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Y Combinator Companies
- minimaxir 10y agoThis list is misleading because it only includes active companies, and doesn't include companies which have exited/died. (Contrast with http://yclist.com http://yclist.com) For example, filtering on s2006 only returns Scribd, but as YClist shows, there are 9 other startups in that batch.
- sctb 10y agoThanks, we updated the submitted title from “All the YC Companies”.
- Finbarr 10y agoWe just deployed a change that will show acquired companies too.
- em500 10y agoCan you deploy another change that will show dead companies too? If you think there is more interest in non-dead companies, you could add an extra filter/selection box.
- marvindanig 10y agoIt would be nice if yclist/OP's list added the zombie tag for the ones that aren't officially dead yet.
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- koolba 10y agoI don't see a bunch of well known YC companies here such as Heroku and Reddit. What's the criteria for this list?
- minimaxir 10y agoBoth Heroku and Reddit exited: see my comment.
- koolba 10y agoAh didn't see that when I started writing. So this has neither successful exits that continue to operate nor unsuccessful ones that exited to the graveyard?
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- Finbarr 10y agoWe just changed it to show acquired companies too.
- ph0rque 10y agoI may be biased, but I think YC Fellowship companies should be on that list, too :)
- wasd 10y agoDear YC, please include real estate as a category. You have many fine companies in this space.
- earlyriser 10y agoI created this to get news from YC companies: http://techtronium.com/posts?tag=Y+Combinator http://techtronium.com/posts?tag=Y+Combinator It doesn't include all of them, just those with a blog feed.
- bedros 10y agohere's my problem and why I can't fit in either YC batch or YC Fellowship. 18 months ago, a small business owner asked me to solve a problem they have. They said they tried many existing solutions, and none helped. So, it turned out, it's the same problem I'm trying to solve for last 8 years, for my personal use; was put on the back burner, and did not think it has a big business potential. So, I've already spent so much time finding a solution in the past, and did not take me much time to find a solution to fit their needs. fast forward till today, and I got alpha quality solution; working on it over the weekends. while working full time to pay mortgage and feed my family. if I apply to YC, it means I have to quit my job, move to silicon valley (I live in SoCal) and moving away from my newborn baby, which is not practical, since we don't have family to help with the baby. and my wife on her own cannot take care of the baby, get groceries, do the house stuff. if I apply to YC fellowship, there's not enough fund to justify quitting my full time job and focus on this company. My only option seems to be to keep working on this product for next 6 months, putting 10-20 hrs over the weekend, and have slow progress. I've talked to several businesses and they all agreed, they have the same problem, and they want solution right now, and willing to pay $200 to $2000 per month depending on features. I wish there's a hybrid option, something like investment of 80K for 2-3% (similar to Fellowship, but more funds) and requirement to fly once a week to meet with YC partners and report on progress.
- jayjay71 10y agoThere have been YC companies in the past that spent most of their time away from San Francisco, including some companies that actually spent most of their time in Europe. AirBnB famously flew to and from New York every week. You don't have to be there for the entire 3 months, although I think all that travel will likely exhaust you if you aren't absolutely committed to your company (and it sounds like it could be difficult with the baby). Also, $80k for 3% is a far better equity proposal than YC. $80k for 5% would be equivalent. That said, I can't imagine they'd splinter themselves any further. I think the way they've set themselves up works great for them, obviously they can't please everyone. If you really have that much interest for your idea, get several LOI (letter of intent) notices from your potential customers and take it to investors. That should get you a lot more than $80k.
- revelation 10y agoSome of these are clearly now defunct and instead link to malware popup sites. (The first one in the list in fact, 1000Memories) If you want to ruin your SEO, I assume this is a good idea. (I figure there is enough data here to make a fun "acquired/defunct/soldiering on" guessing game?) Also, at least one of these startups has gone full circle, started failed stopped and was then reborn as a blog on entrepreneurship: http://www.souper.me/?page_id=144 http://www.souper.me/?page_id=144
- oliland 10y agoSeems biased to sort alphabetically. I clicked away without ever reaching B!
- reagan83 10y agoPlease fix the first link to 1000memories - it links to a spam site.
- idlewords 10y agoFor those who don't know, 1000memories was a service meant to allow people to create a "permanent" online memorial to loved ones who had died. Their CEO leaned hard on me to use them after I complained on my blog about the shabby business practices of a competitor, Legacy.com, when my best friend died. Stay classy, YC. I'm sure it would have cost a fortune to keep the domain up.
- jacquesm 10y agoUgh. Given the nature of the site that is particularly galling. But it's done, I don't think there is any way to reverse this.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoEasy, put the permanent records back in place and negotiate back the domain.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoLike so... https://web.archive.org/web/20110205090306/http://1000memories.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110205090306/http://1000memori... This one might be tougher than usual since the functionality that's very visible is probably dead whereas the links on the bottom containing useful info are tiny and look like the background. You at least see the right site, though.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoSeems like a problem to be solved with a blockchain! Obitucoins.
- idlewords 10y ago
- mikeleeorg 10y agoWill Imagine K12 companies be added to the list as well? http://www.imaginek12.com/all-ik12-startups.html http://www.imaginek12.com/all-ik12-startups.html
- jedc 10y agoYay! I can finally make sure Seed-DB data is 100% correct (rather than 95% correct) - http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011 http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011
- koolba 10y agoIf anyone wants the data in JSON format, the page loads it via the following API call: https://api.ycombinator.com/companies/export.json https://api.ycombinator.com/companies/export.json
- fitzwatermellow 10y agoThnx ;)
- visakanv 10y agoHow dare you express appreciation in an abbreviated manner!
- teach 10y agoIt's one of the social norms on HackerNews that "low-value" comments like "Love it! Thanks!" and "good job" are discouraged. Although such comments are polite to the commenter, they add nothing but noise for all the other readers of the thread. Instead, it seems to be preferred that you simply upvote the comment instead of replying.
- ishener 10y agoThis list of useless startups is the reason why we haven't cured cancer, or eradicated famine yet.
- Taylor_OD 10y agoIt's crazy how many of these websites dont even work anymore.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoConsidering, what, 90% of start-ups fail in the first 5 years (80% in the first year)* I'm actually surprised a lot more are not dead. Though 5 years haven't passed for most of these so maybe there will be significantly more dead soon. *if I remember the statistic correctly
- jedc 10y agoQuick analysis: 1297 YC companies (from here: http://www.ycombinator.com/press/ http://www.ycombinator.com/press/) 860 YC companies listed as either active or acquired (from here: http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ http://www.ycombinator.com/companies/) = 33% failure rate That's a lot higher than I would have expected, to be honest.
- amirmc 10y agoReally? I'd have thought it would be higher. Although this figure does fit with things I've heard before.
- dopamean 10y agoI would have guessed at least half failed. This number seems pretty low to me.
- jedc 10y agoGetting downvoted for citing numbers and a gut reaction? I don't get HN'ers sometimes...
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoI accidentally downvoted :( (really wish that could be fixed)
- elmar 10y agolook for the unvote link on the post
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoAre you sure about that? I can unflag something I flag but I don't see any place where I can unvote. Unless it's karma gated? Though I would have figured I would have access to all the features by now...
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- lisper 10y agoThere are at least three companies missing from this list: YumDots, MightyQuiz, and Bushido, all from 2008 or so.
- jayjay71 10y agoCompanies that shut down aren't included in this list.
- lisper 10y agoAh, that makes sense. (Should have realized that. Frogmetrics is gone too.)
- tedmiston 10y agoSome are on (unofficial) http://yclist.com http://yclist.com but not here.
- svskeptic 10y agoAnd NimbleRx, which seemingly is still around, but not listed in any official or unofficial list. With the recent reviews these guys are getting, are they really around?
- tedmiston 10y agoAny chance of adding YC Fellowship companies?
- sinzone 10y agoGreat tool. Would be cool to see where these companies are now. Perhaps adding another columns and filter to get Status info: Acquired/Dead/IPO/Active.
- Taylor_OD 10y agoAnyone checked out pantelligent? Seems silly but who knows? https://www.pantelligent.com/ https://www.pantelligent.com/
- thejacenxpress 10y agosoylent.com has been the new address for a while, may want to update that from soylent.me
- benhamner 10y agoI scraped a CSV version of the data & made a graph of the verticals by batch: https://www.kaggle.com/benhamner/y-combinator-companies https://www.kaggle.com/benhamner/y-combinator-companies