AI Design & Prototyping
Stable3.5% of YC companies (-0.03pp)
Companies
220
Survival Rate
76.4%
Hiring Rate
22.3%
Recent Pivots
52
AI Design & Prototyping — Share of YC companies over time
Pivots into AI Design & Prototyping
Companies that pivoted into this category
Chordio
S224 people · Active
AI-powered design reviews that guard your standards
Claude Code design workspace built for product teams
Glade
S234 people · Active
Building the next generation of video games using AI
Build games at the speed of thought
General Trajectory
W251 people · Active
Reasoning models for robotics
AI for the physical world
Luminate
W242 people · Active· Pivot 3/4
Build AI agents in minutes
Build smarter by simulating your users
Chutney Inc
W205 people · Inactive· Pivot 3/3
Autonomous AI agents to conduct user interviews for product managers
Pseudonymous avatar-based social network
Pivots out of AI Design & Prototyping
Companies that pivoted away from this category
Coasts
F252 people · Active
AI-First In-Browser IDE for React Development
Localhost service isolation and orchestration for git worktrees
ion design
W243 people · Active
We built the 1st Autonomous AI Product Designer
AI that creates & tests 100s of landing pages for your product
Fern (Formerly Ishiki Labs)
W262 people · Active
Building the Future of Multimodal AI
Realtime AI meeting assistant starting with sales
Orca
S242 people · Active· Pivot 3/3
AI Game Engine
Make Minecraft mods and servers in your browser with AI
Lumetric
W242 people · Active· Pivot 4/4
Build smarter by simulating your users
The AI Analyst to Review Your Spreadsheets
Pivots within AI Design & Prototyping
Companies that changed direction but stayed in this category
ideate.xyz
S242 people · Active
Automate marketing graphics design at scale
ideate.xyz is an AI-powered 3D art suite on the web
Ramen VR
S1915 people · Active
Have you heard of Ready Player One? We're building it for real people
Ramen VR is transforming game development with advanced XR + AI tools.
Companies (220)
83 Sciences
AI-native materials discovery powered by unpublished experimental data
CatchBack Cards
The most thrilling way to create and rip digital collectible packs