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 Crowdsourcing

Fieldproxy

Seed Round in 2022
Fieldproxy helps managers within large retail and FMCG organizations to easily create and assign data collection tasks to their fieldforce

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.

Foster

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

CrowdAI

Series A in 2021
CrowdAI, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing an artificial intelligence-as-a-service platform, focusing on the analysis of imagery and video from various sources, including autonomous vehicles, satellites, and drones. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, CrowdAI empowers users to create custom machine learning models tailored to their specific needs without requiring a data science background or coding skills. Its comprehensive platform simplifies the transition from raw data to actionable insights, allowing enterprises to efficiently deploy machine learning models in production environments. This capability enables users to leverage real-time data for informed operational decision-making, enhancing the effectiveness of their projects and applications.

Manara

Seed Round in 2021
We identify and thoroughly vet undiscovered talent. You hire them directly for onsite or remote jobs, diversifying and accelerating your team. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the Arab tech sector by untapping its human potential. Did you know that 52% of computer science graduates in Palestine are women? Follow us and visit our website to learn more.

Flocknet

Seed Round in 2020
Flocknet is building a search engine that allows users to search their Twitter network by job, workplace, location, and more. Founders use Flocknet to hire engineers, and investors use Flocknet to source leads. Flocknet is a CRM and suite of tools for creators, influencers, brands, and marketers to get the most out of their Twitter pages. Flocknet allows users to organize their network with Tags, seek out the most influential people with Filters, and connect with people they find interesting. Today, Flocknet is helping brands, founders, recruiters, investors, founders, and managers track over two million accounts.

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.

Queue

Seed Round in 2020
Queue enables creatives in the passion economy to start and scale their business online in the easiest way possible. We make it easy for you to manage clients, give feedback on any media files in real time, get paid faster, and build an online portfolio that gets you hired more. Used by thousands of video producers, esport coaches, and much more every day. Powering their business end-to-end.

CrowdForce

Venture Round in 2020
CrowdForce is a company that operates an offline distribution network focused on market research and financial services. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CrowdForce leverages mobile technology to facilitate the mass adoption of digital, cryptocurrency, and financial services. The company collaborates with businesses, banks, digital wallets, multinational organizations, NGOs, and government agencies to effectively reach underserved populations in various communities. By providing innovative solutions and a global agent network, CrowdForce aims to enhance access to essential services and drive engagement in financial literacy and technology adoption.

Pareto Life Sciences

Seed Round in 2018
World's first stem cell marketplace - connecting willing donors with patients in need to help facilitate stem cell transplants

Sourcify

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Sourcify, Inc. is an automated sourcing platform that facilitates the connection between businesses and overseas factories for product manufacturing. Founded in 2017 and based in San Diego, California, the platform allows users to submit project specifications, including product requirements and designs, approve samples, initiate production, and receive finished products. Sourcify has gained recognition as a rapidly growing solution in the sourcing industry, supporting numerous companies in their manufacturing needs globally. The company is backed by YCombinator, highlighting its innovative approach to streamlining the sourcing process.

CrowdAmp Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
CrowdAmp is a one-to-many messaging platform. We use machine learning to enable scalable communications over text messaging.

Gustav

Seed Round in 2017
Gustav is an modern contingent workforce management solution. It connects staffing suppliers, recruiters and headhunters online with the best companies in the world to help them hire and manage contingent workers. Backed by Y Combinator, Speedinvest, Pioneers Ventures and world class business angels.

Sixty

Seed Round in 2017
Sixty is the first freelance market network. Our goal is to transform career freelancing from a pipe dream to a sustainable and fulfilling reality. For clients, we want to accelerate hiring from taking weeks to find someone you barely trust to connecting with the best person in the world the same day for any job. See the products powering our pilot economy at www.usesixty.com

CrowdAI

Seed Round in 2016
CrowdAI, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing an artificial intelligence-as-a-service platform, focusing on the analysis of imagery and video from various sources, including autonomous vehicles, satellites, and drones. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, CrowdAI empowers users to create custom machine learning models tailored to their specific needs without requiring a data science background or coding skills. Its comprehensive platform simplifies the transition from raw data to actionable insights, allowing enterprises to efficiently deploy machine learning models in production environments. This capability enables users to leverage real-time data for informed operational decision-making, enhancing the effectiveness of their projects and applications.

CrowdMed

Seed Round in 2015
CrowdMed, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2012. It utilizes a prediction market platform to address complex medical issues by tapping into the collective intelligence of a network of medical detectives, which includes licensed physicians, medical students, and other healthcare professionals. This innovative approach allows CrowdMed to provide patients with potential diagnoses and solutions for undiagnosed or chronic symptoms that have eluded traditional medical practices. By combining the insights of numerous contributors, CrowdMed aims to deliver accurate and timely medical suggestions, thereby streamlining the healthcare process. The company seeks to become a trusted resource for millions of patients facing challenging medical conditions.

RealCrowd

Seed Round in 2014
RealCrowd builds relationships with commercial real estate companies and invests directly in their investment opportunities. This unique crowd-based equity platform was created by experienced commercial real estate investment professionals to allow to decide where the money is invested by offering direct investments. Pooling money with other like-minded investors and working with a seasoned real estate operator with the skills, knowledge, and experience to optimize the asset will remove the traditional barriers to entry that typically exist in commercial real estate investing.

Crowdery

Seed Round in 2013
Crowdery is an online platform, allowing its users to vote on their favorite product design out of a set. It then builds its users a personalized marketplace of their top picks, and top products are opened for them to pre-order at a discount. Crowdery was launched in 2013 by [Maran Nelson](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/maran-nelson) and [Aditya Viswanathan](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/aditya-viswanathan). It is based in Mountain View, C.A.

RealCrowd

Seed Round in 2013
RealCrowd builds relationships with commercial real estate companies and invests directly in their investment opportunities. This unique crowd-based equity platform was created by experienced commercial real estate investment professionals to allow to decide where the money is invested by offering direct investments. Pooling money with other like-minded investors and working with a seasoned real estate operator with the skills, knowledge, and experience to optimize the asset will remove the traditional barriers to entry that typically exist in commercial real estate investing.

CrowdMed

Seed Round in 2013
CrowdMed, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2012. It utilizes a prediction market platform to address complex medical issues by tapping into the collective intelligence of a network of medical detectives, which includes licensed physicians, medical students, and other healthcare professionals. This innovative approach allows CrowdMed to provide patients with potential diagnoses and solutions for undiagnosed or chronic symptoms that have eluded traditional medical practices. By combining the insights of numerous contributors, CrowdMed aims to deliver accurate and timely medical suggestions, thereby streamlining the healthcare process. The company seeks to become a trusted resource for millions of patients facing challenging medical conditions.

Crohnology

Seed Round in 2012
Crohnology is creating a patient-powered research platform that allows any patient to contribute to research for their own condition.

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.

Chirply

Seed Round in 2010
Chirply, Inc. operates a web-based platform that connects artists and design enthusiasts, allowing users to submit their artwork. Established in 2010 and based in San Francisco, the company focuses on crowd-sourcing and crowd-curating design to produce a variety of products, including greeting cards, notebooks, art prints, and posters. Initially targeting the paper goods market, Chirply aims to disrupt this long-standing industry by offering a marketplace for creative designs. Additionally, the company has expanded to provide a B2B platform that assists brands in engaging users through innovative design, thereby enhancing the overall user experience and product inspiration.

Tweetflow

Seed Round in 2010
Tweetflow provides platform to build social networking site. The website aid in crowd sourcing and offers various built-in analytics for brand analysis such as language processing technology, automatic identification of questions, and tweets of praise and complaint.

Team Apart

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

JustSpotted

Seed Round in 2008
JustSpotted is a celebrity-tracking tool that aggregates and organizes real-time information about celebrities from various social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare. Originally known as Scoopler, the service has evolved to focus specifically on celebrity sightings, providing fans with a way to see what their favorite stars are doing at any given moment. JustSpotted collects data from users who report spontaneous encounters with celebrities, thereby enhancing the platform's offerings with real-life sightings. By mapping these occurrences, JustSpotted enables users to easily access and enjoy a curated collection of celebrity activities, transforming the way fans engage with celebrity culture in the age of social media. The service was launched in October 2010 and was developed by AJ Asver, Dilan Jarawardane, and Benjamin Tauber.

PollGround

Seed Round in 2006
PollGround

dynacrowd

Seed Round in 2006
Dynacrowd is a young and innovative company. For us, innovation does not mean improving existing solutions. But to invent completely new approaches, to research and to integrate, in order to successfully operate digital business models. Our goal is to produce software with intelligent and outstanding design. Our solutions are smart and secure. Users can use it sensibly and easily. We promote the dignity and autonomy of the people, by our customers themselves determining how they want to deal with their personal data. We act authentically, respectfully, honestly and fairly towards employees, customers and suppliers.