Pancake Canoe

Etsy for one-of-a-kind lessons
Pancake Canoe is a place for instructors to teach unique lessons locally. We are a people powered economy with an open source of lessons being sold peer-to-peer.

wiBubble

Airbnb for Internet Connections
The latest and the greatest in collaborative internet-connection sharing. As a bubble producer, you share and monetize your internet connection, earning money to cover your monthly bill. As a bubbler, you can connect to any producer's internet connection around ...

Know Your Joe

Mobile Caffeine Dealer

Barkr

"Barks" out deals as you walk/drive by
Like Groupon, Barkr is an advertising platform for discounted deals from retailers. Unlike daily deals, Barkr reaches customers via a free app that “barks” when they walk or drive by a deal's location. Local businesses self-enter great deals into the easy-to-use ...

JustGolf

Social Gamification of Golf
JustGolf is the ultimate mobile app for golfers. It includes features for golfers on the course (digital scorecard, interactive yardage book, GPS range finder) and off the course (virtual leaderboard, scorecard sharing, achievements, tee time coordination and booking). Golf ...

Mass Relevance

Distributed Social Engagement Platform
We have a SaaS-based platform enabling a producer or marketer to aggregate, filter, moderate, and ouput real-time social content to API or visual modules. The modules are HTML/responsive products that can integrate into any experience, such as Facebook page, web ...

FeedMagnet

Equipboard

We're building the world’s largest database of artists and the gear they use.
Equipboard is building the world’s largest database of artists and the gear they use. All crowd-sourced and built by you.

Penny

Buy and sell on Instagram effortlessly.
Penny is the fastest, simplest way to buy or sell products on Instagram. Sellers post sales the same way they post photos on their Instagram. Buyers purchase by commenting #sold on participating sales. HOW IT WORKS Sellers sign up for Penny using their Instagram ...

Perkly

Foursquare-like Affiliate Marketing
Perkly is an affiliate platform for brick & mortar shops. We turn your iPhone toting customer into a brand-pushing sponsor. (let's talk about Bob, at the golf course...) Bob scans a Perkly code to get a free sleeve of golf balls for his outing. We share this ...

incular

Yelp! for promos and sales
Incular is a comprehensive, interactive and personalized circulars and deal discovery platform that allow shoppers to find the best sales and promos for themselves.

GoalShare

Social Network with a Purpose
GoalShare is a network centered around Users, Companies, Foundations, and Events that track how they accomplish their goals! GoalShare helps ours customers achieve success by interacting with a variety of role models, peers, and groups to push them to achieve ...

Zutsvi

Collaborative commerce platform for businesses and professionals
Zutsvi /zōōt’svi/ Gain from each other. A B2B collaborative commerce platform for businesses and professionals to network, promote and share information. - Global and regional market reach - Connect potential suppliers and customers - Make informed decision based ...

Loop and Tie

Send corporate gifts that people actually like.
We offer an easy way for companies to send interesting corporate gifts that people actually want. 

Bazaarvoice

Bazaarvoice connects brands, retailers and consumers in the world's largest shopper network, delivering ROI through reviews, analytics and targeted media.

ESPEROS

With every bag we sell, we help send a child in the developing world to school for a year.
One Bag. One Child. One Year. ESPEROS is a one-for-one retailer dedicated to providing impoverished children in developing countries with access to an education. Our business model is fairly simple: with every product we sell, we help send a child in need to school ...

Zing

Seamless Brick and Mortar Commerce
Our mission is to create the future of retail software, starting with the Point of Sale. What Point of Sale clearly lacks, and we're building: - Simple, attractive, easy-to-use interface. - Accessibility from anywhere, on any device. - Frictionless social media ...

LooksyTV

A Live Streaming Solutions Company
LooksyTV is a search engine for the physical world. We stream live video from bars, restaurants, cafes, and gyms... just about any establishment in your city. From our app, you can search and filter establishments based on how busy they are. Then start playing ...

FrontYrd

The social Craigslist for your neighborhood
FrontYrd is the safe way to sell your used items, and to find things you want from people you can trust. Your neighbors. Capitalizing on the stunning rise of local virtual garage sales on social media sites like Facebook, FrontYrd is connecting verified neighbors ...

Pync

Mobile App for Parent Networking
A web/mobile app for YOUNG CHILDREN'S (Pre-K - 5th grade) EDUCATION (more specifically, after-school education) that; - provides program information and reviews about after school activities (e.g. restaurant & travel reviews) - enables parents to share and discuss ...

Treasure Listings

Network of U.S. Garage and Estate Sale Listing Sites

Gone!

Best way to get rid of your unused stuff (TechStars Austin '13)
Gone! The app that gets you the most value for anything you no longer use without the hassles of pricing, listing, shipping or in-person drop-offs. The consumer-facing side of our app lets users submit any item(s) they want to sell, donate, recycle or just throw ...

SalesCart

Instant Ecommerce Stores (like Youtube for web stores)
Think of SalesCart as the "YOUTUBE of ECOMMERCE". We address the complete "commoditization" of SECURE Ecommerce. We provide Market-specific Turnkey Ecommerce in a Box that can be displayed from anywhere with 100% security: 1) Instant Mobile Store & Facebook ...

The Research Exchange

Accelerate creation of products, companies from research
The Research Exchange is a company created to facilitate communication and collaboration between universities, research institutes, individual researchers, and corporate R&D departments, with innovators and investors in the business community in order to accelerate ...

Hoot.Me

Switching Facebook into study mode
Hoot.Me is an educational Q&A platform designed to integrate with Facebook and LMS providers like Canvas. Students can get their questions answered from fellow classmates, so teachers can crowdsource help in big classes without losing control of the discussion. ...

PetParent

Our mission is to help PetParents experience life with their pets.
At PetParent, we know that your pet is a huge part of your love and your life. Our mission is to help you become a better PetParent and to experience life with your pet. Visit petparent.me for local guides on the top pet friendly spots in your city and for helpful ...

Bevi

Where next?
Bevi is a mobile app that helps you quickly gather friends and pick a place to meet. We connect to your existing social networks as well as multiple location databases to make finding people and suggesting locations totally seamless and rad. Once you've decided ...

Gush

Personalized Shopping and Price Comparison App
Gush makes shopping on your iPad and Android tablet easier. Save time by browsing all of your favorite stores in one app. Save money by getting exclusive access to the coupons and deals you care about. With Gush, you can easily shop for products and find coupons ...

Storefront Social

Sell anything on Facebook

EarthBenign

A free bank account for collaborative consumers
EarthBenign gives a free benign bank account to folks who connect with each other. By "benign" we mean no hidden fees, no minimum balance requirements. Folks transact with each other on an individual or business level with an added level of trust they enjoy because ...

Trunkist

Empowering Independent Fashion Designers. Teespring for Fashion.
At Trunkist, we recognize that every fashion designer deserves a better way to realize their full potential.  With that in mind, we are building 2 things. 1.  Web platform for independent fashion designers & consumers to interact.   2.  Business infrastructure ...

Poundr

Connect through the products you love
Poundr is a mobile and web application that provides a luxury retail portal, as well as a social network for you to purchase, share, or upload, and save products to a wish list or havelist. We provide a convenient luxury shopping experience with the ability to ...

PublikDemand

Better Business Bureau Meets Social
Featured on New York TImes, CNN, Fox and ABC and TechCrunch. 400,000+ people reached by PublikDemand in first 30 days after launch. *We aggregate and organize customer complaints by topic and company. Individual complaints are turned into qualified leads for competitors.* ...

Common

A blogging service to share your favorite things through the format of a personal notebook
Today people are sharing content online more than ever, but most of it eventually gets lost and becomes difficult or impossible for our friends to find. Common is a blogging service that allows you to share your favorite things through the format of a personal ...

SocialSell

Buy and Sell Used and New Items Locally, Shop Deals Near You
Buying and selling used and new items locally has never been easier! SocialSell allows users to list items for sale in seconds, shop items and deals near you for sale, contact buyers and sellers through direct messaging, email, calling, texting and so much more! ...

CollegeSocial

College Social Network
College social network will provide high quality social network services to college and university students. College Social network will be a partnership service with the university. Services: School Organization; Events; Selling and buying of events; Alumni; Class ...

PipCoin

Everyone needs a tipjar
PipCoin is social giving app that lets people give (and get) a coffee, beer, treat, smile, compliment or anything else that comes to mind — simply make a coin and drop it in a jar. PipCoin aims to create a community focused on giving where people reward friends, ...

Toutpost

Reviews of everything
We crowdsource product reviews by getting people to talk about the products they love in a conversational manner. Users create comparisons which are shared with their friends and users on our site. (YC S13)