[ { "id": 653, "name": "Backpack", "slug": "backpack", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://backpackbang.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Shopping? Buy overseas. \nTraveling? Earn some extra cash.\nLet backpack help you save that high shipping cost or earn a little extra.\n\nBackpack is a peer-to-peer platform that connects travelers and shoppers to give people access to products across markets in all continents. \nEach backpacker, regardless of their role as a carrier or a shopper, follows a simple four-step process to either earn or save money from their backpacking experience.\nTravelers share their travel information and specify what kind of items they want to carry. Then they wait to get a \"backpack request\" and ask their price. Finally, they confirm the deal, buy the items, deliver them and earn money. Shoppers on the other hand, search items from their favorite websites and fill out the item description. Then they give their location and find a traveler coming to their city. Finally they \"request backpack\" and confirm the deal. Within days they can get the product and save money. \n\nbackpack is founded with a vision to provide every citizen of the world with a choice; the choice of buying organic, authentic, and cost effective products with minimum friction.\nWhether the product is state-of-the-art consumer electronics, exotic pashmina from the south-east, or even medication that are rare in some parts of the world and not so rare in others - we promise ourselves to get those products to your doorsteps. We would like to reject the counterfeits, we would like to reject the almost-originals, most importantly, we would like to not pay the heavy expense incurred, most of which we deem to be superfluous. Help us make a better, more original globalized world.", "one_liner": "Marketplace to get stuff from overseas", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Home and Personal", "launched_at": 1398907592, "tags": [ "Marketplace", "International" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2014", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Home and Personal" ], "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/backpack", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2014/backpack.json" }, { "id": 1529, "name": "ZipX", "slug": "zipx", "former_names": [ "Trusu", "ZipX", "Trusu" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ac1a9b419c6e0296d9979a3dfcc7b192613d95ea.png", "website": "https://zipx.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong", "long_description": "We are a group of expats in Hong Kong that want easy and affordable access to buy the products we love from back home. Snacks, foods, health products, and other daily essentials that we miss are either not found in Hong Kong, or are too expensive to buy. We were faced with bad alternatives such as overpriced grocery stores, or expensive package forwarding companies.\r\n\r\nWe believe that with the help of technology, anyone should be able to buy anything from around the world at an affordable price. We are on a mission to make international commerce seamless.", "one_liner": "We allow anyone in South East Asia to instantly order any product…", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1478741416, "tags": [ "E-Commerce", "International" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2017", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "Hong Kong", "America / Canada", "East Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zipx", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2017/zipx.json" }, { "id": 24037, "name": "Levro", "slug": "levro", "former_names": [ "Novo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3c701b2b04808644316217d356d3d16dfbf3e281.png", "website": "https://www.levro.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Levro is a multicurrency account and global payments platform for businesses. We help US & international companies hold, convert, and pay 30+ currencies. Our exchange at rates are 40-90% lower than banks and FX services like Wise. We also offer free currency risk management, recipient onboarding, automated multicurrency reconciliation, and wire tracking.\r\n\r\nIf you have international customers, employee payroll, vendors, or bulk payouts to different countries please send us a note! founders@levro.com", "one_liner": "Multicurrency account & international payments for businesses", "team_size": 12, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "launched_at": 1626366454, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Payments", "Finance", "B2B", "International" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Banking and Exchange" ], "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": true, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/levro", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2021/levro.json" }, { "id": 29343, "name": "Infinity", "slug": "infinity", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6d4375431e4067cbd0c409f02ba66c5924b3c146.png", "website": "https://www.infinityapp.in/", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Infinity is a banking and payments platform for cross-border businesses in India. We help our customers make cross-border payments that are 70% cheaper than traditional methods and earn income on idle cash by investing in government securities.", "one_liner": "Business banking for cross-border SMBs & Startups", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Payments", "launched_at": 1706317593, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Payments", "B2B", "Investing", "International" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Payments" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infinity", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2024/infinity.json" }, { "id": 29833, "name": "Quetzal", "slug": "quetzal", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e2e0833dd48a420927a12b9525cc6f2b83f83211.png", "website": "https://getquetzal.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Quetzal is the first fully LLM-powered translation and internationalization suite, enabling companies to translate and internationalize their software and content instantly with minimal setup. We also handle all of your internationalization issues, from managing all of your stakeholders to bringing your product and marketing to market. No more waiting days or even weeks for translated content! Deliver a perfect experience to your users in any language, instantly.", "one_liner": "Simple, LLM-first translation and internationalization for software", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1721636551, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "SaaS", "Enterprise Software", "International" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/quetzal", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2024/quetzal.json" }, { "id": 30060, "name": "Lingo.dev", "slug": "lingodotdev", "former_names": [ "Replexica" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a284047c475d06365013890a991877b3bdad21e.png", "website": "https://lingo.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Lingo.dev is a localization engineering platform where teams create localization engines – stateful translation APIs configured with glossaries, brand voice rules, per-locale model preferences, and quality scoring. Each engine persists domain context across every request via retrieval augmented localization (RAL). Integrate via API, CLI, CI/CD, or other integrations. Localization infrastructure behind 200M+ translated words for teams including Mistral, Solana, SoSafe, and Cal.com.", "one_liner": "The Localization Engineering Platform", "team_size": 7, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1728389519, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "B2B", "International", "Infrastructure", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/lingodotdev", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/fall-2024/lingodotdev.json" } ]