You asked about Industrial Bio
85 people built something like it. 85 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-01 | YCOvipost Automated insect farming · ovipost.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | boostbiomes.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YC20n Using AI to predict biochemistry for manufacturing and therapeutics · 20n.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | dairy reinvented from plants · sperofoods.co | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production · micromeat.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Mobile Energy Storage Technology · moxionpower.com | gone |
| 2022-10-04 | dazzl.ink | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | To make food a renewable resource, for everyone · inevitabletech.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Tech enabled and fully integrated PAN India agri produce supply chain · kisannetwork.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | YCAirware Airware provides end-to-end solutions that enable enterprises to… · airware.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | Sunfolding builds next generation infrastructure for solar farms. By… · sunfolding.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | The Rocket Network: Sustainable & On-Demand Delivery Anywhere in Space · spaceryde.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Engineering next-generation, brain-penetrant cancer therapies. · reverielabs.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Bringing 3rd generation, nanopore sequencing to healthcare to solve… · shieldbio.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCUnima Fast and low-cost diagnostics for real time disease surveillance · unimadx.com | gone |
| 2023-07-06 | ngnr.club | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCRoboTire Robotire is automating vehicle maintenance for today and future… · robotire.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | AWS for manufacturing. · voodoomfg.com | gone |
| 2022-01-05 | clickit.page | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Next-gen blood testing to provide 1000x more data to pharma companies · correliabio.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | We solve drug resistance for cancer · resistance.bio | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPathmind Pathmind helps industrial engineers and simulation modelers achieve… · pathmind.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Developing supersonic UAVs as a pathway to quiet supersonic flight · exosonic.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | The operating system for factory production lines · aisupervision.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | The robotic cloud laboratory for the life sciences. · transcriptic.com | gone |
| 2022-05-24 | thesciencegab.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHeimdal Affordable and verified direct air carbon capture and storage · heimdalccu.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | We are building a fleet of autonomous mobile robots that travel on… · robby.io | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is a B2B company that is developing… · openmotors.co | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Driverless Trucks, for real. · starsky.io | gone |
| 2021-05-21 | proficience.io | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Real time Google Earth for agriculture -- imagery collected weekly… · terravion.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCNextDrop NextDrop is the water marketplace for urban India. We connect water… · thenextdrop.com | gone |
| 2022-11-19 | chat-example.langa.me | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPeakPath Smartwatch powered coaching to improve teams sustainable performance · peakpath.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCShone Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit. · shone.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCNoya Radically reducing capital costs and build time for direct air capture · noya.co | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCEntry Biometric sign in and identity verification platform · getentry.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCInnaMed At-home blood testing: measure + analyze + enhance. · innamed.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Operating systems for biology labs · radix.bio | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | Transform scientific data into discoveries · mantlebio.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCVathys Accelerating machine learning through software · vathys.ai | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | We’re creating programmable therapies · felixbt.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | Rapid, scalable diagnostic for SARS-CoV-2 and beyond · predxionbio.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Developing novel therapeutics for aging and chronic disease · gerostatealpha.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCArylla We connect products to the internet using an invisible, chip-less tag · arylla.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBlink Same-day delivery for e-commerce companies in Europe. · blinklastmile.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Discover drugs that control how much cells "squeeze" to treat disease · forcytebio.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCNimbus Tesla for city dwellers · nimbus.green | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Software for robotaxi operations. · passenger.ai | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | AI for drug formulation · lavo.ai | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | We deliver affordable renewable energy direct to customers and are… · getgex.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCPashi Pashi builds software to operate and optimize production lines. · pashi.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Distributed AI for Industrial Process Monitoring and Optimization. · numericcal.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | Revolutionary, Modern Wing Sails · outsailtech.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCTrade We're building Africa's Commodity Exchange. · tradeghana.co | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Bioinformatics pipelines in the cloud · flowdeploy.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCEdyn Nest for lawn and garden · edyn.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | First commodity marketplace for hydrogen. · phoenixhydrogen.com | gone |
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.