Y Combinator Summer 2016 (S16) Companies
101 companies from the Y Combinator Summer 2016 batch, with their investors and founders.
Abundance Labs incubates and builds marketplaces based on alternative currencies, including cryptocurrency-based marketplace products.
1 investor
Airfordable offers installment payment plans for airline tickets, letting travelers reserve flights with an upfront deposit and pay the remaining balance in scheduled payments before departure.
2 investors
Airo Health builds an AI-powered wearable armband that automatically detects when users are becoming anxious and suggests adjustments to reduce stress. The device is aimed at consumers who want to track and manage their mental health.
2 investors
ApolloShield builds a counter-drone system that detects unwanted drones, blocks their intrusions, and helps track and locate unauthorized drone operators. The technology was developed by former Israel Defense Forces experts and is used in more than 25 countries.
4 investors
Athelas, now part of Commure, develops a suite of AI tools for healthcare providers and administrators, including ambient clinical documentation, provider copilots, autonomous coding, and revenue cycle management. It serves clinicians and care sites across the United States, operating in the healthcare technology industry.
9 investors
Bird is an omnichannel communications CRM platform that connects businesses with their customers across channels including SMS, voice, WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger, and email. Founded in 2011, it serves nearly 20,000 business customers worldwide.
10 investors
Bulldozair offers a collaborative web and mobile platform for construction management, helping real estate and industrial asset owners track project progress, digitize compliance and checklists, and collect field data. It serves large corporations in infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, and retail.
2 investors
Burrow is a direct-to-consumer furniture brand that designs modular sofas and home furnishings shipped quickly and built to be easy to assemble, durable, and sustainably made. It serves consumers furnishing their homes.
17 investors
CareRev operates a technology platform that connects healthcare facilities directly with local clinical professionals, letting those workers choose when and where they work. It serves the healthcare staffing market by removing traditional intermediaries between facilities and clinical talent.
5 investors
Circa is an event marketing platform and CRM for demand generation and field marketing teams, helping sales and marketing teams coordinate work around in-person and virtual events. It serves B2B marketing and sales organizations.
2 investors
Clip Health develops at-home and point-of-care diagnostic testing combining proprietary glow-in-the-dark nanochemistry with connected hardware and mobile apps to test for and support treatment of infectious, metabolic, endocrine, and chronic diseases. Its platform serves at-home, point-of-care, and enterprise healthcare settings.
1 investor
CoinTent is a digital wallet and subscription service that lets users buy access to individual pieces of content such as articles, videos, and blog posts through micropayments across websites. It gives publishers an additional revenue channel alongside advertising and subscriptions.
1 investor
Coub is a short looped video service that lets users create audio-backed video loops online, often sourced from YouTube clips. It operates as a consumer media platform centered on shareable looping videos.
2 investors
CrowdAI offers a no-code computer vision platform that lets enterprise users, from business operators to data scientists, build and deploy deep learning models to label visual data, train models, and drive real-time decisions. It serves organizations across industries looking to apply vision AI without coding.
3 investors
Curtsy is a mobile app for buying and selling used clothing, shoes, and accessories, operating as a peer-to-peer marketplace where orders ship directly from sellers to buyers. It targets Gen Z women ages 15-30 and earns revenue by taking a 20% fee on each sale.
4 investors
Drivezy operates a car and bike sharing and rental platform in India, letting people share and rent vehicles rather than own them. It positions itself as a vehicle-sharing marketplace serving consumers in the Indian market.
2 investors
Elemeno Health offers a B2B SaaS platform providing on-demand, bite-sized training and communication tools for frontline healthcare teams such as nurses, doctors, and staff at hospitals and clinics. The product, described as "a playbook in your pocket," is customized per facility and accessible 24/7 on any device.
9 investors
Emote is an AI platform for schools that analyzes student emotional, social, and academic data to enable teachers, coaches, parents, and other stakeholders to identify and coordinate early interventions. It integrates data collection, real-time alerts, and collaborative tools to support whole-child development across diverse educational frameworks.
2 investors
Expo provides tooling that lets developers build apps in JavaScript that run natively on Android, iOS, and the web, along with cloud services (Expo Application Services) for building and deploying React Native apps to the app stores. It serves mobile app development teams.
8 investors
Fabric is a location-based personal journaling app that automatically records the places, paths, and activities a user experiences, letting them add friends and browse photos. It serves individual consumers who want to catalog their experiences and interactions.
1 investor
Farmstead was an AI-powered online grocer offering farm-to-doorstep grocery delivery in under 60 minutes to consumers in the San Francisco area.
5 investors
Flutterwave builds payments infrastructure, technology, and tools for businesses and banks to make and accept payments across Africa. The company serves merchants and financial institutions and operates in over 33 African countries, connecting the region to the global economy.
42 investors
Garten provides nutrition and wellness services for employees, using an AI- and IoT-based tech stack to run an asset-light supply chain and deliver workplace wellbeing analytics. It serves large enterprise clients.
6 investors
GoGoGrandparent is a concierge service that lets older adults arrange rides, meal and grocery delivery, medication, and home maintenance through a regular phone call without needing special technology. It targets seniors living independently at home, coordinating vetted service providers and monitoring requests for reliability.
1 investor























