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YC Retail Companies
117 Y Combinator retail startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.
117
Companies
82
Active
14
Acquired
3
Public
YC Company Directory
17 companies
Company | Batch | Description | Status | Location | Team | Site | Founders | Reveal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bizzy | W15 | Bizzy is omni-channel marketing for ecommerce businesses. | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Jennifer Kessler, Chiara McPhee | Reveal | |
Dealyze | W15 | Dealyze helps national retailers build exceptional customer and… | Inactive | San Francisco, CA, USA | 6 | William Baron, Mark Salpeter | Reveal | |
Mashgin | W15 | Self-Checkout using Computer Vision. | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 150 | Abhinai Srivastava, Mukul Dhankhar | Reveal | |
Meadow | W15 | Point of Sale and Compliance SaaS for Cannabis Dispensaries | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 14 | David Hua, Rick Harrison, Scott A Garman, Harrison Lee | Reveal | |
Moltin | W15 | eCommerce building blocks through simple APIs for websites & apps.… | Acquired | Boston, MA, USA | 32 | Jamie Holdroyd, Adam Sturrock | Reveal | |
42 | W14 | Analytics stack for omnichannel retailers and brands | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | — | Nick Porter | Reveal | |
Cheetah | W13 | Fastest, easiest, and most affordable way for small business owners… | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Na'ama Moran, Alon Har-Tal | Reveal | |
RADAR | W13 | RADAR is building technology to completely transform the in-store… | Active | New York City, NY, USA | 120 | Spencer Hewett | Reveal | |
Beetailer | W11 | Facebook stores. | Inactive | Mountain View, CA, USA | 2 | Laura Valverde, Juan Gallego, Miguel Martinez Trivino | Reveal | |
TalkBin | W11 | Consumer to business messaging. | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA | — | Qasar Younis, Sunny Dhillon, Michael Ma | Reveal | |
Fabricly | W10 | — | Inactive | New York, NY, USA | 2 | Ari Helgason, Tom Riley | Reveal | |
Mertado | W10 | — | Acquired | Redwood City, CA, USA | 1 | Vijay Chittoor, Mehul Shah, Rajiv Bhat | Reveal | |
Meesho | S16 | Democratizing internet commerce for everyone in India | Public | Bengaluru, KA, India | 1450 | Vidit Aatrey, Sanjeev Barnwal | Reveal | |
NeoWize | S16 | NeoWize created a new type of machine learning algorithm and uses it… | Acquired | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel | 3 | Omer Nevo, Yoav Cafri, Ronen Ness | Reveal | |
Celery | S12 | Celery is a platform for pre-orders (www.trycelery.com). Accept… | Inactive | San Francisco, CA, USA | 11 | Chris Tsai, Peter Shih, Brian Nguyen | Reveal | |
Presto | S10 | Digital meets physical for big chain restaurants | Public | San Francisco, CA, USA; San Carlos, CA, USA | 200 | Rajat Suri, Michael Chorey | Reveal | |
Olark | S09 | The best live chat software on the planet. We help you build… | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA; Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 28 | Ben Congleton, Matt Pizzimenti | Reveal |
Status Breakdown
About YC Retail Companies
Y Combinator has funded 117 retail 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 retail innovation globally.
82 of these companies are currently active. 14 have been acquired. 3 have gone public. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC retail startup.
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