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# 99dresses

99dresses allows women all across the U.S. to buy, sell & trade fashion with thousands of shopaholics. Nikki Durkin, the founder of 99dresses, was sick of spending so much money on new clothes only to get bored with them a week later and rarely ever wear them again. She started 99dresses in her home country of Australia as a way for thousands of Aussie girls to conveniently trade fashion with each other online. Now based in NYC and working with a fantastic team (Marcin, Chandra, Oguz & Clare), s

sources

2

Evidence entries preserved.

affiliations

2

Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

competitors

6

Mapped from High Signal graph features.

status

generated

artifact cache

last updated

2026-07-15

17:19 UTC

source evidence

Why this company exists here

## Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3363

[official source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/99dresses)

## Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #8

[official source](https://a16z.com/investment-list/)

generated read

High Signal interpretation

99dresses is classified as **Other** from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction

Product facets

99dressesshopaholics

mapping method

Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

## Companies similar to 99dresses

Other · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

[### OctiFi match 41We empower commerce with instant 0% interest loans for responsible spenders. Consumers can now renovate their dream homes or buy furniture online with an extended budget and pay later at no extra cost.shared product terms: buy, later, home, online; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/octifi)[### Beglaubigt.de match 33Beglaubigt.de is building the digital back-office for European founders. Our German brand Beglaubigt.de is the market-leading platform for digital company formations and notarizations - reducing GmbH incorporations from 6–8 weeks to as little as 3 days. Through Germany's first fully automated incorporation API, we power the formation flows of partners like Qonto, Holvi, and Sevdesk. We're now expanding the stack into ongoing business operations: registered addresses, trade registrations, bookkeeshared product terms: trade, founder, week, now; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/beglaubigt-de)[### Kirkland North match 33Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The game, called Turf, pits sections of campuses against each other in a virtual battle for university-wide domination. The founders are currently rolling out individual versions of their online game as a service for institutions including Stanford and Harvard.shared product terms: other, country, founder, online; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/kirkland-north)[### Meter Feeder match 25Did you know that if your car is eligible for booting and towing in NYC, all of your registered vehicles are eligible? Now imagine you have thousands of vehicles in thousands of cities. We make sure that your vehicles are compliant.shared product terms: nyc, now, thousand; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/meter-feeder)[### TRED match 16Sell your car quickly for more moneyshared product terms: sell, money](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/tred)[### Addi match 6Other company.shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz; nearby official-directory cohort](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/addi)

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