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Which Y Combinator backed companies are still alive?

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You can see the list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator

You'll be interested in the "Status" column.

The list needs maintenance though

some people are a little trigger happy on the ol defunct switch. :-)

Can anyone confirm that TextPayMe was acquired by Amazon? I wonder if this is the YC acquisition that they still cant talk about. That would have been over a year ago..

http://textpayme.amazon.com

I suppose the URL is proof enough that Amazon acquired them. There's a note as well that points to 10/2/07 and links to http://legacy.textpayme.com.

Is it standard practice for publically traded companies to keep acquisitions secret? I know price does not need to be disclosed if it does not have any real effect on shareholders, but keeping an acquisition secret all together just doesn't seem right to me.

I think I can pretty reliably say that Fuzzwich is still chugging along

There are quite a few more alive that I personally know about, but I will leave it to them if they are interested in divulging their status.

ok looks like i got quite a few(in fact nearly all) things wrong there..

@socmoth: ya i no the list aint accurate and highly pessimistic but was just tryin to get an idea of whos around and whos not.. and some sort of data to discuss wld be better than none at all so..

Once again no offense meant to any hus very much alive and kicking.. and i see that all those under my doubtfuls list are also very much alive.. heartening to know. the updated list looks thus:

Alive: Weebly, Virtualmin, Jamglue, Scribd, Pairwise, auctomatic(blog returns error but they'r brand new so..), Bountii(again no blog but new), draftmix(no blog), fuzzwich, anywhere.fm, Xobni, i'm in like with you, Justin.tv,Versionate, Octopart, Buxfer, adpinion, Socialmoth, Heysan.

well only the follwing companies remain in the dark now: Thinkature(Dec 2006), Shoutfit(site doesnt even load!), Flagr(Dec 2006).

No1s commented on their status..

ok my criteria for whether they are alive or not is to whether they have updated their blog in the last month at the least or not..

Alive: Weebly, Virtualmin, Jamglue, Scribd, Pairwise, auctomatic(blog returns error but they'r brand new so..), Bountii(again no blog but new), draftmix(no blog), fuzzwich(no blog but new), anywhere.fm, Xobni, i'm in like with you, Justin.tv,

Dead: Thinkature(Dec 2006), Shoutfit(site doesnt even load!), Flagr(Dec 2006), Versionate(July 2007.. just 4 posts and then mysterious disappearance without a word), Octopart(oct 2007), Buxfer(oct 2007) [if u guys are still around please dont chase me down with a hacksaw or smthn..]

can't say: adpinion(in beta but if i remember right they'v been round quite long and have no blog so... no offense guys if ur workin ur asses off...), Socialmoth, Heysan(tho i think they are alive),

I think loopt might be alive too, but hanging by a thread. I remember pg saying on many occasions that loopt is yc's least successful company. Probably not worth mentioning, though. Please check sarcasm meters prior to downvoting.

This was posted yesterday:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/loopt-may-be-friending-...

They seem to be doing pretty well.

Looks like they're very well positioned to take advantage of Android.

a very small thread, but yes, i think they are alive

loopt is one of the most successful YC companies alive.

Octopart seems very much "alive". Their last blog post was a mere 3 weeks ago. They've had similar gaps in blog posts before.

Buxfer seems to be doing fine as well.

Octopart is still alive. A month ago, they went to Make Faire, and they released a parts list widget about three weeks ago. They add features quietly and on the down low.

Octopart is definitely alive. I emailed them recently and got a prompt response. I'm seeing new features on their site too... it looks really slick.

Yah, we (aka Buxfer) are alive :) Guess we need to be posting more frequently to the blog. Btw, we just announced support for synchronizing with over 300 financial institutions. http://www.buxfer.com/blog/2007/11/21/synchronize-accounts-w...

Check it out, and let us know if things are or aren't working!

my criteria for whether they are alive or not is to whether they have updated their blog in the last month

GI, GO. At least half the companies you mention as dead are still alive. But I would not want to say precisely which, because dying is not a sharply defined thing. Startups not infrequently come back from what seems to be death, and we wouldn't want to hose one that might by publicly declaring them so.

this list isn't extremely accurate. in fact i think it is overly pessimistic.

Versionate and Buxfer are definitely still around.

AdPinion, definitely still around. Heysan, was hiring recently, so definitely still around. SocialMoth, it's just Paul now, I think...but doing well as a maker of Facebook apps.

I'm glad to see that Virtualmin is immune to the "no blog post in a month==company is dead" rule. We blog very rarely, though we're trying to be better about it. ;-)

Adpinion still alive, in fact, we're testing them on some of our pages. Heysan still alive because the service works. Social moth is trying facebook stuff now I think. Luke, wherever you are, I got your back dawg.

Look at that...these guys finally got a web site:

http://tsumobi.com/

They're particularly interesting to me because what they set out to do was very similar to Hecl, my mobile phone programming language.

we're still rockin (dropbox)

and well!

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