YC Companies/Summer 2008

YC Summer 2008 Data Room

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Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
Columbia, MD, USA

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 or…

2
Dan Morin
Jeff Morin

BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011

B2B
B2B -> Marketing
San Francisco, CA, USA
SaaS
Data Engineering
Public profile enrichment pending.
Christopher Golda
Mike Montano

Claim and conquer your city

Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
Remote
Proptech
Public profile enrichment pending.
Constantin Hofstetter
Flo Lauber
Florian Hufsky
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NoSQL Database-aaS. Acquired by IBM in 2014. Now IBM Cloud Data…

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
Boston, MA, USA

Cloudant's distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) allows developers of fast-growing web and mobile apps to focus on building and improving their products, instead of worrying about scaling and managing their databases…

51
Adam Kocoloski
Alan Hoffman
Michael Miller

Social and environmental web analytics. Acquired in December 2016.

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Cambridge, MA, USA
Climate

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 green…

Alexander Wissner-Gross
B2B
B2B -> Retail
NY, USA

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 screen…

2
D. Scott Phoenix
Jeremy Mims
B2B
B2B -> Recruiting and Talent
Public profile enrichment pending.
Ben Wong
Loc Ngo
Luke Groesbeck

Acquired by Google in 2011

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
Copenhagen, Denmark
Artificial Intelligence
ML

The artist-formerly-known-as 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 ev…

2
Dilan Dane
Consumer
Consumer -> Content
San Francisco, CA, USA

OhLife is a personal journal that you'll actually keep. Every day we send you an email asking "How'd your day go?" You type as much as you want and hit reply. We accumulate your entire journal through these daily email r…

2
Shawn Gupta
Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal

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 w…

Adam Shaw
Michael Smathers

Photo Sharing platform for families

Consumer
Consumer -> Social
San Francisco, CA, USA
Social

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…

11
Edward Kim
Enrique Rodriguez Chamussy
Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
Public profile enrichment pending.
Joel Hoard
Karn Ratana

Interactive meetings and presentations

B2B
B2B -> Analytics
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
SaaS

Poll Everywhere turns any presentation into a two-way conversation - directly in your PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slide deck. Participants respond to questions live using mobile phones and the results appear instantly…

70
Brad Gessler
Jeff Vyduna
Sean Eby

Popcuts is an online music store where fans participate in the…

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
Lucerne Valley, CA, USA
Marketplace
E-Commerce
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).

2
Kevin Mateo Lim

Dead simple blogs by email

Consumer
Consumer -> Social
San Francisco, CA, USA
Email

Posterous emerged from Y Combinator in the summer of 2008 as an innovative company focused on making blogging simple - as simple as sending an email - and now has more than 15 million monthly users. With the launch of…

11
Brett Gibson
Sachin Agarwal
Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
Public profile enrichment pending.
Michael Parkatti
Mike Marrone

Votable lists

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
San Francisco, CA, USA
Media
Social

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

2
Brett Gibson
John Baunach
B2B
B2B -> Marketing
Palo Alto, CA, USA

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,…

2
B2B
B2B -> Productivity

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

2
Gordon Hempton
Michael Hoisie
Wes Hather
Consumer
Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism
Boston, MA, USA

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 informa…

2
Dan Haubert
Tom Davis
Consumer
Consumer -> Social
Portland, OR, USA

Treehouse is an online technology school that offers beginner to advanced courses in web design, web development, mobile development and game development taught by a team of expert teachers. Its courses are aimed at begi…

101
Daniel Rhodes
Consumer
Consumer -> Content
New York, NY, USA

The 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…

2
Asif Rahman
Nihaar Gupta
Omar Radi
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