Startups Launched in 2007

Dropbox

Public

What they do:

Backup and share files in the cloud.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Blue Frog Gaming

What they do:

Blue Frog Gaming

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HQ: Akron, OH, United States

Virtualmin

What they do:

Virtualmin is taking on the lack of innovation in the server admin programs, like Plesk, by making a more accessable version for pages managed by the…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Buxfer

What they do:

Buxfer helps you make better spending decisions by making it easy to…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Twitch

Acquired

What they do:

A global community creating the future of live entertainment.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Weebly

Acquired

What they do:

Build a free website that grows with your business.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

ZumoDrive

Acquired

What they do:

Media in the cloud

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Songkick

Acquired

What they do:

Songkick is the great live music startup. Since 2007, we’ve set about making it as easy, fun and fair as possible for you to see your favorite artists live.…

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HQ: United Kingdom

Disqus

Acquired

What they do:

Add comments to your website.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Clickpass provides single-sign-on services to enter into various websites by using a single password. Clickpass is headquartered in San Francisco, California

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HQ: London, United Kingdom

Anywhere.FM

Acquired

What they do:

Anywhere.fm lets you upload your music collection onto their site and then play your music anywhere from the web. They offer their own iTunes look-alike music…

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Octopart

Acquired

What they do:

Octopart is a search engine for electronic components

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HQ: New York, NY, United States

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Y Combinator funded AppJet is an online programming tool for building simple web apps. Founded by former MIT students, AppJet intends to simplify the process…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Zenter

Acquired

What they do:

Zenter is the gmail of slides

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Auctomatic, a Y Combinator company, offers an auction and marketplace management system for all of those individual sellers on such sites as Ebay, Amazon,…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Parakey

Acquired

What they do:

Parakey was founded in early 2006 by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of Mozilla/Firefox fame. Little has been revealed about what Parakey will actually do, but it…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Heysan

Acquired

What they do:

Free messaging on mobile phones

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Bountii

Shut down

What they do:

Bountii is a price search startup that has built a search engine capable of finding shoppers lower and more accurate prices than any existing price comparison…

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HQ: Boston, MA, United States

iJigg/Top440

Shut down

What they do:

iJigg is a social music site that lets users vote on submitted singles using Digg-like voting. The site's home page shows what popular or recent singles the…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Splashup, formerly known as fauxto, is an online image editing service that provides some advanced tools and is unique for its incorporation of image editing…

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What they do:

Roll your own contest or giveaway. No longer in business.

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HQ: Southfield, MI, United States

SocialPicks

Shut down

What they do:

SocialPicks was a platform where stock investors could exchange…

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HQ: New York, NY, United States

What they do:

P2P Music Sharing

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HQ: Boston, MA, United States

Fuzzwich

Shut down

What they do:

Fuzzwich is an online animation platform developed by Habit Industries.

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

What they do:

Messaging.

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HQ: Boston, MA, United States

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Writewith is a collaborative writing web app, enabling you to easily flow through the steps of writing, editing, and publishing a document with a group. A…

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HQ: Corvallis, OR, United States

What they do:

Whitenoise is like a social network for the music industry. It comes with specially made tools for bands, agents, publicists, and venues to manage each part…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Socialmoth

Shut down

What they do:

Socialmoth is a community to post your thoughts anonymously. You can view postings (mostly gossip and secrets) from the whole community as well as get updates…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

Hello Chair

Shut down

What they do:

Hello, Chair Inc. was founded in 2006 by Luke Iannini, Mike Jacobs and Kevin Corcoran to explore opportunities in applied machine learning and internet…

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

View3

Shut down

What they do:

View 3, an active clad-alignment splicer with the world's highest fiber image magnification rate, is the most dependable fusion splicer.

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HQ: Boston, MA, United States

Biographicon

Shut down

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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States