| Market | Public Profile | Founders | Links | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Memorial sites. | Consumer | 1000memories is the new shoebox for your old photos. 1000Memories allows people to organize, share, and discover old photos and memories and set up family trees. | 2 | ||
Easy SEM software. Acquired by Twitter in 2011. | B2B | AdGrok allows business owners to automate the process of choosing and bidding on keywords on Google AdWords. | 2 | ||
Secure Enterprise Collaboration. | B2B | AeroFS enterprise file sync and share & collaboration solution deploys on your infrastructure. Your files remain secured by your own security protocols, removing the risk associated with relying on your vendors to secure… | 40 | ||
One app for stress-free shopping, cooking, and meal planning. | Consumer | AnyList is the best way to create and share grocery shopping lists. Easily share a list with your spouse or roommates. List changes show up instantly on everyone’s iOS or Android device. | 3 | ||
iPad drawing software. | B2B | Public profile enrichment pending. | — | Kurt Revis Steve Sprang | |
Chartio is changing how companies work by building the best… | B2B | Chartio is a cloud-based data exploration solution for all. Easily connect your data and create powerful dashboards in minutes, without any SQL knowledge. | 40 | ||
Crowdsourced design marketplace for paper goods. | Consumer | Chirply is a 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 thing… | 2 | ||
SEO & Content Marketing Intelligence | B2B | DemandSphere enables ecommerce and programmatic SEO teams, both in-house and agency, to drive more traffic from organic search. Our DemandMetrics platform is our core monitoring platform that turns massive amounts of SER… | 40 | ||
Software development platform. | B2B | Docker is the world’s leading software container platform. Developers use Docker to eliminate “works on my machine” problems when collaborating on code with co-workers. Operators use Docker to run and manage apps side-by… | 201 | ||
Consumer | Check-in to games to chat and trash-talk with friends who are also watching. Get scores and breaking news sent straight to your iPhone. Fanvibe covers the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, college basketball, college football, and the… | 2 | |||
Disposable social networks. | Consumer | 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 Fri… | 2 | ||
The online financial management service for everyone. | Fintech | FutureAdvisor is an award-winning digital wealth management firm serving client households nationwide from our offices in San Francisco. We use software to power a wealth management experience accessible to everyone, at … | 51 | ||
Better Microsoft Project. | B2B | 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… | — | ||
Eyetracking using webcams. | B2B | GazeHawk provides low-cost eye tracking technology for use in usability studies and ad evaluation. Our proprietary technology allows us to use ordinary webcams to run studies. This enables in-home eye tracking, as well… | 2 | ||
Friends motivate one another: I'll do x if you do y. | Consumer | Habit Labs is a social health software startup formed in 2011 via a merger of Contagion Health (founded by Jen McCabe) and Health Month (founded by Buster Benson). Headquartered in Seattle, WA, Habit Labs is building a b… | 2 | ||
Hipmunk takes the agony out of searching for flights, accommodations,… | Consumer | Hipmunk is making travel planning simple and delightful. The site and mobile apps save you time by comparing top travel sites so you don't have to. The unique display makes it easy to visually compare results and choose … | 51 | ||
platform for home service professionals | Consumer | Homejoy believes everyone deserves a happy home. With just a few clicks, Homejoy will match you with an interviewed, background-checked and tested professional cleaner who maintains high customer ratings. Homejoy makes a… | 201 | ||
Financial dashboard for businesses. | B2B | inDinero is on a mission to reinvent small business operations, helping our clients understand their finances like never before. By combining a full finance team of bookkeepers, accountants, and CPA’s, with real time … | 250 | ||
iPad games. | Consumer | Koduco makes iPad games that focus on multiplayer collaboration on the same device. | 2 | ||
Business dashboards | Consumer | Leftronic is a Y Combinator-funded company that develops a web-based real-time dashboard application for monitoring a company's most important data. Leftronic business dashboards retrieve a company's metrics from popula… | 11 | ||
Local chat. | Consumer | Public profile enrichment pending. | 1 | ||
Q&A for businesses. | Consumer | Opzi was a knowledge management platform, styled as a "Quora for the enterprise," that became the First Round Network. | 2 | ||
Map-based apartment search. | Real Estate and Construction | PadMapper is a location-based apartment rental search engine with real-time filtering. PadMapper's entire browsing interface is taken up by a full-screen map, and listings are loaded as the user moves around the map. Zo… | 2 | ||
Real-time visibility into critical apps and services all in one place. | B2B | PagerDuty is an operations performance platform delivering visibility and actionable intelligence across the entire incident lifecycle. Their SaaS-based solution empowers over 10,000 small, mid-size and enterprise global… | 950 | ||
New email inbox. | B2B | Public profile enrichment pending. | — | ||
Digital meets physical for big chain restaurants | B2B | Presto automates big chain restaurants like McDonald's, Starbucks, KFC, Chili's with a combination of Computer Vision, Voice AI, payments and advanced hw/sw solutions. We're obsessed with introducing next-gen tech to ad… | 200 | ||
Like Twitter but you post others' status. | Consumer | Public profile enrichment pending. | — | ||
Add profiles to email. | B2B | 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 interest… | 2 | ||
Personal debt and credit management. Acquired by Avant in 2015. | Fintech | ReadyForZero creates online financial tools for managing debt automatically. ReadyForZero users create plans, make payments, monitor credit and track their progress via the web or mobile. As of 2015, customers paid d… | 12 | ||
The retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow | Education | The Recurse Center is a self-directed, educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming, whether they've been programming for three decades or three months. The retreat is free for all participants… | 7 | ||
Simplenote (simplenote.com) and the Simperium platform for syncing… | B2B | Simperium is a Y Combinator-funded company that builds a platform for syncing content among people and their devices. They released Simplenote as a showcase of this platform. | 2 | ||
Woot for iOS apps. | B2B | TapZilla is a Y Combinator-backed company that launched October 13, 2010 and is taking the daily deal model and applying it to discounts on paid mobile apps. Through TapZilla.com and AppRebates.com, the company has give… | 2 | ||
Teevox | Consumer | 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, … | 11 | Jiggity Kim | |
Upbeat: Building the next generation of Public Relations (PR) | Consumer | Upbeat is a software-powered next-generation PR agency that focuses on media marketing for various companies. The company is a team of software engineers and PR professionals working together to bring the old-school PR i… | 2 | ||
Location-aware smartphone application that enables parents to keep… | Consumer | 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. W… | 2 | ||
WorkFlowy is a better way to manage information. It provides a simple… | B2B | 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… | 4 | Jesse Patel |