Companies116

Active47%

Acquired or public25%

Inactive28%

Y Combinator's directory lists 116 companies in the Winter 2017 batch: 54 Active, 29 Acquired, 0 Public and 33 Inactive. 28% of Winter 2017 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.

What the directory lists about Winter 2017

By the industry YC files each company under: B2B 41, Consumer 22, Healthcare 18, Fintech 12, Industrials 12, Real Estate and Construction 5, Unspecified 3, Education 2, Government 1.
Where 110 of the 116 companies say they are based, by the first location each lists: San Francisco, CA, USA (38), New York City, NY (11), Bengaluru, KA, India (7), San Francisco (7), Boston (3), New York City, NY, USA (3), Lagos, LA, Nigeria (2), Lagos, Nigeria (2), and 31 other places.
YC marks 4 companies from this batch as top companies: Brex, Clipboard, Faire and Rippling.
Earlier names on the entries: Aella (earlier Aella Credit); Ambient.ai (earlier Ambient); Anasen (earlier Vize Software and Anasen (was Vize Software)); Arylla (earlier Arylla Inc.); BIOS Health (earlier Cambridge Bio-Augmentation Systems and BIOS); Bountiful (earlier Vinsight); Brex (earlier Veyond); BuyPower (earlier Datapex Drifty Technologies); Cartcam (earlier Mystri); Clipboard (earlier Twomagnets and Clipboard Health); Delee (earlier Semka Technologies); Entry (earlier XIX.ai); Extern (earlier Paragon One); Faire (earlier LineFinder); FastJVM (earlier Manycore, Manycore.io and Inboxbooster); and 39 more.

Every company in Winter 2017

Company	What they do	Status	Team
ACLU	Defender of rights and liberties	Active	501
Aella	Diversified credit infrastructure powering payments across Africa.	Active	60
AlemHealth	AI Radiologist in a Box - We provide a vertically integrated AI…	Active	25
Ambient.ai	AI company transforming enterprise physical security to prevent…	Active	150
AON3D	Additive Manufacturing with advanced materials	Active	40
Apozy	Apozy makes every website safe to browse	Active	9
BIOS Health	Neural interfaces to understand and use nerve data in medicine.	Active	45
Bitrise	Hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery for mobile apps	Active	243
BloomAPI	BloomAPI helps doctors share clinical data. Today most healthcare…	Active	7
Bountiful	An Operating System for agriculture.	Active	4
Bulk MRO Industrial Supply	Full Stack Fintech and Supply Chain Platform for Global Trade	Active	170
BuyPower	Modern bill payment platform for African businesses and consumers.	Active	115
Clipboard	Every shift, Covered.	Active	1000
Collectly	We help healthcare orgs collect more money faster	Active	106
Delee	Blood testing device for early diagnosis of cancer and treatment…	Active	18
Dost Education	Getting kids ready for school in India.	Active	30
Extern	Professional Experience Anytime, Anywhere.	Active	30
Faire	The global online platform empowering independent retail.	Active	900
FastJVM	Making the JVM faster	Active	3
Helix Nanotechnologies	Next-generation mRNA platform to solve cancer, COVID and climate.	Active	22
Hogaru	Hogaru is a tech-enabled home services platform in Latin America.	Active	746
Indee Labs	Enabling T cell immunotherapy discovery, development and manufacturing	Active	5
Ledger Investing	Marketplace for insurance securitization.	Active	85
Lively, Inc.	Modern employee benefits & health savings account (HSA) provider	Active	195
MDalgorithms Inc.	Democratizing Dermatology with AI	Active	40
Mednet	Mednet helps doctors answer their toughest clinical questions —…	Active	35
Mirror AI	App that turns selfie photos into thousand emoji that look like you…	Active	7
NanoNets	Automatic Data Extraction	Active	102
Nomba	Global Business Banking for Africa's Ambitious Businesses.	Active	350
Nuvola	Nuvola is transforming battery manufacturing, making EV batteries…	Active	4
OneFin	Shopify for Financial Services	Active	50
Plane	#1 easiest-to-use payroll for startups	Active	30
RankScience	Automated SEO for Startups	Active	16
Reliance Health	We make healthcare in emerging markets affordable and accessible	Active	384
Request Network	Request is a payment request technology & an ecosystem of apps	Active	12
Retool	Build internal tools fast.	Active	300
REZI	Rent Better	Active	31
Rippling	One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally.	Active	2500
Sigma Genetics	Sigma Genetics is a biotechnology company that is building…	Active	2
Sinovia Technologies	Flexible printed OLED displays.	Active	7
Sleep Reset	One clinic for every sleep issue	Active	8
Snappr	Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation	Active	250
Solugen	Decarbonizing the chemicals industry.	Active	200
Speak	A superhuman, AI-powered language tutor in your pocket	Active	40
The Centre for Effective Altruism	We're your non-profit portfolio managers. We make giving to…	Active	15
The Essential	E-commerce 2.0	Active	11
Tizeti	ISP for Africa	Active	—
Token Transit	Complete fare payment platform for public transportation	Active	12
Tolemi	Data integration & insights for state and local governments	Active	20
Upcall	Upcall provides outbound call professionals as a service.	Active	6
Veryfi, Inc.	Document AI. One API Call.	Active	70
Voiceops	We help B2C companies learn from every customer interaction	Active	10
Wifi Dabba, Inc.	Decentralised broadband connectivity.	Active	21
Wright Electric	Boeing for electric planes	Active	4
Armory	Continuous Deployment at any scale, for all developers.	Acquired	90
Arthena	Quantitative Investment in Art Assets	Acquired	12
Breaker	A podcast company.	Acquired	1
Brex	Business accounts, corporate cards, and spend management software.	Acquired	1000
Bulletin	Helping retailers discover and shop the best brands on the planet	Acquired	15
Clear Genetics	Clear Genetics is scaling delivery of Genomic services	Acquired	8
Fiix	Fiix sends expert auto mechanics to your home, so you don’t have to…	Acquired	2
Hivy	An end-to-end platform for office management. We enable office…	Acquired	—
Humi	Payroll, HR, and Health Benefits for Canada's SMB's	Acquired	141
KidPass	Online & In-Person Kids Activities	Acquired	21
Loop Support	Predict job applicant performance for entry-level support roles	Acquired	7
lvl5	HD maps for self-driving cars.	Acquired	6
Peer5	P2P delivery network that enables high quality video streaming	Acquired	11
Penny	Penny makes keeping track of your finances as easy as having a…	Acquired	2
Playment	Mechanical Turk for enterprises.	Acquired	50
Sandbox Banking	Low-code integration platform for banking	Acquired	33
Scaphold.io	The Universal API	Acquired	2
ScopeAI	Automatically extract valuable insights from customer service…	Acquired	4
Scribe	Scribe is an AI based Sales Development Representative that you can…	Acquired	15
Shipamax	Simple, end-to-end automation for logistics orgs	Acquired	32
Soomgo	Local services marketplace that connects providers with new customers	Acquired	125
Supr Daily	Daily grocery delivery service in India	Acquired	—
Terark	Fastest Storage Engine with the Best Compression, we enables direct…	Acquired	2
Tetra	AI notetaker for phone calls	Acquired	2
UpKeep	Mobile-first software for maintenance teams.	Acquired	150
Volansi	Autonomous VTOL delivery solutions.	Acquired	85
Wavy	Experience music and art in augmented reality	Acquired	—
WaystoCap	We are Alibaba of Africa. We are building a marketplace for African…	Acquired	38
ZipX	We allow anyone in South East Asia to instantly order any product…	Acquired	1
Anasen	Anasen is an app that makes data analysis easy and accessible to…	Inactive	15
Arylla	We connect products to the internet using an invisible, chip-less tag	Inactive	6
Beek	Leading audio subscription platform for Spanish content and creators	Inactive	32
Bicycle AI	Bicycle AI provides customer support as a service. We work on top of…	Inactive	11
boxouse	portable, affordable, beautiful smart homes	Inactive	2
Cartcam	Cartcam is an app for opinionated, deal-seeking shoppers. It gives…	Inactive	1
Cowlar	Fitbit for dairy cows. Farms use cowlar's alerts & recommendations to…	Inactive	2
Entry	Biometric sign in and identity verification platform	Inactive	7
Fibo	SaaS calendar and messaging for SMBs	Inactive	15
Firsthand	Firsthand makes software-enabled, self-serve retail kiosks that carry…	Inactive	2
FloydHub	ML Platform for developing, training and deploying ML models	Inactive	4
InnaMed	At-home blood testing: measure + analyze + enhance.	Inactive	7
LitHit	Smart Target for Shooting Sports	Inactive	2
Marketfox	Marketing automation platform optimized for mobile and web.	Inactive	2
Neema	Neema is an app for unbanked workers, which provides a checking…	Inactive	2
Niles	Knowledge Assistant for Work.	Inactive	2
No Lean Season	A bus ticket out of poverty	Inactive	—
Origin	Keurig for healthy smoothies.	Inactive	2
Pearl	The future of office coffee. Keurig convenience meets cafe quality.	Inactive	—
Pit.AI	Solving intelligence for investment management.	Inactive	2
Pulse	Electronic Medical Records for India	Inactive	30
Rally Tennis	Join tennis league and play competitively with people nearby	Inactive	3
Riley	MailChimp for SMS	Inactive	2
Smart Alto	Easiest way to set appointments with real estate leads	Inactive	8
SourceBeacon	SourceBeacon is an on-demand procurement concierge for sourcing…	Inactive	5
Sudden Coffee	Crystallized coffee that's better than fresh Starbucks	Inactive	2
Sycamore	Marketplace for companies to add a delivery driver in 5 minutes.	Inactive	2
Trade	We're building Africa's Commodity Exchange.	Inactive	3
Tress	Tress is a social community for black women's hairstyles. We are…	Inactive	2
VanGo	Uber for Kids	Inactive	8
Volt Health	Volt Health is developing medical devices that deliver electrical…	Inactive	1
Voodoo Manufacturing	AWS for manufacturing.	Inactive	19
Zinc Platform	Insurance Distribution Infrastructure	Inactive	11

Company records kept on this page

This company had a page of its own. It held too little that was its own to stand alone, so everything it said is kept here, line by line with the record it came from, and the old address leads to this section.

lvl5

lvl5 describes itself on its directory entry as: “HD maps for self-driving cars.” (source)
lvl5 is listed in the Winter 2017 batch, added to the directory on 2016-11-03, with the status Acquired. (source)
The entry gives a team of 6 and stage “Early”. (source)
Industry: Industrials › Automotive. Sectors: Autonomous Trucking, Self-Driving Vehicles. (source)
Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. (source)
Website given on the entry: www.lvl5.ai.
George Tall, Founder/CTO, is named as a founder on the entry. (source)

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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