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Y Combinator Summer 2006 (S06) Companies

11 companies from the Y Combinator Summer 2006 batch, with their investors and founders.

Jamglue

Jamglue operates an online platform where users can listen to, create remixes from, and contribute music to a shared collection.

1 investor

Jumpchat

JumpChat is a messaging platform that connects mobile text messages, email, and instant messaging, letting users send mass messages that are delivered through whichever channel the recipient uses. Its current focus is mass mobile messaging to user-defined groups.

1 investor

Likebetter

Likebetter was an online personality test game in which users compared two photos and chose which one they liked better.

1 investor

OMGPop

OMGPOP is a game studio that develops real-time social and flash games for Facebook, iPhone, and the web, distributed across social networks and its own destination site. It serves casual gamers in the consumer gaming market.

4 investors

Pollground

Pollground is a social polling website where users create surveys and let crowds answer questions, with the option to post questions and comments anonymously.

1 investor

Scribd

Scribd operates a subscription digital library providing access to ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and podcasts for a single price. It connects storytellers with readers and listeners through its online content platform.

7 investors

Shoutfit

Shoutfit attempted to build a social network centered on clothing and briefly developed a clothing search engine. The company is now inactive.

1 investor

Talkito

TalkiTo is an open-source library that adds voice and remote communication features to applications using configurable ASR and TTS providers. It enables natural language voice control across desktop applications, websites, and Python scripts.

1 investor

Thinkature

1 investor

Xobni

Xobni builds software that organizes a user's inbox and address book by surfacing a unified contact view — including photo, job title, company details, email history, and social updates from LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Its products work across email and mobile platforms for individual users.

3 investors

Zanbazaar

Zanbazaar let people create curated catalog pages of products to recommend to others, with authors earning a share of referral bonuses on products sold. The service was shut down in 2007.

1 investor

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