YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

[emmett]

I would like to be able to edit my profile, as a YC founder.

Also I would like to be able to edit my company's info.

[rajeshrajappan]

Company founders can edit their profile now if they are signed in with Linked-in.

Editing company details coming soon.

[rajeshrajappan]

Added to my TODO list and moved to top of the list.

[rajeshrajappan]

Many thanks for the feedback guys. Much appreciated.

I have lots planned for YCPages. The first step was get it out there and get the feedback. I am working on adding the funding details at the moment.

I have also posted a question on Quora. any help on that would be great.

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-technologies-used-by-YComb...

[citizenkeys]

Aesthetic on my site isn't as good, but I have extra useful links: http://ycuniverse.com/

[Sam_Odio]

Great page though I noticed a number of errors after glancing through. How do you expect to ensure the accuracy of the data?

[aristus]

If you spell out the errors you saw, perhaps...

[throwaway55055]

YC founder ghost says yes.

[anateus]

I'm listed as a founder, and there's a link to my LinkedIn profile, but when I login with that LinkedIn auth, I can't edit details about my company. I should be able to :)

[mhartl]

I have the same problem.

[oniTony]

I would be interested in sorting by company's location. A list of YC companies outside of San Francisco would also be acceptable.

[CloudOps42]

There's a real problem with the sex distribution numbers. Not saying it's a YC problem, but it is a problem. There're too many talented women out there to lose them to other industries. When we can pull them over here, watch out!

[SwellJoe]

Jessica and pg have both spoken/written at length on the subject. They want to fund female-founded companies, but nearly none apply.

I've personally experienced this. I've tried to talk lots of people into applying for YC, or just starting their own company, over the years since we took part in 2007. About 50% of the people I've tried to convince were women. Only men applied or went on to start businesses. Not a single woman among my friends (among them one who works at Google, and another who started a non-profit foundation when she was 19 that still exists ten years later; these are not random people who don't get shit done; they're YC kinda people) takes my advice to start a company seriously.

The problem is, I'm pretty sure, both genetic and systemic. There's only so much we can do to fix it. At some point, women have to decide they are willing to take economic risks, and bet on themselves.

[melissamiranda]

Stanford professor Margaret Neale's research shows that diversity, not just women but simply people of different backgrounds, makes a team perform better. (https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles/biodetail.asp?i...). So there is evidence that Y Combinator companies would benefit from having more women on board, and not just because the gender ratios look better to the outside world.

I love that Jessica is leading the Female Founders group on Grub With Us (let's have more please!). What other efforts could be undertaken to solve the problem? How about more Grub with us dinners where Y Combinator founders can meet women with Y Combinator potential?

[mbesto]

This is like saying there's a real problem with the lack of black coaches in the NFL. So what? May the best people be suited for the job, regardless of race, gender, age, etc.

Do I think more women should be involved? Sure, I'm all for equality. But any such effort to detract women from other industries, I think would be better suited by detracting talented people (women and men) from other industries (say like maybe Wall St.?)

On the other hand, is there a deep rooted reason in our system why women are detracted from joining the tech startup scene? Possibly. Maybe that's where some effort should go first.

[Rariel]

It is a very serious problem, but one that is difficult to solve. Especially when science and tech are male dominated fields. I think it begins with empowering the younger generation of women (think school aged K-6) and getting them interested in math, science and tech.

[Rariel]

Can somebody who is more versed in this board explain to me why a comment like this would be downvoted? I don't understand what is wrong with this type of comment. Additionally, the comment I made responding to it was downvoted. I'm honestly curious...

[JesseAldridge]

Strange that 5 founders are so much more common than 4 founders. Guess they want that tie-breaking vote?

[arnorhs]

I think that's the "unknown" piece you're looking at.

4 founders are much more common than 5.

[quickpost]

Beautiful and intuitive design. :) Do you plan to let people edit the content at all?

[jasonlynes]

yeah making this a wiki would be kickass

[dreamux]

Other data points that might be interesting if you could track them down:

1. How long it took companies to exit.

2. Financing raised (also against age of the company, so average individual rounds raised and average time between rounds).

3. Running expenses (perhaps broken down: legal, hardware, people, marketing/ads, etc.)

4. Revenue.

5. Userbase growth.

Asking a lot, but would be great information to have. :)

[mcdowall]

With all the contact information available if you really want to know something like this then why not fire off a mail. My perception is that the guys that get funded are usually just decent guys in the most part, sure they wouldn't mind if the information isn't too obtrusive.

[yosho]

Why just track YC? Why not open it up to all the tech incubators or the entire startup scene and have something really useful and a competitor to crunchbase.

[javadi82]

Great Work. Like the design and the intuitive design a lot.

One small grammatical error: On the companies page, you have "Founder this company". Perhaps, you could change it to "Founder"/"Founder of this company".

Example link: http://ycpages.info/companies/143-answerly

[snowmaker]

Great resource! Is there a way that YC founders / employees can contact you with updates or corrections?

[niccolop]

I agree! This is great - should we email you with any updates?

[bdon]

There's a lot of little icons already, but how about a link to each founder's HN handle?

[ericmsimons]

Wait, I thought there were like 40 companies in the w11 batch?

[lancewiggs]

Awesome - any chance of removing the pagination or increasing the size of paged when looking at, say, the class lists or people?

[techcofounder]

great site. all of the companies have $0.00 listed for their funding, which is incorrect of course. could probably pull some data from crunchbase api. would also be interesting to see which angels/vc's funded them and if there were certain investors that heavied up on YC companies

[jfeldstein2]

Been looking for something like this. Any way to browse by niche/tag/business model?

[dstorrs]

This is fantastic. Thanks for spending the time and effort to produce it.

[bond]

Maybe it would be good to have some filters for active, acquired, etc...

[rajeshrajappan]

This is added now.