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Shielded launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

The agentic origination desk for supply chain risk.

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

shieldedglobal.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Shielded on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Shielded connects companies’ internal and external data to map market shifts, tariffs, and disruptions directly to suppliers, products, and margins. We turn those impacts into real-time decisions that grow and protect the business. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Map your business, quantify global risk exposure in real time, and support better operational and financial decisions with Shielded." (source)

Timeline

  1. 2013-09-04: "Show HN: Shielded - a strict and fast STM for .NET (in a 43KB DLL)" posted to Hacker News by bakhy, 5 points and 0 comments. (source)
  2. 2026-08-06: Launch YC post "Shielded: The company brain for supply chain risk", tagline "Shielded helps manufacturers understand and act on supply chain risk in real time.", 4 upvotes when read. (source)

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Where else to launch Shielded

  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Dev Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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