AI Coding Assistants
Hot4.2% of YC companies (+1.55pp)
Companies
260
Survival Rate
89.2%
Hiring Rate
26.2%
Recent Pivots
95
AI Coding Assistants — Share of YC companies over time
Pivots into AI Coding Assistants
Companies that pivoted into this category
Rocketeer
S234 people · Active· Pivot 5/5
Identity & pipeline freshness AI agents for revenue teams
Command center top of Claude Code for GTM engineers
Magnitude
S252 people · Active
AI workspace for research and writing
Open source coding agent
Cora
W243 people · Active
Purple is an AI agent for online local marketplace transactions.
AI Fitness Coach
Pillar
W24people · Active· Pivot 2/2
The Intelligent Help Center
Your App's Copilot
Orca
S242 people · Active· Pivot 3/3
AI Game Engine
Make Minecraft mods and servers in your browser with AI
Pivots out of AI Coding Assistants
Companies that pivoted away from this category
Latted
W242 people · Active
We are building the AI Software Developer
A Unified Editor For AI Video
VitalStrata
S211 people · Active· Pivot 3/3
AI coordinators for post-discharge follow-up calls
AI for risk adjustment integrity
Chordio
S224 people · Active
AI-powered design reviews that guard your standards
Claude Code design workspace built for product teams
Haladir
W264 people · Active· Pivot 2/2
AI-Enabled Mainframe Modernization and Code Translation.
Building Operational Superintelligence.
Valgo
W263 people · Active
Algorithmic safety validation tools for autonomy.
Risk quantification platform to insure physical AI
Pivots within AI Coding Assistants
Companies that changed direction but stayed in this category
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
Keystone
S251 people · Active
AI agents that test your application.
Your team's AI software engineer