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 Marketing and advertising

Plai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Digital marketing is just a few taps away. Discover micro-influencers and new keywords for your brand. Create and launch expert Google Ads and YouTube Ads in minutes. Get the answers you need, fast from Google Analytics and more with voice command. No marketing experience required or technical mumbo-jumbo. Plai is easy to set up with a few taps, and available on the go. It's like having a full-cycle marketing team in your pocket! Stay informed Plai provides tools to help you market. Before creating a marketing campaign or even a social post, you can access trending content in your niche, discover relevant keywords, and learn the latest marketing strategies. Grow your brand Our tools, services, and information are built to be intuitive and accessible for everyone — newcomers and experts alike. Plai uses cutting-edge marketing strategies to help brands create and optimize their digital marketing campaigns in just a few taps.

TagMango

Seed Round in 2020
TagMango Private Limited is a Kolkata-based company that operates a platform designed to facilitate marketing and advertising through influencer partnerships. Established in 2019, TagMango enables influencers to transform their followers into brand marketers by offering customizable courses and personalized experiences. The platform features a diverse range of celebrities and influencers who can be engaged for creating video messages and conducting workshops, allowing brands to execute cost-effective online campaigns. Through this innovative approach, TagMango supports both influencers and brands in enhancing their digital marketing efforts and reaching wider audiences.

Parade

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Parade’s software creates unique branded marketing materials automatically. Companies use our product to instantly generate a style guide, marketing emails, social media posts, and more, all without a human in the loop.

TagMango

Pre Seed Round in 2020
TagMango Private Limited is a Kolkata-based company that operates a platform designed to facilitate marketing and advertising through influencer partnerships. Established in 2019, TagMango enables influencers to transform their followers into brand marketers by offering customizable courses and personalized experiences. The platform features a diverse range of celebrities and influencers who can be engaged for creating video messages and conducting workshops, allowing brands to execute cost-effective online campaigns. Through this innovative approach, TagMango supports both influencers and brands in enhancing their digital marketing efforts and reaching wider audiences.

Demand Curve

Seed Round in 2019
marketing team development

AALO

Seed Round in 2018
AALO BD LTD is a digital media technology startup based in Dhanmondi, Bangladesh, founded in 2018. The company specializes in providing digital advertising and promotion services for businesses, government organizations, and individuals. AALO offers a range of services, including creative planning, content production, public relations, and media planning. Notably, the company enhances brand visibility by running advertisements on transport vehicles through the installation of monitors. Additionally, AALO develops applications that facilitate digital advertising tools, aiming to improve brand awareness and customer engagement for its clients.

Marketfox

Seed Round in 2017
Marketfox is designed to help your small and medium business manage every aspect of your company, from lead management to marketing and reporting of financials

Automate Ads

Seed Round in 2015
On a mission to automate, optimize, and unify your digital advertising campaigns with incredible software.

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.

WebCake

Seed Round in 2013
Marketing people modify site.

LeanMarket

Seed Round in 2012
LeanMarket is a developer of a mobile advertisement platform that focuses on optimizing advertising placements for users. The platform allows clients to automatically bid on advertisement impressions without the need for sales representatives or long-term commitments. Users can make payments via credit card, facilitating a straightforward transaction process. LeanMarket provides in-depth customer behavior reports, enabling advertisers to create targeted campaigns that maximize performance and effectiveness. Through its advertising optimization network, LeanMarket aims to simplify the advertising process, making it accessible and efficient for businesses looking to enhance their marketing strategies.

DemandSphere

Seed Round in 2010
DemandSphere is the result of the evolution and growth of GinzaMetrics, an enterprise search and content marketing platform with clients around the world in a variety of organizations and roles.The changes to the marketing landscape and, by extension, the roles that marketers play, has meant constant updates to data and insight needs by our users. Where SEO, content, email, social, paid, display, offline, and other channels once lived separately there are growing connective ties between online and offline experiences, and onsite and offsite content needs.

Newslabs

Seed Round in 2010
NewsLabs offers a platform that looks to help "old school" journalists adapt to the web, by giving them help with advertising, SEO, and other issues they may not have had to deal with before.

Airtime

Seed Round in 2005
Airtime allows companies to market their products in their email signatures.