Consumer Electronics Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

Founded in 2014, Bellabeat is a data-centered wellness femtech company behind some of the most fashionably designed tech-powered wellness products and one of the fastest-growing wellness subscription services for women. Throughout the years, Bellabeat built the go-to wellness brand with a compelling ecosystem of solutions and services focused on women’s health. The success of the Leaf and Ivy wearables enabled the brand to expand to international markets and kickstart industry discussions on the importance of innovating in the design and development of tech products. Today, Bellabeat is leading the market shift with hyper-personalized holistic wellness offerings aligned with a women’s menstrual cycle.

We're building a mobile and wearable digital wallet that makes interacting with payments, identity, and authentication seamless, fun, and empowering. Acquired by OURA in 2023

We make personal AI robots - general-purpose physical machines that anyone can program with code, language and demonstrations. We believe building open platforms like the first PCs this is the only way to bring the robotics future that we all want, where everyone can participate in the robotics revolution.

MindPortal is a pioneering AI research company advancing human-AI interaction by enabling people to communicate with computers and AI assistants purely through thought. As an AI company, we focus exclusively on model development rather than hardware. Our models are designed to be general-purpose, adaptable across a wide range of applications. Our flagship development, MindSpeech, is the first supervised AI model to translate imagined speech into text, enabling direct thought-to-language communication. MindSpeech has earned endorsements from leading experts, including Neuralink's former technical strategy head and DARPA’s N3 program lead scientist. Our thought-to-language AI models have the potential for transformative applications in fields such as healthcare, education, and VR/AR and our work has been featured in major publications such as Forbes, The Times, The Telegraph, and Business Insider. MindPortal has over 11 patents filed in the field and is backed by prominent investors such as Y Combinator.

Shape is a health tech startup based in San Francisco, California. We are backed by Y Combinator and the company is led by experienced hardware serial entrepreneurs. Shape has designed a product called ShapeScale. ShapeScale is transforming the way we measure our health goals by enabling you to visualize yourself in 3D and see where you have been losing fat and gaining muscle.

Petcube is a company reimagining pet care, and using technology to keep people connected with their pets. Its first product, Petcube Camera, is an interactive pet monitor with real time video and built-in laser pointer. It allows pet owners to watch, talk to, and play with their pet from their smartphone, no matter where they are. Founded in Kyiv in 2013, Petcube was funded on Kickstarter and became one of the most successful crowdfunding pet products in history. Since graduating from the prestigious Y-Combinator incubation program, Petcube has gone on to launch two additional products, Petcube Play and Petcube Bites, as well as a cloud video recording service, Petcube Care. Petcube products are available online and in stores including Brookstone, Best Buy, and Petco.

Greentoe is a next generation e-commerce marketplace that enables consumers to set the price for the products they want to buy. Created to change the way people shop, Greentoe shakes up the traditional retail model by putting consumers in the driver's seat. They make an offer on a product and the site connects them to the retailers who are willing to accept the offer. The site benefits both consumers and retailers – shoppers can buy products at the lowest price available while retailers reduce inventory and acquire new customers.

KubeSail is the home hosting company. We make it easy to take back your privacy, fix the internet, and de-google all at once: host apps at home! Plug in a spare PC or buy our custom home-hosting hardware https://pibox.io, install apps like PhotoPrism, NocoDB, and Minecraft, and enjoy complete ownership of your data. We build everything you need to make hosting at home viable and fun. For companies, we make it easy to deploy software on-demand for your customers (either in the cloud, or by physically shipping them pre-configured hardware) to your users. Companies like ChatWoot use KubeSail Platform to deploy instances of their software dynamically, the moment a user pays.

Upgraded helps retailers and carriers sell devices on subscription. Subscribers pay monthly and can upgrade anytime. Smartphones, laptops, tablets and more. Creating and managing these programs involves lender integrations, residual value management and building great software — resellers don’t know how to do this.  Upgraded provides the infrastructure to launch immediately, keep customers loyal and cut replacement cycles in half. Device financing is a $541B market globally. US carrier financing grew from $13B to $51B in the last four years.  Upgraded partners include Apple, Dixons/Elkjøp, MediaMarkt and Vodafone. Upgraded was founded in 2016. Investors include Y Combinator and GRIL Ventures. Upgraded is led by CEO John Erik Metcalf and CTO Ziad Sawalha.

SOUNDBOKS is a Copenhagen-based, Y Combinator backed, hardware start-up developing and selling the world's loudest battery powered speaker. SOUNDBOKS was founded in 2015 by three young Danes who shared the same love and passion for music, amazing parties and festivals. Today, SOUNDBOKS is Scandinavia's fastest growing hardware start-up delivering speakers to happy customers all over Europe & North America. In March 2016, SOUNDBOKS launched the most succesful Danish Kickstarter Campaign of all time! We are a young, ambitious team ready to take on the challenge of becoming the number 1 brand for outdoor audio and provide world-class service to our customers. JOIN THE PARTY, JOIN SOUNDBOKS.

We build home humanoids the practical way—an open, mass-produced developer kit powering a real-home teleop data flywheel to autonomy, giving families back 20 hours/week.

We're building humanoid robots to do most of what you find boring or tedious. We have an open-source design which we are releasing to the public, which is capable of walking, talking and manipulating objects.

Tornyol builds micro-drones that kill mosquitoes. We use smartphone microphones, car park assist sensors and some clever DSP and control to transform 40-gram toy drones into mosquito killers. Because these drones are so cheap and fast, we will lower the cost of mosquito control by 100x which will enable the eradication of mosquitoes from cities, saving more than a million people each year from Malaria, West Nile, Dengue, etc.

At Pleom, we’re building AI hardware devices that everyday consumers can talk to — devices that understand your context and handle real-world tasks. We’re going head-to-head with OpenAI and io, moving faster to market and capturing mindshare first. Today, Pleom is a website. Tomorrow, it will be integrated into our family of hardware devices.

Circular is accelerating the adoption of the circular economy by making subscriptions the best way to access and experience tech: from smartphones, laptops, and headphones to gaming, VR and wearables. Our customers get their hands on the best tech through low-cost, convenient subscriptions. They can pay monthly, keep it as long as they want, and if they love it, buy it. If they return it, we carefully refurbish it and pass it on to the next loving owner - radically extending its useful life.

Tuesday makes delightful robots that tidy your home for you

Bluesmart is a global travel company that became famous for creating the world's first smart connected luggage. Its first product, the Bluesmart Carry-on, launched in October 2014 through Indiegogo and raised more than $2M in pre-orders from more than 10,000 backers in 120 countries worldwide. It was named "Top Innovative Product and Service"​ by Forbes Magazine, awarded "Best Travel Gear"​ by Fast Company and “Best of the Best"​ Red Dot Design Award. The company is backed by Y Combinator and other top Silicon Valley venture investors. Bluesmart is headquartered in New York with offices in Hong Kong, China and Argentina.

We are a try before you buy service for consumer electronics.

Boosted designs and builds powerful lightweight electric vehicles that are extremely fun to ride and perfect for the last mile of your commute. We're driven by a passion for longboarding, electric vehicles, and beautiful design. Check us out at BoostedBoards.com!

Pebble Technology builds smart watches. We're the team behind the Pebble smartwatch from Kickstarter (http://kck.st/HumIV5). Pebble is a customizable watch. Download new watchfaces, watchapps, use sports and fitness apps, get notifications from your phone.

Leftronic is a Y Combinator-funded company that develops a web-based real-time dashboard application for monitoring a company's most important data. Leftronic business dashboards retrieve a company's metrics from popular services such as Google Analytics, Twitter, Zendesk and others, as well as receive custom metrics through a super-simple API. The dashboards update in real-time and are designed for large screens. This makes it easy for teams to monitor their company's critical metrics.

Vanhawks is both a hardware and software company with a goal of changing up the urban commute. Technology impacts our lives in countless ways – you’re connected, why shouldn’t your bike be? Our product is the Valour, a connected, carbon fibre, commuter bicycle with built in GPS, blind-spot sensors, integrated front and back lights, and more. The Valour will radically change the way you ride. Built upon safety first in mind, a turn by turn navigation is incorporated in the handle bar to keep your eyes on the road. A LED indicator lets you know when you are approaching your next turn, and you're alerted of any object in your blind spot. To further enhance your cycling experience, the application tracks your riding history including calories burned, distance traveled, and much more, to serve you better. The data it acquires is used to provide you with suggestions on which route will get you to your destination safest and fastest or help you burn the most calories.

Our Mission: To empower drivers with knowledge about themselves and their cars so they can be safer and drive smarter. We believe you shouldn’t have to buy a new car to have a better driving experience, and that the phone in your pocket can bring the future of driving to today’s automobiles. Who We Are: Automatic is based in San Francisco, but our team comes from every corner of the world. We obsess about creating beautiful and well-engineered products that make a real difference in people’s lives. We’re big on ideas, low on ego, and love working together.

Our mission is to empower every family member and business to set the right ambience of sound and light for every moment. Our company offers simple wireless switches and remotes for products like Sonos or Philips Hue, software and simplify the installation of Smart Home systems and add-on solutions to create a great smart home experience for consumers, prosumers and professionals.

Apigy is the developer of Lockitron, a device which can lock and unlock deadbolt locks via remote control or a mobile device.

Stop break-ins before they happen. Kuna is the first effective break-in prevention solution for home security. Kuna is a smart Wi-Fi camera and video intercom built into an elegant outdoor light. It detects people at your door and lets you see and interact with them through your smartphone. Think of it as a digital doorman. And the best part, it's super easy to install. No need to run power wires or drill holes. Just replace your old light fixture. Check us out at www.getkuna.com, spread the word and help us bring Kuna to the world. Thanks.

Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured. The platform provides a cheaper and more efficient solution than buying outright or hiring from rental shops. At the same time, it allows others to monetise their rarely-used possessions. The company's mission is to enable people to share and monetize their unused possessions, increasing the efficiency of both the consumer and the planet’s resources.