Summer 2011 Companies (YC S11)

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Companies YC Investment Exits Returns Matching Investment (YC VC, Start Fund)
59 $1,180,000 $0 $0 $8,850,000
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:
tools, data visualization, and big data
Citus Data develops CitusDB, a scalable 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 , 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:
mobile-specific platforms and development tools
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:
printing solutions
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:
tools, data visualization, and big data
Segment.io is an API that lets developers integrate once, and then send their data to any service. Segment.io currently supports 20 different providers, including Google, KISSmetrics, Mixpanel, Chartbeat, HubSpot, and Salesforce.
SellStage

Location:
San Francisco

CrunchBase:
sellstage

Hacker News:
n/a

Status:
dead; pivot to Videopixie

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:
screen-sharing and collaborative real-time editors
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.
Videopixie

Location:

CrunchBase:
videopixie

Hacker News:
tomsaffell

Status:
live

Market:
Videopixie is a marketplace of professional video editors and animators. Individuals and companies can use it to get high quality videos created from raw footage they�ve taken themselves.
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.
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