Y Combinator Winter 2013 (W13) Companies

Airware provides commercial drone solutions that combine hardware, software, and cloud services, helping enterprises collect and use aerial data across business applications. The platform is aimed at companies operating commercial drones at scale.

1 investor

Appcubator provides a drag-and-drop tool for building web applications, letting users add text and custom themes without learning to code or hiring a contractor. It targets people who want to prototype and create functioning websites themselves.

1 investor

Beatdeck is a music analytics platform that uses big data to evaluate artists' key performance metrics and analyze social signals, presenting them through a dashboard for the music industry.

1 investor

Bitnami packages, deploys, and maintains server software, offering a catalog of 120+ ready-to-run applications and tools to migrate custom in-house applications to the cloud across multiple platforms and formats. It serves developers and IT teams looking to deploy application stacks and infrastructure software.

3 investors

BuildZoom operates an online marketplace that matches homeowners with licensed general contractors for remodeling and construction projects, using public records and past marketplace data to evaluate contractor quality and fit. It also provides tools for contractors to build an online presence, manage leads, and create bid proposals, serving the United States.

3 investors

Cheetah offers a supply chain and procurement service for small business owners, aiming to make ordering faster, easier, and lower cost. The company operates in the logistics and supply chain space.

8 investors

CircuitLab provides an online circuit simulator and electronic schematic editor for electrical engineers, students, and electronics hobbyists to design, analyze, build, and share electronic circuits.

2 investors

Coin is a consumer electronics and fintech company that builds smart payment hardware consolidating multiple credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards into a single card-shaped device. It also offers a developer program that lets wearables makers (fitness trackers, smartwatches, jewelry) integrate secure payments, with products designed for use in the USA.

2 investors

CrowdMed is a healthcare company that uses crowdsourcing to help resolve difficult medical cases faster. It serves individuals, insurance providers, and self-insured corporate customers looking to lower healthcare costs.

4 investors

Etleap offers an ETL (extract, transform, load) tool for building and maintaining data pipelines, automating most setup and maintenance so that analysts rather than engineers can manage them. It targets enterprise data teams and operates in the data infrastructure category.

2 investors

Experiment runs a crowdfunding platform where citizens pledge money to fund scientific research projects, giving researchers an alternative to traditional grant writing. Scientists use it to raise funding and share results with backers through lab notes and peer-reviewed publications.

3 investors

Fivetran provides automated data pipelines that extract, load, and transform data into, out of, and across cloud data platforms, handling tasks like schema drift and transformations for data engineering teams. It serves enterprise brands across industries, including Autodesk, JetBlue, and Morgan Stanley.

10 investors

FlightCar operates a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace at airports, connecting local vehicle owners who park at airports with travelers who need rental cars. The company serves travelers in the United States and launched in 2013.

1 investor

Goldbelly operates an online marketplace that lets restaurants, specialty food makers, and artisans ship their foods to customers across the United States. It serves both food producers seeking national distribution and consumers looking for regional and handmade foods.

9 investors

6sense provides a predictive analytics platform that gives marketing and sales teams visibility into which buyers are in an active purchasing cycle, what products they want, and where they are in the buyer's journey. It uses patented predictions to feed intelligence into downstream sales and marketing systems to improve pipeline, conversions, and sales productivity.

1 investor

Heap provides a digital analytics platform that automatically captures user interactions without manual event tracking or code, giving teams insights into user behavior. It serves product and analytics teams looking to analyze digital experiences.

9 investors

InfluxData builds InfluxDB, an open-source time series platform for storing and analyzing metrics and events, aimed at developers building monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications. It serves DevOps and IoT use cases, handling data from humans, sensors, and machines.

13 investors

Kalibrr runs a two-sided online job marketplace connecting employers with white-collar, high-skill talent in Southeast Asia, primarily the Philippines and Indonesia. It lets companies recruit and build remote sales, product, engineering, or design teams in the region.

5 investors

Lawdingo is an online service that connects people seeking legal help with independent solo and small-practice lawyers, and also provides virtual paralegal services to law firms. It targets both consumers looking for attorneys and lawyers wanting to grow their practice.

1 investor

Logiblock engineers electronics and development tools to speed up electronic product development for startups and established companies. It operates as the client services division of Outbreak, Inc., a technology R&D group that develops and licenses embedded software.

1 investor

Lollipuff runs an online auction site for pre-owned, high-end designer apparel and accessories, pre-screening each item to guarantee authenticity. It serves buyers and sellers of luxury women's fashion looking to avoid counterfeits.

1 investor

Medisas develops workflow and collaboration software for hospitals, aimed at reducing the time doctors and nurses spend navigating complicated hospital software so they can focus on patient care. The company serves hospital care teams.

3 investors

MedXT provides a cloud platform for managing, viewing, and sharing medical images such as X-rays, CAT scans, and MRIs, aimed at medical professionals. It offers tools including RIS, PACS, and HL7 connectivity for imaging centers, hospital radiology departments, and radiology groups.

1 investor

Meldium provides password and identity management for teams, offering a central dashboard that connects to cloud apps to create, edit, and remove user accounts and manage shared passwords across them. The product targets companies and their employees managing access to cloud applications. The company was acquired by LogMeIn.

3 investors