New England’s Y-Combinator Companies

An aggregated list of previous New England companies that have received investments from Y-Combinator

Matt Snow
Storied
8 min readSep 1, 2020

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This past week marked Y-Combinator’s Summer 2020 Demo Day. This famous event is a major sourcing destination for leading VCs and angel investors and the program continues to produce more unicorns over time. Around 200 companies presented at this cohort alone.

In the spirit of Demo Day, we’re covering all of the New England startups that have previously received investments from Y Combinator since inception, according to Pitchbook and Crunchbase. Here’s the list:

Company: Biobot Analytics

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: January 2018

Company: Ginkgo Bioworks

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S14

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: January 2014

Company: Legacy

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150K

Investment Date: August 2019

Company: Panorama Education

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S13

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120K

Investment Date: March 2013

Company: Vendr

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: August 2019

Company: Moltin (acq. by ElasticPath)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W15

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: Undisclosed

Investment Date: Undisclosed

Company: TetraScience

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S15

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: August 2015

Company: Raptor Maps

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S16

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: December 2016

Company: HelixNano

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W17

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: August 2017

Company: Platejoy

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S15

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: August 2015

Company: CircuitHub

HQ: Deerfield, MA

Cohort: W12

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: N/A

Company: CentaurLabs

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: March 2019

Company: Medumo (acq. by Philips)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: January 2018

Company: Font Awesome

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S15

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: August 2015

Company: Klarity

Founding HQ: Boston

Cohort: S18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: August 2018

Company: Tolemi

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W17

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: March 2017

Company: Lowkey.gg

HQ: Cambridge, MA

Cohort: S18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: August 2018

Company: Sandbox Banking

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W17

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: March 2017

Company: Playbook

HQ: Cambridge, MA

Cohort: W18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: January 2018

Company: Cloudant (acq. by IBM)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S08

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: August 2008

Company: Multiverse

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W20

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: March 2020

Company: Pretty Instant

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W15

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: March 2015

Company: Embedly

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W10

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: N/A

Investment Date: January 2020

Company: Bensen AI

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: August 2019

Company: XGenomes

HQ: Cambridge, MA

Cohort: W19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: March 2019

Company: KernSystems

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: August 2019

Company: Airmada (Shut down)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S15

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: March 2016

Company: Catch

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: March 2019

Company: GeoPredict

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: March 2019

Company: Oda

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W20

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: March 2020

Company: Reverie Labs

HQ: Cambridge, MA

Cohort: W18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: March 2018

Company: Alpha Vantage

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: June 2018

Company: Wireover (Inactive / Shut Down)

HQ: Cambridge, MA

Cohort: W12

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: January 2012

Company: Community Phone

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: March 2019

Company: Local Lift

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S14

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: July 2014

Company: Point API (Inactive / Shut Down)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: March 2018

Company: Apprentice Health

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: September 2018

Company: Z Imaging

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: August 2019

Company: Kiko (acquired)

HQ: Cambridge, MA

Cohort: S05

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $50k

Investment Date: August 2005

Company: Radix Labs

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S18

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: August 2018

Company: Pyxai

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W19

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $150k

Investment Date: March 2019

Company: Tsumobi (Shut Down / Inactive)

HQ: Cambridge, MA

Cohort: W07

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: N/A

Investment Date: March 2007

Company: CO2 Stats (Shut Down / Inactive)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S08

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: N/A

Investment Date: January 2008

Company: Tipjoy (Shut Down / Inactive)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W08

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: N/A

Investment Date: January 2008

Company: Bountii (Shut Down / Inactive)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S07

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: N/A

Investment Date: June 2007

Company: Zinc Save (Shut Down / Inactive)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W14

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: $120k

Investment Date: January 2014

Company: AudioBeta (Shut Down / Inactive)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: W06

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: N/A

Investment Date: January 2006

Company: TicketStumbler (Shut Down / Inactive)

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S08

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: N/A

Investment Date: August 2008

Company: Memamp

HQ: Boston

Cohort: S05

Investment Stage: Seed {YC SAFE}

Round Size: N/A

Investment Date: August 2005

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Matt Snow
Storied

Investor at Trammell Venture Partners | BCO Board Member | Bitcoin | Venture Capital | Investing | All opinions my own.