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 E-commerce

Cococart

Seed Round in 2022

Cococart is an e-commerce platform designed to help small businesses establish online shops quickly and efficiently. It enables local businesses to accept online orders within a minute, allowing them to manage their own sales without the need for complex applications or incurring high fees and commissions typically associated with other marketplaces. The platform provides a user-friendly experience, requiring no coding or design skills, making it accessible for independent businesses to sell online effectively. Cococart's focus is on empowering these businesses by simplifying the online selling process and reducing financial burdens.

Kaso

Pre Seed Round in 2022

Elkaso provides a Tech-enabled platform connecting restaurants with suppliers to refill their stock needs or make last-minute orders on demand.

ShipBlu

Seed Round in 2021

ShipBlu, the platform that is redefining the e-commerce shipping and fulfillment experience in Egypt.

Vendease

Seed Round in 2021

VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Instacart, but for businesses.

PideDirecto

Seed Round in 2021

PideDirecto is a powerful digital ordering and delivery platform that enables any buisness to offer a branded on-demand delivery service to their own clients. We empower local buisness such as restaurants, pharmacies, local grocery stores, flower shops, clothing stores, cake shops and many more by building out their own branded website, integrating phone and social media orders and helping them deliver their products in less than 30 minutes. While also providing our partners key customer insights and marketing support. All for a reasonable fixed monthly fee, without eating up margins with hefty commissions and service charges.

Chari

Seed Round in 2021

Chari.ma is the leading B2B e-commerce platform for FMCG products in Morocco

Alephee

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Aleph CRM is a Buenos Aires-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in cloud-based solutions aimed at enhancing e-commerce strategies. It offers a range of services, including the automation of online catalogues, which allows for easy visualization of product listings and stock management. Additionally, it provides tools for modifying product prices, validating stock, and facilitating dropshipping, enabling sellers to efficiently manage product delivery. Aleph CRM also integrates with the Mercadolibre platform, streamlining the sales process for merchants by arranging and standardizing distributor catalogs.

Arrow

Pre Seed Round in 2021

We want to create new, fast, seamless consumer online purchase experiences. No more friction: Arrow's first product is an instant one-tap checkout solution, works across all platforms, and with local payment methods.

Warpfy

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Warpfy acquires e-commerce stores in promising categories and scales this multi-channel systematically into global D2C brands. Taking help of big data approach to launch new products, apply techniques in eCommerce, use different technology platforms to grow them multi-channel, and optimize the supply chain for speed to market, and turn these into superbrands that sell products across global marketplaces like Amazon, Shopify, Shopee, and more.

Cococart

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Shopscribe

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Shopscribe (YC S21 + EF LD16) enables the 1.3M local shops in Europe – like bakeries and nail salons – to offer subscriptions for their products and unlock guaranteed recurring revenue. In 2020, an estimated 800 billion dollars was generated by small independent retailers in Europe. Very little of this is being captured in subscription models. That's because local shops don't have the technology to create subscriptions – but they really want to. Subscriptions allow shops to unlock guaranteed monthly revenue, up-sell their customers, better forecast their future sales and boost customer relationships. Subscribers get rewarded for their loyalty with special perks - such as access to workshops, gifts and discounts – together with special deals just for them!

Cache

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Caches are tiny autonomous stores connected to all favorite delivery platforms. Cache provides the feasibility to sell products anywhere, anytime.

Vendease

Seed Round in 2021

VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Instacart, but for businesses.

Chari

Convertible Note in 2021

Chari.ma is the leading B2B e-commerce platform for FMCG products in Morocco

MarketForce

Seed Round in 2021

MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

ShipBlu

Pre Seed Round in 2021

ShipBlu, the platform that is redefining the e-commerce shipping and fulfillment experience in Egypt.

Chari

Seed Round in 2021

Chari.ma is the leading B2B e-commerce platform for FMCG products in Morocco

Moonshot Brands

Series A in 2021

Moonshot Brands acquires, operates, and grows profitable e-commerce businesses.

Anakin

Pre Seed Round in 2021

Anakin specializes in providing competitive intelligence software tailored for e-commerce retailers and brands. The company's offerings enable users to gain insights into competitor strategies by delivering real-time data on product assortments and pricing from various e-commerce platforms. Anakin's technology automates the monitoring of competitors’ sales activities, allowing businesses to efficiently gather and analyze web data at scale. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Anakin empowers its clients to stay informed about industry trends and make data-driven decisions in a dynamic market environment.

Vendease

Seed Round in 2021

VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Instacart, but for businesses.

Chatbiz.id

Seed Round in 2021

Web Platform to create your own smart virtual agents to automate online store from beginning to end and can be integrated with your chatting app and website.

Moonshot Brands

Seed Round in 2021

Moonshot Brands acquires, operates, and grows profitable e-commerce businesses.

seer

Pre Seed Round in 2021

A SaaS-based sales and communication platform for Luxury retailers that enables sales associates to seamlessly and meaningfully connect their customers to relevant inventory, enabling them to more easily reach and exceed their sales goals.

Balance

Seed Round in 2021

Balance offers a digital payments platform designed to make B2B online purchasing streamlined and friction-free. Powered by its Machine Learning engine of real-time authentication and financial risk assessment, Balance empowers merchants to offer complete flexibility in how and when their buyers pay. By doing so, Balance enables the explosive growth of B2B E-commerce.

BIK

Seed Round in 2020

Bikayi is a social e-commerce platform that allows merchandisers to create their online channel & communicate with subscribers in real-time.

Oico

Seed Round in 2020

Oico develops an online marketplace designed for small retailers and buyers of building materials. It digitizes the buying process and speeds up delivery by leveraging a marketplace of distributed local stores to create a better experience for professionals to purchase building and maintenance materials, enabling independent shopkeepers to improve their operations and grow their businesses.

Balance

Pre Seed Round in 2020

Justo

Seed Round in 2020

Justo SpA, founded in 2018 and based in Providencia, Chile, specializes in developing and operating an online application that enables restaurants and stores to manage online orders effectively. The company offers custom-built e-commerce websites tailored for restaurant brands, facilitating order and delivery services while charging a maximum commission of 15 percent. Importantly, Justo allows business owners to retain valuable customer data generated through its platform, enhancing their ability to understand and engage with their clientele.

MarketForce

Seed Round in 2020

Supermall

Pre Seed Round in 2020

Hyphy is a marketplace where anyone can sell their original photos and videos to brands. The marketplace is a way for brands to source media more quickly for advertising or marketing campaigns. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Eze

Pre Seed Round in 2020

Eze Wholesale operates a business-to-business (B2B) commodities exchange for electronics that allows buyers and sellers to trade in wholesale quantities with real-time market data. It operates an online platform that connects wholesalers of second hand electronics with cell phone stores, international distributors, refurbishers, and e-waste experts. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

GuruHotel

Pre Seed Round in 2020

With GuruHotel, hotels can build a real e-commerce website in less than 10 minutes and directly sell their rooms.

Valienta

Seed Round in 2020

People has been selling to people for thousands of years. Valienta is a marketplace and wholesale platform that connects social sellers with brands in LatAm. Through our platform, social sellers are able to create and supply their own virtual stores with products from curated brands which in turn come to Valienta to reach and sell in a channel that sells over USD $80 billion worth of goods. We create simple tech tools, financial terms, data insights and logistics solutions to rejuvenate a channel that allows over 40 million social sellers generate additional income.

Tajir

Seed Round in 2020

Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.

Rutter

Seed Round in 2019

Rutter is a technology company that develops a unified application programming interface (API) designed to integrate various e-commerce platforms and marketplaces. Its platform allows businesses to read and write data from multiple storefronts, providing a consistent method for interacting with store data across major retail e-commerce systems. Rutter's offerings include specialized APIs for accounting and commerce, enabling seamless integration of e-commerce data. The company's solutions support various use cases, such as revenue-based financing, small and medium business lending, invoice factoring, spend management, and e-commerce enablement, facilitating better management of orders, products, and customer information for businesses.

Rutter

Pre Seed Round in 2019

Convictional

Seed Round in 2019

Convictional, Inc. operates a multi-channel B2B e-commerce platform for high-growth suppliers. It offers electronic data interchange, wholesale integrations, quick order, dropship automation, order financing, and custom services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Matagora

Pre Seed Round in 2019

Their platform empowers online brands by allowing them to seamlessly access offline traffic which leads to an increase in their online sales & brand awareness. Through partnering with physical storefronts whom are willing to shop share their available spaces, you are able to capitalise on the omnichannel shopping experience.

Mela

Pre Seed Round in 2019

Mela Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is an e-commerce company based in New Delhi, India, that facilitates group shopping through platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook. This innovative platform allows customers to shop collaboratively with friends and family, enhancing the social experience of online buying. Mela offers a diverse range of products, including memory cards, pen drives, power banks, mobile accessories, and various ethnic wear like kurtis and lehenga cholies. The company has experienced significant growth, with daily orders increasing by 59%, indicating a strong demand for its unique shopping model.

Covela

Seed Round in 2019

Digital broker for SMEs in Mexico

Encarte

Pre Seed Round in 2019

Encarte is a browser extension bringing one-click checkout to any e-commerce store.. The Encarte Chrome Extension provides additional benefits like automated spam reduction, order history, shipment tracking, and better security.

Zentail

Series A in 2018

All in one SaaS platform for Multi-Channel Online Retailers.

Lynks

Seed Round in 2016

Lynks is an e-commerce company focused on making high-demand products accessible to individuals in developing countries. It provides online shopping services that allow users to order products not readily available in their local markets and ensures delivery to their doorsteps without incurring customs duties. By simplifying the shopping process, Lynks enables customers to access a broader range of brands and products, addressing the challenges faced by consumers in regions with limited availability.

Moltin

Seed Round in 2016

Moltin Limited offers a cloud-based eCommerce platform that provides developers with a comprehensive set of APIs to create online stores and mobile applications. The platform facilitates various functions such as inventory management, shopping cart integration, streamlined checkout processes, and payment processing. Additionally, it enables the development of virtual reality retail experiences. Moltin's tools support the management of product categorization, imagery, and collections, while also allowing for the customization and extension of data models. The platform includes Forge, an administration dashboard for store management. Founded in 2013 and based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Moltin Limited operates as a subsidiary of Elastic Path Software Inc., focusing on enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of eCommerce solutions for developers and store owners.

Branch8

Seed Round in 2015

Branch8 Limited develops a platform that helps sellers to list and manage products on multiple e-Commerce marketplaces. The company’s platform enables sellers to add products offline and sell them online. Its platform also provides price and inventory management; connects clients to third party fulfillment centers; and aggregates orders on multiple marketplaces. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Hung Hom, Hong Kong.

Rare Door

Seed Round in 2015

Rare Door is an ecommerce platform that helps user discover and buy great products available in nearby stores

Moltin

Seed Round in 2014

Zinc Technologies

Seed Round in 2014

Zinc Technologies is an e-commerce plumbing company.

Shopagram

Seed Round in 2014

Next Generation Home Shopping Network

WebCake

Seed Round in 2013

Marketing people modify site.

Glio

Seed Round in 2013

Glio Serviços de Tecnologia Ltda. operates an online platform that connects buyers with sellers through its e-commerce portal, Glio.com. Founded in 2012 and based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the company offers a diverse range of products, including perfumes for both men and women, hair care items such as shampoo and conditioners, and body and face care products like cosmetics, body lotions, and hair removal wax heaters. Glio facilitates direct purchases from suppliers and provides features such as online cancellation and free returns for unsatisfied customers. The platform also includes product reviews to assist consumers in making informed decisions. In addition to its web portal, Glio offers a mobile application to enhance the shopping experience.