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620 Y Combinator consumer startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.

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Company	Batch	Description	Status	Location	Team	Founders	Reveal
Shape (ShapeScale)	S15	ShapeScale is a personal 3D scanner and fitness tracker that…	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	7	Alexandre Wayenberg, Martin Kessler	Reveal
Shred Video	S15	Shred Video builds automated video & photo systems that allow…	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Mike Allen, Mark Godfrey	Reveal
The Ticket Fairy	S15	Revenue generation for live events	Active	Los Angeles, CA, USA	30	Ritesh Patel, Jigar Patel	Reveal
Wheelys Café	S15	Worlds smallest and friendliest café franchise. "The Bike-Powered…	Inactive	Stockholm, Sweden	11	Per Cromwell, Tomas Mazetti	Reveal
Clear	S14	Fintech SaaS platform for invoices, taxes, wealth management & credit.	Active	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	900	Archit Gupta, Srivatsan Chari, Ankit Solanki	Reveal
Flaviar	S14	Try-at-home service for fine spirits	Active	New York, NY, USA	60	Jugoslav Petkovic, Matija Rijavec, Grisa Soba	Reveal
Hyperpad	S14	Create, Share, Play Mobile Games on the iPad.	Active	London, ON, Canada	4	Murtaza Saadat, Hamed Saadat	Reveal
Parenthoods	S14	Communities for expecting and new parents.	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Siobhan Quinn, Jeni Diaz Axline	Reveal
SpotAngels	S14	Waze for parking	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	11	Thomas Cottin, Aboud Jardaneh	Reveal
Bop.fm	S13	Canonical permalinks for songs.	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Shehzad Daredia, Stefan Gomez	Reveal
Echo Locker	S13	Android lock screen	Acquired	—	2	Yin Wu, Xuwen Cao	Reveal
Glio	S13	Amazon Marketplace for Latin America	Inactive	Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2	João de Paula	Reveal
Layer By Layer	S13	Acquired by MakerBot in February 2014. A marketplace for 3D…	Acquired	Mountain View, CA, USA	2	Jon Miller Schwartz, Max Friefeld	Reveal
Le Tote	S13	Subscription service for women's apparel & accessories.	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	201	Rakesh Tondon, Brett Northart	Reveal
Meta	S13	Augmented reality glasses.	Inactive	San Mateo, CA, USA	11	Ben Sand, Meron Gribetz, Raymond Lo	Reveal
SpoonRocket	S13	Meals Delivered in 10 Minutes	Acquired	Berkeley, CA, USA	51	Steven Hsiao, Anson Tsui	Reveal
9gag	S12	Make the world happier.	Active	Hong Kong	36	Ray Chan, Chris Chan, Derek Chan, Marco Fung, Brian Yu	Reveal
Airshared	S12	TBD	Inactive	—	0	Rosanna Myers, Alex Shkolnik, Arjun Vasan	Reveal
Boosted	S12	Simple, fun, and fast electric vehicles.	Acquired	Mountain View, CA, USA	51	Sanjay Dastoor, Matt Tran, John Ulmen	Reveal
Collections	S12	Finder for the Cloud	Inactive	Mountain View, CA, USA	2	Jordan Lee, Tony Xiao	Reveal
GR Grid	S12	—	Inactive	Mountain View, CA, USA	0	Josh Leong, Michael Lin, Matt Monson	Reveal
Instacart	S12	Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup	Public	San Francisco, CA, USA	3000	Apoorva Mehta, Brandon Leonardo, Max Mullen	Reveal
Soylent	S12	Soylent is a simple, nutritious, and affordable food that possesses…	Acquired	Los Angeles, CA, USA	51	Rob Rhinehart, John Coogan, Hunter Scott, K T, Matt Cauble	Reveal
Streem	S12	Acquired by Box in June 2014. We built: (1) a native win/mac…	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Ritik Malhotra, Tanooj Luthra, Samvit Ramadurgam	Reveal
Thread	S12	Thread makes it incredibly easy to dress well, using stylists and AI	Inactive	Whitechapel, London, UK	92	Kieran O'Neill, Ben Phillips	Reveal
Aisle50	S11	Grocery deals.	Acquired	Chicago, IL, USA	11	Riley Scott, George Korsnick, Christopher Steiner	Reveal
GoCardless	S11	We’re building the world’s bank payment network.	Active	London, UK	900	Hiroki Takeuchi, Tom Blomfield	Reveal
Kicksend	S11	Send and print photo albums with people you love. Acquired by Lyft	Inactive	Mountain View, CA, USA	11	Pradeep Elankumaran, Brendan Lim	Reveal
Launchpad Toys	S11	Creativity at Play. Tablet toys. Acquired by Google, 2015.	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Thushan Amarasiriwardena, Andy Russell	Reveal
Vapor	S11	In-video advertising.	Inactive	Brooklyn, NY, USA	2	Yin Wu, Xuwen Cao, John Hiesey, Shazad Mohamed	Reveal
1000Memories	S10	Memorial sites.	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Jonathan Good, Brett Huneycutt, Rudy Adler	Reveal
AnyList	S10	One app for stress-free shopping, cooking, and meal planning.	Active	Missoula, MT, USA	3	Jeff Hunter, Jason Marr	Reveal
Bump	S09	Bump, Flock, Photoroll (unreleased) => Google Photos	Acquired	Mountain View, CA, USA	30	David Lieb, Andy Huibers	Reveal
Jobspice	S09	—	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	11	Dane Hurtubise, Andrew McCollum	Reveal
People & Pages	S08	—	Inactive	—	0	Adam Shaw, Michael Smathers	Reveal
Picwing	S08	Photo Sharing platform for families	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	11	Edward Kim, Enrique Rodriguez Chamussy	Reveal
Posterous	S08	Dead simple blogs by email	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	11	Sachin Agarwal, Brett Gibson	Reveal
Slinkset	S08	Votable lists	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Brett Gibson, John Baunach	Reveal
Jamglue	S06	—	Inactive	Seattle, WA, USA	2	Gautam Jayaraman, Divya Bhat, Matt Rubens	Reveal
OMGPop	S06	An independent flash game studio.	Acquired	New York, NY, USA	11	Charles Forman	Reveal
TextPayMe	S05	—	Acquired	Redmond, WA, USA	11	Phil Yuen	Reveal
AirCaps	F25	The AI copilot for in-person conversations.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Madhav Lavakare, Nirbhay Narang	Reveal
Aleph Lab	F25	AI language buddy in the games kids love	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	1	Han Nim (Joseph) Jang, Dan Han, Jaihee Kim	Reveal
AnswerThis	F25	End-to-end workspace to accelerate scientific discovery	Active	—	6	Ayush Garg, Ryan McCarroll	Reveal
Clad Labs	F25	the brainrot ide	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Richard Wang, Kevin Le	Reveal
Digipals	F25	The future of Social in the age of AI	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Peggy Wang, Mathew Matakovic	Reveal
Fifth Door	F25	Create and play games with AI	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Amir Ghazvinian, Daniel Kan	Reveal
Flick	F25	Figma + Cursor, for AI Filmmaking	Active	—	2	Ray Wang, Zoey Zhang	Reveal
Freeport Markets	F25	Tradable Twitter Feed	Active	New York, NY, USA	3	Lihong Wang, Bryan Reed	Reveal
Iris	F25	The Digital Extension of Yourself	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Samika Sanghvi, Siddhant Lad	Reveal

Batch Distribution

WW267 WW2512 WW2427 WW2324 WW2248 WW2141

Status Breakdown

Active427 Inactive117 Acquired74 Public2

Top Locations

San Francisco216 New York77 Los Angeles27 London20 Bengaluru13 Palo Alto12

About YC Consumer Companies

Y Combinator has funded 620 consumer companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of consumer innovation globally.

427 of these companies are currently active. 74 have been acquired. 2 have gone public. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC consumer startup.

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