Companies66
Active18%
Acquired or public41%
Inactive41%
Y Combinator's directory lists 66 companies in the Winter 2012 batch: 12 Active, 25 Acquired, 2 Public and 27 Inactive. 41% of Winter 2012 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 Winter 2012
- By the industry YC files each company under: B2B 30, Consumer 21, Fintech 5, Industrials 3, Real Estate and Construction 3, Education 2, Healthcare 2.
- Where 62 of the 66 companies say they are based, by the first location each lists: San Francisco, CA, USA (28), San Francisco (18), New York City, NY (5), Boston (2), Ann Arbor, MI, USA (1), Boston, MA, USA (1), Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal (1), London, England, United Kingdom (1), and 5 other places.
- YC marks 6 companies from this batch as top companies: Amplitude, Gusto, Matterport, PlanGrid, Sendwave and Wave.
- Earlier names on the entries: Amiato (earlier Nou Data); BarSense (earlier Kyte); Brace (earlier BackLift); CleverDeck (earlier EveryArt); CoderWall (earlier Large and Assembly); Couple (earlier Pair); Fond (earlier AnyPerk); GiveSpark (earlier Chatiry, Givespark, EngageInbox and GiveSprk); Grouper (earlier Zonks and Dog Food); Gusto (earlier ZenPayroll); Jellyfish Art (earlier ChatBasket and AnyVivo); Loom (earlier Popset); Make School (earlier makegameswithus); Optilly/Installmonetizer (earlier Your Ad Optimizer); Ridecell (earlier Summon and InstantCab); and 5 more.
Every company in Winter 2012
| Company | What they do | Status | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| CircuitHub | On-Demand Electronics Manufacturing | Active | 58 |
| CleverDeck | Collaborate with an artist to commission original artwork you'll live… | Active | 1 |
| Gusto | Provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team | Active | 2400 |
| HireArt | Gives businesses everything needed to hire & manage W2 contractors. | Active | 90 |
| Medigram | We are making a HIPAA-compliant, Groupme app for doctors to… | Active | 11 |
| Medmonk | A tool for pharmacists to find funding for patients who are unable to… | Active | 2 |
| Per Vices | Building Mission Critical Software Defined Radio products. | Active | 11 |
| Rescale | High Performance Computing Built for the Cloud | Active | 250 |
| Ridecell | World's Leading Fleet Intelligence Platform | Active | 88 |
| Screenleap | One-click screen sharing with installation-free viewing on all devices | Active | 4 |
| Shoptiques | Shoptiques.com lets you shop the world's best local boutiques online. | Active | 51 |
| Wave | Mobile money app for Africa | Active | 1600 |
| 42Floors | We make it easy to search for office space. | Acquired | 60 |
| Amiato | The BI bridge for unstructured data. We automatically bridge the gap… | Acquired | 2 |
| Authy | Authy is a Two-Factor Authentication platform for developers | Acquired | 201 |
| Chute | Discover the photos and videos people are taking of your brand or… | Acquired | 11 |
| CoderWall | Acquired | 2 | |
| Exec | Exec is a house cleaning service that users can book from their… | Acquired | 11 |
| FamilyLeaf | Help families stay in touch | Acquired | 2 |
| FarmLogs | Software that helps farmers operate more profitable businesses. | Acquired | 5 |
| Flutter | Flutter combined computer vision technology with the built-in webcams… | Acquired | 2 |
| Fond | Rewards and recognition SaaS for HR leaders | Acquired | 51 |
| HackPad | A realtime wiki for getting things done. | Acquired | 2 |
| iCracked | On-demand smartphone repair in 3 countries and launching smart home… | Acquired | 51 |
| Loom | Cloud storage for photos and videos (acquired by Dropbox). | Acquired | 2 |
| Midnox | Acquired | 2 | |
| MyVR | The open platform for the vacation rental industry. | Acquired | 15 |
| PlanGrid | Mobile applications for the construction industry. | Acquired | 355 |
| Priceonomics | We help companies turn their data into great stories. | Acquired | 2 |
| SendHub | Simple Business SMS. SMBs to Large Enterprise. | Acquired | 51 |
| Sendwave | Instant, no fee international remittances. | Acquired | 350 |
| Shopular | Deals, Coupons & Cash Back for your favorite stores. | Acquired | 11 |
| SlidePay | Banking and Payment Platform APIs. Exited October 2014. | Acquired | 2 |
| Socialcam | The easiest way to share videos with friends and family. | Acquired | — |
| Swiftype | Smart search for the modern team. | Acquired | 50 |
| Tilt | Mobile crowdfunding: The easiest way to collect, fundraise, and sell… | Acquired | 51 |
| YourMechanic | Car Repairs, Reinvented:a. Mechanic comes to your home or work to fix… | Acquired | 115 |
| Amplitude | Digital Analytics Platform | Public | 750 |
| Matterport | Turn physical objects and environments into 3D models in seconds. | Public | 201 |
| 99dresses | We're creating every women's fantasy by combining the unwanted… | Inactive | 2 |
| Ark | Ark organizes the world's social information. | Inactive | 11 |
| BarSense | Kid's first smartphone with web-based parental controls. | Inactive | — |
| BookSolid | BookSolid is the opentable for tour operators. | Inactive | — |
| Brace | Backlift allows front-end only developers to build entire websites… | Inactive | — |
| Carsabi | Carsabi is the search engine for used cars | Inactive | 2 |
| Couple | App that connects two phones and creates a private timeline to share… | Inactive | 2 |
| Documents.Me | Client-side encryption for your devices and the cloud. | Inactive | — |
| GiveSpark | Givespark was a celebrity charity fundraising platform | Inactive | 1 |
| Glider | We filter distracting emails away from your inbox. | Inactive | 2 |
| Grouper | We set up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls. | Inactive | 11 |
| Hipmob | Customer communication for iOS and Android developers - an in-app… | Inactive | 2 |
| Jellyfish Art | Inactive | 2 | |
| LendUp | LendUp is a socially responsible company on a mission to redefine… | Inactive | 201 |
| LVL6 | We make mobile MMOs. | Inactive | 2 |
| Make School | Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century. Students… | Inactive | 45 |
| Marft | Marft creates embeddable machine learning models for application… | Inactive | 3 |
| Minefold | Simple multiplayer game servers. | Inactive | 2 |
| Optilly/Installmonetizer | Fb ad optimization platform | Inactive | 11 |
| Pixelapse | Github for designers. We automatically keep track of revisions of… | Inactive | — |
| SolidStage | Sysadmin as a service. We make deploying, configuring, monitoring,… | Inactive | — |
| Talkray (TiKL) | Instantly talk or text to one or a group of friends at once with the… | Inactive | 2 |
| Tap to Learn | Games For Education | Inactive | 11 |
| The Muse | The Muse is values-based job search & hiring for 7M+ monthly | Inactive | 60 |
| WireOver | Really secure file sending for big files. | Inactive | 2 |
| Zillabyte | Palantir for sales people | Inactive | 2 |
| Zipio | Deal search service | Inactive | — |
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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