Outside of the United States, India is the most represented country in the newest Y Combinator accelerator class, with 32 businesses hailing from Gurugram, Bengaluru, Delhi, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Chennai. For what it's worth, the Y Combinator accelerator has funded more than 191 Indian startups, with nearly half — half! — of those startups accepted in the last year.
As we'll see below, the startups in this batch plan to solve a wide range of tech difficulties, although they appear to be mostly focused on the financial services sector. Consider 'buy now, pay later' sales, neobanks that focus on savings, and, of course, bitcoin betting. It's a change from previous years, when the majority of India's YC companies were in the B2B services sector.