YC Companies/Winter 2008

YC Winter 2008 Data Room

21 companies·Last synced Mar 26, 2026
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B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA

280 North is a web application company based on their proprietary application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete toolkit to develop rich web applications. It's modeled after a p…

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Francisco Tolmasky
Ross Boucher
Tom Robinson

We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games

B2B
B2B -> Marketing
Vancouver, BC, Canada; Remote
Gaming

Proudly recognized as one of CANADA'S TOP SMALL & MEDIUM EMPLOYERS for 2018! Mission: We build communities. Surrounded by mountains and water in beautiful Vancouver, BC, we are smart people who like smart people. W…

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Eric Diep
Kenshi Arasaki
B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Public profile enrichment pending.
Patrick Swieskowski
Consumer
Consumer -> Social
Atlanta, GA, USA

Deluux aims to become distributed Facebook, or inverted Ning, by relocating the center of people's online identities to their websites, which exist outside of any one social network. The service will facilitate the distr…

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Paul McKellar
Philipp Pfeiffenberger
B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA

FathomDB offers databases as a service, taking care of many of the day-to-day tasks database administrators have to deal with and letting them focus on more complex issues.

Alicia Collins
Justin Santa Barbara
Mark Kinsey

Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud.

Top Company
B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA

Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprise…

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Adam Wiggins
James Lindenbaum
Orion Henry
B2B
B2B -> Productivity
Public profile enrichment pending.
Long Nguyen
Michael Hartl
B2B
B2B -> Recruiting and Talent
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Joberator was formed to tackle head-on the growing challenges and connection-gap issues in the STEM employment and recruitment marketplace. Our goal is to help the right talent and right employers connect together throug…

2
Jorge Ortiz
Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
San Francisco, CA, USA

Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The game, called Turf, pits sections of campuses against each othe…

2
Andrew Fong
Matthew O'Brien

Pioneers of mobile social gaming.

Top Company
Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Gaming

Live data powers everything we do—from our global, multiplayer mobile games to our mobile ad buying to our live data ecosystem, Satori. MZ is creating new futures for people, enterprises, cities, and countries. The possi…

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Gabriel Leydon
Halbert Nakagawa
Mike Sherrill
Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
San Francisco, CA, USA

MightyQuiz powers a collection of user generated quiz questions that can be answered and rated on-site or through a distributable widget.

2
Altay Guvench
Ben Silbermann
Olgun Guvench

Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). Launched as part…

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
Social
Music

Mixwit describes itself as a combination of Slide and iTunes. While it has more ambitious plans, it currently provides an easy way to make sharable mix tapes with songs found through MP3 search engines Seeqpod and Skream…

2
Radley Marx

Simple third-party app patching and deployment for Windows.

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
DevOps

The BaseShield App Store is a distribution platform for Windows software. Users can download and install applications with one click, and each application runs in its own secure virtual space. It is an open platform w…

2
Patrick Swieskowski
Sascha Kuzins

Edit and enhance online video. Acquired by Google in July 2008.

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
Atherton, CA, USA
Video
Media

Omnisio was founded in 2007 by Ryan Junee, Simon Ratner and Julian Frumar, and was subsquently acquired by YouTube in July 2008. Omnisio enabled users to annotate and share videos from any website, and enabled markup of …

Julian Frumar

Take Back Control of your Time

B2B
B2B -> Productivity
Seattle, WA, USA; Remote
Developer Tools
SaaS

RescueTime helps you set boundaries, protect focused work time, and achieve work/life balance by shedding light on how you spend your time, improving your focus, and helping you find more time for the things that matter …

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Brian Fioca
B2B
B2B -> Recruiting and Talent
San Francisco, CA, USA

Snaptalent powers a distributed job advertisement network primarily meant for developer listings. Job ads submitted to Snaptalent are displayed on the service's participating websites. A unique feature about the network…

2
Sumon Sadhu
Consumer
Consumer -> Social

SocialBrowse is a Firefox extension for sharing links. It has been described as "a Twitter for links".

2
Zachary Garbow

social micropayments

Fintech
Fintech -> Payments
Payments
Social

Tipjoy was a simple, social payments engine that allowed merchants to sell digital content and features, charities to raise money for causes, and individuals to give money to one another. Tipjoy was a Winter '08 Y Com…

2
Abigail Kirigin
Ivan Kirigin

Better PhoneGap.

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA

Trigger makes the $15Bn mobile application market accessible by web developers. It's the simplest way to build amazing mobile apps using the best of HTML5 and native. Trigger has raised $1.8M in seed funding from top Si…

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James Brady
Patrick Buckley
B2B
B2B -> Productivity
San Francisco, CA, USA

Wundrbar wants to improve upon the search bar experience by providing users with powerful inline commands. The idea is reminiscent of YubNub but Wundrbar strives to appeal to a larger audience and to incorporate function…

2
Andrew Dudley
Nicholas Grandy
Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
San Francisco, CA, USA

YumDots wants to be the go-to mobile application for finding places to eat when out on the town. Its emphasis on using interactive maps to display information about local restaurants makes it more efficient than other mo…

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