A series of cities built from data
Each Data City turns one dataset into a place, so you can see many of its dimensions at once. Every city is designed for its own data, with its own rules and its own look. Pan, zoom and explore.
OpenNo. 1Every startup Y Combinator has backed since 2005, as one city. Each company is a shop, each batch is a district, and the companies that made it big leave their shop for a tower.
From YC’s public company directory, 2 November 2026. Independent, not affiliated with Y Combinator.
It will be built from a new dataset, to its own plan and in its own style.
Data City is a series of experiments in information design. A city is a familiar way to take in a lot at once: where things are, how big they are, what they’re grouped with and how they got there. Each Data City uses that to show one dataset, and each is built to its own plan.
Each city is built from a single dataset, and everything in it comes from that data. In YC City, every startup Y Combinator has backed.
Place, height, colour and grouping can each carry a different measure, so one view holds more than a chart can. In YC City, batch, status, value and time.
Each city decides what its buildings, streets and districts stand for, and shows you how to read them. In YC City, a company is a shop, a batch is a district, and $1B raises a tower.
Each city has an aesthetic that suits its data, from the land it stands on to the light it’s seen in. In YC City, a slab of coast between a beach, a river and a forest.