Investor directory

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 Social Media

SproutFi

Seed Round in 2021
SproutFi is an application that allows investing in the US stock market and works as a social network.

Popl

Seed Round in 2021
Popl is the fastest way to share your social media and contact info. You only get one first impression. Make it pop.

Popl

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Popl is the fastest way to share your social media and contact info. You only get one first impression. Make it pop.

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.

Matter

Seed Round in 2020
Matter operates as a social reading app for articles, blogs, and newsletters. The company is based in the United States.

Jumpstart

Seed Round in 2020
Jumpstart is a social e-commerce platform that engages in helping entrepreneurs to manage their ongoing compliance in real-time.

Allscreen

Seed Round in 2020
Allscreen distributes branded video content to places like Twitter, CNN, Fox, and Facebook to help build an audience for advertisers and publishers.

Molly

Seed Round in 2019
Molly is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that has developed a web-based platform designed to centralize information from various online profiles into one accessible location. The platform features an interactive "ask me anything" (AMA) capability, allowing users to seek answers about individuals. Responses are aggregated from diverse sources, including Medium, Twitter, and Instagram, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of the person in question. By cross-pollinating information, Molly enhances the user experience by making relevant data easily retrievable and organized.

BUMP

Series A in 2019
BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers. Shopping has always been a social activity for older generations used to go to the mall sharing recommendations, opinions, and just generally having fun with friends. Online shopping killed this and they're bringing it back for Gen Z. On BUMP users can build up their public profiles, follow & message anyone on the platform, and even create & share their own group chats. This social experience means kids can hang out, build their online identity which in turn drives transactions. Founded in 2016 and based in London, They're already backed by leading names in venture capital including Kleiner Perkins, e.ventures, and Y Combinator.

Demeanor

Seed Round in 2018
Demeanor is a social application that facilitates the sharing of looping videos among friends, catering particularly to influencers and creatives. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the platform enables users to easily capture, edit, and enhance their videos with various effects. In addition to video sharing, Demeanor provides tools for influencers to create and market their products, offering project management, product design, and customer service features. This comprehensive approach allows clients to directly engage with their audiences, promoting their creations efficiently across multiple platforms.

Molly

Seed Round in 2018
Molly is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that has developed a web-based platform designed to centralize information from various online profiles into one accessible location. The platform features an interactive "ask me anything" (AMA) capability, allowing users to seek answers about individuals. Responses are aggregated from diverse sources, including Medium, Twitter, and Instagram, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of the person in question. By cross-pollinating information, Molly enhances the user experience by making relevant data easily retrievable and organized.

BUMP

Pre Seed Round in 2018
BUMP is a social peer-to-peer marketplace for authentic streetwear and sneakers. Shopping has always been a social activity for older generations used to go to the mall sharing recommendations, opinions, and just generally having fun with friends. Online shopping killed this and they're bringing it back for Gen Z. On BUMP users can build up their public profiles, follow & message anyone on the platform, and even create & share their own group chats. This social experience means kids can hang out, build their online identity which in turn drives transactions. Founded in 2016 and based in London, They're already backed by leading names in venture capital including Kleiner Perkins, e.ventures, and Y Combinator.

Fam

Seed Round in 2017
Fam is the best way to socialize on your phone in a way that's most similar to interacting in real life. We’re a social network that helps you connect with friends and new people through live video chat. We believe that the way people socially interact on their phones is fundamentally broken, and causing widespread anxiety, insecurity, and loneliness - and we have the foundation to solve that for an entire generation.

Storyboard

Seed Round in 2017
Storyboard helps world's top brands, creative agencies and influencers connect with their communities on Instagram and Snapchat.

FriendSpot

Seed Round in 2017
FriendSpot is a group messaging app that helps you coordinate with your friends to meet up in the real world.

Reddit

Series C in 2017
A platform for online communities to submit links, create content, and have discussions about whatever topic that interests them

Signal

Seed Round in 2016
Signal is a marketplace that focuses on providing cryptocurrency investment advice. It serves as a platform for users to access insights and guidance related to cryptocurrency investments, aiming to enhance informed decision-making among investors. The company is part of a growing trend that leverages technology to facilitate access to financial information and resources, particularly in the rapidly evolving field of digital currencies. Through its offerings, Signal seeks to connect individuals interested in cryptocurrency with valuable knowledge and expertise to navigate the complexities of the market.

Themidgame

Seed Round in 2015
Themidgame Inc. operates themidgame, a digital marketing marketplace that connects various Fortune 500 companies with influencers to promote their products and events in fashion, travel, healthcare, and other categories. Its themidgame allows influencers to build a profile by connecting their social media and website accounts; and gathers metrics and creates a public profile that influencers could share with potential sponsors. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

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.

Reddit

Series B in 2014
A platform for online communities to submit links, create content, and have discussions about whatever topic that interests them

Naytev

Seed Round in 2014
Naytev optimizes how content is shared from websites to social media, creating a 30% bump in referral traffic. They use machine learning to surface and discover effective messages in real time, and prioritize those as users share.

Vidpresso

Seed Round in 2014
Vidpresso is the simplest way to use social media in live productions. Their long-term goal is to make it simple for anyone to create broadcast quality media without spending millions on broadcast quality hardware.

DataRank

Seed Round in 2013
DataRank, Inc. provides a social listening tool for collecting and analyzing online conversations related to the business. The company offers insights for marketers in the areas of marketing measurement, competitor benchmarking, influencer identification and outreach, market research, brand health monitoring, and crisis management aspects. It collects data from various sources, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and online reviews and forums. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. As of October 13, 2015, DataRank, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Simply Measured, Inc.

Amicus

Seed Round in 2012
Amicus empowers cause-driven organizations to leverage the social networks of their supporters, raise more money, attract more members, and win more votes.

Newsblur

Seed Round in 2012
NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world.

Circular

Seed Round in 2012
Circular offers an infinitely scrolling feed of content based on people you follow and topics that interest you.

Socialcam

Angel Round in 2012
Socialcam is a mobile video application available for both iPhone and Android devices. It enables users to capture, edit, and share high-quality videos, making it a convenient platform for documenting and sharing life's moments with friends and family. The app emphasizes ease of use, allowing users to quickly create and view videos online. Socialcam aims to enhance social interactions by providing a fun and engaging way to communicate through video content.

Post.fm

Seed Round in 2010
Post.fm offers social email service.

Fridge

Seed Round in 2010
The Fridge is a platform for lightweight single serving social networks for the functionality of Facebook without being on Facebook. The Fridge makes private conversation, media, and event sharing dead simple. The Fridge is like Tumblr for social networks. Anyone can easily create shared spaces, invite their friends and socialize/share photos, videos, music, and more. The Fridge reinvents how groups interact online allowing users to cut through the clutter of their social graph and create lightweight targeted spaces for personal and private relationships, special interest groups or clubs, or any temporary network around events, gatherings or nights out on the town...

MessageParty

Seed Round in 2010
MessageParty is a new kind of mobile blogging service. Users can create and consume content from mobile browsers, a native iphone app, or the web.

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.

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.

DailyBooth

Seed Round in 2009
DailyBooth lets users follow their friends and update them in real-time through the use of pictures and status updates.

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.

BackType

Seed Round in 2008
BackType is a marketing intelligence platform that helps brands and agencies understand the business impact of social media. BackType also powers social features for over 100 companies, including The New York Times, Slideshare, Automattic (creators of WordPress), Bit.ly and more.

Socialbrowse

Seed Round in 2008
SocialBrowse is a Firefox extension for sharing links. It has been described as "a Twitter for links".

Insoshi

Seed Round in 2008
Insoshi is a social networking platform.

Chatterous

Seed Round in 2008
Chatterous is a communications service that aims to allow groups of friends to stay in contact with each other synchronously through any communications channel. Whether a group member communicates via email services like GMail, their IM accounts, or micro-blogging services like [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter), all communications are aggregated at one level for the group.

SocialPicks

Seed Round in 2007
SocialPicks provides individual investors with a trusted online investing community where they can invest smarter together.

Justin.TV

Seed Round in 2007
Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv is an online community that enables users to create, share, and broadcast live videos. The platform allows individuals to stream events, classes, and gatherings to audiences in over 250 countries, facilitating real-time communication among viewers. With a robust infrastructure, Justin.tv supports over 428,000 channels and attracts more than 41 million unique visitors each month, with users watching over 300 million videos monthly. The platform is engineered to handle significant traffic by dynamically adjusting to demand, ensuring seamless streaming experiences. Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv was developed by a team of graduates from MIT and Yale, and it is backed by notable investors such as Y Combinator and Draper Associates.

PollGround

Seed Round in 2006
PollGround

Shoutfit

Seed Round in 2006
A “fashion related community”.

Talkito

Seed Round in 2006
A service that enables its users to meet and chat when they visit the same websites.

Flagr

Seed Round in 2006
Flagr enables users to share places, adding photos, video and descriptions from their mobile phone. They can then create maps and embed them on any website.

Reddit

Seed Round in 2005
A platform for online communities to submit links, create content, and have discussions about whatever topic that interests them