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Font Awesome (YC S15) — Icons and social logos for your website

Add a line of code and get thousands of icons and social logos on your website instantly. Easy to set up, easy to use, and crazy powerful.

Font Awesome is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2015 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Icons and social logos for your website. The founders listed are Dave Gandy (Founder/CEO), Travis Chase (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 28, 2015).

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Font Awesome

New accelerator entry · 2015-04-28 · the record

Summer 2015
batch
17
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2015
Announced2015-04-28
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size17
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
SectorsDeveloper Tools, SaaS, Design Tools, Open Source
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedBentonville, AR, USA; Joplin, MO, USA; Remote
HiringNo
Sitehttp://fontawesome.com
Previously known asFonticons

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Add a line of code and get thousands of icons and social logos on your website instantly. Easy to set up, easy to use, and crazy powerful. Let us take care of the icons so you can get back to the important stuff. Font Awesome. Go make something Awesome.

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