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B2B software

Applications from companies selling software to a business team rather than to a developer.

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Everything in B2B software

  1. 03OpenPhoneS18

    They applied to YC with $320 of monthly revenue and a video call that never connected. Seven years later they dropped the word “phone” from the name.

    12 Sept 2026

    OpenPhone's S18 application shows 1,500 users, 32 paying customers and $320 of revenue in the last month.

  2. 02CommandBar

    “We don’t have any unique advantage” — they wrote that, and got in anyway

    21 Aug 2026

    Three weeks full-time, no revenue, four unpaid pilots, and a product called Foobar.

  3. 01Mixpanel

    Mixpanel named the competitor it feared most, in writing

    20 Aug 2026

    Two students from a discrete math class pitched YC on one sentence: stop tracking page views, track what people actually do.

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