YC AI visibility / Winter 2018
Most AI-visible companies in YC Winter 2018
We scored 26 active B2B and fintech companies from Y Combinator's Winter 2018 batch on how easily ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and AI agents can find, understand and use them. CaptivateIQ leads with 95/100. Data from our crawl on October 18, 2026; scores are a homepage snapshot, not live.
Winter 2018 average score
All-YC average (+2 for this batch)
of this batch have no llms.txt (all YC: 55%)
| # | Company | Score | Crawlers | Content | Schema | Agents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CaptivateIQ captivateiq.com | 95 | 95 | 100 | 100 | 83 |
| 1 | Quantstamp quantstamp.com | 95 | 100 | 94 | 100 | 83 |
| 3 | BioRender biorender.com | 93 | 95 | 94 | 100 | 83 |
| 3 | Veriff veriff.com | 93 | 95 | 94 | 100 | 83 |
| 5 | Draftbit draftbit.com | 91 | 100 | 68 | 100 | 100 |
| 5 | Treasury Prime treasuryprime.com | 91 | 89 | 96 | 100 | 83 |
| 5 | Worklytics worklytics.co | 91 | 95 | 87 | 100 | 83 |
| 8 | Aspire aspireapp.com | 87 | 100 | 83 | 100 | 64 |
| 9 | Assembly assembly.com | 86 | 100 | 94 | 100 | 47 |
| 10 | Runa runahr.com | 85 | 95 | 78 | 100 | 71 |
| 11 | Swayable swayable.com | 84 | 92 | 94 | 100 | 47 |
| 12 | Anjuna anjuna.io | 83 | 95 | 98 | 100 | 35 |
| 12 | tEQuitable tequitable.com | 83 | 95 | 94 | 88 | 47 |
| 14 | Observe.AI observe.ai | 81 | 95 | 93 | 100 | 35 |
| 14 | Simetrik simetrik.com | 81 | 95 | 85 | 67 | 64 |
| 16 | Cognition IP cognitionip.com | 77 | 95 | 84 | 88 | 35 |
| 16 | Fondo fondo.com | 77 | 100 | 100 | 20 | 47 |
| 16 | Nuvocargo nuvocargo.com | 77 | 95 | 83 | 100 | 26 |
| 16 | SafetyWing safetywing.com | 77 | 95 | 83 | 100 | 26 |
| 20 | Shogun getshogun.com | 75 | 100 | 94 | 20 | 47 |
| 21 | Vanta vanta.com | 70 | 95 | 81 | 20 | 47 |
| 22 | Tilt (f.k.a. Delphia) tilt.io | 67 | 95 | 87 | 8 | 35 |
| 23 | Glowing.io glowing.io | 62 | 89 | 74 | 8 | 38 |
| 24 | ErudiFi erudifi.com | 53 | 89 | 53 | 8 | 26 |
| 24 | Meitre meitre.com | 53 | 100 | 38 | 8 | 26 |
| 26 | Observant AI observantai.com | 48 | 89 | 31 | 20 | 26 |
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 2018 vs all of YC
| Area | Winter 2018 | All YC |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 79 | 77 |
| AI crawler access | 95 | 93 |
| Answer-engine content | 83 | 82 |
| Structured data | 71 | 62 |
| Agent readiness | 53 | 56 |
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