Locu

Helping Local Businesses Thrive
Locu, founded by a group of MIT graduates, is building software to help local businesses thrive. $10bn are lost each year due to bad or missing local data. More than 40,000 merchants already use Locu to get found and keep their information, such as specials, opening ...

Instacart

Groceries and home essentials delivered from local stores in 1 hour.
Instacart (YC S12) is building the best way for people everywhere in the world to shop for groceries. Using your phone or the web, you can order groceries and have them delivered to your door in minutes. You can choose from a variety of local stores including Whole ...

Bento

Delicious Asian food delivered in minutes.
We believe that you should not have to choose between eating healthy and conveniently. Bento delivers delicious Asian food in minutes in San Francisco. Using our app, customers start building their Bento by choosing a main dish. We have three options, that ...

Yelp

Connecting people with great local businesses
This year we're focused on three things: Amazing features specifically for the creators of Yelp's unmatched local review content - namely our incredible community. International expansion - bringing Yelp to the world. Closing the loop with local businesses ...

Tawkify

Tawkify brings the personalization of matchmaking to the masses.
Tawkify brings the personalization of matchmaking to the masses. We believe dating doesn't have to suck. The options out there now, ranging from free online dating sites to pricey traditional matchmaking firms, don't properly address the needs of the market at ...

UpOut

Netflix for Real World Entertainment
UpOut is the Netflix for real world entertainment. For a $20 monthly subscription, members choose two experiences each month and we send a pair of complimentary digital tickets to them at no additional charge. Since launch, we've sent over 20,000 tickets to our ...

SpoonRocket

Most Convenient Meal Ever
Imagine a world where you can get delicious food anywhere, anytime, any place almost instantly. SpoonRocket has figured out the magic in delivering delicious meals in 10 minutes, and they're aiming to change the way people think about food. ___________ The YCombinator-backed ...

Sprig

Eat Well
Sprig is changing the nature of food delivery. With just three taps on your smartphone, you can get dinner delivered in an average of 15 minutes. We provide meals that are not just fast, convenient and affordable but also delicious and healthy. The entire experience ...

Exec

Exec will get anything you want done right now for $25 / hour
We find the best Exec in your area to do your job within 10 minutes. No complex selection process or scheduling required. You get help right when you want it from one of our screened, professional Execs. We've only hired people we'd want as our own assistants.

Path

Personal Networking
Path brings people closer together. Guided by the belief that mobile technology will fundamentally change the cultural, social, and economic landscape, Path focuses on simplicity, quality, and privacy to reinvent how you interact with the people, places, and things ...

Splash

Pinterest for activities
Splash is a fun way to find and organize experiences by following what people are doing locally. It’s like an adventure guide curated by your friends and local experts. Our mission is to help people discover hidden gems by giving them a snapshot of meaningful ...

Momunt

Your window to the world.
See the photos the world is sharing around you in real-time. Snap your own photos to add to the momunt, or search through the momunt to create a personalized collection to save or share. Momunts are collections of photos shared around a location and include images ...

Scoot Networks

Electric Vehicles for Everyone
Using Scoot you can make 30 MPH, one-way trips between any Scoot location in the city, riding an electric motorscooter you activate with your own smartphone. No motorcycle license needed. Rides start at $2. As fast as a taxi and as affordable as the bus, Scoot ...

Good Eggs

Farm-to-fridge groceries, delivered.
bites.goodeggs.com Good Eggs brings the best food from local farmers and foodmakers right to your door. You shop for exactly what you want and we deliver it all–for free! We’re like a grocery store, but with better food, less hassle and more heart. We’re creating ...

Treatful

acquired by OpenTable
Treatful is about sending personalized and thoughtful restaurant experiences to friends & family. In addition, Treatful.com: • Enables users to personalize, purchase, and instantly send restaurant e-gifts to recipients • Identifies and suggests gift giving events ...

Locality

Kayak for local services.
Locality is creating the world’s most comprehensive and transparent local marketplace. We provide accurate and comprehensive prices, hours, and ratings for local service businesses on web and mobile web, allowing consumers to comparison shop for the best values ...

Thumbtack

Accomplish your personal projects
Thumbtack helps you accomplish the personal projects that are central to your life. Whether you need to paint your home, learn a new language, or plan your daughter's birthday party, Thumbtack is the easiest and most dependable way to hire the right professional ...

Density

Measuring the Heartbeat of a City
Density measures foot traffic to and from local merchants. We use this data to predict a venue's future "busyness." Patrons get to see (in real-time) how busy their favorite coffee shop, gym, or restaurant is. Density will even notify you when the line gets quiet ...

MyTime

Find and book open appointments for nearby local businesses. Book and pay with 1-click.
MyTime is an online destination that lets you book the appointments you want for the time you want, while saving you money in the process. Currently available nationwide with over 2 million businesses, MyTime makes it simple and convenient to find and book appointments ...

Foodspotting (Part of OpenTable)

Find & share great dishes, not just restaurants
Foodspotting is the leading app for finding and rating dishes, not just restaurants. With this visual guide to good food and where to find it, you can find whatever you’re craving, see what’s good at any restaurant and learn what foodspotters, friends and experts ...

LocBox

Revenue and Foot Traffic for Local Businesses
LocBox helps local businesses drive trackable revenue and foot traffic with campaigns that run across Email, Facebook, Facebook Ads, Google AdWords, Twitter, Google+ and Yelp - from one universal dashboard.  Our product is used by hundreds of SMBs and produces ...

Chewse

Feeding entire offices with 1 click
There are now over 700,000 US companies who feed their workforce — a $20 billion market with no modern solution. Chewse is SaaS for Corporate Meals. We plan and deliver meals to the office from local restaurants in one instant and online experience. Our first ...

Loku

Personalized local search
Loku.com was acquired by Groupon in July of 2013. Excited for the next phase of our journey! --- As featured in WSJ, Techcrunch, CNET, FastCompany, VB, GigaOm and more... Loku makes it fun to get out and explore your city. We do this by providing personalized ...

Worldly Developments

Skillslate

Describe what you want. Great people bid. You choose your favorite.

Smart Gardener

Simply grow great food
Smart Gardener is the first technology-enabled platform for the local home and community-based DIY food movement. We provide innovative tools, goods and services, both online and direct, to enable families and communities to easily grow and share healthy fresh ...

Share Some Style

Uber for personal styling
We help men and women look great and feel more confident. There's no one place to become more confident in your personal style. Magazines aren't personalized. Sales associates are too pushy. Friends don't have the expertise. Traditional stylists are too expensive. And ...

SPOTS

Your local sports community.
SPOTS is the fun, easy way to play sports you love with people nearby. 1. SPOTS shows you people nearby who are looking to play your sports e.g. tennis, basketball, soccer, rock climbing, ping pong, volleyball, squash, billiards and over 140 more... 2. Connect ...

Assist

Message instantly with a friendly local.
Instantly message a local expert. Discover where to go, where to eat, where to drink, what to see. Live like a local. iPhone and Android beta launching in SF soon, join the waitlist to get in first.

ChefsFeed

ChefsFeed is a mobile-first food media and technology platform
ChefsFeed, headquartered in San Francisco, is a mission-driven food media and technology platform, with authoritative and original perspectives on food and urban lifestyle, award-winning consumer products, and publishing technologies serving the food and restaurant ...

Blockboard

Blockboard is building the neighbor graph.
Blockboard lets you connect with your neighbors without having to be friends. There is huge social and economic potential locked inside of local communities, but most people don't know their neighbors. We are unlocking this potential. Our first product is an iPhone ...

Frederick

Fully automated marketing for local services, powered by big data.
Frederick is the fully automated marketing genius for the $600B local services market, powered by big data. Frederick helps local service businesses fill empty slots in their schedule with fully automated, data-driven marketing. Frederick taps into data inside ...

Comendi

Recommendation sharing & discovery.
Comendi allows users to ask for and share local recommendations, on mobile and the web. Making recommendations is as easy as 'liking' on Facebook, and traditional reviews are replaced by tweet-length recommendations. All content is structured for search. Over ...

inthis

Hang out in real life, and keep in touch without a hassle.
inthis is a platform for building community around what you do with others. Keeping in touch is hard and following up with people can be awkward, especially when the context of why we are connected to someone in the first place is lost amid the noise and unruly ...

SeatMe

Restaurant management software, online reservations & ticketing
Acquired by Yelp in July 2013. SeatMe is a complete restaurant management system and online reservation system. SeatMe's offering includes iPad software to manage their guests, floor, servers, free/paid reservations, waitlists as well as a guest-focused restaurant ...

GemShare

The Best Local Services - recommended by friends
GemShare -- the easiest, most trustworthy and convenient way to find the services you need for daily life. No anonymous reviews, just the best recommendations from the people you know and trust. “Finding a place to get a decent burrito is one thing. finding a ...

CareLuLu

Online Marketplace for Daycare & Preschool
CareLuLu finds the best daycare for you! CareLuLu is a marketplace that connects parents with licensed daycares or preschools that fits their family's specific needs. With CareLuLu, parents avoid the hassle of spending hours searching Google or driving around ...

LocalOn

Marketing on the Go
LocalOn is a marketing on the go app for SMBs. We're a profitable Y-Combinator company and tout stellar growth in the large, under-penetrated SMB market because we've figured out how to reach and sell to SMBs through a source they already trust. www.localon.com

perfecthitch

Find and compare services for your big event.
PerfectHitch is an online marketplace for event services such as catering, venues, or photography. Finding quality service providers for your event is hard. PerfectHitch allows individuals to directly place service requests on the site and automatically receive ...

Weotta

Natural language based local search engine
Weotta is “the search engine for stuff to do." Used in 1000's of U.S. cities weekly, it's capable of quickly answering difficult questions like, What’s happening this weekend? What restaurants do my friends like in Portland? What can we do with the kids that’s ...

BuildZoom

Hire a great general contractor for any project
BuildZoom is the intelligent marketplace for remodeling and construction services. The company simplifies the process of selecting a home improvement contractor and improving the outcomes of remodeling and construction projects. There are several ways for a property ...

Mosey

Discover, create and share the perfect 4 hours.
“Mosey lets you create and share custom itineraries for a specific destination—you can find plenty of great things to see and do, and share your own tips with the site’s community.” —Yves Béhar in Travel + Leisure Mosey is an ecosystem of user-generated micro-guides. ...

SWIG!

Beer & Liquor Shelf Stocking for SMBs
SWIG! is a crowdsourced alcohol delivery service. We offer curated party & gift boxes like "The Funemployment Special" and "The Tijuana Weekend Bender." SWIG! shoppers assemble each box on the fly, leveraging unique local inventory data, exclusive vendor relationships ...

Outgoing.me

Meet new people through experiences in your city.
Outgoing.me helps people meet new friends through group experiences, while providing local businesses a reliable sales and marketing channel to an active community of non-deal seekers. By providing people a medium to connect offline, we are disrupting the markets ...

Zenlist

Google AdSense for classifieds
Zenlist is like Google ads for classifieds: It lets anyone with a website or blog quickly and easily publish relevant "Zenlistings", and generate revenue. Publishers can add Zenlistings in IAB-standard banner ad sizes and/or as a standalone classified ads section. ...

FOBO

The fastest, easiest way to sell your electronics
"FOBO Launches In San Francisco To Become The Fastest, Easiest Way To Sell Your Consumer Electronics" - TechCrunch