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# Crowdery

Crowdery is an online platform, allowing its users to vote on their favorite product design out of a set. It then builds its users a personalized marketplace of their top picks, and top products are opened for them to pre-order at a discount. Crowdery was launched in 2013 by Maran Nelson and Aditya Viswanathan. It is based in Mountain View, C.A.

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 #899

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

## Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #230

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

generated read

High Signal interpretation

Crowdery is classified as **E-commerce** 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

top productsusers

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 Crowdery

E-commerce · 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.

[### GolferX match 24GolferX provides personalized recommendations using AI to take the guesswork out of buying sports equipment online.shared product terms: personaliz, out, online](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/golferx)[### CountertopSmart match 19CountertopSmart is an online marketplace for purchasing ''partial slabs'', or ''countertop remnants''.shared product terms: online, marketplace; same category: E-commerce](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/countertopsmart)[### Ranku match 19Online degree marketplaceshared product terms: online, marketplace; same category: E-commerce](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/ranku)[### Taylor & Hart match 19Award-winning online retailer of custom designed engagement ringsshared product terms: online, design; same category: E-commerce](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/taylor-and-hart)[### FanHero match 10Other company.shared affiliation: Y Combinator; shared cohort: Summer 2013; nearby official-directory cohort](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/fanhero)[### Current match 6Other company.shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz; nearby official-directory cohort](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/current)

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