Summer 2010 Companies (YC S10)

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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:
acquired by ancestry.com

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:
tools, data visualization, and big data
chart.io gives small and medium businesses access to the power of enterprise 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:
acquired by beRecruited

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:
acquired by tom’s planner

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:
tools, data visualization, and big data
Ginzametrics is a subscription-based, software as a service (SaaS) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) management and 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:
dead

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:
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 , 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:
acquired by linkedin for $15m cash

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.
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