What they do:
Take Back Control of your Time
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
Y Combinator Winter 2008 Startups
This list has 21 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. Largest teams: Machine Zone, Heroku, and A Thinking Ape.
21 startups
What they do:
Simple third-party app patching and deployment for Windows.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Machine Zone
Acquired
What they do:
Pioneers of mobile social gaming.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Heroku
Acquired
What they do:
Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
A Thinking Ape
Acquired
What they do:
We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games
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280 North
Acquired
What they do:
280 North is a web application company based on their proprietary application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Omnisio
Acquired
What they do:
Edit and enhance online video. Acquired by Google in July 2008.
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HQ: Atherton, CA, United States
YC W08Early stage
Trigger
Shut down
What they do:
Better PhoneGap.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
MightyQuiz
Shut down
What they do:
MightyQuiz powers a collection of user generated quiz questions that can be answered and rated on-site or through a distributable widget.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Wundrbar
Shut down
What they do:
Wundrbar wants to improve upon the search bar experience by providing users with powerful inline commands. The idea is reminiscent of YubNub but Wundrbar…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Socialbrowse
Shut down
What they do:
SocialBrowse is a Firefox extension for sharing links. It has been described as "a Twitter for links".
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Mixwit
Shut down
What they do:
Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). Launched as part…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Tipjoy
Shut down
What they do:
social micropayments
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Kirkland North
Shut down
What they do:
Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Deluux
Shut down
What they do:
Deluux aims to become distributed Facebook, or inverted Ning, by relocating the center of people's online identities to their websites, which exist outside of…
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HQ: Atlanta, GA, United States
YumDots
Shut down
What they do:
YumDots wants to be the go-to mobile application for finding places to eat when out on the town. Its emphasis on using interactive maps to display information…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Snaptalent
Shut down
What they do:
Snaptalent powers a distributed job advertisement network primarily meant for developer listings. Job ads submitted to Snaptalent are displayed on the…
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
Joberator
Shut down
What they do:
Joberator was formed to tackle head-on the growing challenges and connection-gap issues in the STEM employment and recruitment marketplace. Our goal is to…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
FathomDB
Shut down
What they do:
FathomDB offers databases as a service, taking care of many of the day-to-day tasks database administrators have to deal with and letting them focus on more…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC W08Early stage
Insoshi
Shut down
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YC W08Early stage
BitSample
Shut down
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YC W08Early stage
Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 21 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
Which of them are hiring?
None of them shows open roles right now.
Which of them have the largest teams?
By team size: Machine Zone (501 employees), Heroku (300 employees), and A Thinking Ape (75 employees).