Data and analytics

BackType

BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011

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affiliations

Y Combinator

competitors

Mapped from High Signal graph features.

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D1 lookup

last updated

2026-07-15

16:41 UTC

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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #626

BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011

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High Signal interpretation

BackType is classified as Data and analytics 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.

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 BackType

Data and analytics · 3 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.

Grouper

match 25

Grouper is a social club that sets up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls (or 3 guys and 3 guys, etc.). Grouper started in New York in the summer of 2011 and now organizes Groupers in major cities across the US. Members have shared tens of thousands of drinks. The company was founded by Michael Waxman, a Yale grad and developer who formerly started language-learning company Batiq, and Tom Brown, an MIT engineer who was an early employee at MoPub (acquired by Twitter for 350MM)

shared product terms: acquir, twitter, 2011; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Pagelever

match 20

PageLever is the leading analytics platform for measuring your brand’s presence on Facebook. 4 of the top 10 Facebook pages rely on PageLever, as well as brands like YouTube, MTV, and Intel. In January 2013, PageLever was acquired by Unified Social.

shared product terms: analytic, acquir; same category: Data and analytics; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

GitPrime

match 12

Visibility and analytics for software development leaders.

shared product terms: analytic; same category: Data and analytics; shared affiliation: Y Combinator