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Polly

Polly is a fun social polling app for teens. The app allows users to create multiple-choice polls for sharing on Snapchat and other platforms. Polly launched in stealth in August and it quickly became popular among teens, with 20 million people voting over 100 million times across 5 million polls in the past month. In addition to being a casual social tool, Polly can also be used to gather opinions about popular brands. For instance, Polly received thousands of responses from teens on some of it

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Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
2
Techstars, Y Combinator
competitors
6
Mapped from High Signal graph features.
status
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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 #1283

Polly is a fun social polling app for teens. The app allows users to create multiple-choice polls for sharing on Snapchat and other platforms. Polly launched in stealth in August and it quickly became popular among teens, with 20 million people voting over 100 million times across 5 million polls in the past month. In addition to being a casual social tool, Polly can also be used to gather opinions about popular brands. For instance, Polly received thousands of responses from teens on some of it

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Techstars

techstars-portfolio #488

Survey Software built for Slack. Polly is on a mission to make it easy for teams to measure their work.

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High Signal interpretation

Polly is classified as HR and talent 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
Pollyteensuserspopular brandsSurvey Software
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 Polly

HR and talent · 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.

Presti AI

match 57

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shared product terms: create, multiple, other, million; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Wildfire

match 52

We started Wildfire during our senior year at UC Berkeley as a safety alert app for colleges. Wildfire quickly grew beyond a campus safety tool to a social news app, which empowered people to spread the word quickly to their community when something significant happened nearby. Over six years, we've sent 65 million alerts to nearly 1 million users.

shared product terms: social, app, quickly, million; same category: HR and talent; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

No Logo

match 51

No Logo is building the orchestration layer for creating viral consumer products. The manufacturing world is full of capable, underutilized overseas factories with the machines, tooling, and engineers to build winning products – but no way to connect them to the creators and brands with the ideas and distribution. As a result, bringing a new product to market has traditionally taken 6-12 months, tens of thousands of dollars, and a team of 20-30 people. No Logo collapses that. Using generative AI

shared extracted concept terms: brand; shared product terms: brand, month, thousand, 20; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Rhythmm

match 44

Rhythmm is a social app that enables its users to share interesting thoughts and conversations. Users can follow awesome channels and tap through each thought, finding their Rhythmm. They can also create their own channel, invite others to contribute or rock it solo, and the app help with the rest. Rhythmm wants to take live chat conversations from experts and interesting people and let others follow along. The startup wants to take the insights people are getting from chat groups on Telegram an

shared product terms: social, app, create, other; same category: HR and talent; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Leaders In Tech

match 44

Leaders In Tech is a leadership accelerator designed for startups. Over 350 alumni founders now run companies valued at over $75B that employ thousands of people. Here is what some YC alums had to say about Leaders In Tech: Justin Kan (Twitch/YC): "It was a huge uplevel for me as a leader and a human being and I recommend it to all my founder friends." Daniel Kan (Cruise): "Best program I've ever done. Highly recommend." Harj Taggar (YC): "This is the best thing a leader could do for their compa

shared product terms: over, thousand, people, some; same category: HR and talent; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

RxPlace

match 33

RxPlace is the first and only choice for secondary pharmaceutical procurement, connecting you to multiple key wholesalers and providing reliable access to over 20,000 medications and counting.

shared product terms: choice, multiple, over, 20; shared affiliation: Techstars