BarSense went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 batch, describing itself as Kid's first smartphone with web-based parental controls. Y Combinator's company directory lists it as Inactive. The directory does not say why a company stopped, and this page does not guess.
- Batch
- Winter 2012
- What they did
- Kid's first smartphone with web-based parental controls.
- Industry
- Consumer
- Based
- San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA
- Status
- Inactive, as listed by Y Combinator
Its batch
Winter 2012 had 66 companies in YC's listing: 12 Active, 25 Acquired, 2 Public and 27 Inactive, so BarSense is one of 27 companies from that batch listed as Inactive (41%). Across YC batches at least two years old, 23% of companies are listed Inactive.
Statuses are Y Combinator's own listing in its public company directory, read on the date shown. YC's directory can drop companies altogether, so the Inactive counts here are a floor, not a full count of companies that stopped. Acquired and Public are as YC lists them; neither says anything about the price or the outcome for founders.
The record: BarSense in the Y Combinator directory. Measured 2026-09-26 from Y Combinator's company directory.
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