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What happened to YC Summer 2006

Every company in Y Combinator's Summer 2006 batch with its status as YC lists it: 1 Active, 2 Acquired, 0 Public, 7 Inactive.

Companies10
Active10%
Acquired or public20%
Inactive70%

Y Combinator's directory lists 10 companies in the Summer 2006 batch: 1 Active, 2 Acquired, 0 Public and 7 Inactive. 70% of Summer 2006 is listed Inactive, against 23% across YC batches at least two years old, so this batch has lost more companies than most.

ActiveAcquiredPublicInactive

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.

Every company in Summer 2006

CompanyWhat they doStatusTeam
ScribdWorld's largest online library.Active300
OMGPopAn independent flash game studio.Acquired11
XobniAcquired11
JamglueInactive2
JumpchatInactive2
LikebetterInactive2
PollgroundOnline polls.Inactive—
ShoutfitInactive3
ThinkatureInactive—
ZanbazaarCommunity-curated catalogs for product recommendationsInactive4

How this is measured

Measured 2026-09-26 from Y Combinator's company directory. Team size is the number YC lists for the company, where it lists one. Survival here means listed Active; Acquired and Public are shown separately because YC's listing does not say whether an acquisition was a good outcome.

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Last updated 2026-09-26
YC Summer 2006: 10 companies, 10% still active. MentionFox, 2026-09-26. https://mentionfox.com/yc/outcomes/summer-2006