YC Companies/Winter 2010

YC Winter 2010 Data Room

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the best loyalty and retention marketing partner for CMOs.

B2B
B2B -> Retail
San Francisco, CA, USA
Marketing

Merkle Loyalty Solutions, formerly 500friends, is a leader in customer loyalty marketing solutions. Clients depend on us to help them develop and execute a differentiated and impactful customer loyalty strategy that del…

51
Hong Hu

Connecting users with engaging video content across the web.…

B2B
B2B -> Marketing
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Video
Media

140Fire is the fastest growing online video ad network. Brands and agencies utilize 140Fire for it's suite of engagement and data tools which make media buying 10x more effective when it comes to running video ads. Backe…

11
Jason Wilk
Consumer
Consumer -> Content
San Francisco, CA, USA

There is no better way to engage with potential customers than by answering their questions. InboxQ makes it easy to find people who have questions about your business, products or general industry

11
Jason Konrad
Joe Fahrner

Effortless Video Meetings - Acquired by Jive Software in 2013

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

With Meetings.io you can meet face to face with anyone from around the world within your web browser. Meet with a client, a customer, your project team or your co-workers in person without ever leaving your desk by simpl…

2
Arend Naylor
Denis Mars
Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
San Francisco, CA, USA

Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of…

251
Tim Wong

Marketplace for graphic design assets

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

Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.

Aaron Epstein
Chris Williams
Darius "Bubs" Monsef

Embed PDFs, PowerPoints, and other documents into web and mobile apps

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

Crocodoc developed the world's most advanced web-based document viewing and collaboration technology for Microsoft Office and PDF files, built on open standards such as HTML5 and CSS3. Whether viewing a document, addi…

Bennett Rogers
Matt Long
Peter Lai
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Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
San Francisco, CA, USA

Cue (formerly Greplin) is a free service that helps people make the most of their day. Cue intelligently ties together and surfaces useful information at the right time from the accounts they use most, including email, c…

11
Daniel Gross
Robby Walker
Shai Magzimof
B2B
B2B -> Analytics
San Francisco, CA, USA

Data Marketplace helps people find, buy and sell data online. It helps users seeking a specific data to creating a request for free, explain their needs, add an optional deadline and budget, and in turn allows aggregator…

2
Matt Hodan
Steve DeWald
B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Boston, MA, USA

Embedly provides a platform and suite of tools to make embedding and previewing links simple. Embedly helps publishers and consumers manage embed codes from more than 100 Websites and APIs, including YouTube, Flickr, Ust…

2
Arthur Gibson
Sean Creeley
B2B
B2B -> Sales
Palo Alto, CA, USA

Etacts was born from the frustration of keeping in touch with our ever-growing list of friends (both business and personal), family, coworkers, and clients. It's impossible to remember to stay in touch with all the peop…

2
Evan Beard
Howie Liu
B2B
B2B -> Retail
New York, NY, USA

Fabricly is an online marketplace that takes the risk out of sourcing apparel manufacturers and materials. It is used by a growing number of brands, independent designers and retailers to research manufacturers and quic…

2
Ari Helgason
Tom Riley
B2B
B2B -> Retail
Public profile enrichment pending.
Robert Bagley
Troy Kruthoff
Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
San Francisco, CA, USA

Gamador is a social game developer that has released three games so far. The company says that it differentiates itself from other developers by releasing quick, smart games at a very rapid pace (they can develop a game …

2
Dan Silberman
B2B
B2B -> Marketing
San Francisco, CA, USA

Inforharmoni is a data visualization company that visualizes real-time social web and aggregates content.

2
Paulius Jurgutis

LaunchHear was a startup attempting to make PR scale in the same way…

B2B
B2B -> Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA
Media

LaunchHear is a way for bloggers to get early review copies of new products.

2
Alex Krupp
Allan Young
B2B
B2B -> Retail
Redwood City, CA, USA

Mertado Mertado is an online social shopping platform that allows consumers to discover and buy products from communities they frequently visit.

1
Mehul Shah
Rajiv Bhat
Vijay Chittoor
Consumer
Consumer
Public profile enrichment pending.

Real estate data visualization. Sold to Trulia Dec…

Real Estate and Construction
Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate
San Francisco, CA, USA
Real Estate
Data Visualization

Movity provides location-based living facilities and neighborhood data that help home buyers make better decisions. Movity.com surfaces geodata (crime, noise, pricing, etc) to help home buyers make better decisions. The …

2
Eric Wu
Sha Hwang
Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
Mountain View, CA, USA

Virtual goods commerce

2
Coen Stevens
B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

NewsLabs offers a platform that looks to help "old school" journalists adapt to the web, by giving them help with advertising, SEO, and other issues they may not have had to deal with before.

2
Nathan Chong
B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA

Notifo is a mobile application and platform which allows any web site or service to easily create mobile notifications. While it's currently only an iPhone app, the plan is to eventually work on Android and BlackBerry de…

2
Chad Etzel
Consumer
Consumer -> Content
San Francisco, CA, USA

Nowmov is an endless stream of videos recommended to users based on their interests, friends and what's trending around the world.

David Kelso
James Felix Black
Thomas Pun

The first all-in-one operating system for marketing

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

At Optimizely, we're on a mission to help people unlock their digital potential. We do that by reinventing how marketing and product teams work to create and optimize digital experiences across all channels. With Optimiz…

1500
Pete Koomen

OwnLocal automates marketing for over 129,000 SMBs through 3,300…

B2B
B2B -> Marketing
Austin, TX, USA
Marketing
SMB

OwnLocal works with more than 3,300+ local media companies to transform their legacy customers base into sophisticated local digital advertisers. Our technology has been designed to work seamlessly with your current sale…

45
Lloyd Armbrust

Video Encoding API, Open source video player (video.js)

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Video
API

Zencoder is a cloud-based video and audio encoding product suite from Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), a leading global provider of cloud content services. The Zencoder service provides customers with high quality, reliable en…

11
Brandon Arbini
Jon Dahl
Steve Heffernan
Consumer
Consumer -> Content
San Francisco, CA, USA

Zenedy Zenedy was started as a means to showcase information about obscure topics from around the web.

2
Dan Morin
Jeff Morin