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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 PaaS

Vanta

Series B in 2022
Vanta is security-in-a-box for technology companies, covering everything from laptops to infrastructure, and using a suite of simple, effective, and easy-to-deploy tools.

Pylon

Seed Round in 2021
Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for managing their customers and infrastructure.

Waterplan

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Waterplan is a SaaS platform for companies to manage water availability in their facilities.

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.

Vanta

Series A in 2021
Vanta is security-in-a-box for technology companies, covering everything from laptops to infrastructure, and using a suite of simple, effective, and easy-to-deploy tools.

Mayan

Seed Round in 2021
An analytics platform as a service to help facilitate the discovery, analysis, purchase/sale, and operations of Amazon-FBA brands. One-stop shop for Amazon brand owners to understand everything related to their amazon business.

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.

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.

Pangea.app

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pangea.app, Inc. operates an online platform that connects companies with college students for freelance projects, particularly in marketing and graphic design. Established in 2016 and based in Providence, Rhode Island, the platform serves as a marketplace where businesses can communicate directly with students, manage payments through a secure gateway, and rate performance to ensure accountability. By utilizing a proprietary dataset and artificial intelligence, Pangea.app enhances the matching process, enabling companies to access skilled talent early in their careers while allowing students to showcase their abilities. The company's mission focuses on providing equitable access to high-skill opportunities, making it easier for businesses to find and hire college freelancers for part-time engagements.

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.

Pashi

Seed Round in 2020
Pashi develops a software that makes it easy to design, monitor, and optimize production lines. Pashi is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Zaam

Seed Round in 2020
Zaam develops a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for business onboarding. The company's solution provides smart forms to gather customer information with real time feedback, automated background checks on individuals and businesses via a unified application program interface (API), and streamlined workflow and audit case management tools. It provides white label interface for data collection and a case management tool. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Metamanagement

Seed Round in 2020
Metamanagement allows B2B companies to securely deploy their software to customer virtual private clouds (VPCs). The future of data security will see enterprise companies demand on-prem control of their data and expect seamless updates and integrated support. In less than a week, Metamanagement gets software up and running on enterprise VPCs, saving clients 5,000+ dev hours and positioning them at the forefront of industry compliance standards. Metamanagement is the only VPC-deployment service that allows clients to monitor and track analytics, offer automatic updates, and develop with the cloud primitives they already know and trust. At its core, Metamanagement helps B2B companies stay laser-focused on their mission and close deals faster by offering the software their customers want with the security they need.

QueryPie

Seed Round in 2020
QueryPie, founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in data analytics and visualization software. The company addresses the challenges of managing enterprise-wide data access across cloud environments by offering an all-in-one solution. This platform simplifies compliance with data privacy regulations, enhances access management, reduces operational costs, and improves security for organizations. Through its innovative approach, QueryPie facilitates effective and secure data sharing and analysis, allowing companies to better manage their data resources.

Teleport

Series A in 2019
Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere on the planet. Our open source products provide a Unified Access Plane (UAP) for developers and security professionals seeking to simplify secure access to servers, applications, and data across all environments. Our Unified Access Plane solution includes Teleport Server Access, Teleport Kubernetes Access, and Teleport Application Access. Teleport is the UAP of choice among leading companies, including Elastic, Samsung, NASDAQ, and IBM. We are backed by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator and S28 Capital. Teleport is a pioneer in environment-free computing. Headquartered in Oakland, California, we embrace a remote-first work culture. For more information, visit us at https://goteleport.com/ or on Twitter @goteleport

Asayer

Seed Round in 2019
Asayer is an online DevOps platform based in Paris, France, founded in 2017. The platform enables users to debug and automate high-value tests for web applications, providing insights into user interactions and the performance of the entire technology stack. By offering detailed visibility into application behavior, Asayer helps users identify the root causes of issues, facilitating efficient resolution and improving overall application reliability.

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.

Midtype

Seed Round in 2019
Midtype's SaaS Development Kit (SaaSDK) supplies the building blocks for developing SaaS products. Manage users, enable payments, and integrate with your favorite services, so you can stay focused on shipping features your customers will love.

Vanta

Seed Round in 2018
Vanta is security-in-a-box for technology companies, covering everything from laptops to infrastructure, and using a suite of simple, effective, and easy-to-deploy tools.

Copilot

Seed Round in 2017
Portal Labs operates a professional service platform designed for agencies, consultancies, law firms, and accounting firms. Their platform, named Portal, facilitates the establishment of an online presence for clients, enabling seamless communication, document sharing, payment processing, and messaging within a single interface. This service caters to a wide range of clients, from small agencies to large law firms, allowing them to create a virtual office environment that enhances collaboration and efficiency. Portal Labs is headquartered in New York, New York.

Opsolutely

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

Patchwork Security

Seed Round in 2016
Patchwork was founded by two security engineers with the goal of bringing automation and expert security processes to the wider software market.

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.

GovPredict

Seed Round in 2015
GovPredict provides research, analytics, and intelligence for winning public affairs campaigns. Telegraph named GovPredict #1 in Congressional tech in 2018. The SaaS platform gives public affairs and political professionals access to millions of structured documents that concern federal politics, state politics, and local politics, as well as campaign contributions. An integrated grassroots platform supports advocacy campaigns to influence legislative and regulatory proposals. Existing solutions are bulky. Trying to tie together independent fly-in apps, data solutions and CRM is time consuming. We’ve brought all of the most important solutions together into a single platform for public affairs campaigns, so you can focus all of your time on what matters.

Teleport

Seed Round in 2015
Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere on the planet. Our open source products provide a Unified Access Plane (UAP) for developers and security professionals seeking to simplify secure access to servers, applications, and data across all environments. Our Unified Access Plane solution includes Teleport Server Access, Teleport Kubernetes Access, and Teleport Application Access. Teleport is the UAP of choice among leading companies, including Elastic, Samsung, NASDAQ, and IBM. We are backed by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator and S28 Capital. Teleport is a pioneer in environment-free computing. Headquartered in Oakland, California, we embrace a remote-first work culture. For more information, visit us at https://goteleport.com/ or on Twitter @goteleport

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.

StackMachine

Seed Round in 2013
Instant sandboxed server environments

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.

AppHarbor

Seed Round in 2011
AppHarbor is a .NET Platform-as-a-Service. Developers push code to AppHarbor using either Git or Mercurial. AppHarbor then builds the code and runs any unit tests. If everything checks out, the code is deployed to AppHarbor's scalable cloud platform. AppHarbor lets developers spend their time coming up with ideas and developing applications, not patching servers, worrying about deployment, messing with configuration files, or scaling.

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.

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.