Y Combinator Companies

This is the most comprehensive and well-researched list anywhere on the Internet of companies funded by Y Combinator. As of Spring 2013, this list includes details of an investment portfolio consisting of more than 450 companies, in over 40 markets, totaling 9 million dollars invested across 16 semi-annual rounds since 2005. This page gets updated almost daily.

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Start-ups frequently change. Among other things, they re-strategize, rename, merge, and get acquired. Some companies wish to remain unknown. All dollar amounts are unofficial estimates. Please send any updates/corrections/omissions to Patrick ( citizenkeys AT gmail.com ).

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Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
36	$720,000	$0	$0	$2,880,000

General	Description
Airware Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live; renamed from Unmanned Innovations Market:	Airware has a unique approach to the expanding world of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). We develosp enterprise solutions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones). Airware solutions encompass autopilot hardware and flexible software architectures that allow our customers to tailor UAVs to any application. Airware also makes an API for developers that abstracts communicating with drone hardware and communications interface.
BackerKit Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	BackerKit is crowdfunding that enables makers to provide backers the service they deserve, so makers can focus on making something backers will love.
Backlift Location: CrunchBase: backlift Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Backlift allows front end developers to build rich websites. Backlift allows you to deploy a new website using your Dropbox and the Web. When you change your Dropbox files, your website will automatically refresh.
BitNami Location: Alameda, CA; Spain CrunchBase: bitnami Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: platform as a service	BitNami is an app store for server software. BitNami provides free, ready-to-run installers, virtual appliances and cloud templates for popular open source applications to users around the world. BitNami’s commercial offering, BitNami Cloud Hosting, simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications on the cloud.
BuildZoom Location: Scottsdale, AZ CrunchBase: buildzoom Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: home improvement	BuildZoom offers a better way to remodel your home. The company helps people find and hire the best contractors to make sure their remodeling project is completed properly. On BuildZoom, homeowners can research contractors, browse through completed project photos, and get answers to questions about home improvement from a community of experts.
CircuitLab Location: Mountain View, CA CrunchBase: circuitlab Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: electronics design	Circuit Lab is making it easier for engineers, students, and hobbyists to design, analyze, build, and share circuits. We’re building the electronics design software to help bring products from concept to reality faster and easier – and perhaps even make the process more fun.
CrowdMed Location: CrunchBase: crowdmed Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: medical industry	CrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. After 4 years of development and refinement, CrowdMed’s patented prediction market technology can suggest diagnoses to real-world medical cases that have stumped doctors for years. Instead of relying on individual physicians, CrowdMed harnesses the collective intelligence of hundreds of Medical Detectives (MD’s) to produce astonishingly accurate diagnostic suggestions in just hours.
Errplane Location: New York, NY CrunchBase: errplane Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Errplane is a service that instruments and monitors your application’s performance, custom metrics, and exceptions. By including the Errplane library, you’ll automatically get details on the performance of your application and be able to configure alerts for email, SMS, chatroom, or web hook. Further, you can configure monitors to ensure that your site and API are up and responding, background workers are running, and jobs are being processed in a timely manner.
Fivetran Location: CrunchBase: fivetran Hacker News: georgewfraser Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Fivetran provides data analysis for companies. Drag and drop multiple Excel spreadsheet or CSV files into your project and get working in seconds. Hook Fivetran directly into your database and do in-database analytics with the spreadsheet formulas you already know. We’ve also got you covered with our library of built in data sets like climate and market data. Fivetran is built on state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure. All data is encrypted on secure servers. Each user is individually protected in a high-security process.
FlightCar Location: Cincinatti, OH CrunchBase: flightcar Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	FlightCar lets people parking at the airport rent their vehicles out to other travelers. Every rental is insured up to $1 million, and every renter is pre-screened.
Goldbely Location: Sunnyvale, CA CrunchBase: goldbely Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology	Goldbely is an online marketplace where users can discover America’s most regionally famous and unique gourmet food & gifts. All of the products feature are hand-selected by our team of food explorers.
Heap Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Heap automatically captures every user action in your web app and lets you measure it all. Clicks, form submissions, page views, and more. Track events and segment users instantly. No pushing code. No waiting for data to trickle in.
Lawdingo Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: lawdingo-2 Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: legal services	Lawdingo connects people with attorneys for legal consultations over the internet. People can find, book, and meet a lawyer without any of the real-world hassles like talking to a secretary, driving to a law office or paying a retainer. Lawyers gain access to a much larger legal market than their local community and are afforded the flexibility to talk to new clients on their own schedule.
Lollipuff Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: fashion and clothing	Lollipuff is an auction site that fully authenticates any designer clothing and accessories it sells. Lollipuff prevents buyers from purchasing counterfeit goods by using a combination of human expert authenticators along with a patent-pending process to ensure that the goods on the site are real. All the items sold are either lightly used or brand new.
Medisas Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: medical industry	Medisas is a software-as-a-service company that seeks to replace the error-prone printed medical charts and other patient information that doctors transfer to each other between shifts. Medisas is optimized for tablet computers and smartphones.
Meldium Location: CrunchBase: meldium Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Meldium has the mission to make it simple and safe for companies and teams of all sizes to use modern web applications. Meldium automates away the tedious, error-prone, and insecure parts of account management so you can do more work with less IT.
Microryza Location: Seattle CrunchBase: microryza Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: scientific research tools	Microryza is a crowdfunding platform for science and academic research.
Padlet Location: CrunchBase: padlet Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Padlet is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Think of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time wiki.
PayTango Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	PayTango makes biometric identification systems. PayTango’s initial product is a device that replaces credit cards with a fingerprint scanner. The fingerprint scanner works with merchants’ existing point-of-sale terminals and software.
Posmetrics Location: CrunchBase: posmetrics Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: surveys and forms	Posmetrics provides a turnkey service for collecting customer surveys on an iPad. Posmetrics allows you to collect feedback from over 15% of your customers, a fraction not even remotely achievable with other methods. Customers have fun giving feedback on an iPad With Posmetrics and surveys are a positive experience. Customers can give feedback in just 5 touches, while the experience is still fresh in their minds. Instant follow-up Posmetrics lets you instantly send follow up emails to your most- and least-satisfied customers, allowing you to increase reviews on Yelp or TripAdvisor, collect more “likes” on Facebook, or simply reach out to more of your customers.
Prizeo Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: charity and philanthropy	Prizeo raises funds for charities by working with top celebrities and social media.
Screenhero Location: Mountain View, CA CrunchBase: screenhero Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Screenhero provides real-time collaboration web tools. The team previously worked on iTeleport, a remote desktop app for iOS and Mac.
Semantics3 Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Semantics3 has the aim of making structured data from across the web easily accessible to all. We specialize in crawling, curating and merging data at scale from a variety of sources. This data is indexed along several dimensions and made available for developers to harness and innovate upon by means of an API. Currently, our primary offering is our Products Data API. With this API, developers can build sophisticated models to track prices across a wide variety of products, easily build shopping comparison engines, enrich e-commerce stores with rich metadata and more. Currently our Products database has more than 20 million products listed and is growing by 5 million products per month.
SimplyInsured Location: CrunchBase: simplyinsured Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	SimplyInsured allows you to estimate your real Out-of-Pocket costs when purchasing health insurance. We turn the 100+ costs/benefits in health insurance into one, simple, easy-to-compare price.
Strikingly Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Strikingly is the easiest way to create beautiful one page mobile-optimized websites. Strikingly provides responsive templates, an easy-to-use editor, and all the tools you need for SEO, social, and analytics.
StyleUp Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: fashion and clothing	StyleUp is a daily personal fashion recommendation service for women that takes into account your location (i.e. weather) and personal style to give you stylized outfit suggestions each day.
Swapbox Location: San Francisco, CA; Palo Alto, CA CrunchBase: swapbox Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: logistics, shipping, and warehousing	Swapbox is a startup based in San Francisco, founded by a team with work experience from Google, Microsoft, and Zynga. With Swapbox you no longer have to worry about missing deliveries. Use your Swapbox shipping address and your packages will be waiting for you at our nearest location. Swapbox is currently available on Stanford Campus in Palo Alto and in San Francisco.
Swish Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	Swish is a crowdfunded marketplace for new and not yet made products from creators around the world. We run 30-day pre-order campaigns for products submitted by their designers. By placing a pre-order, you get to be one of the first people to own a new product, with the confidence and security of a money back guarantee of delivery.
Teespring Location: CrunchBase: teespring Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: fashion and clothing	Teespring allows people to crowdfund awesome custom apparel with no up-front cost and no risk. Create a design, choose a sales goal, and launch a campaign (e.g. www.teespring.com/botswana ). Once the goal is reached, Teespring handles the production, fulfillment, and sends the organizer a check for the profit.
Terascore Location: CrunchBase: terascore Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: education	Terascore develops an educational tool for teachers to create, administer, and manage tests entirely online. Scores and results are available immediately. Teachers get instant analytics on question quality, difficulty, student performance. Any questions created can be stored in a question bank for reuse. Terascore aims to move all tests online and in doing so make learning more effective and teachers more efficient. The results are shortening the feedback loop for learning and are better for teachers and students. Terascore makes creating tests radically easier, as it has a WYSIWYG browser-based test authoring tool. Terascore allows teachers to easily integrate images, links, videos, and math equations into tests to make them more fun, engaging, and relevant.
Thalmic Labs Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	Thalmic Labs is developing exciting new technologies in the area of human-computer interaction: Technologies which bridge the gap between man and machine, enabling us to accomplish new feats, enhance our abilities, and explore new possibilities.
Watsi Location: CrunchBase: watsi Hacker News: chaseadam17 Status: live Market: charity and philanthropy	Watsi is an online peer-to-peer crowdfunding platform that allows users to fund life-changing medical treatments for underserved people in developing countries. Watsi is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
WeFunder Location: CrunchBase: wefunder Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	WeFunder is crowdfunding that enables anyone to invest in quality startups. WeFunder’s potential is made possible by the recently-passed JOBS Act.
Wevorce Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: legal services	Wevorce uses software to help couples go through divorce in an amicable way.
Zaranga Location: CrunchBase: zaranga Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	Zaranga is the only price discovery based vacation rental marketplace focused on professionally managed properties in destinations around metros.
Zenefits Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	Zenefits finds and manages employee benefits for businesses. Get quotes for medical, vision, dental, and 401k. Transportation and cell phone benefits are coming soon. Zenefits sets up payroll deductions and manages recurring human resource work. Zenefits already integrates with ADP, Intuit, and Zen Payroll.

General

Description

Airware

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live; renamed from Unmanned Innovations

Market:

Airware has a unique approach to the expanding world of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). We develosp enterprise solutions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones). Airware solutions encompass autopilot hardware and flexible software architectures that allow our customers to tailor UAVs to any application. Airware also makes an API for developers that abstracts communicating with drone hardware and communications interface.

BackerKit

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

BackerKit is crowdfunding that enables makers to provide backers the service they deserve, so makers can focus on making something backers will love.

Backlift

Location:

CrunchBase: backlift

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Backlift allows front end developers to build rich websites. Backlift allows you to deploy a new website using your Dropbox and the Web. When you change your Dropbox files, your website will automatically refresh.

BitNami

Location: Alameda, CA; Spain

CrunchBase: bitnami

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: platform as a service

BitNami is an app store for server software. BitNami provides free, ready-to-run installers, virtual appliances and cloud templates for popular open source applications to users around the world. BitNami’s commercial offering, BitNami Cloud Hosting, simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications on the cloud.

BuildZoom

Location: Scottsdale, AZ

CrunchBase: buildzoom

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: home improvement

BuildZoom offers a better way to remodel your home. The company helps people find and hire the best contractors to make sure their remodeling project is completed properly. On BuildZoom, homeowners can research contractors, browse through completed project photos, and get answers to questions about home improvement from a community of experts.

CircuitLab

Location: Mountain View, CA

CrunchBase: circuitlab

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: electronics design

Circuit Lab is making it easier for engineers, students, and hobbyists to design, analyze, build, and share circuits. We’re building the electronics design software to help bring products from concept to reality faster and easier – and perhaps even make the process more fun.

CrowdMed

Location:

CrunchBase: crowdmed

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: medical industry

CrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online.

After 4 years of development and refinement, CrowdMed’s patented prediction market technology can suggest diagnoses to real-world medical cases that have stumped doctors for years. Instead of relying on individual physicians, CrowdMed harnesses the collective intelligence of hundreds of Medical Detectives (MD’s) to produce astonishingly accurate diagnostic suggestions in just hours.

Errplane

Location: New York, NY

CrunchBase: errplane

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Errplane is a service that instruments and monitors your application’s performance, custom metrics, and exceptions. By including the Errplane library, you’ll automatically get details on the performance of your application and be able to configure alerts for email, SMS, chatroom, or web hook. Further, you can configure monitors to ensure that your site and API are up and responding, background workers are running, and jobs are being processed in a timely manner.

Fivetran

Location:

CrunchBase: fivetran

Hacker News: georgewfraser
Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Fivetran provides data analysis for companies. Drag and drop multiple Excel spreadsheet or CSV files into your project and get working in seconds. Hook Fivetran directly into your database and do in-database analytics with the spreadsheet formulas you already know. We’ve also got you covered with our library of built in data sets like climate and market data.
Fivetran is built on state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure. All data is encrypted on secure servers. Each user is individually protected in a high-security process.

FlightCar

Location: Cincinatti, OH

CrunchBase: flightcar

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: travel-related services

FlightCar lets people parking at the airport rent their vehicles out to other travelers. Every rental is insured up to $1 million, and every renter is pre-screened.

Goldbely

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

CrunchBase: goldbely

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology

Goldbely is an online marketplace where users can discover America’s most regionally famous and unique gourmet food & gifts. All of the products feature are hand-selected by our team of food explorers.

Heap

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Heap automatically captures every user action in your web app and lets you measure it all. Clicks, form submissions, page views, and more. Track events and segment users instantly. No pushing code. No waiting for data to trickle in.

Lawdingo

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: lawdingo-2

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: legal services

Lawdingo connects people with attorneys for legal consultations over the internet. People can find, book, and meet a lawyer without any of the real-world hassles like talking to a secretary, driving to a law office or paying a retainer. Lawyers gain access to a much larger legal market than their local community and are afforded the flexibility to talk to new clients on their own schedule.

Lollipuff

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: fashion and clothing

Lollipuff is an auction site that fully authenticates any designer clothing and accessories it sells. Lollipuff prevents buyers from purchasing counterfeit goods by using a combination of human expert authenticators along with a patent-pending process to ensure that the goods on the site are real. All the items sold are either lightly used or brand new.

Medisas

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: medical industry

Medisas is a software-as-a-service company that seeks to replace the error-prone printed medical charts and other patient information that doctors transfer to each other between shifts. Medisas is optimized for tablet computers and smartphones.

Meldium

Location:

CrunchBase: meldium

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Meldium has the mission to make it simple and safe for companies and teams of all sizes to use modern web applications.
Meldium automates away the tedious, error-prone, and insecure parts of account management so you can do more work with less IT.

Microryza

Location: Seattle

CrunchBase: microryza

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: scientific research tools

Microryza is a crowdfunding platform for science and academic research.

Padlet

Location:

CrunchBase: padlet

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Padlet is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Think of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time wiki.

PayTango

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)

PayTango makes biometric identification systems. PayTango’s initial product is a device that replaces credit cards with a fingerprint scanner. The fingerprint scanner works with merchants’ existing point-of-sale terminals and software.

Posmetrics

Location:

CrunchBase: posmetrics

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: surveys and forms

Posmetrics provides a turnkey service for collecting customer surveys on an iPad. Posmetrics allows you to collect feedback from over 15% of your customers, a fraction not even remotely achievable with other methods. Customers have fun giving feedback on an iPad With Posmetrics and surveys are a positive experience. Customers can give feedback in just 5 touches, while the experience is still fresh in their minds. Instant follow-up Posmetrics lets you instantly send follow up emails to your most- and least-satisfied customers, allowing you to increase reviews on Yelp or TripAdvisor, collect more “likes” on Facebook, or simply reach out to more of your customers.

Prizeo

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: charity and philanthropy

Prizeo raises funds for charities by working with top celebrities and social media.

Screenhero

Location: Mountain View, CA

CrunchBase: screenhero

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Screenhero provides real-time collaboration web tools. The team previously worked on iTeleport, a remote desktop app for iOS and Mac.

Semantics3

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Semantics3 has the aim of making structured data from across the web easily accessible to all. We specialize in crawling, curating and merging data at scale from a variety of sources. This data is indexed along several dimensions and made available for developers to harness and innovate upon by means of an API. Currently, our primary offering is our Products Data API. With this API, developers can build sophisticated models to track prices across a wide variety of products, easily build shopping comparison engines, enrich e-commerce stores with rich metadata and more. Currently our Products database has more than 20 million products listed and is growing by 5 million products per month.

SimplyInsured

Location:

CrunchBase: simplyinsured

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

SimplyInsured allows you to estimate your real Out-of-Pocket costs when purchasing health insurance. We turn the 100+ costs/benefits in health insurance into one, simple, easy-to-compare price.

Strikingly

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Strikingly is the easiest way to create beautiful one page mobile-optimized websites. Strikingly provides responsive templates, an easy-to-use editor, and all the tools you need for SEO, social, and analytics.

StyleUp

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: fashion and clothing

StyleUp is a daily personal fashion recommendation service for women that takes into account your location (i.e. weather) and personal style to give you stylized outfit suggestions each day.

Swapbox

Location: San Francisco, CA; Palo Alto, CA

CrunchBase: swapbox

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: logistics, shipping, and warehousing

Swapbox is a startup based in San Francisco, founded by a team with work experience from Google, Microsoft, and Zynga. With Swapbox you no longer have to worry about missing deliveries. Use your Swapbox shipping address and your packages will be waiting for you at our nearest location. Swapbox is currently available on Stanford Campus in Palo Alto and in San Francisco.

Swish

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

Swish is a crowdfunded marketplace for new and not yet made products from creators around the world. We run 30-day pre-order campaigns for products submitted by their designers. By placing a pre-order, you get to be one of the first people to own a new product, with the confidence and security of a money back guarantee of delivery.

Teespring

Location:

CrunchBase: teespring

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: fashion and clothing

Teespring allows people to crowdfund awesome custom apparel with no up-front cost and no risk. Create a design, choose a sales goal, and launch a campaign (e.g. www.teespring.com/botswana ). Once the goal is reached, Teespring handles the production, fulfillment, and sends the organizer a check for the profit.

Terascore

Location:

CrunchBase: terascore

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: education

Terascore develops an educational tool for teachers to create, administer, and manage tests entirely online. Scores and results are available immediately. Teachers get instant analytics on question quality, difficulty, student performance. Any questions created can be stored in a question bank for reuse.
Terascore aims to move all tests online and in doing so make learning more effective and teachers more efficient. The results are shortening the feedback loop for learning and are better for teachers and students.

Terascore makes creating tests radically easier, as it has a WYSIWYG browser-based test authoring tool. Terascore allows teachers to easily integrate images, links, videos, and math equations into tests to make them more fun, engaging, and relevant.

Thalmic Labs

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)

Thalmic Labs is developing exciting new technologies in the area of human-computer interaction: Technologies which bridge the gap between man and machine, enabling us to accomplish new feats, enhance our abilities, and explore new possibilities.

Watsi

Location:

CrunchBase: watsi

Hacker News: chaseadam17
Status: live

Market: charity and philanthropy

Watsi is an online peer-to-peer crowdfunding platform that allows users to fund life-changing medical treatments for underserved people in developing countries. Watsi is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

WeFunder

Location:

CrunchBase: wefunder

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

WeFunder is crowdfunding that enables anyone to invest in quality startups. WeFunder’s potential is made possible by the recently-passed JOBS Act.

Wevorce

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: legal services

Wevorce uses software to help couples go through divorce in an amicable way.

Zaranga

Location:

CrunchBase: zaranga

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: travel-related services

Zaranga is the only price discovery based vacation rental marketplace focused on professionally managed properties in destinations around metros.

Zenefits

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: employment resources

Zenefits finds and manages employee benefits for businesses. Get quotes for medical, vision, dental, and 401k. Transportation and cell phone benefits are coming soon. Zenefits sets up payroll deductions and manages recurring human resource work. Zenefits already integrates with ADP, Intuit, and Zen Payroll.

YCS12

Demo Day Coverage (Kim-Mai Cutler): http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/21/y-combinator-second-batch/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
69	$1,380,000	$0	$0	$10,350,000

General	Description
9Gag Location: CrunchBase: 9gag Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: memes and jokes	9GAG aggregates memes and jokes from around the web. 9gag lets you create your fun collection effortlessly. It’s the best place where fun creators and bored people meet. Unlike ordinary fun sites which are full of disturbing ads, 9GAG aims at spreading happiness to the world in an elegant way.
Airbrite Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: pivot and rename to Celery trycelery.com Market:	Airbrite is ecommerce software for tablets. Airbrite makes software designed to replace inflexible legacy software on ecommerce stores.
Amicus Location: New York, NY CrunchBase: amicus Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: charity and philanthropy	Amicus is a volunteer recruiting platform for non-profits. Amicus empowers cause-driven organizations to leverage the social networks of their supporters, raise more money, attract more members, and win more votes.
Authy Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Authy makes it easy to add optional two factor authentication to your application. You just add some API calls to your app and your users will be able to use their phones as a second layer of authentication. Two factor authentication means you need something extra besides just a password to access a site or service: something you have, something you know, or something you are. Something you have could be a security card or a dongle.
BigCalc Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	BigCalc makes software that financial firms can rely on to help them make fast, algorithmically-driven trading decisions. The BigCalc platform for financial modeling scales to enormous datasets, and does simulations that typically take 22 hours in 24 minutes.
Boosted Boards Location: CrunchBase: boosted-boards Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	Boosted Boards is developing the world’s lightest electric vehicle. We launched on Kickstarter and we’re now taking preorders on Boostedboards.com.
BufferBox Location: Mountain View, CA CrunchBase: bufferbox Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by google Market: logistics, shipping, and warehousing	BufferBox has developed an automated, self-serve kiosk to eliminate the frustrations and hassle involved with failed parcel deliveries. BufferBox has successfully deployed our first kiosk that allows for 24/7 pick-up of parcels at a convenient location.
Canopy Labs Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Canopy Labs helps mid-sized businesses prioritize their sales leads and identify high-value customers by providing a self-serve product that is actionable and quick.
Circular Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live; rename to Tendenci Market:	Circular offers an infinitely scrolling feed of content based on people you follow and topics that interest you.
Clever Location: San Carlos, CA CrunchBase: clever Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: education	Clever builds educational applications that just work. School integration doesn’t have to be painful. Use Clever to get real-time student data. Our mission is to make powerful educational software easy to build and easy to deploy.
Coco Controller Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	Coco Controller is a Kickstarter project that adds directional controls and game buttons to almost any phone, including the Galaxy SIII, iPhone, and most standard Android handsets. Created by Harvard drop-outs Connor Zwick and Colton Gyulay, the project aims to be a usable, useful addition to the mobile gamer’s arsenal. Coco Controller is made by Milkshake Labs.
Coinbase Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	Coinbase is a bitcoin-based money transfer services that enables people to send and receive money, instantly and securely, anywhere in the world.
Collections.me Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Collections.me is a file manager connected to the cloud. Collections.me is super fast and always available whether you’re online or offline.
Data Nitro Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Data Nitro enables you to to use the popular programming language Python in Microsoft Excel. The plugin is free for individual non-commercial and enterprises will pay for the privilege. So far it’s only available for the Excel 2007 and 2010 for Windows. The company has no plans to support OSX.
Double Robotics Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	Double is the simplest, most elegant way to be somewhere else in the world without flying there. The minimalist design and intuitive touchscreen controls allow you to freely move around without inconveniencing others. Double arrives fully functional as soon as you open the box – just insert your iPad.
Dreamforge Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Dreamforge is simple modeling software for 3D printing. Dreamforge has made 3D modeling software that can be used by average consumers to create things like toys. Most existing 3D modeling software right now has lots of bells and whistles that only experts know how to navigate, but Dreamforge has a streamlined user interface that can be used by anyone.
Easel Location: CrunchBase: easel Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: visual design	Easel is an in-browser, high-fidelity web design tool that lets you mockup, share and implement your ideas with ease.
Eligible Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: medical industry	Eligible has built an API for healthcare eligibility queries that lets doctors process queries in real-time. Before doctors do procedures, they need to check with the insurance company to make sure that a potential patient is actually eligible for the procedure. Eligible has created a software system to speed that up significantly.
Filepicker.io Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Filepicker.io builds tools that make it easier for developers to integrate access to cloud services within their applications, including mobile apps on iOS and Android. With the new Filepicker.io Mobile Library, developers can quickly add integrations which let their apps connect to popular services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Facebook, Flickr, Evernote, and more.
FlightFox Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: flightfox Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	Flightfox is a platform for crowd-sourced (or human-powered) flight search. Registered flight experts, from all over the world, compete to find you the best flights. First, you start a contest by providing your trip details and committing a finder’s fee. Then, flight experts compete to find you the best flights and cheapest deals. Lastly, you chose a winner, follow their booking instructions, and fly for less.
FundersClub Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	FundersClub is a web service that gives investors unprecedented access to investment opportunities and the tools to review and invest online with ease and speed. By facilitating investment with industry standard fund vehicles that have been used offline for decades, paired with a web-based screening, payments, and legal documents handling system, FundersClub is able to pool checks from many investors to make aggregated investments on behalf of individuals and institutions that were previously inaccessible to them.
GetGoing Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: getgoing-inc Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	GetGoing’s aim is to take the agony out of booking super cheap vacation travel by offering deep discounts on flights and hotels with fully transparent itineraries.
Grid Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Grid is a spreadsheet app for tablets. Grid’s goal is to reinvent the spreadsheet around touch, utilizing all the tools and sensors available on mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad, and the way normal people (as opposed to Excel power users) actually use them.
HD Trade Services Location: Mountain View, CA CrunchBase: hd-trade-services Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: logistics, shipping, and warehousing	HD Trade Services builds products that aim to simplify company operations. HD Trade Services has developed a suite of software for logistics services providers, delivered via portable-friendly tablet and smartphone apps, which lets them track the arrival and departure of products in warehouses to make sure that things are going where they are supposed to, and that products are what their suppliers say they are. Using data entry, the company tracks inventory management, and the location of the products for selling on to trading partners.
Healthy Labs Location: Berkeley, CA CrunchBase: healthy-labs Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: medical industry	Healthy Labs builds networks to connect patients so they can learn from each other. Its first project, Crohnology, is effectively a social network for people with Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis (IBD) to share connect, share treatment tips, experiences, and learn.
HiMom Location: San Jose, CA CrunchBase: himom Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	HiMom lets you stay in touch with your parents. Share precious moments in digital and physical postcards.
Hipset Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Hipset is a music discovery site that integrates with Tracks.by . On Hipset, once you login with Facebook, you get a single Pinterest-style grid view of all the recent posts by all the musicians you Like. You can sort Hipset by content type, like concert footage and studio performances, plus you can view dedicated pages for any artist.
Hiptype Location: CrunchBase: hiptype Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Hiptype brings analytics and targeted advertising capabilities to the most popular eBook platforms, where these powerful features have never before been possible.
Hubchilla Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Hubchilla is Airtime for SMS. Hubchilla pairs up users to text each other based on interest, gender, and location. Where other services such as Airtime and ChatRoulette demand that both people be online and ready to talk at the same time, texting allows for asynchronous communication.
imgfave Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	imgfave is a fun image sharing community. Explore amazing art and photography and share your own visual inspirations.
Instacart Location: CrunchBase: instacart Hacker News: apoorvamehta Status: live Market: logistics, shipping, and warehousing	Instacart is like an Amazon.com with a 1 hour delivery. Currently focusing on basics and groceries, the company is looking to expand to other verticals very soon.
Kamcord Location: CrunchBase: kamcord Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Kamcord creates an iOS SDK for game developers that allows users to record and share their awesome gameplays without having to leave their games.
Keychain Logistics Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: logistics, shipping, and warehousing	Keychain Logistics directly connects truckers with shippers. Trucking is an extremely fragmented marketplace. Brokers connect shippers with truckers, but they don’t know where the trucks actually are. Truckers are also fragmented and dispersed throughout the country through mom-and-pop shops. It can be hard to find a shipment, especially on a return trip. Keychain Logistics knows where the truckers are and says that one in every 500 trucks are already on the platform.
Kippt Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Kippt makes it easy to save and share interesting things you find on the web.
Knowmia Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: education	Knowmia is a new educational platform from the co-founder of Flip Video. Teachers use the site to both find and post video lessons. The software curates video lessons from around the world, and the company also plans to launch “mini courses” of videos curated by teachers. It currently has 7,000 lessons from 900 teachers.
LeanMarket Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: leanmarket Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: advertising/seo technology	LeanMarket is a real-time advertising platform that discovers the highest performing placements of advertising so that users can build an ideal campaign based off in-depth reporting.
Light Table Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: ibdknox Status: live Market: programming tools	Light Table is a new type of integrated development environment. Light Table is based on a very simple idea: we need a real work surface to code on, not just an editor and a project explorer. We need to be able to move things around, keep clutter down, and bring information to the foreground in the places we need it most.
MakeGamesWithUs Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	MakeGamesWithUs is an iOS game publishing company with a twist: its focus is on helping high school and college students to build games. MakeGamesWithUs us will take the kids’ creations, provide professional graphics and art, and publish them in the App Store. The kids will own the code, and the company will own the graphics and take a cut of the sales. The company already has a few games built by students available, including Elemental Fury.
Makr.io Location: CrunchBase: makr-io Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: memes and jokes	Makr.io is a “collaborative Web remixing tool” where users try to one-up each other by posting funny captions on pictures, a la lolcats. Makr.io is a Diaspora project.
Markupwand Location: CrunchBase: markupwand Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: visual design	Markupwand, a product of Goyaka, Inc., magically converts Photoshop designs to beautiful HTML and CSS .
MicroEval Location: Palo Alto, CA CrunchBase: microeval Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	MicroEval helps you create modern, helpful performance reviews. MicroEval offers a new approach to performance reviews: instead of having a single review every six or 12 months, break it up into quick bits of feedback that can be collected every week or so.
Mth Sense Location: Belmond, CA CrunchBase: mth-sense Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Mth Sense focuses on finding solutions to “blind’ ads. Mth Sense offers its users an audience library to target certain demographics and psychographics. Mth Sense looks at consumers’ app usage data to create a profile of their demographics and interests.
MyVR Location: CrunchBase: myvr Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	MyVR is online marketing software that allows vacation rental owners and operators to manage all of their vacation rental marketing in one place. MyVR is the complete marketing solution for your vacation rental home.
NewsBlur Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: news, reading, and publishing	NewsBlur is a social news reader built for people who want to enjoy reading the news. NewsBlur is a great place to read the best stories from your friends and favorite blogs.
Noodle Labs Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Noodle Labs makes EveryDay.me, which is “EverNote for your life”. Everyday.me is a mobile and web-based notebook, with bells and whistles, which allows you to record your life and save those updates indefinitely. It’s a bit like Facebook Timeline, were it plugged into all of your social networks and were it customized to be a personal journal.
Parallel Universe Location: CrunchBase: parallel-universe Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Parallel Universe makes middleware for real-time applications in the MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online), military and LBS (Location-Based Services) markets. Our products include SpaceBase, a real-time spatial database, and a high-performance in-memory data-grid.
Perfect Audience Location: Mountain View, CA CrunchBase: perfect-audience Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Perfect Audience is a retargeting platform that lets businesses bring back lost customers and get more sales effortlessly. Perfect Audience also aims to make Facebook Exchange campaigns accessible to a broad range of startups, small ad agencies, and other advertisers.
Plivo Location: CrunchBase: plivo Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: business communication infrastructure	Plivo is a cloud-based API platform for building Voice and SMS enabled applications.
Profig Location: CrunchBase: profig Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Profig provides transcriptions, call tracking, voice broadcasting, CRM integration, and other custom features to businesses. Its service is geared toward companies and individuals looking for a professional phone solution without the cost and hassle of using legacy hardware and software solutions.
QuicklyChat Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	QuicklyChat is a quick way for coworkers to video chat with each other when they’re working remotely. The biggest difference between QuicklyChat and conventional video communication is that QuicklyChat auto-answers incoming calls when the recipient is available. Incoming connections are displayed in an unobtrusive notification window, so you can keep working if you’re in the middle of an important thought, without having to think about how to respond to an incoming call.
ReelSurfer Location: Menlo Park CrunchBase: reelsurfer Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: video technology	ReelSurfer lets anyone clip and share any video from any website. The vision is to build the most valuable content network on the planet – created by personal libraries of short, relevant videos that are saved, watched and shared with friends.
Refer.ly Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: refer-ly Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Referly is an Online Referral System for Your Social Network. Referly tracks the links you share, and rewards you for your friends’ actions. When you share your favorite products and services, you build a reputation as the “go-to guru” for the things you love, and get rewards for generating purchases.
RegistryLove Location: Cupertino, CA CrunchBase: registrylove Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	RegistryLove is the first wedding registry to co-operate with independent retailers & big box stores. RegistryLove lets you register products and services from anywhere & consolidate them all onto ONE registry. From traditional department store items, to local gems you wouldn’t find anywhere else, to your dream honeymoon & activities, RegistryLove is a service tailored to you.
Scoutzie Location: Mountain View, CA CrunchBase: scoutzie Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: visual design	Scoutzie.com is a curated marketplace for design. We connect top designers from around the world with customers seeking professional design services.
Smartasset Location: CrunchBase: smartasset Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	SmartAsset provides answers to your important financial questions. We recommend specific strategies and illustrate all of your options, so you can make smarter decisions.
SpinPunch Location: Mountain View, CA CrunchBase: spinpunch Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	SpinPunch makes high performance browser games to rival PC and console titles. Our first creation is Mars Frontier- a massively multi-player real time strategy game built in HTML5.
Sponsorfied Location: CrunchBase: sponsorfied Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Sponsorfied is an online marketplace for sponsorships that connects brands with relevant sponsorship opportunities with the click of a button.
Statwing Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: statwing Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Statwing creates web-based statistical analysis software that speaks in plain english instead of arcane stats jargon. Statwing comes with visualization, a summary sentence, and plain English translation.
StudyEdge Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: education	StudyEdge creates content including chapter review videos, concept videos, and practice problems, then delivers it through Facebook and mobile apps. Students can also help each other, with interactive class walls where users can post and answer questions – if you answer a question correctly, you get karma points that you can exchange for cash or prizes.
Submittable Location: Montana / New York CrunchBase: submishmash Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: cloud storage	Submittable is a cloud-based submission management platform used by 1000s of businesses, publishers and art organizations to curate and accept payment with submission (i.e. audio, video, manuscripts, images, applications, and resumes).
Survata Location: Mountain View, CA CrunchBase: survata Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: surveys and forms	Survata is a new type of market research and consumer insights service. Survata customers write surveys and Survata then find respondents to complete those surveys. But, unlike most market research firms, Survata doesn’t use traditional research panels. Rather, Survata collects survey responses via partner publishers around the web. Their users and readers respond to our surveys in exchange for access to premium content.
TapIn.tv Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: pivot to Framebase ( www.framebase.io ) Market: video technology	TapIn.tv makes an app that will let users instantly create and share live and on-demand video streams from their mobile phones.
TasteMaker Location: CrunchBase: tastemaker Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: home improvement	TasteMaker aims to make interior decorating affordable and accessible to everyone. The Tastemaker marketplace functions by allowing users to submit a request for proposal, answering questions about their personal taste, budget and practical concerns like room dimensions. Three vetted designers from the Tastemaker community then reply to the request within 48 hours, with ideas custom tailored to a user’s needs and a corresponding flat fee.
TomoGuides Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	TomoGuides builds free mobile travel guide apps that let people know about new things that old-fashioned travel guide books can’t: Last minute lodging deals, brand new tours and activities, and the like.
Vastrm Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: fashion and clothing	Vastrm Fashion (pronounced vas` trum) is a provider of mass customized men’s polo shirts. The site empowers men to define the look, fit and function they want in a shirt. The creations are made to order and shipped within 3 weeks.
viaCycle Location: Atlanta, GA CrunchBase: viacycle Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	viaCycle creates advanced bicycle sharing technology that allows easy deployment and administration. By providing both hardware and software components, viaCycle offers a “bike-sharing-in-a-box” solution: a combined system that frees bike-sharing operators from cumbersome kiosks and street-storage, increasing flexibility and reducing costs.
Virool Location: CrunchBase: virool Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Virool is a self-serve platform that will let any YouTube user increase their video views through placement in Facebook and mobile apps.
VoiceGem Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired (acqui-hire) by palantir Market:	VoiceGem is a simple app for the web and the iPhone that lets you send and receive personal voice messages. It doesn’t cost any money, require special software, have you send or open any kind of attachment, require a special international calling plan or card, require a phone number at all, or need a high-quality microphone system. The initial use case was for communicating with family of all ages.
Zapier Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: zapier Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Zapier lets SaaS users create integrations that push data between dozens of different web applications without having to write any code or wrangle APIs.

YCW12

Demo Day Coverage (Colleen Taylor): http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/yc-demo-day-session-1/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
54	$1,080,000	$0	$0	$8,100,000

General	Description
42Floors Location: CrunchBase: 42floors Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: real estate infrastructure	42Floors seeks to be the Trulia for commercial real estate. 42Floors has built a slick website for companies searching for office space. 42Floors has also built a marketplace for service providers such as interior designers and furniture suppliers for when commercial tenants need to outfit their new offices.
99dresses Location: Sydney, Australia CrunchBase: 99dresses Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: fashion and clothing	99dresses is a site where women can trade their high end, gently used clothes and accessories, with the aim of allowing them to have a virtual “endless” closet of clothes at their disposal.
A Thinking Ape Location: Vancouver, BC; Redmond, WA CrunchBase: a-thinking-ape Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	A Thinking Ape builds and creates technology that changes how people socialize and play on mobile devices. We focus on really challenging technical problems – a few areas in which we’ve innovated include: backend distributed systems to support millions of players, sophisticated analytics infrastructure, virtual economic theory, graphics and animation pipelines, and building complex emergent behavior in online communities. We are currently one of the highest-grossing mobile developers in the world.
Amiato Location: CrunchBase: amiato Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Amiato provides immediate A/B Testing with results using SQL. Previously known as Nou Data.
Anyperk Location: CrunchBase: anyperk Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	Anyperk is a platform for rewarding employee performance by giving them discounts on products.
AnyVivo / Jellyfish Art Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: jellyfish-art Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	AnyVivo / Jellyfish Art sells living things online and delivers them anywhere in the United States. It has started with jellyfish.
Ark Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Ark is a search engine designed entirely for people search, letting you look for others across multiple social networks and other websites by sifting through 30 different filters – such as hometowns, universities, current cities and more.
Carsabi Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: acqui-hired by facebook Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	Carsabi is an evolved search engine for buying a used car. Carsabi aggressively crawls every online car sale listing it can find, from classifieds to dealers. It already surfaces more deals than industry leader AutoTrader, and has features that let you sort by the biggest savings, not just lowest price.
chute Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	chute helps apps and sites capture, manage, and display media files. Chute is Twilio for media content.
CircuitHub Location: CrunchBase: circuithub Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: electronics design	CircuitHub is an electronics design facilitator whose mission is to take the frustration out of designing and manufacturing electronics. CircuitHub offers a comprehensive and detailed parts library. By sourcing the right part from the start, makers will experience less hassle when approaching manufacturing. CircuitHub integrates with Altium, Eagle, OrCAD, and Allegro.
Coderwall Location: CrunchBase: coderwall Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: programming tools	Coderwall is a site for developers to profile what projects they are up to and learn from others.
Crowdtilt Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: crowdtilt Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	Crowdtilt is a simple way for anyone to crowdfund anything.
Cube Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	Cube has a concise mission: to change the way that transactions are conducted in person. Cube has an extensible point-of-sale platform that grows with your business. Cube provides a free point-of-sale app for iOS and a credit card terminal that plugs into your iPhone/iPad audio jack.
Daily Muse Location: CrunchBase: the-daily-muse Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: news, reading, and publishing	The Daily Muse brings smart content, career opportunities and like-minded community to young professional women.
Dealupa Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	Dealupa aggregates daily deals from all over the web and presents them on a website where users can browse according to their interests.
Embark Location: CrunchBase: embark Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	Embark makes it easy to get around without a car. Embark builds mobile software that makes it simple to get around on mass transit. We currently cover 12 Major transit systems in the United States and the United Kingdom and have applications on iOS and Android.
EveryArt Location: CrunchBase: everyart Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: visual design	EveryArt aims to address the art world’s middle ground between low-end prints and high-end fine art sales. EveryArt lets regular people commission a piece or art from an artist online.
Exec Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: exec Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	Exec is a service that provides companies or individuals access to part-time executive assistants or someone you need just to run errands for you. The service will get everything you need done for $25 per hour.
FamilyLeaf Location: CrunchBase: familyleaf Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: photo sharing and social networks	FamilyLeaf allows families to create private social networks where they can share photos, information such as birthdays and addresses, and simple daily updates amongst themselves online.
FarmLogs Location: CrunchBase: farmlogs Hacker News: n/a Status: live; rename from Agrisight Market: agriculture and farming	FarmLogs makes farm management software that enables farmers to forecast and measure profits, track expenses, manage risk, and get informed all from one place.
Flutter Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Flutter is an app for Mac that lets you control the play function on Spotify or iTunes by simply waving at your computer.
Flypad Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Flypad turns your iPhone into a motion-sensing steering wheel for PC racing games
GiveSpark Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: charity and philanthropy	Givespark is an app that lets celebrities launch fundraisers for their fans to participate in online.
Grouper Location: CrunchBase: grouper-2 Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Grouper is a social club that sets up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls (or 3 guys and 3 guys, etc.). Grouper started in New York in the summer of 2011 and now organizes Groupers in major cities across the US. Members have shared tens of thousands of drinks.
HackPad Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Hackpad hopes to be the best wiki software ever.
HireArt Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	HireArt helps employers screen and source job candidates through work samples and video interviews.
iCracked Location: Redwood City, CA / Dallas, TX / Long Beach, CA CrunchBase: icracked Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	iCracked repairs iPhones, iPods, and iPads.
InstallMonetizer Location: CrunchBase: installmonetizer Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	InstallMonetizer.com helps software developers generate additional revenue from their installations. Most software developers lose revenue from 95% of their free/trial installs. We help them monetize these lost installs. Our publishers experience 60-85% conversion and earn between $0.25 to $1.00 per install. Our backend provides detailed stats to keep developers informed on their earnings.
InstantCab Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: instantcab Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	InstantCab gets you a ride instantly. Currently the service operates in San Francisco. InstantCab operates with both taxis and vetted drivers. When you install the InstantCab app, you enter in credit or debit card information, and all of the fares and tips are paid off of this card. InstantCab only charges you for a ride after you have been dropped off at your final destination.
Kyte Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live; pivot to PlaySafeApp.com Market: parenting resources	Kyte is a mobile app that turns any Android smartphone into a kid-safe device, that can only be used to make calls and play games that have been approved by a parent or guardian. Kyte also comes with a parent’s dashboard that lets you see exactly where your kid is on a map, and monitor their phone usage.
LendUp Location: CrunchBase: lendup Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	LendUp is a website where consumers who have poor or no credit can apply for and receive small-dollar, short-term loans (up to $250 for up to 30 days). We are working on creating installment loans for our customers in the upcoming year. At LendUp, we believe loans should be an opportunity to build credit, not a debt trap. Our mission is to use small-dollar loans as a way to help customers build credit and move up the financial ladder.
Lvl6 Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: lvl6 Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Lvl6 is a mobile social game developer that has come up with an equation that it says “guarantees that our games will engaging, monetizable and huge hits.”
Matterport Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	Matterport has created a system that lets anyone quickly and easily create a 3D model of physical objects and interior spaces. MatterPort has constructed a low cost point and shoot camera device that records what a space or object looks like and renders a copy of it automatically.
Medigram Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: medical industry	Medigram is a is a HIPAA-compliant group messaging app for the medical community.
Midnox Location: CrunchBase: Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: video technology	Midnox has built the Luma, an iPhone app that stabilizes the videos taken with a mobile phone in real time. The app also adds full resolution visual filters in real time, which are “non-disruptive”.
Minefold Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: minefold Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Minefold provides a hosting service for massive multiplayer games so that players can simply press one button and start playing. So far, it works with Minecraft.
Pair Location: CrunchBase: pair Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: photo sharing and social networks	Pair is an app to stay connected with your partner. If you are in a long distance relationship and want to stay connected pair is the service that helps you do that.
Per Vices Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	Per Vices has created a single device that uses a technology called software defined radio (SDR) that purportedly can run any wireless application out there right now. The goal is to replace every existing wireless device on the market with this one single SDR device.
Pixelapse Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: visual design	Pixelapse is visual version control for designers. It’s GitHub for designers that also has features similar to Dropbox. We’re a highly technical team of Stanford & Princeton hackers and designers and are changing the way designers collaborate.
PlanGrid Location: CrunchBase: plangrid Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	PlanGrid saves contractors time by storing project drawings in the cloud.
PopSet Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: popset Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: photo sharing and social networks	Popset is the easiest way to start group photo albums with friends, directly from a mobile phone.
Priceonomics Location: CrunchBase: priceonomics Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	Priceonomics is an online price guide for anything. Type in anything you want to own and it will tell you how much it should cost, like a Kelly Blue Book for smartphones, laptops, TVs, stereos, etc.
Rescale Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: scientific research tools	Rescale lets any engineer or scientist build, compute, and analyze simulations in the cloud.
ScreenLeap Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	ScreenLeap enables you to share your screen instantly from any device with a browser and without downloads, installs, or sign-ups.
SendHub Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: sendhub Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	SendHub is simple messaging. Your customers subscribe by text. You send and receive texts – for free. We give you analytics on how you’re doing.
Shoptiques Location: New York CrunchBase: shoptiques Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: fashion and clothing	Shoptiques.com brings boutique shopping online. On Shoptiques.com, you will experience personalized shopping with the most unique and fashion-forward inventory from the best local boutiques.
Shopular Location: CrunchBase: shopularapp Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	Shopular is a location-aware shopping and deals app. Shopular is your best shopping buddy – always looking out for you and making sure you know all the coupons every time you go shopping.
SocialCam Location: CrunchBase: socialcam Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by autodesk for $60m Market: video technology	Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life’s moments with friends and family.
Sonalight Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Sonalight provides text-by-voice apps that let you text hands-free through speech recognition while you drive.
Swiftype Location: CrunchBase: swiftype-com Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Swiftype is building search software for the next generation of websites and applications. Swiftype’s initial product is a site search that is “a PageRank that’s specific to individual websites”. Swiftype also allows site owners to pin and unpin different items to the top of their search results. If you run a news site, that might mean pinning the most popular and best articles, or it might mean promoting content that’s related to an ongoing sponsorship campaign. And Swiftype offers a set of tags that publishers can include in their pages to show which content should be surfaced in the results. Other features include analytics data and auto-complete for people typing in their search. Swiftype is founded by former Scribd employees.
TiKL Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	TiKL is an Android and iOS app that turns your phone into a real-time push-to-talk walkie-talkie that also sends texts, voicemail, images, and video. Launched 20 months ago, it now has more than 22 million users without any marketing.
Your Mechanic Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Your Mechanic aims to be the “Airbnb of car repair”. Your Mechanic is a website that connects you with the best mechanics in your local community, and commission them to come to your house and fix your car. According to the company, this is on average 30 percent cheaper than the typical mechanic or car dealership.
ZenPayroll Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	ZenPayroll is beautiful modern payroll. ZenPayroll is adding companies to its pilot program on a rolling basis.
Zillabyte Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: zillabyte Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Zillabyte is an online big-data analysis platform.

YCS11

Demo Day Coverage (Jason Kincaid): http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/23/y-combinator-demo-day-the-ultimate-roundup/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
58	$1,160,000	$0	$0	$8,700,000

General	Description
Agile Diagnosis Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: agile-diagnosis Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: medical industry	Agile Diagnosis makes web and mobile platform that aims to help doctors better diagnose their patients. Agile Diagnosis isn’t intended to help consumers self-diagnose, it’s just for doctors, nurses, and medical students. Agile Diagnosis gives clinicians a central place in which they can gain real-time access to evidence and consensus-based best practices (or clinical guidelines), so that they can help diagnose their patients not just based on scientific literature, but with the help of other doctors who have correctly diagnosed the same or related symptoms, for example. Agile Diagnosis includes access to a full repository of quality and credible medical information not only from medical literature but doctors themselves, surfaced by its own clinical algorithms.
Aisle50 Location: Chicago, IL CrunchBase: aisle50 Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	Aisle50 is a “Groupon for groceries,” cofounded by former Forbes staff writer Chris Steiner, who wrote a cover story on Paul Graham. The company is attempting to replace the paper newspaper coupon inserts, which is what Coupons.com does. But Aisle50 says it will give advertisers better focus by not being advertised with other companies.
Automatic Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	Automatic makes Automatic Link, a device that talks to your car’s onboard computer and uses your smartphone’s GPS and data plan to upgrade your car’s capabilities. It works with just about any car sold in the United States since 1996.
B2Brev Location: CrunchBase: b2brev Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	B2Brev is b2b business reviews.
Bushido Location: CrunchBase: bushido Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: platform as a service	Bushido is a “hosted ecosystem and app store for web apps.”
Cant Wait Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: video technology	Can’t Wait is a slick mobile movie trailer player built on top of YouTube’s API. The Can’t Wait app has a strong focus on interacting with other users and also on reminding you when movies you’re interested in get released.
Citus Data Location: Silicon Valley / Istanbul (Not Constantinople) CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Citus Data develops CitusDB, a scalable analytics database that’s built on top of PostgreSQL.
Clerky Location: CrunchBase: clerky Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: legal services	Clerky provides entrepreneurs with a quality, cost-effective, automated way to handle incorporation documents and more. Clerky’s online platform takes care of all of the legal work necessary to create a Delaware C Corp and set up founders with proper vesting, invention assignment, and governance frameworks.
Codecademy Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: codecademy Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: education	Codecademy is a web-based programming tutorial.
CryptoSeal Location: CrunchBase: cryptoseal Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	CryptoSeal provides Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as a service.
DebtEye Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live; rename to SpringCoin Market: financial services and payment processing	DebtEye is an automated service to help people lower their debt.
DoubleRecall Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: doublerecall Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: advertising/seo technology	DoubleRecall is a recall based advertising platform and monetization solution for online media and mobile. DoubleRecall is a way for web/mobile publishers to softly monetize their content while retaining their user base. For advertisers DoubleRecall offers targeting of recall capabilities (to invite advertisers from TV) and also CTR. As for the readers, they get leaner articles, less distraction and quality content for free.
Draft Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Draft is easy version control and collaboration for writers.
Envolve Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: envolve Hacker News: n/a Status: live; rename and pivot to Firebase Market:	Envolve is a web communications company that provides website chat that can be embedded in any website using only two lines of javascript. Envolve provides chat through WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, vBulletin, and Drupal plugins as well. Over 10,000 websites use Envolve.
EveryMe Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Everyme is creating a magical new experience to keep you in touch with the favorite people in your addressbook. Imagine if your address book stayed up to date automatically, wouldn’t that be something?
Firebase Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: envolve Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Firebase grew out of Envolve, a group chat service for your website. Since it was founded in 2009 Envolve has grown to be a large service; today it’s embedded on tens-of-thousands of websites and serves millions of users each month.
FreshPlum Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	FreshPlum is personalized prices.
Glassmap Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: glassmap Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by groupon Market:	Glassmap is a simple, beautiful way to show your friends where you are and what you are doing. Use it to coordinate meetings and hangouts, keep up with loved ones, and serendipitously discover who and what is around you.
GoCardless Location: London, UK CrunchBase: gocardless Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	GoCardless is a UK-based service that allows smaller merchants to easily set up interbank transfers for customers.
Habit Labs Location: Seattle CrunchBase: habit-labs Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: physical fitness	Habit Labs is the merger of Contagion Health (Jen McCabe) and Healthmonth (Buster Benson). Habit Labs aims to turn leading a healthier life into a game.
Interstate Location: CrunchBase: interstate Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Interstate is a web app for creating and sharing development roadmaps for websites and products. The original aim of the product was to make web development more user facing instead of being hidden behind the scenes all the time.
Interview Street Location: CrunchBase: interview-street Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	Interviewstreet helps you to create customized programming tests (in any language) and evaluate candidates based on their programming skills before proceeding for an interview. Interviewstreet has built a code-checker which would evaluate an applicant’s code, checks against a set of test-cases letting you know how optimal his code is.
Kicksend Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: receivd Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: cloud storage	Kicksend allows friends and family to easily share files in real-time on the web, mobile, and desktop. Kicksend’s desktop, web, and mobile apps allow you browse through the photos, videos and other files that people have sent you and also allows you to send files effortlessly to multiple people at once. As well as sharing files with one individual, you are also able to create lists of people to securely share with. You can drag & drop sets of files at once and everybody on your list starts securely downloading the file instantly without having to manually approve the downloads.
Launchpad Toys Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: parenting resources	Launchpad Toys creates digital toys and tools that empower kids to create, learn & share their ideas through play.
Leaky Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: leaky Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	Leaky helps consumers make better decisions about insurance.
MarketBrief Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	MarketBrief automates looking through SEC filings on your behalf, then culls the key data to automatically generate an almost-plain-English version that sounds more like a newspaper article than a legal document. Previously known as SECWatch, which launched in 2009.
Meteor Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started.
MixRank Location: CrunchBase: mixrank Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: advertising/seo technology	MixRank is a spy tool for contextual and display ads. During MixRank’s free beta, you can access data on Google AdSense ads running on over 93,000 different sites. With MixRank you can see exactly where your competitors are buying traffic and which ad copy is performing best for them. You can use MixRank to watch your competitors spend money testing different ads and traffic sources, see which ones worked best, and use that data to build your own campaign.
MobileWorks Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: mobileworks Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	MobileWorks is a crowdsourcing platform for businesses and developers that is more accurate, faster and effortless than any existing solutions. Whether doing complex web research, tagging images or converting physical paper documents into digital files, MobileWorks completes jobs that cannot easily be done using computers.
MongoHQ Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: mongohq Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: database technology	MongoHQ is the leading provider of data solutions for developers utilizing MongoDB as their data storage technology. They offer shared hosting solutions, replica-set environments, database management tools, user-controlled backups and performance monitoring.
Munch On Me Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: munch-on-me-inc Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by CollegeBudget Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology	Munch On Me is a food discovery portal that connects people with great food at great prices in local communities.
Opez Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Opez helps independent service professionals build and maintain relationships with their clientele.
OrderAhead Location: CrunchBase: orderahead Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology	OrderAhead offers a free iPhone app that allows anyone and everyone to quickly order takeout from local merchants. Connect your credit card, order the food you want to shovel into your mouth at a later point, then pick up the food with your name and phone number – free of charge. At present, OrderAhead’s network focuses on restaurants (mostly of the takeout variety), but in the future, OrderAhead wants to be the easiest way to order anything from local merchants via your phone.
PageLever Location: CrunchBase: pagelever Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by unifiedsocial.com Market: advertising/seo technology	PageLever is a tool that takes Facebook Insights and adds more analytics, like how many of your fans’ comments come from mobile.
PaperLinks Location: CrunchBase: paperlinks Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Paperlinks’ mission is to hyperlink the real world. Currently, Paperlinks fulfills this by providing the ultimate QR code infrastructure for businesses. Paperlinks’ solution is end-to-end, providing: a free QR reading app; code generation; a Content Management System for managing code content; and in-house design and print services.
Parse Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: parse Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by facebook for $75m Market: platform as a service	Parse is Heroku for mobile apps. Parse provides cloud services for mobile developers. It makes it dead simple to add a backend to your iOS or Android app.
PayDragon Location: Los Angeles CrunchBase: paydragon Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	PayDragon enables you to buy an item blocks away from a store and have it ready for you to pick up by the time you arrive. This saves you time and the aggravation of waiting in line just to order and pay. PayDragon is available for iPhone and Android.
PicPlum Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: photo printing	PicPlum is Jessica’s favorite way to automatically print digital photos of her family and ship them to her friends and relatives back East.
Proxino Location: CrunchBase: proxino Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: programming tools	Proxino is a proxy service that helps developers get alerted when their client-side JavaScript raises exceptions in users’ browsers.
Quartzy Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: quartzy Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: scientific research tools	Quartzy is an online suite of lab management tools for the academic life science community.
Rap Genius Location: Brooklyn, NY; Malibu, CA CrunchBase: rap-genius Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Rap Genius is your guide to the meaning of rap lyrics. You can listen to songs, read their lyrics, and click the lines that interest you for pop-up explanations – we have thousands of canonical rap songs explained (2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, even the beginning of the Torah..)
Rentobo Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: rentobo Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: real estate infrastructure	Rentobo is a new tool built for landlords, managers, and agents of all sizes to simplify the process of finding and signing a new tenant for your rental property.
RideJoy Location: CrunchBase: ridejoy Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	Ridejoy is a community-driven marketplace for sharing rides.
Science Exchange Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: science-exchange Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: scientific research tools	Science Exchange is an online marketplace for scientific experiments. Science Exchange helps research scientists manage outsourced experiments and deals with all the paying/billing administration, quality assurance and dispute resolution.
Segment.io Location: CrunchBase: segment-io Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Segment.io is an analytics API that lets developers integrate once, and then send their data to any analytics service. Segment.io currently supports 20 different analytics providers, including Google, KISSmetrics, Mixpanel, Chartbeat, HubSpot, and Salesforce.
SellStage Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: sellstage Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: e-tail infrastructure	SellStage wants to host and stream videos for your products on your ecommerce site. SellStage also adds a lightbox around the video, call-to-action after the video plays, and generates sitemaps optimized for video search crawlers.
Sift Science Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Sift Science uses large-scale machine learning to monitor your site’s traffic in real time and alerts you instantly to fraudulent activity.
SnapJoy Location: CrunchBase: snapjoy Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by dropbox Market: photo sharing and social networks	Snapjoy is an online photo library that imports media from anywhere and organizes them into meaningful memories of who, what, where, & when.
SplitterBug Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: financial services and payment processing	SplitterBug lets you split expenses on the go.
Streak Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: streak Hacker News: omarismail Status: live Market:	Streak add customer-relation management (CRM) tools to Gmail. Managing relationships is done by grouping email conversations into Boxes and placing those Boxes into Pipelines. Streak’s primary use is for Sales and Customer Support but is flexible enough to be useful for everything from a personal To-Do list to Project Management.
Stypi Location: CrunchBase: stypi Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by salesforce.com Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Stypi is a collaborative real-time text editor similar to Etherpad.
Tagstand Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	Tagstand sells and ships NFC (Near-Field Communication) tags and stickers. Tagstand also has a service called Tagstand Manager, which allows you to program and manage your stickers from the web.
TapEngage Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: tapengage Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by dropbox Market:	TapEngage is a San Francisco startup that enables advertisers and publishers to collaborate on tablet-optimized advertising.
Verbling Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: verbling Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: education	Verbling provides users with an innovative way to learn new languages by utilizing video chat technology.
Vidyard Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: vidyard Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: video technology	Vidyard is an online video platform for business.
Vimessa Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Vimessa provides “video voicemail” which is “the ease of SMS with the magic of video.”
Yardsale Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: yardsale Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Yardsale is a mobile app to help folks sell goods to local buyers. It hooks into Craigslist and enables users to easily list items for sale, hopes to take on other local marketplaces by reducing the friction associated with creating listings, and then dealing with flaky buyers afterward
ZigFu Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: platform as a service	ZigFu is an app store for motion control apps that run on Microsoft’s Kinect platform. The company provides tools for gesture-controlled interfaces and full-body motion games.

General

Description

Agile Diagnosis

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: agile-diagnosis

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: medical industry

Agile Diagnosis makes web and mobile platform that aims to help doctors better diagnose their patients. Agile Diagnosis isn’t intended to help consumers self-diagnose, it’s just for doctors, nurses, and medical students.

Agile Diagnosis gives clinicians a central place in which they can gain real-time access to evidence and consensus-based best practices (or clinical guidelines), so that they can help diagnose their patients not just based on scientific literature, but with the help of other doctors who have correctly diagnosed the same or related symptoms, for example. Agile Diagnosis includes access to a full repository of quality and credible medical information not only from medical literature but doctors themselves, surfaced by its own clinical algorithms.

Aisle50

Location: Chicago, IL

CrunchBase: aisle50

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison

Aisle50 is a “Groupon for groceries,” cofounded by former Forbes staff writer Chris Steiner, who wrote a cover story on Paul Graham. The company is attempting to replace the paper newspaper coupon inserts, which is what Coupons.com does. But Aisle50 says it will give advertisers better focus by not being advertised with other companies.

Automatic

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)

Automatic makes Automatic Link, a device that talks to your car’s onboard computer and uses your smartphone’s GPS and data plan to upgrade your car’s capabilities. It works with just about any car sold in the United States since 1996.

B2Brev

Location:

CrunchBase: b2brev

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

B2Brev is b2b business reviews.

Bushido

Location:

CrunchBase: bushido

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: platform as a service

Bushido is a “hosted ecosystem and app store for web apps.”

Cant Wait

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: video technology

Can’t Wait is a slick mobile movie trailer player built on top of YouTube’s API. The Can’t Wait app has a strong focus on interacting with other users and also on reminding you when movies you’re interested in get released.

Citus Data

Location: Silicon Valley / Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Citus Data develops CitusDB, a scalable analytics database that’s built on top of PostgreSQL.

Clerky

Location:

CrunchBase: clerky

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: legal services

Clerky provides entrepreneurs with a quality, cost-effective, automated way to handle incorporation documents and more. Clerky’s online platform takes care of all of the legal work necessary to create a Delaware C Corp and set up founders with proper vesting, invention assignment, and governance frameworks.

Codecademy

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: codecademy

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: education

Codecademy is a web-based programming tutorial.

CryptoSeal

Location:

CrunchBase: cryptoseal

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

CryptoSeal provides Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as a service.

DebtEye

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live; rename to SpringCoin

Market: financial services and payment processing

DebtEye is an automated service to help people lower their debt.

DoubleRecall

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: doublerecall

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: advertising/seo technology

DoubleRecall is a recall based advertising platform and monetization solution for online media and mobile.

DoubleRecall is a way for web/mobile publishers to softly monetize their content while retaining their user base. For advertisers DoubleRecall offers targeting of recall capabilities (to invite advertisers from TV) and also CTR. As for the readers, they get leaner articles, less distraction and quality content for free.

Draft

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Draft is easy version control and collaboration for writers.

Envolve

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: envolve

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live; rename and pivot to Firebase

Market:

Envolve is a web communications company that provides website chat that can be embedded in any website using only two lines of javascript. Envolve provides chat through WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, vBulletin, and Drupal plugins as well. Over 10,000 websites use Envolve.

EveryMe

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)

Everyme is creating a magical new experience to keep you in touch with the favorite people in your addressbook. Imagine if your address book stayed up to date automatically, wouldn’t that be something?

Firebase

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: envolve

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Firebase grew out of Envolve, a group chat service for your website. Since it was founded in 2009 Envolve has grown to be a large service; today it’s embedded on tens-of-thousands of websites and serves millions of users each month.

FreshPlum

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison

FreshPlum is personalized prices.

Glassmap

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: glassmap

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by groupon

Market:

Glassmap is a simple, beautiful way to show your friends where you are and what you are doing. Use it to coordinate meetings and hangouts, keep up with loved ones, and serendipitously discover who and what is around you.

GoCardless

Location: London, UK

CrunchBase: gocardless

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

GoCardless is a UK-based service that allows smaller merchants to easily set up interbank transfers for customers.

Habit Labs

Location: Seattle

CrunchBase: habit-labs

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: physical fitness

Habit Labs is the merger of Contagion Health (Jen McCabe) and Healthmonth (Buster Benson). Habit Labs aims to turn leading a healthier life into a game.

Interstate

Location:

CrunchBase: interstate

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Interstate is a web app for creating and sharing development roadmaps for websites and products. The original aim of the product was to make web development more user facing instead of being hidden behind the scenes all the time.

Interview Street

Location:

CrunchBase: interview-street

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: employment resources

Interviewstreet helps you to create customized programming tests (in any language) and evaluate candidates based on their programming skills before proceeding for an interview. Interviewstreet has built a code-checker which would evaluate an applicant’s code, checks against a set of test-cases letting you know how optimal his code is.

Kicksend

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: receivd

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: cloud storage

Kicksend allows friends and family to easily share files in real-time on the web, mobile, and desktop. Kicksend’s desktop, web, and mobile apps allow you browse through the photos, videos and other files that people have sent you and also allows you to send files effortlessly to multiple people at once. As well as sharing files with one individual, you are also able to create lists of people to securely share with. You can drag & drop sets of files at once and everybody on your list starts securely downloading the file instantly without having to manually approve the downloads.

Launchpad Toys

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase:

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: parenting resources

Launchpad Toys creates digital toys and tools that empower kids to create, learn & share their ideas through play.

Leaky

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: leaky

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison

Leaky helps consumers make better decisions about insurance.

MarketBrief

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

MarketBrief automates looking through SEC filings on your behalf, then culls the key data to automatically generate an almost-plain-English version that sounds more like a newspaper article than a legal document. Previously known as SECWatch, which launched in 2009.

Meteor

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started.

MixRank

Location:

CrunchBase: mixrank

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: advertising/seo technology

MixRank is a spy tool for contextual and display ads. During MixRank’s free beta, you can access data on Google AdSense ads running on over 93,000 different sites. With MixRank you can see exactly where your competitors are buying traffic and which ad copy is performing best for them. You can use MixRank to watch your competitors spend money testing different ads and traffic sources, see which ones worked best, and use that data to build your own campaign.

MobileWorks

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: mobileworks

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: employment resources

MobileWorks is a crowdsourcing platform for businesses and developers that is more accurate, faster and effortless than any existing solutions. Whether doing complex web research, tagging images or converting physical paper documents into digital files, MobileWorks completes jobs that cannot easily be done using computers.

MongoHQ

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: mongohq

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: database technology

MongoHQ is the leading provider of data solutions for developers utilizing MongoDB as their data storage technology. They offer shared hosting solutions, replica-set environments, database management tools, user-controlled backups and performance monitoring.

Munch On Me

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: munch-on-me-inc

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by CollegeBudget

Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology

Munch On Me is a food discovery portal that connects people with great food at great prices in local communities.

Opez

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Opez helps independent service professionals build and maintain relationships with their clientele.

OrderAhead

Location:

CrunchBase: orderahead

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology

OrderAhead offers a free iPhone app that allows anyone and everyone to quickly order takeout from local merchants. Connect your credit card, order the food you want to shovel into your mouth at a later point, then pick up the food with your name and phone number – free of charge.

At present, OrderAhead’s network focuses on restaurants (mostly of the takeout variety), but in the future, OrderAhead wants to be the easiest way to order anything from local merchants via your phone.

PageLever

Location:

CrunchBase: pagelever

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by unifiedsocial.com

Market: advertising/seo technology

PageLever is a tool that takes Facebook Insights and adds more analytics, like how many of your fans’ comments come from mobile.

PaperLinks

Location:

CrunchBase: paperlinks

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Paperlinks’ mission is to hyperlink the real world. Currently, Paperlinks fulfills this by providing the ultimate QR code infrastructure for businesses. Paperlinks’ solution is end-to-end, providing: a free QR reading app; code generation; a Content Management System for managing code content; and in-house design and print services.

Parse

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: parse

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by facebook for $75m

Market: platform as a service

Parse is Heroku for mobile apps. Parse provides cloud services for mobile developers. It makes it dead simple to add a backend to your iOS or Android app.

PayDragon

Location: Los Angeles

CrunchBase: paydragon

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

PayDragon enables you to buy an item blocks away from a store and have it ready for you to pick up by the time you arrive. This saves you time and the aggravation of waiting in line just to order and pay. PayDragon is available for iPhone and Android.

PicPlum

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: photo printing

PicPlum is Jessica’s favorite way to automatically print digital photos of her family and ship them to her friends and relatives back East.

Proxino

Location:

CrunchBase: proxino

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: programming tools

Proxino is a proxy service that helps developers get alerted when their client-side JavaScript raises exceptions in users’ browsers.

Quartzy

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: quartzy

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: scientific research tools

Quartzy is an online suite of lab management tools for the academic life science community.

Rap Genius

Location: Brooklyn, NY; Malibu, CA

CrunchBase: rap-genius

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Rap Genius is your guide to the meaning of rap lyrics. You can listen to songs, read their lyrics, and click the lines that interest you for pop-up explanations – we have thousands of canonical rap songs explained (2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, even the beginning of the Torah..)

Rentobo

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: rentobo

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: real estate infrastructure

Rentobo is a new tool built for landlords, managers, and agents of all sizes to simplify the process of finding and signing a new tenant for your rental property.

RideJoy

Location:

CrunchBase: ridejoy

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: travel-related services

Ridejoy is a community-driven marketplace for sharing rides.

Science Exchange

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: science-exchange

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: scientific research tools

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for scientific experiments. Science Exchange helps research scientists manage outsourced experiments and deals with all the paying/billing administration, quality assurance and dispute resolution.

Segment.io

Location:

CrunchBase: segment-io

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Segment.io is an analytics API that lets developers integrate once, and then send their data to any analytics service. Segment.io currently supports 20 different analytics providers, including Google, KISSmetrics, Mixpanel, Chartbeat, HubSpot, and Salesforce.

SellStage

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: sellstage

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: e-tail infrastructure

SellStage wants to host and stream videos for your products on your ecommerce site. SellStage also adds a lightbox around the video, call-to-action after the video plays, and generates sitemaps optimized for video search crawlers.

Sift Science

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Sift Science uses large-scale machine learning to monitor your site’s traffic in real time and alerts you instantly to fraudulent activity.

SnapJoy

Location:

CrunchBase: snapjoy

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by dropbox

Market: photo sharing and social networks

Snapjoy is an online photo library that imports media from anywhere and organizes them into meaningful memories of who, what, where, & when.

SplitterBug

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market: financial services and payment processing

SplitterBug lets you split expenses on the go.

Streak

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: streak

Hacker News: omarismail
Status: live

Market:

Streak add customer-relation management (CRM) tools to Gmail. Managing relationships is done by grouping email conversations into Boxes and placing those Boxes into Pipelines. Streak’s primary use is for Sales and Customer Support but is flexible enough to be useful for everything from a personal To-Do list to Project Management.

Stypi

Location:

CrunchBase: stypi

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by salesforce.com

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Stypi is a collaborative real-time text editor similar to Etherpad.

Tagstand

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)

Tagstand sells and ships NFC (Near-Field Communication) tags and stickers. Tagstand also has a service called Tagstand Manager, which allows you to program and manage your stickers from the web.

TapEngage

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: tapengage

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by dropbox

Market:

TapEngage is a San Francisco startup that enables advertisers and publishers to collaborate on tablet-optimized advertising.

Verbling

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: verbling

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: education

Verbling provides users with an innovative way to learn new languages by utilizing video chat technology.

Vidyard

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: vidyard

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: video technology

Vidyard is an online video platform for business.

Vimessa

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)

Vimessa provides “video voicemail” which is “the ease of SMS with the magic of video.”

Yardsale

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: yardsale

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Yardsale is a mobile app to help folks sell goods to local buyers. It hooks into Craigslist and enables users to easily list items for sale, hopes to take on other local marketplaces by reducing the friction associated with creating listings, and then dealing with flaky buyers afterward

ZigFu

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: platform as a service

ZigFu is an app store for motion control apps that run on Microsoft’s Kinect platform. The company provides tools for gesture-controlled interfaces and full-body motion games.

YCW11

Demo Day Coverage (Jason Kincaid): http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/22/43-promising-startups-present-at-y-combinators-biggest-demo-day-yet/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
45	$900,000	$2,000,000	$40,000	$6,750,000

General	Description
Acunote Location: Foster City, CA CrunchBase: acunote Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Acunote is a project management tool and Scrum software. Acunote provides companies with the ability to manage software development, online project management, and IT project management for the whole company. It is fast and easy to use, shows actual progress, provides powerful analytics, works for the whole company as a unified project means of communication and collaboration tool, and integrates well with existing tools.
AppHarbor Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: appharbor Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: platform as a service	AppHarbor is Azure done right. “Heroku for .NET” – a platform as a service for .NET developers and businesses.
Balanced Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: balanced Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	Balanced is the first payment system designed for marketplaces from the ground up. We provide a feature-rich, fully integrated api that allows marketplaces to charge cards, escrow funds, deposit next day via ACH direct, and collect their own marketplace fees.
Beetailer Location: CrunchBase: beetailer Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: e-tail infrastructure	Beetailer’s software helps retailers import existing web stores onto Facebook and gives e-retailers tools for promoting the storefront and detailed analytics about how well it is doing.
Chirply Location: CrunchBase: chirply Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: visual design	Chirply is a Y Combinator-backed community of artists and design lovers that want to make better stuff through better design! The community collectively decides what the best submitted designs are, and then those designs are made into greeting cards. We all know greeting cards are tacky & sappy – and Chirply is going to change that with your help!
Comprehend Systems Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: comprehend-systems Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: medical industry	Comprehend Systems is the maker of Comprehend Clinical, which is a reporting and visualization tool which runs against multiple databases in real time, while leaving the data in place. Comprehend Clinical is a next-generation reporting and visualization tool for the pharmaceutical industry. It leverages existing metadata and industry knowledge to provide a more powerful, efficient, and intuitive clinical review tool.
Convore Location: CrunchBase: convore Hacker News: n/a Status: pivot to grove.io Market:	Convore is the best way to communicate with groups in real-time. You can join an existing group or create your own. Then post topics and have conversations with friends about those topics.
Curebit Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: curebit Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: e-tail infrastructure	Curebit makes it easy to tap into customer referrals by giving you a platform to implement campaigns that encourage customers to refer their friends. Its a powerful, proven and simple to use platform for growing your sales.
Custora Location: CrunchBase: custora Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: e-tail infrastructure	Custora offers a SaaS that tells online retailers and web apps which of their customers are most valuable, and suggests actions to keep them.
Dr. Chrono Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: drchrono-com Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: medical industry	Drchrono is a medical platform for doctors and patients. The company addresses the critical needs of today’s healthcare sector by providing a platform for the core needs of any medical practice through free cloud EHR technology with a focus on iPad. The primary focus is on iPad healthcare.
Earbits Location: CrunchBase: earbits Hacker News: earbitscom Status: live Market: online music	Earbits is a marketing platform for music related products built around interactive radio experiences. Earbits (www.earbits.com) works directly with labels, high quality artists and live music event promoters to create innovative internet radio-based promotions that turn listeners into loyal fans and consumers. They provide commercial-free streaming music on Earbits.com, Earbits Mobile Radio apps, and across a variety of affiliate website partners.
FitFu Location: Hampshire, GBR CrunchBase: fitfu Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: physical fitness	FitFu is a motivating mobile fitness game to keep you active throughout the day.
Five Stars Card Location: CrunchBase: Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: gift card technology	Five Stars Card is a universal loyalty card for retail businesses. The card is the first link between cash registers, customers’ email and Facebook accounts.
Flotype Location: Berkeley, CA CrunchBase: flotype-2 Hacker News: n/a Status: live; pivot to Bridge (www.getbridge.com) Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Flotype Inc. is a venture-backed company building a suite of enterprise technology for real-time messaging. Flotype takes a unique approach by building developer-friendly technologies focused on ease-of-use and simplicity, while still exceeding enterprise-grade performance expectations. Flotype licenses enterprise-grade middleware, Bridge, to customers ranging from social web and software enterprises to financial and fleet management groups. Other offerings include NowJS, a free, open-source framework, for developers seeking real-time interactivity on Node.js and JavaScript browsers. NowCluster is available for companies seeking scalability and reliability for NowJS applications.
GiftRocket Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: giftrocket Hacker News: kapilkale Status: live Market: gift card technology	GiftRocket sells a new type of gift card that works at any location.
GrubWithUs Location: CrunchBase: Hacker News: eddylu Status: live Market: event planning (real world)	Grubwithus builds friendships over food. Reserve a seat to meet new people and discover new neighborhoods and food.
HelloFax Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: hellofax Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: business communication infrastructure	HelloFax is a web-based replacement for your fax machine. HelloSign is another product by the same company and functions as a simple way to electronically sign documents.
Humble Bundle Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: humble-bundle Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Humble Bundle is an innovative distributor of online games. Humble Bundle chooses several games to package together, and then offers the “bundle” to users as a single download. Users get to name their own price, and even allocate percentages of their payment to the specific game developers or select charities. Bundles only last for a limited time, but come free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions.
Hyperink Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: hyperink Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: news, reading, and publishing	Hyperink is a San Francisco based self-publishing platform that wants to give every citizen the ability to publish a book.
InPulse Location: CrunchBase: Hacker News: erohead Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	inPulse is an ambient information display. Connected to the internet via Bluetooth to a smartphone, inPulse can relay instant alerts and provide users with an alternative to pulling out their smartphone. If your hands are full, or if you’re on the go, inPulse is an excellent way to keep connected.
Kaleidoscope Location: CrunchBase: inporia Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: fashion and clothing	Kaleidoscope lets users browse a stream of both editorial-approved images and street style photos. If you like what you see, click on any image and it breaks it down by item and offers direct links to sites like Nordstrom’s, Bergdorff, Net-a-Porter or Shop Bop, where users can buy the exact items featured in the photo or similar ones across a range of price points, both higher and lower. Kaleidoscope has been described as “Pinterest meets ShopStyle”.
Lanyrd Location: CrunchBase: lanyrd Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: event planning (real world)	Lanyrd is a directory of conferences, events and speakers. Visitors can sign in with Twitter to see events their friends are attending or speaking at, submit new events, add talks that they have given and build up their speaker profile.
Like.fm Location: CrunchBase: like-fm Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: online music	Like.fm learns what music you like (by tracking it from wherever you normally listen to music) so you can easily tell your friends what music you like, and discover new songs from them.
LikeALittle Location: CrunchBase: likealittle Hacker News: palohackers Status: live Market: photo sharing and social networks	LikeALittle is a social network for flirting, a flirting-facilitator platform (or FFP, for advanced users). The site’s purpose is to allow you to compliment and chat about your crushes around you or otherwise bemoan your missed encounters from the safety of your trusty screen. And we hope, of course, that you’ll put yourself out there once in a while to make a real connection!
Mailgun Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: mailgun Hacker News: old-gregg Status: acquired by Rackspace (terms undisclosed) Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Mailgun provides a web service for integrating email inboxes into apps. Just as Twilio enables developers to build voice and SMS into their apps, Mailgun enables developers to tightly integrate email into their apps, i.e. give real email mailboxes to their users, their web pages or any objects in their apps.
meetings.io Location: CrunchBase: meetings-io Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Meetings.io you can meet face to face with anyone from around the world within your web browser. Meet with a client, a customer, your project team or your co-workers in person without ever leaving your desk by simply creating a tiny meeting room link and sharing the link with anyone you want to meet with.
MemSQL Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: memsql Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: database technology	MemSQL makes a scalable, memory-optimized database built for high-throughput workloads.
MinoMonsters Location: CrunchBase: minomonsters Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	MinoMonsters is a social game where players collect and battle pet monsters.
Moki.TV Location: CrunchBase: moki-tv Hacker News: n/a Status: pivot to hotspots.io, then acqui-hired by twitter Market:	Moki.TV helps you find movies and tv to watch online right now.
Noteleaf Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: noteleaf Hacker News: iamwil Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Noteleaf helps you be prepared for any meeting. By integrating with your Google Calendar and recognizing the names of the people you’re going to be meeting with, Noteleaf is able to push information about who you’re going to meet, right before you meet them.
NowJS Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	NowJS makes realtime web apps really easy.
Sendoid Location: CrunchBase: sendoid Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by facebook for $2m Market: cloud storage	Sendoid is an on-demand peer to peer transfer system. It makes transferring any size file between two people as simple as clicking a link.
Siasto Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Siasto is a web-based project management platform that lets you get real work done.
SwipeGood Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: swipegood Hacker News: n/a Status: live; also known as elasticsales.com and close.io Market: charity and philanthropy	SwipeGood allows users to enroll their credit or debit cards and automatically round up every purchase to the nearest dollar for charity.
TalkBin Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: talkbin Hacker News: qasar Status: acquired by Google Market:	TalkBin is a feedback platform for local businesses with mobile applications for iPhone and Android.
Taskforce Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: taskforce Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Taskforce is a powerful tool that lets you manage your work flow better. You can eliminate emails, collaborate with your colleagues, and get work done without leaving your inbox.
TellFi Location: CrunchBase: tellfi Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: business communication infrastructure	TellFi is the fastest, easiest way to setup a phone system for your business. We take something that has traditionally been painful and expensive, and make it available to everyone.
TrustEgg Location: San Diego, CA CrunchBase: trustegg Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	TrustEgg enables parents to create a Trust for their child in minutes for free. Parents can invite family and friends to make contributions. The Trust Fund is invested with Vanguard and earns a market rate of return until the child turns 18. The simple, social nature of TrustEgg will hopefully change the savings rate for the 70+ million children in the US.
Tumult Location: CrunchBase: tumult-inc Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: programming tools	Tumultco makes Hype, an app that lets you create beautiful HTML5 web content. Animations and interactive content made with Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required. No Flash required.
Tutorspree Location: CrunchBase: tutorspree Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: education	Tutorspree is a marketplace for quality tutoring.
Upverter Location: Toronto CrunchBase: upverter Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: electronics design	Upverter is building browser-based electronic design tools focused on collaboration and usability.
Venuetastic Location: CrunchBase: venuetastic Hacker News: cyen Status: live Market: event planning (real world)	Venuetastic is an easy to use event venue marketplace. Venuetastic is the best way to discover venues, select the perfect one, and book securely. Y Combinator’s first all-female start-up.
WhereBerry Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	WhereBerry is your social wishlist. Keep track of fun things you want to do. Find out which of your friends want you to join. Discover the things your friends want to do.
YouGotListings Location: Allston, MA CrunchBase: yougotlistings Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: real estate infrastructure	YouGotListings is the online rental technology platform that provides real estate offices and landlords with the easy-to-learn tools to enhance their professional lives.
ZeroCater Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: zerocater Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology	ZeroCater arranges delivered meals for your company from the best local restaurants. Want lunch for twenty-five people Monday through Thursday of every week? Five vegetarians and two vegans? We’ve got you covered.

General

Description

Acunote

Location: Foster City, CA

CrunchBase: acunote

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Acunote is a project management tool and Scrum software. Acunote provides companies with the ability to manage software development, online project management, and IT project management for the whole company. It is fast and easy to use, shows actual progress, provides powerful analytics, works for the whole company as a unified project means of communication and collaboration tool, and integrates well with existing tools.

AppHarbor

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: appharbor

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: platform as a service

AppHarbor is Azure done right. “Heroku for .NET” – a platform as a service for .NET developers and businesses.

Balanced

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: balanced

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

Balanced is the first payment system designed for marketplaces from the ground up. We provide a feature-rich, fully integrated api that allows marketplaces to charge cards, escrow funds, deposit next day via ACH direct, and collect their own marketplace fees.

Beetailer

Location:

CrunchBase: beetailer

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: e-tail infrastructure

Beetailer’s software helps retailers import existing web stores onto Facebook and gives e-retailers tools for promoting the storefront and detailed analytics about how well it is doing.

Chirply

Location:

CrunchBase: chirply

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: visual design

Chirply is a Y Combinator-backed community of artists and design lovers that want to make better stuff through better design! The community collectively decides what the best submitted designs are, and then those designs are made into greeting cards. We all know greeting cards are tacky & sappy – and Chirply is going to change that with your help!

Comprehend Systems

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: comprehend-systems

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: medical industry

Comprehend Systems is the maker of Comprehend Clinical, which is a reporting and visualization tool which runs against multiple databases in real time, while leaving the data in place. Comprehend Clinical is a next-generation reporting and visualization tool for the pharmaceutical industry. It leverages existing metadata and industry knowledge to provide a more powerful, efficient, and intuitive clinical review tool.

Convore

Location:

CrunchBase: convore

Hacker News: n/a

Status: pivot to grove.io

Market:

Convore is the best way to communicate with groups in real-time. You can join an existing group or create your own. Then post topics and have conversations with friends about those topics.

Curebit

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: curebit

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: e-tail infrastructure

Curebit makes it easy to tap into customer referrals by giving you a platform to implement campaigns that encourage customers to refer their friends. Its a powerful, proven and simple to use platform for growing your sales.

Custora

Location:

CrunchBase: custora

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: e-tail infrastructure

Custora offers a SaaS that tells online retailers and web apps which of their customers are most valuable, and suggests actions to keep them.

Dr. Chrono

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: drchrono-com

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: medical industry

Drchrono is a medical platform for doctors and patients. The company addresses the critical needs of today’s healthcare sector by providing a platform for the core needs of any medical practice through free cloud EHR technology with a focus on iPad. The primary focus is on iPad healthcare.

Earbits

Location:

CrunchBase: earbits

Hacker News: earbitscom
Status: live

Market: online music

Earbits is a marketing platform for music related products built around interactive radio experiences. Earbits (www.earbits.com) works directly with labels, high quality artists and live music event promoters to create innovative internet radio-based promotions that turn listeners into loyal fans and consumers. They provide commercial-free streaming music on Earbits.com, Earbits Mobile Radio apps, and across a variety of affiliate website partners.

FitFu

Location: Hampshire, GBR

CrunchBase: fitfu

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: physical fitness

FitFu is a motivating mobile fitness game to keep you active throughout the day.

Five Stars Card

Location:

CrunchBase:

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: gift card technology

Five Stars Card is a universal loyalty card for retail businesses. The card is the first link between cash registers, customers’ email and Facebook accounts.

Flotype

Location: Berkeley, CA

CrunchBase: flotype-2

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live; pivot to Bridge (www.getbridge.com)

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Flotype Inc. is a venture-backed company building a suite of enterprise technology for real-time messaging. Flotype takes a unique approach by building developer-friendly technologies focused on ease-of-use and simplicity, while still exceeding enterprise-grade performance expectations.

Flotype licenses enterprise-grade middleware, Bridge, to customers ranging from social web and software enterprises to financial and fleet management groups.

Other offerings include NowJS, a free, open-source framework, for developers seeking real-time interactivity on Node.js and JavaScript browsers. NowCluster is available for companies seeking scalability and reliability for NowJS applications.

GiftRocket

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: giftrocket

Hacker News: kapilkale
Status: live

Market: gift card technology

GiftRocket sells a new type of gift card that works at any location.

GrubWithUs

Location:

CrunchBase:

Hacker News: eddylu
Status: live

Market: event planning (real world)

Grubwithus builds friendships over food. Reserve a seat to meet new people and discover new neighborhoods and food.

HelloFax

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: hellofax

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: business communication infrastructure

HelloFax is a web-based replacement for your fax machine. HelloSign is another product by the same company and functions as a simple way to electronically sign documents.

Humble Bundle

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: humble-bundle

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: games and game features

Humble Bundle is an innovative distributor of online games. Humble Bundle chooses several games to package together, and then offers the “bundle” to users as a single download. Users get to name their own price, and even allocate percentages of their payment to the specific game developers or select charities. Bundles only last for a limited time, but come free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions.

Hyperink

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: hyperink

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: news, reading, and publishing

Hyperink is a San Francisco based self-publishing platform that wants to give every citizen the ability to publish a book.

InPulse

Location:

CrunchBase:

Hacker News: erohead
Status: live

Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)

inPulse is an ambient information display. Connected to the internet via Bluetooth to a smartphone, inPulse can relay instant alerts and provide users with an alternative to pulling out their smartphone. If your hands are full, or if you’re on the go, inPulse is an excellent way to keep connected.

Kaleidoscope

Location:

CrunchBase: inporia

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: fashion and clothing

Kaleidoscope lets users browse a stream of both editorial-approved images and street style photos. If you like what you see, click on any image and it breaks it down by item and offers direct links to sites like Nordstrom’s, Bergdorff, Net-a-Porter or Shop Bop, where users can buy the exact items featured in the photo or similar ones across a range of price points, both higher and lower.

Kaleidoscope has been described as “Pinterest meets ShopStyle”.

Lanyrd

Location:

CrunchBase: lanyrd

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: event planning (real world)

Lanyrd is a directory of conferences, events and speakers. Visitors can sign in with Twitter to see events their friends are attending or speaking at, submit new events, add talks that they have given and build up their speaker profile.

Like.fm

Location:

CrunchBase: like-fm

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: online music

Like.fm learns what music you like (by tracking it from wherever you normally listen to music) so you can easily tell your friends what music you like, and discover new songs from them.

LikeALittle

Location:

CrunchBase: likealittle

Hacker News: palohackers
Status: live

Market: photo sharing and social networks

LikeALittle is a social network for flirting, a flirting-facilitator platform (or FFP, for advanced users). The site’s purpose is to allow you to compliment and chat about your crushes around you or otherwise bemoan your missed encounters from the safety of your trusty screen. And we hope, of course, that you’ll put yourself out there once in a while to make a real connection!

Mailgun

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: mailgun

Hacker News: old-gregg
Status: acquired by Rackspace (terms undisclosed)

Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)

Mailgun provides a web service for integrating email inboxes into apps. Just as Twilio enables developers to build voice and SMS into their apps, Mailgun enables developers to tightly integrate email into their apps, i.e. give real email mailboxes to their users, their web pages or any objects in their apps.

meetings.io

Location:

CrunchBase: meetings-io

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Meetings.io you can meet face to face with anyone from around the world within your web browser. Meet with a client, a customer, your project team or your co-workers in person without ever leaving your desk by simply creating a tiny meeting room link and sharing the link with anyone you want to meet with.

MemSQL

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: memsql

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: database technology

MemSQL makes a scalable, memory-optimized database built for high-throughput workloads.

MinoMonsters

Location:

CrunchBase: minomonsters

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: games and game features

MinoMonsters is a social game where players collect and battle pet monsters.

Moki.TV

Location:

CrunchBase: moki-tv

Hacker News: n/a

Status: pivot to hotspots.io, then acqui-hired by twitter

Market:

Moki.TV helps you find movies and tv to watch online right now.

Noteleaf

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: noteleaf

Hacker News: iamwil
Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Noteleaf helps you be prepared for any meeting. By integrating with your Google Calendar and recognizing the names of the people you’re going to be meeting with, Noteleaf is able to push information about who you’re going to meet, right before you meet them.

NowJS

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

NowJS makes realtime web apps really easy.

Sendoid

Location:

CrunchBase: sendoid

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by facebook for $2m

Market: cloud storage

Sendoid is an on-demand peer to peer transfer system. It makes transferring any size file between two people as simple as clicking a link.

Siasto

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Siasto is a web-based project management platform that lets you get real work done.

SwipeGood

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: swipegood

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live; also known as elasticsales.com and close.io

Market: charity and philanthropy

SwipeGood allows users to enroll their credit or debit cards and automatically round up every purchase to the nearest dollar for charity.

TalkBin

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: talkbin

Hacker News: qasar
Status: acquired by Google

Market:

TalkBin is a feedback platform for local businesses with mobile applications for iPhone and Android.

Taskforce

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: taskforce

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Taskforce is a powerful tool that lets you manage your work flow better. You can eliminate emails, collaborate with your colleagues, and get work done without leaving your inbox.

TellFi

Location:

CrunchBase: tellfi

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: business communication infrastructure

TellFi is the fastest, easiest way to setup a phone system for your business. We take something that has traditionally been painful and expensive, and make it available to everyone.

TrustEgg

Location: San Diego, CA

CrunchBase: trustegg

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

TrustEgg enables parents to create a Trust for their child in minutes for free. Parents can invite family and friends to make contributions. The Trust Fund is invested with Vanguard and earns a market rate of return until the child turns 18. The simple, social nature of TrustEgg will hopefully change the savings rate for the 70+ million children in the US.

Tumult

Location:

CrunchBase: tumult-inc

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: programming tools

Tumultco makes Hype, an app that lets you create beautiful HTML5 web content. Animations and interactive content made with Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required. No Flash required.

Tutorspree

Location:

CrunchBase: tutorspree

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: education

Tutorspree is a marketplace for quality tutoring.

Upverter

Location: Toronto

CrunchBase: upverter

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: electronics design

Upverter is building browser-based electronic design tools focused on collaboration and usability.

Venuetastic

Location:

CrunchBase: venuetastic

Hacker News: cyen
Status: live

Market: event planning (real world)

Venuetastic is an easy to use event venue marketplace. Venuetastic is the best way to discover venues, select the perfect one, and book securely. Y Combinator’s first all-female start-up.

WhereBerry

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

WhereBerry is your social wishlist. Keep track of fun things you want to do. Find out which of your friends want you to join. Discover the things your friends want to do.

YouGotListings

Location: Allston, MA

CrunchBase: yougotlistings

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: real estate infrastructure

YouGotListings is the online rental technology platform that provides real estate offices and landlords with the easy-to-learn tools to enhance their professional lives.

ZeroCater

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: zerocater

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology

ZeroCater arranges delivered meals for your company from the best local restaurants. Want lunch for twenty-five people Monday through Thursday of every week? Five vegetarians and two vegans? We’ve got you covered.

YCS10

Demo Day Coverage (Jason Kincaid): http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/24/y-combinator-demo-day-2/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
35	$700,000	$8,000,000	$160,000	$0

General	Description
1000Memories Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: 1000memories Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: photo sharing and social networks	1000Memories is a place for family and friends to remember, share and honor the ones we love. It’s easy: create a free memorial page, invite family and friends, and start sharing photos and stories from your loved one’s life.
AdGrok Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: adgrok Hacker News: mceachen Status: acquired by twitter for $8m Market: advertising/seo technology	AdGrok allows business owners to automate the process of choosing and bidding on keywords on Google AdWords.
AeroFS Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: aerofs Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: cloud storage	AeroFS is a program where users are able to manage and store their files and data in a cloud-like platform. This program is aimed to be much easier to use while still retaining the massive data storage capabilities with a newer and easier, user-friendly interface.
AnyLeaf Location: Sunnyvale CrunchBase: anyleaf Hacker News: n/a Status: live; pivot to anylistapp.com Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	AnyLeaf scours the sales being offered by local grocery stores and drug stores, building a huge database of all the sales offered. Using a database of historical pricing information and AnyLeaf’s proprietary algorithms, it ranks every deal, revealing the very best deals being offered.
Brushes Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: visual design	Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.
Chart.io Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: metrichouse Hacker News: daniel_levine Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	chart.io gives small and medium businesses access to the power of enterprise analytics tools. It is easier than ever to collect and store data, the amount of structured data in the US is growing > 20% per year. More and more organizations want insight into their data and chart.io seeks to provide an affordable, easy-to-use solution.
Crowdbooster Location: Menlo Park CrunchBase: crowdbooster Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: advertising/seo technology	Crowdbooster measures and optimizes social media marketing.
Dotcloud Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: dotcloud Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: platform as a service	DotCloud is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service. It makes it incredibly simple for developers to deploy and scale their applications, while at the same time delivering the flexibility and robustness required by critical business software. Developers can mix and match from a large choice of languages, databases, caching and messaging components, leaving them in full control of their technology stack.
E la Carte Location: CrunchBase: e-la-carte Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology	E la Carte develops and deploys tablet computers for restaurant tables so guests can order, pay and play games from their seats.
EmailOracle Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	EmailOracle lets you track who opens and responds to your email.
FanPulse Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: fanpulse Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Fanvibe.com allows you to watch and follow games with friends for the World Cup, NFL, MLB, NBA, Premier League, College Football, and College Basketball.
FutureAdvisor Location: New York, NY CrunchBase: futureadvisor Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	FutureAdvisor was founded on the premise that investing for your future does not have to be difficult or expensive. Te best way for us to help everyone was implement the wisdom of index investing in software.
Gantto Location: n/a CrunchBase: gantto Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Gantto was conceived to fill one obvious gap in our weekly management routine. Each week we would collect status information based upon what was really happening inside the organization and then update our project models to reflect and digest the changes. Then we would spend tedious hours manually creating presentations based upon the same underlying project data that we had already updated. After a long search for a good solution we set out to create our own. Gantto is a play on words on gantt chart – the most commonly used visual representation of project schedules.
GazeHawk Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: gazehawk Hacker News: bkrausz Status: acqui-hired by facebook Market: psychometric tools	GazeHawk provides eye tracking services using ordinary webcams. Their community of testers engage in eye-tracking studies from the comfort of home, allowing GazeHawk to offer professional eye tracking studies at a much lower price. GazeHawk pays a number of participants to view a customer’s page, and tracks those participants’ gazes via webcam. Customers then get heatmaps which show how the users interacted with the site. GazeHawk is the first company to offer eye tracking studies without specialized hardware.
GinzaMetrics Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: ginzametrics Hacker News: rgrieselhuber Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Ginzametrics is a subscription-based, software as a service (SaaS) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) management and analytics dashboard. Created by Ray Grieselhuber to bring the power of enterprise search marketing platforms to a wider market. Ginzametrics is a product of Ginzamarkets, Inc., located in Mountain View, CA.
Hipmunk Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: hipmunk Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	Hipmunk is building better interfaces for searching, browsing, and filtering your flight search results. Most flight search sites haven’t changed in years. They have a intimidating search page and endless pages of flight results. Finding the right flight often takes all afternoon – or all week. At Hipmunk, we make your experience a lot better.
HireHive Location: n/a CrunchBase: hirehive Hacker News: n/a Status: pivot to hackruiter Market: employment resources	HireHive lets you prescreen job candidates using video. Candidates record in the browser. No scheduling necessary.
I Move You Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: physical fitness	I Move You lets you challenge your friends to set exercise goals.
Indinero Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: indinero Hacker News: jlm382 Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	Indinero creates software to help small businesses better track and manage their finances. Indinero aims to provide its users with instant insights into the finances of their companies, leading them to save on unnecessary expenses and to earn more money for their companies.
Koduco Location: n/a CrunchBase: koduco Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Koduco makes iPad games that focus on multiplayer collaboration on the same device.
Leftronic Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: leftronic Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Leftronic develops web-based visualization software optimized for large screen displays. Their API allows users to monitor server stats, sales numbers, web analytics, or all of the above.
MessageParty Location: Brooklyn, NY CrunchBase: messageparty Hacker News: n/a Status: n/a Market:	MessageParty is a geo-blogging service. Users can post links, short anecdotes, notes and photos to MessageParty, and like other blogging services all messages are public and posted to the web. All posts are tied to a physical location.
OhLife Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	OhLife is the easiest way to write your life story.
Opzi Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: opzi Hacker News: newy Status: live Market:	Opzi is creating software to make corporate knowledge accessible.
PagerDuty Location: Canada CrunchBase: pagerduty Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	PagerDuty is an alarm dispatching service for system administrators and support teams. PagerDuty collects alerts from your business’s existing monitoring tools (Nagios, Monit, Pingdom, etc) and calls or SMSes the engineer on duty if there’s a problem. If the assigned engineer doesn’t answer, PagerDuty will automatically escalate the issue by notifying someone else. PagerDuty fills a gap in many of today’s monitoring tools by providing sophisticated on-call management features typically found only in high-price enterprise solutions. PagerDuty’s on-call schedules, alarm escalations, telephone alerts, and phone-based incident management ensure that your support staff are rapidly notified of any system problem.
Pathjoy Location: CrunchBase: pathjoy Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Pathjoy enables you to hire the perfect home cleaner in your area within minutes. Pathjoy provides trust, high quality, flexibility, and an affordable price.
Rapportive Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: rapportive Hacker News: martinkl Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they’re based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later by leaving notes.
ReadyForZero Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: readyforzero Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	ReadyForZero is online financial software that lets you track your credit card debt, and make and follow a plan to eliminate it. It’s not a ‘debt negotiation’ or ‘debt settlement’ service. It’s a tool that helps you get control of and eliminate your debt.
Simperium Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: simperium Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by automattic Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Simperium makes mobile products for phones, laptops, and tablets. Their premier application is SimpleNote.
Stripe Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: stripe Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	Stripe is a simple, developer-friendly way to accept payments online.
Tapzilla Location: n/a CrunchBase: tapzilla Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	TapZilla is taking the daily deal model and applying it to discounts on paid mobile apps. ‘Each day, TapZilla features a paid iOS app. To get the deal, you click on the ‘get App Now’ button, which will then prompt TapZilla to ask for your email. The startup will send you an email with a link to the app in the App Store where you can purchase the app and a coupon code. Once you purchase and download the app, you’ll be prompted to enter the coupon code once you enter into the App’s interface (You can also prompt the App by shaking the phone as well). Once you enter the code, TapZilla will automatically put the $0.99 in the buyer’s PayPal account. Users also have the option of accumulating rebate money towards a iTunes gift card.’
Teevox Location: n/a CrunchBase: teevox Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: video technology	Teevox is the company behind teevoxRemote, an app that allows an iPhone/iPad Touch to be used as a remote control for Hulu and Netflix. The app allows one-touch show selection, synchronized shared viewing with a friend, and play/pause/volume control.
The Fridge Location: n/a CrunchBase: the-fridge Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by Google; acqui-hired for Google Plus Market: photo sharing and social networks	The Fridge is a platform for lightweight single serving social networks for the functionality of Facebook without being on Facebook. The Fridge makes private conversation, media, and event sharing dead simple. The Fridge is like Tumblr for social networks. Anyone can easily create shared spaces, invite their friends and socialize/share photos, videos, music, and more.
Whereoscope Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: whereoscope Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired (acqui-hire) by zynga Market: parenting resources	Whereoscope is a service designed to help parents keep know where their kids are. Whereoscope uses smartphones and an intelligent sampling algorithm to provide the best possible accuracy without draining the battery. Whereoscope enables location-based geo-fencing so that parents can know when their kids arrive at school, leave soccer practice, or are just about to get home.
Workflowy Location: CrunchBase: workflowy Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	WorkFlowy is a tool for organizing your brain. It provides a powerful interface for hierarchical lists. People use it as a replacement for text editors and spreadsheets as organizational tools. They leave it open all day and put whatever passes through their brain in it – project plans, to-do’s, meeting notes, brainstorms, etc.

General

Description

1000Memories

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: 1000memories

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: photo sharing and social networks

1000Memories is a place for family and friends to remember, share and honor the ones we love. It’s easy: create a free memorial page, invite family and friends, and start sharing photos and stories from your loved one’s life.

AdGrok

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: adgrok

Hacker News: mceachen
Status: acquired by twitter for $8m

Market: advertising/seo technology

AdGrok allows business owners to automate the process of choosing and bidding on keywords on Google AdWords.

AeroFS

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: aerofs

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: cloud storage

AeroFS is a program where users are able to manage and store their files and data in a cloud-like platform. This program is aimed to be much easier to use while still retaining the massive data storage capabilities with a newer and easier, user-friendly interface.

AnyLeaf

Location: Sunnyvale

CrunchBase: anyleaf

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live; pivot to anylistapp.com

Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison

AnyLeaf scours the sales being offered by local grocery stores and drug stores, building a huge database of all the sales offered. Using a database of historical pricing information and AnyLeaf’s proprietary algorithms, it ranks every deal, revealing the very best deals being offered.

Brushes

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: visual design

Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.

Chart.io

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: metrichouse

Hacker News: daniel_levine
Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

chart.io gives small and medium businesses access to the power of enterprise analytics tools. It is easier than ever to collect and store data, the amount of structured data in the US is growing > 20% per year. More and more organizations want insight into their data and chart.io seeks to provide an affordable, easy-to-use solution.

Crowdbooster

Location: Menlo Park

CrunchBase: crowdbooster

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: advertising/seo technology

Crowdbooster measures and optimizes social media marketing.

Dotcloud

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: dotcloud

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: platform as a service

DotCloud is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service. It makes it incredibly simple for developers to deploy and scale their applications, while at the same time delivering the flexibility and robustness required by critical business software. Developers can mix and match from a large choice of languages, databases, caching and messaging components, leaving them in full control of their technology stack.

E la Carte

Location:

CrunchBase: e-la-carte

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology

E la Carte develops and deploys tablet computers for restaurant tables so guests can order, pay and play games from their seats.

EmailOracle

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)

EmailOracle lets you track who opens and responds to your email.

FanPulse

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: fanpulse

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Fanvibe.com allows you to watch and follow games with friends for the World Cup, NFL, MLB, NBA, Premier League, College Football, and College Basketball.

FutureAdvisor

Location: New York, NY

CrunchBase: futureadvisor

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

FutureAdvisor was founded on the premise that investing for your future does not have to be difficult or expensive. Te best way for us to help everyone was implement the wisdom of index investing in software.

Gantto

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: gantto

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Gantto was conceived to fill one obvious gap in our weekly management routine. Each week we would collect status information based upon what was really happening inside the organization and then update our project models to reflect and digest the changes. Then we would spend tedious hours manually creating presentations based upon the same underlying project data that we had already updated. After a long search for a good solution we set out to create our own. Gantto is a play on words on gantt chart – the most commonly used visual representation of project schedules.

GazeHawk

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: gazehawk

Hacker News: bkrausz
Status: acqui-hired by facebook

Market: psychometric tools

GazeHawk provides eye tracking services using ordinary webcams. Their community of testers engage in eye-tracking studies from the comfort of home, allowing GazeHawk to offer professional eye tracking studies at a much lower price.

GazeHawk pays a number of participants to view a customer’s page, and tracks those participants’ gazes via webcam. Customers then get heatmaps which show how the users interacted with the site. GazeHawk is the first company to offer eye tracking studies without specialized hardware.

GinzaMetrics

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: ginzametrics

Hacker News: rgrieselhuber
Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Ginzametrics is a subscription-based, software as a service (SaaS) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) management and analytics dashboard. Created by Ray Grieselhuber to bring the power of enterprise search marketing platforms to a wider market.

Ginzametrics is a product of Ginzamarkets, Inc., located in Mountain View, CA.

Hipmunk

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: hipmunk

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: travel-related services

Hipmunk is building better interfaces for searching, browsing, and filtering your flight search results. Most flight search sites haven’t changed in years. They have a intimidating search page and endless pages of flight results. Finding the right flight often takes all afternoon – or all week. At Hipmunk, we make your experience a lot better.

HireHive

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: hirehive

Hacker News: n/a

Status: pivot to hackruiter

Market: employment resources

HireHive lets you prescreen job candidates using video. Candidates record in the browser. No scheduling necessary.

I Move You

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: physical fitness

I Move You lets you challenge your friends to set exercise goals.

Indinero

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: indinero

Hacker News: jlm382
Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

Indinero creates software to help small businesses better track and manage their finances. Indinero aims to provide its users with instant insights into the finances of their companies, leading them to save on unnecessary expenses and to earn more money for their companies.

Koduco

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: koduco

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: games and game features

Koduco makes iPad games that focus on multiplayer collaboration on the same device.

Leftronic

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: leftronic

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Leftronic develops web-based visualization software optimized for large screen displays. Their API allows users to monitor server stats, sales numbers, web analytics, or all of the above.

MessageParty

Location: Brooklyn, NY

CrunchBase: messageparty

Hacker News: n/a

Status: n/a

Market:

MessageParty is a geo-blogging service. Users can post links, short anecdotes, notes and photos to MessageParty, and like other blogging services all messages are public and posted to the web. All posts are tied to a physical location.

OhLife

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

OhLife is the easiest way to write your life story.

Opzi

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: opzi

Hacker News: newy
Status: live

Market:

Opzi is creating software to make corporate knowledge accessible.

PagerDuty

Location: Canada

CrunchBase: pagerduty

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

PagerDuty is an alarm dispatching service for system administrators and support teams.

PagerDuty collects alerts from your business’s existing monitoring tools (Nagios, Monit, Pingdom, etc) and calls or SMSes the engineer on duty if there’s a problem. If the assigned engineer doesn’t answer, PagerDuty will automatically escalate the issue by notifying someone else. PagerDuty fills a gap in many of today’s monitoring tools by providing sophisticated on-call management features typically found only in high-price enterprise solutions. PagerDuty’s on-call schedules, alarm escalations, telephone alerts, and phone-based incident management ensure that your support staff are rapidly notified of any system problem.

Pathjoy

Location:

CrunchBase: pathjoy

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Pathjoy enables you to hire the perfect home cleaner in your area within minutes. Pathjoy provides trust, high quality, flexibility, and an affordable price.

Rapportive

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: rapportive

Hacker News: martinkl
Status: live

Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.

You can immediately see what people look like, where they’re based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later by leaving notes.

ReadyForZero

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: readyforzero

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

ReadyForZero is online financial software that lets you track your credit card debt, and make and follow a plan to eliminate it. It’s not a ‘debt negotiation’ or ‘debt settlement’ service. It’s a tool that helps you get control of and eliminate your debt.

Simperium

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: simperium

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by automattic

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Simperium makes mobile products for phones, laptops, and tablets.

Their premier application is SimpleNote.

Stripe

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: stripe

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

Stripe is a simple, developer-friendly way to accept payments online.

Tapzilla

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: tapzilla

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison

TapZilla is taking the daily deal model and applying it to discounts on paid mobile apps.

‘Each day, TapZilla features a paid iOS app. To get the deal, you click on the ‘get App Now’ button, which will then prompt TapZilla to ask for your email. The startup will send you an email with a link to the app in the App Store where you can purchase the app and a coupon code.

Once you purchase and download the app, you’ll be prompted to enter the coupon code once you enter into the App’s interface (You can also prompt the App by shaking the phone as well). Once you enter the code, TapZilla will automatically put the $0.99 in the buyer’s PayPal account. Users also have the option of accumulating rebate money towards a iTunes gift card.’

Teevox

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: teevox

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: video technology

Teevox is the company behind teevoxRemote, an app that allows an iPhone/iPad Touch to be used as a remote control for Hulu and Netflix. The app allows one-touch show selection, synchronized shared viewing with a friend, and play/pause/volume control.

The Fridge

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: the-fridge

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by Google; acqui-hired for Google Plus

Market: photo sharing and social networks

The Fridge is a platform for lightweight single serving social networks for the functionality of Facebook without being on Facebook.

The Fridge makes private conversation, media, and event sharing dead simple. The Fridge is like Tumblr for social networks. Anyone can easily create shared spaces, invite their friends and socialize/share photos, videos, music, and more.

Whereoscope

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: whereoscope

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired (acqui-hire) by zynga

Market: parenting resources

Whereoscope is a service designed to help parents keep know where their kids are.

Whereoscope uses smartphones and an intelligent sampling algorithm to provide the best possible accuracy without draining the battery.

Whereoscope enables location-based geo-fencing so that parents can know when their kids arrive at school, leave soccer practice, or are just about to get home.

Workflowy

Location:

CrunchBase: workflowy

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

WorkFlowy is a tool for organizing your brain. It provides a powerful interface for hierarchical lists. People use it as a replacement for text editors and spreadsheets as organizational tools. They leave it open all day and put whatever passes through their brain in it – project plans, to-do’s, meeting notes, brainstorms, etc.

YCW10

Demo Day Coverage (Jason Kincaid): http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/23/y-combinator-demo-day/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
28	$560,000	$30,000,000	$600,000	$0

General	Description
140bets Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	140Bets is the best sports odds from the best people.
500Friends Location: Berkeley, CA CrunchBase: 500friends Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: e-tail infrastructure	500Friends is a venture backed company that provides online retailers with simple tools that enable them to engage the hundreds of millions of users of social networking sites.
Answerly Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: answerly Hacker News: answerly Status: live Market:	Answerly is a Q and A search engine that resolves any question by connecting ‘askers’ with answers, online experts and local service providers.
Browsarity Location: n/a CrunchBase: browsarity Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: charity and philanthropy	Browsarity.com is a browser application that allows people to donate to charity while shopping online. Users pick a charity upon signup, and a percentage of their purchase at affiliated retail sites gets donated automatically.
Cardpool Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: cardpool Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: gift card technology	Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of their face value in cash, trade their gift cards for an Amazon.com Gift Card, or donate their gift card to charity. Cardpool provides free shipping for both buyers and sellers, a 100-day return policy, and policy of only selling gift cards that have no expiration date and no monthly fees.
ChromaOm Location: Portland, Oregon CrunchBase: chromaom Hacker News: aepstein Status: renamed as COLOURlovers Market: visual design	CHROMAom: Color Enlightenment.
COLOURlovers Location: Portland, Oregon CrunchBase: colourlovers Hacker News: aepstein Status: live Market: visual design	COLOURlovers is a community of color enthusiasts, naming colors, creating color palettes and sharing color inspiration ideas. There are basic palette making tools as well as professional tools to help develop color palettes. More than 900k palettes are shared in the COLOURlovers community and can be downloaded in several formats including Adobe Swatch Exchange, GIMP and MSFT formats.
Crocodoc Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: crocodoc Hacker News: rdamico Status: acquired by box Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Crocodoc makes it easy to view, comment on, and share documents on the web.
datamarketplace Location: n/a CrunchBase: data-marketplace Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by infochimps Market:	Data Marketplace helps people find, buy and sell data online. It helps users seeking a specific data to creating a request for free, explain their needs, add an optional deadline and budget, and in turn allows aggregators respond with relevant data for purchase. All of the data on Data Marketplace is available for immediate purchase and download. They provide data in standard formats (e.g. Excel, CSV, XML, JSON).
Embedly Location: Boston CrunchBase: embed-ly Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Embedly, Inc. provides a service which makes every URL on the internet embeddable for any website or web application in which it is posted. Currently, we serve over 500,000 embeds per day to over 200 sites.
Embedster Location: n/a CrunchBase: embedster Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Embedster allows bloggers to serve an ad for any YouTube they display on their site. Even if you just have a link to the video, Embedster can serve up a slick overlay that plays an ad before following the link.
Etacts Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: etacts Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by salesforce.com for $5m Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Etacts is a CRM for people – it helps you keep in touch with people in your address book.
Fabricly Location: New York CrunchBase: fabricly Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: fashion and clothing	Fabricly wants to reverse and improve the model, by crowdsourcing designs and using a voting process to only manufacture pieces that people actually want, all while saving customers a bundle.
Gamador Location: n/a CrunchBase: gamador Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Gamador is a social game developer that has released three games so far. The company says that it differentiates itself from other developers by releasing quick, smart games at a very rapid pace (they can develop a game in about a week). The company has built its own analytics platform for social games called Rankador, which they liken to a ‘PageRank for social games’.
Greplin Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: greplin Hacker News: n/a Status: live; rename to Cue (www.cueup.com) Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Greplin is a personal web search engine that indexes information stored in online services.
Infoharmoni Location: n/a CrunchBase: infoharmoni Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Infoharmoni is a data visualization startup.
LaunchHear Location: n/a CrunchBase: launchhear Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	LaunchHear is the best way for bloggers to get early review copies of new products.
Mertado Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: six-times-seven Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by groupon for $10m Market: e-tail infrastructure	Six Times Seven is a backed social shopping company. The main product – Mertado – is both a Facebook Application (http://apps.facebook.com/mertado) and a Facebook Connect site (http://www.mertado.com) that allows users to shop in the Facebook environment. Mertado offers personalized limited time deals. Customers can recommend deals to friends and for the right recommendations, both the customer and his/her friend earn Mertado Cash that can be used towards future purchases.
Movity Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: movity-com Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by Trulia for $15m Market: real estate infrastructure	Movity.com operates as a real estate search portal.
NewsLabs Location: n/a CrunchBase: newslabs Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	NewsLabs offers a platform that looks to help ‘old school’ journalists adapt to the web, by giving them help with advertising, SEO, and other issues they may not have had to deal with before.
Notifo Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: notifo Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	Notifo is a mobile application and platform which allows any web site or service to easily create mobile notifications. While it’s currently only an iPhone app, the plan is to eventually work on Android and BlackBerry devices too.
Nowmov Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: nowmov Hacker News: thomaspun zaius jfb Status: live; pivot to nowbox; pivot to delight.io Market: video technology	Nowmov is a site that presents you with a stream of interesting YouTube videos, no effort on the user’s part required.
Optimizely Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: psychometric tools	Optimizely is A/B Testing you’ll actually use.
SeeingInteractive Location: College Station, TX CrunchBase: seeing-interactive Hacker News: n/a Status: live; renamed to OwnLocal Market:	SeeingInteractive provides Web-based software for newspapers that make money. SeeingInteractive makes software that works with companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter so that newspapers can remain at center of local.
Swagapalooza Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: alex3917 Status: live Market: event planning (real world)	Stuff We All Get
Tweetflow Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Tweetflow, the multi user tweet publisher!
Zencoder Location: Minneapolis, MN CrunchBase: zencoder Hacker News: jon_dahl Status: live Market: video technology	Zencoder is web-based encoding software as a service, designed to quickly convert any video into web and mobile compatible formats. It is for web sites and applications that accept uploaded videos and need to encode them to standard formats.
Zenedy Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Zenedy lets you learn something new every day with new articles written daily about topics discovered from all around the web.

General

Description

140bets

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

140Bets is the best sports odds from the best people.

500Friends

Location: Berkeley, CA

CrunchBase: 500friends

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: e-tail infrastructure

500Friends is a venture backed company that provides online retailers with simple tools that enable them to engage the hundreds of millions of users of social networking sites.

Answerly

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: answerly

Hacker News: answerly
Status: live

Market:

Answerly is a Q and A search engine that resolves any question by connecting ‘askers’ with answers, online experts and local service providers.

Browsarity

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: browsarity

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: charity and philanthropy

Browsarity.com is a browser application that allows people to donate to charity while shopping online. Users pick a charity upon signup, and a percentage of their purchase at affiliated retail sites gets donated automatically.

Cardpool

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: cardpool

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: gift card technology

Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards.

Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of their face value in cash, trade their gift cards for an Amazon.com Gift Card, or donate their gift card to charity. Cardpool provides free shipping for both buyers and sellers, a 100-day return policy, and policy of only selling gift cards that have no expiration date and no monthly fees.

ChromaOm

Location: Portland, Oregon

CrunchBase: chromaom

Hacker News: aepstein
Status: renamed as COLOURlovers

Market: visual design

CHROMAom: Color Enlightenment.

COLOURlovers

Location: Portland, Oregon

CrunchBase: colourlovers

Hacker News: aepstein
Status: live

Market: visual design

COLOURlovers is a community of color enthusiasts, naming colors, creating color palettes and sharing color inspiration ideas. There are basic palette making tools as well as professional tools to help develop color palettes. More than 900k palettes are shared in the COLOURlovers community and can be downloaded in several formats including Adobe Swatch Exchange, GIMP and MSFT formats.

Crocodoc

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: crocodoc

Hacker News: rdamico
Status: acquired by box

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Crocodoc makes it easy to view, comment on, and share documents on the web.

datamarketplace

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: data-marketplace

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by infochimps

Market:

Data Marketplace helps people find, buy and sell data online. It helps users seeking a specific data to creating a request for free, explain their needs, add an optional deadline and budget, and in turn allows aggregators respond with relevant data for purchase. All of the data on Data Marketplace is available for immediate purchase and download. They provide data in standard formats (e.g. Excel, CSV, XML, JSON).

Embedly

Location: Boston

CrunchBase: embed-ly

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Embedly, Inc. provides a service which makes every URL on the internet embeddable for any website or web application in which it is posted. Currently, we serve over 500,000 embeds per day to over 200 sites.

Embedster

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: embedster

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Embedster allows bloggers to serve an ad for any YouTube they display on their site. Even if you just have a link to the video, Embedster can serve up a slick overlay that plays an ad before following the link.

Etacts

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: etacts

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by salesforce.com for $5m

Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)

Etacts is a CRM for people – it helps you keep in touch with people in your address book.

Fabricly

Location: New York

CrunchBase: fabricly

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: fashion and clothing

Fabricly wants to reverse and improve the model, by crowdsourcing designs and using a voting process to only manufacture pieces that people actually want, all while saving customers a bundle.

Gamador

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: gamador

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: games and game features

Gamador is a social game developer that has released three games so far. The company says that it differentiates itself from other developers by releasing quick, smart games at a very rapid pace (they can develop a game in about a week).

The company has built its own analytics platform for social games called Rankador, which they liken to a ‘PageRank for social games’.

Greplin

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: greplin

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live; rename to Cue (www.cueup.com)

Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)

Greplin is a personal web search engine that indexes information stored in online services.

Infoharmoni

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: infoharmoni

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Infoharmoni is a data visualization startup.

LaunchHear

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: launchhear

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

LaunchHear is the best way for bloggers to get early review copies of new products.

Mertado

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: six-times-seven

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by groupon for $10m

Market: e-tail infrastructure

Six Times Seven is a backed social shopping company. The main product – Mertado – is both a Facebook Application (http://apps.facebook.com/mertado) and a Facebook Connect site (http://www.mertado.com) that allows users to shop in the Facebook environment.

Mertado offers personalized limited time deals. Customers can recommend deals to friends and for the right recommendations, both the customer and his/her friend earn Mertado Cash that can be used towards future purchases.

Movity

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: movity-com

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by Trulia for $15m

Market: real estate infrastructure

Movity.com operates as a real estate search portal.

NewsLabs

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: newslabs

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

NewsLabs offers a platform that looks to help ‘old school’ journalists adapt to the web, by giving them help with advertising, SEO, and other issues they may not have had to deal with before.

Notifo

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: notifo

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market:

Notifo is a mobile application and platform which allows any web site or service to easily create mobile notifications. While it’s currently only an iPhone app, the plan is to eventually work on Android and BlackBerry devices too.

Nowmov

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: nowmov

Hacker News: thomaspun zaius jfb
Status: live; pivot to nowbox; pivot to delight.io

Market: video technology

Nowmov is a site that presents you with a stream of interesting YouTube videos, no effort on the user’s part required.

Optimizely

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: psychometric tools

Optimizely is A/B Testing you’ll actually use.

SeeingInteractive

Location: College Station, TX

CrunchBase: seeing-interactive

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live; renamed to OwnLocal

Market:

SeeingInteractive provides Web-based software for newspapers that make money.

SeeingInteractive makes software that works with companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter so that newspapers can remain at center of local.

Swagapalooza

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: alex3917
Status: live

Market: event planning (real world)

Stuff We All Get

Tweetflow

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Tweetflow, the multi user tweet publisher!

Zencoder

Location: Minneapolis, MN

CrunchBase: zencoder

Hacker News: jon_dahl
Status: live

Market: video technology

Zencoder is web-based encoding software as a service, designed to quickly convert any video into web and mobile compatible formats. It is for web sites and applications that accept uploaded videos and need to encode them to standard formats.

Zenedy

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Zenedy lets you learn something new every day with new articles written daily about topics discovered from all around the web.

YCS09

Demo Day Coverage (Jason Kincaid): http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/silicon-valley-elite-flock-to-y-combinator-demo-day/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
22	$440,000	$0	$0	$0

General	Description
Bump Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: bump-technologies Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Bump Technologies builds mobile applications and APIs that allow two smartphones to identify one another and connect by simply being bumped together.
CarWoo Location: Burlingame, CA CrunchBase: carwoo Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	CarWoo! is an online new-car buying service and marketplace. Buyers come to CarWoo!, state which car they are looking for and CarWoo!’s network of over 3000 dealers compete to sell the buyer the car.
DailyBooth Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: dailybooth Hacker News: RyanAmos Status: live Market: photo sharing and social networks	DailyBooth lets users follow their friends and update them in real-time through the use of pictures and status updates.
DirectedEdge Location: Berlin, DEU CrunchBase: directed-edge Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: e-tail infrastructure	Directed Edge delivers Amazon-like ‘People who bought this also bought…’ and ‘We think you’d also like’-style recommendations to other sites, using existing data being collected such as purchase or click histories. Recommendations are served in real-time via a REST API, with language bindings in several programming languages to make integration easy.
FanChatter Location: Minneapolis, MN CrunchBase: fanchatter Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	FanChatter offers a platform for sports teams and other organizations to use social media to engage with their fans.
FlightCaster Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: flightcaster Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by Next Jump Market: travel-related services	FlightCaster predicts flight delays. FlightCaster can predict your probability of delay hours before the airline or any other app notifies you. FlightCaster uses a patent-pending algorithm that scours data on every domestic flight for the past 10-years and matches it to real-time conditions.
GraffitiGeo Location: n/a CrunchBase: graffitigeo-inc Hacker News: siong1987 Status: acquired by loopt Market:	GraffitiGeo allows users to leave brief reviews of restaurants, or for those too lazy to do that, to simply leave a ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ – it’s like a highly condensed version of Yelp, or a ‘Digg for the world’. These reviews and votes can be cast from the site’s iPhone app or from the service’s homepage. The homepage also features a stream of the latest comments to come in from other users, as well as a profile for each restaurant in the system that includes all of its votes and comments. There’s also a nifty feature that lets you view a heatmap of your current region, so you can quickly figure out the hot spots in town. The gameplay in GraffitiGeo gives you points for checking into certain locations, similar to FourSquare.
HighlightCam Location: n/a CrunchBase: highlightcam Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: video technology	HighlightCam takes live video streams and notes when something is actually going on in them – meaning some kind of motion. This allows them to make highlight reels of recorded video streams, as well as alert user of motion on a live stream.
InstantQ Location: Sunnyvale, CA CrunchBase: instantq Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology	InstantQ allows restaurants to fill tables by varying prices to increase demand. It enables restaurants to send Just-In-Time promotions to customers, increasing traffic on slow nights.
Jobpic Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	n/a
JobSpice Location: n/a CrunchBase: jobspice Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	JobSpice is a surprisingly easy-to-use, intuitive online tool for creating a resume. Changing styles, managing different resumes for different employers, and creating web-based and PDF versions takes only a few clicks.
Lingt Location: n/a CrunchBase: lingt Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by dictionary.com Market: education	Lingt is a service for learning languages that takes advantage of gameplay mechanics to keep users coming back for more.
Listia Location: Sunnyvale, CA CrunchBase: listia Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	Listia, which launched in August 2009, is eBay for free stuff. Unlike giving away stuff on Craigslist, where you get deluged by emails and have to let everyone know who gets the item, Listia manages that for you. Users get a certain number of credits which they bid for the item, so whoever wins the auction is the person who wanted it the most. Users get credits in three ways: every user gets a certain number automatically, and you can get more by auctioning items, by referring friends, and by buying them.
Lockitron Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	Lockitron aims to replace physical keys entirely by letting you control your door lock with your phone. The Lockitron web app and hardware package are as of today available for general users. Apigy?
MeetingMix Location: n/a CrunchBase: meetingmix-com Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	MeetingMix is an online meeting agenda and meeting minutes template that you can share with attendees
Mixpanel Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: mixpanel Hacker News: suhail Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Mixpanel is a real-time analytics service that helps improve internet applications by tracking how users interact & engage with them.
Olark Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: olark Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: e-tail infrastructure	Olark is a lightweight tool to chat with visitors to your website using your existing instant messaging client. Visitors to your website appear as buddies on your Buddy list, their messages to you appear as IMs.
Plurchase Location: n/a CrunchBase: plurchase Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: e-tail infrastructure	Plurchase is an online social shopping site. From it, you can visit online shopping sites like Zappos with the additional of a social toolbar on the right hand side of the page. You can chat with other friends online and see what they are looking at on other shopping sites as well.
RentHop Location: New York CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: real estate infrastructure	RentHop lets you search NYC apartment rentals for free, no registration required! RentHop provides full landlord addresses and contact information with each listing, no broker fees attached.
RethinkDB Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: rethinkdb Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: database technology	RethinkDB is designed to be extremely fast, and implements powerful features that are cumbersome and inefficient with rotational storage. Today’s databases heavily optimize to account for high seek latency-the time it takes for a rotational drive’s platter to move. RethinkDB takes full advantage of solid-state drives, making traditional data storage layouts unnecessary. hexagram 49?
Wakemate Location: n/a CrunchBase: wakemate Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)	WakeMate makes personalized alarm clocks that sync with both a user’s body and their cell phone, enabling the iPhone alarm system to sound at the end of a REM cycle. The application/ wristband system also provides a full sleep analysis on their Analytics Platform. The WakeMate uses a science called actigraphy to analyze your sleep. Actigraphy uses an actigraph (the WakeMate unit) placed on a subject’s wrist to monitor the motion. The motion data is then analyzed to determine sleep patterns and circadian rhythms of the subject.
WePay Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: wepay Hacker News: billclerico Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	WePay makes it easy to collect and manage money online. Unlike competitors, WePay allows users to keep their group’s money in a dedicated account, and to share this account with their group. The service is great for roommates, clubs, organizations, fantasy leagues, teams, and much more.

General

Description

Bump

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: bump-technologies

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Bump Technologies builds mobile applications and APIs that allow two smartphones to identify one another and connect by simply being bumped together.

CarWoo

Location: Burlingame, CA

CrunchBase: carwoo

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison

CarWoo! is an online new-car buying service and marketplace. Buyers come to CarWoo!, state which car they are looking for and CarWoo!’s network of over 3000 dealers compete to sell the buyer the car.

DailyBooth

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: dailybooth

Hacker News: RyanAmos
Status: live

Market: photo sharing and social networks

DailyBooth lets users follow their friends and update them in real-time through the use of pictures and status updates.

DirectedEdge

Location: Berlin, DEU

CrunchBase: directed-edge

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: e-tail infrastructure

Directed Edge delivers Amazon-like ‘People who bought this also bought…’ and ‘We think you’d also like’-style recommendations to other sites, using existing data being collected such as purchase or click histories. Recommendations are served in real-time via a REST API, with language bindings in several programming languages to make integration easy.

FanChatter

Location: Minneapolis, MN

CrunchBase: fanchatter

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

FanChatter offers a platform for sports teams and other organizations to use social media to engage with their fans.

FlightCaster

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: flightcaster

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by Next Jump

Market: travel-related services

FlightCaster predicts flight delays.

FlightCaster can predict your probability of delay hours before the airline or any other app notifies you. FlightCaster uses a patent-pending algorithm that scours data on every domestic flight for the past 10-years and matches it to real-time conditions.

GraffitiGeo

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: graffitigeo-inc

Hacker News: siong1987
Status: acquired by loopt

Market:

GraffitiGeo allows users to leave brief reviews of restaurants, or for those too lazy to do that, to simply leave a ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ – it’s like a highly condensed version of Yelp, or a ‘Digg for the world’. These reviews and votes can be cast from the site’s iPhone app or from the service’s homepage. The homepage also features a stream of the latest comments to come in from other users, as well as a profile for each restaurant in the system that includes all of its votes and comments. There’s also a nifty feature that lets you view a heatmap of your current region, so you can quickly figure out the hot spots in town.

The gameplay in GraffitiGeo gives you points for checking into certain locations, similar to FourSquare.

HighlightCam

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: highlightcam

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: video technology

HighlightCam takes live video streams and notes when something is actually going on in them – meaning some kind of motion. This allows them to make highlight reels of recorded video streams, as well as alert user of motion on a live stream.

InstantQ

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

CrunchBase: instantq

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology

InstantQ allows restaurants to fill tables by varying prices to increase demand. It enables restaurants to send Just-In-Time promotions to customers, increasing traffic on slow nights.

Jobpic

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market:

n/a

JobSpice

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: jobspice

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: employment resources

JobSpice is a surprisingly easy-to-use, intuitive online tool for creating a resume. Changing styles, managing different resumes for different employers, and creating web-based and PDF versions takes only a few clicks.

Lingt

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: lingt

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by dictionary.com

Market: education

Lingt is a service for learning languages that takes advantage of gameplay mechanics to keep users coming back for more.

Listia

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

CrunchBase: listia

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison

Listia, which launched in August 2009, is eBay for free stuff. Unlike giving away stuff on Craigslist, where you get deluged by emails and have to let everyone know who gets the item, Listia manages that for you. Users get a certain number of credits which they bid for the item, so whoever wins the auction is the person who wanted it the most. Users get credits in three ways: every user gets a certain number automatically, and you can get more by auctioning items, by referring friends, and by buying them.

Lockitron

Location:

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)

Lockitron aims to replace physical keys entirely by letting you control your door lock with your phone. The Lockitron web app and hardware package are as of today available for general users. Apigy?

MeetingMix

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: meetingmix-com

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

MeetingMix is an online meeting agenda and meeting minutes template that you can share with attendees

Mixpanel

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: mixpanel

Hacker News: suhail
Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Mixpanel is a real-time analytics service that helps improve internet applications by tracking how users interact & engage with them.

Olark

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: olark

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: e-tail infrastructure

Olark is a lightweight tool to chat with visitors to your website using your existing instant messaging client. Visitors to your website appear as buddies on your Buddy list, their messages to you appear as IMs.

Plurchase

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: plurchase

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: e-tail infrastructure

Plurchase is an online social shopping site. From it, you can visit online shopping sites like Zappos with the additional of a social toolbar on the right hand side of the page. You can chat with other friends online and see what they are looking at on other shopping sites as well.

RentHop

Location: New York

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: real estate infrastructure

RentHop lets you search NYC apartment rentals for free, no registration required! RentHop provides full landlord addresses and contact information with each listing, no broker fees attached.

RethinkDB

Location: Mountain View

CrunchBase: rethinkdb

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: database technology

RethinkDB is designed to be extremely fast, and implements powerful features that are cumbersome and inefficient with rotational storage. Today’s databases heavily optimize to account for high seek latency-the time it takes for a rotational drive’s platter to move. RethinkDB takes full advantage of solid-state drives, making traditional data storage layouts unnecessary. hexagram 49?

Wakemate

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: wakemate

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: devices, hardware, components (manufactured goods)

WakeMate makes personalized alarm clocks that sync with both a user’s body and their cell phone, enabling the iPhone alarm system to sound at the end of a REM cycle.

The application/ wristband system also provides a full sleep analysis on their Analytics Platform.

The WakeMate uses a science called actigraphy to analyze your sleep. Actigraphy uses an actigraph (the WakeMate unit) placed on a subject’s wrist to monitor the motion. The motion data is then analyzed to determine sleep patterns and circadian rhythms of the subject.

WePay

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: wepay

Hacker News: billclerico
Status: live

Market: financial services and payment processing

WePay makes it easy to collect and manage money online.

Unlike competitors, WePay allows users to keep their group’s money in a dedicated account, and to share this account with their group. The service is great for roommates, clubs, organizations, fantasy leagues, teams, and much more.

YCW09

Demo Day Coverage (Leena Rao): http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/18/y-combinator-demo-day-spring-2009/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
16	$320,000	$50,000,000	$1,000,000	$0

General	Description
Adioso Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: adioso Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: travel-related services	Adioso is a travel search engine that supports broad, open-ended, natural-language queries, built to satisfy the needs of budget-conscious travellers with flexible date & destination options. Its natural language search interface allows date-flexible and destination-flexible searches, like ‘San Francisco to NYC late October’, or ‘Austin to anywhere under $200 next week’. It also provides a routing engine that interconnects flights from low-cost airlines to allow budget-conscious travellers to identify the lowest-cost route between any two places domestically or internationally. Adioso seeks to be the perfect travel search companion for backpackers, vagabonds, nomads, or anyone with an appetite for spontaneous travel.
AirBnb Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: airbnb Hacker News: brianchesky Status: live Market: travel-related services	Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world online or from an iPhone device. Whether the available space is a castle for a night, a sailboat for a week, or an apartment for a month, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to showcase these distinctive spaces to an audience of millions. By facilitating bookings and financial transactions, Airbnb makes the process of listing or booking a space effortless and efficient.
Cloudkick Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: cloudkick Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by rackspace for $50m Market: cloud storage	Cloudkick is a centralized web-based control hub for cloud servers. Cloudkick offers: graphs that visualize bandwith analyses and other traffic metrics, monitoring of critical server components, nodes and tags for metadata.
Divvyshot Location: n/a CrunchBase: divvyshot Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by Facebook Market: photo sharing and social networks	Divvyshot allows groups of friends to share their photos easily, at their full resolutions.
Echodio Location: n/a CrunchBase: echodio Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: online music	Echodio makes it easy to keep iTunes music libraries in sync, securely backed up and streamable from anywhere.
Foodoro Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: foodoro Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology	Foodoro is a marketplace where people can buy specialty food directly from artisanal Foodmakers.
Heyzap Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: heyzap Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Heyzap is a social, casual, and massively-multiplayer online games monetization and distribution platform founded in 2009 by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund. Heyzap provides website publishers a number of ways to integrate games into a website or blog, including the Heyzap Arcade, Heyzap Widget and the Heyzap API. These games allow websites to increase traffic, user retention, and visitor monetization via microtransactions. For game developers, Heyzap provides an API enabling their games to become more social with improved authentication, sharing, inviting, and in-game payments. This enables developers to distribute their social games across the wider web and onto multiple social networks and the Heyzap Network of 290,000 websites.
Nambii Location: n/a CrunchBase: nambii Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: proximity-based mobile apps	Nambii is an online dating service with iPhone applications that allow users to send and receive flirts with people around them.
Picurio Location: n/a CrunchBase: picurio Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: photo sharing and social networks	Picurio is web-based photo sharing and photo management software.
PocketFunGames Location: n/a CrunchBase: pocketfungames Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	pocketfungames is a game developer for the iPhone that focuses on games with strong social components.
Propable Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: real estate infrastructure	Propable was a suite of online management and investment analysis tools for property investors.
reMail Location: n/a CrunchBase: remail Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by google Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	ReMail is an email app that downloads all your email to your iPhone and offers a comprehensive email search.
Skysheet Location: n/a CrunchBase: skysheet Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Skysheet is a web-based spreadsheet, in stealth mode as of March 2009.
TheSixtyOne Location: n/a CrunchBase: thesixtyone Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: online music	thesixtyone is Digg for new music, a social filter for the tsunami of indie creativity hitting the web. Like Digg, the homepage is community driven. Listeners who sign up are given a daily number of ‘hearts’ they can use to vote on songs they like. If songs you heart become popular, you earn reputation points, level up, and unlock community abilities. Listeners can also earn achievement badges for various activities, like hearting songs in under-explored genres or reaching a playcount milestone. All tracks are fully streamable and can be organized in tag-based playlists. To lubricate the experience, they’ve invented an ajax navigation system that allows listeners to enjoy seamless audio playback across pageviews.
Voxli Location: n/a CrunchBase: voxli Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: games and game features	Voxli offers browser-based group voice chat for gamers and teams. Users of Voxli can voice chat with up to 200 people at a time without leaving the browser or setting up a voice server. Each group voice chat exists at a persistent URL, which can be shared with friends via email or IM. Voxli works on Windows and Mac, and supports push-to-talk (walkie talkie) functionality outside of the browser.
Wattvision Location: n/a CrunchBase: wattvision Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: green energy technology	Wattvision offers a simple idea: Monitor your energy consumption in realtime from the web. To do this you need a Wattvision WiFi Sensor, but if you have a digital power meter at your home, you don’t even need an electrician to install this for you.

General

Description

Adioso

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: adioso

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: travel-related services

Adioso is a travel search engine that supports broad, open-ended, natural-language queries, built to satisfy the needs of budget-conscious travellers with flexible date & destination options.

Its natural language search interface allows date-flexible and destination-flexible searches, like ‘San Francisco to NYC late October’, or ‘Austin to anywhere under $200 next week’.

It also provides a routing engine that interconnects flights from low-cost airlines to allow budget-conscious travellers to identify the lowest-cost route between any two places domestically or internationally.

Adioso seeks to be the perfect travel search companion for backpackers, vagabonds, nomads, or anyone with an appetite for spontaneous travel.

AirBnb

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: airbnb

Hacker News: brianchesky
Status: live

Market: travel-related services

Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world online or from an iPhone device. Whether the available space is a castle for a night, a sailboat for a week, or an apartment for a month, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to showcase these distinctive spaces to an audience of millions. By facilitating bookings and financial transactions, Airbnb makes the process of listing or booking a space effortless and efficient.

Cloudkick

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: cloudkick

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by rackspace for $50m

Market: cloud storage

Cloudkick is a centralized web-based control hub for cloud servers.
Cloudkick offers: graphs that visualize bandwith analyses and other traffic metrics, monitoring of critical server components, nodes and tags for metadata.

Divvyshot

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: divvyshot

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by Facebook

Market: photo sharing and social networks

Divvyshot allows groups of friends to share their photos easily, at their full resolutions.

Echodio

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: echodio

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: online music

Echodio makes it easy to keep iTunes music libraries in sync, securely backed up and streamable from anywhere.

Foodoro

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: foodoro

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: food discovery, catering, and restaurant technology

Foodoro is a marketplace where people can buy specialty food directly from artisanal Foodmakers.

Heyzap

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: heyzap

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: games and game features

Heyzap is a social, casual, and massively-multiplayer online games monetization and distribution platform founded in 2009 by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund.

Heyzap provides website publishers a number of ways to integrate games into a website or blog, including the Heyzap Arcade, Heyzap Widget and the Heyzap API. These games allow websites to increase traffic, user retention, and visitor monetization via microtransactions.

For game developers, Heyzap provides an API enabling their games to become more social with improved authentication, sharing, inviting, and in-game payments. This enables developers to distribute their social games across the wider web and onto multiple social networks and the Heyzap Network of 290,000 websites.

Nambii

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: nambii

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: proximity-based mobile apps

Nambii is an online dating service with iPhone applications that allow users to send and receive flirts with people around them.

Picurio

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: picurio

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: photo sharing and social networks

Picurio is web-based photo sharing and photo management software.

PocketFunGames

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: pocketfungames

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: games and game features

pocketfungames is a game developer for the iPhone that focuses on games with strong social components.

Propable

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: n/a

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: real estate infrastructure

Propable was a suite of online management and investment analysis tools for property investors.

reMail

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: remail

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by google

Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)

ReMail is an email app that downloads all your email to your iPhone and offers a comprehensive email search.

Skysheet

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: skysheet

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Skysheet is a web-based spreadsheet, in stealth mode as of March 2009.

TheSixtyOne

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: thesixtyone

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: online music

thesixtyone is Digg for new music, a social filter for the tsunami of indie creativity hitting the web. Like Digg, the homepage is community driven. Listeners who sign up are given a daily number of ‘hearts’ they can use to vote on songs they like. If songs you heart become popular, you earn reputation points, level up, and unlock community abilities. Listeners can also earn achievement badges for various activities, like hearting songs in under-explored genres or reaching a playcount milestone. All tracks are fully streamable and can be organized in tag-based playlists. To lubricate the experience, they’ve invented an ajax navigation system that allows listeners to enjoy seamless audio playback across pageviews.

Voxli

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: voxli

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: games and game features

Voxli offers browser-based group voice chat for gamers and teams.

Users of Voxli can voice chat with up to 200 people at a time without leaving the browser or setting up a voice server. Each group voice chat exists at a persistent URL, which can be shared with friends via email or IM. Voxli works on Windows and Mac, and supports push-to-talk (walkie talkie) functionality outside of the browser.

Wattvision

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: wattvision

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: green energy technology

Wattvision offers a simple idea: Monitor your energy consumption in realtime from the web. To do this you need a Wattvision WiFi Sensor, but if you have a digital power meter at your home, you don’t even need an electrician to install this for you.

YCS08

Demo Day Coverage (Mark Hendrickson): http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/y-combinators-demo-day-summer-2008/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
23	$460,000	$10,000,000	$200,000	$0

General	Description
Anyvite Location: Columbia, MD CrunchBase: anyvite Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: event planning (real world)	Anyvite is a free site dedicated to event invitation creation and group organization. Launched in 2008, Anyvite provides users with the most efficient way to create invitations as well as offers the tools necessary to organize and communicate with attendees throughout the event lifecycle.
Backtype Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: backtype Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by twitter Market: advertising/seo technology	BackType is a marketing intelligence platform that helps brands and agencies understand the business impact of social media. BackType also powers social features for over 100 companies, including The New York Times, Slideshare, Automattic (creators of WordPress), Bit.ly and more.
CO2Stats Location: Boston CrunchBase: co2stats Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: green energy technology	CO2Stats aims to help website owners understand the electricity usage and related carbon emissions associated with site usage, and then helps site owners manage their carbon footprint. The company calculates the greenhouse gas footprint of visits to your site, based on locations of your visitors and servers, computer types, window and monitor sizes, local fuel mixes, download sizes and times. Every month CO2Stats purchase Green-E certified Renewable Energy Certificates to offset your site’s CO2 footprint. Users can inspect your certificates and other environmental statistics by clicking on your CO2Stats badge.
FathomDB Location: n/a CrunchBase: fathomdb Hacker News: justinsb Status: live Market: database technology	FathomDB offers databases as a service, taking care of many of the day-to-day tasks database administrators have to deal with and letting them focus on more complex issues.
Fliggo Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: fliggo Hacker News: n/a Status: merged with Vidly Market: video technology	Fliggo is instant video communities. Fliggo offers anyone the ability to create their own video-uploading site, and share the videos either privately or publicly. Fliggo hosts and streams the videos, and gives site owners easy management tools to customize and monitor activity on the site. While the basic service is free, Fliggo charges for commercial features such as serving ads on a site or controlling the domain that it is on. Create the next YouTube or just a private place to share your videos. Sites created with Fliggo are highly customizable, with many privacy and moderation options.
Frogmetrics Location: Brooklyn, NY CrunchBase: frogmetrics Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Frogmetrics aggregates your data from unlimited locations, automatically finds the most important statistics, and helps you gain insights about your business from your web browser. The company wants to place touch screens in restaurants, stores, and other brick and mortar establishments that can be used to collect customer feedback on the spot. The devices ask customers a few questions at the point of sale about their experience and can collect contact information about customers to generate leads. The information gathered across physical locations is aggregated and analyzed for trends and other statistics.
Ididwork Location: n/a CrunchBase: ididwork Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	ididwork is an online tool that allows employees to keep track of the work they do over time. Employee logs can then be shared with other employees, and submitted to superiors for review. ididwork can be used by an individual to keep track of work completed, and by the enterprise to increase awareness of employee activity.
MeetCast Location: n/a CrunchBase: meetcast Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	MeetCast is browser-based software that provides a host of features critical to effective real time interaction, including: sharing documents and images, whiteboarding, simultaneous text editing, and screen sharing. MeetCast enables face to face interaction via webcam, and creates a virtual workspace that persists the same URL and conference layout the life of a project. All items shared in a workspace are stored in the cloud for quick access during future meetings.
Ninite Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: ninite Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: platform as a service	BaseShield App Store is a distribution platform for Windows software. Users can download and install applications with one click, and each application runs in its own secure virtual space. It is an open platform where third party developers can publish their applications. Developers who deploy their apps this way can rely on the built-in installer, update function, security and eventually payment processing.
People and Pages Location: CrunchBase: people-and-pages Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	People and Pages is a service similar to Google Groups, allowing group organizers to manage email lists and publish to the web in one place. Although the screenshots show that it’s part WYSIWYG website creation tool as well, making it competitive with Google Sites, Weebly, and others.
Picwing Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: picwing Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: photo printing	Picwing is a photo sharing platform that enables users to share their photos through a variety of sources. Picwing offers a convenient printing service where their users can send photos through email using a camera or computer. These photos are printed and mailed to one or more recipients every 2 weeks. Picwing also provides digital photo frames built upon a Linux kernel. Users can send an image from their desktop or phone, and within 20-30 seconds see it on a digital frame. The frames are mini Linux machines that the founders hope will eventually be able to support much more than image sharing.
PollEverywhere Location: n/a CrunchBase: polleverywhere Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	PollEverywhere is an audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote, or web browser.
PopCuts Location: CA CrunchBase: popcuts Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: online music	Popcuts is a unique online music store. DRM-free songs are sold for 99cents, but every time a song you bought sells, you get a cut of the proceeds (earlier buyers get a bigger cut).
Posterous Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: posterous Hacker News: a4agarwal Status: acquired by twitter for $10m Market:	Posterous is a simple web publishing platform via email. Text and files can be uploaded to the site via email. Users are not required to create an account to use Posterous. To start, users simply email content to post@posterous.com and a ‘blog’ is autocreated and sent back to the user. Registered users can tailor the blog URL, post via the website, subscribe to other users. Posterous embeds video, MP3s and other media into a player and turns images into image galleries. PDFs and other office documents are displayed in a Scribd embedded widget. Users can also add friends and family’s email address to any Posterous site they control. When the emails have been added, users can post by sending content they want to publish to post@sitename.posterous.com.
Scoopler Location: n/a CrunchBase: scoopler Hacker News: n/a Status: renamed as JustSpotted Market:	Scoopler is a real-time search engine. It aggregates and organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. It does this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When users search for a topic on Scoopler, they get the most relevant results, updated in real-time. Scoopler has now become JustSpotted, a celebrity-tracking tool, meant to give fans an idea of what their favorite celebrities are up to at any given moment. JustSpotted, like Scoopler, is a data-aggregator, yet JustSpotted collects from Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare – alongside their own data they’ll be collecting from users who actual spot celebrities in the wild. All the information we aggregate is publicly available and you can even do a search on Twitter yourself and find sightings of celebrities. We’re just the first people to organize it on a map and in such a way that it’s easy to consume and ENJOY.’ JustSpotted is about connecting with celebs. All the sightings on our website are naturally occurring events where an everyday person bumps into a celebrity as a chance occurrence. Back in the day, when you saw a celebrity while you were out and about the first thing you would have done was phone or text a friend. In the new age of social media, the first thing you do is share it on Facebook or Twitter. This phenomena is already happening.
Slinkset Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: slinkset Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by posterous Market:	Slinkset is a white label social news platform that allows anyone to start a social news site and integrate it into their own website.
Snipd Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: snipd Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	Snipd lets you grab pieces of enjoyable content from any page, save them online, and share without having to copy/paste using a simple bookmarklet. For bloggers and media sites, Snipd’s widget enables readership to Snip images, videos, or text enjoyed most within articles. Snipd content becomes a destination for users, rather than a list of bookmarks because users are able to enjoy what they saved from within pages on the net. With more and more content to sift through these days, Snipd makes it easier to identify hot-zones in articles. Hot-zones are dumbed-down heat maps for content. Readers can forget skimming and focus on what people are Snipping most on any page. Because a snip is an implicit vote on a piece of content, we aggregate and figure out what area of an article is attracting the most attention.
Socialbrowse Location: n/a CrunchBase: socialbrowse Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	SocialBrowse is a Firefox extension for sharing links. It has been described as ‘a Twitter for links’.
Startuply Location: n/a CrunchBase: startuply Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	Startuply is a job site focused on jobs at startups. The company argues that the average college graduating engineer goes to Google, Microsoft or another large tech company is that they don’t know about smaller startups, where they may have more responsibility and be happier. Startuply aims to solve this problem. The company allows free job listings from startups, and gives them the opportunity to create extensive profiles that describe what they do. They also provide startups a widget that they can use to list their jobs on their own websites. The company was previously called Jowba, which launched in late February of 2008.
TeamApart Location: n/a CrunchBase: team-apart Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Team Apart is a free real-time online group collaboration tool.
TicketStumbler Location: Boston CrunchBase: ticketstumbler Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	TicketStumbler is a secondary ticket market search engine and comparison website. They search through thousands of ticket listings from hundreds of brokers and ticket exchanges across the internet and present the information in an organizable format. TicketStumbler allows simple ticket comparison, enabling you to find the best seats at the best prices.
Vidly Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: vidly Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: video technology	Vidly, formerly known as TwitVid (or Twitvid.io), wants to be the easiest way to share video on the web. While one aspect is sharing videos on Twitter, the focus is on other social networks as well, with a key focus on the various mobile platforms.
Youlicit Location: New York CrunchBase: youlicit Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Youlicit web content recommendation engine leverages the wisdom of the crowds to return the most recommended sites related to a website or topic. To use Youlicit, simply install a plug-in with the Youlicit buttons on your Firefox browser. These buttons light up, while you surf, and by clicking on them, you instantly get highly relevant recommendations, without searching. It also allows you to discover the web via personalized recommendations based on your interests and find other users interested in the same topics as you.

General

Description

Anyvite

Location: Columbia, MD

CrunchBase: anyvite

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: event planning (real world)

Anyvite is a free site dedicated to event invitation creation and group organization. Launched in 2008, Anyvite provides users with the most efficient way to create invitations as well as offers the tools necessary to organize and communicate with attendees throughout the event lifecycle.

Backtype

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: backtype

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by twitter

Market: advertising/seo technology

BackType is a marketing intelligence platform that helps brands and agencies understand the business impact of social media. BackType also powers social features for over 100 companies, including The New York Times, Slideshare, Automattic (creators of WordPress), Bit.ly and more.

CO2Stats

Location: Boston

CrunchBase: co2stats

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: green energy technology

CO2Stats aims to help website owners understand the electricity usage and related carbon emissions associated with site usage, and then helps site owners manage their carbon footprint.

The company calculates the greenhouse gas footprint of visits to your site, based on locations of your visitors and servers, computer types, window and monitor sizes, local fuel mixes, download sizes and times.

Every month CO2Stats purchase Green-E certified Renewable Energy Certificates to offset your site’s CO2 footprint. Users can inspect your certificates and other environmental statistics by clicking on your CO2Stats badge.

FathomDB

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: fathomdb

Hacker News: justinsb
Status: live

Market: database technology

FathomDB offers databases as a service, taking care of many of the day-to-day tasks database administrators have to deal with and letting them focus on more complex issues.

Fliggo

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: fliggo

Hacker News: n/a

Status: merged with Vidly

Market: video technology

Fliggo is instant video communities.

Fliggo offers anyone the ability to create their own video-uploading site, and share the videos either privately or publicly. Fliggo hosts and streams the videos, and gives site owners easy management tools to customize and monitor activity on the site. While the basic service is free, Fliggo charges for commercial features such as serving ads on a site or controlling the domain that it is on.

Create the next YouTube or just a private place to share your videos. Sites created with Fliggo are highly customizable, with many privacy and moderation options.

Frogmetrics

Location: Brooklyn, NY

CrunchBase: frogmetrics

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data

Frogmetrics aggregates your data from unlimited locations, automatically finds the most important statistics, and helps you gain insights about your business from your web browser. The company wants to place touch screens in restaurants, stores, and other brick and mortar establishments that can be used to collect customer feedback on the spot. The devices ask customers a few questions at the point of sale about their experience and can collect contact information about customers to generate leads. The information gathered across physical locations is aggregated and analyzed for trends and other statistics.

Ididwork

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: ididwork

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: employment resources

ididwork is an online tool that allows employees to keep track of the work they do over time. Employee logs can then be shared with other employees, and submitted to superiors for review. ididwork can be used by an individual to keep track of work completed, and by the enterprise to increase awareness of employee activity.

MeetCast

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: meetcast

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

MeetCast is browser-based software that provides a host of features critical to effective real time interaction, including: sharing documents and images, whiteboarding, simultaneous text editing, and screen sharing. MeetCast enables face to face interaction via webcam, and creates a virtual workspace that persists the same URL and conference layout the life of a project. All items shared in a workspace are stored in the cloud for quick access during future meetings.

Ninite

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: ninite

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: platform as a service

BaseShield App Store is a distribution platform for Windows software. Users can download and install applications with one click, and each application runs in its own secure virtual space.

It is an open platform where third party developers can publish their applications. Developers who deploy their apps this way can rely on the built-in installer, update function, security and eventually payment processing.

People and Pages

Location:

CrunchBase: people-and-pages

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market:

People and Pages is a service similar to Google Groups, allowing group organizers to manage email lists and publish to the web in one place. Although the screenshots show that it’s part WYSIWYG website creation tool as well, making it competitive with Google Sites, Weebly, and others.

Picwing

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: picwing

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: photo printing

Picwing is a photo sharing platform that enables users to share their photos through a variety of sources.

Picwing offers a convenient printing service where their users can send photos through email using a camera or computer. These photos are printed and mailed to one or more recipients every 2 weeks.

Picwing also provides digital photo frames built upon a Linux kernel. Users can send an image from their desktop or phone, and within 20-30 seconds see it on a digital frame. The frames are mini Linux machines that the founders hope will eventually be able to support much more than image sharing.

PollEverywhere

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: polleverywhere

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

PollEverywhere is an audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote, or web browser.

PopCuts

Location: CA

CrunchBase: popcuts

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: online music

Popcuts is a unique online music store. DRM-free songs are sold for 99cents, but every time a song you bought sells, you get a cut of the proceeds (earlier buyers get a bigger cut).

Posterous

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: posterous

Hacker News: a4agarwal
Status: acquired by twitter for $10m

Market:

Posterous is a simple web publishing platform via email. Text and files can be uploaded to the site via email.

Users are not required to create an account to use Posterous. To start, users simply email content to post@posterous.com and a ‘blog’ is autocreated and sent back to the user. Registered users can tailor the blog URL, post via the website, subscribe to other users.

Posterous embeds video, MP3s and other media into a player and turns images into image galleries. PDFs and other office documents are displayed in a Scribd embedded widget.

Users can also add friends and family’s email address to any Posterous site they control. When the emails have been added, users can post by sending content they want to publish to post@sitename.posterous.com.

Scoopler

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: scoopler

Hacker News: n/a

Status: renamed as JustSpotted

Market:

Scoopler is a real-time search engine. It aggregates and organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. It does this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When users search for a topic on Scoopler, they get the most relevant results, updated in real-time.

Scoopler has now become JustSpotted, a celebrity-tracking tool, meant to give fans an idea of what their favorite celebrities are up to at any given moment. JustSpotted, like Scoopler, is a data-aggregator, yet JustSpotted collects from Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare – alongside their own data they’ll be collecting from users who actual spot celebrities in the wild. All the information we aggregate is publicly available and you can even do a search on Twitter yourself and find sightings of celebrities. We’re just the first people to organize it on a map and in such a way that it’s easy to consume and ENJOY.’

JustSpotted is about connecting with celebs. All the sightings on our website are naturally occurring events where an everyday person bumps into a celebrity as a chance occurrence. Back in the day, when you saw a celebrity while you were out and about the first thing you would have done was phone or text a friend. In the new age of social media, the first thing you do is share it on Facebook or Twitter. This phenomena is already happening.

Slinkset

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: slinkset

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by posterous

Market:

Slinkset is a white label social news platform that allows anyone to start a social news site and integrate it into their own website.

Snipd

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: snipd

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market:

Snipd lets you grab pieces of enjoyable content from any page, save them online, and share without having to copy/paste using a simple bookmarklet. For bloggers and media sites, Snipd’s widget enables readership to Snip images, videos, or text enjoyed most within articles.

Snipd content becomes a destination for users, rather than a list of bookmarks because users are able to enjoy what they saved from within pages on the net.

With more and more content to sift through these days, Snipd makes it easier to identify hot-zones in articles. Hot-zones are dumbed-down heat maps for content. Readers can forget skimming and focus on what people are Snipping most on any page. Because a snip is an implicit vote on a piece of content, we aggregate and figure out what area of an article is attracting the most attention.

Socialbrowse

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: socialbrowse

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market:

SocialBrowse is a Firefox extension for sharing links. It has been described as ‘a Twitter for links’.

Startuply

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: startuply

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: employment resources

Startuply is a job site focused on jobs at startups. The company argues that the average college graduating engineer goes to Google, Microsoft or another large tech company is that they don’t know about smaller startups, where they may have more responsibility and be happier. Startuply aims to solve this problem.

The company allows free job listings from startups, and gives them the opportunity to create extensive profiles that describe what they do. They also provide startups a widget that they can use to list their jobs on their own websites.

The company was previously called Jowba, which launched in late February of 2008.

TeamApart

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: team-apart

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration

Team Apart is a free real-time online group collaboration tool.

TicketStumbler

Location: Boston

CrunchBase: ticketstumbler

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market:

TicketStumbler is a secondary ticket market search engine and comparison website. They search through thousands of ticket listings from hundreds of brokers and ticket exchanges across the internet and present the information in an organizable format. TicketStumbler allows simple ticket comparison, enabling you to find the best seats at the best prices.

Vidly

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: vidly

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: video technology

Vidly, formerly known as TwitVid (or Twitvid.io), wants to be the easiest way to share video on the web. While one aspect is sharing videos on Twitter, the focus is on other social networks as well, with a key focus on the various mobile platforms.

Youlicit

Location: New York

CrunchBase: youlicit

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Youlicit web content recommendation engine leverages the wisdom of the crowds to return the most recommended sites related to a website or topic. To use Youlicit, simply install a plug-in with the Youlicit buttons on your Firefox browser. These buttons light up, while you surf, and by clicking on them, you instantly get highly relevant recommendations, without searching. It also allows you to discover the web via personalized recommendations based on your interests and find other users interested in the same topics as you.

YCW08

Demo Day Coverage (Mark Hendrickson): http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/14/y-combinator-demo-day-roundup-for-spring-2008/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
22	$440,000	$285,000,000	$5,700,000	$0

General	Description
280 North Location: n/a CrunchBase: 280-north Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by motorola for $20m cash Market:	280 North is a web application company based on their proprietary application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete toolkit to develop rich web applications. It’s modeled after a proven desktop development environment, and has been released as an open source project under the LGPL. 280 North’s first application, 280 Slides, enables anyone with a web browser to quickly and easily create beautiful presentations. 280 Slides takes advantage of the web by making it trivial to find and include great media in your presentation. We also built in advanced features like importing and exporting PowerPoint documents, so your data is always portable.
8aweek Location: n/a CrunchBase: 8aweek Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	8aweek is a Firefox extension that monitors surfing behavior to let you know when you spend too much time on time wasting sites.
Addmired Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: addmired Hacker News: n/a Status: live; rename to Machine Zone (machinezone.com) Market: games and game features	Addmired, Inc. is a Y Combinator funded startup. Their first product, launched in February 2008, is AddHer. In January 2009 Addmired moved into iPhone development releasing a handful of MMO’s including iMob Online, Girl Wars, iVampires & iKnights.
BaseShield Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: ninite Hacker News: n/a Status: renamed to ninite Market: platform as a service	BaseShield App Store is a distribution platform for Windows software. Users can download and install applications with one click, and each application runs in its own secure virtual space. It is an open platform where third party developers can publish their applications. Developers who deploy their apps this way can rely on the built-in installer, update function, security and eventually payment processing.
Biographicon Location: San Jose CrunchBase: biographicon Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Biographicon is a wiki for biographies. Probably the most commonly deleted articles on Wikipedia are biographies (usually submitted by the subject) of people the Wikipedians decided are not “notable” enough. Since there was obviously demand for a universal biography site, Biographicon decided to offer one. They are half way between Wikipedia and LinkedIn.
Chatterous Location: n/a CrunchBase: chatterous Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Chatterous is a communications service that aims to allow groups of friends to stay in contact with each other synchronously through any communications channel. Whether a group member communicates via email services like GMail, their IM accounts, or micro-blogging services like Twitter, all communications are aggregated at one level for the group.
ContestMachine Location: Southfield, MI CrunchBase: contestmachine Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	ContestMachine is a web service that makes running promotions from any website easy. The service allows clients to run a contest or giveaway from their blog or website and handles the rest of the details, like collecting submissions and contacting winners. The service also allows clients varied options, like choosing entry requirements, start and end times, and the addition of prizes.
Deluux Location: Atlanta, GA CrunchBase: deluux Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	Deluux aims to become distributed Facebook, or inverted Ning, by relocating the center of people’s online identities to their websites, which exist outside of any one social network. The service will facilitate the distribution of personalized content around the web and help drive traffic to websites. It has yet to launch.
Heroku Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: heroku Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by salesforce.com for about $250m Market: platform as a service	Heroku is a leading provider of cloud computing, offering a Ruby platform as a service (PaaS) focused on ease of use, automation, and reliability.
Insoshi Location: n/a CrunchBase: insoshi Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Insoshi is an open-source open networking platform.
Joberator Location: n/a CrunchBase: joberator Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	Joberator will help employers find developer talent by encouraging computer science students to refer their developer friends, of whom they have more intimate knowledge than any professional recruiter. Incentives for personal referrals are created by employers who list the bonuses they are willing to pay those who recommend candidates who are eventually hired.
Kirkland North Location: n/a CrunchBase: kirkland-north Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The game, called Turf, pits sections of campuses against each other in a virtual battle for university-wide domination. The founders are currently rolling out individual versions of their online game as a service for institutions including Stanford and Harvard.
MightyQuiz Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: mightyquiz Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	MightyQuiz powers a collection of user generated quiz questions that can be answered and rated on-site or through a distributable widget.
Mixwit Location: n/a CrunchBase: mixwit Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: online music	Mixwit describes itself as a combination of Slide and iTunes. While it has more ambitious plans, it currently provides an easy way to make sharable mix tapes with songs found through MP3 search engines Seeqpod and Skreamr.
Omnisio Location: Atherton, CA CrunchBase: omnisio Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by google for $15m cash Market: video technology	Omnisio was founded in 2007 by Ryan Junee, Simon Ratner and Julian Frumar, and was subsquently acquired by YouTube in July 2008. Omnisio enabled users to annotate and share videos from any website, and enabled markup of the structure within a video. On May 13, 2008, Omnisio launched a slide-syncing tool using SlideShare for slides and a host of video services.
RescueTime Location: Seattle, WA CrunchBase: rescuetime Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	RescueTime is a web-based time management tool that keeps track of what you do and for how long when you are on your computer. Users download a desktop application from RescueTime that does all the tracking work, so there is no data entry needed from the user’s perspective.
Snaptalent Location: London, GBR CrunchBase: snaptalent Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: employment resources	Snaptalent powers a distributed job advertisement network primarily meant for developer listings. Job ads submitted to Snaptalent are displayed on the service’s participating websites. A unique feature about the network is that it will detect the IP addresses of website visitors and attempt to identify whether they work for a particular company or attend a particular university. It will then serve up targeted ads that have been designated for, say, employees of Google or students of Carnegie Mellon.
Tipjoy Location: Arlington, MA CrunchBase: tipjoy Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	Tipjoy is a simple, social payments engine that allows merchants to sell digital content and features, charities to raise money for causes, and individuals to give money to one another.
Trigger.io Location: San Francisco, CA; London, UK CrunchBase: triggerio-2 Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Trigger is “Phonegap Build done right.” Trigger makes a cross-platform mobile development framework targeted at web developers who want to be able to create native mobile apps.
Webmynd Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: webmynd Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Webmynd lets you create search sidebars with your content.
Wundrbar Location: n/a CrunchBase: wundrbar Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Wundrbar wants to improve upon the search bar experience by providing users with powerful inline commands. The idea is reminiscent of YubNub but Wundrbar strives to appeal to a larger audience and to incorporate functionality that helps people manage their personal online accounts in addition to searching the web.
YumDots Location: n/a CrunchBase: yumdots Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: travel-related services	YumDots wants to be the go-to mobile application for finding places to eat when out on the town. Its emphasis on using interactive maps to display information about local restaurants makes it more efficient than other mobile review services like Yelp’s.

General

Description

280 North

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: 280-north

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by motorola for $20m cash

Market:

280 North is a web application company based on their proprietary application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete toolkit to develop rich web applications. It’s modeled after a proven desktop development environment, and has been released as an open source project under the LGPL.

280 North’s first application, 280 Slides, enables anyone with a web browser to quickly and easily create beautiful presentations. 280 Slides takes advantage of the web by making it trivial to find and include great media in your presentation. We also built in advanced features like importing and exporting PowerPoint documents, so your data is always portable.

8aweek

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: 8aweek

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

8aweek is a Firefox extension that monitors surfing behavior to let you know when you spend too much time on time wasting sites.

Addmired

Location: Palo Alto

CrunchBase: addmired

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live; rename to Machine Zone (machinezone.com)

Market: games and game features

Addmired, Inc. is a Y Combinator funded startup. Their first product, launched in February 2008, is AddHer. In January 2009 Addmired moved into iPhone development releasing a handful of MMO’s including iMob Online, Girl Wars, iVampires & iKnights.

BaseShield

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: ninite

Hacker News: n/a

Status: renamed to ninite

Market: platform as a service

BaseShield App Store is a distribution platform for Windows software. Users can download and install applications with one click, and each application runs in its own secure virtual space.

Biographicon

Location: San Jose

CrunchBase: biographicon

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Biographicon is a wiki for biographies. Probably the most commonly deleted articles on Wikipedia are biographies (usually submitted by the subject) of people the Wikipedians decided are not “notable” enough. Since there was obviously demand for a universal biography site, Biographicon decided to offer one. They are half way between Wikipedia and LinkedIn.

Chatterous

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: chatterous

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)

Chatterous is a communications service that aims to allow groups of friends to stay in contact with each other synchronously through any communications channel. Whether a group member communicates via email services like GMail, their IM accounts, or micro-blogging services like Twitter, all communications are aggregated at one level for the group.

ContestMachine

Location: Southfield, MI

CrunchBase: contestmachine

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

ContestMachine is a web service that makes running promotions from any website easy. The service allows clients to run a contest or giveaway from their blog or website and handles the rest of the details, like collecting submissions and contacting winners. The service also allows clients varied options, like choosing entry requirements, start and end times, and the addition of prizes.

Deluux

Location: Atlanta, GA

CrunchBase: deluux

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market:

Deluux aims to become distributed Facebook, or inverted Ning, by relocating the center of people’s online identities to their websites, which exist outside of any one social network. The service will facilitate the distribution of personalized content around the web and help drive traffic to websites. It has yet to launch.

Heroku

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: heroku

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by salesforce.com for about $250m

Market: platform as a service

Heroku is a leading provider of cloud computing, offering a Ruby platform as a service (PaaS) focused on ease of use, automation, and reliability.

Insoshi

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: insoshi

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Insoshi is an open-source open networking platform.

Joberator

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: joberator

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: employment resources

Joberator will help employers find developer talent by encouraging computer science students to refer their developer friends, of whom they have more intimate knowledge than any professional recruiter. Incentives for personal referrals are created by employers who list the bonuses they are willing to pay those who recommend candidates who are eventually hired.

Kirkland North

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: kirkland-north

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country.

The game, called Turf, pits sections of campuses against each other in a virtual battle for university-wide domination. The founders are currently rolling out individual versions of their online game as a service for institutions including Stanford and Harvard.

MightyQuiz

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: mightyquiz

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

MightyQuiz powers a collection of user generated quiz questions that can be answered and rated on-site or through a distributable widget.

Mixwit

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: mixwit

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market: online music

Mixwit describes itself as a combination of Slide and iTunes. While it has more ambitious plans, it currently provides an easy way to make sharable mix tapes with songs found through MP3 search engines Seeqpod and Skreamr.

Omnisio

Location: Atherton, CA

CrunchBase: omnisio

Hacker News: n/a

Status: acquired by google for $15m cash

Market: video technology

Omnisio was founded in 2007 by Ryan Junee, Simon Ratner and Julian Frumar, and was subsquently acquired by YouTube in July 2008. Omnisio enabled users to annotate and share videos from any website, and enabled markup of the structure within a video.

On May 13, 2008, Omnisio launched a slide-syncing tool using SlideShare for slides and a host of video services.

RescueTime

Location: Seattle, WA

CrunchBase: rescuetime

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

RescueTime is a web-based time management tool that keeps track of what you do and for how long when you are on your computer. Users download a desktop application from RescueTime that does all the tracking work, so there is no data entry needed from the user’s perspective.

Snaptalent

Location: London, GBR

CrunchBase: snaptalent

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market: employment resources

Snaptalent powers a distributed job advertisement network primarily meant for developer listings.

Job ads submitted to Snaptalent are displayed on the service’s participating websites. A unique feature about the network is that it will detect the IP addresses of website visitors and attempt to identify whether they work for a particular company or attend a particular university. It will then serve up targeted ads that have been designated for, say, employees of Google or students of Carnegie Mellon.

Tipjoy

Location: Arlington, MA

CrunchBase: tipjoy

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market:

Tipjoy is a simple, social payments engine that allows merchants to sell digital content and features, charities to raise money for causes, and individuals to give money to one another.

Trigger.io

Location: San Francisco, CA; London, UK

CrunchBase: triggerio-2

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Trigger is “Phonegap Build done right.” Trigger makes a cross-platform mobile development framework targeted at web developers who want to be able to create native mobile apps.

Webmynd

Location: San Francisco

CrunchBase: webmynd

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Webmynd lets you create search sidebars with your content.

Wundrbar

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: wundrbar

Hacker News: n/a

Status: live

Market:

Wundrbar wants to improve upon the search bar experience by providing users with powerful inline commands. The idea is reminiscent of YubNub but Wundrbar strives to appeal to a larger audience and to incorporate functionality that helps people manage their personal online accounts in addition to searching the web.

YumDots

Location: n/a

CrunchBase: yumdots

Hacker News: n/a

Status: dead

Market: travel-related services

YumDots wants to be the go-to mobile application for finding places to eat when out on the town. Its emphasis on using interactive maps to display information about local restaurants makes it more efficient than other mobile review services like Yelp’s.

YCS07

Demo Day Coverage (Nick Gonzalez): http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/y-combinator-demo-day-the-summer-startups/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
18	$360,000	$258,000,000	$5,160,000	$0

General	Description
Adpinion Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: hello-chair Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Hello Chair is the company that makes Adpinion and Appsaurus. Hello, Chair Inc. is a mobile/iPhone application company. The company produces Appsaurus, an application recommendation and discovery engine. The company also created Adpinion, a mobile advertising system that allows users to vote for ads they like or dislike.
Anywhere.fm Location: n/a CrunchBase: anywhere-fm Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by imeem for less than $5m Market: online music	Anywhere.fm lets you upload your music collection onto their site and then play your music anywhere from the web.
Appjet Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: appjet Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by google for low-8-figures Market:	AppJet is an online programming tool for building simple web apps. Founded by former MIT students, AppJet intends to simplify the process of writing web applications. The applications are programmed on a web based text editor in the simple but powerful JavaScript programming language. AppJet powers the Etherpad app created by the same founders.
Bountii Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: bountii Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: daily deals, coupons, and price comparison	Bountii (pronounced bounty) is a new price search engine. Emerging from the Y Combinator class of 2007, they focus on the incredibly popular and competitive category of electronics, currently crawling over 30 merchants. Bountii says they differentiate themselves from other price search engines by digging deeper into the prices. Their data includes shipping and handling, and finds especially low prices normally hidden from basic searches, like the ones Costco only shows at check out.
Clickpass Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: clickpass Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by yola Market:	Clickpass makes OpenID easy to use and brings OpenID closer to the mainstream than any other company has done before. The service wraps up the complexities of OpenID such that users are presented with consistent interfaces across all of the applications they use and can access them quickly and easily without needing a password.
Cloudant Location: Somerville, MA CrunchBase: cloudant Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: database technology	Cloudant is a non-relational, zero-configuration, distributed database service based on Apache CouchDB. Cloudant takes full advantage of the cloud platform, automatically distributing data across multiple servers and seamlessly scaling the database to accommodate the needs of any application. Cloudant provides the simplicity web developers want with the power to store and analyze the ever-increasing data volumes web applications need.
Disqus Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: disqus Hacker News: danielha Status: live Market:	Disqus (formerly Big Head Labs) is a networked community platform, reaching over 200 million people a month, hundreds of thousands of registered communities, and millions of active commenters. The service offers a networked comment system used to foster engagement and connect audiences from around the web.
Draftmix Location: Campbell, CA CrunchBase: draftmix Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	On DraftMix fantasy sports fans can sign up and play pickup games against other players on the site for virtual dollars or for real money . Open games are listed in a lobby, where players can sign up in groups ranging from 4 to 10 players each paying into a prize pool. DraftMix also ponies up a nightly cash prize for a free game as well.
Dropbox Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: dropbox Hacker News: dhouston Status: live Market: cloud storage	Dropbox is a software product that makes it easy to securely share files with other people, sync them across multiple computers, access them from anywhere, and keep them safe.
Fuzzwich Location: Palo Alto CrunchBase: fuzzwich Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Fuzzwich is an online animation space that includes MiniVid, a simple, playful animator. Fuzzwich is made by Habit Industries.
Justin.tv Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: justintv Hacker News: justin Status: live Market: video technology	Justin.tv is the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video. With more than 41 million unique visitors per month and 428,000 channels broadcasting live video, Justin.tv is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world.
OMGPOP Location: New York, NY CrunchBase: omgpop Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by zynga for $210m Market: games and game features	OMGPOP (formerly known as iminlikewithyou) is a free online multiplayer game site that specializes in social games. The Company started in 2006 as iminlikewithyou, a place for people to play games to meet each other and in 2009 changed its name to the shorter OMGPOP where people meet each other to play games.
Reble Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: reble Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: online music	Reble offers a software download, only for windows, that allows users to stream music from your friends who also have installed Reble.
SlapVid Location: Pittsburgh, PA CrunchBase: slapvid Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	SlapVid was reinvented as Cloudant at Y Combinator. SlapVid was a video site built on peer-to-peer technology that allows you to browse, search and watch video pulled from top video sites. When you find something you like you can ‘Slap It’, which adds it to your own video channel called a SlapStrip. SlapStrips can be shared with friends and added to blogs, websites and social networks like MySpace and Facebook.
SocialPicks Location: CrunchBase: socialpicks Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by financialcontent for $8m Market:	SocialPicks provides individual investors with a trusted online investing community where they can invest smarter together.
Songkick Location: London, GBR CrunchBase: songkick Hacker News: petesmithy Status: live Market: online music	Songkick lets you track the live music you like. Track artists, venues, and your concert buddies for event updates. Instantly track your favorite artists from Pandora, Last.fm, or iTunes.
Splashup Location: n/a CrunchBase: splashup Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: visual design	Splashup, formerly known as fauxto, is an online image editing service that provides some advanced tools and is unique for its incorporation of image editing layer effects.
Zecter (Versionate) Location: Burlingame, CA CrunchBase: zecter Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by Motorola Mobility for $25m Market: cloud storage	Zecter is creating technology that aims to make it easy to share files with others over the internet.

YCW07

Demo Day Coverage (Robin Wauters): http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-spring-chicks/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
13	$260,000	$5,000,000	$100,000	$0

General	Description
Auctomatic Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: auctomatic Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by live current media for $5m Market:	Auctomatic, offers an auction and marketplace management system for all of those individual sellers on such sites as Ebay, Amazon, Overstock and others. The application lets you list your items as well as manage your sales, but it also helps you understand how to best optimize your selling and maximize profits.
Buxfer Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: buxfer Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: financial services and payment processing	Buxfer is the next-generation personal finance solution, taking money management to the web. Buxfer lets you monitor all your bank and credit card accounts at one single place.
Heysan Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: heysan Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by good technology Market:	Heysan is a free mobile messaging and community based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded though Y Combinator and was incubated with Twitter its first year.
Octopart Location: New York, NY CrunchBase: octopart Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: electronics design	Octopart is a vertical search engine, which launched not too long ago, focuses on putting an end the inadequate search engines used by electronics parts manufacturers. Octopart lets you search, compare prices, and view specifications for parts on Allied Electronics, Digi-Key, Mouser, and Newark InOne.
Parakey Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: parakey Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by Facebook Market:	Parakey was founded in early 2006 by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of Mozilla/Firefox fame. Little has been revealed about what Parakey will actually do, but it has been touted as both a platform and set of applications that will merge the desktop environment with the Web. It has also been described as a Web-based operating system. Great emphasis has been placed on Parakey’s potential to make tasks on the computer more intuitive for the average Joe.
SocialMoth Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: socialmoth Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	Socialmoth is a community to post your thoughts anonymously. You can view postings (mostly gossip and secrets) from the whole community as well as get updates for when someone in your group of friends makes a post.
Tsumobi Location: n/a CrunchBase: tsumobi Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	Tsumobi hopes to solve the problem with mobile apps by creating their own language. The new language will sit on top of J2ME and process applications downloaded (via URL) for Tsumobi enabled sites.
View3 Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	dead
VirtualMin Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: virtualmin Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	Virtualmin is taking on the lack of innovation in the server admin programs, like Plesk, by making a more accessable version for pages managed by the non-technical crowd.
Weebly Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: weebly Hacker News: drusenko Status: live Market:	Weebly is an AJAX website creator that allows you to create pages with template skins and content widgets. Users can easily drag-and-drop content widgets like pictures, text, video and Google Maps in WYSIWYG-fashion.
Whitenoise Networks Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: whitenoise-networks Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: online music	Whitenoise is like a social network for the music industry. It comes with specially made tools for bands, agents, publicists, and venues to manage each part of their business. Bands will be able to manage their cross country tours by map.
Writewith Location: Corvallis, OR CrunchBase: writewith Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Writewith is a collaborative writing web app, enabling you to easily flow through the steps of writing, editing, and publishing a document with a group. A document is started by uploading an existing document (.doc, .txt, .rdf) or just typing away.
Zenter Location: n/a CrunchBase: zenter Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by google Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Zenter is an web based presentation app that promises to really take advantage of being online. Users will have the regular functionality of PowerPoint, but with the ability to directly add content from the web (Google Images). Each public slide show will also be put into a public library, for other users to remix or just drop into their show.

YCS06

Demo Day Coverage ():

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
9	$180,000	$0	$0	$0

General	Description
JamGlue Location: CrunchBase: jamglue Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: online music	Jamglue is an online community where you can listen to or mix music from a library of user-contributed music. Jamglue launched in December 2006, and now supports a community of over a million users, who have contributed over two million mixes and tracks.
JumpChat Location: CrunchBase: Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	JumpChat is a platform bridging mobile text messages, email, and IM communication without needing to download anything. Users can send mass messages on any of the platforms and JumpChat will send it to the platform the receiver activates. They are currently focusing on mass mobile messaging, where users can shoot off mass messages to the groups they define.
LikeBetter Location: CrunchBase: likebetter-com Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: psychometric tools	LikeBetter is a pairwise visual psychometric tool. LikeBetter is an online personality test game, where you look at two photos and choose which one you Like Better. After a few responses, Like Better makes some guesses about your personality, ranging from political preferences to your income bracket.
PollGround Location: CrunchBase: Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	PollGround is a social polling site. Pollground allows you to easily create surveys and allow the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ to answer your question.
Scribd Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: scribd Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: news, reading, and publishing	Scribd is the world’s largest social reading and publishing website.
Shoutfit Location: CrunchBase: Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: fashion and clothing	Shoutfit is a social network for sharing fashion trends.
Talkito Location: CrunchBase: Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	Talkito is a service that enables its users to meet and chat when they visit the same websites.
Thinkature Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market: web-based business productivity and collaboration	Thinkature is a free, easy-to-use and straightforward online live-collaboration and brainstorming tool. Create, move, edit, draw and connect ideas with your teammate(s) in real-time. Nothing to download or install, it works directly in your browser.
Xobni Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: xobni Hacker News: brezina Status: live Market: search tech and messaging (contacts, email, sms, text)	Xobni, the word ‘inbox’ spelled backwards, has created a new way to look at your email. Xobni takes the effort out of organizing, searching, and navigating your email.

YCW06

Demo Day Coverage ():

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
8	$160,000	$40,000,000	$800,000	$0

General	Description
AudioBeta Location: CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: unknown Market:	Renamed to Giraffe Giraffe.
Clustrix Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: clustrix Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: database technology	Clustrix, Inc. has created a new category called Clustered Database Systems (CDS) for Internet-scale applications.
Flagr Location: Oyster Bay, NA CrunchBase: flagr Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	Flagr enables users to share places, adding photos, video and descriptions from their mobile phone. They can then create maps and embed them on any website.
InklingMarkets Location: Chicago CrunchBase: inkling Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: analytics tools, data visualization, and big data	Inkling provides a platform for companies to run their own internal or external prediction marketplaces.
Snipshot Location: British Columbia CrunchBase: snipshot Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market: visual design	Snipshot is a photo editor that lets you start editing any photo with one click of a bookmarklet.
TextPayMe Location: Redmond, WA CrunchBase: textpayme Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by amazon for $5m Market: financial services and payment processing	TextPayMe is an SMS payment service that lets you send money to other people using cell phone text messaging.
Wufoo Location: n/a CrunchBase: wufoo Hacker News: unfoldedorigami Status: acquired by surveymonkey for $35m Market: surveys and forms	Wufoo is an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun.
YouOS Location: n/a CrunchBase: youos Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	YouOS provides a platform for developers to create and distribute applications that live in a browser-based ‘desktop’ environment.

YCS05

Demo Day Coverage (Christopher Jackson): http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/08/05/y-combinators-first-batch-where-are-they-now/

Companies	YC Investment	Exits	Returns	Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
8	$160,000	$45,258,000	$905,160	$0

General	Description
ClickFacts Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: clickfacts Hacker News: n/a Status: live Market:	ClickFacts is a Malware Software Solutions company for buyers and sellers of online media.
Firecrawl Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	n/a
Infogami Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by reddit Market:	Infogami is a wiki application framework built by late hacker Aaron Swartz. Infogami used the web.py framework.
kiko Location: n/a CrunchBase: kiko Hacker News: justin Status: acquired by tucows for $258k Market:	Kiko is an web calendar for anyone who wants to keep and share a calendar online.
Loopt Location: Mountain View CrunchBase: loopt Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by greendot for about $45m Market: proximity-based mobile apps	Loopt is a location-based social mapping service that allows individuals to use their location to discover the world around them.
memamp Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	n/a
Reddit Location: San Francisco CrunchBase: reddit Hacker News: n/a Status: acquired by conde nast Market: news, reading, and publishing	reddit is the voice of the internet — news before it happens.
Simmery Location: n/a CrunchBase: n/a Hacker News: n/a Status: dead Market:	n/a

2013
YC W13	36	720K	0
2012
YC S12	69	1.38M	0
YC W12	54	1.08M	0
2011
YC S11	58	1.16M	0
YC W11	45	900K	2M
2010
YC S10	35	700K	8M
YC W10	28	560K	30M
2009
YC S09	22	440K	0
YC W09	16	320K	50M
2008
YC S08	23	460K	10M
YC W08	22	440K	285M
2007
YC S07	18	360K	258M
YC W07	13	260K	5M
2006
YC S06	9	180K	0
YC W06	8	160K	40M
2005
YC S05	8	160K	45.258M