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YC Social Companies
40 Y Combinator social startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.
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16
Active
7
Acquired
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YC Company Directory
40 companies
Company | Batch | Description | Status | Location | Team | Site | Founders | Reveal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BiteSight | W24 | The video-first food delivery app. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash. | Inactive | New York, NY, USA | 4 | Lucious McDaniel IV, Zac Schulwolf | Reveal | |
Status | W22 | Sims but Social Media | Active | New York, NY, USA | 6 | Fai Nur, Blossom Okonkwo | Reveal | |
Tendo | W22 | Enabling Africans to sell online with zero capital | Active | Accra, Ghana | 15 | Felix Manford, Evans Darbo Boateng, Primerose Katena, Derrick Mungai | Reveal | |
Glimpse | W20 | A social video chat. | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA | 5 | Brian Li | Reveal | |
Jamiphy | W20 | TikTok for Musicians | Inactive | San Francisco, CA, USA | 1 | Owen Carey | Reveal | |
Plura (formerly Bloom Community) | W20 | The social app for edge-of-culture communities | Active | Oakland, CA, USA | 5 | Lauren (Luna) Ray Vegter | Reveal | |
TagMango | W20 | Monetisation tool for the Indian creator economy | Active | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 30 | Mohammad Hasan, Divyanshu Damani | Reveal | |
Basement | W19 | The social network for your close friends. | Inactive | New York, NY, USA | 2 | Jeremy Berman, Fernando Rojo | Reveal | |
Cocoon | W19 | Bring your most important groups closer together | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA | 6 | Alex Cornell, Sachin Monga | Reveal | |
Pools (fka Withfriends) | W19 | Pools is a memberships platform for event organizers | Active | New York, NY, USA | 2 | Joe Ahearn | Reveal | |
Openland | W18 | Messenger for communities | Inactive | San Francisco, CA, USA | 14 | Yury Lifshits | Reveal | |
Precious | W18 | AI to curate your baby photos | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 7 | Chris Lau, Daniel Lau | Reveal | |
Squad | W18 | Squad is an app for live communities to have shared experiences… | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA | 10 | Ethan Sutin | Reveal | |
Tarjimly | W18 | Translating for Humanity | Active | Mountain View, CA, USA | 4 | Aziz Alghunaim, Atif Javed | Reveal | |
Tress | W17 | Tress is a social community for black women's hairstyles. We are… | Inactive | Accra, Ghana | 2 | Priscilla Hazel, Esther Olatunde, Cassandra Sarfo | Reveal | |
Pigeonly | W15 | The affordable way to search, find & communicate with an incarcerated… | Inactive | Las Vegas, NV, USA | 40 | Frederick Hutson, Alfonzo Brooks, Clifford Keeney | Reveal | |
RealRoots | S25 | AI social app for women | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 7 | Dorothy Li, Tara Kappel | Reveal | |
Revery AI | S21 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction | Inactive | Emeryville, CA, USA | 5 | Kedan Li, Min Jin Chong, Jeffrey Zhang | Reveal | |
Dumps | S20 | Where friends connect through photos and chaotic messaging | Active | New York, NY, USA | 9 | Seth Harris, Jesse Boyes | Reveal | |
Rally | S20 | Rally is Zoom for social events | Active | Toronto, ON, Canada | 3 | Anson Kao, Amy Liu | Reveal | |
Sonar | S20 | Minecraft meets Discord | Inactive | San Francisco, CA, USA | 4 | Benjamin South Lee, Leo Cho, Randolph Lee | Reveal | |
Beacons | S19 | An AI-powered, all-in-one business platform for content creators | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 35 | Neal Jean, David Zeng, Jesse Zhang | Reveal | |
Revel | S19 | We Deserve More in Midlife | Inactive | San Francisco, CA, USA | 16 | Lisa Marrone, Alexa Wahr | Reveal | |
FameGame | S18 | Live and interactive TV shows for mobile - starting with American… | Inactive | — | 2 | Alexandra Botez, Ruben Mayer-Hirshfeld | Reveal | |
Pocket Worlds | S18 | Our platform enables creators to build experiences, games, and worlds… | Active | Austin, TX, USA | 100 | Anton Bernstein, Jimmy Xu | Reveal | |
Fam | S17 | Video calling social network to talk with friends and make new friends | Inactive | New York, NY, USA | 11 | Mike McIntyre, Eddie Zhang | Reveal | |
Goosebump | S17 | Find the best electronic music events in a single message. | Inactive | Paris, France | 2 | Raphael Doulonne, Axel Delafosse, Henry Fontanier | Reveal | |
Greo | S17 | Greo is a mobile video app for conversations about current events. | Inactive | Palo Alto, CA, USA | 2 | Brandon Hill, Elizabeth Davis, Tre Kirkman | Reveal | |
Guggy | S17 | Guggy is building the messaging app of the future with real time,… | Inactive | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel | 2 | Rotem Yakir, Shahar Yakir | Reveal | |
Muzz | S17 | Where Single Muslims meet | Active | London, UK | 104 | Shahzad Younas | Reveal | |
Polly | S17 | Polly is a social polling app for Snapchat and Instagram stories. | Inactive | San Francisco, CA, USA | 3 | Ranidu Lankage, Vicc Alexander, James Zhang | Reveal | |
Relationship Hero | S17 | Dating & relationship coaching sessions for individuals and couples | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 100 | Liron Shapira | Reveal | |
Wildfire | S17 | Social news app | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA | 3 | Hriday Kemburu, Vinay A. Ramesh | Reveal | |
Parenthoods | S14 | Communities for expecting and new parents. | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Siobhan Quinn, Jeni Diaz Axline | Reveal | |
9gag | S12 | Make the world happier. | Active | Hong Kong | 36 | Ray Chan, Chris Chan, Derek Chan, Marco Fung, Brian Yu | Reveal | |
Vapor | S11 | In-video advertising. | Inactive | Brooklyn, NY, USA | 2 | Yin Wu, Xuwen Cao, John Hiesey, Shazad Mohamed | Reveal | |
Bump | S09 | Bump, Flock, Photoroll (unreleased) => Google Photos | Acquired | Mountain View, CA, USA | 30 | David Lieb, Andy Huibers | 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 | |
Digipals | F25 | The future of Social in the age of AI | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 3 | Peggy Wang, Mathew Matakovic | Reveal |
Status Breakdown
About YC Social Companies
Y Combinator has funded 40 social 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 social innovation globally.
16 of these companies are currently active. 7 have been acquired. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC social startup.
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