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Mercator

Mercator is a YC Summer 2022 (S22) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote. Team of 2.

  • Generative AI
  • SaaS
  • B2B

About Mercator

GPAgent's own fund-neutral profile, written from public information. Updated Oct 5, 2026.

Summary

Mercator builds an AI-assisted SQL analytics platform for data teams. It accelerates query writing and reduces the cost of data analysis, replacing manual SQL authoring and the slower iteration cycles that come with it. The founders bring backgrounds in data science and software engineering from Instacart, Instacart, and Uber.

Go-to-market

Mercator targets B2B data and analytics teams who work in SQL, offered as a SaaS platform.

From the Y Combinator listing

How Mercator describes itself in Y Combinator's public directory. Original listing (opens in a new tab)

AI-assisted data analytics

Mercator is your AI-assisted data analytics platform for writing faster, cheaper, and smarter SQL. Co-founders Andrew and Dayton met on the Instacart data science team. Dayton earned a physics PhD at UC Berkeley before entering DS. Andrew spent six years as a SWE at Uber, where he developed pydeck, a geospatial data visualization library with over 12M downloads. Mercator is backed by Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, Soma Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Amplify Partners, and Rebel Fund.

Facts

Industry
B2B / B2B
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Team size
2
Status
Inactive
Stage
Early

Founders (2)

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