Companies102
Active41%
Acquired or public24%
Inactive35%
Y Combinator's directory lists 102 companies in the Summer 2016 batch: 42 Active, 23 Acquired, 1 Public and 36 Inactive. 35% of Summer 2016 is listed Inactive, against 23% across YC batches at least two years old, so this batch has lost more companies than most.
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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.
What the directory lists about Summer 2016
- By the industry YC files each company under: Consumer 32, B2B 31, Healthcare 11, Industrials 10, Fintech 7, Education 4, Real Estate and Construction 4, Unspecified 2, Government 1.
- Where 101 of the 102 companies say they are based, by the first location each lists: San Francisco, CA, USA (36), San Francisco (18), New York City, NY (5), Atlanta, GA, USA (3), Los Angeles, CA, USA (3), Toronto, ON, Canada (3), Austin, TX, USA (2), Bengaluru, KA, India (2), and 26 other places.
- YC marks 5 companies from this batch as top companies: Bird, Meesho, Proxy, Scale AI and The Athletic.
- Earlier names on the entries: Abundance Labs (earlier Simbi); ApolloShield (earlier AirFence); Bird (earlier MessageBird); Burrow (earlier Penn & Hunt); CareRev (earlier Care.Stat!, Care Revolutions and CareReb); Circa (earlier EventGeek); Clip Health (earlier Luminostics); CrowdAI (earlier StenoAI); Drivezy (earlier JustRide); Expo (earlier Exponent); Fabric (earlier EchoWorks); garten (earlier ohmygreen and Oh My Green); HiOperator (earlier Change.AI); Kenota (formerly ExVivo Labs) (earlier ExVivo Labs); Livement (earlier Boletomóvil); and 20 more.
Every company in Summer 2016
| Company | What they do | Status | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airfordable | Buy flights for only a fraction upfront and pay off the rest in… | Active | 7 |
| ApolloShield | ApolloShield is a system that detects unwanted drones and drives them… | Active | — |
| Athelas | Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems | Active | 1000 |
| Bird | The world’s largest omnichannel communications platform | Active | 500 |
| Circa | Event marketing CRM | Active | 21 |
| Curtsy | Curtsy is a sustainable clothing resale app. | Active | 15 |
| Elemeno Health | Just-in-time training and communication for frontline healthcare teams | Active | 25 |
| Emote | Catch student behavior problems before they start. | Active | 6 |
| Expo | Expo brings together the best of web and native app development | Active | 75 |
| Flutterwave | Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in Africa. | Active | 500 |
| GoGoGrandparent | A concierge service for seniors’ rides, meals, meds, home and more. | Active | 50 |
| HiOperator | Customer support as a service. | Active | 200 |
| Instrumentl | Instrumentl automates grant discovery and management for nonprofits. | Active | 100 |
| Joy | The platform for all your life events. | Active | 100 |
| Jumpcut | Helping creators go viral and build businesses. | Active | 11 |
| Legalist | Legal investment firm | Active | 40 |
| Livement | Livement makes selling tickets for events easy and safe for organizers | Active | 45 |
| Miso | We make booking services as easy as buying products online. | Active | 300 |
| Multiply Labs | Robotic production capacity for the pharma manufacturing industry | Active | 36 |
| New Incentives | Cash transfers that save lives. | Active | 51 |
| Nova Credit | Bridging a world of consumer-permissioned credit data | Active | 100 |
| OMG Digital | Content discovery platform for Africa | Active | 2 |
| OneChronos | The Smart Market Powering The Future | Active | 75 |
| People.ai | Harnesses business activity to unlock growth. | Active | 300 |
| Prime Lightworks | Prime Lightworks Inc. manufactures electric propulsion systems for… | Active | 1 |
| Quero Education | Quero is an online marketplace for college programs in Brazil. It… | Active | 200 |
| Raptor Maps | Raptor Maps builds software to manage the solar PV lifecycle. | Active | 75 |
| Ready Education | Ready Education is building the mobile OS for higher education. We… | Active | 54 |
| RocketLit | RocketLit is an adaptive learning and assessment platform. | Active | 11 |
| Rose Rocket | Rose Rocket is ERP software for trucking companies. | Active | 165 |
| Scale AI | Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI | Active | 500 |
| SmartPath | Financial wellness for the middle class | Active | 16 |
| Squire Technologies | Platform to grow your barbershop and maximize profitability. | Active | 150 |
| Suiteness | Book guaranteed connecting rooms and suites at hotels | Active | 7 |
| Synvivia | Synvivia applies chemical control over cell behavior | Active | 4 |
| The Flex Company | Sustainable period care. | Active | 28 |
| Upgraded | Upgraded helps retailers and carriers sell devices on subscription. | Active | 13 |
| Validere | A carbon MRV solution for energy and hard-to-abate sectors | Active | 110 |
| Vetcove | Powering the animal health supply chain. | Active | 170 |
| Vote.org | Active | — | |
| Women Who Code | WWCode is a non profit that empowering diverse women to excel in tech. | Active | 25 |
| Yoshi Mobility | Making car ownership and management frictionless. | Active | 125 |
| Bulldozair | Construction management platform | Acquired | 8 |
| Burrow | A design brand creating innovative, award winning furniture. | Acquired | 60 |
| CareRev | Seamlessly connecting healthcare facilities and professionals through… | Acquired | 275 |
| CrowdAI | CrowdAI is the world's leading no-code platform for vision AI | Acquired | 32 |
| Fabric | Fabric is a personal location-based journal that catalogs experiences… | Acquired | 2 |
| garten | Creating workplace wellbeing. | Acquired | 201 |
| Innov8 | We provide co-working offices to startups, freelancers and SMEs in… | Acquired | 100 |
| Iris Automation | Enabling autonomous drone operations globally through AI software | Acquired | — |
| NeoWize | NeoWize created a new type of machine learning algorithm and uses it… | Acquired | 3 |
| Opsolutely | Automated deployments for software teams. | Acquired | 2 |
| Polymail | Email productivity platform for business. | Acquired | 2 |
| Proxy | Smart ring digital wallet | Acquired | 20 |
| Pursuit | Revlo helps broadcasters on Twitch engage and monetize their fan… | Acquired | 2 |
| RunKit | Acquired | 2 | |
| Saleswhale | Saleswhale is an automated sales assistant that follows up with your… | Acquired | 23 |
| Seneca Systems | Constituent system-of-record and service request management software… | Acquired | 11 |
| SimpleCitizen | From signup to citizenship, only SimpleCitizen guides applicants… | Acquired | 23 |
| Starcity | Starcity was one of the largest co-living brands. Exit to Common in… | Acquired | — |
| Symple | Last mile logistics for delivery & service teams. We bring real-time… | Acquired | 11 |
| Techmate | A technology concierge for your home. We provide on-demand support… | Acquired | 11 |
| The Athletic | Subscription sports media. | Acquired | 600 |
| Vidcode | Coding for teens | Acquired | 5 |
| WorkRamp | The All-in-One Learning Platform | Acquired | 106 |
| Meesho | Democratizing internet commerce for everyone in India | Public | 1450 |
| Abundance Labs | Abundance Labs incubates and builds alternative currency marketplace… | Inactive | 12 |
| Airo Health | Airo is an AI wearable to track mental health. | Inactive | 2 |
| Clip Health | Testing & treatment at home, in minutes, for chronic & acute disease | Inactive | 10 |
| CoinTent | Recover revenue lost to ad blockers | Inactive | 2 |
| Coub | Coub is YouTube for video loops. You can take any video from YouTube,… | Inactive | 11 |
| Drivezy | India's largest vehicle sharing platform, turning people's vehicles… | Inactive | 201 |
| Farmstead | An AI-powered digital grocer that delivers in under 60 mins. | Inactive | 10 |
| GTRACK Technologies | Nanoparticle tracers for reservoir characterization during hydraulic… | Inactive | 2 |
| Haywheel | Haywheel is an artisan food marketplace for restaurants and specialty… | Inactive | 2 |
| Hellobill | Hellobill aggregates all your business bills, automatically, every… | Inactive | 2 |
| Hush | Hush is the top social commerce app in the United States. | Inactive | 2 |
| Kenota (formerly ExVivo Labs) | Kenota is revolutionizing the way we test for disease | Inactive | 35 |
| Lendsnap | The Digital Mortgage Company. | Inactive | — |
| Looklive | Looklive is a community and marketplace for fashion. Users browse… | Inactive | 11 |
| Metapacket | Metapacket is the first selective web gateway that stops malware by… | Inactive | 2 |
| Mindori | Mindori builds white-label voice search for e-commerce apps. | Inactive | 1 |
| Mosaix.ai | Mosaix builds the NLP for the local languages at the emerging markets. | Inactive | 20 |
| NuCypher (aka Threshold Network) | Network for decentralized threshold cryptography and end-to-end… | Inactive | 10 |
| PatientBank | Get medical records online—from any doctor or hospital. | Inactive | 2 |
| Reebeez | Reebeez creates powerful microengines for UAVs. With a 2hr + flight… | Inactive | 2 |
| RigPlenish | On average each Ambulance run is two hours long, 40 minutes is spent… | Inactive | 2 |
| Robby Technologies | We are building a fleet of autonomous mobile robots that travel on… | Inactive | 11 |
| Sage Care | Get care at home for mom or dad from trusted professionals in their… | Inactive | — |
| Scanate/Fellow | API for Invoice Financing | Inactive | 2 |
| Seerslab | We are providing AR technologies and contents to app developers | Inactive | 39 |
| Selfycart | Selfycart - let's grocery shoppers scan items and checkout on their… | Inactive | 2 |
| Shield Bio | Bringing 3rd generation, nanopore sequencing to healthcare to solve… | Inactive | 28 |
| Sixa | Personal computer in the cloud | Inactive | 11 |
| SkyLights | Premium immersive cinematic VR entertainment for captive audiences | Inactive | 5 |
| SmartSite | Smartsite is a hardware device to protect workers from health risks… | Inactive | 2 |
| Starsky Robotics | Driverless Trucks, for real. | Inactive | 11 |
| Sway Finance | Sway is bringing AI to the accounting industry | Inactive | 2 |
| Ubiq | Screen-sharing for enterprise conference rooms | Inactive | 6 |
| UtilityScore (formerly Pando) | API that estimates utility costs for 100M+ homes. | Inactive | 6 |
| Whyd | We make a beautiful, great sounding, voice-controlled speaker. | Inactive | 2 |
| Xberts | Xberts.com is a community-based marketplace for global hardware… | Inactive | 50 |
How this is measured
Measured 2026-11-10 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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