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QoE and performance analytics provided by Mux Data is included by default for every Mux video stream.This real-time data is used to create the right renditions for every device and title, resulting in greater reliability and better viewer experiences.\r\n\r\nMux Data is a Quality of Experience analytics platform that measures the performance metrics that actually matter to viewers: rebuffering, startup time, video quality, and errors. Our intuitive dashboard quickly gives users the insight to find issues and make improvements through features like A/B testing, industry-wide scores, alerts, and detailed information about every single video view. The product works out of the box on HTML5, iOS, Android, and major OTT platforms. All data is available via exports and APIs, making it easy to integrate Mux Data into other systems.", "one_liner": "Video infrastructure for developers", "team_size": 95, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1447199414, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Video", "API" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mux", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/mux.json" }, { "id": 973, "name": "Lattice", "slug": "lattice", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a3bbe5d7f8ca797e1e542c827ac00dda238b0b81.png", "website": "https://lattice.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Lattice is people success software that empowers leaders to build engaged and high- performing teams, inspire winning cultures, and make strategic, data-driven business decisions. Our software helps nearly 4,000 companies globally align employees to the most critical objectives, measure and reward performance, and create an effective feedback loop between employees and managers.", "one_liner": "Modern people management platform.", "team_size": 540, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Human Resources", "launched_at": 1447199415, "tags": [ "HR Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Human Resources" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lattice", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/lattice.json" }, { "id": 974, "name": "SOUNDBOKS", "slug": "soundboks", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e4d31b409b1f0367d1d4bc6d8614148b73cc4b59.png", "website": "http://soundboks.com", "all_locations": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "long_description": "SOUNDBOKS is a Copenhagen-based, Y Combinator backed, hardware start-up developing and selling the world's loudest battery powered speaker.\r\n\r\nSOUNDBOKS was founded in 2015 by three young Danes who shared the same love and passion for music, amazing parties and festivals. Today, SOUNDBOKS is Scandinavia's fastest growing hardware start-up delivering speakers to happy customers all over Europe & North America. In March 2016, SOUNDBOKS launched the most succesful Danish Kickstarter Campaign of all time!\r\n\r\nWe are a young, ambitious team ready to take on the challenge of becoming the number 1 brand for outdoor audio and provide world-class service to our customers.\r\n\r\nJOIN THE PARTY, JOIN SOUNDBOKS.", "one_liner": "We're creating the loudest battery-driven speaker on the market", "team_size": 50, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Consumer Electronics", "launched_at": 1447199415, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Consumer Electronics" ], "regions": [ "Denmark", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/soundboks", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/soundboks.json" }, { "id": 976, "name": "Compgun", "slug": "compgun", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://compgun.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Compgun is founded on the simple premise that sales commissions are simultaneously the sales organization's single biggest strategic lever and its largest expense.\n\nAt previous companies, Tim and Jake were amazed by the effectiveness of sales commissions in rallying teams around new strategic priorities and business objectives. At the same time, they were shocked by how primitively commission expenses are often managed. Most businesses administer commissions with Excel and email, making it nearly impossible for sales reps or their managers to track how they are pacing throughout the month, let alone which transactions were included in a previous period’s paycheck. Compgun’s mission is to stand the status quo on it’s head by providing real-time performance tracking and insight to every member of the sales org.", "one_liner": "Sales commission software that grows revenue.", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Human Resources", "launched_at": 1447199415, "tags": [ "Sales" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Human Resources" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/compgun", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/compgun.json" }, { "id": 977, "name": "Deepgram", "slug": "deepgram", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e8d9b89a7e8039b79a0d0a37b71313e724036e55.png", "website": "https://www.deepgram.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Deepgram is a foundational AI company on a mission to understand human language. We give any developer access to the most advanced speech AI transcription and understanding with just an API call.\r\n\r\nOur models deliver the fastest, most accurate transcription alongside contextual features like summarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection. Beyond that, developers can:\r\n🔊 Process live-streaming or pre-recorded audio\r\n🌎 Transcribe in dozens of languages\r\n⚙️ Train custom models for unique use cases\r\n🔑 Access deep NLU with a unified API\r\n💻 Build in any programming language with our SDKs\r\n✅ Deploy on-prem or on DG’s managed cloud\r\n📈 Get scalable GPU infra for training and inference\r\n\r\nDeepgram is a proud NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company, and we recently completed a $72M Series B to define the future of AI Speech Understanding, making us the most-funded speech AI company at its stage.", "one_liner": "Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding.", "team_size": 115, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1447199415, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "API", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": true, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deepgram", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/deepgram.json" }, { "id": 978, "name": "Stealth Worker", "slug": "stealth-worker", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f3a6dd3a9eb972ed76c351911a07f4bc57b6bba3.png", "website": "https://www.stealthworker.com", "all_locations": "Menlo Park, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "We have hundreds of fully qualified and experienced contractors in Information Security, Cloud Security, Privacy and Compliance available at competitive hourly rates.", "one_liner": "Information Security (Cyber Security), Compliance and Privacy (GDPR &…", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", "launched_at": 1447199416, "tags": [ "Compliance", "Privacy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Recruiting and Talent" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stealth-worker", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/stealth-worker.json" }, { "id": 979, "name": "Stilt", "slug": "stilt", "former_names": [ "STILT", "Stilt", "Stilt (dba Onbo)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9e3bb4303a0c1de02bc9e18aae4dd1307b9df84a.png", "website": "http://www.stilt.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Stilt/Onbo enables you to launch credit products without a bank sponsor.\r\n\r\nWe have built APIs to abstract complexity around licenses, regulatory compliance, underwriting, loan management system, credit reporting, and debt capital.\r\n\r\nWe are backed by fintech investors including Y Combinator, Link Ventures, Hillsven Capital, Petrushka investments (early backer of Lending Club, Zillow, Check, Pets.com), and CEOs of billion-dollar fintech companies.", "one_liner": "Financial products for immigrants (acquired by JG Wentworth)", "team_size": 35, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Credit and Lending", "launched_at": 1447199416, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "B2B", "Lending" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Credit and Lending" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stilt", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/stilt.json" }, { "id": 980, "name": "Magic Instruments", "slug": "magic-instruments", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "Musical instruments that enable anyone to play instantly, and make it easier and more inspiring to learn.\r\n\r\nMagic Instruments (YC W2016 and Highway1 F2015) is the maker of the MI Guitar. \r\nWe design the tools that allow anyone to express themselves by making music. Our mission is to create a world that inspires human connection through music playing. We give people all the joy of playing music. We’re developing a new class of music instruments and the ecosystem around them, starting with our first product, a new type of guitar that anyone can play using an intuitive UI on the fretboard and a mobile app to play your favorite songs, instantly. We also make it technically easier and more inspiring to learn traditional guitar technique.\r\n\r\nCan't play a guitar? We guarantee you can play this one.\r\n\r\nThe MI Guitar is a new type of guitar that you can pick up and play, instantly. By reinventing the fretboard of a traditional guitar, it simplifies playing so anyone can play their favorite songs at first sight, or create their own original music. You can also play this like the traditional guitar and it gives you a fun and easy way to learn the guitar.\r\n\r\nPre-order now at https://magicinstruments.com\r\n\r\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/magicinstruments/\r\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/magicinstrument\r\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/magicinstruments", "one_liner": "Magic Instruments makes a high-tech guitar that is easier and more…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Consumer Electronics", "launched_at": 1447199416, "tags": [ "Music" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Consumer Electronics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/magic-instruments", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/magic-instruments.json" }, { "id": 982, "name": "Embark Trucks", "slug": "embark-trucks", "former_names": [ "Varden Labs", "Embark Trucks" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7f54038f84e639bce5c45d1756018b94f17f6125.png", "website": "http://embarktrucks.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Embark Technology develops self-driving truck software. \r\n\r\nEmbark was the first self-driving truck company to achieve an autonomous coast-to-coast drive, the first to reach 100,000 miles driven on public roads, and the first to open a network of transfer points.\r\n\r\nEmbark went public on NASDAQ in 2021 and was acquired by Applied Intuition in 2023.", "one_liner": "Self-driving semi trucks.", "team_size": 300, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Automotive", "launched_at": 1447199416, "tags": [ "Autonomous Trucking" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Public", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Automotive" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": true, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/embark-trucks", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/embark-trucks.json" }, { "id": 983, "name": "VINEBOX (Usual Beverage Co.)", "slug": "vinebox", "former_names": [ "VINEBOX" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fb5095e9e30868b58246a57d70171157e6505a4b.png", "website": "http://www.getvinebox.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "VINEBOX is a premium wine-by-the-glass subscription service. Each month, our subscribers receive 3 single-serving portions of wine to taste, share, and enjoy. Only order more of the wine you know you love!\r\n\r\nThis is not your standard vino. \r\nEach VINEBOX contains 3 tubes of exceptional wine curated by our team of specialists from around the world.\r\n\r\nWe simplify wine. \r\nWith our easy to follow tasting notes, you'll never be stumped by a wine list. Learn your favorite varietals and regions through tasting experience. We include only the info you want, nothing you don’t.\r\n\r\nNever forget a wine again. \r\nWith access to your VINEBOX history, you see every wine you’ve ever tasted, with notes, ratings, & reviews!\r\n\r\nSomething for everyone. \r\nWhether you’re a wine connoisseur or novice, VINEBOX will introduce you to new wines, new vineyards, and a new way to enjoy wine. VINEBOX also makes the perfect gift for birthdays, corporate gifting, celebrations, dinner parties, and random Tuesdays.", "one_liner": "Wine by the glass, delivered", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1447199416, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vinebox", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/vinebox.json" }, { "id": 984, "name": "Yardbook", "slug": "yardbook", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e0abb3ad3f79aedaf3fc3be14e0dfb8e86dd36cf.png", "website": "https://www.yardbook.com", "all_locations": "San Mateo, CA, USA", "long_description": "At Yardbook we know how proud you are to own and operate your own landscaping business. We also know how challenging it can be to make sure everything is running smoothly. With this in mind we are pleased to offer our free software for running landscaping businesses!\r\n\r\nYardbook is designed to provide an end-to-end solution in helping businesses with a multitude of roles such as creating schedules, estimates, completing invoices, payments, timesheets and so much more.\r\n\r\nSince we launched a little over a year ago, over 7,000 businesses in the US are now powered by Yardbook. During that time we have processed millions of dollars in invoices and helped owners, like you, organize their many administrative responsibilities.\r\n\r\nIf you’re still using paper and pencil, or juggling between many different systems or spreadsheets in order to stay organized, give Yardbook a try today!", "one_liner": "Marketplace & Software Revolutionizing Yard Care", "team_size": null, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1447199416, "tags": [ "Marketplace" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yardbook", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/yardbook.json" }, { "id": 985, "name": "Chatfuel", "slug": "chatfuel", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5fd8bcf8d9a9b759b820215a29ca5d614328aac4.png", "website": "http://chatfuel.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We are the largest platform for building bots on Facebook Messenger. 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Some of our largest customers include Adidas, T-Mobile, TechCrunch, LEGO, Golden State Warriors, and many others.", "one_liner": "Platform to easily create chatbots to engage with audiences on…", "team_size": 53, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1447278614, "tags": [ "Messaging", "Chatbots" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chatfuel", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/chatfuel.json" }, { "id": 986, "name": "AlphaFlow", "slug": "alphaflow", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9696737d779bc1482d4e992936d055d788610f1a.png", "website": "http://www.alphaflow.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Access. Transparency. Technology. Founded in 2015, AlphaFlow is a technology-driven investment manager providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans. We make the $75 billion fix-and-flip industry accessible to institutional investors. With the recent launch of our new platform, TITAN, we’ve opened up our institutional platform to smaller investors.\r\n\r\nAs a result of leading with technology and data analytics AlphaFlow is able to provide transparency & speed at a rate our competitors can’t. We partner with non-bank real estate lenders who provide 6-12 month bridge loans on single-family and small multifamily properties by purchasing their loans thereby helping them grow their businesses.\r\n\r\nAlphaFlow uses software to streamline and automate today’s manual workflow and our engineering team is constantly developing simple and elegant solutions to further automate a manually intensive industry.\r\n", "one_liner": "AlphaFlow is a technology-driven investment manager.", "team_size": 26, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Asset Management", "launched_at": 1447278615, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Real Estate" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Asset Management" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/alphaflow", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/alphaflow.json" }, { "id": 987, "name": "GetAccept", "slug": "getaccept", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ab0099ae34e6606159dad752edf7880c52ae235b.png", "website": "https://www.getaccept.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Close more deals by sending sales content with personalized video reminders, live chat and e-signature. We’re the Digital Sales Room platform for the best remote selling experience.\r\n\r\nToday we are the fourth fastest growing SaaS company in the world and our platform is used in over 50 countries. From four founders, to over 200 employees worldwide in five years, and we still love every second of being a part of the journey. We have high hopes on what’s to come and could not be more excited for the future!", "one_liner": "Close deals faster. 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Our patented compact ultrasound scanner captures 3D images through automatic scanning of whole breast volume in 1 min. The device connects to a smartphone/tablet/laptop and is controlled by our mobile app. The data is transferred to a secure cloud for image processing and storage. Our machine learning algorithm uses acoustic biomarkers to identify abnormal masses. 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Granular access to add, remove or lock down capabilities makes it possible for highly customized products to be built as envisioned.\r\n\r\nMason offloads hardware investment risks and logistics, including inventory procurement, warehousing and supply chain management. With options like zero-touch provisioning, devices can work perfectly out of the box without end user intervention. Remote fleet management, troubleshooting and automated software updates by Mason ensure security and positive end user experiences. Organizations of all sizes rely on Mason to bring innovations and hundreds of use cases to market without reinventing the wheel. 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Focal Systems is the industry leader in retail automation solutions. By digitizing store shelves hourly and unleashing FocalOS, retailers unlock huge operational efficiencies, optimized merchandising, and streamlined supply chains which deliver impactful financial results. Focal is transforming retail by empowering store management to make automated, data-driven decisions. 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So instead, retailers resort to wasting billions of dollars on ineffective marketing like Facebook ads to try and compete, while ignoring their most effective marketing channel, post-purchase communications. flexReceipts provides retailers with Amazon-like software for their trillions of post-purchase communications, by turning static messages into a personalized marketing medium. We have a powerful data network effect; creating the world’s largest database of consumers’ shopping behavior currently at 300 million transactions and 47m unique consumer profiles. \r\n\r\nOther important information: \r\n- Our consumer database will replace the need for Nielsen, IRI, and Traqline - A $130b industry. \r\n- We're at $2.4m ARR,\r\n- Deployed in 11k stores nationwide by amazing brands like Under Armor, Michael Kors, Oakley, and GNC. \r\n- Contracts range from $25 - $500k yearly, recurring - with the majority being 3-year contracts. \r\n- Avg retailers you have never heard about, like Shoe Carnival and DXL, each represent $100k yearly recurring contracts for us. \r\n- We've run an efficient company while we found PMF. $2m still in the bank, $85k monthly burn. \r\n\r\n", "one_liner": "Dynamic transactional communications for physical stores to help…", "team_size": 25, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1450418716, "tags": [ "Analytics", "Retail" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flexengage", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/flexengage.json" }, { "id": 1089, "name": "Hingeto", "slug": "hingeto", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e59c2327810cab253f71704ec7dd18ea96bfc242.png", "website": "https://www.hingeto.com", "all_locations": "Oakland, CA, USA", "long_description": "Hingeto is a technology platform that enables fashion brands & influencers to sell past and future masterpieces with zero inventory risk.\r\n\r\nWe are backed by Y Combinator (W16), Kapor Capital, Cross Culture Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Stanford University / StartX & several angels (including Andrew Iguodala)", "one_liner": "A B2B marketplace that connects inventory to online stores", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics", "launched_at": 1450418716, "tags": [ "Marketplace", "B2B", "E-commerce" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Apparel and Cosmetics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hingeto", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/hingeto.json" }, { "id": 1091, "name": "GitPrime", "slug": "gitprime", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b2d3dd198bca90e8788c0aefde72b644504fe75e.png", "website": "https://www.gitprime.com", "all_locations": "Durango, CO, USA", "long_description": "Acquired by Pluralsight in May 2019", "one_liner": "Visibility and analytics for software development leaders.", "team_size": 110, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1450505115, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": true, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitprime", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/gitprime.json" }, { "id": 1093, "name": "Astranis", "slug": "astranis", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4a112fc4219f2a5bab3ad0bf6a5c0be6feceee94.png", "website": "http://www.astranis.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe— large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military.\r\n\r\nWith five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization.\r\n\r\nAstranis has raised over $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock, and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. 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Our mission is to provide Black engineers with the connections and skills needed to start and stay in the industry, and advance into leadership roles. We’re a community for software engineers, by software engineers. 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We screened gene-edited patient avatars for repurposable drugs in order to build a predictive R&D engine called ArkBase. 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We still operate in a world built by men, for men. It’s why in 2014, Dr. Sara Naseri and Søren Therkelsen started Qvin to research, develop, and patent a product that powers an underserved and understudied population—women.\r\n\r\nOver 70% of the decisions our doctors make are influenced by blood test results. Every month, 1.8 billion people across the world menstruate. However, the blood our bodies naturally deliver every month has never been explored as a testing source. And yet, menstrual blood has been left unexplored.\r\n\r\nQvin is the first and only healthcare service to use period blood as a non-invasive blood test. We exist to give women an easy, insightful way to monitor existing health issues, proactively screen for others, and go into doctor visits more informed and confident of their own health.\r\n\r\nOur health technology platform helps women manage their health better through a non-invasive blood collection device named the Q-Pad™.\r\n\r\nAll of us at Qvin want to move the study of women forward. We want to close the gender data gap. And we stand for every person who identifies with women, however they define it.", "one_liner": "Empowering women. 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We are a marketplace that connects users who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and more with contractors who fulfil them. Think of Rappi as a Doordarsh meets Delivery meets Instacart. We are venture backed by top VCs in the world including Sequoia, DST, Andreessen Horrowitz and YCombinator. Management consultant skills are highly valued and one of the founders and three of the company's top leaders are former top tier management consultants. We are across Argentina, Brasil, Mexico, Colombia and are aggressively growing in these markets and all throughout LatAm.", "one_liner": "On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America.", "team_size": 4800, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1453256409, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Delivery", "Latin America" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": true, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "Colombia", "Latin America", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rappi", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/rappi.json" }, { "id": 1214, "name": "AmberBox Gunshot Detection", "slug": "amberbox-gunshot-detection", "former_names": [ "Sinclair Fire", "AmberBox" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4520c6bfa42649fe08afe6ca716089765076d7c3.png", "website": "https://amberbox.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "AmberBox is the most advanced indoor gunshot detection and response system used in the US today. AmberBox automates emergency processes to significantly reduce response time and remove human error.\r\n\r\nAmberBox detectors utilise a patented gunshot detection algorithm to respond immediately following a firearm discharge. With tri-factor authentication (percussion, audio and infrared), detectors are able to instantly determine a firearm signature with a near-zero false alarm rate. Upon activation, detectors alert first responders through our reporting network, and can integrate with other security systems, such as cameras, access control systems and mass notification to initiate.", "one_liner": "Detect Gunshots | Inform Law Enforcement | Empower First Responders", "team_size": null, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Security", "launched_at": 1588692019, "tags": [ "Security" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Security" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/amberbox-gunshot-detection", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/amberbox-gunshot-detection.json" } ]