The 16 startups from Y Combinator’s spring session presented their ideas and initial products at Y Combinator’s Silicon Valley office this afternoon. Of the 16 startups in this group, 8 have already launched, 6 are in the process of launching and 2 remain in stealth mode. Most of them have been in development for only three months. Y Combinator celebrated some good news recently. They are raising $2 million in capital themselves, from Sequoia Capital and a number of prominent angel investors for a new entity, managed by Y Combinator, that will make investments in new startups going forward.
Foodoro
Foodoro is an online marketplace marketplace where people can buy specialty food directly from artisanal foodmakers. Launched a few weeks ago, Foodoro aims to be an online e-commerce site for artisanal food makers, exposing these vendors to a greater audience of food aficionados than they would get from their own sites or selling solely to specialty food stores and managing their e-commerce completely. We wrote a review of Foodoro here.
Skysheet
Skysheet, not officially launched, is a web-based spreadsheets service that has the speed and feel of Excel.
AirBnB
AirBnB, a startup we wrote about a few weeks ago, is like the eBay of space. Its an online marketplace for any sort of accomodation, including hotels, extra bedrooms in peoples’ homes, apartments, and commercial properties. We reviewed AirBnB here.
reMail
reMail is a mobile iPhone app that allows you to import your Gmail or AOL mail accounts and then search conversations and emails by topic, person or subject. The app also has built in folders that let’s you easily access emails that pertain to certain subjects, like flight information.
Cloudkick
Cloudkick is a web-based cloud management system of servers on Amazon’s EC2 or Slicehost. Cloudkick allows you to manage all your servers in once space, letting you set up new servers with the click of a button and also offers voice, gives you easy to read graphs and monitoring of servers and email alerts in the event of a server problem. We reviewed Cloudkick here.
Divvyshot
Divvyshot is a “dead simple” group photo sharing web platofrm where people can upload hundreds of photos and then be able to share them with anyone. The startup also has an iPhone app that lets users upload and monitor event activity in real-time. We recently wrote about Divvyshot here.
Echodio
Echodio syncs your iTunes libraries across multiple computers and devices using Boxee. Using cloud sync, the Echodio lets you drop music tracks into an Echodio playlist and then streams them to computers and devices. We reviewed Echodio here.
Heyzap
Heyzap, sort of the YouTube for casual games, allows any website to access over 6,000 games and then be able to embed the games into their own blogs or websites through a widget. The games update automatically, giving publishers fresh game content. We wrote about Heyzap here.
Nambii
Nambii produces dating iPhone applications, including the Mobile Dating, a Match.com-like dating app; Kiss or Miss, a kissing app; and DateMap, a location-based date finding app that lets users find people looking for dates by geographic location and availability.
Picurio
Picurio is trying to replace iPhoto. It’s a webased application that is made to feel like a desktop app. You can drag and drop photos into albums and then automatically sync them with Facebook, with virtually little to no upload time.
Propable
Propable is a property management system that rest apartments from property owners at market rate, then furnishes them, and rents them out as rooms to young professionals. Propable charges a rent fee that includes wifi, cable, maintenance, gas, and cleaning, clearing a large markup for the unit and making property owners money.
thesixtyone
thesixtyone is the Digg for indie music. The startup has built filter for rating music, while also being able to listen to tracks and albums, earn a ranking reputation, and achievement badges for rating good music. Read our review of thesixtyone here.
Voxli
Voxli is a simple web-based voice conferencing services for gamers. Anyone can create a voice conference room on the Voxli homepage for up to 200 participants. The startup is planning to expand beyond the gaming market, hoping to become a convenient replacement for Skype. We recently reviewed Voxli here.
Wattvision
Wattvision makes it easy for you to monitor the power use of a home or business by installing a sensor on your energy meter. You then get a live view of your home’s energy use online, with fast updates and easy to install sensors.
Awesome!! Can’t wait!
This is all dumb tasteless crap.
Jon Stewart Where are you?
The cheerleading for Ycombinator Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever
stops!
Congratulations to you all. Not easy building a web app in that short amount of time. If you get that first round of funding, let us know if you need help hiring!
Just amazing what a group of young, smart people can do with less than $100,000.
Good luck to you all … it is innovative entrepreneurs like you who will help bring us out of this global economic recession.
i thought their demo day was year around they get just as much post as twitter
Looks like demo day went well :>
getting dizzy looking at all those crazy startup names.
They all suck. Not one bringing anything new. Nothing. $10000 investment? duh … Y Combinator is a joke, maybe is just the bad economy .. who knows …
Gotta love the haters.
Without them we are nothing.
“You gotta be GRATEFUL … You NEED Haters”:
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Love the video Dave !
Haters will always be around, and so will Lovers ..err.. those that encourage, & in b/n somewhere thats v helpful is “constructive critisism”
JD
PS: see you in the valley 26th ?
nice video
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James H.: “Not one bringing anything new.”
Really? What other sites are there like Foodoro?
I’m looking forward to seeing what Skysheet is like. Seems like there’s stiff competition with Zoho and Google Docs.
Um, Foodzie?
Will, try amazon.com for instance … phew …
What’s your full name, James? Would you say this in person? No, you’d say something reasonable.
I wonder if you can mandate the use of FB connect to make a comment.
i can’t wait with it.. that’s great…
most are not innovative… I wouldnt mind seeing a really quality open source alternative for microsoft office though, basically google docs but better, wondering if that excel startup on there will be good
OpenOffice.org and Staroffice along with thunderbird pretty much offer everything they do for free.
Jon
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Nambii is retarded. How did that train wreck get picked for Y Combinator
Picurio guys should definitely check out Rotzy.
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Typo: Foodoro is an online marketplace marketplace where…
I submitted a proposal to them, would have blown all the competition away financially, but alas, no luck, sad really..
then suck it up & prove them wrong.
“living well is the best revenge”
All the best
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Thanks for sharing the info.
Much appreciated!
i think they all suck; but, i never thought google would buy youtube for 1.5 billion to get sued by viacom.
I think they all deserve the funding they received. The cloudkick folks especially because they are providing a very important service in cloud computing for free currently. Alex and his friends worked very hard on this startup and they deserve every penny of the funding. Haters can hate all they want but it wont change anything….
I actually tried this service. It is useless. Good idea, bad implementation. Also, there are many many others out there doing the same thing. They all suck.
I agree that there’s little that’s innovative here. They appear to be minor variations on existing sites. I wouldn’t invest in any of them.
Two big mysteries to me are why anyone invests their money in these startups and why TC reports so much YCombinator “news”.
Mr Mike, … is it that hard to guess? Is called “doing business”
Mia – Good point.
I’d be interested in an ROI follow-up in a few years for these startups.
Isn’t remail’s business completely killed as soon as iphone 3.0 software is released? Ouch.
(reMail is a mobile iPhone app that allows you to import your Gmail or AOL mail accounts and then search conversations and emails by topic, person or subject.)
FmyLife, these are some terrible startups.
Why is this so important as to make it a story?
I don’t get it?
Here’s a thought, before anyone is allowed to post a hateful comment, they first post one discussing how they are at least trying to help the economy in this recession…
YCombinator gives a relatively small amount of money for companies that historically stimulate spending, and encourage competition.