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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

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PropReturns

Seed Round in 2021
India's first property investment marketplace to invest in hand-picked commercial and residential investment-grade properties online with detailed algorithm generated financial analysis.

ShipBlu

Seed Round in 2021
ShipBlu, the platform that is redefining the e-commerce shipping and fulfillment experience in Egypt.

CartPanda

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CartX is a digital commerce platform. It offers a complete ecosystem - from storefront to checkout and payments. It enables users to create a beautiful online store without a developer using our easy-to-use theme builder.

PropReturns

Pre Seed Round in 2021
India's first property investment marketplace to invest in hand-picked commercial and residential investment-grade properties online with detailed algorithm generated financial analysis.

Levro

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Levro is a new cross-border fintech platform for international companies. Work with customers, pay suppliers and hold any currency of your choice.

trii

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Trii is a fintech company focused on democratizing access to the stock market in Colombia through its innovative trading application. By partnering with leading financial institutions, Trii has created a platform that allows individual investors to easily buy and sell shares directly from their mobile devices. The application significantly lowers the costs associated with retail transactions, making investing more accessible and efficient. It also enables users to automate their investment processes, which traditionally required considerable time and expense. Through these efforts, Trii aims to empower a broader range of individuals to participate in the financial markets.

ShipBlu

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ShipBlu, the platform that is redefining the e-commerce shipping and fulfillment experience in Egypt.

HyperLinq

Pre Seed Round in 2021
HyperLinq brings institutional-grade software with superior technology for people who trade multiple assets on multiple exchanges or trading venues. HyperTrader is the professional-grade desktop trading terminal that enables easier price discovery, consolidated liquidity, amazing chart analysis, studies & indicators, portfolio management, smart order routing, arbitrages, algorithmic trading, unified market data APIs and consolidated portfolio management. Currently, we support 16 crypto exchanges. The availability of the US stocks market is in works. We will also add Forex markets in the future.

Gotrade

Seed Round in 2021
Gotrade is a mobile brokerage that provides individuals in over 170 countries the opportunity to invest in the US stock market with a minimum investment of just $1. The company has developed a stock trading application specifically designed for retail investors, which allows them to trade fractional US stocks on Indonesian markets. The application incorporates biometric access and bit encryption to enhance security, enabling users to engage in low-risk investments while aiming for higher returns. Gotrade's platform makes it accessible for a broader audience to participate in public equity markets, democratizing investment opportunities.

Flextock

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Flextock is a provider of on-demand warehousing and logistics platforms to help businesses efficiently scale their operations.

Flextock

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Flextock is a provider of on-demand warehousing and logistics platforms to help businesses efficiently scale their operations.

GlobeDX

Seed Round in 2021
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.

BusinessOnBot

Seed Round in 2021
BusinessOnBot is an automated sales and user acquisition platform that provides voice and text-based multilingual chat solutions.

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.

Kanda

Venture Round in 2021
Kanda Products and Services Ltd operates a financial platform that lets users' to get finance, automate paperwork, and get paid on time. Kanda Products and Services Ltd was formerly known as Trade Smart (Holdings) Limited and changed its name to Kanda Products & Services Ltd in April 2018. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Redditch, United Kingdom.

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.

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.

Gamerpay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gamerpay is a marketplace that offers a safe way to trade and own gaming skins and assets. GamerPay is free to use for sellers and costs only 5% for buyers.

gonddo

Seed Round in 2021
Gonddo is a B2B wholesale marketplace that facilitates the connection between suppliers of cosmetics and natural products and retailers in Brazil. By modernizing distribution and providing credit options for small and medium-sized businesses, Gonddo simplifies the process of sourcing new inventory. Retailers can easily find and purchase natural products wholesale without incurring shipping costs, while suppliers benefit from an expanded reach to more retailers, enhancing their distribution networks. This approach aims to make B2B commerce more convenient and transparent, alleviating the challenges often associated with stocking and purchasing.

GlobeDX

Venture Round in 2020
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.

Finary

Pre Seed Round in 2020
An investing social platform where you can talk about investments with friends and make trades on the market. Y Combinator Winter 2021 Batch.

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.

Plunzo

Seed Round in 2020
Plunzo is the best platform for SMEs which automate and connects all your bank accounts, brokers and virtual wallet in one place SMEs are able to manage all the money in just one place and through IFTT solutions, automate any process.

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.

Carupi

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Carupi develops and operates a platform that connects used cars buyers and sellers. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

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.

Proof Trading

Seed Round in 2019
Proof Trading, Inc. is an institutional equities brokerage based in New York, founded in 2018. The company develops tools and platforms that aim to enhance market understanding and execution for investors. Its primary offerings include an institutional equities execution platform called Proof, which facilitates better pricing for trades, and Find My Fills, a tool that allows users to analyze specific stock executions against market trades. Additionally, Proof Trading provides educational resources such as the Market Structure Primer, which aids new employees in grasping the complexities of the U.S. equity trading landscape, and a Market Data Fee Calculator to help users visualize varying costs associated with different market data consumption patterns. Through these services, Proof Trading seeks to address inefficiencies in the finance sector and promote greater transparency in trading.

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
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.

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.

Covela

Seed Round in 2019
Digital broker for SMEs in Mexico

Gotrade

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Gotrade is a mobile brokerage that provides individuals in over 170 countries the opportunity to invest in the US stock market with a minimum investment of just $1. The company has developed a stock trading application specifically designed for retail investors, which allows them to trade fractional US stocks on Indonesian markets. The application incorporates biometric access and bit encryption to enhance security, enabling users to engage in low-risk investments while aiming for higher returns. Gotrade's platform makes it accessible for a broader audience to participate in public equity markets, democratizing investment opportunities.

GlobeDX

Seed Round in 2019
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.

Coinbase

Series E in 2018
Coinbase, Inc. is an online platform that enables merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Coinbase provides various products and services, such as a user-friendly website for transactions, digital wallets, and merchant payment processing tools. The platform allows users to connect their bank accounts to facilitate the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. Additionally, Coinbase Ventures serves as the company's investment arm, focusing on early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. With a mission to create an open financial system for the world, Coinbase has positioned itself as a significant player in the digital currency market.

Zentail

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

Skydropx

Funding Round in 2018
Skydropx, Inc. is a logistics marketplace based in Mexico that connects businesses with independent local distributors and shipping providers for efficient product delivery. The company offers a platform that manages and regulates shipments, consolidating volume to provide discounted rates. Its technology integrates seamlessly with users' shopping carts through API, allowing for real-time tracking and management of shipments. By utilizing a network of independent drivers, Skydropx enables companies to send and receive parcels in a streamlined manner, enhancing the overall delivery process.

SFOX

Series A in 2018
SFOX, Inc. is a cryptocurrency prime dealer that caters to high-volume traders and institutional investors by offering optimal price execution through a global integrated order book. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, SFOX sources liquidity from a diverse range of exchanges, over-the-counter desks, and market makers. The company's trading platform is designed to facilitate real-time trading across various assets and provides professional tools, including reporting and analytics for multi-user accounts. By employing specialized algorithms, SFOX enables clients to execute large trades without significantly affecting market prices, thus enhancing their returns on investment.

opensea

Pre Seed Round in 2018
OpenSea is a leading peer-to-peer marketplace specializing in the trading of crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform facilitates transactions for a variety of digital assets, including gaming items and other virtual goods, all of which are secured through blockchain technology. Users can buy and sell these items directly through smart contracts, ensuring a streamlined and secure trading experience. As the popularity of blockchain-based games grows, OpenSea has experienced significant transaction volume, reflecting its position as a prominent player in the crypto marketplace. Additionally, OpenSea Ventures, the company's investment arm, supports emerging founders and initiatives that aim to advance the future of decentralized web economies.

AutoHub

Seed Round in 2017
AutoHub is creating a marketplace for car dealers to buy and sell used cars from each other. AutoHub is a marketplace for automotive wholesale transactions. AutoHub is a transparent, efficient, convenient and cost-efficient digital auction platform.

Reddit

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

Trade Ghana

Seed Round in 2017
Trade is a platform that connects buyers, sellers, and transporters of commodities in Ghana. Trade allows buyers and sellers in Ghana to trade directly, cutting out the middlemen. You pick your quantity, grade, and price and they look for sellers to match you with. They weigh and grade every bag that they trade, deliver directly to you, and will take back any bag you reject, so you can buy without worrying.

OneChronos

Seed Round in 2016
OneChronos is an independent, venture backed company using cutting edge technological paradigms to enable the next generation of electronic trading.

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.

Reddit

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

SFOX

Seed Round in 2014
SFOX, Inc. is a cryptocurrency prime dealer that caters to high-volume traders and institutional investors by offering optimal price execution through a global integrated order book. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, SFOX sources liquidity from a diverse range of exchanges, over-the-counter desks, and market makers. The company's trading platform is designed to facilitate real-time trading across various assets and provides professional tools, including reporting and analytics for multi-user accounts. By employing specialized algorithms, SFOX enables clients to execute large trades without significantly affecting market prices, thus enhancing their returns on investment.

TradeBlock

Seed Round in 2014
TradeBlock, Inc. is a New York-based company established in 2013 that specializes in developing trading tools for institutional investors in the digital currency market. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes market analytics, blockchain insights, order management, trade execution, team communication, and compliance automation. TradeBlock serves as a global data source, providing detailed analyses on various aspects of the cryptocurrency landscape, including market data, trading regulations, mining, protocol updates, and economic developments. By equipping financial institutions and cryptocurrency traders with advanced analytical tools, TradeBlock enables them to effectively leverage the opportunities presented by blockchain technologies.

Buttercoin

Seed Round in 2013
Buttercoin is an open source, high-volume digital trading engine used to arrange trades in an order book.

Balanced

Seed Round in 2013
Balanced is the first payment system designed for marketplaces from the ground up. We provide a feature-rich, fully integrated api that allows marketplaces to charge cards, escrow funds, deposit next day via ACH direct, and collect their own marketplace fees.

Coinbase

Seed Round in 2012
Coinbase, Inc. is an online platform that enables merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Coinbase provides various products and services, such as a user-friendly website for transactions, digital wallets, and merchant payment processing tools. The platform allows users to connect their bank accounts to facilitate the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. Additionally, Coinbase Ventures serves as the company's investment arm, focusing on early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. With a mission to create an open financial system for the world, Coinbase has positioned itself as a significant player in the digital currency market.

Newcope

Seed Round in 2010
Virtual goods commerce

SocialPicks

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

Reddit

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