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Spoken

Spoken is a website where users compare buying options for the exact same product across multiple stores. We help our users never overpay online. Dane is a two-time technical YC founder; he sold his previous company, Parklet, to Greenhouse where he was VP of Platform for 4.5 years. Geoff is a Stanford MBA grad and sold his previous company Cabrio Taxi.

sources
2
Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
2
Techstars, Y Combinator
competitors
6
Mapped from High Signal graph features.
status
generated
D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
source evidence
Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #2163

Spoken is a website where users compare buying options for the exact same product across multiple stores. We help our users never overpay online. Dane is a two-time technical YC founder; he sold his previous company, Parklet, to Greenhouse where he was VP of Platform for 4.5 years. Geoff is a Stanford MBA grad and sold his previous company Cabrio Taxi.

source

Techstars

techstars-portfolio #4174

Spoken leverages A.I. to provide private live English instruction for $5/hour.

source
generated read
High Signal interpretation

Spoken is classified as Enterprise SaaS 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
Cabrio TaxiParkletSpoken
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 Spoken

Enterprise SaaS · 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.

Popcuts

match 33

Popcuts is a unique online music store. DRM-free songs are sold for 99cents, but every time a song you bought sells, you get a cut of the proceeds (earlier buyers get a bigger cut).

shared product terms: online, store, sold, time; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Pomello

match 33

Pomello maps your organizational culture on a team-by-team basis, and integrates with your existing recruiting process to allow you to find the candidates most likely to thrive within your organization. Founded at Stanford University, Pomello’s technology is based on 30 years of research in Organizational Behavior, which has been validated over time across multiple industries.

shared product terms: multiple, time, year, stanford; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Kirkland North

match 33

Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The game, called Turf, pits sections of campuses against each other in a virtual battle for university-wide domination. The founders are currently rolling out individual versions of their online game as a service for institutions including Stanford and Harvard.

shared product terms: year, founder, online, stanford; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Candy Jar

match 17

Your online candy store

shared product terms: online, store; shared affiliation: Techstars

Bevz

match 12

Convenience store technology and services platform

shared product terms: store; same category: Enterprise SaaS; shared affiliation: Techstars

EzSec

match 9

Previous Name: EzSec

shared product terms: previou; shared affiliation: Techstars