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Protobase

Protobase is a 10x, next-generation spreadsheet. It lets you use things like sheets, grids, and formulas, with better structures like tables, queries, filters, search, sorting, and more.

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Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
1
Y Combinator
competitors
6
Mapped from High Signal graph features.
status
generated
D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
source evidence
Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #4401

Protobase is a 10x, next-generation spreadsheet. It lets you use things like sheets, grids, and formulas, with better structures like tables, queries, filters, search, sorting, and more.

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High Signal interpretation

Protobase is classified as Other 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.

offline extraction
Product facets
Protobasesortingsearchnext-generation spreadsheetfiltersqueriestablesformulas
mapping method
Similarity graph

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.

discovery cluster

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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.

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match 45

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shared extracted concept terms: next, generation; shared product terms: next, generation, better; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Glisten AI

match 45

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shared extracted concept terms: filter, search; shared product terms: better, search, filter; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

C16 Biosciences

match 45

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shared extracted concept terms: next, generation; shared product terms: next, generation, better; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Shopagram

match 37

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shared extracted concept terms: next, generation; shared product terms: next, generation; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Appbase

match 36

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shared extracted concept terms: search, querie; shared product terms: search, querie

ParadeDB

match 29

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shared extracted concepts: search; shared product terms: better, search; shared affiliation: Y Combinator