Which YC batch was refine in?

refine was in Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch (S23).

Is refine still active?

Y Combinator lists refine as active.

Where is refine based?

refine lists San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote as its location on YC's directory.

refine: YC S23 company, active

Founders

Not read from YC yet; the weekly run fills these in.

Same space

Competitors

Closest in what they build, same category.

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Adjacent

Overlapping tags, a different niche.

ReflexW23The operating system for building mission-critical enterprise apps.Shared: developer tools, open source, web developmentActive
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Better AuthX25The authentication framework for TypeScriptShared: developer tools, open sourceActive
RecipeUIS23The open source Postman alternative.Shared: developer tools, open sourceActive
WebinyW21Open-source framework for building serverless applicationsShared: developer tools, open sourceActive

Also from S23 in Developer tools

Batchmates in Summer 2023.

About refine

refine is an open-source, headless React framework for rapidly building enterprise web applications. It eliminates many repetitive tasks like ➡️ CRUD operations ➡️ State management ➡️ Routing ➡️ Authentication ➡️ Access Control ➡️ i18n and saves days of development time. So far, thousands of great projects have been built by 15,000+ monthly active refine developers. Use cases are ranging from admin panels, dashboards, and internal tools to B2B solutions and complex SaaS interfaces. refine is backed by a strong community featuring 16K GitHub stars ⭐️, 180+ contributors and 2,500 Discord members. Thanks to it's unique "Headless UI" approach, refine works with any custom design. It has also ready-made integrations with 4 most popular UI frameworks: Ant Design, Material UI, Chakra UI and Mantine. refine is totally backend agnostic and it can connect to 15+ backend services out-of-the-box, incl. custom REST & GraphQL API's. With refine, developers always have 100% control over their projects as they build, style and deploy the way they like.

San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote