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Gaming and media

Mayhem

Acquired by Niantic in 2020. Automatic game tracking, real-time leaderboards, and global chat built into every community event.

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Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
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Y Combinator
competitors
6
Mapped from High Signal graph features.
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D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
source evidence
Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3960

Acquired by Niantic in 2020. Automatic game tracking, real-time leaderboards, and global chat built into every community event.

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High Signal interpretation

Mayhem is classified as Gaming and media 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
real-time leaderboardsglobal chatAutomatic game tracking
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 Mayhem

Gaming and media · 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.

Mixr

match 56

Mixr is a social platform for remote and hybrid teams; we host virtual game tournaments and an ongoing office competition. Mixr tournaments have built-in audio/video chat, a library of fun games, ice breakers, and automatic breakout rooms - all built with the goal of being easy for managers and employees to use. By participating in tournaments, players earn high scores and trophies which places them on the company-wide leaderboards. Our goal is to bring companies together, boost employee engagem

shared extracted concept terms: chat, game; shared product terms: automatic, game, leaderboard, chat; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

LitHit

match 55

LitHit creates smart shooting targets that light up on impact. Their devices connect to your smartphone and helps improve your skills with real-time analytics and games.

shared extracted concept terms: real, time, game; shared product terms: real, time, game; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Light Table/Eve

match 55

Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.

shared extracted concept terms: game, real, time; shared product terms: game, real, time; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

AutoPulse

match 54

AI-enabled platform for real-time vehicle health tracking, maintenance forecasting, and customer service tools

shared extracted concept terms: real, time, track; shared product terms: real, time, track

Gamebytes

match 40

Chat game universe

shared extracted concept terms: chat, game; shared product terms: chat, game; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Mind Emulation Foundation

match 6

Other company.

shared affiliation: Y Combinator; shared cohort: Winter 2018