Winter 2012 Companies (YC W12)

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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 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; renamed to slidepay

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:
acquired by Apple

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:
flutter-io

Hacker News:
n/a

Status:
acquired by google

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:
acquired by facebook

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:
dead

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:
screen-sharing and collaborative real-time editors
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 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 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:
tools, data visualization, and big data
Zillabyte is an online big-data analysis platform.
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