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Modal

At Modal, we build the future of auto commerce for the world's largest auto brands and retailers. Modal's team is full of technology leaders from places like Google, Facebook, Tesla, Paypal, Accenture, and Modal is backed by notable investors like Y Combinator, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, and Ally Financial. To quote Peter Thiel, Modal is "complex coordination" of many different technologies, driving billions of dollars in transaction volume every year. Modal, formerly Drive Motors, was founde

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3701

At Modal, we build the future of auto commerce for the world's largest auto brands and retailers. Modal's team is full of technology leaders from places like Google, Facebook, Tesla, Paypal, Accenture, and Modal is backed by notable investors like Y Combinator, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, and Ally Financial. To quote Peter Thiel, Modal is "complex coordination" of many different technologies, driving billions of dollars in transaction volume every year. Modal, formerly Drive Motors, was founde

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Modal is classified as Fintech from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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auto commerceModalDrive Motors
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Fintech · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

OneFin

match 65

Building a plug-and-play suite of APIs and lending tech stack to enable financial inclusion. OneFin is backed by marquee investors from Silicon Valley like Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, etc. Leading NBFC, SFB and fintech companies in India are our users. We have enabled loan disbursement/migration of around $2B in last few years across more than 1 million loans across education loans, EV financing, business loans, credit line, 2 wheeler financing, personal loans, invoice discounting, and variou

shared product terms: like, back, investor, combinator; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

UpBanx

match 60

UpBanx is Brex for D2C brands and content creators in Indonesia. We help our customers open a high-yield business account, get financing, manage transactions, and launch Web3 projects, all in one place. There are over 700k D2C brands and content creators in Indonesia. If we serve all of them, that is a $14b/year market opportunity. We've raised $5.6m so far from investors like Y Combinator, Alpha JWC, Alto Partners, CreditEase, Oliver Jung and lndonesia's biggest influencer Raffi Ahmad who has o

shared product terms: brand, place, like, investor; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Smarking

match 49

Smarking is a group of hyper-driven MIT PhDs, data scientists, engineers, transportation experts, and battle-tested business professionals working to solve the notorious parking problem via a unique enterprise approach. Smarking aims to enable highly efficient urban mobility by digitizing parking spaces and distributing parking inventory dynamically, in order to get the world ready for the connected, shared, and autonomous future. Backed by top VCs like Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures, Smarking

shared product terms: future, like, back, combinator; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Piggy Robotics

match 43

We build humanoid robots that do your chores at iPhone prices. Just like the millions of cars generating data for self-driving, we need millions of humanoids generating real-world data for general-purpose robotics. Humanoid companies today can only manufacture hundreds a year because motors are expensive and slow to assemble. We use artificial muscles. Each muscle is just a tube wrapped in braided fibre, and the whole robot is powered by a single pump — which means we can mass-produce humanoids

shared extracted concept terms: motor; shared product terms: like, driv, year, motor; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Ohmic Biosciences

match 41

Pests and pathogens cost the world hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Existing technologies like agrochemicals are no longer working. Ohmic Biosciences uses protein engineering to design resistance genes for crops that are robust to pathogen evolution.

shared product terms: billion, dollar, year, technologie; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

PatientBank

match 36

PatientBank helps people gather and share medical records online. The company is backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and others.

shared product terms: back, combinator, khosla, venture; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator