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YC Social Companies

52 Y Combinator social startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.

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Company	Batch	Description	Status	Location	Team	Founders	Reveal
BiteSight	W24	The video-first food delivery app. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash.	Active	New York City, NY, USA	4	Lucious McDaniel IV, Zac Schulwolf	Reveal
Gym Class	W22	Connecting the world by simulating it	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote	20	Justin Hubert, Paul Katsen	Reveal
Status	W22	Sims but Social Media	Active	New York City, NY, USA	9	Fai Nur, Amit Bhatnagar	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
Clear	W21	The unbiased AI and data layer for skin health.	Active	London, England, United Kingdom; Remote	2	Ahana Banerjee	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	San Diego, CA, USA	5	Lauren (Luna) Ray Vegter, Lauren (Luna) Ray Vegter	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, Lauren Dai	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
Speak	W17	A superhuman, AI-powered language tutor in your pocket	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	40	Andrew Hsu, Connor Zwick	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
Streamup	W16	Streamup is a live streaming community for music. We make it fun and…	Inactive	Los Angeles, CA, USA; Santa Monica, CA, USA; Remote	2	Kyle Michelson	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
Here	S20	Where friends watch, play and hang together in digital rooms	Inactive	New York City, NY, USA	9	Seth Harris, Jesse Boyes	Reveal
Hyper Online	S20	Social avatar platform for VTubers	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	7	Aaron Ng	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
Gather	S19	Building a better way to meet online.	Active	New York City, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote	60	Kumail Jaffer, Phillip Wang	Reveal
Revel	S19	We Deserve More in Midlife	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote	16	Lisa Marrone, Alexa Wahr	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; Remote	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
Greo	S17	Greo is a mobile video app for conversations about current events.	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA; 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, Tel Aviv District, Israel	2	Rotem Yakir, Shahar Yakir	Reveal
Muzz	S17	Where Single Muslims meet	Active	London, England, United Kingdom	104	Shahzad Younas, Ryan Brodie	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, Hong Kong; Remote	36	Ray Chan, Chris Chan, Derek Chan, Marco Fung, Brian Yu	Reveal
GlassMap	S11	Location sharing. Acquired by Groupon in 2013.	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	11	Geoffrey Woo, Jono Chang, Jon Zhang	Reveal
Vapor	S11	In-video advertising.	Inactive	Brooklyn, NY, USA	2	Yin Wu, Xuwen Cao, John Hiesey, Shazad Mohamed	Reveal
MessageParty	S10	Local chat.	Inactive	New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA	1	Jason Gavris, Amanda Peyton	Reveal
Bump	S09	Bump, Flock, Photoroll (unreleased) => Google Photos	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	30	David Lieb, Andy Huibers	Reveal
Digipals	F25	The future of Social in the age of AI	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Peggy Wang, Mathew Matakovic	Reveal
Digipals	F25	The future of Social in the age of AI	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	3	Peggy Wang, Mathew Matakovic	Reveal

Batch Distribution

WW241 WW224 WW211 WW204 WW193 WW183

Status Breakdown

Active23 Inactive22 Acquired7

Top Locations

San Francisco24 New York City5 New York5 Accra2 London2 Emeryville1

About YC Social Companies

Y Combinator has funded 52 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.

23 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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