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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 share one shape, AI-native B2B Agent-as-a-Service: YC's 2024 vertical-agent thesis executed at scale, and a wager that speed beats defensibility.