YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

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by wheels • 15 years ago

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quickpost• 15 years ago

Beautiful and intuitive design. :) Do you plan to let people edit the content at all?

jasonlynes2• 15 years ago

yeah making this a wiki would be kickass

jasonlynes2• 15 years ago

just noticed, it IS a wiki of sorts. you can add founders and investments. nice work.

Sam_Odio• 15 years ago

Great page though I noticed a number of errors after glancing through. How do you expect to ensure the accuracy of the data?

aristus• 15 years ago

If you spell out the errors you saw, perhaps...

SwellJoe5• 15 years ago

Errors I noticed from the batch we did (W2007):

SocialMoth is no longer active. Paul is involved with Square (which is doing very well).

View 3 was shuttered soon after the batch and everybody went back to school, I believe.

White Noise is defunct. I'm not sure what Sean is up to these days.

Snipshot was a non-batch YC company, I believe (like Justin.TV). Funded by YC based on an existing relationship from a previous batch, but they weren't part of a batch. Not sure that makes it inaccurate...I guess that's the best place to list them, since they were funded around the same time and demoed on the same demo day.

WriteWith is defunct. Eric wrote for VentureBeat for a while. Phillip joined Auctomatic before their acquisition. Martin did something else, but I don't remember what.

I believe everything else in W2007 is correct.

bradly• 15 years ago

Crocodoc is listed as having $0 in funding, but they took in money last July. I'm not sure the dollar amount.

throwaway55055• 15 years ago

YC founder ghost says yes.

CloudOps42• 15 years ago

There's a real problem with the sex distribution numbers. Not saying it's a YC problem, but it is a problem. There're too many talented women out there to lose them to other industries. When we can pull them over here, watch out!

Rariel7• 15 years ago

It is a very serious problem, but one that is difficult to solve. Especially when science and tech are male dominated fields. I think it begins with empowering the younger generation of women (think school aged K-6) and getting them interested in math, science and tech.

SwellJoe5• 15 years ago

Jessica and pg have both spoken/written at length on the subject. They want to fund female-founded companies, but nearly none apply.

I've personally experienced this. I've tried to talk lots of people into applying for YC, or just starting their own company, over the years since we took part in 2007. About 50% of the people I've tried to convince were women. Only men applied or went on to start businesses. Not a single woman among my friends (among them one who works at Google, and another who started a non-profit foundation when she was 19 that still exists ten years later; these are not random people who don't get shit done; they're YC kinda people) takes my advice to start a company seriously.

The problem is, I'm pretty sure, both genetic and systemic. There's only so much we can do to fix it. At some point, women have to decide they are willing to take economic risks, and bet on themselves.

birken3• 15 years ago

I know of one incredibly talented potential female founder who applied with a killer idea and was rejected. I think it is very likely that YC has a strong bias towards men, which this data certainly supports.

I'm also not blaming YC for having a bias towards men. I think silicon valley in general has a bias towards men, and since YC is a for profit business they are making economically sound decisions. However, I think the situation sucks in general, and saying any fault lies with women is really unfair.

DaniFong• 15 years ago

It might be the field. In our interviewing process we were blown away by four female engineers, 100% of which decided instead to start their own startup -- in cleantech.

Rariel7• 15 years ago

"The problem is, I'm pretty sure, both genetic and systemic." The problem is genetic? What are you suggesting?

Rariel7• 15 years ago

Can somebody who is more versed in this board explain to me why a comment like this would be downvoted? I don't understand what is wrong with this type of comment. Additionally, the comment I made responding to it was downvoted. I'm honestly curious...

dasil003• 15 years ago

When I got here it was just one downvote, so it's probably risky to ascribe one reason to it, and this is way too much of a generalization anyway, but I'll put it out there anyway...

I've met a lot of hacker types who are vehement about the fact that they are not racist or sexist, to the point that they take offense that women are kept out of technical fields due to sexism. I believe this could lead to a kneejerk reaction that gender equality is a non-issue, and any attempts to address it are nothing more than affirmative action undermining technical merit.

mbesto• 15 years ago

This is like saying there's a real problem with the lack of black coaches in the NFL. So what? May the best people be suited for the job, regardless of race, gender, age, etc.

Do I think more women should be involved? Sure, I'm all for equality. But any such effort to detract women from other industries, I think would be better suited by detracting talented people (women and men) from other industries (say like maybe Wall St.?)

On the other hand, is there a deep rooted reason in our system why women are detracted from joining the tech startup scene? Possibly. Maybe that's where some effort should go first.

birken3• 15 years ago

This statement basically could not be less accurate. The NFL itself thought there was a huge problem with the lack of black coaches in the NFL, so it took a pro-active approach by making the Rooney Rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule), in which a minority head coach must be interviewed (not hired), in the case of a head coaching vacancy. And what happened? Well the number of minority coaches role greatly from 2 at the end of the 2002 season to 7 currently.

Basically the NFL front office realized that a lot of the owners had some unconscious bias against minority head coaches, and thus they made a rule which forced them to at least acknowledge there were quality minority coaching candidates out there. And once the owners were forced to confront this, they started to agree and hire minority candidates.

I think there are a lot of parallels between this and the current gender disparity in YC. In order to solve such a systemic problem, you have to take big steps. YC doesn't want to take big steps, and thus the problem wont get solved, and people will continue to muse about how women just aren't trying hard enough. Reminds me of the prevailing wisdom in 2000 when everybody said minority head coaches just didn't have what it took to run an NFL team.

melissamiranda• 15 years ago

Stanford professor Margaret Neale's research shows that diversity, not just women but simply people of different backgrounds, makes a team perform better. (https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles/biodetail.asp?i...). So there is evidence that Y Combinator companies would benefit from having more women on board, and not just because the gender ratios look better to the outside world.

I love that Jessica is leading the Female Founders group on Grub With Us (let's have more please!). What other efforts could be undertaken to solve the problem? How about more Grub with us dinners where Y Combinator founders can meet women with Y Combinator potential?

dreamux2• 15 years ago

Other data points that might be interesting if you could track them down:

1. How long it took companies to exit.

2. Financing raised (also against age of the company, so average individual rounds raised and average time between rounds).

3. Running expenses (perhaps broken down: legal, hardware, people, marketing/ads, etc.)

4. Revenue.

5. Userbase growth.

Asking a lot, but would be great information to have. :)

mcdowall• 15 years ago

With all the contact information available if you really want to know something like this then why not fire off a mail. My perception is that the guys that get funded are usually just decent guys in the most part, sure they wouldn't mind if the information isn't too obtrusive.

dreamux2• 15 years ago

Good call, I'll try this near the end of the month and post the results if I can get a big enough data set.

jfeldstein2• 15 years ago

Been looking for something like this. Any way to browse by niche/tag/business model?

oniTony• 15 years ago

I would be interested in sorting by company's location. A list of YC companies outside of San Francisco would also be acceptable.

snowmaker• 15 years ago

Great resource! Is there a way that YC founders / employees can contact you with updates or corrections?

niccolop• 15 years ago

I agree! This is great - should we email you with any updates?

rajeshrajappan8• 15 years ago

Yes please. Anything to help this site useful or anything I can do to make it better.

JesseAldridge2• 15 years ago

Strange that 5 founders are so much more common than 4 founders. Guess they want that tie-breaking vote?

arnorhs• 15 years ago

I think that's the "unknown" piece you're looking at.

4 founders are much more common than 5.

JesseAldridge2• 15 years ago

Ah, yes. Probably not the best color choice there.

citizenkeys• 15 years ago

Aesthetic on my site isn't as good, but I have extra useful links: http://ycuniverse.com/

techcofounder• 15 years ago

great site. all of the companies have $0.00 listed for their funding, which is incorrect of course. could probably pull some data from crunchbase api. would also be interesting to see which angels/vc's funded them and if there were certain investors that heavied up on YC companies

anateus2• 15 years ago

I'm listed as a founder, and there's a link to my LinkedIn profile, but when I login with that LinkedIn auth, I can't edit details about my company. I should be able to :)

mhartl2• 15 years ago

I have the same problem.

rajeshrajappan8• 15 years ago

When you sign-in with Linked-in and go to your profile page you should see a "Edit" link to update your details. Please let me know if this is not working.

javadi82• 15 years ago

Great Work. Like the design and the intuitive design a lot.

One small grammatical error: On the companies page, you have "Founder this company". Perhaps, you could change it to "Founder"/"Founder of this company".

Example link: http://ycpages.info/companies/143-answerly

emmett• 15 years ago

I would like to be able to edit my profile, as a YC founder.

Also I would like to be able to edit my company's info.

rajeshrajappan8• 15 years ago

Added to my TODO list and moved to top of the list.

inmygarage• 15 years ago

I can't find the contact email on the site - where should we submit suggestions, feedback, etc?

rajeshrajappan8• 15 years ago

Company founders can edit their profile now if they are signed in with Linked-in.

Editing company details coming soon.

rdamico• 15 years ago

I just tried editing our investment details for Crocodoc, and I get a "We are working on this feature and will be available soon" message.

gregorym• 15 years ago

I would like to have a rss feed for your jobs page

bdon• 15 years ago

There's a lot of little icons already, but how about a link to each founder's HN handle?

dstorrs• 15 years ago

This is fantastic. Thanks for spending the time and effort to produce it.

rajeshrajappan8• 15 years ago

Many thanks for the feedback guys. Much appreciated.

I have lots planned for YCPages. The first step was get it out there and get the feedback. I am working on adding the funding details at the moment.

I have also posted a question on Quora. any help on that would be great.

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-technologies-used-by-YComb...

lancewiggs• 15 years ago

Awesome - any chance of removing the pagination or increasing the size of paged when looking at, say, the class lists or people?

bond• 15 years ago

Maybe it would be good to have some filters for active, acquired, etc...

rajeshrajappan8• 15 years ago

This is added now.

frisco• 15 years ago

What is this implemented in?

rajeshrajappan8• 15 years ago

See http://ycpages.info/credits

Let me know if you require further information.

danecjensen• 15 years ago

the design is great. i checked out your credits page and you listed blueprint. you must have used something else as well to help design the website. please explain.

yosho• 15 years ago

Why just track YC? Why not open it up to all the tech incubators or the entire startup scene and have something really useful and a competitor to crunchbase.

ericmsimons• 15 years ago

Wait, I thought there were like 40 companies in the w11 batch?

YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

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