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."
Reddit
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AppJet
AppJet was a website that allowed users to create web-based applications in a client web browser. AppJet was founded by three MIT graduates, two of whom were engineers at Google before starting AppJet. They launched their initial public beta on ...
Disqus
Disqus () is an American blog comment hosting service for web sites and online communities that use a networked platform. The company's platform includes various features, such as social integration, social networking, user profiles, spam and ...
Justin.tv
Justin.tv was a website created by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel, and Kyle Vogt in 2007 to allow anyone to broadcast video online. Justin.tv user accounts were called "channels", like those on YouTube, and users were encouraged to br ...
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Ninite
Ninite (; codenamed Volery during private beta stage) is a package management system offering that enables users to automatically install popular applications for their Windows operating system. It enables users to make a selection from a list o ...
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Octopart
Octopart.com is a search engine for electronic and industrial parts headquartered in New York, NY. It aggregates parts from distributors and manufacturers online, making them easy to search for and purchase. It is free for users, and as of August ...
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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 writi ...
Virtualmin
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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.Airbnb
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Bump
Bump or Bumps may refer to:
* A collision or impact
* A raised protrusion on the skin such as a pimple, goose bump, prayer bump, lie bumps, etc.
Infrastructure and industry
* Coal mine bump, a seismic jolt occurring within a mine
* Bump (uni ...
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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 ...
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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 nee ...
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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 an ...
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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 ...
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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 newsp ...
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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 compa ...
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Recurse Center
The Recurse Center (formerly known as Hacker School; also called RC) is an independent educational institution, that, until the COVID-19 pandemic, combined a retreat for computer programmers with a recruiting agency. The retreat is an intentional ...
Stripe
Stripe, striped, or stripes may refer to:
Decorations
* Stripe (pattern), a line or band that differs in colour or tone from an adjacent surface
* Racing stripe, a vehicle decoration
* Service stripe, a decoration of the U.S. military
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WakeMate The WakeMate was an electronic device with sensors intended to be used to monitor the sleep state of the user using actigraphy. It would connect to the user's mobile phone via Bluetooth to record sleep data and to signal the phone to wake them in t ...
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WePay
WePay is an online payment service provider based in the United States. It provides an integrated and customizable payment solution, through its APIs, to platform businesses such as crowdfunding sites, marketplaces and small business software com ...
2011
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Circle
A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is const ...
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Codecademy
Codecademy is an American online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, and Swift, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. The ...
Firebase
Firebase is a set of hosting services for any type of application (Android, iOS, Javascript, Node.js, Java, Unity, PHP, C++ ...). It offers NoSQL and real-time hosting of databases, content, social authentication (Google, Facebook, Twitter an ...
Meteor
A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.
Meteoroids are defined as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller than this are classified as micr ...
Quartzy
Quartzy is an online lab management platform and scientific research supply marketplace. It is a startup company based in Hayward, California. Quartzy features include collaborative order requests and supply tracking for labs and research groups, ...
Upverter
Upverter is an electronic circuit design system delivered in a web browser, which enables hardware engineers to design, share, and review schematics and printed circuit boards. It additionally features the ability to generate a bill of materials, ...
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Verbling
Verbling is an online language learning platform that pairs individuals with language teachers via video chat. The company was created at Y Combinator in 2011. In 2015, Verbling raised $2.7 million in series A round funding. Funders have include ...
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Vidyard
Vidyard is a software company headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, that creates software to host and analyze video performance. The company was founded in May 2010.
Beginnings
Originally starting as a fourth-year design project at the University ...
BufferBox
BufferBox Inc. was a Canadian startup from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that leveraged parcel kiosks to provide consumers the convenience of picking up their online purchases 24/7. Founded by Jay Shah, Aditya Bali and Mike McCaule ...
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Canopy Labs
Canopy Labs is a customer analytics company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with offices in San Francisco. It was founded in 2012 and offers SaaS marketing analytics for businesses and organizations.Ha, AnthonyY Combinator-Backed Canopy ...
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Coinbase
Coinbase Global, Inc., branded Coinbase, is an American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform. Coinbase is a distributed company; all employees operate via remote work and the company lacks a physical headquar ...
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Diaspora
A diaspora ( ) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. Historically, the word was used first in reference to the dispersion of Greeks in the Hellenic world, and later Jews after ...
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Double Robotics
Double Robotics is a technology startup company that produces iPad-based telepresence robot, telepresence robots called Double and Double2. Double, which resembles a Segway PT, has a price of $2,499.
The robot uses gyroscope and accelerometer sen ...
Fullstack Academy
Fullstack Academy is an immersive software engineering coding bootcamp located in New York City. Students of the full-time flagship course learn full stack JavaScript over the course of a 13-week, on-campus program. Fullstack Academy offers be ...
Hackpad Hackpad was a web-based collaborative real-time text editor forked from Etherpad.
It was used as the company wikis by multiple prominent startups of the 2010s, such as Airbnb, Stripe, and Upworthy.
In April 2014, Hackpad was acquired by Dropbox. ...
Kamcord
Kamcord was a social media platform where users post and interact through video content from their mobile devices. Kamcord has pioneered a new content format called "shots," short videos or stills of a user's phone screen annotated with facecam, vo ...
PlanGrid
PlanGrid is a construction productivity software designed for onsite construction workers. PlanGrid digitises blueprints. It has features such as version control and collaboration tools such as field markups, progress photos and issues tracking.
P ...
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Socialcam Socialcam was a mobile social video application for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone, that was launched March 7, 2011 and ended October 28, 2015. It allowed users to capture and share videos online and on mobile, as well as via Facebook, Twitter, ...
Swiftype
Swiftype is a search and index company based in San Francisco, California, that provides search software for organizations, websites, and computer programs. Notable customers include AT&T, Dr. Pepper, Hubspot and TechCrunch.
History
Swiftype was ...
Tilt.com
Founded in 2012, Tilt (formerly Crowdtilt) was a crowdfunding company that allowed for groups and communities to collect, fundraise, or pool money online. James Beshara and Khaled Hussein launched the platform under the name Crowdtilt in Februar ...
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Zapier
Zapier is a product that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use and automate workflows. The company is fully remote. As of 2021, it connects to more than 4,000 apps, with free and paid plans.
Overview
Zapier provides workflo ...
2013
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7 Cups
7 Cups (formerly called 7 Cups of Tea) is an online platform that provides counseling and therapy. The site connects users to "listeners", who have been trained in active listening, via anonymous text or voice chats. The site features distinct g ...
Bitnami
Bitnami is a library of installers or software packages for web applications and software stacks as well as virtual appliances. Bitnami is sponsored by Bitrock, a company founded in 2003 in Seville, Spain by Daniel Lopez Ridruejo and Erica Bresc ...
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Container Linux
Container Linux (formerly CoreOS Linux) is a discontinued open-source lightweight operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed for providing infrastructure to clustered deployments, while focusing on automation, ease of application ...
(CoreOS Linux)
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CrowdMed
CrowdMed is a healthcare platform based in San Francisco, California. Jared Heyman, Axel Setyanto and Jessica Greenwalt founded the company in 2012. CrowdMed aims to diagnose rare medical conditions through crowdsourcing and applying prediction m ...
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DoorDash
DoorDash, Inc. is an American company that operates an online food ordering and food delivery platform. The company is based in San Francisco, California. It went public in December 2020 on NYSE and trades under the symbol DASH.
With a 56% mar ...
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Experiment
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into Causality, cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome oc ...
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Goldbelly
Goldbelly is an online marketplace for food products. Customers can order products from restaurants, bakeries, delis, etc. and have them shipped across the United States. The ordered food sometimes requires preparation and cooking.
History
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Strikingly
Strikingly is a website builder that allows the user, with little or no development experience, to create mobile optimized websites. The company takes a mobile-first approach, allowing users to create websites that are enhanced for viewing across a ...
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Teespring
Teespring (Spring, Inc.) is an American company that operates ''Spring'', a social commerce platform that allows people to create and sell custom products.Rich, NathanielSilicon Valley's Start-Up Machine''The New York Times''. May 2, 2013. The c ...
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True Link
True most commonly refers to truth, the state of being in congruence with fact or reality.
True may also refer to:
Places
* True, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
* True, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
* Tr ...
Webflow
Webflow, Inc. is an American company, based in San Francisco, that provides software as a service for website building and hosting. Their online visual editor platform allows users to design, build, and launch websites. According to W3Techs, Webf ...
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Zenefits
TriNet Zenefits (legal name: YourPeople, Inc., previously known as Zenefits) is a technology company based in San Francisco, that offers cloud-based software as a service to companies for managing their human resources, with a particular focus o ...
2014–2015
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80,000 Hours
80,000 Hours is a London-based nonprofit organisation that conducts research on which careers have the largest positive social impact and provides career advice based on that research. It provides this advice on their website and podcast, and ...
Algolia
Algolia is a proprietary search engine offering, usable through the software as a service (SaaS) model.
Company
Algolia was founded in 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, both originally from Paris, France. It was originally a comp ...
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Bluesmart
Bluesmart Inc. was a global travel technology company that developed and produced Internet of Things travel products. The brand launched a carry-on suitcase, the Bluesmart One, on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo in 2014. The campaign raised $ ...
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Cofactor Genomics
Cofactor Genomics is a Biotechnology, biotech company that primarily focuses on drug development, medical research, and personalized medicine.
Overview
Cofactor Genomics was founded in August 2008 by Jarret Glasscock, Matt Hickenbotham, and R ...
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Flexport
Flexport Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on supply chain management and logistics, including order management, trade financing, insurance, freight forwarding and customs brokerage. The company is headquartered in San Fra ...
GitLab
GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package which can develop, secure, and operate software. The open source software project was created by Ukrainian developer Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Dutch developer S ...
Lumi
Lumi may refer to:
Computing
* Lumi (software), chemical analysis software
* Lumi masking, a technique used by video compression software
* LUMI, a supercomputer located in Finland
Music
* ''Lumi'' (album), a 1987 album by Edward Vesala
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Paribus
Paribus is an American company and creator of the price tracking app of the same name, which syncs with a user's email account to scan for receipts and negotiates with online companies to refund the difference if there is a price drop shortly a ...
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Platzi
Platzi is a Latin American educational platform.
History
Platzi was founded in Colombia by Freddy Vega and Christian Van Der Henst in 2014. Both met as competitors in their former companies: Cristalab and Maestros del Web. The company was born fr ...
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Product Hunt
Product Hunt is an American website to share and discover new products. It was founded by Ryan Hoover in November 2013.
Users submit products, which are listed in a linear format by day. The site includes a comments system and a voting system si ...
Rigetti Computing
Rigetti Computing is a Berkeley, California-based developer of quantum integrated circuits used for quantum computers. The company also develops a cloud platform called Forest that enables programmers to write quantum algorithms.
History
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uBiome
uBiome, Inc. was a biotechnology company based in San Francisco that developed technology to sequence the human microbiome.
Its main product analyzed gut microbes in patients with long-term intestinal disorders.
Founded in 2012, the company ...
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Unbabel
Unbabel is an artificial intelligence-powered human translation platform. The company has headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, and San Francisco, California.
Unbabel combines Neural Machine Translation with machine learning and a crowdsourced mod ...
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Zesty
Zest may refer to:
Common usage
* Zest (ingredient), the outer peel of a citrus fruit
** Zester, a tool for preparing zest
** Twist (cocktail garnish), a piece of zest
* Zest (positive psychology), a component of character
Brands
* Zest (brand ...
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Zidisha
Zidisha allows people to lend small amounts of money directly to entrepreneurs in developing countries. It is the first peer-to-peer microlending service to link borrowers and lenders across international borders without a local microfinance ins ...
2016−2018
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Boom Technology
Boom Technology, Inc. (trade name Boom Supersonic) is an American company designing a , 65-88-passenger supersonic airliner. Named the Boom Overture, the airliner is planned to have a range of and to be introduced in 2025.
After being incubat ...
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Brex
Brex Inc is an American financial service and technology company based in San Francisco, California. Brex offers business credit cards and Cash Management Accounts to technology companies. Brex cards are business charge cards, which require at ...
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Coub
Coub is a video streaming platform available on the web, iOS and Android. It allows users to create and share looped audio-visual collages up to ten seconds long, using existing video clips from YouTube, Vimeo, and other popular video sharing ...
Modal Commerce
Modal, formerly known as Next Technology Inc., was an American-based company in San Francisco, that sold software for a dealership's website, allowing car shoppers to purchase new and used cars online.
In 2016, the company, then known as Next Tec ...
(Drive Motors)
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Netomi
Netomi, formerly msg.ai, is an American artificial intelligence company and developer of chatbot technologies.
History
msg.ai was founded in may 2015 by Puneet Mehta.
msg.ai worked with Sony Pictures to launch a chat bot on Facebook Messeng ...
(msg.ai)
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Rappi
Rappi is a Colombian multivertical company headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia, and with main offices in São Paulo and Mexico City. It was founded in 2015 by Simón Borrero, Sebastian Mejía, Felipe Villamarín and Guillermo Plaza.
History
Ra ...
Women Who Code
Women Who Code (WWCode) is an international non-profit organization that provides services for women pursuing technology careers and a job board for companies seeking coding professionals. The company aims to provide an avenue into the technolo ...