YC companies funded in 2012

Batches in 2012

• Summer 2012 — 83 companies
• Winter 2012 — 66 companies

All 2012 YC companies by team size

• Coinbase (Summer 2012 · 6112 people) — Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.
• Instacart (Summer 2012 · 3000 people) — Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup
• Gusto (Winter 2012 · 2400 people) — Provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team
• Wave (Winter 2012 · 1600 people) — Mobile money app for Africa
• Amplitude (Winter 2012 · 750 people) — Digital Analytics Platform
• Benchling (Summer 2012 · 750 people) — Unlocking the power of biotech with modern software for modern science
• Zapier (Summer 2012 · 700 people) — The easiest way to automate your work.
• PlanGrid (Winter 2012 · 355 people) — Mobile applications for the construction industry.
• Sendwave (Winter 2012 · 350 people) — Instant, no fee international remittances.
• Plivo (Summer 2012 · 320 people) — Voice AI Agents for customer engagement, including WhatsApp, SMS &…
• Submittable (Summer 2012 · 302 people) — The best way to launch, manage and measure social impact programs
• Rescale (Winter 2012 · 250 people) — High Performance Computing Built for the Cloud
• Lever (Summer 2012 · 225 people) — Talent Acquisition Suite that combines ATS + Talent CRM
• HealthSherpa (Summer 2012 · 220 people) — Private sector Healthcare.gov.
• Fullstack Academy (Summer 2012 · 220 people) — Pioneer in immersive code education. Acquired by Zovio (NASDAQ: ZVO)…
• SmartAsset (Summer 2012 · 210 people) — Marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors
• Clever (Summer 2012 · 210 people) — The platform that powers technology in the classroom.
• LendUp (Winter 2012 · 201 people) — LendUp is a socially responsible company on a mission to redefine…
• Authy (Winter 2012 · 201 people) — Authy is a Two-Factor Authentication platform for developers
• Matterport (Winter 2012 · 201 people) — Turn physical objects and environments into 3D models in seconds.
• Mattermost (Summer 2012 · 120 people) — Secure Collaboration for Technical Teams
• YourMechanic (Winter 2012 · 115 people) — Car Repairs, Reinvented:a. Mechanic comes to your home or work to fix…
• ClassDojo (Summer 2012 · 100 people) — Communication app for K-8 teachers, kids, and families
• Thread (Summer 2012 · 92 people) — Thread makes it incredibly easy to dress well, using stylists and AI
• HireArt (Winter 2012 · 90 people) — Gives businesses everything needed to hire & manage W2 contractors.
• Ridecell (Winter 2012 · 88 people) — World's Leading Fleet Intelligence Platform
• The Muse (Winter 2012 · 60 people) — The Muse is values-based job search & hiring for 7M+ monthly
• 42Floors (Winter 2012 · 60 people) — We make it easy to search for office space.
• CircuitHub (Winter 2012 · 58 people) — On-Demand Electronics Manufacturing
• SendHub (Winter 2012 · 51 people) — Simple Business SMS. SMBs to Large Enterprise.
• Shoptiques (Winter 2012 · 51 people) — Shoptiques.com lets you shop the world's best local boutiques online.
• iCracked (Winter 2012 · 51 people) — On-demand smartphone repair in 3 countries and launching smart home…
• Fond (Winter 2012 · 51 people) — Rewards and recognition SaaS for HR leaders
• Tilt (Winter 2012 · 51 people) — Mobile crowdfunding: The easiest way to collect, fundraise, and sell…
• Soylent (Summer 2012 · 51 people) — Soylent is a simple, nutritious, and affordable food that possesses…
• Virool (Summer 2012 · 51 people) — Virool provides native video advertising experience for the biggest…
• Boosted (Summer 2012 · 51 people) — Simple, fun, and fast electric vehicles.
• Swiftype (Winter 2012 · 50 people) — Smart search for the modern team.
• Upwave (Summer 2012 · 50 people) — Marketing analytics for the world's biggest brand marketers
• FileStack (Summer 2012 · 50 people) — Acquired by Xenon Ventures.We enable website developers to hook into…
• Study Edge (Summer 2012 · 50 people) — Acquired by Carlyle. Edtech and other technology
• Make School (Winter 2012 · 45 people) — Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century. Students…
• BackerKit (Summer 2012 · 42 people) — The only end-to-end crowdfunding platform built for today’s creators
• Rainforest (Summer 2012 · 40 people) — no-code end-to-end testing that integrates with any CI/CD pipeline
• 9gag (Summer 2012 · 36 people) — Make the world happier.
• Zentail (Summer 2012 · 30 people) — We're making ecommerce simple connecting brands with sales channels
• Flightfox (Summer 2012 · 25 people) — A platform to plan, book and manage global and group travel.
• MyVR (Winter 2012 · 15 people) — The open platform for the vacation rental industry.
• OmniVirt (Summer 2012 · 15 people) — OmniVirt is the leading VR Advertising platform for brands and…
• Tap to Learn (Winter 2012 · 11 people) — Games For Education
• Grouper (Winter 2012 · 11 people) — We set up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls.
• Medigram (Winter 2012 · 11 people) — We are making a HIPAA-compliant, Groupme app for doctors to…
• Optilly/Installmonetizer (Winter 2012 · 11 people) — Fb ad optimization platform
• Human Dx (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — The Human Diagnosis Project.
• Kamcord (Summer 2012 · 11 people)
• Per Vices (Winter 2012 · 11 people) — Building Mission Critical Software Defined Radio products.
• Natero (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Data-driven customer success platform for B2B SaaS.
• Ark (Winter 2012 · 11 people) — Ark organizes the world's social information.
• Shopular (Winter 2012 · 11 people) — Deals, Coupons & Cash Back for your favorite stores.
• Chute (Winter 2012 · 11 people) — Discover the photos and videos people are taking of your brand or…
• Exec (Winter 2012 · 11 people) — Exec is a house cleaning service that users can book from their…
• Mth Sense (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — We're a mobile on-device profiling and ad-serving platform initially…
• Mattermark (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Big Data Meets Startup Investing The best tool for tracking and…
• RegistryLove (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Cross-store wedding registry.
• Celery (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Celery is a platform for pre-orders (www.trycelery.com). Accept…
• Partnered (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Partnered is a digital platform automating business development…
• Double Robotics (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Telepresence robots
• GetGoing (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — We are building a "transparent opaque" airfare and hotel booking site…
• Tastemaker (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Interior design marketplace and online retailer
• DataNitro (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — We speed up Excel.
• Knowmia (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Pandora meets Yelp for K-12 educational videos. We match each…
• Canopy Labs (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Canopy Labs automates customer analytics for small and medium-sized…
• Everyday.me (Summer 2012 · 11 people) — Everyday.me - Record your life. Store it forever.
• Pixate (Summer 2012 · 10 people) — Mobile application prototyping. Now part of Google.
• FarmLogs (Winter 2012 · 5 people) — Software that helps farmers operate more profitable businesses.
• Light Table/Eve (Summer 2012 · 5 people) — Eve is our way of bringing the power of computation to everyone, not…
• FundersClub (Summer 2012 · 5 people) — Online VC
• Screenleap (Winter 2012 · 4 people) — One-click screen sharing with installation-free viewing on all devices
• Streem (Summer 2012 · 4 people) — Acquired by Box in June 2014. We built: (1) a native win/mac…
• Marft (Winter 2012 · 3 people) — Marft creates embeddable machine learning models for application…
• Markupwand (Summer 2012 · 3 people) — Convert Design files to working websites automagically
• Hipmob (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Customer communication for iOS and Android developers - an in-app…
• LVL6 (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — We make mobile MMOs.
• 99dresses (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — We're creating every women's fantasy by combining the unwanted…
• Carsabi (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Carsabi is the search engine for used cars
• Amiato (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — The BI bridge for unstructured data. We automatically bridge the gap…
• Talkray (TiKL) (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Instantly talk or text to one or a group of friends at once with the…
• Zillabyte (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Palantir for sales people
• Profig (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — The phone system for businesses. Manage everything from your company…
• Flutter (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Flutter combined computer vision technology with the built-in webcams…
• BufferBox (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — The future of package delivery. We are building a network of…
• Scoutzie (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Scoutzie is a curated community for the best mobile designers. If…
• Vastrm (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Mass customized active apparel. We are building a full turn key…
• Glider (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — We filter distracting emails away from your inbox.
• Medmonk (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — A tool for pharmacists to find funding for patients who are unable to…
• HackPad (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — A realtime wiki for getting things done.
• SlidePay (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Banking and Payment Platform APIs. Exited October 2014.
• VoiceGem (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Voice messaging platform - Acquired by Palantir in 2013
• Minefold (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Simple multiplayer game servers.
• WireOver (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Really secure file sending for big files.
• Couple (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — App that connects two phones and creates a private timeline to share…
• FamilyLeaf (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Help families stay in touch
• Loom (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — Cloud storage for photos and videos (acquired by Dropbox).
• Priceonomics (Winter 2012 · 2 people) — We help companies turn their data into great stories.
• Vayable (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — We're building a marketplace for unique travel experiences (it's…
• Collections (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Finder for the Cloud
• MicroEval (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Changing the way companies review employee performance with…
• Svbtle (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — A publishing platform.
• Hiptype (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Hiptype is a marketing and analytics platform for eBooks. We can…
• Kippt (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Kippt is a social bookmarking service
• Easel (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Easel is a visual design tool built for the web. Since the web is…
• Dreamforge (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Simple 3d modeling software for 3d printers.
• ReelSurfer (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Clip and share any video from any website.
• Keychain Logistics (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Software that connects the supply side of companies that ship product…
• OctaveWealth (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — The 401(k) that helps you grow
• Parallel Universe (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Helping developers scale their applications with ease.
• Viacycle (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — viaCycle makes simple, inexpensive bicycle sharing systems that allow…
• TomoGuides (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Mobile travel guides done right. Personalized, context-aware, and…
• ZeroMailer (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Easy mailing lists
• Jellyfish Art (Winter 2012 · 2 people)
• LeanMarket (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Mobile advertising
• Statwing (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Dead simple statistical analysis software. Like R or SPSS but easy to…
• Imgfave (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — A fun image sharing community.
• Arc (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — aerial videography
• Testmunk (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Automating mobile app testing.
• Framebase (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — API for video.
• GoScale (Summer 2012 · 2 people) — Dynamical Scaling Virtual Machines as a Service
• CoderWall (Winter 2012 · 2 people)
• Midnox (Winter 2012 · 2 people)
• GiveSpark (Winter 2012 · 1 people) — Givespark was a celebrity charity fundraising platform
• CleverDeck (Winter 2012 · 1 people) — Collaborate with an artist to commission original artwork you'll live…
• Crohnology (by Healthy Labs) (Summer 2012 · 1 people) — We turn Patients into Researchers.
• NewsBlur (Summer 2012 · 1 people) — NewsBlur is a personalized news reader
• BrainTripping (Summer 2012 · 1 people)
• BookSolid (Winter 2012) — BookSolid is the opentable for tour operators.
• Pixelapse (Winter 2012) — Github for designers. We automatically keep track of revisions of…
• BarSense (Winter 2012) — Kid's first smartphone with web-based parental controls.
• SolidStage (Winter 2012) — Sysadmin as a service. We make deploying, configuring, monitoring,…
• Brace (Winter 2012) — Backlift allows front-end only developers to build entire websites…
• Socialcam (Winter 2012) — The easiest way to share videos with friends and family.
• Zipio (Winter 2012) — Deal search service
• Credictive (Summer 2012) — Attribution metatags for online content.
• Documents.Me (Winter 2012) — Client-side encryption for your devices and the cloud.
• Grid (Summer 2012)
• Airshared (Summer 2012) — TBD
• Hipset (Summer 2012) — The best way for artists to release new music and videos.
• Coco Controller (Summer 2012) — We're building a tactile gaming controller for mobile phones.
• Eligible (Summer 2012) — Insurance Billing APIs for Healthcare Businesses
• Assorted Bits (Summer 2012) — A mobile calendar for all the fun stuff you do with friends.