Angel Day

Y Combinator Angel Day is this Thursday. The web page about the event includes a one-liner description for each of the 12 SFP companies. I've included each description below, but added (where known) the company that the description refers to. Please comment below, or contact me, if you can fill in any of the blanks.

1. a variant of Craigslist;
   
2. a service that enables chat on third-party sites;
   
3. a dating site that reflects how dating works in the real world;
   
4. a site for remixing music;
   
5. a successor to IM for businesses;
   
6. a site where people categorize themselves by selecting images; Pairwise
   
7. a collaborative "Dear Abby" site; Pollground
   
8. software to improve the efficiency of corporate email; Xobni
   
9. a social site about fashion;
   
10. a service bridging IM, text-messaging, and email;
    
11. a shopping blog service;
    
12. and a job site for programmers

Note that number 6 is evidence that Pairwise (mentioned in the last post) is indeed a Y Combinator company.

More Y Companies Surfacing

First off, there's Pollground, a site in which users submit multiple-choice questions, and the crowd answers. As of this post, one poll on the site thinks Pollground is more likely to succeed than fail, and another says that it's the Y startup that's least likely to succeed. Oh, and of course, the site has been reddited.

An anonymous reader pointed me to a Flagr map for Y Combinator Team Headquarters. On this map are four companies you know about, but one you may not: Thinkature. There's just a stub page there now, but it promises "online collaborative thinking" and the end of "do not erase." It also, apparently, "puts the keke on the face." I don't know what that means.

I got word that Pairwise is another Y Company. This was "confirmed" on Wikipedia but has since been deleted. Take this with a grain of salt, because that same link presents Litepost as a Y Company, which it is not. Pairwise seems to run two sites, likebetter and hatemore.

Update: Pairwise is confirmed as a Y company (referred to as "LikeBetter" in the FAQ).

Mystery Abounds! The Next Y Company: Clustrix

Zak Wilson (owner of doomed startup) pointed out to me that Clustrix is the next Y Company to surface. Judging from the dates on their blog, they are probably a member of the Y Combinator Winter Founders Program. Their website is essentially empty, at least to the public. They do, however, have a help wanted page.

News of this company started on the reddit-sphere when dooka made a comment implying that Clustrix was a good company that was started by business types and not hackers. Paul Graham then responded, "Clustrix at this point is 100% hackers." Who are (or were) these business types and where'd they go?

It also seems that the first post on their blog, titled "Coming to Mountain View," which I saw last night, has vanished. This was the post that mentioned Y Combinator. (There are some pictures which were a part of the post that are still online.) I can only assume it was deleted. But why?

So what does Clustrix do? I don't know. I've dropped the company an email, but heard no response yet.

Wufoo Likely Received $100,000 in Angel Round

According to Marshall Kirkpatrick of TechCrunch, "Wufoo is funded by two angel investors and the VC firm Y Combinator. That funding added up to $118,000." I assume the $18K is from Y Combinator ($6000 times three founders). That leaves $100K from the two angels.

I brought up the possibility of Wufoo receiving funding in an earlier post.