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Easel

Easel was borne out of our frustration with the current state of design tools. Development tools have improved as the web has matured but design tools haven't. We started Easel because we want to create better design tools for the Web. Easel is a member of the Summer 2012 Y-Combinator batch and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
2
Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator
competitors
6
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #802

Easel was borne out of our frustration with the current state of design tools. Development tools have improved as the web has matured but design tools haven't. We started Easel because we want to create better design tools for the Web. Easel is a member of the Summer 2012 Y-Combinator batch and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #298
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High Signal interpretation

Easel 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.

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Product facets
webEaseldesign toolsDevelopment toolsdesign tools
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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 Easel

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.

Mocha

match 71

What if you could build web apps as easily as you make a Figma design or edit a Google Doc? Enter Mocha. We've reimagined app development with a state-of-the-art coding agent that builds for our users. Want to launch that app idea? Need to build something for your community? Looking to prototype faster? Start here. We've removed the barriers between idea and execution. Our mission is to empower everyone to build for the web, our vision is personal software.

shared extracted concepts: web; shared product terms: state, design, development, web; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Confluence Labs

match 59

While modern AI excels in any area you can collect a lot of data for, it struggles in areas where data is sparse or costly to attain. Designing new molecules, discovering new physics, and engineering new materials are all domains where collecting data is extremely costly. We dream of a world where AI accelerates research in all of these domains and creates a more abundant future for humanity, but the current technology is not there. That’s why we started Confluence Labs. We are building AI that

shared extracted concept terms: design; shared product terms: area, design, create, but; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

SoundFocus

match 57

SoundFocus is a San Francisco, CA-based startup creating the next generation of personalized mobile audio products. The company was founded by Alex Selig and Varun Srinivasan in September of 2012 with the mission of helping the world hear better. The company is a graduate of the Y Combinator summer of 2013 batch and announced their first hardware product, the Amp case, in October 2014. Investors include Kapor Capital, Y Combinator, VegasTechFund, OVO Fund, RTA Capital and August Capital Partners

shared product terms: better, summer, 2012, combinator; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Sixty

match 53

Sixty is the fastest way to get on demand web app help. Hire an expert by-the-minute to jump on a screenshare for help with your web design, development, software implementations, and more. Starting at $1/min.

shared extracted concept terms: web, design; shared product terms: design, development, web, start; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Glide

match 51

Glide is a web-based app builder that allows non-programmers to quickly create powerful and beautiful internal business apps by starting from scratch, starting with a prompt, or starting with a spreadsheet. For 30 years, app development had barely changed. When Glide launched, we brought app development out of the Dark Ages, making it web-based, collaborative, accessible, and fun. Today, the influence of AI on coding has propelled app development even further. And Glide has risen to the occasion

shared extracted concept terms: development; shared product terms: out, development, web, start; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

ElevenLabs

match 6

Other company.

shared affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz; nearby official-directory cohort