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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 SaaS

Vendr

Series B in 2022
Vendr, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides a software-as-a-service solution designed to manage the purchasing and renewal processes of software for businesses. Founded in 2018, Vendr specializes in commercial negotiations, renewal management, and contract logistics, enabling companies to streamline their software acquisition efforts. By assisting organizations in purchasing and renewing software, Vendr helps them save both time and money, making it an essential partner for scaling companies. Its services are utilized by a range of fast-growing business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies, highlighting its effectiveness in the software procurement landscape.

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.

Waterplan

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

Telivy

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Telivy empowers SAAS platforms and insurance agencies with an embedded multi-carrier cyber insurance solution, providing the fastest and easiest solution to get cyber insurance for their small business customers. We are licensed to do business in 48 US states.

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.

Resquared

Seed Round in 2021
Resquared offers a SaaS application that works as a marketing automation platform for selling to local businesses. It helps users to find small business tenants for a shopping center. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vendr

Series A in 2021
Vendr, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides a software-as-a-service solution designed to manage the purchasing and renewal processes of software for businesses. Founded in 2018, Vendr specializes in commercial negotiations, renewal management, and contract logistics, enabling companies to streamline their software acquisition efforts. By assisting organizations in purchasing and renewing software, Vendr helps them save both time and money, making it an essential partner for scaling companies. Its services are utilized by a range of fast-growing business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies, highlighting its effectiveness in the software procurement landscape.

BrioHR

Seed Round in 2021
Simple, modular, affordable, and intuitive HR management SaaS that provides end-to-end tools for digitizing and automating all HR processes such as Recruitment & ATS, Onboarding, Performance Management, Leave Management, Payroll, Employee Files, and more. Easy to implement, use, and scale, with live support from our team of experts helping you customize and configure to suit your needs.

Resquared

Seed Round in 2021
Resquared offers a SaaS application that works as a marketing automation platform for selling to local businesses. It helps users to find small business tenants for a shopping center. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Bento

Seed Round in 2020
Bento is a cross-functional collaboration tool that empowers b2b SaaS companies to give customers great in-product onboarding.

onetool

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Onetool GmbH is a Berlin-based company that operates an online platform designed to provide access to a range of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2019, Onetool functions as an app store for business software, allowing users to manage their software needs through a single membership. The platform simplifies the process of accessing various business applications by offering a centralized login, streamlined provisioning, and consolidated invoicing, all within one subscription. This approach enables businesses to efficiently handle their software requirements while reducing administrative overhead.

Savvy

Seed Round in 2020
Savvy Technology Inc. designs and develops a platform that combines data from various Software as a Service applications and gives single view about customer information. The application imports all the contacts from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and makes them searchable across all work applications. The platform is useful for sales, support, and product team of organizations. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in the United States.

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.

Demodesk

Seed Round in 2019
Demodesk GmbH is a Munich-based company that offers a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) communication platform designed to enhance online interactions for sales teams. Founded in 2017, the platform facilitates screen sharing and video conferencing, enabling effective product demonstrations for both inside and remote sales teams. Key features include automated scheduling, CRM logging, and analytics, which streamline the meeting process. Demodesk's virtual display automatically loads relevant slides and websites at the beginning of meetings, providing real-time guidance and assistance with sales playbooks. The platform also allows for collaborative work through shared mouse and keyboard control, enhancing interactive onboarding and support. Overall, Demodesk aims to improve customer conversations and maximize the value of online meetings.

Vendr

Seed Round in 2019
Vendr, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides a software-as-a-service solution designed to manage the purchasing and renewal processes of software for businesses. Founded in 2018, Vendr specializes in commercial negotiations, renewal management, and contract logistics, enabling companies to streamline their software acquisition efforts. By assisting organizations in purchasing and renewing software, Vendr helps them save both time and money, making it an essential partner for scaling companies. Its services are utilized by a range of fast-growing business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies, highlighting its effectiveness in the software procurement landscape.

Vendr

Seed Round in 2019
Vendr, Inc. is a Boston-based company that provides a software-as-a-service solution designed to manage the purchasing and renewal processes of software for businesses. Founded in 2018, Vendr specializes in commercial negotiations, renewal management, and contract logistics, enabling companies to streamline their software acquisition efforts. By assisting organizations in purchasing and renewing software, Vendr helps them save both time and money, making it an essential partner for scaling companies. Its services are utilized by a range of fast-growing business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies, highlighting its effectiveness in the software procurement landscape.

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.

Sqreen

Series A in 2019
Sqreen SAS specializes in developing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for application security. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saint Cloud, France, the company offers a platform that provides real-time protection and monitoring for web-based applications without requiring modifications to the source code. Sqreen's technology serves various systems, mobile devices, and cloud environments, enabling over 500 organizations to enhance their security posture. The platform integrates application security management needs into a single solution, allowing developers and security teams to maintain engineering efficiency while scaling their security measures. Sqreen was established by a team of security experts with prior experience in offensive security at Apple.

Demodesk

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Demodesk GmbH is a Munich-based company that offers a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) communication platform designed to enhance online interactions for sales teams. Founded in 2017, the platform facilitates screen sharing and video conferencing, enabling effective product demonstrations for both inside and remote sales teams. Key features include automated scheduling, CRM logging, and analytics, which streamline the meeting process. Demodesk's virtual display automatically loads relevant slides and websites at the beginning of meetings, providing real-time guidance and assistance with sales playbooks. The platform also allows for collaborative work through shared mouse and keyboard control, enhancing interactive onboarding and support. Overall, Demodesk aims to improve customer conversations and maximize the value of online meetings.

Zentail

Series A in 2018
All in one SaaS platform for Multi-Channel Online Retailers.

Satchel

Seed Round in 2018
Satchel is a company that assists startups in making informed decisions regarding Software as a Service (SaaS) tools. By conducting rigorous hands-on testing and standardized assessments, Satchel identifies the most suitable tools for early-stage startups, focusing on value and efficiency rather than just features or customer base size. Additionally, Satchel offers a revenue-driving platform that enhances financial operations by allowing businesses to set up custom commission plans without being restricted by predefined templates. The platform automates billing calculations and pricing workflows, syncs usage data, and enables real-time actions based on that data, thereby streamlining financial processes for startups.

Station

Seed Round in 2018
Station F SAS provides software as a service (SaaS) for all of web-applications. It provides a smart workstation that gathers cloud-based web applications into a single portal. The company’s features include Smart Dock; it keeps work organized by grouping pages, Quick Search; it finds all applications, Notification Center; it centralizes all web-notifications so clients never miss out on anything, and Single Login; it allows to login once and it does not ask more than once. Station F SAS was founded in 2013 and is based in Paris, France

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.

Sqreen

Seed Round in 2018
Sqreen SAS specializes in developing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for application security. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saint Cloud, France, the company offers a platform that provides real-time protection and monitoring for web-based applications without requiring modifications to the source code. Sqreen's technology serves various systems, mobile devices, and cloud environments, enabling over 500 organizations to enhance their security posture. The platform integrates application security management needs into a single solution, allowing developers and security teams to maintain engineering efficiency while scaling their security measures. Sqreen was established by a team of security experts with prior experience in offensive security at Apple.

Sixa

Seed Round in 2016
Sixa is a full computer that operates right from the cloud through a client app. It supports various devices and is capable of running the most demanding applications. With it, users can easily deploy a cloud computer developed for different tasks and access a powerful virtual computer without hardware upgrades. Sixa was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ConstructVR

Seed Round in 2016
The simplest way for businesses to test, manage, and deploy enterprise in-house VR apps at scale.

Yardbook

Seed Round in 2016
Backed by YCombinator, Yardbook is the fastest growing SaaS+Marketplace for the $1 trillion Home Services Industry. On average, Yardbook users grew their business by 32% after one year.

Taplytics

Seed Round in 2015
Developer of a SaaS customer engagement platform designed for the world's leading enterprise brands to improve and personalize their apps, websites, and customer communication channels. The Company's platform unifies the digital customer journey, product optimization, and marketing automation in a single, AI driven application. This empowers modern engineering and marketing teams to create robust customer experiences, using contextual data and AI orchestration to optimize customer engagement, conversion and revenue.

Taplytics

Seed Round in 2014
Developer of a SaaS customer engagement platform designed for the world's leading enterprise brands to improve and personalize their apps, websites, and customer communication channels. The Company's platform unifies the digital customer journey, product optimization, and marketing automation in a single, AI driven application. This empowers modern engineering and marketing teams to create robust customer experiences, using contextual data and AI orchestration to optimize customer engagement, conversion and revenue.

HD Trade Services

Seed Round in 2012
Mobile and cloud based logistics software.

Zenbox

Seed Round in 2011
Zenbox is a browser extension that connects all of your SaaS services.Open an email, and Zenbox pulls in your customer information from dozens of services right into the sidebar.

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.