Y-Combinator’s 2024 RFS - Analyzing the Fastest Growing Companies Ep 2

Last week, we wrote volume 1 of analyzing the fastest growing companies across selected sectors listed in Y-Combinator's latest RFS.

The sectors previously covered were Climatetech, Spacetech, Enterprise AI, Biotech for Cancer Cure and Devtools. If you haven’t read that already, check it out here

Today, we picked another 5 sectors: OpenSource, Industrial Manufacturing, Defencetech, Foundational models for biological systems, and Stablecoin finance. Here are the fastest growing (based on YoY headcount, Companies >100 employees) companies across each of these sectors:

Washington based cybersecurity company Chainguard, which is on a mission to be ‘the safe source for open source’, sits on the top of the charts with an impressive 69% YoY growth.

In YC Partner Jared Friedman’s words, “Bringing manufacturing back to America is one of the biggest areas of bipartisan agreement, and the CHIPS act which was passed in 2022 proves that the US government will put serious money behind this objective.”

With an impressive 44% YoY growth, 6K is a chemical manufacturing company that specializes in manufacturing additives and advanced materials for battery storage.

SpaceX showed the world that a private space company could be vastly more effective than the publicly-funded United Launch Alliance.

A new age company, Anduril (65% YoY growth) that sells to the Department of Defence (DoD), is showing that the same is true for new defense technology. 

Foundational models for biological systems are built around large sets of data and have the potential to unlock new scientific approaches to diseases.

Science, an early stage company developing technologies for a range of serious unmet medical needs, recorded a whopping 74% YoY growth.

A surprising addition to the RFS, crypto aficionados were pleased by the inclusion of Stablecoin finance as one of the sectors for more active investments by YC.

With a 64% YoY growth, Ava Labs features the native euro stablecoin, ‘AvaCloud’ on its layer-1 smart contract platform Avalanche.

And that’s a wrap for analyzing the fastest growing companies across 5 new sectors listed in YC’s latest RFS. Stay tuned for round 3 of sectors and their fastest growing companies.

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