List of YC Companies

by lmx • 16 years ago

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pg5• 16 years ago

This doesn't seem very accurate, judging from the first couple entries. Textpayme was a morph of Firecrawl, and Club Beta I've never heard of.

bkrausz2• 16 years ago

Jed (the source spreadsheet maintainer) does a really good job of keeping the newer companies up to date with public info, but it's hard to find a lot of public info on YC companies before the fact that they were YC was newsworthy.

mlLK2• 16 years ago

I agree, but it's probably up to the founders and pg how much information they make public, more so from the founders. It'd be interesting to see someone publish their quarterly earnings akin to what balsamiq did awhile back (http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product//2010/01/03/a-look-back-at...).

This list is a good start, but far from up to date; just see, this (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&...) for YC 10.

ig16• 16 years ago

Does someone have Jed's contact details, I did a lot of research on this for a blog post a while back, probably makes sense for me send some of the corrections his way.

mlLK2• 16 years ago

http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying-y-combina...

Looks like he wrote a thesis on "seed accelerators" using YC as a model.

points2• 16 years ago

Is there an 'official' list that's better? Seems a useful thing to have.

grinich• 16 years ago

Why would it be useful?

pg5• 16 years ago

There used to be a list of launched companies in the YC faq, but there started to be so many that it was always out of date. We have a list ourselves of course, but we couldn't publish that because it's full of stuff companies don't want disclosed. And it would be a lot of work to tease apart the stuff that's secret from the stuff that isn't. Often I'm not sure myself. So making a publicly viewable list of all the startups seems to fall into the category of things that might be interesting to do, but wouldn't actually help the startups much, and would be a significant amount of work.

charlesju• 16 years ago

The largest exit in the history of YC is only $20 M?

bkrausz2• 16 years ago

Keep in mind the oldest YC companies have only been around ~5 years. There are some YC companies worth more than that but haven't exited. The common examples (based on others' estimations) are Dropbox and AirBnB.

pg5• 16 years ago

Most of the companies mentioned on http://ycombinator.com are.

lotharbot• 16 years ago

Suggestions:

- link the word "exited" to a press release about the exit, or something similar.

- If the exit was in the form of being absorbed into a larger company, something like "Exited - [company name]" would be nice (for example, Divvyshot should say Exited - Facebook).

tszming• 16 years ago

Sorting not working, e.g. Click on the column "Est Aq Price"

tlrobinson2• 16 years ago

Also the class date sorts by month first then year.

benzheren• 16 years ago

Thanks for sharing the info!

Alex3917• 16 years ago

Speaking of this, anyone have any insight as to why LaunchHear.com has a page rank of zero despite being linked to by TechCrunch and a few other sites? Granted we aren't promoting the site right now because we're working on other parts of our business, but it annoys me because we haven't done anything that's even grey area, let alone in violation of Google's rules.

points2• 16 years ago

Google only updates PR every few months afaik, how long have you existed? Also is it a fresh domain or was it in use before you had it.

sahillavingia• 16 years ago

Sometimes it takes time for Google to realize your worth. I'm sure in a few months you'll have a nice PR you'll be happy with.

But personally I think your product is more important than your page rank. :D

il• 16 years ago

Toolbar PR!=Actual PR.

Toolbar PR updates are done on a rolling basis, so you never know when it will update. Don't worry about it, the number means nothing.

lacker• 16 years ago

Hey Alex - email me if you want, I have good advice on this. Bacon Hot Sauce is going gangbusters by the way, hat tip to LaunchHear.

randomtask• 16 years ago

Looks like your sorting is buggy. Sorting by acquisition (high to low) puts GraffitiGeo ($750,000) at the top of the list.

Still, good work. It's great to have a list like this. Would you consider adding in who the acquirer was?

lmx3• 16 years ago

Fixed the sorting issue. Thanks, I'll add in a column for acquirer next time I work on this.

kia• 16 years ago

This one gives a rough estimate for chances of being successful. I am surprised that even for Y Combinator funded companies it's rather small (when looking only at exits) considering the fact that PG says being acquired is almost always the way to go. It's interesting to know how the rest of the companies are doing (how many are profitable).

tzury• 16 years ago

That's totaling $ 75M.

Even if you multiple this amount by 2. Dividing this into the number of companies makes one wonder about the exposure rate in hte media for YC startups. Seems like are getting headlines and cover stories more than others.

Saying, for that only, it is worth to join YC. Let alone the weekly meetings (dinners, etc.).

Just for instance, let's just take a look at the following two CrunchBase entries:

1. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/moshe-yanai

2. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/{YC-Funded-Startup-Name-He...

While the first have sold his first startup (XIV) to IBM for $300M, Three year later, he sold his second startup (diligent) to IBM (again) for $165M, ($465M in total), the knowledge of TC about him is nearly zero. All they can tell is that for his new startup (third) he raised $9M.

On the other hand, if you'll wake up Mike arrington in the middle of his deep sleeps and ask him to name 18 YC startups he will do that right away, without even opening his second eye, wouldn't he?

ig16• 16 years ago

Techcrunch predominantly covers consumer startups, b2b startups in general get much less coverage. Crunchbase has better b2b coverage, but by-and-large it's because companies have added themselves (and naturally smaller startups have more incentive to do this, so you'll find more recent b2b startups than older ones).

grourk• 16 years ago

You should add ZumoDrive and ZumoCast (products) to the Zecter entry.

Natsu• 16 years ago

Can we have a "showdead" option to turn the dead companies on & off? Yeah, you can sort them away, but...

catshirt• 16 years ago

wow, Scribd has a higher Alexa rank than Reddit?

ig16• 16 years ago

It has for years, Reddit has only come close to it fairly recently.

bfung• 16 years ago

what makes a company 'Dead'?

buxfer might or might not fit into this category, the site is still up and functional, but it doesn't seem like it's actively maintained: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/buxfers-founders-both-work-...

http://getsatisfaction.com/buxfer/topics/is_buxfer_dead

a simple yes/no from one of the founders would be simple enough.

SteveMorin4• 16 years ago

I already asked, I didn't get a response, partially because I think buxfer was a interesting startup.

AlexeyMK• 16 years ago

Seems to be lacking a good amount of data, but a reasonable first draft. Why not make this a public-editable Google Spreadsheet (or the equivalent)?

lmx3• 16 years ago

Hey all, I'm glad to see this has attracted some attention. I originally made it for myself to get an overview of all the startups in one place. I couldn't find an official list and the spreadsheet I linked was the best I could find, but I can't even sort it.

The data is pulled from the spreadsheet, but unfortunately it's not all accurate. The estimated aquisition price is estimated by the author of the original spreadsheet. Also, a number of domains are defunct, but the startups aren't listed as dead or exited. And as pg points out, some names are also wrong.

There are several other bugs I'm aware of too. I just wanted to get something functional out to see if anyone was actually interested. I'll fix things up and add more features when I have time (who the acquirer was, link to a press release).

I was thinking of making this into an open wiki, as there's no one reliable source to pull data from. It'd also be much easier to maintain.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

bigbang• 16 years ago

Here is an old blog post (not sure how accurate it is), but it has info on some other companies as well,

http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator...

Heres the summary according to the post,

    * YC S05 - 1 Active /3 Failed / 2 Acquired / 2 Other
    * YC W06 - 5 Active /1 Failed / 2 Acquired
    * YC S06 - 3 Active /6 Failed / 1 Unknown
    * YC W07 - 5 Active /4 Failed / 4 Acquired / 2 Unknown
    * YC S07 - 12 Active /4 Failed / 3 Acquired
    * YC W08 - 9 Active /10 Failed / 1 Acquired / 1 Unknown
    * YC S08 - 17 Active /3 Failed / 1 Acquired / 1 Unknown
    * YC W09 - 14 Active /1 Failed / 1 Stealth
    * YC S09 - 16 Active /1 Acquired /9 Stealth

tlrobinson2• 16 years ago

W08 stats are out of date ;)

ig16• 16 years ago

That's my blog post, I'm currently feeding my data to Jed, so hopefully the combined data will be a bit more accurate. I haven't updated it in ten months or so, so any changes since then won't be included.

andrewparker• 16 years ago

The Kiko price is known because it was sold on eBay.

Also, the "date" column doesn't sort properly. It sorta alphanumerically instead of chronologically.

logicb• 16 years ago

Your list is good enough for me :-)

SteveMorin4• 16 years ago

This spreadsheet is followed a lot but does have a lot of missing and wrong information. You find them in YC and the other incubators as well.

SteveMorin4• 16 years ago

Does the app pull directly from the spreadsheet when there are updates?

lmx3• 16 years ago

Not yet. I'll have to see what updates to expect first. Otherwise I risk breaking the site.

SteveMorin4• 16 years ago

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