YC Companies/Winter 2013

YC Winter 2013 Data Room

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Airware provides end-to-end solutions that enable enterprises to…

Industrials
Industrials -> Drones
San Francisco, CA, USA
Drones
Enterprise

Airware offers commercial drone solutions, enabling enterprises to take full advantage of aerial data for any business application. Airware’s solutions combine hardware, software, and cloud services to enable companies t…

51
Brad Schiller
Jonathan Downey

The easiest way to prototype web applications.

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Mountain View, CA, USA
No-code

Appcubator has launched to allow users to create their own web applications with drag and drop, text inserts and custom themes, rather than having to endure the arduous process of learning to create a full-functioning we…

Ilter Canberk
Karan Sikka

Music, Metrics... Meritocracy. (Upload Music, Connect your Social…

B2B
B2B -> Retail
Atlanta, GA, USA
Social Media
Music

Beatdeck is a big data music analytics platform. It is used to evaluate artist's KPM, analyze social signals, and provide a clean extensive dashboard into the music industry. Beatdeck was founded in January 2013 at Y Com…

2
Josh Mangel

The App Store for Server Software

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Developer Tools

Packaged Applications for Any Platform. Bitnami has automated the ability to package, deploy and maintain applications, lowering the barrier to adoption for anyone to deploy and maintain a full spectrum of server app…

75
Daniel Lopez
Erica Brescia

BuildZoom is a better way to remodel. We connect homeowners to the…

Hiring
Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
San Francisco, CA, USA
Real Estate
Construction

BuildZoom is a better way to remodel. We connect homeowners to the most reliable general contractors in their area and make remodeling simpler, cheaper and more predictable. Our technology harvests public data on ev…

100
David Petersen

Fastest, easiest, and most affordable way for small business owners…

B2B
B2B -> Retail
San Francisco, CA, USA
Logistics
Supply Chain
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Na'ama Moran

Online circuit simulator and electronic schematic editor.

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Redwood City, CA, USA; Remote
Hardware
SaaS

CircuitLab makes it easier for electrical engineers, students, and electronics hobbyists to design, analyze, build, and share electronic circuits.

2
Humberto Evans
Mike Robbins

A mobile wallet that allows you to pay everywhere credit cards are…

Fintech
Fintech -> Consumer Finance
San Francisco, CA, USA
Payments

Coin is a consumer electronics and financial technology company bringing simplicity and security to payments. Through the Coin developer program, wearables makers now have a turnkey solution for integrating secure paymen…

11
Kanishk Parashar
Karthik Balakrishnan

CrowdMed harnesses the wisdom of crowds to solve difficult medical…

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare Services
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Consumer Health Services

CrowdMed is an innovative healthcare startup harnessing the wisdom of crowds to help solve complicated medical cases more quickly and efficiently. The company offers individuals, insurance providers, and self-insured cor…

5
Jared Heyman

Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines.

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Data Engineering

Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. Unlike other enterprise solutions, Etleap doesn’t require extensive engineering work to set up, maintain, and scale. It automates most ETL setup…

11
Christian Romming

crowdfunding platform for science

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare Services
Honolulu, HI, USA; Remote
Marketplace
Crowdfunding

Today's funders are so conservative they only fund the most obvious ideas. At Experiment, we fund the ideas that they won't fund; the ideas that matter. Since founding, over 47,000 citizens have pledged $9 million dol…

1
Denny Luan

The leader in automated data movement

Top Company
B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
Oakland, CA, USA
SaaS
B2B
Analytics

Fivetran automates data movement out of, into and across cloud data platforms. We automate the most time-consuming parts of the ELT process from extracts to schema drift handling to transformations, so data engineers can…

1200
George Fraser
Taylor Brown

FlightCar is the Airbnb of Car Rentals at Airports. We allow people…

Consumer
Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism
San Francisco, CA, USA
Marketplace

Launched in early 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, FlightCar inspires and enables local owners and visitors to come together to list and rent each other’s unique vehicles. We make it convenient and enjoyable …

51
Kevin Petrovic
Rujul Zaparde
Shri Ganeshram

Empowering restaurants and small food makers to ship nationwide.

Hiring
Consumer
Consumer -> Food and Beverage
New York, NY, USA
Marketplace
E-commerce

Goldbelly is an online platform for specialty food makers and artisans. We discover America's most unique handmade foods and ship them to your door, anywhere nationwide.

125
Joe Ariel
Joel Gillman
Vanessa Torrivilla

Big Data Analytics

B2B
B2B -> Analytics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Analytics

6sense's mission is to empower marketing and sales teams with 100 percent visibility into buyers; who they are, needs and timing. 6sense provides marketers with omni-channel connectivity and visibility from brand to dema…

51
Viral Bajaria

Captures user interactions with no code to generate analytics.

Top Company
B2B
B2B -> Analytics
San Francisco, CA, USA
SaaS
Analytics

Heap automates away the annoying parts of user analytics. No manual event tracking. No messy tracking plans. No custom ETL pipelines. Just insights. For everyone on your team.

388
Matin Movassate

The platform for building and operating time series applications.

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Analytics
Open Source
Time Series

InfluxData, the creators of InfluxDB, delivers a modern Open Source Platform built from the ground up for analyzing metrics and events (time series data) for DevOps and IoT applications. Whether the data comes from human…

210
Paul Dix

Kalibrr connects SEAsian talent to your local & global jobs.

B2B
B2B -> Operations
Makati, NCR, Philippines
Recruiting
Remote Work

Kalibrr operates a two-sided job marketplace in Southeast Asia with over 5,000,000 high-skill white collar talents primarily in the Philippines and Indonesia. With Kalibrr, you can recruit and build a remote sales, p…

51
Danny Castonguay
Dexter Ligot-Gordon
Paul Rivera

Lawdingo provides virtual paralegal services to law firms.

Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
New York, NY, USA
LegalTech

Lawdingo gets people in touch with a lawyer very quickly. Lawdingo gives people seeking legal services direct access to independent lawyers who can help them. Such attorneys usually have more flexible hours, lower rat…

Nikhil Nirmel

Logiblock engineers electronics and development tools to dramatically…

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hardware
IoT
Manufacturing

Logiblock makes electronic product development faster for startups and established firms alike. Logiblock is the client services division of Outbreak, Inc. Founded as a technology research and development group in 2008, …

Eugene Yaroslavtsev
Kuy Mainwaring

Online Auctions for Authentic (Women's) Designer Goods

Consumer
Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics
Mountain View, CA, USA
Marketplace
E-Commerce
Fashion

Lollipuff is the only online auction site that pre-screens each and every item to guarantee the authenticity of its high-end, pre-owned designer apparel and accessories. Buyers can be confident they're getting the real …

11
Fei Deyle

Medisas builds workflow & collaboration software for hospitals.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare IT
San Francisco, CA, USA
Workflow Automation
Healthcare

Healthcare is broken and underserved by technology. Hospital software is too complicated, too convoluted, and too disconnected. Doctors and nurses spend more time clicking through prompts than checking in on patients, a…

11
Gautam Sivakumar

Radiology in the cloud. X-rays, CAT scans, MRI's, and…

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare IT
San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Tech
Medical Devices

MedXT is the easiest way to manage medical images online. We make it easy for medical professionals to access and share their medical data safely and securely. We provide specialty tools such as RIS, PACS, and HL7 conn…

2
Reshma Khilnani

Simple password & identity management for teams. Acquired by LogMeIn…

B2B
B2B -> Productivity
San Francisco, CA, USA
Security
Enterprise

The easiest way for companies to connect their empoyees to the apps they need. Meldium is a YC-backed startup helping teams & companies manage accounts & passwords for cloud apps. From shared passwords to user provision…

2
Anton Vaynshtok

Wearable computing hardware: biosignal gesture recognition

Top Company
Consumer
Consumer -> Virtual and Augmented Reality
Kitchener, ON, Canada
Hardware
Biometrics

Thalmic Labs is pioneering new ways of interacting with digital devices. With a mission to merge people and technology, the company is revolutionizing how we will interact with technology in the future. Its first product…

51
Aaron Grant
Matthew Bailey
Stephen Lake

Papyrus → Parchment → Paper → Padlet

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Productivity
San Francisco, CA, USA
Education
SaaS

We are easily bored. It's the one thing that unites humanity in 2020. No one wants to read twenty paragraphs of text, or sit through forty verbose slides. Yet, we keep making them, boring everyone out of their minds. …

65
Nitesh Goel

Simple invoicing

B2B
B2B -> Finance and Accounting
Mountain View, CA, USA
Fintech
Payments

PayTango is simple, modern invoicing. No more dealing with spreadsheets, word processors, or entering data into complex and bulky invoicing software. Now you can quickly create beautiful PDF invoices and send them from …

2
Umang Patel

Ultra-short feedback surveys on tablets mounted in businesses. Higher…

B2B
B2B -> Retail
Cupertino, CA, USA
Analytics

Posmetrics provides innovative iPad-based customer feedback surveys that collect orders of magnitude more data than other technologies, provide relevant, real-time results, and generate actionable recommendations to help…

2
Erik Schluntz
Merrill Lutsky

Predicting workplace performance through neuroscience

B2B
B2B -> Recruiting and Talent
San Francisco, CA, USA
Neurotechnology

Prophecy is quantifying the cognitive factors that determine workplace performance -- from mental aptitude, to personality traits, to decision-making styles and interpersonal dynamics. Drawing from research across many …

2
Bob Schafer
John Stanley

RADAR is building technology to completely transform the in-store…

B2B
B2B -> Retail
New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; San Diego, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Retail Tech

RADAR is a platform that combines RFID and computer vision to automate and augment retail store processes. Our technology offers unprecedented speed and location accuracy, which allows stores to: 1) Manage inventory e…

46
Spencer Hewett

A universal urban transit app. Given all transportation options…

Consumer
Consumer -> Transportation Services
San Francisco, CA, USA
Transportation
Mobility

Real-time transit directions in San Francisco. Rover uses real-time public transit data to give you the best route, right now, to your destination. Always get the best route to your destination. Rover tracks all MUNI, BA…

Lev Popov

Collaborative Screen Sharing — you each get your own mouse, and…

B2B
B2B -> Productivity
Mountain View, CA, USA
Team Collaboration
Collaboration

Screenhero lets you screen share any application with anyone, no matter where they are. It's super simple and blazing fast. You each get your own mouse pointer, and you're both always in control. It's designed for collab…

2
Faraz Khan
Jahanzeb Sherwani
Jason DiCioccio
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Analytics for impatient people.

B2B
B2B -> Analytics
Analytics
Big Data
Data Engineering

Scuba is the fast and scalable event-based analytics solution to answer critical business questions about how customers behave and products are used. Interana allows users to analyze and explore the key business metrics …

51
Ann Johnson
Bobby Johnson

Data and AI platform for Ecommerce & Cross-Border Logistics

B2B
B2B -> Retail
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Logistics
E-commerce

Our products: - Data APIs/Feeds (Retail feeds, UPC lookups, Keyword search) - AI APIs (Categorization, Attribute extraction/NER, Matching) - Dashboards (Analytics reports, Price monitoring) We offer enterprise solu…

25
Sivamani Varun

We sell health insurance to small businesses 100% online.

Hiring
Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare Services
San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Insurance

SimplyInsured was founded with one mission: to eliminate fear from health insurance. By changing the way small business owners purchase health insurance with our 100% online platform, we’re transforming a $20 billion dol…

35
Vivek Shah

The easiest way to create a beautiful, mobile optimized website.

B2B
B2B -> Marketing
Shanghai, Shanghai, China; Shanghai, China
E-commerce

Strikingly lets you build a gorgeous, mobile optimized website in minutes. For your business, organization, or personal branding, a good-looking site is necessary for your online legitimacy in the Mobile Age. With no …

99
Dafeng Guo
David Haisha Chen
Teng Bao

StyleUp brings effortless joy to getting dressed with daily,…

Consumer
Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics
New York, NY, USA
Fashion

StyleUp brings effortless joy to getting dressed with daily, weather-appropriate advice tailored to suit your life and style. It's your shortcut to chic. We believe in discovery. It's our job to find outfit recommenda…

10
Ryan Choi

Stop missing deliveries. Ship to Swapbox and pick up at our kiosks.

Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
San Francisco, CA, USA
Delivery
Logistics
E-commerce

Send and receive packages with Swapbox # Receive packages with Swapbox # Prevent missed deliveries with Swapbox. We give you control over your packages — no more missed delivery notices or stolen packages. Shop onl…

2
Neel Murthy
Nitin Shantharam

Kickstarter for physical products. Shop exclusive product launches.

B2B
B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Hardware
E-Commerce

Kickstarter for physical products. Shop exclusive product launches.

2
Iolanthe Stronger

IMPORTANT: The original YC founders are no longer involved with this…

Consumer
Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Marketplace
E-Commerce
Retail

About Teespring Millions of people use Teespring to turn their unique ideas into high-quality products. When you shop on Teespring, you’re supporting one of the independent creators in our community, as well as the caus…

201
Evan Stites Clayton
Walker Williams

Educational assessments made easy. Eliminating paper-based exams in…

B2B
B2B -> Human Resources
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Education
Edtech

Terascore is developing an educational tool for teachers to create, administer, and manage tests entirely online. Scores and results are available immediately and teachers get instant analytics on question quality, diffi…

2
Adam Helybely
Viktor Takacs
Zsolt Muller

VaycayHero is a marketplace of professionally managed vacation…

Consumer
Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism
San Francisco, CA, USA
Marketplace
SaaS
Travel

VaycayHero takes the hassle out of booking vacation rentals. All rentals are verified, and 100% accurate, and calendars and pricing are automatically updated. This means, no surprises, ever. Search and book online hassle…

55
Amitav Chakravartty

Watsi is the first global crowdfunding platform for medical…

Healthcare
Healthcare
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Crowdfunding
Healthcare

We’re building technology to finance universal healthcare by crowdfunding surgeries and providing coverage for primary care.

11
Chase Adam
Grace Garey

We're Robinhood for pre-IPO startups. Everyone can invest $100.

Hiring
Fintech
Fintech -> Asset Management
San Francisco, CA, USA
Fintech
Investing

We help everyone invest in startups that they care about. We believe that when all Americans can invest in innovation, the world will be a better place. And soon, our dream will become a reality. Thanks to the JOBS Ac…

35
Greg Belote
Nick Tommarello

Changing divorce for good by making it a way less horrible experience…

Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
Bothell, WA, USA
LegalTech

Wevorce is fixing divorce by ensuring kids come first, costs stay affordable, and the transition is appropriately paced, so that couples can focus on parenting, not fighting. For families, the Wevorce experience stands…

11
Michelle Crosby

HR for small businesses: onboarding, payroll and benefits.

B2B
B2B -> Human Resources
San Francisco, CA, USA
HR Tech

Zenefits was founded to take the administrative heartache out of getting healthcare. In the five years since, Zenefits'​ consumer-grade technology has tackled one of the economy's gnarliest people problems: delivering ea…

500
Laks Srini
Parker Conrad