Who Are This Year's Y Combinator Winners?
Team SAI may have been the only people on the East Coast who weren't at the Y Combinator Demo Day in Cambridge yesterday. Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson flew in from San Francisco, and met up with frequent co-investor Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital; so did Betaworks' Andy Weissman and a gaggle of other potential investors in Paul Graham's proteges. Who else went? Pretty much everyone, Xconomy reports:
The house was full—I spotted four folks from General Catalyst, including managing directors David Orfao and Joel Cutler; Akamai co-founder Jonathan Seelig, now a managing director of Globespan Capital Partners; Venrock’s David Beisel; Jo Tango of Kepha Partners; Don Dodge of Microsoft; and some 80-plus representatives from Google, Walt Disney, and a host of other firms.
Leigh Zarelli was there from New York: she said her firm, Walt Disney, was stepping up its early-stage acquisitions. My favorite out-of-town tale came from Stephanie Robesky of London-based Atomico (founded by some of the Skype and Kazaa founders), who told me that she only discovered yesterday that the event was in Cambridge, MA, and not Cambridge, England. That sent her scurrying for a last-minute airplane ticket.
We also have a roster of yesterday's 21 presenters, courtesy of TechCrunch. What we don't know: Who stood out, for better or for worse? We talked to one cranky attendee who told us he was unimpressed with the entire lineup. But surely someone was worth talking about there, right? Sound off in comments, or ping us using our anonymous tip box.




It's a rare skill to be able to judge startups at 10 weeks. I know because I've spent the last 3 years trying to acquire it. Most people who attempt to perform this feat are, like the cranky attendee (and 200 TechCrunch trolls), doomed by not even realizing they lack this skill. But the fact is, most people who'd seen Google at 10 weeks would have thought they were lame too.
There are few events like this in our industry. The focus on products, the drive for innovation matched with raw smarts and passion is always worth the time. I think I have gone to practically all of them and -- always some stars that come out, trick is picking them out. But that's my job.
This year I liked TicketStumbler,Job Alchemist, and Frog Metrics. There are several others that are in stealth mode that I can't talk about yet.
Next week I will be at TechStars, another startup incubator styled on the Ycombinator model. TechStars had an exit out of last years batch. SocialThing was acquired by AOL.
Startup incubators are a very different model for tech investing. Most VCs don't see companies this early. Some get it...and some don't.
You should go. Presentations are great - very pithy, and no b.s. "market size" slides like you see with most PowerPoint pitches.
My favorites were Picwing (WiFi-connected digital photo frames with simple software interface for content delivery), CO2Stats (helping Web sites assuage their guilt by neutralizing their carbon footprint), and Posterous (making it super-easy to maintain a blog.)
I posted some video of several of the demos here.
I think this was the best batch yet.
Thanks for the kind words all.
Dan
Cofounder
TicketStumbler
SAI, thanks for supporting them!
My favorites were FrogMetrics (YC's first non-consumer startup?), TicketStumbler (simple concept well executed), and MeetCast (also solving a real problem). Impressive products from such young companies.
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