You asked about Industrial Bio
67 people built something like it. 8 are gone.
That is 13% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 4 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | YCInvert Data analytics software for biomanufacturing. · invertbio.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCALT TEX Biodegradable and carbon neutral textiles, engineered from food waste. · thealttex.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We make carbon negative chemicals from CO2 using fermentation · phasebiolabs.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | We recycle plastic using engineered enzymes · birchbiosciences.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We stop cows from burping methane. · alga.bio | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Making 'REAL' Cow and Human Milk! · unrealmilk.com | still up |
| 2022-03-24 | bionic-reading.com | still up |
| 2022-04-25 | passage.id | unverified |
| 2022-05-30 | bionic-reading.com | still up |
| 2022-01-13 | sendpulse.com | still up |
| 2022-05-30 | shopme.bio | unverified |
| 2022-03-13 | owl.link | still up |
| 2022-10-04 | dazzl.ink | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | First electric business aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion · beyond-aero.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale. · shinkei.systems | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCambio AI-native commercial real estate operations · cambio.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Bluetooth to Space · hubble.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHedgehog Building robotic mushroom farms · hedgehogfoods.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPaces Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure · paces.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Making all ships robots. · fleetzero.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Unlocking carbon markets for European forest owners · pina.earth | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | We're building satellites to create a real-time 3D map of the world. · arraylabs.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Engineering the future of chemistry for natural resource extraction · maverickx.com | still up |
| 2022-09-13 | brainflow.org | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCWyvern High-res hyperspectral pictures of Earth from space · wyvern.space | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles · polymathrobotics.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKorrAI Traceable AI for billion-dollar infrastructure. · korrai.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Multicolor lasers for ultrafast data transmission · enlightra.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We make carbon negative roads · carboncrusher.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Software to find the best sites for renewables on the electrical grid · niraenergy.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Underwater robotic vehicles that collect battery metals responsibly · impossiblemetals.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSeabound Carbon capture equipment for ships · seabound.co | still up |
| 2022-01-05 | clickit.page | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCerrion Video AI to automatically detect and respond to production line… · cerrion.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | The operating system for factory production lines · aisupervision.com | gone |
| 2022-05-24 | thesciencegab.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAirMyne Building systems to remove carbon dioxide from air at industrial scale · airmyne.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Potent, durable, and redosable non-viral genetic medicines · engagebio.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Next-generation, modular electric vehicles · olympianmotors.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPosh Rapidly deployable energy solutions for modern commercial and… · poshenergy.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCLamin Open data platform for traceable, multimodal AI · lamin.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We Mine Asteroids · astroforge.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Airplanes anyone can fly · airhartaero.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | IndustrialNext builds the AI brain for manufacturing –… · industrialnext.ai | still up |
| 2022-11-19 | chat-example.langa.me | gone |
| 2022-01-29 | typing.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPeakPath Smartwatch powered coaching to improve teams sustainable performance · peakpath.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRownd Fully autonomous defense solutions for the global edge. · rownd.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Combinations therapy by rational design · serinus.bio | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHypaHub A Cloud-Based Bioinformatics and AI Platform · hypahub.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Unlocking Virtual Power Plants for rental properties · glowenergy.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCVelontra Hypersonic space plane that can take-off from any location and weather · velontra.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCVoltic Electric cargo ships · volticshipping.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Simple tests for complex diseases. · signatur.bio | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | High-precision, closed-loop neuromodulation devices · torpedotherapeutics.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCQuinn Your biopharma team, from molecule design to portfolio strategy · quinnbio.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | We make the world's most efficient aircraft · seaflight.tech | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRevoy Make diesel semi trucks hybrid-electric · revoy.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Oral drugs to halt neurodegeneration · origamitherapeutics.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Empowering Mass Spec for Biotech and Beyond · andsonbiotech.com | 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.