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4 years ago

A company that wants to create a “universal” credit card for customers. This could be a credit union debit card or if the company is successful, a Visa or Mastercard card with a rewards program.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps companies build customer engagement campaigns around campaigns that are already successfully running, using their data to identify the best campaigns to cross-promote.

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5 years ago

The company provides company-wide training and staff development. It works with employers to provide employees with the tools and resources they need to be successful in their jobs.

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5 years ago

A startup that wants to be a digital platform that helps clients navigate the tax benefits of charitable donations. The startup is building an app that works with local charities and nonprofits that helps donors navigate the complexities of taxation. After its successful Kickstarter campaign, the startup raised $248,000 from angel investors.

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5 years ago

A company that offers “crowdsourced data” for “successful” products, like the iPad

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4 years ago

While we can’t currently tell you which companies are the most successful, we

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3 years ago

A P2P lending platform for small businesses in Latin America, the team is looking to “build Latin America’s first successful P2P lending platform”.

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3 years ago

One of the most popular travel websites in Germany, weka.de is the best-known example of a startup that built a successful website and was then acquired by the the German travel agency TUI.

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5 years ago

A tool to help connect students with secondary education with students in a similar grade at a university. The startup helps with translation and registration, and says it has successfully helped one student find a roommate for her roommate’s apartment.

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3 years ago

“In order to be successful as a startup, you need to do three things,” says Naveen Selvadurai. “First, start with a good idea. Second, you need to build something that people want. And third, you need to build something fast.”

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5 years ago

A dating app that serves to connect people with the same interests through a private group. It is a spinoff of the successful PopSurvey, which was acquired by LinkedIn

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3 years ago

The Startup Battlefield match-up features three teams and one team will win the prize of $50,000. The winner of the Battlefield will also receive a $25,000 investment from the founder of Groupon, Andrew Mason, and if they are successful, the winner will also have the option to have their company reviewed by Groupon.

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5 years ago

The summer school is for students interested in learning programming and fundamental knowledge in computer science, with the intent of helping them be successful in college.

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5 years ago

First Round Capital is one of the earliest and most successful seed stage investors, having backed over 100 companies in the past 15 years.

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5 years ago

"A company that helps businesses go from idea to profitable reality. We help founders build ideas from day one and help them launch them successfully."

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3 years ago

A video game where users build a virtual city and help determine its fate from within the game. While other games have used this format before, the most successful example is Clash of Clans, which has over 1 billion monthly active users. It’s a familiar model, with the startup working with major publishers like Disney and Warner Bros. to reach that audience.

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4 years ago

The accelerator program, which uses the Y Combinator model, has graduated from YC more than 50 companies and has been called “the most successful startup incubator”.

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5 years ago

This August, TechCrunch reported that Instagram was in talks with Facebook to acquire the company for as much as $1 billion. Instagram, which was founded in 2010, is based in San Francisco, and is a popular photography app that has more than 300 million users around the world. It was acquired by Facebook in 2012, and Facebook has since used Instagram to promote its other products, including Instagram Stories, and advertisements. Instagram has been a big investment for Facebook, and many think it has been one of the company's most successful acquisitions. However, Instagram's popularity has led to a lot of negative press coverage about the user data that Facebook has access to.

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5 years ago

A way for businesses to track and benchmark their employees’ work, so they can give their employees the feedback they need to be successful.

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5 years ago

A virtual assistant that helps people make sense of their social media profiles and other profiles. It’s meant to help people better understand their network and meet new people, and it’s already being used by some of the most successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

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4 years ago

The founders of this startup are best known for building the most popular and successful startup accelerator in the world. They’re now moving into a new area, with a new accelerator format that’s aimed at helping teams build products for specific industries.

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4 years ago

Ideny is a platform that lets users share their ideas in written form, get feedback from others, and see a live visual representation of their ideas – so they can see how others are responding to their thoughts. Their results indicate that they’ve successfully engaged more than 80,000 people in the process.

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3 years ago

The Startup Battlefield has also been judged by the number of companies that have been funded by YC alumni, who are the most successful of the Y Combinator alumni. In the first year of the event, Y Combinator provided around $240,000 in funding to the winning companies in the Battlefield. In later years, that number has climbed to around $700,000.

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2 years ago

A remote team management platform that connects the people on a team with the tools they need to be successful. It’s a fun way to improve productivity and avoid burnout.

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4 years ago

Last year, I wrote about how some of the most successful Y Combinator companies are focused on solving the problems of the modern worker, like home care, transportation, and education. The most successful YC companies are built on the idea that technology should be helping workers, not fighting them.

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4 years ago

This startup is building a platform for developers to ship apps faster and make them more successful. They have $3.3M in funding.

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3 years ago

This is a list of selected notable companies in the Startup Battlefield. The list is made up of the companies that have been most successful in winning the Battlefield.

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3 years ago

A software company that is building a tool that helps employers understand the skills that their employees need to be successful.

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4 years ago

Companies are often built around their culture, and often they need to make those cultural changes to be successful. That’s where CultureWorks comes in to help companies change their culture in a seamless way — and it’s already doing so at a firm like Apple.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps companies use machine learning to assess the performance of their website. The startup’s product generates a report for each website it tests, showing which parts of the site are most successful and where performance is lagging.

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3 years ago

Some of Y Combinator’s most successful exits include:

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2 years ago

A startup that makes custom-made clothing. The company has run a successful Kickstarter campaign in the past year, and is now taking preorders for their next product — a one-of-a-kind T-shirt printed with your face.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps people in developing countries buy products from Amazon. The app is similar to the wildly successful service from India’s Flipkart, but for those in developing countries.

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4 years ago

The founder of this startup is the CEO of a successful full-service SEO consultancy. The startup aims to take the SEO knowledge he used to build his practice and apply it to online marketing.

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4 years ago

An IQ test for children, with the goal of improving school performance and helping children become more successful.

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4 years ago

DriveMill is building a platform for the next generation of data scientists, helping them to build and test models that can successfully predict and help predict the future.

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4 years ago

A company that helps businesses sell products and services for a commission, with their most successful customers paying $5,000 on average.

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4 years ago

This pair of Latinx entrepreneurs wants to use data and analytics to help people who’ve been affected by incarceration make a successful transition back into society.

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3 years ago

A company that helps people learn the principles of successful investing by using stock market data to simulate trading.

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4 years ago

Some of the most successful ideas have been from Quora users.

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4 years ago

A machine learning platform for businesses, meant to help them predict which opportunities will be successful, which ones won’t, and which ones they should invest in.

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5 years ago

Idea: With over a billion people in China, the potential for a successful B2C company is there, but most of them are making money on the internet and not offline.

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3 years ago

A predictive AI firm which uses machine learning to predict which businesses will be the most successful. The idea is that you can get a better idea of how well you’re doing as an entrepreneur by seeing what others are doing.

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3 years ago

A startup that provides small business owners with the tools to successfully manage their business from a remote location, enabling them to do their work from anywhere in the world.

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3 years ago

A platform for building and managing employee performance reviews, based on a survey of the year’s most successful companies.

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3 years ago

Cofounder who has worked at Google on the search team and at Yandex, a search engine in Russia that has been successful in serving regional markets.

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2 years ago

A startup for successful women, meant to help women prioritize the tasks they should be doing and the goals they should be working towards, based on the data of their behaviors.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps businesses automate the process of reaching out to customers and prospects. Instead of using a “cold call”, which is risky and has a 50% failure rate, companies use a “warm call” that is more successful and costs less.

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3 years ago

One of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns to come out of China in 2015, this company is focused on helping Chinese companies and individuals get the right financing in the right way. The company says that it has already closed over $1 million in funding, and has plans to expand to the US.

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2 years ago

A mobile app that helps people determine if their app or website will be profitable before they spend time and money on it. The startup is still in its early stages, but its founders have built a number of successful iOS apps, including one for Puma shoes.

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2 years ago

A software product that helps online retailers manage and report their inventory. It’s designed to be the next generation of an increasingly successful product from a similar business.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps patients with chronic pain find the best treatment. The company, which was founded in May, offers a combination of physical therapy and behavioral therapy, along with a community of pain patients who have been successfully treated by the service.

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2 years ago

A “wallet-as-a-service” startup, building off of Circle’s successful consumer product. The new product, the company says, is for businesses with $10,000 to $100,000 in daily transactions.

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2 years ago

A game that teaches kids about the world’s most successful public companies

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3 years ago

A tool that allows you to “learn the micro-skills you need to be successful in a new field” by writing a series of texts and emails to a tutoring service. The startup wants to help people get up to speed on a new skill or industry.

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2 years ago

A startup that provides data scientists with the tools they need to be successful, including a central team that vets and manages the applications.

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2 years ago

A payments company that helps small businesses accept payments from multiple providers. The company has already held successful tests with more than 4,000 businesses after launching in late July.

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5 years ago

A platform that helps developers market their apps. The company wants to help software companies build more successful mobile apps.

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2 years ago

The company’s co-founder, who has been running a successful events business for the last two years, says he wants to create a platform that helps small businesses like his make their events a little more profitable.

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2 years ago

In March 2019, Y Combinator announced the launch of Y Combinator Research, a new research and development arm. Y Combinator Research will primarily focus on "unconventional" business models and will produce research reports on how to successfully build and grow companies with new models.

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2 years ago

Launched in May 2010, Y Combinator has been the primary source of funding for many of the most successful startup companies in Silicon Valley. The program has been called "the most prestigious startup accelerator in the world".

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2 years ago

The world’s most successful startup for building an email marketing platform.

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5 years ago

Idea: An automated platform for “in-app” marketing and advertising. Essentially, the startup lets brands advertise inside of other apps, and then track whether those ads successfully inspired users to install the sponsored app.

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to do something for you, and they get paid only if they successfully complete the task

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5 years ago

Idea: A Japanese company that empowers entrepreneurs to be successful by helping them with business development, financing, and business mentorship.

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