Caviar Alternatives

Embark is a mobile application designed to make it easy to get around cities using mass transit. Among other features, the iOS and Android application tells users when trains and busses are coming and will send push notifications when services are delayed. With over half a million users and rapid growth, Embark's simple and powerful mobile application is designed to bring urban transportation into the age of the smartphone. Embark is available for twelve major transportation systems in the US and the UK and is expanding rapidly. Embark won best transit and mobility app awards from the New York MTA App Quest and NYC Big Apps 3.0 contests.

FOBO is a local marketplace for selling consumer electronics. FOBO offers users a new way to sell goods via mobile app. It gets rid of all the hassle that is usually associated with local marketplaces and makes it ultra-simple and ultra-fast to do so. The app guarantees sellers will get a certain price for their devices and will be paid upfront, and ensures that their product is sold fast — within 97 minutes.

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Aisle50

Consumer Apps

Aisle50 came out of the summer 2011 class at Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator. Aisle50 builds CPG and retailer campaigns aimed to get both banner and brand incremental shoppers, bigger share and valuable brand messaging to consumers. Our product has a two-year track record of producing baskets that are 30% larger for our retailers. We also give our retailer partners incremental trips that, in the past, they would have lost to competitors. Aisle50 content, because much of it is in the form of offers that are paid for through Web or Mobile, compel the consumer to head to the store sooner rather than later. Everybody wins: We drive trips to stores, new customers to CPGs and big discounts to consumers.

Picplum is a photo printing service that is the perfect addition to any family with young children. We know parents are too busy to organize their photos, let alone to find the time to print and share them. That's where Picplum comes in - it's the hassle-free way to share your best moments with friends and family.

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Shopular

Consumer Apps

Shopular is changing the way people use their mobile phones to shop. Available on iPhone and Android, the innovative mobile app notifies users of personalized sales and coupons when they are near a store or mall. Shopular is the highest rated app in its category and ranked by Time Magazine among the 50 best iPhone apps of 2013. Shopular is founded by engineers from Google, Shopkick and Loopt . We are backed by Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator and headquartered in downtown Redwood City, minutes from Cal Train.

Carsabi is a SaaS solution focused on Automotive. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, Carsabi offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

YourMechanic was founded in 2012 and is the first nationwide provider of mobile mechanics to car owners. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, YourMechanic is funded by SoftBank Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Ashton Kutcher, Data Point Capital, and others. We are on a mission to build the most convenient and trusted car repair service. Total trust comes from total transparency. YourMechanic is transforming the auto repair industry by delivering car care to car owners at their home or office in the top 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Mobile mechanics provide over 600 repair, maintenance, and diagnostic services at a fair and transparent price. By connecting mechanics directly with car owners in need of repair services, we are empowering these hard-working mechanics to control their quality of life. They are able to choose when they want to work (including evenings and weekends), and the type of cars and services they want to work on. The company has earned recognition from top organizations, and has won TechCrunch Disrupt SF (2012), Women in Auto Care's Best Business-to-Consumer Website (2016), and Automobility LA’s Top Ten Automotive Startup (2016). YourMechanic holds an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and maintains an average Yelp rating of 4.8 stars. In 2017, YourMechanic released a full suite of business-to-business products that offer innovative solutions to business partners at every point in the aftermarket car care lifecycle. Learn more at https://www.yourmechanic.com/

Ark.com is a search engine for people. With Ark, you can search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and even your friends. With over a billion social network profiles indexed, and using a modern architecture, Ark provided the most comprehensive people search engine in the world. Prior to founding Ark, our team has experience at Google, AOL, Symantec, Lithium, Yahoo! Research and Y-Combinator.

Flutter is recreating the magic of seeing someone in real-life for the first time, on your phone. Flutter lets you record short, ephemeral videos to express yourself and capture the attention of potential matches nearby. Users browse through nearby videos and, just like Tinder, like or pass on each one before moving on to the next. Here’s the catch: to actually match with someone, you have to be on the app at the same time and look into each other’s eyes for 15 seconds to see if there’s a spark. We help users play this game by sending push notifications when people they like are online. Video is so powerful. We've seen this with YouTube, Snapchat, Meerkat. And 15 seconds of live, two-way video can tell you so much more about a person than hand-picked photos and bios.

99dresses allows women all across the U.S. to buy, sell & trade fashion with thousands of shopaholics. Nikki Durkin, the founder of 99dresses, was sick of spending so much money on new clothes only to get bored with them a week later and rarely ever wear them again. She started 99dresses in her home country of Australia as a way for thousands of Aussie girls to conveniently trade fashion with each other online. Now based in NYC and working with a fantastic team (Marcin, Chandra, Oguz & Clare), she is bringing 99dresses to women across the USA. Get the iOS app: http://bit.ly/1fWeoRG

Kyte is an easy parental control application that can be downloaded to any Android phone, activated, and then given to a child. This app allows the child to make pre-approved phone calls and play only authorized games. The child will be unable to leave the app to access the rest of the Android phone’s features. Parents have full control over the applications from the browser and can also track the phone’s GPS online. It has other features that enable parents to turn off SMS and Facebook during school hours, ban apps and games during school and bed time hours, monitor internet usage, prevent the usage of third party browsers, set time limits on games, check call history, track location in real-time, receive email reports about what their child has been doing, and full remote control from their phone, tablet or PC.

LVL6 creates social mobile games on Android and iOS.

Grouper is a social club that sets up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls (or 3 guys and 3 guys, etc.). Grouper started in New York in the summer of 2011 and now organizes Groupers in major cities across the US. Members have shared tens of thousands of drinks. The company was founded by Michael Waxman, a Yale grad and developer who formerly started language-learning company Batiq, and Tom Brown, an MIT engineer who was an early employee at MoPub (acquired by Twitter for 350MM). The founding team also includes Challen Hodson and Kristen Badal. Grouper was funded by Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 batch.

Exec is a house cleaning service that users can book from their iPhone or the web in real-time.

Turn your smart phone into the ultimate push to talk walkie-talkie with TiKL. App available in Android Market and iPhone App Store. Its free.

Shoptiques.com brings boutique shopping online. On Shoptiques.com, you will experience personalized shopping with the most unique and fashion-forward inventory from the best local boutiques. This means no more searching through hundreds of sites and walking down random streets in hopes of finding the perfect item! It’s now easy to discover your favorite local boutiques and shop new looks in one place.

Zipio is a SaaS solution focused on Marketplace. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, Zipio offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

Simple to set up, on demand game servers. Minefold runs game servers for popular games such as Minecraft and Team Fortress 2. Servers can be created and running in under 30 seconds and players pay by the hour.

FamilyLeaf is a private place to share your life with your family. You create a private page where your family can easily share photos, share life updates, store contact information, and post messages. Our mission is to bring families around the world closer together. Family is the most irreplaceable but overlooked social network; we want to help you share the little things that build a lifetime of love!