You asked about Next-gen Network Security
1,738 people built something like it. 176 are gone.
That is 11% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 149 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-01 | YCTeleport The Infrastructure Identity Company · goteleport.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCUpfort Turnkey security & hassle-free cyber insurance from leading insurers · upfort.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCNetmaker Automated WireGuard networks for distributed systems and Kubernetes · netmaker.io | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | Server key management, VPN as a Service, Privacy VPN. Sold to… · cryptoseal.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCFirezone Easiest way to set up Zero Trust Access for your team · firezone.dev | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCPangolin Open networking and security for your workforce, AI agents, and infra · pangolin.net | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | Next Generation Home Shopping Network · shopagram.co | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | Next-gen digital payments provider for India. · cashfree.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCyble Cyble - World’s First Intelligence-Driven, AI-Native Security… · cyble.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCAxoni Axoni is building the next generation of capital markets technology · axoni.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | AI company transforming enterprise physical security to prevent… · ambient.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Building the next generation AI creative studio · moonvalley.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Next-generation DNA synthesis using enzymes · ansabio.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Enterprise Deepfake Detection · realitydefender.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAgency Agency replaces traditional security and compliance headcount with AI. · getagency.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Sunfolding builds next generation infrastructure for solar farms. By… · sunfolding.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Next generation infectious disease test kits · lucirahealth.com | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | Next-gen ingredients to decarbonize consumer products, starting w/… · c16bio.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCauthzed Authorization Infrastructure securing AI at OpenAI, Zoom, & more · authzed.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | DreamWorld is a next-gen Minecraft with generative AI building · playdreamworld.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Healthcare data infrastructure for next generation care delivery. · metriport.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Engineering next-generation, brain-penetrant cancer therapies. · reverielabs.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCD-ID Enable creators and developers to generate realistic AI personas · d-id.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YC64x Bio Enabling next generation medicines. A comprehensive platform and… · 64xbio.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Unlocking the next generation of mRNA medicines · sensible.bio | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Next-generation mRNA platform to solve cancer, COVID and climate. · helixnano.com | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCBolna AI Voice AI to enable India's next billion · bolna.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCSwif.ai Manage every device. Govern every AI agent. · swif.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAnima The next generation care enablement platform · animahealth.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLenk The next-gen lending platform for the banking system in LATAM. · getlenk.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Automate security and privacy reviews · clearly-ai.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Building The Next Generation of Night Vision Devices · deepnight.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Next-gen blood testing to provide 1000x more data to pharma companies · correliabio.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | The next generation of induced-proximity medicines. · generalproximity.bio | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Security Delivery Platform to orchestrate AI agents for Service… · contraforce.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | The Control Plane for Enterprise Agents · credal.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Enterprise software for enterprise risk and cyber fraud intelligence · overwatchdata.ai | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | We build networks of AIs to simulate high-value audiences · societies.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAlinea Automated investing for the next generation 💸 · alinea-invest.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCVariance AI Agents for Fraud Review and Investigations · variance.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSkypher AI agent for Compliance Questionnaires Automation · skypher.co | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCWeave AI-assisted professional networking. · weave.in | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCSmyte Smyte stops bad actors on social networks and marketplaces. · smyte.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | YCThinAir Intelligent data security for teams · thinair.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Our vision is to build the next generation of iOS or Android, to… · raventech.com | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCZeroPath Automatically find and fix your software vulnerabilities · zeropath.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Next-generation, modular electric vehicles · olympianmotors.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCTraces Transform your video monitoring with AI · traces.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCFarel Next-gen airline OS · farel.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | IndustrialNext builds the AI brain for manufacturing –… · industrialnext.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStrac Data Discovery, DLP, DSPM for SaaS, Cloud, Gen AI & Endpoints · strac.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | 10x-1000x faster compute for Neural Network training · strongcompute.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The foundation for the next era of biology · outputbio.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | The Networking Layer of AI · pirislabs.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCgoodfin Building the next generation of wealth · goodfin.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Never code alone. · squire.ai | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCUnbound Use AI tools without fear of data leakage · getunbound.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | We're training the next generation of protein foundation models. · anthrogen.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCrew Next Gen ATS/CRM for Modern Recruitment Agencies · crew.work | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Network for Physical AI Data Business · deepreach.ai | still up |
How this compares
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
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.