Consumer Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in San Francisco 2024

November 2024

Browse 98 of the top Consumer startups funded by Y Combinator. Headquartered in San Francisco, these are some of the hottest and fastest-growing startups.

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  • Airbnb
    Airbnb (w2009)Public • 6,132 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 33,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions. No global movement springs from individuals. It takes an entire team united behind something big. Together, we work hard, we laugh a lot, we brainstorm nonstop, we use hundreds of Post-Its a week, and we give the best high-fives in town. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have satellite offices in Dublin, London, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Moscow, São Paolo, Sydney, and Singapore.
    marketplace
    travel
  • DoorDash
    DoorDash (s2013)Public • 8,600 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants in more than 600 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time. Read more at blog.doordash.com, and find us on Glassdoor.
    marketplace
    e-commerce
  • Instacart
    Instacart (s2012)Public • 3,000 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.
    grocery
    delivery
    e-commerce
  • Matterport
    Matterport (w2012)Public • 201 employees • Sunnyvale, CA, USA
    Matterport is an immersive media technology company that is shaking up the 3D / VR world. Our team has built the first end-to-end system for creating, modifying, distributing, and navigating immersive 3D and virtual reality (VR) versions of real-world spaces on web and mobile devices. Matterport offers the world's most inexpensive and simplest way to capture 3D spaces. Our products include: - Matterport Pro Camera for capturing real spaces in 3D. It collects accurate visual and spatial data to map entire areas in minutes and is all about automation and ease of use. - The Matterport Cloud for processing and hosting 3D models - Matterport Portal, our system for viewing, editing, and managing models; collaborating with colleagues; and sharing models with others - Matterport 3D Showcase, a browser-based 3D media player, which allows anyone to view 3D models in their browser with no additional software - Matterport Core VR: All Spaces can be converted to VR and experienced on Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard (in beta), with additional device support coming soon. Matterport 3D media solutions power industries from real estate (residential, multi-family and commercial) and travel and hospitality (hotels, vacation rentals, and venue booking), to business listings, architecture, engineering and construction, news and entertainment, and everything in between. We’re growing fast. If you’re passionate about solving cutting-edge problems in computer vision and hardware design and creating order-of-magnitude improvements in the ability to easily create and share 3D models of real world spaces, we want to talk to you. See open positions at matterport.com/jobs. Try Matterport for yourself at matterport.com/try.
    computer-vision
  • Twitch
    Twitch (w2007)Acquired • 2,000 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay. Learn more at http://twitch.tv.
    community
    gaming
    social-media
    video
    social-network
  • Bellabeat
    Bellabeat (w2014)Active • 134 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Founded in 2014, Bellabeat is a data-centered wellness femtech company behind some of the most fashionably designed tech-powered wellness products and one of the fastest-growing wellness subscription services for women. Throughout the years, Bellabeat built the go-to wellness brand with a compelling ecosystem of solutions and services focused on women’s health. The success of the Leaf and Ivy wearables enabled the brand to expand to international markets and kickstart industry discussions on the importance of innovating in the design and development of tech products. Today, Bellabeat is leading the market shift with hyper-personalized holistic wellness offerings aligned with a women’s menstrual cycle.
    fitness
    health-&-wellness
    femtech
  • The Athletic
    The Athletic (s2016)Acquired • 600 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    The Athletic is a direct-to-consumer digital sports media company committed to helping subscribers experience storytelling in a whole new way. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, The Athletic has over 600 full-time employees and covers more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams in the US, Canada and the UK. The Athletic’s newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth articles along with more than 120 podcasts and premium video content. The Athletic is a remote-friendly company as we have offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Melbourne.
    media
  • Reddit
    Reddit (s2005)Acquired • 2,000 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit is an online community where users submit, vote, and comment on content, news, and discussions. Nicknamed "the front page of the internet,"​ Reddit is one of the top ten sites in the United States (source: Alexa), with hundreds of millions of users each month on desktop, mobile web, and our official Android/iOS apps. Interested in joining our growing team? Check out about.reddit.com/careers
    community
    social-media
    social
    social-network
  • Machine Zone
    Machine Zone (w2008)Acquired • 501 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Live data powers everything we do—from our global, multiplayer mobile games to our mobile ad buying to our live data ecosystem, Satori. MZ is creating new futures for people, enterprises, cities, and countries. The possibilities are endless.
    gaming
  • Proxy
    Proxy (s2016)Acquired • 20 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We're building a mobile and wearable digital wallet that makes interacting with payments, identity, and authentication seamless, fun, and empowering. Acquired by OURA in 2023
    hard-tech
    hardware
    consumer
    identity
  • Scribd
    Scribd (s2006)Active • 300 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Scribd gives you access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more — all in one place, for one price. OUR VISION Inspire the world through stories and knowledge. OUR MISSION Build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience. If you love working with smart, motivated people, you’ll love working at Scribd. We value our employees, we demonstrate accountability, and we take action. We’re one team with a common goal: helping our customers flourish.
    ai-enhanced-learning
    remote-work
    edtech
  • SOTERI SKIN
    SOTERI SKIN (w2022)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Soteri Skin is D2C skincare for chronic skin conditions like eczema. We’re the only non-prescription product proven to provide long-lasting relief for the 30 million Americans who suffer from eczema. How it works: Skin surface pH is constantly in flux, and many of your daily activities can throw it out of balance. People with chronic skin conditions such as eczema have a harder time regulating their skin's pH. Soteri's patented pH/LOCK™ locks skin in at a therapeutic pH for 12+ hours, which is shown to help break the cycle of skin sensitivity, whether you have eczema, psoriasis, or just a bad sunburn. Our formulations are aesthetically elegant (non-sticky, sit well under makeup, etc), safe for anyone to use, and don't require a prescription. Most people see skin health improvements within the first few weeks of application, even for tricky, chronic skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. With Soteri Skin, anyone can enjoy healthy, glowing, pH-enomenal skin!
    e-commerce
    skincare
  • Wanderlog
    Wanderlog (w2019)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Wanderlog is the one-stop app for planning your next vacation, with a focus on excellent design. You can track your plans in our collaborative document, discover new places to visit and hotels to book, and share travel advice with friends and fellow travelers.
    consumer
    travel
    social
    subscriptions
  • Ping.gg
    Ping.gg (w2022)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Ping Labs makes software for video creators on Youtube, Twitch and TikTok. We enable podcasters, live streamers, and more to bring guests into their video as easily as joining a Zoom call.
    video
    media
  • Milo
    Milo (w2020)Active • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Milo is the Family AI. We give busy parents back time + mindshare by tackling the daily details with a behind the scenes co-pilot. By pairing a human in the loop with the latest in LLM capabilities we're able to effectively build a copilot for detailed, high context and noisy tasks, via a simple conversational SMS interface.
    artificial-intelligence
    conversational-ai
    ai-assistant
  • Andi
    Andi (w2022)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like chatting with a smart friend. Andi is a new type of search engine that uses generative AI and language models combined with live data to generate factually correct answers to questions, and to explain and summarize information combined from the best sources. Andi works as a search chatbot that's ad-free and privacy-focused. Ask Andi to... ✅ Answer questions 🧠 Find, summarize and explain information 🔍 Navigate and search the web Search is broken because of SEO spam, ads, and surveillance capitalism. Andi cuts through the clutter to get you straight to the knowledge you need. It presents results visually in a way that's easy to understand with a simple chat interface, and protects you from ad tech and distraction.
  • MBX
    MBX (w2014)Active • 150 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    MBX (formerly Memebox) is a multi-brand beauty and personal care startup headquartered in San Francisco. The venture-backed company has raised over $190M in funding from prominent investors, including Formation 8 & Group, Goodwater Capital, Johnson & Johnson, Pear VC, Y Combinator, and other Silicon Valley VCs. Memebox operates a portfolio of beauty and personal care brands that are co-developed with strategic partners like Sephora and Ulta, using data-driven insights to identify white space opportunities in the market. The company’s products are made in Korea, leveraging the latest K-beauty innovations in the formula, packaging, and speed-to-market. MBX has offices in San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and Taipei, and its brands include Kaja, I Dew Care, Pony Effect, I’m Meme, and Nooni.
    beauty
  • Lugg
    Lugg (s2015)Active • 50 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Lugg is building the best way for you to get anything moved. With the push of a button, you are connected to movers and a truck. They make it dead simple to get your new furniture home, your craigslist purchases delivered to you, and moving all of your stuff into your new apartment. They are located in San Francisco and well-funded by some of the greatest investors in the world, like A-Capital, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. They are a small team with incredibly hard problems to solve. They are hiring and would love to hear from you! hello@Lugg.com Download Lugg and let them be your friend with a truck! http://lugg.com
    logistics
  • Hyper Online
    Hyper Online (s2020)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Hyper is an early stage startup with a mission to build the largest avatar platform in the world. We're starting by targeting consumer use-cases, and our first one is VTubing: an emerging type of content where creators use computer-vision and motion capture to pilot 3D avatars as content creation tools. Avatar content (also known as VTubing) has broken into the multi-billion-view-per-month category on places like Twitch and YouTube. This has given a new group of people the power to tell stories and present themselves on their own terms online while also protecting their IRL identities. Our goal is to build the largest platform tools for this new movement. We're now the #1 US VTubing app on iOS. We also recently announced our seed funding: we're backed by Amazon, Two Sigma Ventures, MakersFund, YCombinator, and other great investors. App Store: https://hyper.online/download TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/hyper-raises-3-6m-from-amazon-and-more-for-its-iphone-based-vtuber-friendly-avatar-platform/
    artificial-intelligence
    augmented-reality
    entertainment
    social
    metaverse
  • Mirror AI
    Mirror AI (w2017)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Mirror Emoji Keyboard by Mirror AI is an app that takes a photo of your face and creates you a set of personalized emoji. You get hundreds of them ready to be shared on messengers or social networks.
    computer-vision
    entertainment
  • Nasdisc
    Nasdisc (s2021)Active • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Nasdisc is a marketplace for the $4B worth of records purchased every year. The vinyl market has seen exponential growth in the past decade - the first 6 months of this year has already seen an increase of 108% in sales. Our platform takes a 12% cut, making this a $400mm opportunity that is more than doubling every year. Pressing plants are backed up years out, bots buy limited releases in seconds, and record prices are skyrocketing in both retail and aftermarket sales. Despite this growth, the only dedicated marketplace is difficult to use, doesn’t process transactions, yet facilitates over $600mm in vinyl exchanges per year. This is why I finally decided to quit my job at Google and recruit my best friends from college to fix it. We’re all software engineers and have been passionate about music and vinyl since we were kids, and have $50k in records ourselves. We started building a marketplace in July and launched our website 4 weeks ago. We now have $1k / week in sales, and $50k in listings.
    art-trading-platforms
    marketplace
    e-commerce
  • Azuki
    Azuki (w2022)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Azuki: Your Digital Manga Cafe is Netflix-style Japanese comic subscription service where users can subscribe for $4.99 a month to unlock access to all the manga on the service. Free users have access to select chapters with ads.
    entertainment
    subscriptions
  • Relationship Hero
    Relationship Hero (s2017)Active • 100 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Instantly connect with a certified relationship expert to get coaching and actionable advice: how to get a date, how to interpret a text, broken trust after cheating, moving on after a breakup, and more.
    consumer-health-services
    dating
  • Phind
    Phind (s2022)Active • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Phind is an intelligent answer engine for developers. Focused on helping you solve challenging problems, Phind uses generative AI to get you from an idea to a working product. Connected to the internet and your codebase, Phind has the context it needs to get you the right answer.
    artificial-intelligence
    developer-tools
    generative-ai
    search
    ai-assistant
  • Svbtle
    Svbtle (s2012)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    A publishing platform designed to work the same way your brain does.
    media
  • Dex
    Dex (s2019)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Dex is a personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch with the people you would otherwise forget. Dex helps turn your acquaintances into your allies. Going beyond the superficiality of social networks requires commitment. If you remember to keep in touch thoughtfully, you can turn the interesting person you met at a networking event into a friend that has your back. I built Dex after failing to keep up with the tools I tried (Airtable, Notion, etc) for relationship management. Installing an actual CRM like Hubspot felt like a wrong fit for my informal relationships -- these people were 'my team,' not customers. Dex is a lightweight personal CRM that’s easy to stick with. Key to Dex is a Chrome extension that enables you to manage relationships while you’re in Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, and the social apps you already use. Dex can also send you actionable reminders (daily, or based on your calendar events) to log your interactions for next time. By using Dex, you can: - Build stronger relationships, by sending you a nudge to follow-up. - Be more thoughtful, by helping you remember where you left off. - Become a superconnector, by making connections you wouldn’t otherwise remember.
    saas
    productivity
    crm
  • Callisto
    Callisto (w2018)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Callisto is a nonprofit tech startup that detects serial sexual offenders and connects survivors with support. Callisto's online system launched in 2015, and is currently available on over 40 college campuses. In 2020, we launched a new offering that combines our unique matching escrow with legal services, ensuring that eventually every survivor in the country will be able to safely coordinate action and share information with other victims of the same perpetrator.
    nonprofit
    legaltech
    health-&-wellness
    trust-&-safety
    diversity-&-inclusion
  • Podcast App
    Podcast App (w2018)Active • 18 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We’re a team of podcast fanatics with more than 20 years of combined experience in the audio space. We are building the fastest-growing podcast player and are now backed by YCombinator (W18). At Podcast App, we are building an audio platform to help millions of people in their pursuit of happiness. Under one roof, we bring the best and most powerful podcasts, audiobooks, and meditations from leading minds and experts around the world. Our love for podcasts began when we discovered their power to make our ordinary day-to-day tasks more enjoyable and meaningful. Podcasts helped transform tedious activities like commutes or household chores into more positive experiences, helping us learn new skills, stay informed, or pass the time with captivating stories. We want to help people in their pursuit of happiness. We’ve been podcast aficionados for years, and, even for us, finding the right one to listen to is difficult and frustrating. With tens of millions to choose from and more being released every day, the problem’s only getting worse. It’s time to fix this problem. Americans spend 30 billion hours every year commuting and doing household chores. We want to make those hours worthwhile. By building technology that makes it easy to access great podcasts, we’ll help millions of people reclaim lost time and experience more fun, inspiration, and personal growth every day. Our product, Podcast App, is a minimalist podcast player enhanced with cutting-edge technology. We leverage machine learning to build customized podcast playlists for our users based on their interests and tastes. If you want to get in touch, email us at hello@podcast.app.
    podcasts
  • Backpack (s2014)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Shopping? Buy overseas. Traveling? Earn some extra cash. Let backpack help you save that high shipping cost or earn a little extra. Backpack is a peer-to-peer platform that connects travelers and shoppers to give people access to products across markets in all continents. Each backpacker, regardless of their role as a carrier or a shopper, follows a simple four-step process to either earn or save money from their backpacking experience. Travelers share their travel information and specify what kind of items they want to carry. Then they wait to get a "backpack request" and ask their price. Finally, they confirm the deal, buy the items, deliver them and earn money. Shoppers on the other hand, search items from their favorite websites and fill out the item description. Then they give their location and find a traveler coming to their city. Finally they "request backpack" and confirm the deal. Within days they can get the product and save money. backpack is founded with a vision to provide every citizen of the world with a choice; the choice of buying organic, authentic, and cost effective products with minimum friction. Whether the product is state-of-the-art consumer electronics, exotic pashmina from the south-east, or even medication that are rare in some parts of the world and not so rare in others - we promise ourselves to get those products to your doorsteps. We would like to reject the counterfeits, we would like to reject the almost-originals, most importantly, we would like to not pay the heavy expense incurred, most of which we deem to be superfluous. Help us make a better, more original globalized world.
    marketplace
    international
  • MTailor
    MTailor (s2014)Active • 11 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    MTailor is an ipad or iphone service for men to capture their shirt size dimensions and have tailor made shirts made and delivered.
    machine-learning
    e-commerce
    apparel
  • Volley
    Volley (w2018)Active • 80 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Volley builds the best voice AI games and entertainment experiences for Amazon Alexa, smartphones, and TVs. Popular Volley voice games include “Song Quiz”, “Jeopardy!”, and “The Price Is Right”. Our voice apps are used by millions of people every month. We believe voice control will become the main way people access entertainment in their bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, and cars, and our goal is to become the "Netflix of Voice" for this emerging category of devices. Volley was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2016. We're a hybrid remote/in-person company, headquartered in San Francisco.
    artificial-intelligence
    speech-recognition
    entertainment
    gaming
    nlp
  • Shape (ShapeScale)
    Shape (ShapeScale) (s2015)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Shape is a health tech startup based in San Francisco, California. We are backed by Y Combinator and the company is led by experienced hardware serial entrepreneurs. Shape has designed a product called ShapeScale. ShapeScale is transforming the way we measure our health goals by enabling you to visualize yourself in 3D and see where you have been losing fat and gaining muscle.
    hardware
    computer-vision
    consumer-health-services
  • Ramen VR
    Ramen VR (s2019)Active • 15 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    XR + AI are the most fundamental computing shifts of the past century. We're using XR and AI to build products that empower creators of online games and virtual worlds. Meaningful games can change lives, and every game starts with its developers. We believe that game devs can change the world. ‍ We're a team of devs working on solving the hardest problems in game development. We previously built the #1 VR game Zenith: The Last City on Steam and Quest. We've raised $40m+ to date and have been working in stealth on our next game as well as tools that will shape the future of game development.
    artificial-intelligence
    virtual-reality
    gaming
    social
    ar
  • Buy Me a Coffee
    Buy Me a Coffee (w2019)Active • 30 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Buy Me a Coffee is a fast and beautiful way to fund your creative work. Loved by over a million creators. ☕️
    fintech
    marketplace
  • GoGoGrandparent
    GoGoGrandparent (s2016)Active • 250 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    GoGoGrandparent is a virtual retirement community that offers rides, meals, medication, groceries, home maintenance & community for older adults living at home. All services are accessible via regular phone call (no special technology required) and all service providers are vetted & screened. All requests are monitored for greater than 99% reliability, many of our clients rely on us to live years longer in their home.
    assistive-tech
    consumer-health-services
  • Pushbullet
    Pushbullet (w2014)Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Pushbullet connects your devices, making it easy and automatic to share almost anything between them. Our mission is to bridge the gap between your phone, tablet, and computer, enabling them to work better together. Why is this important? Simple: in the past few years, smartphones and tablets have taken over people's digital lives. Sharing data between them and with computers, however, can be a real pain. We make it easy and automatic.
    notifications
  • Curtsy
    Curtsy (s2016)Active • 15 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Curtsy is [an app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curtsy-thrifting-delivered/id1029107786) that lets women buy and sell clothing, shoes, and accessories from their phones. Curtsy doesn't hold inventory; all orders ship directly from sellers to buyers. We make money by deducting a 20% fee from each sale. Curtsy's go-to-market strategy has been to focus on ~Gen Z women ages 15-30, who are underserved by the major players in the space like Poshmark and Ebay.
    marketplace
    sustainable-fashion
    e-commerce
  • HER
    HER (s2015)Active • 10 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    HER is here to connect womxn and queer people. Our dating app helps LGBTQ+ folks express their identity fully and unequivocally to meet someone for love, lust or anything in between. Our communities connect people to each other socially around interests and identity. Group chats around what's important to you as well as listings of LGBTQ+ evens taking place in your area. HER also hosts events in 12 cities across the world, helping queer womxn meet in person. Our parties are typically 300-600 people per event and we host 4 per month.
    consumer
  • SockSoho
    SockSoho (s2020)Active • 22 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    SockSoho is India's largest DTC sock brand. We are on a mission to build the next Uniqlo and socks is just our starting point.
    consumer
    e-commerce
  • Joy
    Joy (s2016)Active • 60 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Joy is a software platform with a mission to help the world celebrate better together. Our software helps everyone plan and remember all of life's events. Big or small, Joy is there every step of the way.
    saas
    consumer
    media
    e-commerce
    retail
  • Snackpass
    Snackpass (w2018)Active • 38 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Skip the line, collect points and send gifts to friends 🎁 Snackpass is an app that makes ordering food more convenient, affordable and social.
    marketplace
    e-commerce
  • Upgraded
    Upgraded (s2016)Active • 13 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Upgraded helps retailers and carriers sell devices on subscription. Subscribers pay monthly and can upgrade anytime. Smartphones, laptops, tablets and more. Creating and managing these programs involves lender integrations, residual value management and building great software — resellers don’t know how to do this.  Upgraded provides the infrastructure to launch immediately, keep customers loyal and cut replacement cycles in half. Device financing is a $541B market globally. US carrier financing grew from $13B to $51B in the last four years.  Upgraded partners include Apple, Dixons/Elkjøp, MediaMarkt and Vodafone. Upgraded was founded in 2016. Investors include Y Combinator and GRIL Ventures. Upgraded is led by CEO John Erik Metcalf and CTO Ziad Sawalha.
    fintech
    retail
  • Ever Loved
    Ever Loved (s2019)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Ever Loved is a one-stop-shop to help families plan better funerals with less stress. Ever Loved makes it easy to come up with the funds needed ($9,000 on average), find the best vendors and products, and communicate with the community of the deceased to bring people together, both online and offline.
    marketplace
  • LootRush
    LootRush (s2021)Active • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We create an affordable way for gamers to start playing crypto games and a secure way for investors to earn yield through NFTs.
    cloud-gaming
    crypto-web3
  • Rosebud AI
    Rosebud AI (s2019)Active • 10 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Rosebud is building the AI Roblox. We will make it 1000X easier for a community of game devs to create and enjoy the games of their dreams. ‍ We’re a team of PhD researchers, creatives and engineers building the generative AI platform to enable game creation at the speed of thought. We believe all media creation will be done via generative methods in a few years. We're building that future.
    artificial-intelligence
    developer-tools
    generative-ai
    machine-learning
    gaming
  • Shred Video
    Shred Video (s2015)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Shred Video, a new startup launching out of Y Combinator, allows users to take footage from their iPhone, GoPro or drone and simply match it with a song from the user’s iTunes library. That’s all. Shred Video does the rest of the work. Taking into account the acceleration of the camera itself, Shred Video can pin-point the moments of action for surfers, snowboarders, skaters and other acceleration-based sports to highlight all of the coolest clips in your footage. And beyond that, Shred Video matches those epic moments with the beat-drop of the song.
    travel
    video
  • Markhor
    Markhor (s2015)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Markhor's leather footwear and accessories are handcrafted by some of the most skilled artisans in the subcontinent.
    fashion
  • SpotAngels
    SpotAngels (s2014)Active • 11 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    SpotAngels is Waze for parking. It helps drivers find free parking, protect themselves from parking tickets and get garage deals.
    navigation
  • Replika
    Replika (w2015)Active • 28 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Luka is a software development company based in San Francisco, California. The company created Luka app, a new messenger with AI-powered chatbots. They help you find places to eat, do web search, make plans together, pick places to eat, play trivia games and lots of other things in a messenger. In 2016 Luka launched a closed testing of Replika, a new app that allows to create a personal AI friend that helps people deal with loneliness. The app is powered by a proprietary deep learning architecture.
    mental-health
    conversational-ai
  • Shef
    Shef (w2019)Active • 100 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    At Shef, we’re rebuilding the food system from scratch, redefining who can participate in the food economy, and returning personal connection to the making, eating, and sharing of food. Shef is an online marketplace for local, food safety certified cooks to connect with customers in their community and earn a meaningful income selling homemade dishes. 75% of shefs are women and 80% are people of color. Together, they represent nearly 100 countries around the world, from Algeria to Korea, to India and Venezuela. Shefs are aunties and abuelas, immigrants and refugees, stay-at-home parents and restaurant dreamers. They’re passionate local cooks in your community who are doing what they love most — sharing their food and culture with you. Shef is also part of a growing movement to build a more inclusive food system for all. We are proud to support and champion advocacy efforts to expand home cooking laws across the country so that talented cooks everywhere can earn a meaningful income from their own kitchens. Join us: https://jobs.lever.co/shef
    marketplace
    consumer
    food
    food-tech
  • Instapainting
    Instapainting (w2011)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Instapainting turns any photo (from your phone, Facebook, Instagram, DSLR, the internet) into a hand-painted oil painting on real canvas, for $45 (for 10"x10"), and delivered in less than two weeks. The company is backed by Y Combinator and Start Fund (SV Angel and Yuri Milner). Customers include founder and CEO of Pebble Technology, Eric Migicovsky, and founder and CEO of Apportable, Inc., Collin Jackson.
  • Jupiter
    Jupiter (s2019)Active • 8 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    grocery
    marketplace
    e-commerce
    food-&-beverage
    advertising
  • Nobell Foods
    Nobell Foods (s2017)Active • 58 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Nobell Foods is creating cheese and other dairy products from plant-derived dairy proteins for the 99% of people who are unwilling to compromise on taste and price.
    sustainability
    climate
    food-tech
    climatetech
  • StartPlaying.Games
    StartPlaying.Games (w2020)Active • 6 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    ✨ Hello! ✨ - StartPlaying.Games is the largest marketplace for finding game masters to host digital tabletop games like D&D. Today, more than 40 million people play D&D around the world and sales have grown by double-digit percentages for the last five consecutive years. But still finding people to host and play these games with is challenging. Most solutions involve digging through discord servers, reddit, and specialty forums. We built StartPlaying.Games to solve this problem.
    marketplace
    entertainment
    social
  • Labdoor
    Labdoor (w2015)Active • 11 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Labdoor is a marketplace where consumers research, find, and buy the best supplements. To verify the purity and potency of these products, Labdoor first buys and tests actual dietary supplement samples: • We send each product to an FDA-registered laboratory for a detailed chemical analysis. • Our scientists then collect the laboratory results and use internal algorithms to translate this data into simple grades and rankings for consumers. • Find a product you love? Click "buy it now" to activate in-app purchases.
    marketplace
    consumer-health-services
  • Short Story
    Short Story (s2019)Active • 120 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Short Story is a style discovery platform to help petite women find clothes that fit. The average American woman is 5'4" and petite, yet this remains an enormously underserved segment. We’re a team of curators passionate about finding style, quality, and fit for petite women. Our mission is to remove the “ugh” from the shopping equation and support petite women in telling their stories, stylishly and confidently.
    machine-learning
    marketplace
    e-commerce
  • Matter
    Matter (s2020)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Matter is a powerful, modern reading app that lets you save media from anywhere, pulls in your newsletters, lets you listen to your articles in a natural voice, and much more.
  • Gather
    Gather (s2019)Active • 60 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Gather is a video chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human. Our mission is to create opportunity and connection for everyone, no matter where they are. We do this by building the Metaverse, a virtual layer over the physical world where people can work, socialize, and learn. Since we launched in May of 2020, Gather has brought millions of people together. We have raised a total of $77 million in Series A and B from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, and more. We’re a small, friendly team based out of a state-of-the-art virtual office, where you can work whenever and wherever suits you. Come join us! https://www.fastcompany.com/90692692/gather-inclusive-metaverse-vr
    metaverse
  • Priime
    Priime (w2015)Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Priime's founding team of lifetime photographers are made up of Y Combinator alumni who are also seasoned developers and designers. Combining our passion in photography, with our experience and skills of product design and development, we are setting out to lead the world in improving the overall quality of shared photos.
  • Ozone
    Ozone (w2022)Active • 8 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Ozone is the world’s first collaborative video editor in the cloud. We are making the world a more creative place by building the next generation of creative tools.
    productivity
    collaboration
    design-tools
  • Directed Edge (s2009)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Directed Edge delivers Amazon-like "People who bought this also bought..." and "We think you'd also like"-style recommendations to other sites, using existing data being collected such as purchase or click histories. Recommendations are served in real-time via a REST API, with language bindings in several programming languages to make integration easy.
    artificial-intelligence
    machine-learning
    recommendation-system
  • Playground
    Playground (s2019)Active • 18 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Playground combines AI research and product design to invent new kinds of creative tools.
    artificial-intelligence
    generative-ai
  • Orbillion Bio
    Orbillion Bio (w2021)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Intro to Orbillion Bio: https://youtu.be/Rql0eteqQ-o Orbillion Bio will be the first company to bring premium lab grown meat to the market. We will replace prime beef and wagyu with an ethical alternative that tastes amazing. The founders Patricia Bubner, PhD, Samet Yildirim, MSc, MBS and Gabriel Levesque-Tremblay, PhD have over 30 years of combined experience in business and product development, bioprocessing and biopharma. After only 4 months of development time, Orbillion has four different flavorful meats growing in the lab: wagyu beef, elk, sheep and American bison. Using their proprietary platform technology, Orbillion is rapidly decreasing the cost of cultivated meat. Major investors in our pre seed round were Y Combinator, New Protein Fund, Joyance Partners and Venture Souq. https://www.orbillion.com/
    cultured-meat
    climate
    food-tech
  • Petcube
    Petcube (w2016)Active • 51 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Petcube is a company reimagining pet care, and using technology to keep people connected with their pets. Its first product, Petcube Camera, is an interactive pet monitor with real time video and built-in laser pointer. It allows pet owners to watch, talk to, and play with their pet from their smartphone, no matter where they are. Founded in Kyiv in 2013, Petcube was funded on Kickstarter and became one of the most successful crowdfunding pet products in history. Since graduating from the prestigious Y-Combinator incubation program, Petcube has gone on to launch two additional products, Petcube Play and Petcube Bites, as well as a cloud video recording service, Petcube Care. Petcube products are available online and in stores including Brookstone, Best Buy, and Petco.
    hardware
  • Legionfarm
    Legionfarm (w2020)Active • 75 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    LegionFarm lets gamers pay to play with professional players, helping customers have more fun playing, learn to be a better gamer, and conquer difficult parts of video games. Legionfarm Pros want to monetize their skills by turning their hobbies into real careers. They are the top 1% of players. They have a massive impact on the success of gaming companies - and we want to allow these top players to hold their dream jobs in virtual worlds. Over the past year, Legionfarm organized over 400,000 gaming sessions with our 7,000 Pros. Legionfarm provides access to unique entertainment on a global scale while creating new jobs in virtual worlds at the same time
    gaming
    esports
  • Rune
    Rune (w2019)Active • 10 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Rune is the best place to talk and play multiplayer games with your friends. Users hang out on Rune’s mobile app, sharing laughs on our voice chat as they play amazing indie multiplayer games together! And developers build these games right on the Rune platform. Developers leverage the Rune SDK to build multiplayer games without needing a single line of backend code. They launch their game on Rune and instantly, thousands of passionate friend groups play it together on voice chat right inside the Rune app! Rune's beta has grown rapidly, with over 50 games built for the platform ranging from multiplayer mini-golf to real-time 3D racing games. The SDK supercharges game creation, with many of our games built in under a week! And these games are played like crazy too — friends have spent over 50 million minutes hanging out and playing our new games together already.
    gaming
    social
  • Simplify
    Simplify (w2021)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Simplify is re-imagining the hiring and job-searching process. We're building tools to democratize the job search, no matter what your background is, where you live or what school you attended. Our first product is Copilot, and we're rapidly expanding on both the candidate and recruiter fronts. We've helped facilitate over 20m+ applications in just the last year, and are doubling down on our vision of building a common app and personal AI agent for your career.
    generative-ai
    machine-learning
    marketplace
    recruiting
  • Spellbrush
    Spellbrush (w2018)Active • 20 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Here at Spellbrush, we're passionate about making a good anime game. We also happen to be the world's leading generative AI studio — we're the team behind niji・journey. We are currently investigating how AI can be used to help human artists perform masterpieces in the most complex medium of our times: video games. Our games are characterized by a no-compromise approach to well-balanced gameplay married to a truthful love of visual arts.
    artificial-intelligence
    deep-learning
    generative-ai
    gaming
  • CAPSULE
    CAPSULE (s2022)Active • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    CAPSULE is a mobile app that makes it easy to save and buy the things you find on any social media platform. Just snap a screenshot of anything you like, from any platform, and we search the entire internet to instantly give you shoppable links. Instead of searching hundreds of websites and sifting through thousands of products on your own, CAPSULE lets you find inspiration from anywhere and uses advanced machine learning to return results that feel like magic.
    artificial-intelligence
    generative-ai
    machine-learning
    computer-vision
    e-commerce
  • Scope AR
    Scope AR (s2015)Active • 50 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Scope AR is the pioneer of enterprise-class augmented reality (AR) solutions, delivering AR tools for getting workers the knowledge they need, when and where they need it. Scope AR is revolutionizing the way enterprises work and collaborate with intuitive augmented reality tools that deliver the real-time knowledge sharing needed to conduct complex remote tasks, employee training, product and equipment assembly, maintenance and repair, field and customer support, and more. Remote AR Remote AR is an augmented reality telepresence tool; the expert has access to the field technician’s view through their hardware device (tablet, glasses, or smart phone) and can add or manipulate augmented content to aid the technician in completing the process efficiently and safely. WorkLink A product that we can license to our clients, which will allow you to build, deploy, and manage your own augmented reality solutions. WorkLink also provides unprecedented levels of access to information generated by work processes, both active (measurements, photos etc) and passive (date,time and geolocation etc)
    saas
    augmented-reality
  • Campfire (applied AI company)
    Campfire (applied AI company) (w2022)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Campfire is building the next generation of games powered by AI. Our first product is a game with LLM-based AI agents at the heart of the gameplay experience along with the tools to realize these worlds. Advent of AI is going to change entertainment more than 3D rendering or the internet. We're following in foot steps of Pixar and Epic Games in creating a paradigm shifting company at the intersection of creativity and technology.
    artificial-intelligence
    generative-ai
    consumer
    b2b
    gaming
  • Jamble
    Jamble (s2022)Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Jamble is the new place to buy & sell secondhand fashion. We empower resellers with video & Live streaming tools to sell more effectively; and buyers with a unique compelling experience. Jamble is designed for the sustainable fashion community to engage, connect and inspire. We’re a mobile-first platform and launched on iOS! 👉 Check us out: https://apple.co/3Pfwran
    marketplace
    sustainable-fashion
    consumer
    social
    creator-economy
  • Hotplate
    Hotplate (s2020)Active • 6 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Hotplate is changing how people sell food across the US by giving Chefs and Bakers the tools necessary to solo launch and manage a food business online. There are talented people around the world capable of making amazing food, but either due to a lack of awareness, financial constraints, or the daunting overhead costs associated with traditional brick-and-mortar businesses, many never venture into this space independently. Hotplate is fueling a new model of food sales, allowing anyone to create a storefront, announce a sale, and coordinate local pickups with hundreds, or even thousands of customers—all within a 10-minute setup. Our aim is to make the food industry more available to everyone with the desire to enter it, consequently making food more accessible and diverse across the United States.
  • Purple Plate
    Purple Plate (s2018)Active • 45 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We're a food delivery logistics and culinary company that empowers restaurants to tap into the explosive world of food delivery. We build delivery-native, multi-restaurant virtual kitchens that allow our restaurant partners to expand their delivery footprint to reach new customers. Our fully staffed kitchens handle cooking, delivery, and fulfillment on behalf of restaurant partners so they can focus on what they do best.
    ghost-kitchens
    delivery
  • The Essential
    The Essential (w2017)Active • 11 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    The Essential is e-commerce 2.0. What we do We make and sell the single best version of all your essentials, at the best price possible. How we do it We're not an "everything store."We sell only the essentials, we're members-only and we only sell our own brand. We cut out the middlemen, the brands, the physical stores and the markups — to make products cost a lot less, all while paying the producer more. Why we do it To add meaning to people’s lives through products they use and love, made by people who know and care, with stories that matter, and means that are honest.
    e-commerce
    food-tech
  • Proven Group
    Proven Group (w2018)Active • 40 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Proven is a data powered skincare company that creates personalized skincare products based on more than 47 factors about an individual's skin, genetic background, lifestyle and environment. Our formulations are rooted in the largest beauty database in the world, the proprietary Skin Genome Project, built in-house by Proven's cofounder Amy Yuan, a computational physicist from Stanford. The database has won MIT's AI Technology of the Year award and encompasses more than 20Million consumer datapoints and thousands of scientific articles on skin. Our challenge now is to tell the story of Proven, and share our industry leading personalized skincare products with the world.
    artificial-intelligence
    machine-learning
    consumer
    e-commerce
  • Poly
    Poly (s2022)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    A personal cloud storage platform that's so good, it'll replace Finder / File Explorer on your desktop. Find anything with multi-modal, natural language search. Browse with a lightning fast interface that feels just like native. Organize, tag, view, edit, share, and more.
    artificial-intelligence
    generative-ai
    consumer
    api
  • Bentocart
    Bentocart (w2019)Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Last-mile delivery for perishables.
    marketplace
    logistics
    food-tech
  • GiveAway
    GiveAway (w2020)Active • 1 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We help to get rid of the things in your house that are no longer needed without spending any time or money. Our users bid on your items with virtual coins and can often find great products up to 95% off.
    marketplace
    social-network
  • Pillar
    Pillar (s2019)Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Pillar is the all-in-one business platform for content creators and talent managers.
    e-commerce
  • Beacons
    Beacons (s2019)Active • 40 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Helping creators build smarter and more successful businesses with websites, email marketing, ecommerce, and more.
    saas
  • Sketchbox
    Sketchbox (w2018)Active • 20 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Sketchbox is like WordPress for VR training simulations, we’ve built the underlying infrastructure that makes creating and updating VR training simulations fast. We primarily work with Fortune 500 companies, and all of our training sims include full student analytics and no-code scenario editors. All training simulations designed with Sketchbox work on the next generation of portable VR headsets, which are battery powered, don’t require a laptop and cost $400.
    augmented-reality
    virtual-reality
  • Delight
    Delight (s2022)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Delight is an AI copilot to help singles find and succeed in relationships. We’ve started with helping singles looking for a serious relationship find the right partner. For example, they talk to our AI copilot, as if they’re talking to a human matchmaker, in plain English they specify their preferences. They can be as specific as possible, e.g. someone with an entrepreneurial spirit, who appreciates fine art, enjoys discussing politics and comes from a big family. Our technology then finds their ideal partner. So far, we've helped create over 10,000 couples and in the future our AI copilot will offer these couples support for relationship success, like improving their communication, financial planning, couple’s legal assistance, and navigating life events.
    generative-ai
    machine-learning
    consumer
    dating
    ai
  • BuildZoom
    BuildZoom (w2013)Active • 100 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    BuildZoom is a better way to remodel. We connect homeowners to the most reliable general contractors in their area and make remodeling simpler, cheaper and more predictable. Our technology harvests public data on every licensed contractor in the United States, including license information, building permits, bond and insurance information and other government records. We use this public data along with private data gleaned from past BuildZoom marketplace interactions to evaluate contractor quality, availability, and fit for each construction project. Our goal is to help project owners arrive at several competitive bids from highly qualified and experienced construction companies to ensure a fair price and a successful project. We build tools to help contractors look their best online, manage their lead pipeline, seamlessly interact with project owners, and compose professional bid proposals.
    real-estate
    construction
  • Jam.gg (formerly Piepacker)
    Jam.gg (formerly Piepacker) (s2020)Active • 60 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    At the crossroads of online gaming and video chatting, jam.gg is a web platform to play awesome multiplayer games with your friends. Jam.gg focuses on hyper accessibility with a patented technology cutting the internet bandwidth requirement by 15 on average. Jam.gg features top retro, pc indie and board games.
    cloud-gaming
    gaming
    social
  • Roofr
    Roofr (s2017)Active • 40 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We're the all-in-one sales toolbox for roofers with helpful features to grow your business including: Stunning Proposals: Create a professionally designed proposal from a measurement report. Email & capture your clients’ e-signatures from any device. Aerial Measurement Reports: Order an accurate $10 roof measurement report or draw it yourself in minutes with drone, satellite or blueprint imagery. Our mission is to ensure every family has access to an affordable roof.
    saas
    construction
    proptech
  • Supermedium
    Supermedium (w2018)Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Supermedium is a VR space to read books and comics, watch videos, view art, browse the Web, send messages, browse social media in a comfortable and focused environment. We're building a post-screen world to improve how we interact with technology by providing more screens, larger screens even while laying down, in a portable form factor. https://supermedium.com/
    virtual-reality
  • Filta
    Filta (s2021)Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Filta is the face filter NFT marketplace being built by veterans from Pixar/Oculus/Facebook. We partner with creators to release limited-edition filters for their fans to use on social media. It turns out: the face filters you see everywhere on Snapchat and Instagram are created by independent artists - not by the platforms. These artists ALMOST NEVER get money for their work - which is insane! Filta fixes this by giving these creators a marketplace and the best filter creation tool anywhere. Interested in working on the future of digital fashion, AR/VR, and web3? Hit us up. We're hiring.
    augmented-reality
    crypto-web3
    virtual-reality
  • Precious
    Precious (w2018)Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Precious is the iPhone app that tells the story of your children growing up. Using Artificial Intelligence, the app automatically finds the best baby pics on your phone, and then creates deliciously cute photo stories for you. Our vision is to help all families capture the joy of childhood. To do this, we are building the platform for preserving, enjoying & sharing your family's memories.
    artificial-intelligence
  • Locale
    Locale (s2021)Active • 22 employees • San Jose, CA, USA
    We partner with top Bay Area restaurants to bring you prepared meals that stay fresh all week. Meals are delivered weekly and ready in minutes. Since starting in 2020, we’ve delivered 100K+ orders and are backed by a16z, Y-Combinator, Goodwater, Decent Capital, and other top investors.
    grocery
    marketplace
    delivery
    food
  • Lollipuff (w2013)Active • 11 employees • Mountain View, CA, USA
    Lollipuff is the only online auction site that pre-screens each and every item to guarantee the authenticity of its high-end, pre-owned designer apparel and accessories. Buyers can be confident they're getting the real deal, and sellers never have to worry about listing their luxury pieces alongside counterfeits. Combining the buyer security of an upscale boutique with the amazing prices of an online auction, Lollipuff is the go-to site for authentic, affordable and on-trend designer fashion.
    marketplace
    e-commerce
    fashion