Content Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

November 2025

Browse 77 of the top Content startups funded by Y Combinator.

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  • Twitch
    Twitch
    Y Combinator LogoW2007
    Acquired • 2,000 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay. Learn more at http://twitch.tv.
    social-network
    community
    gaming
    social-media
    video
  • The Athletic
    The Athletic
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Acquired • 600 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    The Athletic is a direct-to-consumer digital sports media company committed to helping subscribers experience storytelling in a whole new way. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, The Athletic has over 600 full-time employees and covers more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams in the US, Canada and the UK. The Athletic’s newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth articles along with more than 120 podcasts and premium video content. The Athletic is a remote-friendly company as we have offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Melbourne.
    media
  • Reddit
    Reddit
    Y Combinator LogoS2005
    Acquired • 2,000 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit is an online community where users submit, vote, and comment on content, news, and discussions. Nicknamed "the front page of the internet,"​ Reddit is one of the top ten sites in the United States (source: Alexa), with hundreds of millions of users each month on desktop, mobile web, and our official Android/iOS apps. Interested in joining our growing team? Check out about.reddit.com/careers
    community
    social
    social-media
    social-network
  • Scribd
    Scribd
    Y Combinator LogoS2006
    Active • 300 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Scribd gives you access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more — all in one place, for one price. OUR VISION Inspire the world through stories and knowledge. OUR MISSION Build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience. If you love working with smart, motivated people, you’ll love working at Scribd. We value our employees, we demonstrate accountability, and we take action. We’re one team with a common goal: helping our customers flourish.
    ai-enhanced-learning
    edtech
    remote-work
  • Mosaic
    Mosaic
    Y Combinator LogoW2025
    Active • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Mosaic is an agentic video editing paradigm. It enables anyone to create and run their own multimodal video editing agents in a node-based canvas. Our mission is to accelerate hours of video editing work to seconds.
  • Universe
    Universe
    Y Combinator LogoW2018
    Active • 25 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Our mission is to empower everyone to build the internet. Universe is a magical new way to build websites –– it’s the first website builder designed for phones. Our app makes it easy for anyone to make a great looking website and start selling online in minutes from your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. And we make it as fun as playing with Legos! Give it a try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1211437633 Explore sites made on Universe: https://onuniverse.com/explore We are a remote-first 20+ person company with people all over the US. We were YC W18 and have raised $17.2MM in funding from Google Ventures, General Catalyst, Javelin Venture Partners, Box Group, and more top investors. We value individual agency and ownership –– which guides our product design and our company’s culture. While other companies offer lots of perks, we prioritize your freedom: work from anywhere, in the way you’re at your best. We believe that an individual’s capacity for growth is far larger than most understand, and we’ve designed an environment to support rapid, continuous learning. Ideas here come from everyone, initiative is respected, and quality matters. We are here to build something special and enduring.
    design-tools
  • Durioo
    Durioo
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 50 employees • Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
    We create and license high quality Islamic cartoons and shows that kids watch on our subscription app. We are the right team to do this because we previously created an Islamic cartoon with more than 3 billion views on YouTube. All parents want their kids to grow up with values and virtues close to them. The same goes for Muslim parents - but the reality is - they are struggling to get high quality Islamic content for their kids. We are addressing an underserved market of 70 million Muslim families with internet access globally.
    subscriptions
    entertainment
  • Overlap
    Overlap
    Y Combinator LogoS2024
    Active • 6 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Overlap builds multimodal AI agents that can do literally anything you want related to video, such as finding specific moments, generating clips, or analyzing your video library. What takes media companies thousands of hours, we do in seconds.
    consumer
    media
    podcasts
    artificial-intelligence
  • Shred Video
    Shred Video
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Shred Video, a new startup launching out of Y Combinator, allows users to take footage from their iPhone, GoPro or drone and simply match it with a song from the user’s iTunes library. That’s all. Shred Video does the rest of the work. Taking into account the acceleration of the camera itself, Shred Video can pin-point the moments of action for surfers, snowboarders, skaters and other acceleration-based sports to highlight all of the coolest clips in your footage. And beyond that, Shred Video matches those epic moments with the beat-drop of the song.
    video
    travel
  • OMG Digital
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Active • 2 employees • Accra, Ghana
    We create the next gen digital media brands for African audiences. Our media properties include: OMGVoice and Bitnode
  • Sonauto
    Sonauto
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 4 employees
    Sonauto is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, or melodies into full songs in any style. For example, in a few minutes with Sonauto you can make an original birthday song for your friend, sung by Frank Sinatra.
  • Photoroom
    Photoroom
    Y Combinator LogoS2020
    Active • 100 employees • Paris, France
    Photoroom provides photo editing software powerful enough to create outstanding images yet simple enough to be used without any training. We leverage deep learning to translate pixels into objects, drastically simplifying non-creative tasks such as removing backgrounds from images. Our mission: enable entrepreneurs and small businesses to compose images that stand out.
    generative-ai
    api
    computer-vision
    design-tools
    ai
  • Decohere
    Decohere
    Y Combinator LogoW2023
    Active • 4 employees • Seattle, WA, USA
    Decohere is building product and infrastructure for real-time generative AI. We enable our customers to iterate towards their creative vision without waiting for long-running GPU jobs.
    generative-ai
    consumer
    video
    ai
    artificial-intelligence
  • Magic Hour
    Magic Hour
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Magic Hour is a professional video creation tool. It takes the best AI video models, puts them in one workflow, and makes creating an amazing video as easy as selecting a template and customizing it. You can use the product at https://magichour.ai
    artificial-intelligence
    b2b
    media
    video
    creator-economy
  • Rubbrband
    Rubbrband
    Y Combinator LogoW2023
    Active • 3 employees
    Rubbrband lets you go from script to beautiful storyboard in minutes.
    artificial-intelligence
    video
  • Pixley AI
    Pixley AI
    Y Combinator LogoF2025
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Pixley is revolutionizing early education. No more passive learning: lectures, worksheets, deskwork. Kids don’t just watch content – they create it. With Pixley, any drawing or picture becomes an animated character, and every episode is shaped by the child’s imagination. On the flip side, parents have complete control over what their kids learn. They choose the academic or moral lesson each story teaches, making screen time both safe and educational. For the first time, children and parents have complete control of the media they consume. We’re harnessing brand-new video gen technology that’s set to revolutionize how the world creates and learns. Generating animated, narrative-consistent content from a child’s input in real time demands breakthroughs in generative AI, safety, and personalization – and Pixley has cracked it. The market opportunity is massive. Families already spend billions on streaming and educational media, but the content is one-size-fits-all. By giving kids a true voice in what they watch, while giving parents control, Pixley makes early education personal, fun, and effective. We are college dropouts that have been building together for years, winning several hackathons and working with video gen along the way. We built Pixley after we saw the flood of low-quality, algorithmic AI content and knew that kids and parents deserved better.
    ai-enhanced-learning
    generative-ai
    ai
  • Shortbread
    Shortbread
    Y Combinator LogoW2023
    Active • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Shortbread App is Netflix for comics. Users pay to read romance comic series in our app. Shortbread app is powered by an AI Comics Studio. Our AI tech enables pro artists to create comics at 1/10 the traditional cost and with higher quality. Our stories are written by bestselling writers on BookTok, Kindle, and Wattpad.
    consumer
    entertainment
    media
    ai
  • Sterling Labs, Inc
    Sterling Labs, Inc
    Y Combinator LogoS2024
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    currently in stealth Reach out to us at founders@focusbuddy.ai Our previous product - Focus buddy is an AI productivity coach that stays on calls with you and help you accomplish your important work goals on a daily basis, even when you are struggling to focus. We noticed that our users develop a productive relationship with Focus Buddy. Users stay on calls for multiple hours everyday where they depend on Focus Buddy to: • Avoid procrastination and get started: Address hidden anxieties, embrace imperfection, chunk tasks, kickstart with mini-goals, and use regular check-ins to maintain momentum. • Recover from distractions and stay focused: Focus Buddy detects when they are working on less important tasks or scrolling on social media, help them overcome the underlying concerns feeding the distraction, and help them get back to the important task • Manage stress and Prevent Burnout: Focus Buddy detects stress buildup, integrates mindfulness habits to the workflow, helps take short rejuvenating breaks, and stay composed. Our Initial ICP is people with ADHD who are highly motivated but also highly blocked by internal and environmental factors. In the future, we believe each worker should have their own personal coach that enforces proven productivity techniques in real time to help them extract more focused hours every day with the same effort.
    conversational-ai
    mental-health
    productivity
    consumer
    artificial-intelligence
  • Plotdrive
    Plotdrive
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 4 employees • Los Angeles, CA, USA
    We're building the world's first AI that actually remembers your entire book - an intelligent writing companion that transforms how stories get finished. Our mission is to solve the #1 reason books die unfinished: writers losing track of their own stories across hundreds of pages. Founded by brothers who've pushed creative boundaries across poker, VR gaming, and interactive storytelling, we combine deep technical expertise with an obsessive focus on what writers actually need. Our CEO, a former world-class poker player, brings the same strategic depth that won millions to ensuring every writer can finally type "The End." We're a team of rebellious optimists who've already helped authors break through decade-long blocks and publish books they thought would never see the light of day. The printing press gave stories reach. We're giving them wings.
    entertainment
    marketing
    creator-economy
    ai-assistant
    ai
  • NewsBlur
    NewsBlur
    Y Combinator LogoS2012
    Active • 1 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    NewsBlur is a personalized news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.
    consumer
  • Stipop
    Stipop
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 8 employees • Santa Monica, CA, USA
    Stipop is a monetization platform for character creators, or simply put, Patreon for character creators. We help independent character IP owners generate revenue directly from their audience with fun, dynamic features. Previously, Stipop was a sticker platform with 5,000 sticker creators, and 250K stickers and provided stickers to Canva, Teams, Google, and Adobe. We also provide sticker API and SDK to help chat apps improve revenue and user engagement. Stipop has been invested by Snap (through Yellow Accelerator), YC, Translink Investment, Strong Ventures, Next Ventures, and more.
    marketplace
    community
    consumer
  • Storyboarder
    Storyboarder
    Y Combinator LogoW2023
    Active • 2 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Storyboarder is a tool and a platform for anyone to create, share, and sell webcomics. In East Asia, the webcomic (or digital manga) industry is an $12B market and rapidly growing to the rest of the world. Webtoon, the largest company in the space, generates $100M / month in revenue. However, their addressable market is limited by their content creators, who need know how to draw. Readers are desperate for a greater variety of stories in webcomics. Through years of working with filmmakers, we’ve built extremely easy to use storyboarding software that has 700K users. We’re democratizing visual storytelling to everyone. We’re working on the next generation that, through advances in video game interfaces, ubiquitous 3D compute, and AI, will allow anyone to easily create scenes, pose characters, to create webcomics. Storyboarder is backed by Y Combinator (W23), David Karp (Tumblr Founder), Andrew Kortina (Venmo Founder), and other product focused investors.
    entertainment
    media
    creator-economy
  • rct AI
    rct AI
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 40 employees • Los Angeles, CA, USA
    rct AI is providing AI solutions to the game industry and building the true Metaverse with AI generated content. By using cutting-edge technologies, especially deep learning and reinforcement learning, rct AI creates a truly dynamic and intelligent user experience both on the consumers’ side and production’s side. The founding team ever built a company, Raventech together and helped make it acquired by Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) in 2017.
    gaming
    reinforcement-learning
    metaverse
  • Argo
    Argo
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 10 employees • Los Angeles, CA, USA
    A platform for brands and creator to monetize their video entertainment more efficiently, build an engaged community and reward their fans.
    infrastructure
    consumer
    social
    entertainment
    crypto-web3
  • Svbtle
    Svbtle
    Y Combinator LogoS2012
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    A publishing platform designed to work the same way your brain does.
    media
  • Pillar
    Pillar
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Pillar is the all-in-one business platform for content creators and talent managers.
    e-commerce
  • cocreate
    cocreate
    Y Combinator LogoS2025
    Active • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Before editing begins, professional video teams spend days copying, organizing, and prepping footage — a process that can eat up 40% of a project’s time and budget. CoCreate runs in the background during backup, delivering fully organized, searchable, and edit-ready projects for Premiere, Avid, Final Cut, or Resolve the moment media is offloaded. The result: faster turnarounds, fewer errors, and more time spent actually editing.
    video
    consumer
    artificial-intelligence
  • Lemon Slice
    Lemon Slice
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 3 employees • California St, San Francisco, CA, USA
    Lemon Slice (formerly Infinity AI) is a video foundation model for human motion and emotion. We allow creators to generate expressive, talking characters across all styles, from photorealistic to cartoons.
    creator-economy
    video
    ai
  • Same
    Same
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We are Same (YC W24). We want to help people easy develop and run products. We believe that soon everyone will be able to freely explore, create, and implement various ideas without being restricted by technology and time. Coding in its current form is still too complicated for most people. It gives control to a small elite, takes years to master, and remains unintuitive and time-consuming to the average person. We spent the last two years building tools like Million.js and React Scan that extend what millions of developers could create. Now, we're going to share that magic with the rest of the world. We're based in San Francisco and Shanghai.
    artificial-intelligence
  • Narrative
    Narrative
    Y Combinator LogoF2025
    Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Narrative is the AI video editor for professionals that enables you to instantly search through and generate timelines for terabytes of footage in minutes.
    video
    ai
  • The Juggernaut
    The Juggernaut
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 5 employees • New York, NY, USA
    The Juggernaut is a NY-based consumer subscription company and community for the South Asia-curious. Targeted subscription media is a valuable bet: Black Entertainment Television (BET) sold to Viacom for $2.3b in 2000 and Liberty Media valued Univision at $14b in 2017. The U.S. South Asia diaspora alone has over $1 trillion of spending power and is the fastest growing demographic in the U.S., yet is underserved. We're backed by some incredible investors, including Precursor Ventures (also in The Athletic, Superhuman), Kevin Lin (co-founder, Twitch), Adam Hansmann (co-founder, The Athletic), and Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO, ex-GP a16z).
    community
    subscriptions
    consumer
  • True3D Labs
    True3D Labs
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 4 employees • New York, NY, USA
    True3D is building the next generation of video. Our AI foundation models bring real-world depth to every frame, making 3D creation and streaming instant and universal.
    infrastructure
    media
    ai
  • Matter
    Matter
    Y Combinator LogoS2020
    Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Matter is a powerful, modern reading app that lets you save media from anywhere, pulls in your newsletters, lets you listen to your articles in a natural voice, and much more.
  • Azuki
    Azuki
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Azuki: Your Digital Manga Cafe is Netflix-style Japanese comic subscription service where users can subscribe for $4.99 a month to unlock access to all the manga on the service. Free users have access to select chapters with ads.
    entertainment
    subscriptions
  • OpenSea
    OpenSea
    Y Combinator LogoW2018
    Active • 250 employees • New York, NY, USA
    OpenSea is your home for trading everything onchain. Founded in 2017, OpenSea pioneered the first non-custodial marketplace for digital assets and has evolved into the destination for the entire onchain economy. Trade tokens, culture, ideas, digital assets, and physical assets across all major blockchains.
    nft
    crypto-web3
    marketplace
  • T3 Chat
    T3 Chat
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We made: T3.Chat - The best AI chat app UploadThing - File uploads for full-stack developers PicThing - Background removal for content creators Ping.gg - Live collaboration for streamers and podcasters
    ai
    consumer
    developer-tools
    artificial-intelligence
  • Evolve (makers of Podcast App & Rest AI)
    Evolve (makers of Podcast App & Rest AI)
    Y Combinator LogoW2018
    Active • 23 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We’re a team of podcast fanatics with more than 20 years of combined experience in the audio space. We are building the fastest-growing podcast player and are now backed by YCombinator (W18). At Podcast App, we are building an audio platform to help millions of people in their pursuit of happiness. Under one roof, we bring the best and most powerful podcasts, audiobooks, and meditations from leading minds and experts around the world. Our love for podcasts began when we discovered their power to make our ordinary day-to-day tasks more enjoyable and meaningful. Podcasts helped transform tedious activities like commutes or household chores into more positive experiences, helping us learn new skills, stay informed, or pass the time with captivating stories. We want to help people in their pursuit of happiness. We’ve been podcast aficionados for years, and, even for us, finding the right one to listen to is difficult and frustrating. With tens of millions to choose from and more being released every day, the problem’s only getting worse. It’s time to fix this problem. Americans spend 30 billion hours every year commuting and doing household chores. We want to make those hours worthwhile. By building technology that makes it easy to access great podcasts, we’ll help millions of people reclaim lost time and experience more fun, inspiration, and personal growth every day. Our product, Podcast App, is a minimalist podcast player enhanced with cutting-edge technology. We leverage machine learning to build customized podcast playlists for our users based on their interests and tastes. If you want to get in touch, email us at hello@podcast.app.
    podcasts
    sleep-tech
    digital-health
    consumer
  • Soundry AI
    Soundry AI
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 3 employees • Seattle, WA, USA
    We have built a universal text-to-sound AI generator for musicians and sound designers. Music producers build songs with samples that they've hand crafted with our AI, and sound designers can incorporate generated sound effects into film, TV, and video games. With personalized generations and training data hand-picked by your favorite artists, Soundry AI is your new best friend in the music creation process.
    artificial-intelligence
    ai-assistant
    music
    social-media
  • Focal
    Focal
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Focal is an AI video creation tool that allows anyone to create and share TV episodes and movies. We combine existing video, audio, and language models to make this process simple and straightforward. Check out our most recent demo: https://youtu.be/GFaN96OMlb0
    video
    artificial-intelligence
    consumer
  • Wanderlog
    Wanderlog
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Wanderlog is the one-stop app for planning your next vacation, with a focus on excellent design. You can track your plans in our collaborative document, discover new places to visit and hotels to book, and share travel advice with friends and fellow travelers.
    social
    subscriptions
    travel
    consumer
  • Andi
    Andi
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like chatting with a smart friend. Andi is a new type of search engine that uses generative AI and language models combined with live data to generate factually correct answers to questions, and to explain and summarize information combined from the best sources. Andi works as a search chatbot that's ad-free and privacy-focused. Ask Andi to... ✅ Answer questions 🧠 Find, summarize and explain information 🔍 Navigate and search the web Search is broken because of SEO spam, ads, and surveillance capitalism. Andi cuts through the clutter to get you straight to the knowledge you need. It presents results visually in a way that's easy to understand with a simple chat interface, and protects you from ad tech and distraction.
    ai
    generative-ai
    search
    consumer
    api
  • Koyal
    Koyal
    Y Combinator LogoF2025
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Koyal is an Audio to Video Filmmaking Platform that allows you to seamlessly convert audio into personalized, visually compelling stories. We’re a team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Meta, with experience in AI video generation. https://koyal.ai builds directly upon our published research at the AI conference NeurIPS in December. We’ve been covered in the international press for our patented secure personalization protocol CHARCHA: the genAI captcha. Announcement: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965866965425348687 Demo: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965137062119752099 We currently have paid pilots with the biggest global music labels, podcasts and production houses, and just launched our public beta at beta.koyal.ai We recently concluded a pilot with Universal Music and T-Series (world’s largest music label) alongside Bollywood production houses like Maddock Entertainment, and Collective Artists Network! As part of that, we launched 5 music videos for Grammy and Oscar winning artists like A R Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan all crossing 1.5 million views! We've recently built SOTA capabilities in (i) multilingual script to audio to video, (ii) Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement & (iii) Multi-character consistency.
    entertainment
    generative-ai
    creator-economy
  • Flick
    Flick
    Y Combinator LogoF2025
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Flick is an AI filmmaking software that lets people create Hollywood-level short films completely using AI end-to-end. There are many AI tools that can give you 8-second casual clips to post on social media, but when it comes to creating truly high-quality films with coherent storylines, consistent characters, and cinematic aesthetics, they don’t come close due to their lack of flexibility, creative control, and fragmented creative flow. Founded by an award-winning filmmaker and a founding engineer at Instagram, Flick defines an interface specifically designed for native AI filmmaking that feels natural and enables end-to-end creative flows. Think of Flick as Figma for AI filmmaking. There are 4 complete AI short films created using Flick that got 20+ awards in international film festivals already and our early creator residency community are generating several AI short films every week. We are also building a community where we produce our own AI films as well as collaborating with other well-known filmmakers to share their “behind-the-scenes” workflows as resuable templates to inspire users in our community. We not only build product, we also build world-class content. The whole film industry will be revolutionized by AI and our goal is to be “the product” that defines this category.
    generative-ai
    video
    creator-economy
  • Buy Me a Coffee
    Buy Me a Coffee
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 30 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Buy Me a Coffee is a fast and beautiful way to fund your creative work. Loved by over a million creators. ☕️
    fintech
    marketplace
  • HeartByte
    HeartByte
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Storio is a content platform where creators can create original fiction or derivative works based on other fictional worlds. Creators write fictions 10 times faster on Storio. It's a place for community to fully indulge in the fictional world that they wish they were in.
    entertainment
    social-media
    generative-ai
    consumer
  • Y/n
    Y/n
    Y Combinator LogoS2023
    Active • 2 employees
    Y/n is an interactive stories app. For example, you can play a story and escape a desert island with Sherlock or be a student at your favorite fictional school.
  • The Ankler
    The Ankler
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 2 employees • Los Angeles, CA, USA
    The Ankler is subscription news for the entertainment industry so good that everyone from CEOs to creators pay to consume it every day.
    entertainment
  • Tappity
    Tappity
    Y Combinator LogoS2020
    Active • 4 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Tappity is building the world’s largest library of interactive lessons for kids—starting with science! Find every science topic kids love in one place taught by the world's most entertaining instructors.
    kids
    education
    entertainment
  • Replika
    Replika
    Y Combinator LogoW2015
    Active • 28 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Luka is a software development company based in San Francisco, California. The company created Luka app, a new messenger with AI-powered chatbots. They help you find places to eat, do web search, make plans together, pick places to eat, play trivia games and lots of other things in a messenger. In 2016 Luka launched a closed testing of Replika, a new app that allows to create a personal AI friend that helps people deal with loneliness. The app is powered by a proprietary deep learning architecture.
    conversational-ai
    mental-health
  • ClipDrop
    ClipDrop
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Acquired • 5 employees • Paris, France
    ClipDrop is an app that turns regular mobile photos into professional product visuals. Thanks to companies like Poshmark, Etsy and Ebay, there are now over 25M sellers who need great visuals for their shops but most of them don’t have access to a professional photographer or a design team. We replace all of this with our app available on mobile and desktop. We’re a team of former Google, Facebook employees and Machine learning PhD’s and academic Professors. We believe that machine learning will bring professional photography and design to millions of businesses for a fraction of the cost.
    computer-vision
    design-tools
    saas
  • Omnisio
    Y Combinator LogoW2008
    Acquired0 • Atherton, CA 94027, USA
    Omnisio was founded in 2007 by Ryan Junee, Simon Ratner and Julian Frumar, and was subsquently acquired by YouTube in July 2008. Omnisio enabled users to annotate and share videos from any website, and enabled markup of the structure within a video. On May 13, 2008, Omnisio launched a slide-syncing tool using SlideShare for slides and a host of video services.
    video
    media
  • Product Hunt
    Product Hunt
    Y Combinator LogoS2014
    Acquired • 18 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Product Hunt surfaces the best new products, every day. It's a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations. Community members can submit, browse, vote and comment on daily submissions of products and collections of products. They also get the opportunity to interact directly with product creators, investors, journalists, as well as, an active community of people who are passionate about products.
    community
    media
  • JustSpotted
    Y Combinator LogoS2008
    Acquired • 2 employees • Copenhagen, Denmark
    The artist-formerly-known-as Scoopler is a real-time search engine. It aggregates and organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. It does this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When users search for a topic on Scoopler, they get the most relevant results, updated in real-time. Scoopler has now become JustSpotted, a celebrity-tracking tool, meant to give fans an idea of what their favorite celebrities are up to at any given moment. JustSpotted, like Scoopler, is a data-aggregator, yet JustSpotted collects from Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare -- alongside their own data they’ll be collecting from users who actual spot celebrities in the wild. All the information we aggregate is publicly available and you can even do a search on Twitter yourself and find sightings of celebrities. We're just the first people to organize it on a map and in such a way that it's easy to consume and ENJOY.” JustSpotted is about connecting with celebs. All the sightings on our website are naturally occurring events where an everyday person bumps into a celebrity as a chance occurrence. Back in the day, when you saw a celebrity while you were out and about the first thing you would have done was phone or text a friend. In the new age of social media, the first thing you do is share it on Facebook or Twitter. This phenomena is already happening. The service, which launches the week of October 11, 2010, is the latest creation by AJ Asver, Dilan Jarawardane and Benjamin Tauber.
    artificial-intelligence
    ml
  • Bop.fm
    Y Combinator LogoS2013
    Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    bop.fm is a YCombinator-backed music technology company that creates a home for every song on the internet. The company aggregates several popular music services (Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, Deezer, etc.) into one interface. Users can then search for any song, play it using any service, and share/discover with any friend (even if they use a different service than you). bop.fm powers this same aggregation and service-agnostic music playback for Rap Genius, as well as music content publishers, messaging clients, social networks, artists/labels, and other partners.
    music
    analytics
  • Hellosaurus
    Hellosaurus
    Y Combinator LogoS2020
    Acquired • 25 employees • New York, NY, USA
    [Hellosaurus](http://www.hellosaurus.com) is an interactive video platform for kids filled with stories they can actually play instead of just watch. Top kids media creators and popular YouTube stars are already making content for our platform and transforming screen time into an active and fun experience. Hellosaurus is developing software tools for creators of high-quality kids programming to make truly participatory shows and a single distribution platform to share these creations with families everywhere. Experts in early childhood education have long stressed the importance of play for healthy cognitive and social development, and Hellosaurus supports this by empowering content creators to build enriching, interactive shows that engage kids as active participants rather than passive viewers.
    education
    entertainment
    kids
  • Socialcam
    Socialcam
    Y Combinator LogoW2012
    Acquired0 • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family.
    social
    video
  • Nowmov
    Y Combinator LogoW2010
    Acquired0 • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Nowmov is an endless stream of videos recommended to users based on their interests, friends and what's trending around the world.
  • Audm
    Audm
    Y Combinator LogoS2017
    Acquired • 10 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Audm is a mobile app that turns long-form print journalism into professionally narrated digital audio. The app, which was quietly launched on 2016, uses professional voice actors to read news content that makes it enjoyable to listen to.
    subscriptions
    consumer
    media
  • Remade
    Remade
    Y Combinator LogoS2024
    Acquired • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Remade is building an AI-native canvas for creative workflows. Try it now at: app.remade.ai
    saas
    social-media
    consumer
    generative-ai
    artificial-intelligence
  • Opearlo
    Y Combinator LogoS2017
    Acquired • 2 employees • London, UK
    Opearlo builds voice apps for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.
    ai-assistant
  • Echodio
    Echodio
    Y Combinator LogoW2009
    Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Echodio is the easiest way to sync your music library across players, keep your valuable collection safe, and stream to your media center.
    music
  • Tech in Asia
    Tech in Asia
    Y Combinator LogoW2015
    Acquired • 70 employees • Singapore
    Tech in Asia (YC W15) is the largest English-language technology media company that focuses on Asia. From the latest news to the hottest trends and the boldest startups to the strongest titans, we cover everything tech in the region. Our goal is to build and serve Asia’s tech and startup community.
    media
  • Genius
    Genius
    Y Combinator LogoS2011
    Acquired • 101 employees • Brooklyn, NY, USA
    Genius is the world's biggest encyclopedia of music. Powered by its community, in-house creative team, and the artists themselves, Genius serves music knowledge to over 100 million people each month on Genius.com and everywhere music fans connect across the internet. Founded in 2009, Genius began as a platform for annotating rap lyrics. Over the years, it has expanded its mission to include more than hip-hop, and more than just lyrics. Every song has a story that needs to be told, and the biggest names in music—including Frank Ocean, Lorde, and Lin-Manuel Miranda—come to Genius to give the world insight into their art.
    music
  • Streem
    Streem
    Y Combinator LogoS2012
    Acquired • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Streem (https://www.streem.com) offers unlimited cloud storage for your media. Store, stream, and share all your favorite movies, photos, music, and more with your friends! Streem is a magical drive on your device that lives in the cloud and gives you unlimited space. You can put files into Streem, free up space on your computer and mobile devices, and instantly access and share your content anywhere, anytime. Unlike other cloud storage tools, Streem takes up no space on your computer, but still gives you instant access to your files without any lag. All media on Streem is converted on-the-fly so you can access it seamlessly regardless of the device or bandwidth.
  • GraffitiGeo
    Y Combinator LogoS2009
    Acquired • 2 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    At its core GraffitiGeo allows users to leave brief reviews of restaurants, or for those too lazy to do that, to simply leave a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" — it's like a highly condensed version of Yelp, or a "Digg for the world". These reviews and votes can be cast from the site's iPhone app or from the service's homepage. The homepage also features a stream of the latest comments to come in from other users, as well as a profile for each restaurant in the system that includes all of its votes and comments. There's also a nifty feature that lets you view a heatmap of your current region, so you can quickly figure out the hot spots in town. The gameplay in GraffitiGeo gives you points for checking into certain locations, similar to FourSquare, but doesn't really let you do anything with them. With GraffitiGeo, you earn points for every action you take, be it voting on a restaurant or leaving a brief comment. Once you've reached a certain point threshold, you can use those points to start a "mob", which you can invite your friends to join. Mobs allow friends to pool their points, which can then be used to acquire territory, which corresponds to actual city blocks. Whenever someone votes on one of the restaurants on the block, the mob gets some street cred too. It's definitely going to be confusing at first, but it also brings a team element to gameplay.
  • Blitz Esports
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Acquired • 11 employees • Berkeley, CA, USA
    Blitz Esports is a tech and media startup focused on bridging the gap between esports fandom and personal gameplay. We're one of the premier media publications in esports, specializing in educational video content for League of Legends, CS:GO and Overwatch. We've also developed the first fully automatic League of Legends coaching app, which uses computer vision and data-driven insights to proactively help gamers make better decisions at each step of their gameplay experience. A month into open beta, the Blitz app is now used in over a million games each week.
    esports
    media
  • Anywhere.FM
    Y Combinator LogoS2007
    Acquired • 11 employees
    Anywhere.fm lets you upload your music collection onto their site and then play your music anywhere from the web. They offer their own iTunes look-alike music player through which you can play your songs. The site also incorporates social networking aspects, allowing you to create your own profile and discover new music through Friend Radio.
  • Midnox
    Y Combinator LogoW2012
    Acquired • 2 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Luma (formerly Midnox) allows you to record and share beautiful HD videos with real-time video stabilization, filters and zoom. Change filters and stabilization after you've finished recording! Follow your friends to watch, like and comment on their videos.
  • Breaker
    Breaker
    Y Combinator LogoW2017
    Acquired • 1 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Breaker is a podcast listening and discovery application. Most podcasts are free, but serious publishers are spending big budgets to make high quality audio content like Serial, which hit 100 million downloads and made podcasts mainstream. 67 million Americans are already listening to podcasts a month. Breaker wants to sign exclusive deals to distribute the best premium podcasts and charge users $6 per month. First, its goal is to build a huge listener audience by making the best podcast consumption app. It launched today, and will offer podcasters ways to connect and get feedback from their community, and analytics about what content performs best. It has a stunning 67% retention rate after a month for beta users. If it can convince people to pay for what’s often free, it could become the preferred place for podcasters to talk.
    media
    social-media
    podcasts
  • Typedream
    Typedream
    Y Combinator LogoW2020
    Acquired • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Let AI turn your ideas into a website in minutes. Get content, structure, and style done for you, ready to edit and publish instantly.
    saas
    design-tools
    generative-ai
  • Women.com
    Women.com
    Y Combinator LogoS2014
    Acquired • 11 employees • San Mateo, CA, USA
    We aim to support and promote women who are creating wonderful and beautiful things. We hope to offer a trusted destination that will give you a moment's rest and a bit of laughter in our constantly on-the-go, work-driven world. Our dream is that every time you want to smile and add a little bit of delight to your day, you come to women.com. And when that smile carries over into the rest of your life and world, you share how good you feel with everyone around you. Pass it on. Our current website offers a personality quiz platform, trivia quizzes and a closed Q & A community.
    women's-health
  • Slinkset
    Y Combinator LogoS2008
    Inactive • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Slinkset is a white label social news platform that allows anyone to start a social news site and integrate it into their own website.
    social
    media