Y Combinator Winter 2010 (W10) Companies

Merkle Loyalty Solutions (formerly 500friends) provides customer loyalty and retention marketing services, including strategy consulting, program management, analytics, and a SaaS loyalty platform, aimed at CMOs and enterprise marketers. It operates as part of Merkle, a data-driven performance marketing agency.

2 investors

140Fire operates an online video advertising network, offering engagement and data tools that help brands and agencies run and optimize video ad campaigns. It serves advertisers and media-buying agencies in the digital advertising industry.

1 investor

InboxQ is a tool that helps businesses find people asking questions about their company, products, or industry so they can engage with potential customers. It focuses on customer engagement through question discovery.

1 investor

Bitplay built Meetings.io, a browser-based video conferencing tool that lets people create a shareable meeting room link and join face-to-face calls without sign-ups or registration. The product could be used for remote meetings, client calls, or team collaboration. The company was acquired by Jive Software in 2013.

1 investor

Cardpool operates an online marketplace for buying, selling, and trading new or pre-owned gift cards, offering discounts for buyers and cash payouts for sellers. It also allows users to trade gift cards for an Amazon gift card or donate them to charity.

2 investors

Creative Market is an online marketplace for ready-to-use graphic design assets—including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes—sourced from independent creators worldwide. It serves designers and other buyers looking for digital design resources.

5 investors

Crocodoc provides web-based document viewing and collaboration technology for Microsoft Office and PDF files, built on HTML5 and CSS3, that companies embed into their web and mobile apps. It serves consumer and enterprise customers who need to view, comment on, highlight, and fill out documents within their own products.

3 investors

Cue (formerly Greplin) is a free service that connects a user's email, contacts, and calendar to surface relevant information at the right time. It lets people view their day at a glance or search across all their linked accounts at once.

3 investors

Data Marketplace is an online platform for finding, buying, and selling data, where buyers can post free requests describing their needs with an optional deadline and budget and data aggregators respond with relevant datasets. Listed data is available for immediate purchase and download in standard formats such as Excel, CSV, XML, and JSON.

1 investor

Embedly offers a platform and set of tools for embedding and previewing links, converting links from over 100 websites and APIs—such as YouTube, Flickr, and Hulu—into embedded media automatically. It serves publishers and consumers who need to manage embed codes across multiple sources.

1 investor

Etacts is a relationship management tool that helps users maintain contact with their network by surfacing people they've lost touch with, setting reminders to reconnect, and providing context such as recent email exchanges and status updates. It serves individuals managing personal and professional relationships, including friends, family, coworkers, and clients.

1 investor

Fabricly operates an online marketplace for sourcing apparel manufacturers and materials, letting users research manufacturers and bid out sourcing jobs to a broad supplier network. It serves fashion brands, independent designers, and retailers in the apparel manufacturing industry.

1 investor

1 investor

Gamador is a social game developer that builds and releases games at a rapid pace, having shipped three titles. It also built an analytics platform for social games.

1 investor

Infoharmoni is a data visualization company that visualizes real-time social web content and aggregates it. The company operated out of San Francisco.

1 investor

LaunchHear is a Y Combinator (W2010) company; the page provides no clear description of its product or business.

1 investor

Mertado was an online marketplace company that was later acquired by Groupon.

2 investors

Movity built a real estate data visualization product that surfaces location-based neighborhood geodata — such as crime, noise, and pricing — to help home buyers evaluate properties. The company was acquired by Trulia.

1 investor

Newcope was a company focused on virtual goods commerce.

1 investor

NewsLabs provides a platform to help traditional journalists transition to the web, offering assistance with advertising, SEO, and related online challenges.

1 investor

Notifo is a mobile application and platform that lets websites and services send push notifications to users. It launched as an iPhone app with plans to support Android and BlackBerry.

1 investor

Nowmov delivers a continuous feed of videos tailored to each user's interests, social connections, and global trending topics.

1 investor

Optimizely builds a SaaS digital experience platform that lets marketing and product teams create, manage, optimize, and experiment with digital content and experiences across channels. It serves enterprise businesses worldwide, with customers including H&M, PayPal, Zoom, and Toyota.

19 investors

OwnLocal provides marketing automation technology for local media companies such as newspapers, radio stations, and broadcast TV stations, helping them convert legacy advertisers into digital advertisers. The platform serves small and medium-sized businesses through partnerships with local media companies.

5 investors