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JUN 16, 2026

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44% of YC's Spring 2026 batch is the same company. That's the bet.

A founder analyzed all 196 YC Spring 2026 companies and found 86 are the same shape: AI-native B2B Agent-as-a-Service. That convergence is YC's 2024 vertical-agent thesis executed at scale — and a wager that speed beats defensibility.

Sequoia’s services-as-software thesis, in plain terms

Sequoia says the next $1T company will be 'a software company masquerading as a services firm.' The sentence buries vertical SaaS as a category — without ever naming it. What that means and which companies fit.