YC companies funded in 2009

Y Combinator funded 42 companies in 2009 across 2 batches. 8 are still active, 12 have been acquired, 1 went public, and 21 shut down.

Year
2009
Companies
42
Batches
2
Active
8
Acquired
12
Public
1
Inactive
21

Batches in 2009

All 2009 YC companies by team size

  • Stripe (Summer 2009 · 7000 people)Economic infrastructure for the internet.
  • Airbnb (Winter 2009 · 6132 people)Book accommodations around the world.
  • Mixpanel (Summer 2009 · 410 people)Mixpanel is event analytics for builders that need answers.
  • WePay (Summer 2009 · 400 people)Payments for platform businesses.
  • Bump (Summer 2009 · 30 people)Bump, Flock, Photoroll (unreleased) => Google Photos
  • Olark (Summer 2009 · 28 people)The best live chat software on the planet. We help you build…
  • Volantio (Winter 2009 · 19 people)Post-booking revenue and capacity optimization for airlines…
  • HighlightCam (Summer 2009 · 11 people)HighlightCam edits video, automatically!
  • CarWoo (Summer 2009 · 11 people)The best way to buy a new car.
  • Foodoro (Winter 2009 · 11 people)
  • Heyzap (Winter 2009 · 11 people)Heyzap (acquired by Fyber for $45m in 2016) is one of the largest…
  • RethinkDB (Summer 2009 · 11 people)The open source database for the realtime web.
  • Jobspice (Summer 2009 · 11 people)
  • Fanchatter (Summer 2009 · 11 people)FanChatter aggregates, amplifies and empowers fan content on every…
  • Lockitron (Summer 2009 · 11 people)Lockitron makes electronic locks you can control locally from your…
  • Cloudkick (Winter 2009 · 11 people)
  • RentHop (Summer 2009 · 9 people)Apartment rental marketplace
  • Listia (Summer 2009 · 6 people)Mobile marketplace for trading used goods.
  • Divvyshot (Winter 2009 · 2 people)
  • GraffitiGeo (Summer 2009 · 2 people)We let you know where to go and what to get once you get there.…
  • Flightcaster (Summer 2009 · 2 people)
  • Wakemate (Summer 2009 · 2 people)
  • Instantq (Summer 2009 · 2 people)
  • Echodio (Winter 2009 · 2 people)Sync and stream your music across any device. Acquired in 2009.
  • Directed Edge (Summer 2009 · 2 people)Product recommendations.
  • Plurchase (Summer 2009 · 2 people)
  • NudgePad (Summer 2009 · 2 people)Online IDE. We joined Microsoft in 2014.
  • Lingt (Summer 2009 · 2 people)Lingt provided a web-based platform for learning languages leveraging…
  • Picurio (Winter 2009 · 2 people)
  • DailyBooth (Summer 2009 · 2 people)
  • Skysheet (Winter 2009 · 2 people)Browser-based spreadsheet.
  • Voxli (Winter 2009 · 2 people)
  • PetaSales (Winter 2009 · 2 people)
  • reMail (Winter 2009 · 1 people)Email search for iPhone. Acquired by Google in Feb 2010.
  • Nambii (Winter 2009)
  • Recurious (Winter 2009)
  • RoboHR (Summer 2009)
  • Wattvision (Winter 2009)Sensors and software for energy tracking. Like 'fitbit' for your…
  • AdThrow (Summer 2009)
  • Stackq (Summer 2009)
  • Tuxebo (Summer 2009)Tuxebo was a platform for renting things
  • Spaces Life (Winter 2009)

Adjacent years

Loading interactive view…