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.
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 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 2026-09-26 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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