Y Combinator's directory lists 27 companies in the Winter 2010 batch: 1 Active, 14 Acquired, 0 Public and 12 Inactive. 44% of Winter 2010 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 Winter 2010
| Company | What they do | Status | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| OwnLocal | OwnLocal automates marketing for over 129,000 SMBs through 3,300… | Active | 45 |
| 500Friends | the best loyalty and retention marketing partner for CMOs. | Acquired | 51 |
| All Screen | Connecting users with engaging video content across the web.… | Acquired | 11 |
| Bitplay | Effortless Video Meetings - Acquired by Jive Software in 2013 | Acquired | 2 |
| Cardpool | Acquired | 251 | |
| Creative Market | Marketplace for graphic design assets | Acquired | — |
| Crocodoc | Embed PDFs, PowerPoints, and other documents into web and mobile apps | Acquired | — |
| Cue | Acquired | 11 | |
| Embedly | Acquired | 2 | |
| Etacts | Acquired | 2 | |
| Mertado | Acquired | 1 | |
| Movity | Real estate data visualization. Sold to Trulia Dec… | Acquired | 2 |
| Nowmov | Acquired | — | |
| Optimizely | The first all-in-one operating system for marketing | Acquired | 1500 |
| Zencoder | Video Encoding API, Open source video player (video.js) | Acquired | 11 |
| Answerly | Inactive | 11 | |
| Data Marketplace | Inactive | 2 | |
| Fabricly | Inactive | 2 | |
| Fithub | Inactive | — | |
| Gamador | Inactive | 2 | |
| Infoharmoni | Inactive | 2 | |
| LaunchHear | LaunchHear was a startup attempting to make PR scale in the same way… | Inactive | 2 |
| Mixed Media Labs | Inactive | — | |
| Newcope | Inactive | 2 | |
| Newslabs | Inactive | 2 | |
| Notifo | Inactive | 2 | |
| Zenedy | Inactive | 2 |
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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