Y Combinator Summer 2008 (S08) Companies

Anyvite offers a platform for creating event invitations and managing guest communication from planning through execution.

1 investor

BackType provides analytics tools for monitoring and understanding social conversations and content performance across the web.

2 investors

1 investor

IBM Cloudant is a managed NoSQL database service based on Apache CouchDB, designed for building hyperscale, globally distributed applications with features including encryption, multi-region availability, full-text search, and geospatial indexing. The platform serves enterprise developers and organizations requiring resilient, cloud-native data infrastructure.

5 investors

CO2Stats provides website owners with analytics on the electricity consumption and carbon emissions generated by their site traffic, then automatically purchases renewable energy certificates to offset those emissions on a monthly basis.

1 investor

Frogmetrics provides touchscreen devices for brick-and-mortar businesses that collect customer feedback at point of sale and gather contact information for lead generation. The company aggregates data across locations and analyzes it to identify trends and business insights.

1 investor

1 investor

JustSpotted aggregates public social media posts and user-submitted data to track celebrity locations in real-time, displaying sightings on a map for fans to follow their favorite celebrities' movements and appearances.

1 investor

OhLife operates an email-based journaling service that prompts users daily and stores their responses in a personal journal archive.

1 investor

People & Pages curates and shares stories from around the world to foster cross-cultural understanding and connection. The platform bridges communities through storytelling and diverse perspectives.

1 investor

Picwing provides photo sharing and printing services for families, including printed photo delivery via mail every two weeks and WiFi-connected digital frames that display images sent from phones or computers.

1 investor

1 investor

Poll Everywhere is a presentation engagement platform that enables real-time polling, audience interaction, and feedback collection for teachers, corporate presenters, and event organizers. The platform offers AI-enhanced poll creation, multiple visualization options, and PowerPoint integration to facilitate audience engagement and data collection.

1 investor

An online marketplace where users buy and sell DRM-free music tracks at a fixed price, with purchasers earning a commission whenever their previously bought songs are subsequently resold, weighted toward earlier buyers.

1 investor

Posterous provides a blogging platform that lets users publish content by sending emails, and offers privacy-controlled sharing features across multiple platforms.

3 investors

1 investor

A white-label platform that enables users to build and operate social news sites with voting features, deployable on their own websites.

1 investor

Snipd is an AI-powered podcast app that lets users save insights, transcribe episodes, and chat with audio content through voice controls and headphone taps. The app serves podcast listeners and learners who want to capture, organize, and export key moments from podcasts, audiobooks, and audio files.

1 investor

Team Apart develops software that enables multiple users to collaborate simultaneously on projects over the internet.

1 investor

A ticket marketplace search platform that aggregates and compares prices from multiple resellers and exchanges to help buyers locate events and compare seating options and costs.

1 investor

Treehouse provides online courses in web design, web development, mobile development, and game development for beginners and intermediate learners seeking entry into technology careers. The platform offers structured certification programs completed in 6-12 months to help students demonstrate competency to employers.

1 investor

Youlicit provides a Firefox browser plugin that uses crowdsourced recommendation data to suggest related websites based on content a user is viewing or browsing interests, while also enabling users to discover others with similar topic preferences.

1 investor