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SoundFocus

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

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Y Combinator

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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

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SoundFocus is classified as Developer tools 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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Companies similar to SoundFocus

Developer tools · 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.

YourMechanic

match 60

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shared product terms: mobile, found, 2012, mission; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Lob

match 60

Lob provides the building blocks for developers to automate the offline world. Enterprise companies use Lob’s suite of APIs to mail fully dynamic and personalized customer communications with print media. We provide insight into deliverability with piece-by-piece tracing and utilize our proprietary Print Delivery Network to streamline production across fully redundant nodes all over the country. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Lob is venture backed by Y Combinator, Polaris Partners,

shared product terms: san, francisco, personaliz, found; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Xfers

match 57

Xfers is a Singaporean-based payment processing gateway offering credit card processing and Internet banking transfers. As a graduate of Y Combinator’s Summer 2015 Class, Xfers aims to unify banking networks across Southeast Asia. Featured on Techcrunch and coined as the Paypal of Southeast Asia by Channel News Asia, we simplify and redefine the process of collecting and receiving payments in Southeast Asia. In 2016, Xfers announced its first round of seed funding. Its investor portfolio include

shared product terms: graduate, combinator, summer, announc; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Easel

match 57

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.

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

Lugg

match 52

Lugg is building the best way for you to get anything moved. With the push of a button, you are connected to movers and a truck. They make it dead simple to get your new furniture home, your craigslist purchases delivered to you, and moving all of your stuff into your new apartment. They are located in San Francisco and well-funded by some of the greatest investors in the world, like A-Capital, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. They are a small team with incredibly hard problems to so

shared product terms: san, francisco, fund, investor; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Mutiny

match 49

Mutiny is your AI agent for creating anything customer-facing, in minutes. From ABM campaigns to executive business cases to ROI reports, you'll never have to wait on another team to get your deal from cold to closed. Our customers include Figma, Rippling, Uber, Snowflake. We are backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, and Y Combinator.

shared product terms: creat, case, include, capital; shared affiliation: Y Combinator