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The app now has over two million downloads on iOS and Android and has helped couples send over a billion messages to each other.", "one_liner": "App that connects two phones and creates a private\r\ntimeline to share…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1322045650, "tags": [ "Messaging", "Dating", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2012", "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/couple", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2012/couple.json" }, { "id": 25, "name": "FamilyLeaf", "slug": "familyleaf", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://familyleaf.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "FamilyLeaf is a private place to share your life with your family.\r\n\r\nYou create a private page where your family can easily share photos, share life updates, store contact information, and post messages.\r\n\r\nOur mission is to bring families around the world closer together. Family is the most irreplaceable but overlooked social network; we want to help you share the little things that build a lifetime of love!", "one_liner": "Help families stay in touch", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1322045728, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Messaging", "Social", "Social Network" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2012", "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/familyleaf", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2012/familyleaf.json" }, { "id": 39, "name": "Grouper", "slug": "grouper", "former_names": [ "Grouper", "Zonks", "Dog Food" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://joingrouper.com", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Grouper is a social club that sets up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls (or 3 guys and 3 guys, etc.).\n\nGrouper started in New York in the summer of 2011 and now organizes Groupers in major cities across the US. Members have shared tens of thousands of drinks.\n\nThe company was founded by Michael Waxman, a Yale grad and developer who formerly started language-learning company Batiq, and Tom Brown, an MIT engineer who was an early employee at MoPub (acquired by Twitter for 350MM). The founding team also includes Challen Hodson and Kristen Badal.\n\nGrouper was funded by Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 batch.", "one_liner": "We set up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls.", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Food and Beverage", "launched_at": 1322045847, "tags": [ "Dating", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2012", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Food and Beverage" ], "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/grouper", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2012/grouper.json" }, { "id": 56, "name": "Ark", "slug": "ark", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://ark.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Ark.com is a search engine for people. With Ark, you can search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and even your friends. With over a billion social network profiles indexed, and using a modern architecture, Ark provided the most comprehensive people search engine in the world.\n\nPrior to founding Ark, our team has experience at Google, AOL, Symantec, Lithium, Yahoo! Research and Y-Combinator.", "one_liner": "Ark organizes the world's social information. 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Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family.", "one_liner": "The easiest way to share videos with friends and family. 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Acquired by Unified in January 2013. \r\n", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Analytics", "launched_at": 1326789307, "tags": [ "Analytics", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2011", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Analytics" ], "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/pagelever", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2011/pagelever.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": 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": 253, "name": "Fanchatter", "slug": "fanchatter", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://fanchatter.com", "all_locations": "Minneapolis, MN, USA", "long_description": "FanChatter fuels your fans so they can promote you better than any ad ever could.\n\nOur customers are big guys (NBC Universal, Clear Channel, Gannett) and little guys (bloggers all over the world) who pay us to source and showcase the most abundant yet least leveraged marketing material on the planet...\n\nPure, voluntary social chatter about your interest. FanChatter offers you the tools to find it, refine it, and make it multiply.\n\nAnd that is the future of advertising.", "one_liner": "FanChatter aggregates, amplifies and empowers fan content on every…", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1326790698, "tags": [ "Social", "Recommendation System" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2009", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/fanchatter", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2009/fanchatter.json" }, { "id": 290, "name": "Picwing", "slug": "picwing", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9e865cf64815fa8e2f38e1969ab67848346e981d.png", "website": "http://picwing.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Picwing is a photo sharing platform that enables users to share their photos through a variety of sources.\r\n\r\nPicwing offers a convenient printing service where their users can send photos through email using a camera or computer. These photos are printed and mailed to one or more recipients every 2 weeks.\r\n\r\nPicwing also provides digital photo frames built upon a Linux kernel. Users can send an image from their desktop or phone, and within 20-30 seconds see it on a digital frame. The frames are mini Linux machines that the founders hope will eventually be able to support much more than image sharing.", "one_liner": "Photo Sharing platform for families", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1263719013, "tags": [ "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2008", "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/picwing", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2008/picwing.json" }, { "id": 302, "name": "Slinkset", "slug": "slinkset", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://slinkset.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Slinkset is a white label social news platform that allows anyone to start a social news site and integrate it into their own website.", "one_liner": "Votable lists", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326791147, "tags": [ "Media", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2008", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "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/slinkset", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2008/slinkset.json" }, { "id": 315, "name": "Mixwit", "slug": "mixwit", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://cloud.tv", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Mixwit describes itself as a combination of Slide and iTunes. While it has more ambitious plans, it currently provides an easy way to make sharable mix tapes with songs found through MP3 search engines Seeqpod and Skreamr.", "one_liner": "Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). Launched as part…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1326791254, "tags": [ "Social", "Music" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2008", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "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/mixwit", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2008/mixwit.json" }, { "id": 316, "name": "Tipjoy", "slug": "tipjoy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fd401f9e4467d016fa8fbbd5917f2e2d0039c429.png", "website": "http://tipjoy.com", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Tipjoy was a simple, social payments engine that allowed merchants to sell digital content and features, charities to raise money for causes, and individuals to give money to one another.\r\n\r\nTipjoy was a Winter '08 Y Combinator participant.", "one_liner": "social micropayments", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Payments", "launched_at": 1326791261, "tags": [ "Payments", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2008", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Payments" ], "regions": [ "Unspecified" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tipjoy", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2008/tipjoy.json" }, { "id": 357, "name": "OMGPop", "slug": "omgpop", "former_names": [ "Omgpop" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/559672d261ba77a0c9e1d4b44d65ac758988d804.png", "website": "https://omgpop.com", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "OMGPOP is a leading developer of social games for facebook, iphone and the open web. With games on multiple social networks as well as its own destination site, the company is recognized as a leader in creating real-time game experiences. Based in New York City, OMGPOP is funded by Spark Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.", "one_liner": "An independent flash game studio.", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Gaming", "launched_at": 1326791592, "tags": [ "Gaming", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": true, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2006", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Gaming" ], "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/omgpop", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2006/omgpop.json" }, { "id": 379, "name": "Reddit", "slug": "reddit", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2f5bed7ab9abb66ee8ccbf622c27a9d741c3c4e4.png", "website": "http://reddit.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit is an online community where users submit, vote, and comment on content, news, and discussions. Nicknamed \"the front page of the internet,\"​ Reddit is one of the top ten sites in the United States (source: Alexa), with hundreds of millions of users each month on desktop, mobile web, and our official Android/iOS apps. \r\n\r\nInterested in joining our growing team? 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They allow users to collect favorite images and organize them into fun collections like humor, art, photography, fashion, weddings and more.", "one_liner": "A fun image sharing community.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1336096562, "tags": [ "Community", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2012", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "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/imgfave", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2012/imgfave.json" }, { "id": 422, "name": "Kippt", "slug": "kippt", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9d98fc062196e2475faebc1faf419fb128fc4b97.png", "website": "http://kippt.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Kippt is a collaborative bookmarking system for professional networks that lets employees teach and share with each other on a dedicated platform.\r\n\r\nWhen you collect something to Kippt, the page and the content will be searchable, organizable, readable on your devices and easily shared with other people.", "one_liner": "Kippt is a social bookmarking service", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1336096788, "tags": [ "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2012", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/kippt", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2012/kippt.json" }, { "id": 430, "name": "ReelSurfer", "slug": "reelsurfer", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://reelsurfer.com", "all_locations": "Menlo Park, CA, USA", "long_description": "ReelSurfer lets anyone clip and share any video from any website. The vision is to build the most valuable content network on the planet – created by personal libraries of short, relevant videos that are saved, watched and shared with friends.", "one_liner": "Clip and share any video from any website.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1336096866, "tags": [ "Video", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2012", "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/reelsurfer", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2012/reelsurfer.json" }, { "id": 469, "name": "9gag", "slug": "9gag", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/740a3abe05919cd6bb1c955dbff43d4c41dbb1d3.png", "website": "http://9gag.com", "all_locations": "Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Remote", "long_description": "9GAG is the global cross-platform entertainment media network. It is a place for fun, conversation, and engagement. Founded in 2008, 9GAG’s mission is to make the world happier. \r\n\r\n9GAG has a total of 150 million global audience with 39 million followers on Facebook, 44 million on Instagram and 15 million on Twitter. Being #1 ranked global social media platform in entertainment & gaming, #1 ranked US's cross-platform video creators, we distribute 2.2 billion social video views on a monthly basis (source: tubular labs). 9GAG.com is #6 most followed brand on Instagram and is a top 200 website globally.\r\n\r\n9GAG is backed by: Freestyle Capital, True Ventures, First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Y Combinator and a group of great angel investors in the United States. eg Anthony Soohoo, Benjamin Ling, BoxGroup, Gary Vaynerchuk, James Hong, Kevin Rose, Karl Jacob, Lowercase Capital, Maneesh Arora, Naval Ravikant, Othman Laraki, Philip Kaplan, Rich Chen, Rich Lefurgy, Scott and Cyan Banister, Tim Ferriss.", "one_liner": "Make the world happier.", "team_size": 36, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1340675177, "tags": [ "Social Media", "Social", "Social Network" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2012", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "regions": [ "Hong Kong", "East Asia", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/9gag", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2012/9gag.json" }, { "id": 564, "name": "Datarank", "slug": "datarank", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://www.datarank.com", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA; Fayetteville, AR, USA", "long_description": "DataRank is a leading social analytics company. We monitor online conversation so that our customers \ncan gather valuable comments and insights about their brand. \n\nWe have demonstrated success with Fortune 100 companies who use DataRank for consumer insights. From increasing distribution and revenue to protecting their brand’s reputation, DataRank has assisted many companies with their marketing strategy. \n\nOur dedicated social analytics platform offers a variety of tools to help businesses perform competitive analysis before releasing a new product, monitor the social media conversation about their brand, track a social media campaign, and much more. \n\nDataRank is constantly looking for ways to be innovative in the industry. Most social media monitoring tools use Boolean-like languages but we have developed our own powerful matching language called Fizzle (Fast Scalable Searching Language), which more easily allows the user to search for phrases without gathering irrelevant data.\n\nWe have a very active blog and social media presence where you can see our social media monitoring at work. 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We can help boost the performance of referral and invite flows in your app or web site.\r\n\r\nWe use machine learning and social graph analysis -- a lot like \"People You May Know\" on LinkedIn!", "one_liner": "YesGraph recommends exactly who a user should invite to an app. Our…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1416222851, "tags": [ "Social", "Referrals" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2015", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/yesgraph", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2015/yesgraph.json" }, { "id": 808, "name": "eBrandvalue", "slug": "ebrandvalue", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b7687a266acc1565f2404a9e6053b41025b988e9.png", "website": "https://www.ebrandvalue.com/", "all_locations": "Mountain View, CA, USA", "long_description": "eBrandValue, Inc. is a Mountain View, CA-based company that acts as a BI platform for brands and leverages social data to forecast sales and provide competitive intelligence. Its unique proprietary algorithm essentially captures consumer behaviour and brand affinities using social data to identify the most effective profile changing events. 

 \r\n\r\neBrandValue has become a de facto forecaster of sales in many industries by accurately predicting and reporting the real-time sales, ROI, brand performance and market share-impact of brands in comparison to all of their competitors. These predictions are confirmed by Nielsen’s ScanTrack, which once again emphasises the catalytic impact of next-stage intelligent social media analysis to sales strategy.
 \r\n\r\neBrandValue enables brands to measure the efficacy and ROI of their events and campaigns, and to track and analyse influencers within their industry. It also provides Meme-Based Netnographic Segmentation which reveals the dimensions that define a brand and encapsulate the nature of social media postings in the sector, thus allowing brands to track their positioning vis-à-vis competition in real-time.
 \r\n\r\neBrandValue recently graduated from Y Combinator’s Winter’15 batch, and received press coverage at VentureBeat. Additionally, eBrandValue was also showcased as part of the Start Up Academy during Cannes Lions as one of the ten globally selected startups that are currently disrupting the marketing/agency business.
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Spoil brings people closer to on another through genuine gestures that are fueled by technology. \n\nWith a tool that empowers its users to engage in positive human interaction, Spoil inspire them to give, and enhances how they receive. Using technology, Spoil predicts what makes someone happy and leverages on-demand logistics to make it happen. \n\nWith Spoil you can make anyone happy as easily as calling an Uber.\n\nSpoil is all about the experience we provides to both the sender and the recipient. Focusing on how we want the recipient to feel, each step of the process leverages the right emotions and builds a story around the Spoil being received. This makes sending a Spoil a thoughtful gesture as opposed to just an exchange of items.\n\nSpoil help individuals and corporations acknowledge people around them through genuine gestures. It is the only medium accessible to everyone that builds simple, contagious and ubiquitous happiness. \n\nBecause, we believe that everyone should be Spoiled.", "one_liner": "Spoil is gifting for the Snapchat generation.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Home and Personal", "launched_at": 1416310795, "tags": [ "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2015", "status": "Inactive", "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/spoil", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2015/spoil.json" }, { "id": 1006, "name": "Chillabit", "slug": "chillabit", "former_names": [ "Chitter" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "https://chillabit.io", "all_locations": "Palo Alto, CA, USA", "long_description": "On Chillabit, students share everything from interesting thoughts and questions to hilarious stories. It’s a collection of what’s important to the people around you.", "one_liner": "Chillabit is the best way to procrastinate! It’s a live feed of funny…", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1447311915, "tags": [ "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "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/chillabit", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2016/chillabit.json" }, { "id": 1227, "name": "Looklive", "slug": "looklive", "former_names": [ "Curateurs", "Looklive", "IMX Platform", "IMX Platform (formerly Looklive)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5671a84b8181044e6ed4e95d3c2c6e4b521099a6.png", "website": "https://www.looklive.com/", "all_locations": "Atlanta, GA, USA", "long_description": "Looklive allows you to browse the style of your favorite celebrities and influencers and shop their looks.\r\n\r\nLooklive is the next generation for online media and shopping. Our aim is to be nothing less than the world’s authority and source on the influencers shaping and directing global style and culture.\r\n\r\nLooklive Inc. participated in the Summer 2016 batch of Y Combinator.", "one_liner": "Looklive is a community and marketplace for fashion. Users browse…", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics", "launched_at": 1461210619, "tags": [ "Marketplace", "Social", "Fashion" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2016", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Apparel and Cosmetics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": true, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": true, "question_answers": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/looklive", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2016/looklive.json" }, { "id": 1474, "name": "Tress", "slug": "tress", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/61e08d93ce5fec980afd6f6d59669b047e465389.png", "website": "https://www.tressapp.co", "all_locations": "Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana", "long_description": "Tress is a social community app to discover and share beautiful hairstyles.\r\n\r\nMany ladies are crazy about their hair. They change their hairstyles often, a lot and radically. Whether they have natural, relaxed, texlaxed or dreads, women are always on the lookout for new and beautiful hairstyle inspiration.\r\n\r\nEqually important to many ladies is information about a preferred hairstyle. Information such as the name and location of the salon that had the hair done, the name of the hair-piece/extension or hair-product used on the hair and also the cost of having the hairstyle done at the salon. Women can admit to walking up to complete strangers to ask the detailed questions about hairstyles or stalk accounts on social media for the above information. \r\n\r\nTress is a fun, simple and easy to use app that addresses the hairstyle needs of women.\r\nIt is a social community mobile app for women to find hairstyle inspiration. Women additionally have access to important information about each hairstyle. Information such as the name of the extension/weave used, name of hair-care product, name and location of salon /stylist and price range of the hairstyle.\r\n\r\nUsers on the app can create a profile and upload their beautiful hairstyles with information such as the salon/stylist name, name of hairpiece/product used and price range for the hairstyle.\r\nA user can follow other users and have other users following them thus creating a vibrant community. Users can have people liking and commenting on their post, increasing engagement and creating a vibrant hair community.\r\n\r\n\r\nOver time women will have a database of all their hairstyles done over a period of time and can always refer back for", "one_liner": "Tress is a social community for black women's hairstyles. We are…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1478194835, "tags": [ "Community", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2017", "status": "Inactive", "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/tress", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2017/tress.json" }, { "id": 1599, "name": "Fam", "slug": "fam", "former_names": [ "Spot", "FriendSpot" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/56990515048bb5a2ebb7da209b3dc0204fa67a7b.png", "website": "https://www.famapp.com/", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Fam is a group video calling social network to talk with your friends and make new friends.\r\n\r\nFam was part of Y-Combinator’s Summer ’17 batch under FriendSpot.", "one_liner": "Video calling social network to talk with friends and make new friends", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1493184626, "tags": [ "Video", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2017", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/fam", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2017/fam.json" }, { "id": 1606, "name": "Gameday", "slug": "gameday", "former_names": [ "Chatbet" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "/company/thumb/missing.png", "website": "http://playgameday.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Gameday is the easiest way to play fantasy sports with friends. We make daily fantasy sports fun for everyone, with a simple and quick version of the game over chat.", "one_liner": "Play fantasy sports with friends on Facebook Messenger", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Gaming", "launched_at": 1493265114, "tags": [ "Gaming", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2017", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Gaming" ], "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/gameday", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2017/gameday.json" }, { "id": 1656, "name": "Guilded", "slug": "guilded", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ecd47370642bafb403542bb6e6c5627d27b56b3.png", "website": "http://www.guilded.gg", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more.\r\n", "one_liner": "Chat for gaming communities", "team_size": 30, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Gaming", "launched_at": 1493779829, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Productivity", "Gaming", "Social", "Chat" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2017", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Gaming" ], "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": false, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/guilded", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2017/guilded.json" }, { "id": 1685, "name": "Polly", "slug": "polly", "former_names": [ "Whale", "Polly.Fun", "The Artist Union ( F.K.A Polly/Whale)", "Polly (formerly Whale)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9f3875f87d063807072f9950fedbfde952f07243.png", "website": "https://polly.fun/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Polly is a fun social polling app for teens. The app allows users to create multiple-choice polls for sharing on Snapchat and other platforms. \r\n\r\nPolly launched in stealth in August and it quickly became popular among teens, with 20 million people voting over 100 million times across 5 million polls in the past month. \r\n\r\nIn addition to being a casual social tool, Polly can also be used to gather opinions about popular brands. For instance, Polly received thousands of responses from teens on some of its own polls related to topics such as breakfast cereals and Starbucks drinks. Brands and influencers can also create their own polls to gather feedback from consumers.", "one_liner": "Polly is a social polling app for Snapchat and Instagram stories. ", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1495669829, "tags": [ "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2017", "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/polly", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2017/polly.json" }, { "id": 1737, "name": "Rhythmm", "slug": "rhythmm", "former_names": [ "Jotdown" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/355036b1b5906a4e3cc60cbc5706cadbfea61065.png", "website": "https://getrhythmm.com", "all_locations": "Mountain View, CA, USA", "long_description": "Rhythmm is a social app that enables its users to share interesting thoughts and conversations.\r\n\r\nUsers can follow awesome channels and tap through each thought, finding their Rhythmm. They can also create their own channel, invite others to contribute or rock it solo, and the app help with the rest.\r\n\r\nRhythmm wants to take live chat conversations from experts and interesting people and let others follow along. The startup wants to take the insights people are getting from chat groups on Telegram and remove all the noise with their own platform. Only people who have been invited by the chat creator can participate, everybody else just follows the conversations.", "one_liner": "Read interesting conversations", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1509562876, "tags": [ "Community", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2018", "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/rhythmm", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2018/rhythmm.json" }, { "id": 1780, "name": "Squad", "slug": "squad", "former_names": [ "Olabot", "Molly" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/19a9dff8066f2bf839ae7e07c10b32a4bac944d1.png", "website": "http://squadapp.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Squad adds screen sharing to video chats so you can use any app with friends", "one_liner": "Squad is an app for live communities to have shared experiences…", "team_size": 10, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1509678265, "tags": [ "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2018", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/squad", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2018/squad.json" }, { "id": 1792, "name": "Openland", "slug": "openland", "former_names": [ "Statecraft" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a375bb2b5825f333532f9af82e4748e3712a25c8.png", "website": "https://openland.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Openland is a messenger for communities. It is focused on fundamental human needs: making new friends, safe self-expression, and learning from others. Openland is a home for some of the most active and supportive chat communities on the Internet. Anyone can start and grow their own community on Openland, for free. Openland was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco. The company is backed by 30 prominent venture investors, including Y Combinator, Gagarin Capital, Sinai Ventures, Soma Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Rainfall Ventures.", "one_liner": "Messenger for communities", "team_size": 14, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Social", "launched_at": 1510027357, "tags": [ "Community", "Messaging", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2018", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Social" ], "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/openland", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2018/openland.json" }, { "id": 1841, "name": "Zyper", "slug": "zyper", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4248c76a3206fa82425c191a7b09f3b905910b5a.png", "website": "https://zyper.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing tool that enables brands to identify and engage with the top 1% of their social following, turning them from passive followers to active advocates.\r\n\r\nThese brand fans create authentic and emotive content, scaling peer-to-peer advertising in a unique way by uplifting market voice, engagement and social conversion.\r\n\r\nNeither micro-influencers nor bloggers, brand fans are real, social-savvy consumers who influence their immediate peer group and immerse themselves in your brand ecosystem. We target them at scale to give you the equivalent reach of one influencer but with the value of repeat content, authenticity and higher engagement.", "one_liner": "Recreating social networks for brands. 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All you have to do is watch, engage with what you like, skip what you don't, and you'll find an endless stream of live music that feels personalized just for you.\r\n\r\nWe make it easy for you to discover and create your own live music videos by providing easy-to-use tools to view and capture your greatest musical moments. 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Today, more than 40 million people play D&D around the world and sales have grown by double-digit percentages for the last five consecutive years. But still finding people to host and play these games with is challenging. Most solutions involve digging through discord servers, reddit, and specialty forums. 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Users can hop between groups easily, while seeing and hearing the other groups around them, as if they were in a shared space. \r\nRally is perfect for happy hours, networking, and other social gatherings. 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Unlike Hopin or Zoom, we are super focused on connecting conference attendees with each other. Most attendees don’t actually go to watch the talks, they go for the networking. With us they can self-organize, meet and stay in touch. Usually it's incredibly hard for the organizer to build conferences which lead to key business opportunities for the attendees. 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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": 25725, "name": "Argo", "slug": "argo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cbfb1f91a00cc67df3353e09e5e213ec32f77317.png", "website": "https://Argo.LA", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "A platform for brands and creator to monetize their video entertainment more efficiently, build an engaged community and reward their fans. \r\n", "one_liner": "A social streaming platform powered by creators and fans ", "team_size": 10, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1646632831, "tags": [ "Crypto / Web3", "Consumer", "Entertainment", "Social", "Infrastructure" ], "tags_highlighted": [ "Crypto / Web3" ], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "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/argo", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2022/argo.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": 25983, "name": "Housewarming", "slug": "housewarming", "former_names": [ "Discz Music Inc.", "Discz Music", "Discz", "discz", "Verse" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8dc18b30f3ba3c2ca49e86ec5e15296059e9d89f.png", "website": "https://housewarming.me", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Housewarming is social media and AI designed to bring you closer to your friends, not replace them or keep you isolated in an algorithm.\r\n\r\nWe've been building mega-viral consumer AI experiences since 2020. From the music discovery app Discz (1.5M users) to creative expression with Verse & Internet Bedroom (0-10 million users in 30 days, one of the fastest growing products of all-time) we like building at the frontier of technology in ways consumer truly love.\r\n\r\nHousewarming is our latest and most delightful product ever. 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One of our brand partners generated $45,000 in sales from a $3,000 spend, achieving a 15X ROAS.\r\n\r\nWe believe this is just the beginning.  We can generate $20,000 annually per AI influencer. With just 5000 AI influencers we can quickly scale to $100 million ARR business. \r\n\r\nTo put that in perspective: there are over 400 million regular human influencers globally. Even if we just target a fraction of the market, it’s a massive thing.\r\n\r\nOur team is the key to making this happen. We're alumni of IIT and repeat founders. Previously, built TradeX, a prediction market platform, scaled that to $40 million in monthly trading volume with 5 million users. That success was driven by our trend tracking system & influencer partnerships, the very same expertise we're now using to build Mindbase.\r\n", "one_liner": "Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans…", "team_size": 7, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1642774181, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Gaming", "Social", "Marketing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/tradex", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2022/tradex.json" }, { "id": 26476, "name": "Pana", "slug": "pana", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e6114091caebbe06921f5d25e1d025dc32970cf6.png", "website": "http://Holapana.com", "all_locations": "Miami, FL, USA; Remote", "long_description": "The first secure, end-to-end global USD account, seamlessly integrating fiat and stablecoins across 125 countries for direct-to-bank settlement—no liquidity providers, no SWIFT, no intermediaries.\r\n\r\nBoth sender and receiver use the Pana app and wallet for a frictionless, real-time cross-border payment experience.\r\n", "one_liner": "A Global Bank on Chain", "team_size": 14, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "launched_at": 1657716060, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Consumer", "Social", "Neobank" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Banking and Exchange" ], "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/pana", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/summer-2022/pana.json" }, { "id": 27173, "name": "Jamble", "slug": "jamble", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aafce3da646fb5bdc4a18a9ad09cd597e6540dba.png", "website": "https://www.jambleapp.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "Jamble is the new place to buy & sell secondhand fashion. We empower resellers with video & Live streaming tools to sell more effectively; and buyers with a unique compelling experience. Jamble is designed for the sustainable fashion community to engage, connect and inspire. 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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": 30198, "name": "Dollyglot", "slug": "dollyglot", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/897f8bc5186131522d7f3d3073cf9181df4bae7b.png", "website": "https://www.dollyglot.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Dollyglot is like Character.ai but with real time video avatars.\r\nTurn a photo and a voice into a real friend. 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The one who remembers everything, plans effortlessly, and keeps the crew together.\r\n\r\nHere's what that looks like:\r\n\r\n- Book restaurants together, with Yelp built in, directly in the chat. No more \"where should we go?\" spirals. Reserve instantly.\r\n- Create images with your friends: drop your crew into funny hats, wild scenes, anything you can dream up. Multiplayer image gen, first of its kind.\r\n- Social calendar: upcoming hangs, all in one place. Everyone on the same page.\r\n- Group Wrapped: who's the chattiest? Top inside jokes? Now you'll know.\r\n- Reminders & Memory: Alfi remembers your spots, your preferences, and nudges you to actually hang out.\r\n\r\nWe're in the middle of a quiet shift. Gen Z is leaving broadcast social media. They're retreating to group chats, smaller, more intentional and personal spaces where they're honestly themselves.\r\n\r\nBut group chats are also where plans go to die. Someone has to be \"the planner\" or nothing happens.\r\n\r\nWe believe the group chat is the real social network. Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen in real time. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, a lot more often.\r\n\r\nThis technology will bring humanity closer than it's ever been before. Not replace connection, deepen it. That's the future we're building toward.\r\n", "one_liner": "Alfi - your group chat with social skills to bring friends closer", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1744649821, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "Consumer", "Social", "Social Network" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "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/text-ai", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/spring-2025/text-ai.json" }, { "id": 30812, "name": "Mixy", "slug": "mixy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0b427a11c01acc7be86bdfb9bf97f62e7e9151a7.png", "website": "https://usemixy.com", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Live out your DJ dreams with Mixy, the mind-blowing music app that lets you mash-up any song in seconds.\r\n\r\n⁕ Add your songs\r\n⁕ Instantly blend vocals and beats\r\n⁕ Play and share your mashup anywhere\r\n\r\nThere’s no limit to your imagination!\r\n\r\n⁕ Launched to #1 in Music on June 19th\r\n⁕ 1.5M users in 3 months\r\n⁕ 15M mashups made and growing", "one_liner": "Make mashups without knowing how to DJ", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1758155628, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "Consumer", "Entertainment", "Social", "Music" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "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/mixy", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/fall-2025/mixy.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" }, { "id": 31480, "name": "Pops", "slug": "pops", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ff1807225bc4aea4a50ef4d5315e963925c04afd.png", "website": "https://pops.fyi", "all_locations": "New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Pops lets people play, remix, and share AI games with friends.\r\n\r\nDiscover an infinite feed of games, challenges, quizzes, and other fun interactive experiences made by others. Every play instantly becomes a funny gameplay/reaction video you can send to friends, post online, or use to challenge someone to beat your score.\r\n\r\nFor creators, Pops makes it easier than ever to bring ideas to life and get them played. Instead of learning complex game engines, writing code, or fighting for distribution, anyone can create or remix a playable game in seconds. Bring your ideas, and Pops brings the audience.", "one_liner": "Create & play AI games with friends", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Gaming", "launched_at": 1778022680, "tags": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "Consumer", "Gaming", "Social" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Gaming" ], "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/pops", "api": "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/spring-2026/pops.json" } ]