The Women of YC

List of all YC female founders in 2025 and 2024.

Hi, and welcome to Teli Digest’s very first list!

This is the start of a new series where we will regularly publish curated, high-signal lists you can use for research, sourcing, inspiration, outreach, and discovery. If there is a list you want to see, or feedback on what would make these more useful, reach us anytime at info@telilabs.com.

Below is a list of female founders featured in Y Combinator’s founder directory from the 2025 and 2024 batches.

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2025

• Chloe Samaha - Bond, YC X25

• Robin Horton - Expected Parrot, YC F25

• Riya Jagetia - Socratix AI, YC S25

• Kristy Gao - Cenote, YC W25

• Nalu Concepcion - Idler, YC S25

• Nazli Danis - Paloma, YC S25

• Michelle Marcelline - Typedream, YC S25

• Catherine Zhao - Delty, YC X25

• Chenny (Qianyi) Deng - Piggy Robotics, YC F25

• Zoey Zhang - Flick, YC F25

• Paulina Xu - Agentic Fabriq, YC F25

• Kamryn Ohly - Design Arena, YC S25

• Sadia Saifuddin - Risely AI, YC S25

• Louise Tanski - Amera, YC F25

• Dr. Sabrine Obbad - Alara, YC S25

• Anya Singh - Relling, YC S25

• Catherine Di - Dedalus Labs, YC S25

• Aaksha Meghawat - Kashikoi, YC X25

• Nicole Ma - Topological, YC S25

• Zeyneb Kaya - Topological, YC S25

• Samika Sanghvi - Iris, YC F25

• Neha Suresh - April, YC S25

• Erin Kim - Mesh, YC W25

• Sandra Tang - AgentHub, YC S25

• Elia Saquand - VibeFlow, YC S25

• Alessia Paccagnella - VibeFlow, YC S25

• Shivani Patel - Telemetron, YC F25

• Yolanda Cao - Everest, YC F25

• Veronica Nutting - Harbera, YC W25

• Peggy Wang - Digipals, YC F25

• Gauri Agarwal - Koyal, YC F25

• Nicole Lu - sieve, YC X25

• Savannah Tynan - sieve, YC X25

• Julia Hudea - Parrot, YC F25

• Angelica Iacovelli - Nucleo, YC F25

• Ashley Mo - Liva AI, YC S25

• Aoi Otani - Liva AI, YC S25

• Kayla Lee - Trace, YC W25

• Idalia Friedson - Sygaldry Technologies, YC X25

• Mariem Ould Ismail - Stockline, YC S25

• Rajashree Agrawal - Theorem, YC X25

• Allis Yao - cubic, YC X25

• Sandra Lifshits - Retrofit, YC W25

• Maddy Yip - Retrofit, YC W25

• Qiaochu Li - Demeter, YC W25

• Tugce Bulut - Eloquent AI, YC X25

• Eva Herget - Misprint, YC W25

• Aria Vikram - Parachute, YC S25

• Imogen Low - FuseAI, YC W25

• Tara Kappel - RealRoots, YC S25

• Fern Morrison - Iron Grid, YC S25

• Helly Shah - Approval AI, YC X25

• Caitlin Hogan - Labric, YC X25

• Jennifer Song - Photonium, YC X25

• Amulya Balakrishnan - Novaflow, YC S25

• Ayna Arora - MorphoAI, YC X25

• Nina Montaña Brown - Mecha Health, YC W25

• Roksana Baleshzar - TectoAI, YC S25

• Eshani Mehta - Lumari, YC X25

• Cinnamon Sipper - Godela, YC X25

• Roya Cody - Opusense AI, YC X25

• Isabelle Ilyia - Cedar, YC W25

• Paula Gutierrez - Selfin, YC F25

• Niosha Afsharikia - TectoAI, YC S25

• Priyanka Shrestha - Galen AI, YC X25

2024