Home and Personal Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

November 2025

Browse 79 of the top Home and Personal startups funded by Y Combinator.

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  • Backpack
    Y Combinator LogoS2014
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Shopping? Buy overseas. Traveling? Earn some extra cash. Let backpack help you save that high shipping cost or earn a little extra. Backpack is a peer-to-peer platform that connects travelers and shoppers to give people access to products across markets in all continents. Each backpacker, regardless of their role as a carrier or a shopper, follows a simple four-step process to either earn or save money from their backpacking experience. Travelers share their travel information and specify what kind of items they want to carry. Then they wait to get a "backpack request" and ask their price. Finally, they confirm the deal, buy the items, deliver them and earn money. Shoppers on the other hand, search items from their favorite websites and fill out the item description. Then they give their location and find a traveler coming to their city. Finally they "request backpack" and confirm the deal. Within days they can get the product and save money. backpack is founded with a vision to provide every citizen of the world with a choice; the choice of buying organic, authentic, and cost effective products with minimum friction. Whether the product is state-of-the-art consumer electronics, exotic pashmina from the south-east, or even medication that are rare in some parts of the world and not so rare in others - we promise ourselves to get those products to your doorsteps. We would like to reject the counterfeits, we would like to reject the almost-originals, most importantly, we would like to not pay the heavy expense incurred, most of which we deem to be superfluous. Help us make a better, more original globalized world.
    marketplace
    international
  • AnyList
    Y Combinator LogoS2010
    Active • 3 employees • Missoula, MT, USA
    AnyList is the best way to create and share grocery shopping lists. Easily share a list with your spouse or roommates. List changes show up instantly on everyone’s iOS or Android device.
    food-&-beverage
    e-commerce
  • GiveAway
    GiveAway
    Y Combinator LogoW2020
    Active • 1 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We help to get rid of the things in your house that are no longer needed without spending any time or money. Our users bid on your items with virtual coins and can often find great products up to 95% off.
    marketplace
    social-network
  • Community Phone Company
    Community Phone Company
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 70 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Community Phone is building the best phone for communities in America. We are your hair salon’s business phone, how your auto-body shop texts you or gets appointments, your local government agency’s operations line, and your mom’s phone that she sometimes answers on her computer. We have more than 20,000 customers today, and are building the Square of phones. Our team is ~80 people strong, across 15 countries. We are growing quickly, backed by Y Combinator Accelerator and Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund. We are customer-obsessed to the core. When we had a major network outage, everyone from recruiters to engineers to marketers to customer support agents got on the phone with our customers. Our team exemplifies our purpose. Join us on our mission to make it as easy as possible for people and people at organizations in our communities to communicate.
    telecommunications
    b2b
    customer-support
    saas
    artificial-intelligence
  • Tributi
    Tributi
    Y Combinator LogoW2018
    Active • 20 employees • Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
    Tributi automates tax filing for individuals in Latam, and offers curated financial services to those users based on their financial data.
    fintech
  • Tizeti
    Tizeti
    Y Combinator LogoW2017
    Active0 • Lagos, Nigeria
    Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service right across Africa.
    telecommunications
  • Deako
    Y Combinator LogoW2016
    Active • 11 employees • Seattle, WA, USA
    Deako believes that everyone should be able to enjoy the wonderful experiences of smart lighting, regardless of their budget. We invented the modular light switch, giving homeowners maximum flexibility to customize and upgrade their systems, at any time, in minutes and without turning off the power. Deako’s beautiful designer switches are like nothing else on the market today. Deako Smart Lighting has been named the #1 Smart Lighting Control System by TecHome Builder, Top 25 Innovative IOT Companies by Entrepreneur, featured in “I Want That!” episode on DIY Network, Top 50 most promising Startups by Bloomberg, and “Changing The Way Builders Spec Light Switches” - Builder Magazine.
    home-automation
    iot
  • Click & Grow
    Click & Grow
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Active • 28 employees • Palo Alto, CA, USA
    Click & Grow is an innovative, international company that’s changing the way people think about plant cultivation and food. Our unique line of Smart Gardens and Wall Farms uses automatically controlled technology and specially developed Smart Soil to keep oxygen, water, and nutritional ingredients at optimal levels so plants thrive naturally. This helps anyone effortlessly grow plants with complete success and no need for GMOs, pesticides, fungicides, insecticides, plant hormones, or any other suspicious substances. Venture-backed, and a favorite of Wired, TechCrunch, Business Insider and more, Click & Grow boasts a forward-thinking team, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia. Our current products are the first steps towards a greater revolution in urban farming, gardening, and beyond.
    indoor-mapping
    gardening
  • Roofr
    Roofr
    Y Combinator LogoS2017
    Active • 40 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We're the all-in-one sales toolbox for roofers with helpful features to grow your business including: Stunning Proposals: Create a professionally designed proposal from a measurement report. Email & capture your clients’ e-signatures from any device. Aerial Measurement Reports: Order an accurate $10 roof measurement report or draw it yourself in minutes with drone, satellite or blueprint imagery. Our mission is to ensure every family has access to an affordable roof.
    saas
    proptech
    construction
  • Instapainting
    Instapainting
    Y Combinator LogoW2011
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Instapainting turns any photo (from your phone, Facebook, Instagram, DSLR, the internet) into a hand-painted oil painting on real canvas, for $45 (for 10"x10"), and delivered in less than two weeks. The company is backed by Y Combinator and Start Fund (SV Angel and Yuri Milner). Customers include founder and CEO of Pebble Technology, Eric Migicovsky, and founder and CEO of Apportable, Inc., Collin Jackson.
  • Lawdingo
    Y Combinator LogoW2013
    Active • New York, NY, USA
    Lawdingo gets people in touch with a lawyer very quickly. Lawdingo gives people seeking legal services direct access to independent lawyers who can help them. Such attorneys usually have more flexible hours, lower rates, and greater interest in customer service than to their larger firm counterparts. The problem is that there is so many such lawyers; how is someone supposed to figure out who is right for them, and who has some time to take on their case? Fair question. Coincidentally, we started Lawdingo to answer just that. If you're looking for a lawyer, we encourage you to try finding an easier way to get one to work for you. If you are a lawyer working in solo or small practice, we encourage you to find a more effective way to grow your law practice. We also encourage you not to take our word for it. Read what Solo Practice University, the ABA Journal, FindLaw, AboveTheLaw, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, and others say about us. This isn't some fly-by-the-night company. This is the future of the legal industry. We hope you'll get in touch. Lawdingo was started by Nikhil Nirmel (nikhil@lawdingo.com), an entrepreneur with a background at Yelp and Wharton Undergrad, and Dan Langevin , a ridiculously talented technologist who was formerly CTO of Lifebooker. Lawdingo has backing from Y Combinator and other investors.
    legaltech
  • Directed Edge
    Y Combinator LogoS2009
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Directed Edge delivers Amazon-like "People who bought this also bought..." and "We think you'd also like"-style recommendations to other sites, using existing data being collected such as purchase or click histories. Recommendations are served in real-time via a REST API, with language bindings in several programming languages to make integration easy.
    recommendation-system
    machine-learning
    artificial-intelligence
  • PurplePages
    PurplePages
    Y Combinator LogoW2024
    Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    marketplace
    real-estate
    artificial-intelligence
    ai-assistant
    conversational-ai
  • Cityfurnish
    Cityfurnish
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 90 employees • New Delhi, Delhi, India
    Cityfurnish is a rental subscription service for furniture and appliances in India. Today, there are 350M people renting unfurnished or semi-furnished apartments in India; Cityfurnish provides an easy, affordable and hassle-free solution. The founding team shares 25+ years of furniture retailing experience and has grown the business to 8,000+ subscribers.
    fintech
    housing
  • Glitzi
    Glitzi
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 33 employees • Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
    Glitzi provides at-home spa, beauty and grooming services for people in Latin America. We do this by connecting you to our network of high quality masseuses, manicurists and barbers.
    marketplace
    beauty
    health-&-wellness
  • BuildZoom
    BuildZoom
    Y Combinator LogoW2013
    Active • 100 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    BuildZoom is a better way to remodel. We connect homeowners to the most reliable general contractors in their area and make remodeling simpler, cheaper and more predictable. Our technology harvests public data on every licensed contractor in the United States, including license information, building permits, bond and insurance information and other government records. We use this public data along with private data gleaned from past BuildZoom marketplace interactions to evaluate contractor quality, availability, and fit for each construction project. Our goal is to help project owners arrive at several competitive bids from highly qualified and experienced construction companies to ensure a fair price and a successful project. We build tools to help contractors look their best online, manage their lead pipeline, seamlessly interact with project owners, and compose professional bid proposals.
    real-estate
    construction
  • Squire Technologies
    Squire Technologies
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Active • 150 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers worldwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments and better market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry worldwide. For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.
    smb
    beauty
  • Camlist
    Camlist
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 5 employees • London, UK
    Camlist is the super app for pets, a video-first, mobile-only, social platform that allows pet breeders and pet parents to interact, transact, and care for their furry friends all under one roof.
    marketplace
    video
  • Ever Loved
    Ever Loved
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 5 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Ever Loved is a one-stop-shop to help families plan better funerals with less stress. Ever Loved makes it easy to come up with the funds needed ($9,000 on average), find the best vendors and products, and communicate with the community of the deceased to bring people together, both online and offline.
    marketplace
  • LAIKA
    LAIKA
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 500 employees • Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
    The top of mind for pets, the “one-stop shop” market in LATAM. A pet ecosystem that combines On and offline platform where pet owners will find a solution for all their needs, including products & services. Currently, to meet the needs of their pets, people must go to different places and platforms. To find products, they go to one place; for services, they go to several others; and for healthcare, a few more. In Colombia, in average, a person must visit or consult more than seven places per year to meet the needs of their pets. We built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhere else to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty and entertainment services. All of the above delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
    marketplace
  • Pumpkin
    Pumpkin
    Y Combinator LogoS2024
    Active • 1 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Pumpkin is a document editor with AI at its core.
    automation
    artificial-intelligence
  • Listia
    Listia
    Y Combinator LogoS2009
    Active • 6 employees • Santa Clara, CA, USA
    Listia is a new kind of auction marketplace for giving and getting free stuff. Users list items as auctions, and other users bid on these items using credits instead of money. Credits are earned by signing up, giving away stuff, and being an active member.
    crypto-web3
    marketplace
  • Joy
    Joy
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Active • 60 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Joy is a software platform with a mission to help the world celebrate better together. Our software helps everyone plan and remember all of life's events. Big or small, Joy is there every step of the way.
    consumer
    e-commerce
    media
    retail
    saas
  • Miso
    Miso
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Active • 60 employees • Seoul, South Korea
    Miso makes booking services as easy as buying products online. We offer over 70 different services ranging from cleaning to moving to interior remodeling, repair and installation. We have fulfilled more than 4 million bookings and operate at over a $140 million GMV run rate.
    marketplace
  • SOTERI SKIN
    SOTERI SKIN
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Soteri Skin is D2C skincare for chronic skin conditions like eczema. We’re the only non-prescription product proven to provide long-lasting relief for the 30 million Americans who suffer from eczema. How it works: Skin surface pH is constantly in flux, and many of your daily activities can throw it out of balance. People with chronic skin conditions such as eczema have a harder time regulating their skin's pH. Soteri's patented pH/LOCK™ locks skin in at a therapeutic pH for 12+ hours, which is shown to help break the cycle of skin sensitivity, whether you have eczema, psoriasis, or just a bad sunburn. Our formulations are aesthetically elegant (non-sticky, sit well under makeup, etc), safe for anyone to use, and don't require a prescription. Most people see skin health improvements within the first few weeks of application, even for tricky, chronic skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. With Soteri Skin, anyone can enjoy healthy, glowing, pH-enomenal skin!
    skincare
    e-commerce
  • Aviron Interactive
    Aviron Interactive
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 90 employees • Toronto, ON, Canada
    Aviron, a Y Combinator-backed company, reimagines fitness with connected exercise machines powered by an immersive gaming platform. We're on a mission to build the leading fitness entertainment experience, motivating our community through game psychology, engaging content, and innovative technology.
    sports-tech
    consumer-health-services
    gaming
  • Milo
    Milo
    Y Combinator LogoW2020
    Active • 4 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Milo is the Family AI. We give busy parents back time + mindshare by tackling the daily details with a behind the scenes co-pilot. By pairing a human in the loop with the latest in LLM capabilities we're able to effectively build a copilot for detailed, high context and noisy tasks, via a simple conversational SMS interface.
    artificial-intelligence
    ai-assistant
    conversational-ai
  • Tovala
    Tovala
    Y Combinator LogoW2016
    Active • 375 employees • Chicago, IL, USA
    Tovala is a Chicago-based food-tech company with a smart oven that is paired with a weekly meal delivery service.
    food-&-beverage
  • Cleanly
    Cleanly
    Y Combinator LogoW2015
    Active • 40 employees • New York, NY, USA
    We started Cleanly to create an alternative to your typical laundry and dry cleaning experience. An alternative where delivery occurs at the tap of a button and happens around your schedule. Where people are friendly and knowledgeable about the way your clothes are treated. Cleanly checks one item off your to-do list: Laundry day, done. Learn more about Cleanly on our website: www.cleanly.com
    logistics
    delivery
  • The Flex Company
    The Flex Company
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Active • 28 employees • Venice, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    The Flex Co. is the top-selling sustainable period care brand known for creating a more comfortable period for everyone. Their patented product portfolio, Flex™ Disc, FlexCup™, Softdisc® and Softcup®, which are sold online and in over 30,000 retail doors throughout the U.S. including Walmart, Target, CVS and Walgreens. Based in Venice, California, The Flex Co. is the sole manufacturer of its products, which are designed and produced in the U.S. and Canada. Led by founder & CEO Lauren Schulte Wang, our team is working to create life-changing experiences through the products we make and conversations we spark. Learn more at flexfits.com.
    consumer
    retail
  • GoGoGrandparent
    GoGoGrandparent
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Active • 50 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    GoGoGrandparent is a virtual retirement community that offers rides, meals, medication, groceries, home maintenance & community for older adults living at home. All services are accessible via regular phone call (no special technology required) and all service providers are vetted & screened. All requests are monitored for greater than 99% reliability, many of our clients rely on us to live years longer in their home.
    consumer-health-services
    assistive-tech
  • Eight Sleep
    Eight Sleep
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Active • 100 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Eight Sleep is the world's first sleep fitness brand with a mission to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. Founded in New York City in 2014, Eight Sleep leverages thermoregulation, data, and technology to design products to restore individuals to their peak energy every morning. Eight Sleep was named one of Fast Company's “Most Innovative Companies of 2018 and 2022”, and recognized by TIME's Best Inventions of 2018 and 2019.
    health-tech
    hardware
  • Foster
    Foster
    Y Combinator LogoW2021
    Active • 15 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Community-powered writing workflow driven by some of the internet's best writers, editors, and experts.
    productivity
  • Level Frames
    Level Frames
    Y Combinator LogoW2015
    Active • 5 employees • Brooklyn, NY, USA
    Level Frames is making it more convenient, affordable and intuitive to custom frame posters, prints, photos and more. By bringing the entire experience online and offering amazing support, we can help make your walls in your home or office look amazing at a fraction of the price and turnaround time of a traditional frame shop. Level was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, United States.
    e-commerce
  • Hogaru
    Hogaru
    Y Combinator LogoW2017
    Active • 746 employees • Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
    Hogaru provides professional cleaning and maintainance services to homes and micro businesses in Latin America. Differently from marketplaces, we employ directly our cleaners, to foster retention and quality of service.
    marketplace
    home-services
  • Storyworth
    Storyworth
    Y Combinator LogoW2011
    Active • 13 employees • Kailua, HI, USA
    Storyworth is a service that makes it easy for families to record their stories. Each week they email their customers a question about their life, for example "What do you remember of your grandmother?". Their customers reply by email, and the stories are saved and shared privately with their family. At the end of a year, their stories are bound in a beautiful keepsake book.
    saas
    e-commerce
  • Reebee
    Y Combinator LogoS2013
    Active • 11 employees • Kitchener, ON, Canada
    Reebee is the best way to browse and distribute flyers. The reebee mobile application makes it easy for customers to browse and discover local flyers, stay organized with an integrated shopping list, search products and much more. Available for free in Canada on the Apple App Store, Google Play, and BlackBerry World. Reebee specializes in targeted flyer distribution, engaging the consumer audience through a rich mobile experience. Digital distribution not only fills in the voids of physical distribution, but it also reaches a new audience with distinctly measurable results. Track consumer buying signals like never before.
    travel
  • Dex
    Dex
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 7 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Dex is a personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch with the people you would otherwise forget. Dex helps turn your acquaintances into your allies. Going beyond the superficiality of social networks requires commitment. If you remember to keep in touch thoughtfully, you can turn the interesting person you met at a networking event into a friend that has your back. I built Dex after failing to keep up with the tools I tried (Airtable, Notion, etc) for relationship management. Installing an actual CRM like Hubspot felt like a wrong fit for my informal relationships -- these people were 'my team,' not customers. Dex is a lightweight personal CRM that’s easy to stick with. Key to Dex is a Chrome extension that enables you to manage relationships while you’re in Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, and the social apps you already use. Dex can also send you actionable reminders (daily, or based on your calendar events) to log your interactions for next time. By using Dex, you can: - Build stronger relationships, by sending you a nudge to follow-up. - Be more thoughtful, by helping you remember where you left off. - Become a superconnector, by making connections you wouldn’t otherwise remember.
    saas
    productivity
    crm
  • LemonBox Health
    LemonBox Health
    Y Combinator LogoS2018
    Active • 50 employees • Hong Kong
    LemonBox provides personalized daily vitamin packs for Chinese consumers, along with dietary advice from U.S. registered dietitians. All the products are made in the U.S. and shipped to customers within 7-10 days, based on a monthly subscription model.
    health-tech
    china
    health-&-wellness
    consumer-products
    ai
  • Forfeit
    Forfeit
    Y Combinator LogoW2023
    Active • 2 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Say what you're going to do, when you're going to do it, and how much money you'll forfeit if you don't do it. Send photo or timelapse evidence of you completing the habit by the time you set, or we take your money. Eg, I could set it to go to the gym (or meditate for 30 mins, or take a photo of a sent email, or of a max amount of calories on MyFitnessPal) tomorrow at 6am, or lose $30. If I don't send photo evidence in the gym (that we manually approve), I lose $30.
    consumer
    fitness
    mental-health-tech
    productivity
    digital-health
  • Pushbullet
    Pushbullet
    Y Combinator LogoW2014
    Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Pushbullet connects your devices, making it easy and automatic to share almost anything between them. Our mission is to bridge the gap between your phone, tablet, and computer, enabling them to work better together. Why is this important? Simple: in the past few years, smartphones and tablets have taken over people's digital lives. Sharing data between them and with computers, however, can be a real pain. We make it easy and automatic.
    notifications
  • GiveMeTap
    GiveMeTap
    Y Combinator LogoW2015
    Active • 1 employees • London, UK
    GiveMeTap is a social enterprise. Our mission is to make clean drinking water available to everyone, everywhere. We create stainless steel water bottles, and each bottle funds 5 years of clean water for someone in Africa. When you get a GiveMeTap bottle, you also have access to the free-water network of cafes and shops who give free tap water to people on the go. No questions, no hassle. We build water projects in remote villages and elect a water committee to run the maintenance of the water. So far we have made an impact in Namibia, Malawi, and Ghana to bring clean water for the first time. We like to think of this as ‘Water for You, Water for Everyone’. We help awesome companies create custom bottles for their staff, customers, and events so that they can stay hydrated, reduce plastic waste and help fund water projects. Our partners include: Deloitte HSBC YCombinator Google TED Flexport Legal & General Richard Branson's The Lodge, Switzerland Cambridge University Want to get your company involved? Visit http://bit.ly/2j2Ef64 Water for you. Water for everyone.
    sustainability
  • Warpfy
    Warpfy
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 3 employees • Singapore
    The Fine Living Company (Warpfy) is on a mission to revolutionize the $800B home and kitchen market, building a tech-enabled cross-border Home Lifestyle brand from India—think Shein for Home or Williams Sonoma. Our Design-to-Manufacture-to-Consumer model cuts out the middlemen, delivering high-quality products directly to consumers (D2C), through marketplaces, and via our proprietary B2B channel, The India Wholesale Company). With a fragmented market where 70% is dominated by single-store boutiques and online penetration is just 20%, Home and Kitchen segment is ripe for disruption. India’s share of products has been minimal due to 60%+ value inflation from intermediaries. We’re changing that. Our full-stack approach: AI Copilot-driven product design, ERP for multi-channel distribution & manufacturer retention, and optimized supply chain—offers unparalleled speed & value.
    e-commerce
    marketplace
    retail
    artificial-intelligence
  • AptDeco
    AptDeco
    Y Combinator LogoW2014
    Active • New York, NY, USA
    AptDeco is a peer-to-peer managed marketplace dedicated for buying and selling quality used furniture. We offer a complete end-to-end process to bring back the joy of discovering amazing furniture finds for the home again. Our customers benefit from a trusted and verified community of buyers and sellers, pre-arranged pick up and delivery and a secure electronic payment process.
    marketplace
    logistics
    furniture
  • Wevorce
    Y Combinator LogoW2013
    Active • 11 employees • Bothell, WA, USA
    Wevorce is fixing divorce by ensuring kids come first, costs stay affordable, and the transition is appropriately paced, so that couples can focus on parenting, not fighting. For families, the Wevorce experience stands in stark contrast to the traditional adversarial approach. Instead of each spouse "lawyering up,"​ Wevorce brings them together to work with a specially-trained attorney-mediator who guides the couple through a defined, but fully customized, settlement process. Additional experts in finance and parenting are brought in as needed to ensure the settlement g... See More
    legaltech
  • FLOWER CO.
    FLOWER CO.
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 30 employees • Los Angeles, CA, USA
    We sell weed on the internet. We're a vertically integrated legal cannabis company delivering next-day in Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco, East Bay, Marin, Humboldt, Sacramento, and Vallejo. We're venture-backed and growing exponentially.
    cannabis
    e-commerce
  • AmpUp
    AmpUp
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 45 employees • Cupertino, CA, USA
    AmpUp provides the simplicity and reliability enabled Tesla experience EV charging solution in private commercial locations where vehicle dwell times are 6 hours and longer; EG, workplaces, MUDs, and fleet depots. Within 2 years, it achieved 8th in ranking in market share in the commercial level 2 charging sector in the US. AmpUp is growing even faster now with their dominant growth channel in the commercial lighting vertical set to take off at the end of 2023 and early 2024.
    electric-vehicles
    climate
  • Lugg
    Lugg
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Active • 50 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Lugg is building the best way for you to get anything moved. With the push of a button, you are connected to movers and a truck. They make it dead simple to get your new furniture home, your craigslist purchases delivered to you, and moving all of your stuff into your new apartment. They are located in San Francisco and well-funded by some of the greatest investors in the world, like A-Capital, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. They are a small team with incredibly hard problems to solve. They are hiring and would love to hear from you! hello@Lugg.com Download Lugg and let them be your friend with a truck! http://lugg.com
    logistics
  • Playground
    Playground
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 3 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Playground combines AI research and product design to invent new kinds of creative tools.
    generative-ai
    artificial-intelligence
  • Shopular
    Y Combinator LogoW2012
    Acquired • 11 employees • Redwood City, CA, USA
    Shopular is changing the way people use their mobile phones to shop. Available on iPhone and Android, the innovative mobile app notifies users of personalized sales and coupons when they are near a store or mall. Shopular is the highest rated app in its category and ranked by Time Magazine among the 50 best iPhone apps of 2013. Shopular is founded by engineers from Google, Shopkick and Loopt . We are backed by Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator and headquartered in downtown Redwood City, minutes from Cal Train.
    retail
    e-commerce
  • Cardpool
    Cardpool
    Y Combinator LogoW2010
    Acquired • 251 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of their face value in cash, trade their gift cards for an Amazon.com Gift Card, or donate their gift card to charity. Cardpool provides free shipping for both buyers and sellers, a 100-day return policy, and policy of only selling gift cards that have no expiration date and no monthly fees.
  • Nebia
    Nebia
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Acquired • 16 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    (acquired by Brondell in 2022) At Nebia we build innovative and impactful products that improve how people use water in their daily lives. Through thoughtful reinvention of everyday interactions, we empower people everywhere to collectively make a greater impact with their most basic daily rituals. We started with the shower. The Nebia shower embodies the highest standards of experience, design, engineering and water and energy use. With water savings up to 70% compared to traditional showers, Nebia was designed to make a meaningful impact without compromising on experience. At the heart of our products is our unwavering dedication to developing groundbreaking sustainable solutions that stand the test of time. Every new iteration is made to solve a complex engineering challenge that has limited innovation for over a century. Our investment in R&D and product development is second only to our investment in the people who are making it possible. After several years working behind the scenes, we are extremely proud of what we have recently achieved: - $10m raised on Kickstarter - Products in 100,000 homes - 500+ million gallons of water saved (c. 2022) - 27 million kWh (27 GWh) of energy (approx. energy to heat 2,700 U.S. homes in one year)
    sustainability
    climatetech
    climate
    hardware
  • Feather
    Feather
    Y Combinator LogoS2017
    Acquired • 125 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Feather is redefining furniture rental for city living and helping people feel at home no matter where they live or how long they plan on staying. By giving people smarter options, Feather is able to keep more furniture in homes and out of landfills. Monthly furniture payments can go toward ownership or you can simply return the furniture you no longer need. Those items endure our extensive refurbishment process before they are sent to live in their next home. Our reverse logistics platform allows our customers to swap and add new furniture at any time, helping limit furniture waste.
    delivery
    marketplace
    furniture
  • L.
    L.
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Acquired • San Francisco, CA, USA
    For every L. product sold, one is made accessible to another woman or girl who needs it. L. has been named "Best for the World" by B Corp, a "future-forward company" by Fast Company and "a model of sustainable innovation" by Forbes. After making more than 250 million products accessible in over 20 countries around the world L. was acquired by P&G in 2019 where it retained its status as a Public Benefit Corp. L. continues to be dedicated to its solidarity model and is scaling to reach billions of people around the world.
    beauty
    health-&-wellness
  • Aisle50
    Y Combinator LogoS2011
    Acquired • 11 employees • Chicago, IL, USA
    Aisle50 came out of the summer 2011 class at Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator. Aisle50 builds CPG and retailer campaigns aimed to get both banner and brand incremental shoppers, bigger share and valuable brand messaging to consumers. Our product has a two-year track record of producing baskets that are 30% larger for our retailers. We also give our retailer partners incremental trips that, in the past, they would have lost to competitors. Aisle50 content, because much of it is in the form of offers that are paid for through Web or Mobile, compel the consumer to head to the store sooner rather than later. Everybody wins: We drive trips to stores, new customers to CPGs and big discounts to consumers.
    grocery
  • Willing
    Willing
    Y Combinator LogoS2015
    Acquired • 10 employees • Miami, FL, USA
    Willing makes it easy for people to make wills without a lawyer. Answer simple questions and we'll instantly create all the legal documents you need to name guardians for your children and transfer your assets. We were acquired by MetLife and our technology now powers the world's largest legal insurance company.
    legaltech
    b2b
    consumer
    insurance
    documents
  • Techmate
    Techmate
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Acquired • 11 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Techmate offers simple, on-demand tech support for small businesses and startups. With fast appointment booking, transparent pricing, and friendly, trusted technicians, we aim to take the frustration out of tech support. Get onsite or virtual tech support in as little as 2 hours.
    iot
    home-automation
    customer-support
  • Fobo
    Fobo
    Y Combinator LogoS2011
    Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    FOBO is a local marketplace for selling consumer electronics. FOBO offers users a new way to sell goods via mobile app. It gets rid of all the hassle that is usually associated with local marketplaces and makes it ultra-simple and ultra-fast to do so. The app guarantees sellers will get a certain price for their devices and will be paid upfront, and ensures that their product is sold fast — within 97 minutes.
    location-based
    e-commerce
  • Unwind Me
    Y Combinator LogoS2014
    Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Unwind Me is making massage and wellness more accessible. We make it easier than ever for anyone to book and receive a high-quality massage, when and where they want, at an affordable price - with delightful touches that make each appointment a unique experience.
    health-&-wellness
  • Pretty Instant
    Pretty Instant
    Y Combinator LogoW2015
    Acquired • 3 employees • Boston, MA, USA
    Pretty Instant was a Y Combinator-backed marketplace for professional photography and videography in the U.S., active from 2012 to 2020. Acquired by Snappr in 2021, the company served over 3,500 brands and non-profits, handling logistics, staffing, editing, and delivery. It became a go-to solution for companies seeking streamlined visual content creation nationwide. They also invested the roaming photo-booth experience that instantly sent branded photos to guests and contact info to CRMs. Services included photography and videography for Events, Portraits, Real Estate, Product, Food, and more. Photographers were thoroughly vetted 1099 contractors, ensuring quality and reliability. Pretty Instant aimed to simplify hiring processes for businesses needing professional visual content.
    b2b
  • 1000Memories
    Y Combinator LogoS2010
    Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    1000memories is the new shoebox for your old photos. 1000Memories allows people to organize, share, and discover old photos and memories and set up family trees.
    community
  • Lawn Love
    Lawn Love
    Y Combinator LogoS2014
    Acquired • 150 employees • San Diego, CA, USA
    We're Lawn Love, a new type of lawn care service. We’re building a software layer on top of the very large and largely low-tech lawn care market. We solve two core problems: For consumers: Lawn Love is a modern, seamless lawn care experience. Gone are the days of physical, in-person estimates, payments left under the doormat, and spotty service. We use a combination of high-resolution satellite imagery, public and private data sets, and human review to generate a personalized quote for your yard – all in under two minutes and without ever setting foot on your property. From there, you are paired with a skilled lawn pro who will show up and complete the work. You can coordinate everything from your smartphone or web browser, and the entire experience is streamlined and delightful. For lawn pros: We start by bringing a pipeline of new customers straight to your door. No more spending hours hanging door hangers or dealing with snake-oil SEO salespeople. Just pick up whatever jobs you want, fill out your schedule, and you’re good to go. We also handle all the customer service, accounting, and collections; freeing you up to spend less time on the back-office work and more time in the field earning money. And that’s just the start: Our advanced job clustering and routing algorithms help build you much denser routes, allowing you to do up to twice as many jobs per day while slashing your fuel expenses and idle time. In short, we’re democratizing software that was previously only available to large companies in the space, and giving small business owners tools to operate more efficiently and better compete with the big guys.
    marketplace
  • Homejoy
    Homejoy
    Y Combinator LogoS2010
    Acquired • 201 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Homejoy believes everyone deserves a happy home. With just a few clicks, Homejoy will match you with an interviewed, background-checked and tested professional cleaner who maintains high customer ratings. Homejoy makes a sparkling home an affordable reality for many hard-working individuals. Founded by brother-sister duo Aaron and Adora Cheung, the Homejoy team includes long-time veterans of the hospitality industry and former owners of large cleaning companies. Head to homejoy.com now to view our range of programs and click through to a convenient, trusted, and affordable cleaning.
    marketplace
  • Project Wedding
    Y Combinator LogoW2006
    Acquired • 2 employees • Bethesda, MD, USA
    Finding wedding vendors is hard. In 2007, a couple started Project Wedding to tackle this problem and eventually grew it into a full-featured wedding planning site. Now part of the WeddingWire Network, Project Wedding strives to make wedding planning easier, less stressful, and more fun! Over 1 million brides come to Project Wedding monthly to interact with our supportive community and to read our curated editorial content. We know that today's weddings are all about showing off personal style with creative elements, gorgeous color palettes, and unique details. We also know that the contemporary bride is incredibly busy and wants to take care of all of her wedding planning needs in one spot. Enter Project Wedding!
  • iCracked
    Y Combinator LogoW2012
    Acquired • 51 employees • Redwood City, CA, USA
    Founded in 2010 and located in the heart of Silicon Valley, iCracked is the most uncommonly awesome way to repair your iPhone, iPad or Samsung Galaxy at the time and location of your choosing. Powered by a nationwide network of thousands of certified, background-checked technicians, iCracked provides customers unparalleled convenience and peace of mind knowing that trustworthy experts are always there to get you back up and running with your most crucial devices. Home, office or coffee shop, you name it, and we’ll be there with smiles on our faces to repair your device in 30 minutes or less. Yes, seriously. We exist to bridge the ever-widening gap between people and that moment of magic they experience when their technology simply works the way it should - wherever and whenever they need it most. Want to find out more about how you can be a part of our vibrant, inclusive, and innovative team? Check out our open positions and apply today so you can join us in our quest to change the way consumers care for their devices.
  • Burrow
    Burrow
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Acquired • 60 employees • New York, NY, USA
    Burrow is the clever, direct-to-consumer furniture company reinventing the way people furnish their home. In 2018, Burrow was named one of the 10 most innovative retail brands in the world by Fast Company, and the Burrow Sofa was named one of the 50 best inventions of the year by TIME. Burrow products ship within a week, assemble and disassemble easily, and are sustainably made to be more comfortable, functional, and durable than the rest of the industry.
    consumer
    retail
    furniture
    e-commerce
  • BufferBox
    Y Combinator LogoS2012
    Acquired • 2 employees • Waterloo, ON, Canada
    BufferBox® Inc. is an innovation driven technology company that specializes in the design of automated self-service technologies to lower costs and increase convenience in the parcel delivery industry. By tackling an unaddressed need with technical expertise, BufferBox® aims to set the new gold standard in parcel delivery services. The idea: A fundamental behavioral shift in today’s generation’s purchasing habits has created an unaddressed need in the parcel delivery industry. The industry has not addressed the cost inefficiencies and customer frustration stemming from an increasingly recurring problem – undeliverable packages when the end-receiver is not available. The BufferBox® solution provides a highly cost-efficient, self-sustainable, accessible and convenient technology to lower costs for shipping carriers while increasing value to receivers. This unique proposition is achieved by leveraging self-sustainable kiosk technologies and a growing receptiveness to self-service processes.
    e-commerce
  • Exec
    Y Combinator LogoW2012
    Acquired • 11 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Exec is a house cleaning service that users can book from their iPhone or the web in real-time.
    marketplace
  • Echo Locker
    Y Combinator LogoS2013
    Acquired • 2 employees
    Echo is a lockscreen platform designed to help its users view notifications. Echo automatically filters notifications into categories and delivers the most important alerts straight to lock screen.
  • Cue
    Y Combinator LogoW2010
    Acquired • 11 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Cue (formerly Greplin) is a free service that helps people make the most of their day. Cue intelligently ties together and surfaces useful information at the right time from the accounts they use most, including email, contacts, and calendar. People can see their entire day at a glance or simultaneously search across all of their accounts with Cue.
  • SimpleCitizen
    SimpleCitizen
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Acquired • 23 employees • Salt Lake City, UT, USA
    SimpleCitizen is here to make applying for citizenship in the United States as simple as filling out an online application for a job. Taking 20 minutes to answer just 20 questions can save you thousands in lawyer fees. SimpleCitizen is here to help you make the most important decision in your life SIMPLE.
    govtech
    civic-tech
  • BloomThat
    BloomThat
    Y Combinator LogoS2013
    Acquired • 11 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Simply put, we curate and design on-demand blooms (and other sweet surprises) starting at just $38. With BloomThat, it's never been faster or easier to send a little something. Making someone’s day is just a few taps away on our app (or visit BloomThat.com from any device). So what are you waiting for? Send #THATsomething today! On-Demand: SF | Bay Area | NYC | LA Next Day: All over the U.S. of A!
    delivery
  • Drapr
    Drapr
    Y Combinator LogoS2020
    Acquired • 7 employees • Berkeley, CA, USA
    Drapr lets shoppers try on clothing, online. Apparel brands use Drapr to make more money online.
    retail-tech
    saas
    e-commerce
  • Soomgo
    Soomgo
    Y Combinator LogoW2017
    Acquired • 125 employees • Seoul, South Korea
    Soomgo is a local services marketplace that connects providers with new customers across 1,000+ services such as moving, piano lessons, wedding planning, and more.
    marketplace
  • Layer By Layer
    Y Combinator LogoS2013
    Acquired • 2 employees • Mountain View, CA, USA
    Layer By Layer is an online marketplace for the buying, selling, and sharing of printable 3D designs. We're going to make it possible to get the things you need and want by printing them yourself, from your own home. We want to allow anyone, technologist or amateur, to be able to use a personal 3D printer - so we decided to create an easy way for people to find and print great products.
    3d-printing
    marketplace
  • Together Video Chat
    Together Video Chat
    Y Combinator LogoS2020
    Acquired • 1 employees • Barcelona, Spain
    Together transforms the way kids and grown ups participate in a video call by providing educational activities, books and interactive games that can be played while video chatting.
    entertainment
    gaming
    education
  • Auctomatic
    Y Combinator LogoW2007
    Acquired • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Auctomatic, a Y Combinator company, offers an auction and marketplace management system for all of those individual sellers on such sites as Ebay, Amazon, Overstock and others. The application lets you list your items as well as manage your sales, but it also helps you understand how to best optimize your selling and maximize profits. The company also received an investment from Paul Buchheit, the lead developer of Gmail.