Headquarter Locations Of Top 101 Y Combinator Companies

The map above shows the headquarter locations of the top 101 Y Combinator Companies by valuation as of October 2018.

Note Strikingly is headquartered in Shanghai China and not Sunnyvale as originally published.

• The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the vast majority of companies (74 73 out of 101) with 63 located in San Francisco itself.
• All of the top 10 companies are located in the Bay area with 9 of the 10 headquartered in San Francisco.
• New York City is the second most popular headquarter location with 8 companies.
• Ginkgo Bioworks is the most valuable company located outside of the Bay area and Rappi is the most valuable company located outside the US.
• 94 93 of the top 101 companies are based in the US.
• The only other countries with top companies were Canada (2), the UK (2), Colombia, India, the Netherlands and China.

You can see a full list of companies and headquarter locations below:

Rank	Company Name	HQ City	HQ State	HQ Country
1	Airbnb	San Francisco	California	USA
2	Stripe	San Francisco	California	USA
3	Cruise	San Francisco	California	USA
4	Dropbox	San Francisco	California	USA
5	Coinbase	San Francisco	California	USA
6	Instacart	San Francisco	California	USA
7	Machine Zone	Palo Alto	California	USA
8	DoorDash	San Francisco	California	USA
9	Zenefits	San Francisco	California	USA
10	Gusto	San Francisco	California	USA
11	Reddit	San Francisco	California	USA
12	PagerDuty	San Francisco	California	USA
13	Docker	San Francisco	California	USA
14	Ginkgo Bioworks	Boston	Massachusetts	USA
15	Rappi	Bogotá	-	Colombia
16	Brex	San Francisco	California	USA
17	GitLab	San Francisco	California	USA
18	Twitch	San Francisco	California	USA
19	Flexport	San Francisco	California	USA
20	Mixpanel	San Francisco	California	USA
21	Checkr	San Francisco	California	USA
22	Optimizely	San Francisco	California	USA
23	LendUp	San Francisco	California	USA
24	Segment	San Francisco	California	USA
25	uBiome	San Francisco	California	USA
26	Memebox	San Francisco	California	USA
27	Zapier	San Francisco	California	USA
28	Rigetti Computing	Berkeley	California	USA
29	North (Formerly Thalmic)	Kitchener	Ontario	Canada
30	Podium	Lehi	Utah	USA
31	Equipment Share	Columbia	Missouri	USA
32	Soylent	Los Angeles	California	USA
33	PlanGrid	San Francisco	California	USA
34	Sift Science	San Francisco	California	USA
35	Algolia	San Francisco	California	USA
36	Easypost	San Francisco	California	USA
37	Amplitude	San Francisco	California	USA
38	Meta	San Mateo	California	USA
39	WePay	Redwood City	California	USA
40	MemSQL	San Francisco	California	USA
41	Weebly	San Francisco	California	USA
42	CoreOS	San Francisco	California	USA
43	Vidyard	Kitchener	Ontario	Canada
44	Clever	San Francisco	California	USA
45	MessageBird	Amsterdam	-	The Netherlands
46	Heroku	San Francisco	California	USA
47	GOAT	Culver City	California	USA
48	Ridecell	San Francisco	California	USA
49	Matterport	Sunnyvale	California	USA
50	Fivestars	San Francisco	California	USA
51	Faire	San Francisco	California	USA
52	Atrium	San Francisco	California	USA
53	Rescale	San Francisco	California	USA
54	Lever	San Francisco	California	USA
55	Front	San Francisco	California	USA
56	ShipBob	Chicago	Illinois	USA
57	Le Tote	San Francisco	California	USA
58	OMGPOP	New York	New York	USA
59	Axoni	New York	New York	USA
60	Scribd	San Francisco	California	USA
61	Lob	San Francisco	California	USA
62	Atomwise	San Francisco	California	USA
63	Heap	San Francisco	California	USA
64	Hush	Los Angeles	California	USA
65	FutureAdvisor	San Francisco	California	USA
66	SFOX	Los Angeles	California	USA
67	InfluxData	San Francisco	California	USA
68	Bitmovin	San Francisco	California	USA
69	Boom	Denver	Colorado	USA
70	ZeroCater	San Francisco	California	USA
71	Rainforest	San Francisco	California	USA
72	SmartAsset	New York	New York	USA
73	Embark	San Mateo	California	USA
74	Razorpay	Bangalore	-	India
75	Qventus	Mountain View	California	USA
76	Cloudant	Boston	Massachusetts	USA
77	GrubMarket	San Francisco	California	USA
78	Codecademy	New York	New York	USA
79	Automatic	San Francisco	California	USA
80	Ironclad	San Francisco	California	USA
81	FarmLogs	Ann Arbor	Michigan	USA
82	Caviar	San Francisco	California	USA
83	HackerRank	Palo Alto	California	USA
84	Nurx	San Francisco	California	USA
85	Function of Beauty	New York	New York	USA
86	Gigster	San Francisco	California	USA
87	Goldbelly	New York	New York	USA
88	Buildzoom	San Francisco	California	USA
89	People.ai	San Francisco	California	USA
90	inDinero	Portland	Oregon	USA
91	Firebase	San Francisco	California	USA
92	Genius	New York	New York	USA
93	Science Exchange	Palo Alto	California	USA
94	Thread	London	-	UK
95	The Muse	New York	New York	USA
96	Second Measure	San Mateo	California	USA
97	Scale Labs	San Francisco	California	USA
98	Strikingly	Sunnyvale Shanghai	California -	USA China
99	The Athletic	San Francisco	California	USA
100	HelloSign	San Francisco	California	USA
101	GoCardless	London	-	UK

Map created using MapChart.net

Data came from the following sources:

• Y Combinator Logo Top Companies List – 2018
• Crunchbase
• Bloomberg
• Wikipedia
• Craft.co
• Company Websites