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YC Content Companies
70 Y Combinator content startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.
70
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43
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12
Acquired
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YC Company Directory
20 companies
Company | Batch | Description | Status | Location | Team | Site | Founders | Reveal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Matter | S20 | Building the future of reading | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 7 | Ben Springwater, Robert Mackenzie | Reveal | |
Photoroom | S20 | Power commerce photography with generative AI | Active | Paris, France | 100 | Matt Rouif, Eliot Andres | Reveal | |
Tappity | S20 | World's largest library of interactive lessons for kids | Active | Palo Alto, CA, USA | 4 | Chad Swenson, Lawrence Tran | Reveal | |
Khabri | S19 | India's Largest Podcast Platform | Inactive | New Delhi, Delhi, India | 11 | Pulkit Sharma, Aankit Roy, Sandeep | Reveal | |
Lokal | S19 | Local news, information and classifieds for India's small town users | Active | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 24 | Vipul Chaudhary, Jani pasha | Reveal | |
Odin | S19 | Save, organize and showcase your mental dump | Inactive | Mountain View, CA, USA | 4 | Cristina Bunea, Radu Mazilu, Maria Nicolae | Reveal | |
Pillar | S19 | All-In-One Creator Store | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 5 | Faisal Younus | Reveal | |
Audm | S17 | Audm is a subscription service providing mini-audiobooks —… | Acquired | New York, NY, USA | 10 | Christian Brink, Ryan Wegner | Reveal | |
OMG Digital | S16 | Content discovery platform for Africa | Active | Accra, Ghana | 2 | Jesse Ahin | Reveal | |
The Athletic | S16 | Subscription sports media. | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA | 600 | Alex Mather, Adam Hansmann | Reveal | |
Afrostream | S15 | AFROSTREAM is Netflix for African-American and African content… | Inactive | Paris, France | 11 | Tonjé Bakang Tonje, Ludovic Bostral | Reveal | |
Shred Video | S15 | Shred Video builds automated video & photo systems that allow… | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Mike Allen, Mark Godfrey | Reveal | |
Bop.fm | S13 | Canonical permalinks for songs. | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Shehzad Daredia, Stefan Gomez | 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 | |
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 | |
Flick | F25 | Figma + Cursor, for AI Filmmaking | Active | — | 2 | Ray Wang, Zoey Zhang | Reveal | |
Koyal | F25 | Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 5 | Gauri Agarwal, Mehul Agarwal | Reveal | |
Pixley AI | F25 | The first platform where parents & kids can co-create AI cartoon shows | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Krish Iyengar, Pranit Agrawal | Reveal | |
Diffusion Studio | F24 | Professional-grade video editing, in your browser. | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 3 | Konstantin Paulus | Reveal |
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About YC Content Companies
Y Combinator has funded 70 content 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 content innovation globally.
43 of these companies are currently active. 12 have been acquired. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC content startup.
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