Recommendation System Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

July 2026

Browse 2 of the top Recommendation System startups funded by Y Combinator.

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  • Shaped
    Shaped
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 25 employees • New York City
    Connect your data. Train your models. Query text, user or session context and retrieve relevant results in milliseconds. Explore our case studies to see how we’ve helped leading brands drive significant engagement and revenue: https://www.shaped.ai/case-study.
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    ai
    recommendation-system
  • Directed Edge
    Y Combinator LogoS2009
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco
    Directed Edge delivers Amazon-like "People who bought this also bought..." and "We think you'd also like"-style recommendations to other sites, using existing data being collected such as purchase or click histories. Recommendations are served in real-time via a REST API, with language bindings in several programming languages to make integration easy.
    artificial-intelligence
    machine-learning
    recommendation-system