Home › YC Companies › B2B › Heroku › Alternatives Heroku alternatives TL;DR: The closest YC-backed alternatives to <strong>Heroku</strong> are other Y Combinator B2B companies, especially from the Winter 2008 batch. Below are 20 ranked competitors with batch, status, and team size.
Y Combinator-backed B2B companies similar to Heroku (YC Winter 2008).
Last verified: 2026-04-21
A Thinking Ape YC Winter 2008 · Acquired · 75 people — We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games 280 North YC Winter 2008 · Acquired · 11 people RescueTime YC Winter 2008 · Active · 15 people — Take Back Control of your Time Trigger YC Winter 2008 · Inactive · 11 people — Better PhoneGap. Wundrbar YC Winter 2008 · Inactive · 2 people Snaptalent YC Winter 2008 · Inactive · 2 people Joberator YC Winter 2008 · Inactive · 2 people Ninite YC Winter 2008 · Active · 2 people — Simple third-party app patching and deployment for Windows. Insoshi YC Winter 2008 · Inactive FathomDB YC Winter 2008 · Inactive BitSample YC Winter 2008 · Inactive Amplitude YC Winter 2012 · Public · 750 people — Digital Analytics Platform PagerDuty YC Summer 2010 · Public · 950 people — Real-time visibility into critical apps and services all in one place. GitLab YC Winter 2015 · Public · 2000 people — A complete DevOps platform delivered as a single application. Dropbox YC Summer 2007 · Public · 4000 people — Backup and share files in the cloud. Weave YC Winter 2014 · Public · 600 people — Customer communication and payments platform. Meesho YC Summer 2016 · Public · 1450 people — Democratizing internet commerce for everyone in India Firebase YC Summer 2011 · Acquired · 500 people — Build and grow iOS, Android, and Web apps. Segment YC Summer 2011 · Acquired · 550 people — Software and APIs to collect, clean, and control customer data. Optimizely YC Winter 2010 · Acquired · 1500 people — The first all-in-one operating system for marketing Loading interactive view…