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With Everyme, you can share like you do in real life, in intimate Circles.\r\n\r\nA Circle is a private news feed between you and a group of people. It’s private and secure, so you no longer need to worry about who sees what. And because a Circle is created from your address book, you don’t need to convince everyone to sign up for yet another service in order to receive your stories, it just works.", "one_liner": "The #1 private social network", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326789410, "tags": [ "Social Network" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2011", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/everyme", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2011/everyme.json" }, { "id": 114, "name": "Vapor", "slug": "vapor", "former_names": [ "Askolo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://askolo.com", "all_locations": "Brooklyn, NY, USA", "long_description": "Creating modular server side software with Swift.", "one_liner": "In-video advertising.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326789494, "tags": [ "Video", "Advertising" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2011", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/vapor", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2011/vapor.json" }, { "id": 118, "name": "GlassMap", "slug": "glassmap", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://ansibletechnologies.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Glassmap was acquired by Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) in January 2013.\n\nGlassmap is a simple, beautiful way to show your friends where you are and what you are up to! Use it to coordinate meetings and hangouts, keep up with loved ones, and serendipitously discover who and what is around you. Available for iOS and Android phones.\n\nOur mission is to make a clearer world and help people find life via Glassmap!\n\nGlassmap is backed by YCombinator and other top investors.", "one_liner": "Location sharing. 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Its users have the ability to join an existing group or create groups of their own.\n\nConvore allows its users to post topics and have conversations with friends about those topics. The platform also provides its users with both public and private groups.\n\nConvore was launched in 2011 by Eric Florenzano, Leah Culver, and Eric Maguire. 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Headquartered in Seattle, WA, Habit Labs is building a behavior change platform called Budge.", "one_liner": "Friends motivate one another: I'll do x if you do y.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326790128, "tags": [ "Health & Wellness" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2010", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/habit-labs", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2010/habit-labs.json" }, { "id": 204, "name": "MessageParty", "slug": "messageparty", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://messageparty.com", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": null, "one_liner": "Local chat.", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326790269, "tags": [ "Messaging", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2010", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/messageparty", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2010/messageparty.json" }, { "id": 205, "name": "Fanvibe", "slug": "fanvibe", "former_names": [ "FanVibe", "Priime" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://fanvibe.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Check-in to games to chat and trash-talk with friends who are also watching. Get scores and breaking news sent straight to your iPhone. Fanvibe covers the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, college basketball, college football, and the English Premier League.\n\nFanvibe Features Include:\n\n-Your Sports Pulse: A custom feed with news, scores and your friends’ activity.\n\n-Game Check-Ins: Tell your friends what you’re watching and see what games your friends are watching. Never ask, “Did you see that game?” again!\n\n-Personalized Scoreboard: Real-time scores, live game details, alerts and score updates.\n\n-Favorites: Get news and scores for your favorite teams sent straight to your iPhone or iPod touch.\n\n-Friend Finder: Find your friends easily by searching Facebook, Twitter and your address book.\n\nComing soon: March Madness brackets and World Cup coverage, Cricket, Golf and Tennis.\n\nAbout Fanvibe\n\nFanvibe for the iPhone / iPod Touch is the first product from We The Fan, a company dedicated to building new sports products built by and for the sports fan.", "one_liner": "", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326790276, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2010", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/fanvibe", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2010/fanvibe.json" }, { "id": 206, "name": "Fridge", "slug": "fridge", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://frid.ge", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "The Fridge is a platform for lightweight single serving social networks for the functionality of Facebook without being on Facebook.\r\n\r\nThe Fridge makes private conversation, media, and event sharing dead simple. The Fridge is like Tumblr for social networks. Anyone can easily create shared spaces, invite their friends and socialize/share photos, videos, music, and more.\r\n\r\nThe Fridge reinvents how groups interact online allowing users to cut through the clutter of their social graph and create lightweight targeted spaces for personal and private relationships, special interest groups or clubs, or any temporary network around events, gatherings or nights out on the town...", "one_liner": "Disposable social networks.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326790291, "tags": [ "Social Network" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2010", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/fridge", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2010/fridge.json" }, { "id": 208, "name": "Whereoscope", "slug": "whereoscope", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://whereoscope.com", "all_locations": "Mountain View, CA, USA", "long_description": "Whereoscope is a service designed to help parents keep know where their kids are.\n\nWhereoscope uses smartphones and an intelligent sampling algorithm to provide the best possible accuracy without draining the battery.\n\nWhereoscope enables location-based geo-fencing so that parents can know when their kids arrive at school, leave soccer practice, or are just about to get home.", "one_liner": "Location-aware smartphone application that enables parents to keep…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326790302, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2010", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/whereoscope", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2010/whereoscope.json" }, { "id": 210, "name": "Pribbit", "slug": "pribbit", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://pribbit.com", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": null, "one_liner": "Like Twitter but you post others' status.", "team_size": 0, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326790320, "tags": [ "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2010", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/pribbit", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2010/pribbit.json" }, { "id": 216, "name": "Bitplay", "slug": "bitplay", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://meetings.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "With Meetings.io you can meet face to face with anyone from around the world within your web browser. Meet with a client, a customer, your project team or your co-workers in person without ever leaving your desk by simply creating a tiny meeting room link and sharing the link with anyone you want to meet with.\n\nYou can re-use your meeting room as many times as you want and you can have people drop in and out of the your room anytime. Because there's no sign ups or user registration needed to drop into a meeting room you can use Meetings.io as an online hangout for real time in person hangouts or as a telepresence system to attend meetings remotely.", "one_liner": "Effortless Video Meetings\r\n- Acquired by Jive Software in 2013", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326790385, "tags": [ "Video" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2010", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/bitplay", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2010/bitplay.json" }, { "id": 242, "name": "DailyBooth", "slug": "dailybooth", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fb35b97ef3e79737cb8796b24e07c68e4df168bf.png", "website": "http://dailybooth.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "DailyBooth lets users follow their friends and update them in real-time through the use of pictures and status updates.", "one_liner": "", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1326790598, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2009", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/dailybooth", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2009/dailybooth.json" }, { "id": 243, "name": "Bump", "slug": "bump", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c7672c258ac0c9f075574a8f3f4556c14bc4bf4a.png", "website": "http://bumptechnologies.com", "all_locations": "Mountain View, CA, USA", "long_description": "Bump was acquired by Google in 2013. The Bump and Flock apps were shut down, but our unreleased Photoroll app went on to become the basis for Google Photos, which we led from inception to more than 1B users.\r\n\r\nBump let you exchange contact info and photos by bumping phones together. Bump was one of the all-time top mobile apps, amassing more than 150M installs by 2013. Flock was a semi-automated photo sharing app that figured out which photos you took with which friends and created private shared albums.\r\n\r\nBump was co-founded in 2009 and received funding from Y Combinator, Sequoia, and Andreessen-Horowitz. 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From it, you can visit online shopping sites like Zappos with the additional of a social toolbar on the right hand side of the page. 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We connect the world's bilingual speakers with the 23 million refugees struggling to communicate with doctors, lawyers, and NGOs using chat, phone, and video calling. 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Unfortunately, it has become difficult to foster such an environment in our ever-fragmented offline lives, despite our ever-connected online networks. We're working to change that.\r\n\r\nAllo aims to strengthen local networks of friends, families, and neighbors by giving them a better way to respond to each other’s needs. With Allo, asking for a favor is no longer awkward and connecting with the right group to find the social and practical support you need is simpler. \r\n\r\nBy making it easier for friends, families, and neighbors to connect, communicate, and coordinate online to help each other offline, we layer in a much-needed element of real-life, real-world interaction and community - something that everyone yearns for and families actually need to get by.", "one_liner": "Allo is an app that helps neighboring families meet and help each…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1540953274, "tags": [ "Community" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2019", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/allo", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2019/allo.json" }, { "id": 12078, "name": "Cocoon", "slug": "cocoon", "former_names": [ "Glasswing" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b57554bc3a4ef0255e5f3e73fb9819a5158c908.png", "website": "http://cocoon.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Cocoon actively brings your most important groups closer together. 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Our mission is to create opportunity and connection for everyone, no matter where they are. We do this by building the Metaverse, a virtual layer over the physical world where people can work, socialize, and learn. \r\n\r\nSince we launched in May of 2020, Gather has brought millions of people together. We have raised a total of $77 million in Series A and B from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, and more. We’re a small, friendly team based out of a state-of-the-art virtual office, where you can work whenever and wherever suits you. 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Every routine log, product review, and progress update helps create a unique longitudinal dataset across skin concerns, routines, and outcomes - powering better decisions for users and better innovation for the wider industry.\r\n\r\nWe were the 2022 L’Oréal Beauty Tech for Good winners, have been recognised by Beiersdorf, and have been featured multiple times by Apple, including App of the Day and Best New Apps.", "one_liner": "The unbiased AI and data layer for skin health.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1624200731, "tags": [ "Marketplace", "Consumer", "Digital Health", "Data Engineering" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": true, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clear", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2021/clear.json" }, { "id": 24556, "name": "Revery AI", "slug": "revery-ai", "former_names": [ "Revery AI Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c68ee72bd5c4a9c174f54d28949fe5d5b2e74f2.png", "website": "https://revery.ai", "all_locations": "Emeryville, CA, USA", "long_description": "We are building the TikTok for fashion — a platform for creators to showcase their works, gain traction and build their brands. \r\n\r\n### Reverie is powered by two pieces of core technology:\r\n- An AI-enhanced design tool for creators to turn their design ideas into e-commerce quality product images very efficiently.\r\n- An AI-powered Virtual Dressing Room to create professional fashion photography directly from product images. Both fashion creators and other users can easily style outfits on different models.\r\n\r\nWith our core tech, we are building an active community of fashion creators (designers, stylists, influencers, bloggers, artists, casting directors, etc..) who produce original designs and engaging content around the published pieces. The social media platform will provide a streamlined path for fashion creators to experiment with their ideas and build traction. \r\n\r\nWe want to eventually become the default choice for anyone who wants to launch their fashion label, and have the future Off-White, Balenciaga, Rick Oven, etc. originate from Reverie. Our team combines deep expertise in technology (AI Phds) and the fashion industry (Community builder). Our Virtual Dressing room is live with top retailers (such as Neiman Marcus) and has ~1M ARR. We are backed by YCombinator, TSVC, Cabra VC, and other amazing angels with retail experience and connections. 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The sellers on the platform are able to source products through Tendo and resell items using social commerce tools, such as WhatsApp, arrange delivery, and get paid, all through the Tendo mobile app.\r\n\r\nAt the moment, people who want to sell online need to save money, visit hundreds of suppliers to find a trusted one, and risk losing their capital by stocking up inventory. Beyond this, they need to incur costs for logistics and warehousing. We eliminate all that.\r\n", "one_liner": "Enabling Africans to sell online with zero capital", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1642657370, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Marketplace", "Logistics", "Social", "E-commerce" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "regions": [ "Ghana", "Africa" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tendo", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2022/tendo.json" }, { "id": 25954, "name": "Status", "slug": "status", "former_names": [ "WishRoll" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/66b261d06ec27d85efae10b1912e47d9eb0ee4c6.png", "website": "https://www.statusai.com/", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Status allows users to live in immersive fantasy worlds through the familiar lens of social media. Over 3 million users worldwide. \r\n", "one_liner": "Sims but Social Media", "team_size": 9, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1648151808, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Gaming", "Social", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/status", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2022/status.json" }, { "id": 29378, "name": "Whip", "slug": "whip", "former_names": [ "10K", "TensorFuse", "Tensorfuse" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/67c055fb6b37674bee00462ed6a2c2e6292f35b1.png", "website": "https://whip.run/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Whip is a mobile app where you can create and discover interactive mini apps and games, we call them \"whips\". \r\n\r\nScroll a social feed of playable posts like trivia games, quizzes, polls, party games, and more. Build your own whip in the app and publish it on the feed in minutes. Discover, remix, like, and comment on whips built by others on the platform.\r\n\r\nwhip is built by the team behind tensorfuse", "one_liner": "A social feed for interactive AI Creations", "team_size": 6, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1708013970, "tags": [ "Social", "Social Network", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/whip", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2024/whip.json" }, { "id": 29430, "name": "BiteSight", "slug": "bitesight", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/271fe2b65b962c0591e8700c14d977ce6c108e5c.png", "website": "http://bitesight.com", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "BiteSight shows users videos of food we think they will love from nearby restaurants and delivers it right to their door. \r\n\r\nZac and Lucious studied together at UT Austin. Zac did CS and AI Research, and Lucious built his first $1M ARR product while moonlighting at a YC startup at age 19..\r\n\r\nUberEats and DoorDash have become cluttered and impersonal super apps. They've created a $30B opportunity for a delivery app that puts the customer experience first by combining high-quality videos, recommendations, and social proof from your most trusted food critics - your friends.", "one_liner": "The video-first food delivery app. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1708458900, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/bitesight", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2024/bitesight.json" }, { "id": 30065, "name": "Charm", "slug": "withcharm", "former_names": [ "BeerMe" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bdd48a02de2e277524168808bf7edcd14c995ed9.png", "website": "https://withcharm.app", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Charm makes sending money as easy as sending email. Most people juggle multiple payment apps and scattered balances. Charm lets you pay anyone — no matter what app they use — and earns you 5% interest on your balance, automatically.", "one_liner": "Charm is the universal payments app — send money to anyone.", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1729059342, "tags": [ "Crypto / Web3", "Payments", "Consumer", "Messaging", "Social Media" ], "tags_highlighted": [ "Crypto / Web3" ], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/withcharm", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/fall-2024/withcharm.json" }, { "id": 30805, "name": "RealRoots", "slug": "realroots", "former_names": [ "RealRoots Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e4b72e88bef4437e7d672c23bb7e1f952c837fca.png", "website": "http://www.realroots.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Real friendships, made in real life. Answer a few questions, and we'll match you into IRL hangs with women you'll actually click with. Made for women, by women.", "one_liner": "IRL friendship app for women", "team_size": 7, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1750729944, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/realroots", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2025/realroots.json" }, { "id": 30816, "name": "Digipals", "slug": "digipals", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a100705513555f60b674edacd7874b01e7bef2df.png", "website": "https://www.digipals.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Social networks are dead. Social media became more media than social. My friends aren't on social media anymore - it's one third ads, one third content from strangers, and one third AI slop. Our social lives are fragmented across dozens of different apps - iMessage, WhatsApp, Find My, Partiful, and Venmo. \r\n\r\nDigipals is the first AI-native social operating system that improves our relationships with friends. We built ambient AI agents that use social context from our location, calendar, and photos to take action and write code in our group chats. We are the last social platform anyone will ever need.\r\n\r\nLaunch Video\r\nhttps://youtu.be/KW2tjLl6sxM ", "one_liner": "The future of Social in the age of AI", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1762213106, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Social Media", "Social", "Social Network", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/digipals", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/fall-2025/digipals.json" } ]