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List Of Y-Combinator Startups
The following notable startups have completed the Y Combinator Accelerator program. Mike Isaac described Y Combinator as: "Y Combinator accepts batches of start-ups twice a year in a semester-like system and gives them money, advice and access to a vast network of start-up founders and technologists who can advise them." 2005−2006 * Clustrix * Loopt * OMGPop * Reddit * Scribd * Xobni * YouOS 2007–2008 * 280 North * AppJet * Biographicon * Disqus * Dropbox * Heroku * Justin.tv * Ninite * Octopart * Parakey * Posterous * Songkick * Virtualmin * Weebly 2009−2010 * 1000Memories * Airbnb * Bump * Homejoy * Listia * Mixpanel * Optimizely * OwnLocal * PagerDuty * Recurse Center (Hacker School) * RethinkDB * Stripe * WakeMate * WePay 2011 * Circle * Codecademy * drchrono * Firebase * HackerRank * Humble Bundle * Lanyrd * LeadGenius * MemSQL * Meteor * MongoHQ * OrderAhead * Parse * Pebble (watch) * Quartzy * Science Exchange * Upvert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Y Combinator
Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, Stripe and Twitch. The combined valuation of the top YC companies was more than $300 billion by January 2021. The company's accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View, expanded to San Francisco in 2019, and has been entirely online since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. ''Forbes'' characterized the company in 2012 as one of the most successful startup accelerators in Silicon Valley. History Y Combinator was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris, and Trevor Blackwell. From 2005 to 2008, one program was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and one was in Mountain View, California. As Y Combinator grew to 40 investments per year, running two programs became too much. In January 2009, Y Combinator an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parakey
Parakey is a web-based computer user interface proposed by Firefox contributors Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt. Ross describes it as "a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do." The idea behind it is to make image, video, and writing transfer to the web easier. He explains that the current problem with transferring data to the web is that in order to move an image onto the web you first have to transfer pictures from your digital camera, then upload them to a place like Flickr. Or, if you want to rant, you launch a blog oblogger.combefore you can start talking. On 20 July 2007 Parakey was bought by Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ... for an undisclosed sum. The purchase also included the developers' assistance in progressing Facebook. Parak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PagerDuty
PagerDuty is an American cloud computing company specializing in a SaaS incident response platform for IT departments. It has been recognized by ''Forbes'' on its "Cloud 100" as well as the ''USA Today'' list for the top small and mid-sized companies for diversity in 2018. PagerDuty is headquartered in San Francisco with operations in Toronto, Atlanta, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Its platform is designed to alert clients to disruptions and outages through machine learning and automation. The software operates as a standalone service or can be integrated into existing IT systems. Notable customers include GE, Vodafone, Box.com, Clover Network, and American Eagle Outfitters. History The company was founded 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, by University of Waterloo graduates Alex Solomon, Andrew Miklas, and Baskar Puvanathasan. The company was incubated at Y Combinator. PagerDuty raised a seed funding round of $1.9 million in 2010, followed by a Series A round that raised $10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OwnLocal
OwnLocal is an Austin, Texas-based digital advertising startup founded in 2010. History Lloyd Armbrust and Jason Novek founded Seeing Interactive in 2010. Backed by seed accelerator Y-Combinator, the company launched as a service for local newspaper, TV, and Radio stations. After its launch, the startup raised $1 million in seed funding from various investors, including Lerer Ventures, Baseline Ventures, and angel investors Joshua Schachter and Paul Buchheit. The company changed its name to OwnLocal in March 2011. In October 2011, OwnLocal received an undisclosed amount from a funding round led by Automattic, the developer of WordPress. The incubator 500 Startups also participated in the funding. The round raised the company's total funding to $2 million. OwnLocal was one of the first for-profit companies to receive funding from the Knight Enterprise Fund, a fund for media innovation. The company also received an equity investment in February 2013 from Digital First Ventures f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Optimizely
Optimizely is an American company that provides digital experience platform software as a service. Optimizely provides A/B testing and multivariate testing in marketing, multivariate testing tools, Personalization#Web pages, website personalization, and feature toggle capabilities, as well as Web content management system, web content management and digital commerce. The company was acquired by Episerver in October 2020 and in January of 2021 Episerver announced that they were branding the combined company as "Optimizely". History Optimizely was founded in 2010 by Dan Siroker and Pete Koomen, both formerly of Google. Optimizely completed the Y Combinator seed accelerator program in the winter of 2010. In November 2010, Optimizely closed a US$1.2 million funding round from angel investors. The company became cash flow positive in 2011. In May 2012 Optimizely announced that it had raised new funding from Battery Ventures, GV (company), GV, and InterWest Partners. In April 2013, Opti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixpanel
Mixpanel is a business analytics service company. It tracks user interactions with web and mobile applications and provides tools for targeted communication with them. Data collected is used to build custom reports and measure user engagement and retention. Mixpanel works with web applications, in particular SaaS, but also supports mobile apps. History Mixpanel was founded by Suhail Doshi and Tim Trefren in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. It is backed by Y Combinator, and its list of investors includes Andreessen Horowitz, Max Levchin and Keith Rabois Keith Rabois (born March 17, 1969) is an American technology executive and investor. He is currently a general partner at Founders Fund. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and his executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide, .... In April 2018, founder and CEO Suhail Doshi announced he would step down and become chairman of the board. He was replaced as CEO by Amir Movafaghi. Mixpanel's sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listia
Listia is a free online marketplace and mobile app for trading goods between individuals without using money. The platform has a system known as Listia credits to facilitate the trades. Users earn credits for giving away items they no longer need and can then use credits to get items that other users have listed. The marketplace uses an auction system where users bid on each other's items until the auction ends and the highest bidder wins. The user who listed the item then arranges for a pickup or ships the item directly to the winner. History Listia originally received funding of $15,000 from startup funding firm Y Combinator. Listia was launched on August 6, 2009. In October 2009, Listia received $400,000 in funding from Implistic Capital in an angel round with Adam Pearsall joining the board of directors. By 2010, the site passed the 1,000,000 auction mark and was named one of the top 100 websites of 2010 by ''PCMag''. In April 2011, Listia raised an additional $1.75M in f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homejoy
Homejoy was an online platform which connected customers with home service providers, including house cleaners and handymen. The company was based in San Francisco. Homejoy served the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom for a total of over 31 major cities. It charged a variable rate of $25–$35 per hour (or £13 an hour in the UK).. Homejoy shut down on July 31, 2015. History Homejoy was founded in 2010 by siblings Adora and Aaron Cheung, who worked as CEO and VP of Growth, respectively. Originally, the company was named Pathjoy. Co-founder Adora Cheung did the first few cleaning jobs herself, and until late 2013 continued to work at least one cleaning job per month. Homejoy received an undisclosed amount of funding from Y Combinator in March 2010, but began operations in 2012. Paul Graham said Homejoy was the fastest growing Y Combinator company. The company raised another $1.7 million in seed funding in early 2013. The seed investors included Andreessen Horowitz, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bump (application)
Bump! is a discontinued iOS and Android mobile app that enables smartphone users to transfer contact information, photos and files between devices. In 2011, it was #8 on Apple's list of all-time most popular free iPhone apps, and by February 2013 it had been downloaded 125 million times. Its developer, Bump Technologies, shut down the service and discontinued the app on January 31, 2014, after being acquired by Google for Google Photos and Android Camera. Functionality Bump sends contact information, photos and files to another device over the internet. Before activating the transfer, each user confirms what he or she wants to send to the other user. To initiate a transfer, two people physically bump their phones together. A screen appears on both users' smartphone displays, allowing them to confirm what they want to send to each other. When two users bump their phones, software on the phones send a variety of sensor data to an algorithm running on Bump servers, which includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airbnb
Airbnb, Inc. ( ), based in San Francisco, California, operates an online marketplace focused on short-term homestays and experiences. The company acts as a broker and charges a commission from each booking. The company was founded in 2008 by Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk, and Joe Gebbia. Airbnb is a shortened version of its original name, AirBedandBreakfast.com. The company has been the subject of criticism for lack of regulations and enabling increases in home rents. History After moving to San Francisco in October 2007, roommates and former schoolmates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia came up with the idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast. In February 2008, Nathan Blecharczyk, Chesky's former roommate, joined as the Chief Technology Officer and the third co-founder of the new venture, which they named AirBed & Breakfast. They put together a website that offered short-term living quarters and breakfast for those who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1000Memories
1000Memories was a website that let people organize, share, and discover old photos and memories and to set up family trees. It was shut down in late 2013 after an acquisition by Ancestry.com. , 1000 Memories weblog. Retrieved 2013-10-22 History The company was based out of , and was founded in 2010 after co-founders Brett Huneycutt and Jonathan Good left , and co-founder Rudy Adler left |
Weebly
Weebly () is a web hosting service, headquartered in San Francisco. Weebly is a subsidiary of Block, Inc. History Weebly was founded in 2006 by Chief Executive Officer David Rusenko, Chief Technology Officer Chris Fanini, and former Chief Product Officer Dan Veltri. Rusenko and Fanini both attended the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). Veltri attended the university's Smeal College of Business. At the time, Penn State required all students to maintain an Internet portfolio, so they built upon this idea and created software that made it easy for anyone to build a personal website. Formal development of Weebly began in January 2006. The invitational beta release was announced in June 2006. The official private-beta launched in September 2006. In 2007, Weebly raised a United States dollar, US$650,000 financing round from several angel investors, including Ron Conway, Steve Anderson, Mike Maples, and Paul Buchheit. In 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
