Y Combinator

Founded in 2005, Y Combinator is a California-based startup accelerator and early-stage venture capital firm. It provides funding, mentorship, and resources to early-stage companies across various industries, with a focus on technology, healthcare, and finance. The organization helps founders refine their business models and products through an intensive three-month program in Silicon Valley, culminating in Demo Day presentations to investors.

Gustaf Alströmer

Partner

Tim Brady

Partner

Dalton Caldwell

Managing Director

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Nicolas Dessaigne

Partner

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Partner

Jared Friedman

Partner

Anu Hariharan

Partner

Diana Hu

Partner

Reshma Khilnani

Partner

Pete Koomen

Visiting Group Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Jon Levy

Managing Director

David Lieb

Partner

Jessica Livingston

Partner

Simon Lu

Principal

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Geoff Ralston

President

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Surbhi Sarna

Partner

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Group Partner

Garry Tan

President

Matt Bogrand

Senior Associate

Past deals in PaaS

ParadeDB

Series A in 2025
ParadeDB is a technology company that specializes in developing a cloud-based search and analytics platform. This platform is designed to handle real-time, update-heavy workloads, making it an alternative to Elasticsearch. It leverages Postgres and offers real-time indexing, allowing users to query data using keyword search, vector search, or a hybrid of both. Additionally, the platform provides statistical metrics on search results and enables the creation of search boxes with autocomplete functionality. This allows organizations to build AI products without the need to manage batch jobs or infrastructure.

TensorPool

Pre Seed Round in 2025
TensorPool is a technology company that develops a GPU orchestration platform. This platform simplifies and reduces the cost of training machine learning models by enabling users to run and manage training jobs across multiple clouds. It offers intuitive multi-cloud integration and compatibility with integrated development environments, allowing machine learning engineers and researchers to optimize GPU costs in real-time.

Peppr AI

Seed Round in 2025
Peppr AI is a software company that develops an AI-powered knowledge capture platform. This platform integrates with popular tools such as Slack, Jira, and Confluence to automatically collect, analyze, and synthesize data, creating a centralized, self-improving knowledge repository. The result is searchable documentation and interactive guides, helping clients capture undocumented knowledge, improve information access, and enhance team efficiency.

Vapi

Series A in 2024
Vapi is a platform that allows the integration of applications and services. It enables users to create, manage, and monitor APIs. It also supports developers in building solutions and facilitates collaboration between teams. Vapi serves industries such as technology, finance, healthcare, and logistics.

Lune AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Lune AI operates a community-driven platform that leverages individual expert Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide free, accurate answers to technical queries, sourced from a marketplace of developers. This model incentivizes contributors with payouts and recognition, fostering a continuous improvement loop that enhances the platform's AI models. By aggregating and refining these models, Lune AI aims to boost developer productivity and drive innovation in the tech industry.

Leeroo

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Leeroo is a technology company that develops an AI platform for software developers. This platform aids in creating, overseeing, and assessing AI applications. It achieves this by coordinating large language models and employing a self-play learning loop to refine model selection and development. Additionally, it constructs AI multi-model systems to evaluate the knowledge of language models, thereby helping clients improve AI performance and efficiency.

Outerport

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Outerport specializes in streamlining document comprehension through advanced chain-of-memory reasoning technology. Its core product is a model registry platform, facilitating secure and efficient management and deployment of foundation model weights. This enables data scientists and engineers to swiftly load and handle models on existing cloud infrastructure or on-premise hardware, enhancing productivity.

pap!

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Pap! is a technology company that specializes in automating the retrieval of refund claims for consumers. Its online platform leverages artificial intelligence to analyze email receipts and identify potential refund opportunities, such as price drops and flight delays. By streamlining the process of claiming refunds, Pap! ensures that individuals can take advantage of available financial recoveries without the hassle of navigating complex policies and rules. This innovative approach not only helps consumers reclaim funds they are owed but also raises awareness about refund policies that may otherwise go unnoticed.

Moonglow

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Moonglow is a technology company that specializes in facilitating machine learning research and data science tasks. It offers a cloud-based platform that connects local Jupyter notebooks to remote cloud compute, allowing users to switch between local and cloud-based computing environments seamlessly. This integration enables data scientists to focus on model development and experimentation, expediting the machine learning development lifecycle.

Glasskube

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Glasskube develops a user-friendly package manager for Kubernetes, offering both GUI and CLI interfaces. Its packages are dependency-aware and GitOps ready, with automatic updates available through a central public repository.

Celest

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Celest is a backend-as-a-service platform designed specifically for Flutter and Dart developers. It empowers these developers with the necessary tools and capabilities to become full-stack developers, enabling them to define user data schema, relationships, and authorization rules directly in their code.

Renderlet

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Renderlet is a technology company that offers a cloud-based framework for developers. This framework enables them to write rendering code for 2D and 3D applications once, and then run it from any location. Additionally, Renderlet's platform supports the development and deployment of serverless applications, providing features such as automatic scaling, built-in databases, and a global edge network. This allows developers to concentrate on their application logic, without the need to manage servers or infrastructure.

Marblism

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Marblism is a web application development platform designed to serve businesses looking to streamline their application creation process. The platform harnesses an application programming interface that generates code for various components, including front-end, back-end, emails, and notifications. This capability allows users to develop customized applications tailored to their specific needs, enhancing operational efficiency and user experience. Marblism provides a fully functional web-based solution that facilitates the development and deployment of applications, making it a valuable tool for organizations aiming to innovate and improve their digital offerings.

PermitFlow

Series A in 2024
PermitFlow is a technology company that specializes in streamlining the construction permitting process in the United States. Their platform is designed to simplify and expedite the application and management of construction permits for builders, contractors, architects, developers, and owners. PermitFlow's software handles various aspects of permit acquisition, including research, preparation, submission, and monitoring. The company aims to reduce the time required to obtain permits while standardizing municipalities' building permit submittal processes through a single platform. With nationwide coverage and local municipal expertise, PermitFlow supports permitting across multiple states, making it easier for builders to navigate complex regulatory environments.

Zelos Cloud

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Zelos Cloud is a technology company specializing in a cloud-based platform designed for businesses to streamline their firmware development and testing processes. The platform provides a centralized repository for storing and managing firmware code and test cases, along with real-time reporting features to monitor progress and enhance the overall quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of firmware development.

ParadeDB

Seed Round in 2023
ParadeDB is a technology company that specializes in developing a cloud-based search and analytics platform. This platform is designed to handle real-time, update-heavy workloads, making it an alternative to Elasticsearch. It leverages Postgres and offers real-time indexing, allowing users to query data using keyword search, vector search, or a hybrid of both. Additionally, the platform provides statistical metrics on search results and enables the creation of search boxes with autocomplete functionality. This allows organizations to build AI products without the need to manage batch jobs or infrastructure.

Pincites

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Pincites is a technology company that specializes in streamlining contract reviews using artificial intelligence. It offers a platform that integrates with Microsoft Word, providing AI-generated suggestions and centralized management of contracting playbooks. This ensures that contract reviews adhere to established precedents and preferences, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in legal negotiations.

Epsilla

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Epsilla is a technology company that specializes in providing a Retrieval-Augmented Generation as a Service platform. This platform is designed to help businesses build and deploy large language model applications using their own proprietary data. The company's offerings include low-latency searches across vast datasets, a consumption-based database-as-a-service, and comprehensive APIs. These tools enable clients to create AI agents powered by their private data and expedite the development of AI applications.

Dioxus Labs

Venture Round in 2023
Dioxus Labs develops a software tool that enables developers to build applications for desktop, web, and mobile platforms using a Rust library inspired by React. Their focus is on enhancing developer experience, allowing for the creation of quick, stylish, and feature-rich apps across various platforms with minimal effort.

Poko

Seed Round in 2023
Poko is a technology company that specializes in facilitating payment solutions for the web3 ecosystem, focusing on games, creators, and merchants. Its platform provides a software development kit (SDK) that allows web3 builders to integrate fiat-to-crypto onramping using over 100 local payment methods. This solution significantly lowers onramping costs by up to 70% and enhances transaction success rates by as much as five times through intelligent routing and a streamlined integration process. Additionally, Poko offers a Direct Checkout solution that simplifies purchasing from smart contracts, resulting in a 79% increase in user conversion. With a team that includes experienced professionals from prominent financial institutions and blockchain initiatives, Poko aims to enable seamless engagement with web3 technologies while ensuring that users can transact using their preferred payment methods.

ParadeDB

Pre Seed Round in 2023
ParadeDB is a technology company that specializes in developing a cloud-based search and analytics platform. This platform is designed to handle real-time, update-heavy workloads, making it an alternative to Elasticsearch. It leverages Postgres and offers real-time indexing, allowing users to query data using keyword search, vector search, or a hybrid of both. Additionally, the platform provides statistical metrics on search results and enables the creation of search boxes with autocomplete functionality. This allows organizations to build AI products without the need to manage batch jobs or infrastructure.

KoalaOps

Pre Seed Round in 2023
KoalaOps simplifies service management on Kubernetes, offering AI-powered tools that mimic the ease of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) while running on customers' own cloud infrastructure with full Kubernetes flexibility. This enables software teams to deploy faster and focus more on product development.

Blocksfabrik

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Blocksfabrik specializes in streamlining design systems. They offer a platform that automates repetitive tasks, enhances collaboration, and provides customizable templates, enabling designers and developers to optimize their workflows while reducing operational costs.

BuildJet

Pre Seed Round in 2023
BuildJet is an IT company specializing in Continuous Integration (CI) products. It offers a platform designed to enhance GitHub actions efficiency by utilizing its own cloud infrastructure powered by gaming CPUs.

Rivet

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Rivet operates a platform that manages game servers, matchmaking, and DDoS mitigation for multiplayer games. It offers a suite of tools for building, scaling, and connecting multiplayer games, with simple APIs for deployment using major game engines.

Cakework

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Cakework is a software company that provides an application development platform. This platform enables businesses to create serverless long-running tasks without needing to manage infrastructure.

Middleware

Seed Round in 2023
Middleware provides a unified cloud-native observability platform for DevOps teams, engineers, IT operations, and business users. It offers real-time monitoring of metrics, logs, and traces across cloud infrastructure, enabling efficient issue identification, diagnosis, and resolution.

Turntable

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Turntable is a developer of an AI-powered data discovery and visualization platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of data teams. The company's toolkit facilitates the creation and management of data pipelines, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with data transformation processes. By enabling collaborative efforts, Turntable allows data teams to find, contextualize, and transform data rapidly, without requiring engineering support. Key features of the platform include integration across various technology stacks, data preparation, data integration, and data visualization, streamlining the workflow for users involved in data management and analysis.

Nucleus

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Nucleus enables developers to define and deploy microservices on its platform. It automatically configures security, observability, and other properties via a command-line interface, integrating with tools like Hashicorp, Cloudflare, and Okta.

Pivo

Seed Round in 2022
Pivo is a financial platform designed to democratize access to financial services for small and medium-sized businesses across Africa. By providing a comprehensive suite of tools tailored for the supply chain sector, Pivo enables clients to efficiently access various financial services from a single hub. This approach fosters a more streamlined and effective means for businesses to engage with borderless financial solutions, ultimately enhancing their operational capabilities and growth potential.

Payload CMS

Seed Round in 2022
Payload CMS is a self-hosted, headless TypeScript content management system launched in 2018. It uses Node.js, React, and MongoDB, offering robust field types, dynamic fields like Arrays and Blocks, and purpose-built fields such as Relationship and GeoJSON for flexible data modeling. The platform secures data with access control functions at the document or field level.

Paigo

Venture Round in 2022
Paigo is a San Francisco-based company established in 2022 that specializes in intelligent invoicing solutions for data goods, software resources, and platform SaaS. The company focuses on automating billing processes for data products and software infrastructure through advanced artificial intelligence. This technology allows for precise measurement of customer usage and provides analytics that support industry-specific pricing models. Paigo's platform integrates with cloud marketplace payments, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools. It also offers multi-tenant usage measurement and infrastructure revenue analytics, enabling businesses to effectively track their computing, storage, and network costs while optimizing pricing strategies based on income analysis.

Sunpia

Venture Round in 2022
Sunpia is a company that provides a cloud-based platform focusing on serverless microservices development. It enables developers to access the benefits of serverless infrastructure, including cost efficiency and faster deployment times. By designing a microservice version of existing code, Sunpia allows developers to deploy their applications seamlessly without the need to rewrite their code. This approach supports developers in delivering their services more efficiently and effectively to their customers, enhancing the overall development experience.

Blitz

Venture Round in 2022
Blitz offers a no-code platform empowering businesses with complex operations to automate tasks by creating collaborative apps and workflows. Users can extend their operations without coding, simply by designing interfaces and processes atop a flexible database.

Medplum

Seed Round in 2022
Medplum offers an open-source developer platform designed to simplify healthcare application development. It focuses on streamlining workflow automation, secure data storage, and providing UI components tailored for healthcare.

Payload CMS

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Payload CMS is a self-hosted, headless TypeScript content management system launched in 2018. It uses Node.js, React, and MongoDB, offering robust field types, dynamic fields like Arrays and Blocks, and purpose-built fields such as Relationship and GeoJSON for flexible data modeling. The platform secures data with access control functions at the document or field level.

Nimbus

Venture Round in 2022
Nimbus provides pre-configured cloud development environments designed to simplify the management of development environments for users. By centralizing coding in the cloud, Nimbus allows teams to utilize the integrated development environments (IDEs) they are already familiar with, thereby eliminating the complexities associated with setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting. This flexible and scalable solution enables users to access a full computing environment whenever needed, which enhances productivity and minimizes the burden on local machines. Nimbus's platform is capable of accommodating a wide range of projects while ensuring that code remains secure in the cloud, ultimately allowing users to focus on coding rather than configuration.

Poko

Venture Round in 2022
Poko is a technology company that specializes in facilitating payment solutions for the web3 ecosystem, focusing on games, creators, and merchants. Its platform provides a software development kit (SDK) that allows web3 builders to integrate fiat-to-crypto onramping using over 100 local payment methods. This solution significantly lowers onramping costs by up to 70% and enhances transaction success rates by as much as five times through intelligent routing and a streamlined integration process. Additionally, Poko offers a Direct Checkout solution that simplifies purchasing from smart contracts, resulting in a 79% increase in user conversion. With a team that includes experienced professionals from prominent financial institutions and blockchain initiatives, Poko aims to enable seamless engagement with web3 technologies while ensuring that users can transact using their preferred payment methods.

PermitFlow

Venture Round in 2022
PermitFlow is a technology company that specializes in streamlining the construction permitting process in the United States. Their platform is designed to simplify and expedite the application and management of construction permits for builders, contractors, architects, developers, and owners. PermitFlow's software handles various aspects of permit acquisition, including research, preparation, submission, and monitoring. The company aims to reduce the time required to obtain permits while standardizing municipalities' building permit submittal processes through a single platform. With nationwide coverage and local municipal expertise, PermitFlow supports permitting across multiple states, making it easier for builders to navigate complex regulatory environments.

Castia

Seed Round in 2022
Castia is a Latin American proptech company that facilitates seamless home transitions. It enables homeowners to leverage their current home equity to move into new properties quickly and easily. Castia provides mortgage loans for down payments on new homes, ensuring the sale of the old property within six months.

Cloudanix

Seed Round in 2021
Cloudanix simplifies multi-cloud management by providing a centralized dashboard for cloud operations, engineering, and information security teams. It offers single-view monitoring and remediation workflows for security, compliance, drift, cost management, and data leakages.

Brainboard

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Brainboard is an AI-driven platform that facilitates the visual design and management of cloud infrastructure. It enables users to create cloud architectures by simply dragging and dropping real cloud services, making the technology both accessible and comprehensible. The platform supports collaborative efforts within organizations, allowing users to share architectures and manage data flow according to specific business or technical strategies. By automatically generating infrastructure as code (IaC) for various cloud providers and integrating continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), Brainboard empowers organizations to reduce time to market while enhancing security and fostering collaboration in their cloud operations.

Plai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Plai is a digital marketing platform designed for users of all skill levels. It offers tools to create and launch Google Ads and YouTube Ads, discover micro-influencers and keywords, and access insights from Google Analytics using voice command. The platform aims to simplify marketing efforts by providing intuitive, accessible features built on cutting-edge strategies.

Cloudaxis

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cloudaxis operates as a cloud consultancy and managed service provider serving Hong Kong and the APAC region. It helps businesses optimize their IT operations by building cloud strategies and migrating legacy systems to secure, public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms.

Artillery.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Artillery.io keeps the production systems fast and reliable. It takes the testing to next level and empowers every development team in the organization with a self-service platform hosted in their own AWS environment.

Lariat Data

Venture Round in 2021
Lariat Data provides a continuous data quality monitoring platform that helps teams discover data bugs before they affect users. With a rapid setup, it enables users to define, extract and monitor fine-grained data quality metrics from raw event data through delivered data products. The platform uses purpose-built alerting and dashboards to flag issues before downstream consumers are impacted and automates the optimization, scheduling, and visualization of quality metrics so data teams can focus on core features. It integrates with a broad data stack across streaming and batch environments, including Python pipelines, Apache Spark, AWS Athena and Kinesis, dbt, Snowflake, Apache Kafka, and Google BigQuery. It also links business metrics, ancillary data, and model outputs to identify performance issues in ML software, providing root-cause analysis and enabling proactive monitoring and alerts for production models.

Mystic

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Mystic is a provider of infrastructure-as-a-service for data engineers and software developers. It also provides tools and models that enable its customers to deliver robust, dynamic machine learning in an agile manner. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications. Mystic aims to provide data scientists and ML organizations with the engineering tools they need to build end-to-end products faster, with the goal of demystifying how to build scalable ML products.

Webapp.io

Seed Round in 2020
Webapp.io is a developer tools company that provides a web-based DevOps platform for building, testing, and deploying full-stack web applications. The platform accelerates development with rapid environment provisioning, intelligent caching, and parallelized testing, and includes a virtual terminal that serves as a staging server to test software pipelines. The company has developed a high-performance custom hypervisor that automates repetitive code review steps, helping developers move faster. By combining these tools, Webapp.io aims to streamline development workflows, shorten deployment cycles, and improve productivity for engineering teams.

Porter

Seed Round in 2020
Porter is a technology company that specializes in automating cloud management, allowing users to concentrate on product development. The company primarily focuses on creating remote development environments, enabling users to run, optimize, and build solutions without the limitations of local infrastructure. By streamlining these processes, Porter seeks to enhance productivity and facilitate efficient software development for its users.

Intelligent Services

Venture Round in 2020
Intelligent is a scalable and powerful platform for deep workflow analysis and operations optimization

Webapp.io

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Webapp.io is a developer tools company that provides a web-based DevOps platform for building, testing, and deploying full-stack web applications. The platform accelerates development with rapid environment provisioning, intelligent caching, and parallelized testing, and includes a virtual terminal that serves as a staging server to test software pipelines. The company has developed a high-performance custom hypervisor that automates repetitive code review steps, helping developers move faster. By combining these tools, Webapp.io aims to streamline development workflows, shorten deployment cycles, and improve productivity for engineering teams.

Pashi

Seed Round in 2020
Pashi is a software company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in the development of an operating system that facilitates the design, monitoring, and optimization of production lines. The company's platform integrates various aspects of the production process, including operator instructions, data input interfaces, machine interfacing, and robot programming. By offering a user-friendly graphical interface, Pashi enables industrial engineers to efficiently manage and iterate on production processes, ensuring seamless coordination and control throughout the manufacturing workflow.

ToDesktop

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2018, ToDesktop enables web-based businesses to convert their web applications into desktop applications. Its platform supports Windows, Mac, and Linux, allowing users to install web apps on their computers and launch them alongside other native applications.

Refinery

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Refinery.io is a web-based software platform tailored for software developers, aiming to significantly enhance the speed of software creation, testing, and deployment in cloud environments. The platform utilizes a drag-and-drop interface that allows users to deploy new features efficiently through linkable code blocks. By leveraging serverless technology, Refinery integrates seamlessly with AWS services, including AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Simple Queue Service, enabling engineers and IT professionals to streamline their workflows and complete projects in a fraction of the time. This innovative approach positions Refinery as a leading solution for accelerating software delivery.

Pantheon

Seed Round in 2017
Pantheon is a provider of a platform that enables users to design and share custom virtual reality games. The platform features an intuitive interface and a comprehensive toolset that allows individuals, regardless of their coding experience, to build, sculpt, paint, and texture virtual reality environments. This capability empowers users to create and distribute their own virtual reality games, making game design accessible to a broader audience. Pantheon aims to democratize the game creation process, fostering creativity and innovation in the virtual reality space.

FloydHub

Seed Round in 2017
FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service designed for training and deploying deep learning models in the cloud. The platform simplifies the process of initiating machine learning projects, allowing users to start within 30 seconds. FloydHub provides the necessary infrastructure, enabling teams to focus on their core challenges rather than technical setup. It offers customizable CPU and GPU environments tailored for deep learning, along with features that automatically save projects and databases through cloud interactions. The platform includes a web dashboard that facilitates tracking, monitoring, editing, and sharing project progress, which enhances collaboration among team members and boosts productivity through effective performance reviews and project planning.

Runkit

Seed Round in 2016
Runkit is a company that provides an online platform for prototyping server-side JavaScript. Its tool allows users to create notebooks that facilitate rapid experimentation, enabling them to switch between different Node.js versions and access a wide array of pre-installed npm modules without installation delays. The platform also supports data visualization, allowing users to easily analyze and manipulate data sets. Unique features include the ability to rewind work to previous states, which helps streamline debugging processes without impacting existing infrastructure. Runkit's capabilities extend beyond JavaScript prototyping, as it is also utilized for developing iOS and Android backends, as well as for creating microservices and APIs. Founded as Tonic and rebranded to Runkit in 2013, the company is based in the United States and operates as a subsidiary of Stripe, Inc.

CoreOS

Series B in 2016
CoreOS, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in open source projects for Linux containers and Internet security software solutions. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York City and a development hub in Berlin, CoreOS is recognized for its contributions to the Kubernetes community. The company offers Tectonic, an enterprise-ready platform that enhances Kubernetes with features for secure container orchestration, and Quay, a private image registry for building, storing, and distributing containers. CoreOS also provides CoreUpdate, a tool for managing application updates, and maintains various open source projects, including CoreOS Linux, etcd, and rkt. These solutions address key challenges related to downtime, security, and resilience, enabling organizations to run their applications reliably in diverse environments. In 2018, CoreOS became a subsidiary of Red Hat, further bolstering its position in the cloud infrastructure landscape.

Redspread

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Redspread provides collaborative deployment tools that help teams manage environments from development to production. The platform enables deploying Docker projects to Kubernetes clusters with a single command, simplifying multistage software delivery and improving reliability across complex infrastructure. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Redspread focuses on streamlining deployments to accelerate release cycles.

Pramp

Seed Round in 2016
Pramp, Inc. is an online platform established in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, that facilitates practice for technical interviews. It serves as a peer-to-peer community where software engineers and developers can engage in live coding interview practice at no cost. The platform automates the pairing process, matching users based on their availability, backgrounds, and specific practice requirements. Pramp offers integrated features such as HD video chat, a real-time collaborative code editor, and mechanisms for detailed peer feedback, thereby enhancing the preparation experience for candidates. By streamlining the interview practice process, Pramp enables users to effectively hone their skills for technical interviews.

Cloudstitch

Seed Round in 2015
Cloudstitch LLC is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company that offers a platform designed for developers, event planners, and newsrooms to manage web content through Google Docs. The platform enables developers to build, deploy, and scale web applications while allowing event planners to streamline event management tasks such as aggregating RSVPs and updating speaker lists. Additionally, newsrooms can control interactive content effectively using Google Docs. By connecting web and mobile applications with ordinary spreadsheets, Cloudstitch simplifies data management, allowing for two-way data flow between spreadsheets and websites. This functionality eliminates the need for custom databases and complex infrastructure, making it easier for users to manage their sites directly from familiar office tools. The company has garnered support from the venture capital community and is recognized for its innovative approach, stemming from research conducted at MIT.

Convox

Seed Round in 2015
Convox, Inc. is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider founded in 2015 and based in Marietta, Georgia. The company offers an open-source application deployment platform that allows developers to build, deploy, and manage applications using Kubernetes within their own Amazon Web Services accounts. Designed by former Heroku engineers and backed by Y Combinator, Convox supports all major cloud environments, including AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and Azure. Its platform features automated workflows, role-based access control, and comprehensive visibility across clouds, enabling software organizations to simplify their infrastructure. Convox serves a diverse clientele, ranging from startups to multinational enterprises, providing a portable and adaptable solution that integrates seamlessly with various development frameworks and programming languages.

PickTrace

Venture Round in 2015
PickTrace is a software company based in Mountain View, California, specializing in workforce and harvest management solutions for large-scale farms. Founded by brothers Austin and Harrison Steed, the company initially developed software for their family's blueberry and avocado farm in Southern California. PickTrace's platform provides real-time analytics, harvest management, and labor management tools, enhancing communication and coordination among farming departments. The company serves some of the largest berry, citrus, and apple growers in the United States, supporting tens of thousands of farm workers daily.

The Sails Company

Seed Round in 2015
The Sails Company specializes in developing frameworks and tools aimed at enhancing the productivity of JavaScript developers. It is the primary sponsor of the Sails framework and associated open-source projects, including Waterline, Skipper, and the Node Machine specification. The company also offers Treeline, an automation platform that simplifies the creation of custom, high-performance applications for Node.js. Additionally, Sails provides professional services and solutions that streamline modern development processes, allowing organizations to build practical, enterprise-grade backend applications without the need for extensive coding.

Paperspace

Seed Round in 2015
Paperspace is a cloud computing company that specializes in machine learning (ML) development. It offers a high-performance cloud platform for building, training, and deploying ML models, catering to individuals, startups, and enterprises. The platform provides a cloud-based personal computer accessible via any web browser, making cloud computing more accessible through simplicity, community-driven resources, and straightforward pricing. This enables users to iterate faster and collaborate on real-time prediction engines.

Flynn

Seed Round in 2014
Flynn is a developer of an open-source platform as a service (PaaS) that aims to simplify the software operations process for developers. The platform allows users to create and run applications directly from their code, while also managing essential functions such as traffic routing and load balancing for each application instance. Flynn's technology enables developers to build, install, and manage various components necessary for application functionality, including databases, networks, service discovery, containers, virtual machines, and cloud resources. By streamlining these processes, Flynn empowers developers to focus on building applications without the complexities of underlying infrastructure management.

PipelineDB

Seed Round in 2014
PipelineDB, Inc. is a company that specializes in real-time analytics databases designed to process streaming data. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, PipelineDB offers an open-source extension to PostgreSQL, enabling continuous SQL queries on time-series data. This innovative platform allows users to submit queries in advance, with results updated incrementally as new data streams in. By facilitating real-time reporting applications, PipelineDB helps clients streamline their data management processes, allowing them to prioritize high-performance time-series data aggregation without the necessity of recording data. As of May 1, 2019, PipelineDB operates as a subsidiary of Confluent, Inc.

Appcubator

Seed Round in 2013
Appcubator has launched to allow users to create their own web applications with drag and drop, text inserts and custom themes, rather than having to endure the arduous process of learning to create a full-functioning website or hire a contractor.

CoreOS

Seed Round in 2013
CoreOS, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in open source projects for Linux containers and Internet security software solutions. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York City and a development hub in Berlin, CoreOS is recognized for its contributions to the Kubernetes community. The company offers Tectonic, an enterprise-ready platform that enhances Kubernetes with features for secure container orchestration, and Quay, a private image registry for building, storing, and distributing containers. CoreOS also provides CoreUpdate, a tool for managing application updates, and maintains various open source projects, including CoreOS Linux, etcd, and rkt. These solutions address key challenges related to downtime, security, and resilience, enabling organizations to run their applications reliably in diverse environments. In 2018, CoreOS became a subsidiary of Red Hat, further bolstering its position in the cloud infrastructure landscape.

LightTable

Seed Round in 2012
Light Table is an innovative interactive integrated development environment (IDE) that allows users to modify running programs in real time. This platform enables developers to embed various elements, including websites and games, directly into their code. With a focus on enhancing the coding experience, Light Table offers features like inline evaluation and customizable plugins, which facilitate efficient code writing and better understanding of program functionality. By providing immediate feedback, Light Table helps users answer questions about their code and gain deeper insights into how their programs operate.

GoScale

Seed Round in 2012
GoScale provides real-time scalability through web-scale servers, allowing businesses to adjust their hosting resources in response to fluctuating traffic demands. This flexibility enables clients to increase or decrease memory, disk space, or processing power instantly, without the need for system restarts. By streamlining the management of hosting resources, GoScale equips companies to respond effectively to rapid changes in web traffic, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

Zillabyte

Seed Round in 2012
Zillabyte is a data analysis and processing solutions company founded in 2011 and headquartered in the United States. The company specializes in developing a cloud platform that facilitates data analysis through its natural language processing (NLP) tools. Zillabyte aims to provide a turnkey solution that allows businesses to build applications without the need to manage underlying infrastructure. As a competitor in the data processing market, Zillabyte faces challenges from established players like Google and Amazon, which have introduced their own data processing technologies.

SolidStage

Seed Round in 2012
SolidStage is a U.S.-based cloud computing company that specializes in simplifying the processes of deploying, configuring, monitoring, and scaling applications in the cloud. The company aims to make these complex tasks as straightforward as clicking a button, thereby enhancing efficiency and accessibility for users.

Compose

Seed Round in 2011
Compose, Inc., established in 2009 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, operates a managed platform for developers to deploy, host, and scale databases. It specializes in Elasticsearch and MongoDB hosting, offering features such as auto-scaling, monitoring tools, replica sets, regular backups, and priority support. The company, formerly known as MongoHQ, rebranded as Compose in 2014 and is now a subsidiary of IBM.

AppHarbor

Seed Round in 2011
AppHarbor Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that provides a hosted .NET platform-as-a-service for deploying and scaling .NET applications. Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, California, AppHarbor enables developers to push code using Git or Mercurial, after which the platform builds the code, runs unit tests, and deploys it to a scalable cloud environment. This streamlined process allows developers to concentrate on creating applications rather than managing server configurations, deployment issues, or scaling challenges. AppHarbor serves both individual developers and businesses, offering support and add-ons that enhance the development experience.

dotCloud

Seed Round in 2010
DotCloud is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service, and is the commercial entity behind Docker.io. Docker is an open source engine that makes it possible to pack, ship, and run any application as a lightweight container.

Trigger.io

Angel Round in 2008
Trigger.io is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in cross-platform mobile development. Their primary product is a framework designed to help web developers create native mobile apps efficiently. The platform focuses on using HTML5 and regularly updates to reduce data consumption, making it easier for developers to build applications quickly.

Cloudant

Seed Round in 2008
Cloudant is a provider of distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) that enables developers of web and mobile applications to concentrate on product development without the complexities of database management and scaling. Founded in 2008 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by three physicists from MIT, Cloudant was born out of a need for better tools to manage and analyze large datasets encountered in their research. The company built a fault-tolerant and globally scalable data layer on top of Apache CouchDB, addressing the challenges of handling Big Data. Since its inception, Cloudant has expanded its services and now supports thousands of developers and numerous clients worldwide by managing and serving application data efficiently.

Trigger.io

Seed Round in 2008
Trigger.io is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in cross-platform mobile development. Their primary product is a framework designed to help web developers create native mobile apps efficiently. The platform focuses on using HTML5 and regularly updates to reduce data consumption, making it easier for developers to build applications quickly.

Heroku

Seed Round in 2008
Heroku is a cloud Platform as a Service built on container technology that enables developers to deploy, manage, and scale applications without handling servers or underlying infrastructure. The platform supports multiple programming languages and focuses on modern app deployment and collaboration, allowing teams to concentrate on code and feature development rather than server maintenance.

AppJet

Angel Round in 2007
AppJet is an online programming tool designed to simplify the creation of web applications, founded by former MIT students and initially funded by Y Combinator. The platform enables users to write applications using a web-based text editor, employing the JavaScript programming language for both server and client-side operations. AppJet provides bundled code libraries, including resources for database management and integration with the Facebook API. To enhance user experience, the company developed a proprietary application virtualization system that efficiently allocates processor time for active applications while limiting resource use by overly demanding applications. Although AppJet's development platform appears to be inactive now, it aimed to facilitate collaborative programming and streamline the web app development process.
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