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YC W08 companies (Winter 2008)

All 21 companies in Y Combinator's Winter 2008 batch, with team size, growth, open roles and funding.

Updated weekly, last on November 9, 2026. Roster from Y Combinator's public directory.

Companies
21
Active
2
Hiring, last 60 days
0
Open roles, 60 days
0
People on these teams
233
Showing 21 of 21 companies
CompanyTeam6 mo12 moOpen rolesTotal raisedLast round
Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud.
136−8%−14%0$13MSeries B$10M, May 2010
We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games
86+8%+9%0SeedMar 2008
Take Back Control of your Time
8−11%−11%0$920KSeries A$900K, Sep 2008
Better PhoneGap.
2  0$1.5MSeed$1M, Jan 2012
Simple third-party app patching and deployment for Windows.
1  0SeedNov 2008
Pioneers of mobile social gaming.
  
  
  0SeedJan 2009
Edit and enhance online video. Acquired by Google in July 2008.
  
  
  0SeedJan 2008
  
Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). Launched as part…
  
social micropayments
  
  
  
  0SeedJan 2008
  
  
  
  

How this works

1. The roster

Every launched company in YC's public directory, with its batch, status, industry and location. New companies show up the week YC lists them.

2. The numbers

Each company is matched to Crustdata by its website. Crustdata adds team size and its change over 6 and 12 months, open roles from job postings, reported funding, and founders' past employers.

3. The lists

Hiring the most counts distinct roles posted in the last 60 days. Growth needs 10+ people today, shrinking 20+ a year ago, so tiny teams do not top the lists. Rebuilt every week.

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The numbers on this page come from three Crustdata API calls. Crustdata tags 5,000+ companies with Y Combinator as an investor; swap the filter for any investor, industry or headcount range and track your own list, with founders' work emails one call away.

  • Company search for team size, growth and funding
  • Job search with a count by company, for who is hiring and for what
  • A watch that re-runs the search weekly and sends only what changed
# 1. every company with Y Combinator as an investor
curl https://api.crustdata.com/company/search \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $CRUSTDATA_API_KEY" \
  -H "x-api-version: 2025-11-01" \
  -d '{
    "filters": { "field": "funding.investors",
                 "type": "in", "value": ["Y Combinator"] },
    "fields": ["basic_info.name",
      "headcount.total", "headcount.growth_percent",
      "funding.total_investment_usd"],
    "limit": 100
  }'

# 2. open listings per company, last 60 days (limit 0 = counts only)
curl https://api.crustdata.com/job/search \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $CRUSTDATA_API_KEY" \
  -H "x-api-version: 2025-11-01" \
  -d '{
  "filters": { "op": "and", "conditions": [
    { "field": "company.basic_info.company_id",
      "type": "in", "value": [...] },
    { "field": "metadata.date_added",
      "type": "=>", "value": "2026-08-24" } ]},
  "limit": 0,
  "aggregations": [{ "type": "group_by",
    "field": "company.basic_info.company_id", "agg": "count" }]
}'

# 3. the same company filter as a weekly watch: POST /watch/company/search

Questions about YC W08 companies

How many YC W08 companies are there?

21 companies were in Y Combinator's Winter 2008 batch (W08); 2 are active.

Which YC W08 companies are hiring?

We found no job postings for these companies in the last 60 days.

Which YC W08 companies are growing fastest?

None of these companies has enough team history yet to rank.

Which YC W08 companies raised the most?

No reported rounds after their YC batch in the last 12 months.

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