List of Y Combinator startups

References

1. 1.Dasha Shunina. To Accelerate Or Not? How To Choose The Right Program For Your Startup Forbes, retrieved 2025-03-21^
2. 2.Y Combinator Will Fund Later-Stage Companies The New York Times, 16 October 2015^
3. 3.Announcing the YC Spring 2025 batch Y Combinator, retrieved 2025-10-22^
4. 4.Funding for 1000Memories - A Nod to the Power of Digital Memories February 16, 2011^
5. 5.280 North - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations^
6. 6.Airbnb's cofounder makes a compelling argument on why more startups should join the y Combinator accelerator Business Insider^
7. 7.AppJet Makes Simple Web Apps a Breeze December 12, 2007^
8. 8.Meet David Lieb, y Combinator's newest secret weapon Business Insider^
9. 9.Y Combinator's Clustrix rolls out databases that scale May 4, 2010^
10. 10.https://wellfound.com/company/disqus/funding^
11. 11.https://medium.com/the-entrepreneurs-manifesto/dropbox-the-idea-viral-video-breakthrough-y-combinator-3016ca1ca52b^
12. 12.A $4.8 billion biotech wants to trade its expertise for equity in startups looking to manufacture better materials, drugs, and food Business Insider^
13. 13.Heroku founder: Y Combinator developer tools request is a very big deal October 14, 2014^
14. 14.Ex-Homejoy C.E.O.'s Next Start-Up: An Entire City Vanity Fair, June 28, 2016^
15. 15.https://www.michaelseibel.com/^
16. 16.Listia - Company Information | YCDB - the y Combinator Database^
17. 17.Sam Altman on y Combinator, Loopt & Work Habits^
18. 18.Mixpanel's y Combinator application in 2009 June 26, 2018^
19. 19.YC-Backed NewsBlur Takes Feed Reading Back to Its Basics July 30, 2012^
20. 20.Ninite - 2025 Funding Rounds & List of Investors - Tracxn^
21. 21.Octopart, the Little Startup That Hung in There May 19, 2011^
22. 22.https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/sam-altman-yc-monopoly.html^
23. 23.A/B Tester Optimizely Raises Funding from Battery and Google Ventures, Plans Mobile Launch May 31, 2012^
24. 24.https://wellfound.com/company/ownlocal/people^
25. 25.S28 Capital^
26. 26.Tomio Geron. With Own Incubator on Hold, Facebook Befriends y Combinator Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2010^
27. 27.Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham lays out why he's voting for Kamala Harris Business Insider^
28. 28.Posterous Cofounder Garry Tan Steps Down, Heads to y Combinator January 15, 2011^
29. 29.Recurse Center - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations^
30. 30.https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/how-to-start-a-65-billion-business-at-21-years-old-reddit/479210^
31. 31.The YCombinator list: Bump, Mixpanel, JobPic take off with newest class August 20, 2009^
32. 32.Y Combinator names Scribd cofounder Jared Friedman as partner October 8, 2015^
33. 33.Y Combinator-Backed SIRUM Matches Unused Medicine with Low-Income Patients March 10, 2015^
34. 34.Warner's Songkick strikes partnership with ticketing and marketing company Shoobs May 3, 2024^
35. 35.The Collison Brothers and Story Behind the Founding of Stripe^
36. 36.Q: Why Did Quora Join y Combinator? A: It Was Almost Free May 11, 2014^
37. 37.Virtualmin - 2025 Funding Rounds & List of Investors - Tracxn^
38. 38.https://www.forbes.com/sites/moiravetter/2016/05/13/what-can-non-profit-startup-vote-org-do-with-y-combinator-seed-funding-in-178-days/^
39. 39.WakeMate (YC S09) on building their business and their YCombinator experience : The Startup Foundry^
40. 40.https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/04/27/weebly-square-purchase-y-combinator-valuation.html^
41. 41.WePay: The Online Payment Start-Up Behind Occupy Wall Street Forbes^
42. 42.A Xobni Executive Leaves the Red-Hot Startup. But Why? July 24, 2008^
43. 43.Y Combinator Startups That Should've Made It July 29, 2012^
44. 44.The 10 Most Successful y Combinator Startups Business Insider^
45. 45.Y Combinator's Top Three Startups from Winter 2014, According to y Combinator Startups March 28, 2014^
46. 46.How Aaron Epstein launched and sold Creative Market in only 15 months^
47. 47.EquipmentShare named to y Combinator top companies list as it expands across Heartland July 27, 2023^
48. 48.Prominent startup investor shares a y Combinator one-pager for founders on early-stage funding January 29, 2025^
49. 49.Mux raises $20 million to simplify video streaming and analytics August 14, 2019^
50. 50.A Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Power Startup Has Doubled Customer Base Without a Product The New York Observer, August 15, 2024^
51. 51.Robots are taking over New York, and Bill Gates is investing September 13, 2024^
52. 52.The 48 startups that launched at y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2 August 24, 2016^
53. 53.Nigerian Fintech Startup Paystack Raises $1.3 Million Forbes^
54. 54.Podium Raises $201M in Series D Funding to Accelerate the Digital Evolution for Local Businesses^
55. 55.https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180620005845/en/SmartAsset-Raises-28-Million-in-Series-C-Funding-Doubling-Its-Venture-Capital-Backing^
56. 56.Meet 23 Companies from the YC W19 Batch Part 5 Y Combinator, March 15, 2019^
57. 57.$275M at $7.5B valuation: Y Combinator's Flock Safety to provide a public safety operating system that eliminates crime, eyeing an IPO — TFN March 14, 2025^
58. 58.Nigerian fintech Grey gets backing from y Combinator February 8, 2022^
59. 59.Y Combinator Alum Legalist Seeking $400M for Fourth Credit Fund^
60. 60.Lezzoo Delivers Everything: A Kurdistani Super App and Entrepreneurial Success Story^
61. 61.With bids starting at $96,000, a y Combinator founder is selling his shuttered startup as an NFT to 'embrace failing' Business Insider^
62. 62.Lucas Matney. QuikNode is building a blockchain developer cloud platform to compete with AWS Tech Crunch, April 1, 2021^
63. 63.Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M July 2019^
64. 64.The Athletic x STRV | Case Study^
65. 65.https://www.fastcompany.com/90221400/y-combinator-is-funding-a-nonprofit-that-advocates-for-meat-alternatives^
66. 66.Scots firm behind pocket-size satellites takes aim at world record after Silicon Valley funding 26 August 2021^