Companies122
Active48%
Acquired or public20%
Inactive33%
Y Combinator's directory lists 122 companies in the Winter 2016 batch: 58 Active, 23 Acquired, 1 Public and 40 Inactive. 33% of Winter 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 Winter 2016
- By the industry YC files each company under: B2B 52, Consumer 22, Healthcare 19, Fintech 10, Industrials 10, Real Estate and Construction 3, Unspecified 3, Education 2, Government 1.
- Where 119 of the 122 companies say they are based, by the first location each lists: San Francisco, CA, USA (45), San Francisco (16), New York City, NY (10), Los Angeles, CA, USA (5), Austin, TX, USA (3), Chicago, IL, USA (3), Los Angeles, CA (3), New York City, NY, USA (3), and 28 other places.
- YC marks 7 companies from this batch as top companies: Caper, GitPrime, NURX, Paystack, Podium, Rappi and Truebill.
- Earlier names on the entries: Algoriz (earlier RUMI); AmberBox Gunshot Detection (earlier Sinclair Fire and AmberBox); Apollo.io (earlier ZenProspect); Bus.com (earlier Sharethebus); Caper (earlier QueueHop); Carbic (earlier FlowCommand); Castle (earlier Castle.io and Castle Intelligence); Chillabit (earlier Chitter); ConstructVR (earlier Archonware, HealthSkout and MedicalBnB); Daily (earlier Pluot Communications and Daily.co); Embark Trucks (earlier Varden Labs); Envyl (earlier Shypmate); FightCamp (earlier Hykso and Hykso (FightCamp)); flexEngage (earlier flexReceipts); Inevitable Tech (earlier Iron Ox); and 21 more.
Every company in Winter 2016
| Company | What they do | Status | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| AmberBox Gunshot Detection | Detect Gunshots | Inform Law Enforcement | Empower First Responders | Active | — |
| Apollo.io | Apollo is the foundation of your entire go-to-market strategy. | Active | 800 |
| Astranis | Advanced satellites for high orbits. | Active | 500 |
| Boom | Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel | Active | 227 |
| Carbic | using ultrasonics + ml to analyze fluid behavior at infrastructure… | Active | 8 |
| Castle | Block bots & bad behavior | Active | 20 |
| Chatfuel | Platform to easily create chatbots to engage with audiences on… | Active | 53 |
| Copia | Copia's a for-profit technology company that solves food waste &… | Active | 20 |
| Daily | Conversational Voice and Multimodal AI built with Open Source | Active | 126 |
| Deako | We make beautiful connected light switches that allow you to control… | Active | 11 |
| Deepgram | Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding. | Active | 115 |
| DevColor | We give Black software engineers support they need to advance in tech. | Active | 7 |
| FightCamp | Home boxing gym with motion trackers that compute punches and reps. | Active | 64 |
| Focal Systems | Building the Operating System for B&M Retail using Deep Learning | Active | 170 |
| Function of Beauty | Customizable beauty for hair, skin, and body care products. | Active | 300 |
| Gecko Robotics | AI + Robotics for the Built World | Active | 230 |
| GetAccept | Close deals faster. Digitally. | Active | 200 |
| Gigwell | Building the Operating System for the Concert & Live Events Industry. | Active | 12 |
| GoLorry | Mobile marketplace for inter-city trucking in India | Active | 30 |
| HistoWiz | Accelerating Histopathology for Cancer Research | Active | 2 |
| iSono Health | AI-powered platform for Accessible and Personalized Breast Health… | Active | 9 |
| Lattice | Modern people management platform. | Active | 540 |
| Luciq (formerly Instabug) | Agentic Observability Platform for Mobile | Active | 250 |
| Lygos | Lygos (W16) built and commercialized sustainable, high-performance… | Active | 55 |
| Lynks | Lynks is an e-commerce company that makes high demand products… | Active | 40 |
| MagicBus | We make vanpool simple. | Active | 18 |
| MailTime | Emails as quick and easy as text messaging. | Active | 18 |
| Mason | Mason is the fastest way to take smart devices from idea to end user | Active | 65 |
| Meter Feeder | Helping fleets find and pay parking tickets | Active | 4 |
| Mio | Mio powers seamless communication between workplace chat apps. | Active | 12 |
| mRelief | mRelief has built an easy-to-use platform and web and text messaging… | Active | 12 |
| Mux | Video infrastructure for developers | Active | 95 |
| NetBeez | Network monitoring from the end-user perspective | Active | 12 |
| Netomi | Self-Driving Customer Care | Active | 3 |
| Opentrons | We make robots for biologists. | Active | 300 |
| Outschool | A live online learning platform that empowers kids ages 3–18. | Active | 107 |
| Pave | Pave analyzes Google Analytics + marketing data and sends you reports… | Active | 6 |
| Perlara | Perlara: building the YC for rare disease parents | Active | 1 |
| Petcube | Petcube is on the mission to improve lives of pets and pet owners… | Active | 51 |
| PocketSuite | All-In-One Business Operating System by PocketSuite | Active | 30 |
| Podium | Get more leads. Make more money. | Active | 1000 |
| Protonet | Protonet provides the easiest way for a small business to run its own… | Active | — |
| Quilt Data | Quilt manages data like code so that companies can experiment faster | Active | 6 |
| Qvin | Empowering women. Period. | Active | 30 |
| Rappi | On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. | Active | 4800 |
| Relativity Space | Building humanity’s multiplanetary future. | Active | 2500 |
| Revl | AI edited video souvenirs as a service | Active | 22 |
| Salt Security | Protects organizations from getting breached through their APIs. | Active | 200 |
| Sanitation and Health Rights in India (SHRI) | Active | 1 | |
| Sendbird | The AI agent that doesn’t just support, it delights. | Active | 300 |
| SOUNDBOKS | We're creating the loudest battery-driven speaker on the market | Active | 50 |
| Stealth Worker | Information Security (Cyber Security), Compliance and Privacy (GDPR &… | Active | 5 |
| Superside | AI-First Creative Partner for Enterprise Teams | Active | 850 |
| Thunkable | Thunkable is the no-code platform to build powerful native mobile apps | Active | 40 |
| Tovala | A smart-oven-paired subscription meal service. | Active | 375 |
| Wakie | A social app for phone calls. Express yourself and make real friends. | Active | 10 |
| Yardbook | Marketplace & Software Revolutionizing Yard Care | Active | — |
| Zenysis | Building powerful data analysis software for developing countries. | Active | 11 |
| Able Health | Able Health gets doctors paid more for higher quality care | Acquired | 11 |
| Bonsai | The all-in-one solution for small businesses and self-employed. | Acquired | 25 |
| Caper | Plug-and-play cashier-less retail powered by computer vision and AI | Acquired | 15 |
| Emburse | Expense management and AP automation. | Acquired | — |
| flexEngage | Dynamic transactional communications for physical stores to help… | Acquired | 25 |
| GitPrime | Visibility and analytics for software development leaders. | Acquired | 110 |
| Goodybag | An online tool for companies to order food from restaurants and… | Acquired | 11 |
| Hingeto | A B2B marketplace that connects inventory to online stores | Acquired | 15 |
| Kip Health | Therapy the way it should be: high quality in-person therapy sessions… | Acquired | 2 |
| Landed | White-labeled shared appreciation down payment programs for employers | Acquired | 2 |
| LendEDU | LendEDU is a marketplace for consumer financial products. | Acquired | 10 |
| Loop Genomics | Novel long-read DNA sequencing technology | Acquired | 7 |
| Luminist Labs | Diagnostic platform for early detection of liver disease | Acquired | 2 |
| MineralSoft | Data management platform for oil & gas assets | Acquired | 35 |
| Nova | Nova puts the power of AI to work for you, enabling a more continuous… | Acquired | 11 |
| NURX | Medicine or testing kit, prescribed online and delivered to your door. | Acquired | 300 |
| Paystack | Modern payments infrastructure for Africa | Acquired | 115 |
| Plato | Plato is the mentorship platform for engineering leaders | Acquired | 26 |
| Pulpix | Binge-watching technology for video platforms. | Acquired | 15 |
| Redspread | Version control for software environments | Acquired | — |
| Stilt | Financial products for immigrants (acquired by JG Wentworth) | Acquired | 35 |
| Truebill | Live your best financial life | Acquired | 225 |
| UroDev Medical | Devices to improve the quality of life for people with Spinal Cord… | Acquired | 4 |
| Embark Trucks | Self-driving semi trucks. | Public | 300 |
| Algoriz | Algoriz is an AI based algorithmic trading platform that enables you… | Inactive | 4 |
| AlphaFlow | AlphaFlow is a technology-driven investment manager. | Inactive | 26 |
| Anchor Health | Modernizing home health care agencies with software, hardware, and… | Inactive | 2 |
| Bus.com | The easiest way to charter a bus in North America. | Inactive | 90 |
| Castle | Castle manages rental homes using automation and on-demand labor. | Inactive | 11 |
| Chillabit | Chillabit is the best way to procrastinate! It’s a live feed of funny… | Inactive | 3 |
| Compgun | Sales commission software that grows revenue. | Inactive | 11 |
| ConstructVR | The simplest way to test, manage, and deploy VR/AR apps at scale. | Inactive | 2 |
| Cover | The mobile-first insurance platform that makes insurance easy. | Inactive | 50 |
| DoseDr | Helping diabetes patients use the correct amount of insulin,… | Inactive | 2 |
| Elucify | Elucify is an API that plugs into your CRM which automatically cleans… | Inactive | 11 |
| Enflux | Motion capture clothing for injury prevention | Inactive | 2 |
| Envyl | Envyl enables a fast, reliable and cost effective peer to peer… | Inactive | 2 |
| Georgette Packaging | Carbon neutral packaging for ambitious businesses. | Inactive | 15 |
| Index | Mapping the world's professional relationships. | Inactive | 5 |
| Inevitable Tech | To make food a renewable resource, for everyone | Inactive | 80 |
| InnoVein | We cure intractable leg wounds with a replacement valve for veins. | Inactive | 5 |
| Interstate Analytics | Multi-Touch Marketing Analytics | Inactive | 2 |
| Kisan Network | Tech enabled and fully integrated PAN India agri produce supply chain | Inactive | 75 |
| Magic Instruments | Magic Instruments makes a high-tech guitar that is easier and more… | Inactive | 2 |
| Modal | digital commerce for the world’s largest auto retailers and brands. | Inactive | 18 |
| Monthli | Monthli is the first marketplace for homeowner associations. We… | Inactive | 4 |
| Open Motors | Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is a B2B company that is developing… | Inactive | 11 |
| Patchwork Security | Security patch notifications for servers. Build it, deploy it, and… | Inactive | 2 |
| Pathmind | Pathmind helps industrial engineers and simulation modelers achieve… | Inactive | 15 |
| PhysioHealth | An enterprise health benefits platform that rewards employees for… | Inactive | 2 |
| Poppy | Poppy makes it easy for parents to find high quality childcare with… | Inactive | 2 |
| Real Artists | We make a fast and native issue tracker for software projects. | Inactive | 2 |
| Restocks | Buy sneakers and streetwear here | Inactive | 2 |
| Silver | Low cost consumer device for toxin detection. | Inactive | — |
| Start Closing | Start Closing is changing the way homeowners and contractors interact… | Inactive | 2 |
| Streamup | Streamup is a live streaming community for music. We make it fun and… | Inactive | 2 |
| StrongIntro | StrongIntro helps recruiters turn their entire company into a source… | Inactive | 2 |
| Toymail | Connected toys that enable two-way voice messaging between children… | Inactive | 2 |
| TRAC | An end to end timing solution for any scale athletic event. | Inactive | 2 |
| Unima | Fast and low-cost diagnostics for real time disease surveillance | Inactive | 26 |
| Unnyhog | Video game development company.We are creating unique and… | Inactive | 1 |
| UpLabs | UpLabs is the #1 marketplace for designers & developers to find… | Inactive | 1 |
| VINEBOX (Usual Beverage Co.) | Wine by the glass, delivered | Inactive | 11 |
| WorldCover | Funding platform for global insurance, starting with crop insurance… | Inactive | 20 |
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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