YC AI visibility / Winter 2015

Most AI-visible companies in YC Winter 2015

We scored 13 active B2B and fintech companies from Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch on how easily ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and AI agents can find, understand and use them. Razorpay leads with 100/100. Data from our crawl on October 18, 2026; scores are a homepage snapshot, not live.

73

Winter 2015 average score

77

All-YC average (-4 for this batch)

62%

of this batch have no llms.txt (all YC: 55%)

#CompanyScoreCrawlersContentSchemaAgents
1Razorpay
razorpay.com
100100100100100
2Magic
getmagic.com
9610010010083
3Mezmo
mezmo.com
86959420100
4Giveffect
giveffect.com
83958710047
5Meadow
getmeadow.com
81100942074
6eBrandvalue
ebrandvalue.com
80958510038
7Platzi
platzi.com
7710094862
8Bankjoy
bankjoy.com
75100942047
9Mashgin
mashgin.com
7195942035
10Sails Co.
sailsjs.com
67100762035
11Makrwatch
makrwatch.com
6589782038
12GrubMarket
grubmarket.com
366722826
13TeamNote
teamnoteapp.com
32678826

Sub-scores: Crawlers = AI crawler access, Content = answer-engine content, Schema = structured data, Agents = agent readiness (llms.txt, API/MCP). Ties share a rank.

YC Winter 2015 vs all of YC

AreaWinter 2015All YC
Overall score7377
AI crawler access9393
Answer-engine content7982
Structured data4262
Agent readiness5556

Most common gaps in YC Winter 2015

No discoverable API or MCP for agents85% (all YC: 87%)
No question & answer content85% (all YC: 71%)
No JSON-LD structured data at all69% (all YC: 43%)
No product / organization schema69% (all YC: 46%)
No llms.txt62% (all YC: 55%)
No docs / help content linked46% (all YC: 46%)
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