Garry Tan is the President & CEO at Y Combinator, based in United States, North America. With a background in Financial Services, Garry Tan has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Garry Tan studied BS  Computer Systems Engineering @ Stanford University. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.

Parse offers cloud-based software developer kits that enable users to create apps for desktop, mobile, and embedded devices. Its product portfolio is comprised of Parse Core to save data in the cloud; make the app social; run custom app code in the Parse Cloud; schedule recurring tasks such as sending engagement emails, updating data, and long running computation; share data between platforms; and get a local datastore and Parse dashboard.

The company also provides Parse Push for creating, scheduling, and segmenting push notifications; and Parse Analytics to find and fix crashes, measure app usage, optimize push campaigns, track custom analytics, and measure growth analytics.

Parse is based in San Francisco, California. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of Facebook.

Parse

Comprehend provides a suite of cloud applications and consulting services that improve the clinical trial process. Their solutions deliver actionable risk and performance insights across studies, systems, sites, and vendors. 

It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Comprehend Systems

Tilt. com is a free and simple way for individuals to collect money with a group, while enterprise tools like Tilt Pro allow businesses to host, brand, and customize their own crowdfunding experience.

We all love doing things as a group. Like most experiences, it's not what you do – it's the people you do it with that really matters. So at Tilt, we’re excited to be building software that makes pooling resources with a group just a little bit easier. Since 2012, over 500,000 groups have used Tilt to turn their ideas, large and small, into reality. Our users have done a lot to make us proud, from thousands of tailgates, fantasy football leagues, and party buses, all the way to sending the Jamaican Bobsled Team to the Sochi Olympics, fundraising the construction of an entire elementary school in India, and bringing the Foo Fighters to perform in their home town.

Tilt - make something happen!

Tilt

Directr is a mobile application company that provides users with the ability to create beautiful movies on their phones in just minutes.

Directr's app will automatically edit/sync videos on your phone and make moving sharing easy for everyone.

Directr

Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family.

Socialcam

Arrive powers the last mile of mobility through smart parking solutions. It offers the only seamless mobility experience that predicts and recommends the best parking solution for any journey. Arrive powers smart parking and other connected mobility services through apps, websites, voice platforms, and in-dash integrations to hundreds of clients including smart cities, automakers, fleets, venues, navigation and voice platforms, as well as to its own ParkWhiz and BestParking consumer brands.

Arrive

Virool was acquired by Turgo in October 2017. In its history, Virool has raised over $20M from renowned investors including Y-Combinator, Draper Fisher Juvertson, Menlo Ventures, 500 Startups and Yahoo! Japan. 

More than 30,000 global advertisers used Virool platform to promote their video messages, engage their audience and elevate their brand. More than 100,000 online and mobile publisher properties have run video content from Virool via programmatic partnerships, native placements and direct integrations. Virool was trusted by some of the biggest brands in the world including Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Disney, Sony, Anheuser-Busch, Turkish Airlines, Intel, and Levi's. 

Virool was founded in 2012 and raised $6.62M in seed funding from a collection of top VC firms and angel investors. It was the biggest seed investment that any Y-Combinator graduate has ever received.

Virool

Swiftype is a provider of SaaS-based site and enterprise search platform used to fully customize the search experience on websites. The company's suite of products, Site Search and Enterprise Search, have revolutionized the way people find information across their organization and on public facing websites. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company has raised $23 million in funding, from investors including NEA and Y Combinator. Its strong customer portfolio includes AT&T, Shopify, SurveyMonkey, Dr. Pepper, publishers Engadget and TechCrunch, and brands like Qualcomm, Asana, Marketo, and Hubspot.

Swiftype

Heap automates away the annoying parts of analytics so that companies can focus on making smarter business decisions. The company's mission is to power business decisions with truth. It encourages companies to focus on discovering insights and taking action. With Heap, organizations can remove technical jams and obtain a single comprehensive view of the customers. The software automatically gathers, organizes, analyzes, and connects customer data, so businesses can create more valuable products and experiences. Heap serves over 6,000 companies in ecommerce, SaaS, fintech, retail, media, and beyond including Twilio, LendingClub, App Annie, Optimizely, Morningstar, Monotype, and Casper. 

Heap was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Heap

SendHub is the Phone System for the Mobile World. There's no hardware, setup is instant and it scales elastically with a single click. Users are given a phone number in any area code, they can use from any device: Web, iPhone, Android, Feature Phones and via our API.

Businesses can add lines for everyone on their team for free, with complete transparency and powerful analytics on every aspect of your telecommunication.

Additional Features: 
Auto Attendant, 
Call Transfer, 
Company Directory, 
Contact Sharing, 
Voicemail Transcription, 
Text Marketing & Group Texting, 
Free Internal Communication.

SendHub

In today's environment, everyone shops online, typically for convenience. The problem? Failed parcel deliveries - being able to actually receive the purchases when they are delivered.

BufferBox has developed an automated, self-serve kiosk to eliminate the frustrations and hassle involved with failed parcel deliveries. BufferBox has successfully deployed our first kiosk that allows for 24/7 pick-up of parcels at a convenient location.

The kiosk supplies the user with a unique BufferBox address to have their parcel delivered to. Upon its arrival, the user is emailed a unique, one-time-use PIN code for the kiosk to retrieve their parcel on their schedule. The BufferBox service restores the convenience of online shopping.

BufferBox

URX empowers publishers to monetize mobile content and enables advertisers to drive mobile commerce. The world's most forward-thinking companies use URX to connect users directly to relevant commerce experiences.

SpoonRocket is a next-gen, ultra fast delivery platform that delivers high quality tasty meals to customers in 15 minutes or less. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California.

The company is backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, General Catalyst, and various other angels and funds. In March 2016, the company was acquired by SpoonRocket.

SpoonRocket

Heyday’s mission is to help people remember the story of their life: the places they go, things they do, and people they’re with – privately, beautifully and effortlessly. Heyday is built around the life, for people to remember life the way they lived it. Heyday is headquartered in San Francisco.

Heyday is an automatic journal. It will automatically keep track of the places people go and the things they see, so they can remember moments big & small. Photos they take are automatically arranged into beautiful collages, which are easily customizable with exclusive layouts and filters. Using Heyday, people can instantly rediscover meaningful moments and memories from years ago. Search the story of their life by time, place, and people.

Hey! Inc.

BloomThat offers next and same day flower delivery service.

Founded in 2013 in San Francisco by friends David Bladow, Matthew Schwab and Chad Powell, the on-demand feel-good service celebrates life’s many milestones (and all the little moments in between). With products ranging from handcrafted bouquets to other curated goods starting around $32, BloomThat is a fun and easy way to brighten anyone’s day. Currently available within an hour or so in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and LA; BloomThat also offers next-day delivery throughout The U.S. 

For more information, please visit BloomThat.com, download our iOS app, or check us out on social media: instagram.com/bloomthat, twitter.com/bloomthat, facebook.com/bloomthat.

BloomThat

Kicksend is a web, mobile and desktop app that provides an easy solution for printing and sending photographs. Kicksend platform is complete with social tools, multiple payment options, one click purchasing and a robust virtual currency system. The company has partnerships with Walmart, Walgreens, Target, CVS and Duane Reade that provide local retail locations for users to pick up their printed photos.

Kicksend

Opendoor is an operator of an online real estate marketplace used to streamline the sales process of home buying and selling.

It helps sellers to receive an offer without listing or showing their home and buyers to browse for homes on sale and instantly unlock them using the company's application that enables customers to buy and sell properties in a hassle freeway. They aim to provide a hassle-free experience for both buyers and sellers, simplifying the often complex and time-consuming process of buying or selling a home.

Opendoor

Kamcord is a social media platform allowing its users to post and interact through video content.

The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Kamcord

Framed Data takes data from businesses and turns it into actionable insights and decisions. They train, optimize, and store productionized models in their cloud and provide predictions through an API, eliminating infrastructure overhead. They provide dashboards and scenario analysis tools that tell you which company levers are driving metrics you care about.

Framed Data

Digit is a finance app that analyzes your spending habits and automatically saves the perfect amount every day. The platform automates the day-to-day work of managing money so you don’t have to think about it. They help eliminate the stress and anxiety people feel about their finances while helping them build a proven foundation for the future they’re trying to achieve. 

Digit keeps your money socked away in a separate account and your savings will depend on a number of variables, including how much money you keep in your checking account and what your saving and spending pattern. Their technology combines machine learning and behavioral psychology to provide a financial assistant you can trust to work toward your goals while you spend your time and effort on what’s most meaningful in your life. It saves the amount of money every day based on your spending and income and tells you the intelligent timeline for achieving them. 

Digit was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Digit

Outbound.io is a web-based tool for non-technical marketers and product people to set up automated emails, push notifications, SMSs, or voice messages when they need their users to take an action and then test how well each message works.

The tool organizes the messages its users send around the actions their customers take.

Outbound.io was launched on April 23, 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Outbound.io

VaycayHero is a safest and easiest way to rent vacation homes. 

VaycayHero, previously known as Zaranga, was launched in order to take the hassle out of booking vacations rentals without having to worry about the kinds of things Amitav and Anirban experienced while trying to simply go on a great vacation. Their rentals are 100% accurate and verified by professionals with automatically updated calendars and pricing. You will only find top-notch professionally managed vacation rentals on VaycayHero. Search and book online hassle-free, or chat with our booking concierge if you need some help.

VaycayHero

Garry Tan

San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
Apr 11, 2024	Ellipsis	Seed Round - Ellipsis	2.0M
Apr 23, 2024	Perplexity AI	Venture Round - Perplexity AI	62.7M
May 07, 2024	Rainmaker Technology	Seed Round - Rainmaker Technology	6.3M
Jun 06, 2024	bem	Seed Round - bem	3.7M

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Investor Name	Money Raised
Apr 03, 2024	Precip	Pre Seed Round - Precip	Y Combinator	500.0K
Apr 03, 2024	Maia	Pre Seed Round - Maia	Y Combinator	500.0K
Jul 23, 2024	Powder	Seed Round - Powder	Y Combinator	5.0M
Aug 27, 2024	-	Pre Seed Round - ProhostAI	Y Combinator	1.5M

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Garry Tan has made 73 investments. Their Latest investment was Seed Round - bem on Jun 06, 2024

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