MentionFox
Home › funding signals › Humble Bundle
Accelerator · announced

Humble Bundle (YC W11) — Pay what you want for awesome games and other content while giving to…

Humble Bundle is a distribution platform selling games, ebooks, software, and other digital content. Since Humble’s founding in 2010, our mission has been to support charity (“Humble”) while providing awesome content to customers at great prices (“Bundle”).

Humble Bundle is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2011 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Pay what you want for awesome games and other content while giving to…. The founders listed are Jeffrey Rosen (Founder/CEO), John Graham (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).

6 more companies from YC Winter 2011 ↓

Run the free check on Humble Bundle →

Sell to companies like Humble Bundle? Enter your website and see 10 with a filed reason to buy from you this month. Free.

Opens in a new tab. No signup.

Humble Bundle

New accelerator entry · 2012-01-17 · the record

Winter 2011
batch
100
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
Open the record →

What the record says

BatchWinter 2011
Announced2012-01-17
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size100
IndustryConsumer
Sub-industryConsumer -> Gaming
SectorsEntertainment, Gaming
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://humble.com

Pitching, partnering or investing alongside them? See who really runs and owns Humble Bundle.

Free to see. No signup.

Keep reading

More on Humble Bundle and the records around it.

Also in YC Winter 2011

Same batch, Consumer first.

What do you want to do with Humble Bundle?

Get the full cited report on Humble Bundle

Example from a real report (our sample on Target): “Target eliminated approximately 1,800 corporate positions, with around 1,000 employees receiving layoff notices and the remainder accounted for by eliminating open roles.” Source: NBC News

A Full Report on Humble Bundle: verified, sourced, every claim cited, ready in a few minutes. See pricing.

See a sample report

In their words

Humble Bundle is a distribution platform selling games, ebooks, software, and other digital content. Since Humble’s founding in 2010, our mission has been to support charity (“Humble”) while providing awesome content to customers at great prices (“Bundle”). We started by offering only game bundles, but have branched out to include an online storefront, a monthly subscription service, a publishing initiative, and lots more. We have raised over $250 million for charity. And we now have over 500,000 subscribers to our Humble Monthly. Join our award winning team by checking out our careers page at https://jobs.humblebundle.com

Want the whole picture on Humble Bundle?

Example from a real report (our sample on Target): “Target eliminated approximately 1,800 corporate positions, with around 1,000 employees receiving layoff notices and the remainder accounted for by eliminating open roles.” Source: NBC News

A Full Report on Humble Bundle: verified, sourced, every claim cited, ready in a few minutes. See pricing.

What the Full Report on Humble Bundle covers

  1. The Short Answer

  2. Which Company This Is

  3. What They Do, And How The Money Works

  4. Who Runs It, And How To Reach Them

  5. The Money: Funding, Valuation, Runway

  6. Who Pays Them, And Who They Are Up Against

  7. Warning Bells

  8. Sources

    1 cited source found

Plus the sections for what you are deciding, which you pick after ordering.

See a sample report

First screen of a real sample Full Report on EchoStar: the verdict, 17 sections, 63 cited sources, built 2026-10-21A real finished report, first screen. Opens in a new tab.

The full profile

Checking your access…

Is this you?

If you're behind Humble Bundle: acceptance into a YC batch is one of the few weeks a young company gets looked up by people who matter — investors, other founders, press. FoxPlug turns the commits, deploys, and releases you're already making into that story automatically, so anyone who looks finds something current. GetFoxChat puts a guide on your own site so the people YC's own page just sent you don't read one line and leave.

Sourced from the company's Y Combinator directory entry.

RSS

Tools for this story

Each opens in a new tab, filled in for Humble Bundle. With no account yet, you sign up free and land on the result.

On these startup lists

Gaming startups Media and entertainment startups

Share this page

Is this your company?

Share the news. Sharing needs no account.

Humble Bundle: Accepted into Y Combinator Winter 2011
Share on LinkedIn Share on X Download image

Cite this page

Permanent URL: https://mentionfox.com/funding/yc-humble-bundle
Last updated 2026-10-20
Primary record: Y Combinator directory entry
Humble Bundle (YC W11) — Pay what you want for awesome games and other content while giving to…. MentionFox, 2026-10-20. https://mentionfox.com/funding/yc-humble-bundle