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14 people built something like it. 4 are gone.
That is 33% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | YCAqua The AI-Native Turnkey Alternative Investment Platform (TAIP) · investwithaqua.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCMetal Metal is an AI-driven operating system for fundraising · metal.so | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCMetal The AI context platform for private capital. Everything your firm… · metal.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI research lab automating all of investing · ehl.markets | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCEasyplan An AI-driven investment app for beginner investors in India · easyplan.in | gone |
| 2023-06-09 | pluto.fi | gone |
| 2025-01-01 | YCTrata AI-powered research desk for hedge funds · trytrata.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | The AI-powered risk decision platform · trycatamaran.com | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCNo Cap AI startup investor, No Cap · nocap.so | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFactIQ Investment research data for AI agents · factiq.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Training the world's best AI model for quantitative finance. · prodigy.markets | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCPre The AI accountability agent for startup founders · buildwithpre.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPit.AI Solving intelligence for investment management. · pit.ai | gone |
| 2026-06-01 | We are a multi-strategy trading firm that trains AI traders. · spectreintelligence.ai | still up |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.