B2B software
Applications from companies selling software to a business team rather than to a developer.
3 pieces
Everything in B2B software
- 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 2026OpenPhone's S18 application shows 1,500 users, 32 paying customers and $320 of revenue in the last month.
- 02CommandBar
“We don’t have any unique advantage” — they wrote that, and got in anyway
21 Aug 2026Three weeks full-time, no revenue, four unpaid pilots, and a product called Foobar.
- 01Mixpanel
Mixpanel named the competitor it feared most, in writing
20 Aug 2026Two students from a discrete math class pitched YC on one sentence: stop tracking page views, track what people actually do.
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