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This spreadsheet was created to track both seed accelerators and the companies they have accepted/funded. (A separate tab
While I've tried to make this exhaustive, there are most certainly some errors. If jed.christiansen@gmail.com
My full thesis on seed accelerator programs can be found here -->>>> http://bit.ly/PuRFj
A follow-up post on this can be found here -->>>> http://goo.gl/f0yr9
While I have included an estimated acquisition price for those companies that
have exited, the estimation is mine and mine alone. (If you have better
information, please let me know!)
I've recently added a column to indicate how much funding a company has received, and from whom. These are only listed wh
d/funded. (A separate tab for each accelerator.)
. These are only listed where the company founders have told me the information directly. (ie, not from Techcrunch posts or Crunchbase lis
chcrunch posts or Crunchbase listings). If a company doesn't have funding listed, it's only because they haven't told me anything about the
haven't told me anything about their funding. Which is fair enough, really...
This spreadsheet is now deprecated. Please visit Seed-DB (http:/
to see data for Program
Y Combinator
Months since and 100+ other seed accelerators wo
Company Dead? Exit? Website
Reddit Cohort
06-01-05 program start
166 Y http://reddit.com
Infogami 06-01-05 166 Y Y
Kiko 06-01-05 166 Y Y
Loopt 06-01-05 166 Y http://loopt.com
ClickFacts 06-01-05 166 http://clickfacts.com
Firecrawl 06-01-05 166 Y Y http://textpayme.com
Simmery 06-01-05 166 Y
Memamp 06-01-05 166 Y
Flagr 01-01-06 159 Y
Wufoo 01-01-06 159 Y http://wufoo.com
YouOS 01-01-06 159 Y http://youos.com
InklingMarkets 01-01-06 159 http://inklingmarkets.com
Snipshot 01-01-06 159 http://snipshot.com
AudioBeta 01-01-06 159
Clustrix 01-01-06 159 http://clustrix.com
PollGround 06-01-06 154 Y
LikeBetter 06-01-06 154 Y http://likebetter.com
Thinkature 06-01-06 154 Y http://thinkature.com
JamGlue 06-01-06 154 Y http://jamglue.com
Shoutfit 06-01-06 154 Y
Scribd 06-01-06 154 http://scribd.com
Xobni 06-01-06 154 http://xobni.com
JumpChat 06-01-06 154 Y http://jumpchat.com/
Talkito 06-01-06 154 Y http://talkito.com/
OMGPOP 06-01-06 154 Y http://omgpop.com
Parakey 01-01-07 147 Y http://parakey.com
Weebly 01-01-07 147 http://weebly.com
VirtualMin 01-01-07 147 http://virtualmin.com
Buxfer 01-01-07 147 http://buxfer.com
Octopart 01-01-07 147 http://octopart.com
Heysan 01-01-07 147 Y http://heysan.com
SocialMoth 01-01-07 147 Y
Auctomatic 01-01-07 147 Y http://auctomatic.com
Tsumobi 01-01-07 147
$35,000,000
Pivoted to Project Wedding, which was acquired $4,000,000
$4,000,000
$5,000,000
networks.com/
$4,000,000
Founded 10/07, founders from Kiko 6/05
ZumoDrive, acquired by Motorola Mobility $25,000,000
fauxto
$1,000,000
Acquired by FinancialContent $8,000,000
"Pivoted" to Trigger
$212,000,000
Secure by Design
Acquired by Posterous
Meetcast
JustSpotted
Treehouse app
MindMobs
Acquired by Facebook $5,000,000
Aweditorium on iPad
NOT confirmed
hexagram 49
$15,000,000
Tweetbracket, 140fire.com
$600,000
OwnLocal
Delight.io
InboxQ
SimpleNote
$5,000,000
InPulse, http://getinpulse.com
Acquired by Salesforce $2,000,000
Pivoted to Firebase
Renamed to CloudFuji
Pivoted to UserFox
Funding notes
$125k from Y Combinator, Paul Buchheit, and Sanjeev Singh / ACQUIRED by Google
8 startups initially funded