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Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2005. It has pioneered a new funding model for early-stage startups by investing a modest amount of capital, typically around $150,000, in a large number of companies twice a year. Over a three-month program, Y Combinator collaborates closely with these startups to prepare them for investor pitches and enhance their business strategies. Each funding cycle concludes with Demo Day, where startups present to an exclusive audience of investors. Y Combinator focuses on various sectors, including business software, education, healthcare, and financial technology, among others. In addition to initial funding, it offers ongoing support through its extensive alumni network. Since its inception, Y Combinator has funded over 630 startups, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Gustaf Alstromer

Group Partner

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Verena Prescher

Director of Finance

Geoff Ralston

president

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Arnav Sahu

Principal

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Partner

Past deals in Cloud Services

Gallery

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gallery lets engineers spin up fully-featured cloud environments instantly on their own clouds, regardless of cloud provider or environment architecture. Engineers use Gallery to speed up development and share feature previews with QA and clients without spending hours maintaining custom DevOps workflows.

Arpio

Seed Round in 2021
Arpio is a SaaS that eliminates downtime for AWS applications by making it easy to recover from any outage in just a few minutes.

Inspector Cloud

Series A in 2021
At Inspector Cloud we build image recognition services for retail industry. Our award winning shelf image recognition solution is used by a number of world famous brands to redefine how merchandizing works. nspector Cloud ambitious goal is to set the industry standard for retail image recognition.

GimBooks

Seed Round in 2021
GimBooks offers a cloud-based and mobile-first bookkeeping and business management platform. It allows to create professional and elegant-looking invoices, quotations, purchase orders.

Biodock

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Biodock's cloud platform accelerates microscopy analysis, automating months of microscopy analysis and infrastructure to minutes with our end-to-end AI architecture. Scientists enjoy auto-scaling storage, GPU compute, and 30-50% more accurate analysis. We also have a data flywheel built into our product - we process millions of cells weekly for our free academic and enterprise customers, and we're building the largest image dataset for microscopy images, which gives us a competitive data advantage.

Aspen Cloud

Seed Round in 2021
Aspen Cloud is a software company that offers a cloud-based multi-tasking platform. Aspen Cloud offers several browser-based tools that enable users to control multiple apps together and switch between tabs. Matthew Linkous and Will Ernst founded Aspen Cloud and is based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Arpio

Seed Round in 2021
Arpio is a SaaS that eliminates downtime for AWS applications by making it easy to recover from any outage in just a few minutes.

Kosmos

Seed Round in 2020
Kosmos is a control center for your micro-services. It acts as a UI layer for your infrastructure - a centralized catalog to track ownership and metadata around the software running at your company, observe and manage the changes across your distributed infrastructure and tooling, and ensure their production-readiness from one single location.

KubeSail

Pre Seed Round in 2019
KubeSail, Inc. is a cloud hosting platform founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, that facilitates application deployment for businesses. The company addresses challenges faced by developers, particularly in the areas of deployment and DevOps. KubeSail offers a user-friendly interface for deploying applications on Kubernetes, allowing users to easily migrate between different cloud environments. This flexibility promotes ownership, reusability, and shared infrastructure, empowering developers to innovate and iterate on their projects. By simplifying the deployment process and providing educational resources, KubeSail aims to enhance the overall experience for developers working with cloud technologies.

Quirk

Seed Round in 2019
Quirk is a pioneering personal finance application that emphasizes the dual goals of effective financial management and personal happiness. It allows users to build a money personality profile, engage in challenges, and discover innovative approaches to understanding their finances. By integrating financial literacy with elements of personal well-being, Quirk aims to provide a comprehensive tool that enhances users' financial decision-making and overall satisfaction.

hypcloud

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hypcloud provides a digital platform for commercial real estate financing. We support real estate developers and investors with their financing by providing access to suitable lenders and the online tools to request, close and manage financings successfully.

Cloud Workout

Seed Round in 2018
Cloud Workout is a health and fitness platform offering live fitness classes taught by instructors from around the world.

Station

Seed Round in 2018
Station F SAS provides software as a service (SaaS) for all of web-applications. It provides a smart workstation that gathers cloud-based web applications into a single portal. The company’s features include Smart Dock; it keeps work organized by grouping pages, Quick Search; it finds all applications, Notification Center; it centralizes all web-notifications so clients never miss out on anything, and Single Login; it allows to login once and it does not ask more than once. Station F SAS was founded in 2013 and is based in Paris, France

Scaphold, Inc. (acquired by Amazon)

Seed Round in 2017
Scaphold is the world's most powerful GraphQL as a service platform. The platform will provide a number of services including push notifications, analytics, file storage, custom code, multiple environments, and more to allow developers to build mobile, web, and IOT applications. Their innovative use of GraphQL is the big game changer here. They are convinced that it’s the future of APIs and they want to make it readily accessible to everyone else.

FloydHub

Seed Round in 2017
FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your Deep Learning models in the cloud. Start running your first machine learning project in less than 30 seconds! FloydHub takes care of the infrastructure grunt work so you can focus on the core of your problem.

Scaphold, Inc. (acquired by Amazon)

Seed Round in 2017
Scaphold is the world's most powerful GraphQL as a service platform. The platform will provide a number of services including push notifications, analytics, file storage, custom code, multiple environments, and more to allow developers to build mobile, web, and IOT applications. Their innovative use of GraphQL is the big game changer here. They are convinced that it’s the future of APIs and they want to make it readily accessible to everyone else.

Sixa

Seed Round in 2016
Sixa is a full computer that operates right from the cloud through a client app. It supports various devices and is capable of running the most demanding applications. With it, users can easily deploy a cloud computer developed for different tasks and access a powerful virtual computer without hardware upgrades. Sixa was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Opsolutely

Seed Round in 2016
Opsolutely allows development teams to understand their infrastructure at a glance and control it with ease.

Scaphold, Inc. (acquired by Amazon)

Grant in 2016
Scaphold is the world's most powerful GraphQL as a service platform. The platform will provide a number of services including push notifications, analytics, file storage, custom code, multiple environments, and more to allow developers to build mobile, web, and IOT applications. Their innovative use of GraphQL is the big game changer here. They are convinced that it’s the future of APIs and they want to make it readily accessible to everyone else.

Gigwell

Seed Round in 2016
Gigwell is a cloud-based booking platform that streamlines the process of booking live entertainment. The platform offers an integrated solution for agencies, automating key workflows such as contract negotiation, artist logistics management, and electronic payment collection. By providing tools that facilitate real-time tracking of revenue goals and artist availability, Gigwell enhances efficiency and maximizes revenue potential for agencies involved in the live entertainment industry. This comprehensive approach aims to simplify the complexities of booking and managing artists, making it easier for stakeholders to navigate the challenges of the entertainment sector.

Protonet

Seed Round in 2016
Protonet offers a cloud-based platform designed for small and medium-sized enterprises, focusing on social project management and collaboration. The platform integrates communication, file sharing, and project management tasks, enabling teams to work efficiently in a unified environment. By providing a comprehensive IT infrastructure tailored for SMEs, Protonet aims to enhance productivity and streamline workflows.

Cloudstitch

Seed Round in 2015
Cloudstitch LLC develops a platform for developers, event planners, and newsrooms to manage events on Google Docs. It allows developers to build, deploy, scale, and reuse Web content powered by Google Docs; event planners to aggregate RSVPs, power schedules, and update speaker lists through Google Docs; and newsrooms to control interactive content with Google Docs. The company is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Convox

Seed Round in 2015
Convox, Inc. is a company based in Marietta, Georgia, founded in 2015, that offers an open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) allowing users to build, deploy, and manage applications within their own Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. By streamlining infrastructure management, Convox enables developers to concentrate on coding rather than dealing with complex infrastructure challenges. This approach facilitates the deployment and scaling of applications, catering to the needs of developers looking for efficient solutions in application management.

Kuhcoon

Seed Round in 2015
Operator of a cloud based online advertising platform intended to create ad campaigns. The company's cloud based online advertising platform manages and creates ad campaigns using Facebook, automates the workflow of digital advertisers and optimizes their ad spend on the internet using big data, enabling companies to create ad campaigns and acquire and retain more customers.

Thinair

Seed Round in 2015
At ThinAir They are building the future of data security--and it's wrought with exciting engineering challenges! As a cloud-based SaaS product, ThinAir is the first data security solution that allows everyone—administrators and employees alike—to take control over their most sensitive data in a way that enhances, not hinders their productivity. They were the 2014 DEMO Enterprise's DEMOGod Winner and they completed Y Combinator as part of W15.

Paperspace

Seed Round in 2015
Paperspace is a high-performance cloud computing and ML development platform for building, training and deploying machine learning models. Tens of thousands of individuals, startups and enterprises use Paperspace to iterate faster and collaborate on intelligent, real-time prediction engines.

Streem

Seed Round in 2014
Streem provides unlimited cloud storage solutions designed for seamless media storage, streaming, and sharing. By utilizing its platform, users can effectively offload files from their devices, freeing up local storage while maintaining instant access to their content from anywhere at any time. Streem's innovative approach ensures that it occupies no space on users' computers or mobile devices, allowing for smooth and lag-free access to files across various devices and bandwidths. The service converts media on-the-fly, enhancing user experience and accessibility.

StackMachine

Seed Round in 2013
Instant sandboxed server environments

Medisas

Seed Round in 2013
Medisas, Inc. provides a cloud based service that enables doctors to transfer information to each other between shifts. Medisas, Inc. is based in the United States.

Bitnami

Seed Round in 2013
BitNami provides cloud hosting services. The company enables solution providers and businesses to deploy and manage business applications. It supports Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems, VMware virtualized environments, and cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California with a development center in Seville, Spain. As of May 3, 2019, BitNami operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Streem

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Streem provides unlimited cloud storage solutions designed for seamless media storage, streaming, and sharing. By utilizing its platform, users can effectively offload files from their devices, freeing up local storage while maintaining instant access to their content from anywhere at any time. Streem's innovative approach ensures that it occupies no space on users' computers or mobile devices, allowing for smooth and lag-free access to files across various devices and bandwidths. The service converts media on-the-fly, enhancing user experience and accessibility.

GoScale

Seed Round in 2012
Real-time scalability through web scale servers. In the web world, traffic can grow and fall faster than you can respond, so why shouldn't your hosting? With GoScale, increasing or decreasing your memory, disk space or processor happens instantly, without restart.

Collections

Seed Round in 2012
Collections is a cross-platform personal content manager built for the age of cloud computing. It gives you access to everything you have stored in cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive and in web apps like Facebook and Instagram, as well as your local files. As a universal finder for the cloud, Collections lets you bring together all of your most important digital content, helping you to regain control over your online presence. What would Apple's Finder look like if it were invented today, rather than in 1983? Collections is an Internet-age personal content manager, a fundamental reinvention of the file manager that lets you easily access and organize all of the digital content you have that's currently scattered across a dizzying array of cloud storage providers and web apps. It's a file system for the web.

HD Trade Services

Seed Round in 2012
Mobile and cloud based logistics software.

Zillabyte

Seed Round in 2012
Zillabyte is a cloud platform for data analysis. Build apps, not infrastructure. Recently, Google & Amazon have announced competing products, as follows: 1. Google Cloud Dataflow: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/06/cloud-platform-at-google-io-new-big.html . 2. Amazon Kinesis: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-real-time-processing-of-streamed-data/?utm_source=fee.... . We are a direct competitor to these technologies, and turnkey solution for other platform players to quickly get into this space.

SolidStage

Seed Round in 2012
SolidStage is a cloud computing company based in the United States that simplifies the processes of deploying, configuring, monitoring, and scaling cloud services. By streamlining these tasks, SolidStage enables users to manage their cloud environments with ease, akin to a single click. This user-friendly approach caters to various organizations looking to enhance their cloud operations efficiently.

MemSQL

Seed Round in 2011
MemSQL, now known as SingleStore, provides a real-time data warehouse solution that enables businesses to manage and operationalize diverse data across various platforms. The company focuses on facilitating faster adaptation to changing business needs and accelerating digital innovation by offering a unified platform for data management. SingleStore's services are available through major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as through customized deployments. This flexibility allows organizations to run SingleStore's capabilities in environments that best suit their operational requirements.

CryptoSeal

Seed Round in 2011
CryptoSeal provides Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as a service.

Docker

Pre Seed Round in 2010
Docker, Inc. is a company that develops an open platform designed for building, shipping, and running distributed applications. This platform enables developers and system administrators to create and manage applications as collections of containers, which can operate seamlessly across various environments, including laptops, data center virtual machines, and public cloud instances. Docker also provides an application runtime and packaging tool, along with a cloud service that facilitates application sharing and workflow automation. Originally founded in 2008 as dotCloud, the company rebranded to Docker in October 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AeroFS

Seed Round in 2010
AeroFS is an enterprise file sync and share solution. It changes the way creative agencies, consultants, freelancers, and work teams collaborate with their co-workers and clients. The company’s flagship collaboration platform, Amium, makes sharing information and ideas more intuitive and efficient, and dramatically improves and simplifies collaboration with users outside the organization. The service, which stores files in a private cloud-like platform, stores data on the devices designated by the client. AeroFS desktop and server software can run entirely behind a firewall, including authentication. Their vision is to redefine the current view of the ‘cloud’ with better controls, privacy and scalability, whether for administrators, end-users or anyone else.

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.

Cloudkick

Seed Round in 2009
Cloudkick is a centralized web-based control hub for cloud servers. Cloudkick offers: - graphs that visualize bandwith analyses and other traffic metrics - monitoring of critical server components - nodes and tags for metadata

FathomDB

Seed Round in 2009
FathomDB offers databases as a service, taking care of many of the day-to-day tasks database administrators have to deal with and letting them focus on more complex issues.

FathomDB

Seed Round in 2008
FathomDB offers databases as a service, taking care of many of the day-to-day tasks database administrators have to deal with and letting them focus on more complex issues.

Heroku

Seed Round in 2008
Heroku is a cloud application platform designed for developers, enabling them to deploy, scale, and manage applications without the complexities of server management. Founded in July 2007 in San Francisco, California, Heroku supports multiple programming languages, including Ruby, Java, Node.js, Clojure, Python, PHP, Perl, and Scala. The platform operates using a system of application containers, known as “dynos,” which are distributed across a grid of servers. This architecture allows for efficient application management and scalability. Acquired by Salesforce in 2011, Heroku continues to function independently, providing a user-friendly environment for software development and collaboration.