active
Helping game studios rapidly distribute games
Play the latest games in your browser with no downloads
Sourcepulse
S231 people · Active
Make collaborative software development scale efficiently
Fix your biggest software delays with real developer feedback
Companies (208)
Khotan (formerly Pollinate)
FDE as a platform for rebuilding critical operations in software.