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.

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 Coworking

Go1

Venture Round in 2022
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

Happl

Seed Round in 2021
The community-building and wellbeing platform for the modern workforce

Deskimo

Seed Round in 2021
Workspace by the minute Join the hybrid work revolution! Find professional workspaces for you & your team instantly, with all the amenities you need, from our network of independent workspaces. Deskimo connects mobile working professionals with quality workspaces all over Singapore. 1) Find your Ideal Workspace Wherever You Are Discover the perfect office for you today, within walking distance. Search by location and features to choose from dozens of independent workspaces. 2) No Commitments & No Need to Reserve Ahead Deskimo workspaces are as ready as you are. Find a workspace near you, exactly when you need it, with instant check-in. 3) Never Pay for Unused Time With the Deskimo mobile app, you only pay for the time that you’re in the workspace, not a minute more. We run on your schedule.

Cabal

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cabal is a private workspace to send, ask & update, track contributions, and scale the advisory program for founders &investors.

Crew.work

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Crew.work is an all-in-one recruiting CRM that lets teams automate their outbound efforts, streamline the hiring processes, and gather all the data in one place. Instead of waiting for candidates to apply, companies use Crew to pro-actively contact, nurture & close talent, at scale.

Zen

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zen provides ergonomic benefits for employees. Zen empowers people to maintain a healthy posture and be productive during work.

CollabKit

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CollabKit is a developer of a remote collaboration platform that provides a shared canvas for teams to work together effectively. The platform integrates various elements such as documents, images, tables, and tasks on a real-time spatial canvas, facilitating a seamless collaborative experience. Designed with a video-first approach, CollabKit aims to enhance communication and reduce misalignment among remote teams, allowing them to address challenges collectively and improve productivity.

Hypercontext

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hypercontext helps streamline meetings, goals, and morale into one workflow. It is on a mission to make better managers, helping them juggle their team activities while coaching good management habits.

Café

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Café is a mobile and web app that empowers employees to make decisions of where to work from & empowers organizations to enable teams to collaborate effectively in a hybrid world.

Zen

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zen provides ergonomic benefits for employees. Zen empowers people to maintain a healthy posture and be productive during work.

Go1

Series D in 2021
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

Deskimo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Workspace by the minute Join the hybrid work revolution! Find professional workspaces for you & your team instantly, with all the amenities you need, from our network of independent workspaces. Deskimo connects mobile working professionals with quality workspaces all over Singapore. 1) Find your Ideal Workspace Wherever You Are Discover the perfect office for you today, within walking distance. Search by location and features to choose from dozens of independent workspaces. 2) No Commitments & No Need to Reserve Ahead Deskimo workspaces are as ready as you are. Find a workspace near you, exactly when you need it, with instant check-in. 3) Never Pay for Unused Time With the Deskimo mobile app, you only pay for the time that you’re in the workspace, not a minute more. We run on your schedule.

Foster

Seed Round in 2021
Community-powered writing workflow driven by some of the internet's best writers, editors, and experts.

Satchel

Seed Round in 2021
Satchel makes it easy for companies to rent out unused office space and makes sub-leasing easy.

Turing College

Pre Seed Round in 2021
It is a remote-first college that replicates the way IT teams work in real tech companies, developing learners’ hard and soft skills so they get hired or promoted on graduation.

Here

Seed Round in 2020
Here is a web-based video communication platform that allows teams and friends to connect in virtual spaces. The platform enables users to engage in video chats, collaborate through writing and drawing, and share images and GIFs, all within a flexible and interactive environment. By facilitating real-time communication and collaboration, Here aims to create a sense of closeness among individuals, regardless of their physical distance. Users can personalize their virtual rooms and move around within them, enhancing the experience of hanging out online. This approach fosters community and teamwork in a digital setting.

Cohere

Seed Round in 2020
Cohere is an online portal that offers solutions like real-time guidance, live streams, multiple interactions, and monitoring user issues.

Sidekick

Seed Round in 2020
Sidekick is a new device that runs a background video call to make it feel like you're sitting in the same room as your team. Teams set up co-working hours on Monday Wednesday and Friday from 2-5pm to build team camaraderie and to make remote work less lonely.

WorkClout

Seed Round in 2020
Workclout, Inc. develops SaaS software for manufacturers. Its software provides business intelligence, shipments for automatic delivery slips, floor reporting for idle and down time logging; job scheduling for job alerts; order management for integrated invoices, sales orders and for job ticketing. It serves customers in commercial printing, corrugated, vacuum forming, label printing, flexible packaging, and folding carton industries. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

Workbench

Seed Round in 2020
Workbench is an information technology company that specializes in providing a software platform for the supply chain industry. Its platform enables its users to collaborate and connect to their suppliers, vendors, and manufacturing partners through a modern file storage and ticketing solution. The company was founded by Prince Ghosh and Lucas Fridman.

Mistro

Seed Round in 2020
Mistro Inc. develops and operates a platform that lets employers provide benefits and perks to remote teams. The company assists employers to offer health insurance, co-working space, development classes, food, and IT equipment to employees using Mistro Credit Card. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Demigod

Seed Round in 2019
Demigod is a developer of a comprehensive fitness tracking application aimed at enhancing user productivity and habit formation. The application serves as an all-in-one organizational system that integrates an intelligent calendar, a habit tracker, and a performance coach. This system is designed to assist users in planning their work, setting goals, and monitoring their progress effectively. By providing daily reminders for habits and goals, the application helps users maintain motivation and productivity while keeping a detailed record of their habits. Demigod's innovative approach caters to individuals seeking to build better habits and improve their overall efficiency.

Vizy

Seed Round in 2019
Vizy develops a virtual office software that helps remote teams collaborate more effectively and feel less isolated. Its features include NLP-powered transcription, screen sharing, multiplayer app collaboration, crystal clear voice and video channels, file sharing, and more. Vizy is a tool that handles all communication outside of Slack and email, packaged in a seamless UI.

Tandem Chat

Seed Round in 2019
Tandem is a virtual office for remote teams. It allows its users to see, talk to, and collaborate with their team in one click. It was founded by Rajiv Ayyangar, Tim Su, and Bernat Fortet in 2019. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cocoon

Seed Round in 2019
They work from a small studio space in the Mission District in San Francisco. Their office overlooks a serene garden courtyard that overflows into their space and changes throughout the seasons. Since they're constantly thinking about how to design amazing digital spaces for small groups, they take a lot of pride in their small physical space, too!

Instawork

Series B in 2019
Instawork is the fastest growing career marketplace for hospitality professionals. We've changed how traditional recruiting works for small businesses (e.g a sign on the window) by turning the process into an automated matching solution. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. We're rapidly expanding across the US. We're looking for great talent to help us grow and would love to hear from you! Go to www.instawork.com or send us a note at careers@instawork.com

Comradery

Seed Round in 2019
Comradery is a customizable platform that’s built from the ground up to help communities thrive.

Union Apartment

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Union Apartment was founded in 2017 providing students and young professionals with furnished and serviced co-living apartments through by-the-bedroom lease. It is also an all-inclusive co-living brand that designs, operates, leases, and brands properties to achieve higher performance for property owners.

Go1

Series B in 2019
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

Sunsama

Seed Round in 2019
Sunsama is the World's Time Network. Share your time with colleagues, mentors, friends and your professional network without worrying about scheduling.

Kopa

Seed Round in 2019
Kopa is a marketplace for furnished rentals and compatible housemates to foster community and enhance personal and professional connections. We believe that exploration and community make people whole. Kopa exists to inspire people to get out of their comfort zones, to form lasting relationships, and to live fuller lives.

Cherry

Seed Round in 2019
Cherry is an office perks solution for the modern startup. Rather than giving entire swaths of employees the same benefits, the co-founders want to let people choose their favorite internet services. People will be able to select services through a Slackbot interface and get things like ClassPass and HBO paid for by their company. The company says they have 24 companies in paid pilot programs.

WorkClout

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Workclout, Inc. develops SaaS software for manufacturers. Its software provides business intelligence, shipments for automatic delivery slips, floor reporting for idle and down time logging; job scheduling for job alerts; order management for integrated invoices, sales orders and for job ticketing. It serves customers in commercial printing, corrugated, vacuum forming, label printing, flexible packaging, and folding carton industries. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

The Lobby

Seed Round in 2018
The Lobby Inc. is a marketplace based in New York City that connects job candidates with industry professionals for services such as mock interviews, resume reviews, and personalized insights, particularly in the finance sector. Established in 2017, the company aims to democratize access to quality job opportunities and enhance the transparency of the hiring process. By leveraging the expertise of insiders, The Lobby provides candidates with valuable feedback and guidance to improve their job prospects. The company has garnered support from notable investors, including Y Combinator and various industry leaders, who share its vision of creating a more meritocratic job market.

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.

Key Values

Seed Round in 2018
Key Values Helps software developers find teams that share their values.

The Lobby

Seed Round in 2018
The Lobby Inc. is a marketplace based in New York City that connects job candidates with industry professionals for services such as mock interviews, resume reviews, and personalized insights, particularly in the finance sector. Established in 2017, the company aims to democratize access to quality job opportunities and enhance the transparency of the hiring process. By leveraging the expertise of insiders, The Lobby provides candidates with valuable feedback and guidance to improve their job prospects. The company has garnered support from notable investors, including Y Combinator and various industry leaders, who share its vision of creating a more meritocratic job market.

Worklytics

Seed Round in 2018
Worklytics is a company that specializes in workforce analytics focused on enhancing productivity and collaboration within organizations. It develops analytical software that employs advanced techniques, including machine learning, to provide real-time insights into employee engagement, performance, and teamwork. The platform connects various productivity tools, enabling organizations to analyze how teams allocate their time and communicate. It also offers features for mapping technical skills, automating performance reviews, and generating comprehensive feedback reports. Additionally, Worklytics provides solutions for assessing employee engagement, burnout, and retention risks, along with tools for continuous feedback and performance management. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, Worklytics aims to help organizations create and cultivate exceptional work cultures that attract and retain talent.

Go1

Seed Round in 2016
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

Innov8 Coworking

Seed Round in 2016
Innov8 Coworking is a Y- Combinator backed workspaces and community startup based in India. They provide premium workspaces (managed private offices and coworking spaces). Innov8 Coworking is the first of its kind Thought space in India. They encourage community engagement of like-minded individuals from any space, whether they are founders, investors, freelancers, creators or just want to work in a highly productive zone. They currently have centers across India - Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chandigarh.

Fellow

Seed Round in 2016
Fellow is creating a new way to finance working capital.They're making it possible for the best technology companies to focus on growth,recover CAC and not worry about operating expenses.

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.

Sywork

Seed Round in 2015
Sywork is a live video platform created for illustrators and digital artists.

Instawork

Seed Round in 2015
Instawork is the fastest growing career marketplace for hospitality professionals. We've changed how traditional recruiting works for small businesses (e.g a sign on the window) by turning the process into an automated matching solution. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. We're rapidly expanding across the US. We're looking for great talent to help us grow and would love to hear from you! Go to www.instawork.com or send us a note at careers@instawork.com

Go1

Seed Round in 2015
GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find, consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.

Worklife

Seed Round in 2015
WorkLife is a web app that helps teams have more productive meetings. It is a collaboration platform that automates best practices for managing meetings, projects and people and helps team to improve their performance by using it. It helps to create agendas, stay on track during the meeting, and ensure next steps will be done afterwards. WorkLife is founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Worklife

Seed Round in 2014
WorkLife is a web app that helps teams have more productive meetings. It is a collaboration platform that automates best practices for managing meetings, projects and people and helps team to improve their performance by using it. It helps to create agendas, stay on track during the meeting, and ensure next steps will be done afterwards. WorkLife is founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MerryMint

Seed Round in 2014
MerryMint helps remote teams find and book online workshops and experiences for team building. Users can browse a curated collection of online workshops and experiences that all can be done from each employee's home.

Yumbin

Seed Round in 2014
Yumbin is compact corner store to that offer snacks and beverages in an office. It offers a wide range of curated food and beverage choices.

CodeNow

Seed Round in 2014
CodeNow is a nonprofit focused on teaching under-represented youth to code. They provide free, out-of-school training hosted at local tech companies.

GoComm

Seed Round in 2013
GoComm, a Y-Combinator backed company, is a real-time communications and task management system for distributed workforces. Similar to what Yammer has done for office workers, we are doing for mobile teams, with an initial target market of the companies, venue operators and individuals who manage complex events of various sizes. GoComm brings to these workers a modern, integrated, task management and communications system that works immediately with their current mobile devices.

Kivo

Seed Round in 2013
Kivo Inc. is a technology company based in London, United Kingdom, established in 2012. It specializes in developing an online plugin application designed for PowerPoint presentations, enabling users to upload and synchronize changes effectively. This application allows multiple users to collaborate on a presentation simultaneously, facilitating real-time editing and version control. By leveraging open-source Git technology, Kivo provides robust granular version tracking and collaboration features that extend beyond traditional developer environments, making them accessible to a broader audience. The platform stores content and slide-based changes on online servers, allowing users to retrieve and review editing history on demand.

Sparkboard

Seed Round in 2012
Sparkboard helps large, unwieldy crowds self-organize into small, focused teams. They believe that small teams are the primary unit of change in society today, that the best teams are usually interdisciplinary, and that healthy teams need the support of a community to form and grow.

QuicklyChat

Seed Round in 2012
QuicklyChat is a quick way for coworkers to video chat with each other when they're working remotely. When coworkers aren't in the same room as each other, the "walk up to someone's desk to ask a quick question" kind of conversation tends not to happen. But those conversations are often some of the most important. QuicklyChat is more casual and less obtrusive than conventional video communication, allowing remote coworkers to get more of an "in the office" feeling.

Coderwall

Seed Round in 2012
Coderwall is a collaborative learning platform for software developers to improve their programming knowledge. It is based in San Francisco, California.

HackPad

Seed Round in 2012
Smart collaborative documents. Company wiki. Personal notes. Event planning. Classroom collaboration.

Quad

Seed Round in 2011
Quad organizes your assignments and brings your classmates together so you can get things done.

Meetings.io

Seed Round in 2011
With Meetings.io you can meet face to face with anyone from around the world within your web browser. Meet with a client, a customer, your project team or your co-workers in person without ever leaving your desk by simply creating a tiny meeting room link and sharing the link with anyone you want to meet with. You can re-use your meeting room as many times as you want and you can have people drop in and out of the your room anytime. Because there's no sign ups or user registration needed to drop into a meeting room you can use Meetings.io as an online hangout for real time in person hangouts or as a telepresence system to attend meetings remotely.

WorkFlowy

Seed Round in 2010
WorkFlowy is a tool for organizing your brain. It provides a powerful interface for hierarchical lists. People use it as a replacement for text editors and spreadsheets as organizational tools. They leave it open all day and put whatever passes through their brain in it - project plans, to-do's, meeting notes, brainstorms, etc..

Meetings.io

Seed Round in 2010
With Meetings.io you can meet face to face with anyone from around the world within your web browser. Meet with a client, a customer, your project team or your co-workers in person without ever leaving your desk by simply creating a tiny meeting room link and sharing the link with anyone you want to meet with. You can re-use your meeting room as many times as you want and you can have people drop in and out of the your room anytime. Because there's no sign ups or user registration needed to drop into a meeting room you can use Meetings.io as an online hangout for real time in person hangouts or as a telepresence system to attend meetings remotely.

Team Apart

Seed Round in 2008
Team Apart is a real-time online group collaboration tool.