What they do:
Interactive meetings and presentations
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Startups Launched in 2008
This list has 43 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (21), Boston (3), and New York (2). Largest teams: Machine Zone, Heroku, and A Thinking Ape.
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What they do:
Take Back Control of your Time
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
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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Cloudant
Acquired
What they do:
NoSQL Database-aaS. Acquired by IBM in 2014. Now IBM Cloud Data…
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Posterous
Acquired
What they do:
Dead simple blogs by email
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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
JustSpotted
Acquired
What they do:
Acquired by Google in 2011
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
BackType
Acquired
What they do:
BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S08Early stage
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
Treehouse
Shut down
What they do:
Treehouse is an online technology school that offers beginner to advanced courses in web design, web development, mobile development and game development…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Picwing
Shut down
What they do:
Photo Sharing platform for families
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Trigger
Shut down
What they do:
Better PhoneGap.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
OhLife
Shut down
What they do:
OhLife is a personal journal that you'll actually keep. Every day we send you an email asking "How'd your day go?" You type as much as you want and hit reply.…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Frogmetrics
Shut down
What they do:
Frogmetrics aggregates your data from unlimited locations, automatically finds the most important statistics, and helps you gain insights about your business…
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Anyvite
Shut down
What they do:
Anyvite is a free site dedicated to event invitation creation and group organization. Launched in 2008, Anyvite provides users with the most efficient way to…
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HQ: Columbia, MD, United States
Youlicit
Shut down
What they do:
The Youlicit web content recommendation engine leverages the wisdom of the crowds to return the most recommended sites related to a website or topic. To use…
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Team Apart
Shut down
What they do:
Team Apart is a real-time online group collaboration tool.
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Ticket Stumbler
Shut down
What they do:
TicketStumbler is a secondary ticket market search engine and comparison website. They search through thousands of ticket listings from hundreds of brokers…
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Snipd
Shut down
What they do:
Grab pieces of enjoyable content from any page, save them online, and share without having to copy/paste using a simple bookmarklet. For bloggers and media…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Popcuts
Shut down
What they do:
Popcuts is an online music store where fans participate in the…
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HQ: Lucerne Valley, CA, United States
Slinkset
Shut down
What they do:
Votable lists
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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
CO2Stats
Shut down
What they do:
Social and environmental web analytics. Acquired in December 2016.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
YC S08Early stage
Claimspotting
Shut down
What they do:
Claim and conquer your city
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HQ: Remote
YC S08Early stage
Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 43 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).
Where are they based?
The biggest hubs are San Francisco (21), Boston (3), and New York (2).