You asked about Food & Beverage
167 people built something like it. 51 are gone.
That is 36% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 25 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-01 | YCDoorDash Restaurant delivery. · doordash.com | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup · instacart.com | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | YCChaldal chaldal.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCCalii Full-stack grocery delivery in LatAm · calii.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCTovala A smart-oven-paired subscription meal service. · tovala.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Food delivery service in Africa · beudelivery.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVendease Where restaurants in Africa buy food supplies · vendease.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCLezzoo Lezzoo is an on-demand delivery Superapp for Iraq. · lezzoo.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Pop Meals is a restaurant chain without chefs. All recipes are… · popmeals.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Zerocater is revolutionizing how companies feed their employees · zerocater.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | Empowering restaurants and small food makers to ship nationwide. · goldbelly.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Building a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative. · gfi.org | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCChowdeck On-demand food delivery for Africa · chowdeck.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCChari B2B e-commerce and fintech platform for traditional proximity stores · chari.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Grocery Delivery in Pakistan · kravemart.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa · getfoodcourt.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCGobble Daily meal delivery, personalized to your tastes. · gobble.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCShef Shef is a Marketplace for Homemade Food · shef.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Taking from 1 to 100 the premade food industry in LATAM · todoscomemos.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCFlaviar Try-at-home service for fine spirits · flaviar.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFitHub The one-stop shop for healthy products · fithub.com.co | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Cheese and dairy products from plant-derived dairy proteins · nobellfoods.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | Meals Delivered in 10 Minutes · spoonrocket.com | acquired |
| 2011-06-01 | YCCaviar Uber for food. · trycaviar.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | YCSoylent Soylent is a simple, nutritious, and affordable food that possesses… · soylent.com | acquired |
| 2014-06-01 | YCZoomer Outsourced, high volume food delivery.
· zoomerdelivery.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCLineLeap LineLeap gets customers to the fun, faster. · lineleap.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Order ahead for pickup · crunchbase.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOrchata Groceries delivered in 20 min in Latinamerica · orchata.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCFancy Essentials delivered in 30 minutes. · fancyapp.live | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPositive B2B supplier of fresh/healthy packaged food · positive.co | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | We license brands for delivery and pick-up · purpleplate.co | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Juicy marbles makes thick juicy and marbled plant based steaks. · juicymarbles.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | On demand provider of meat to households and food businesses · sendme.ng | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHeyfood Doordash for Africa · heyfood.africa | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Order ahead at restaurants and get rewards with friends. · snackpass.co | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCMilkRun Get Food From Farmers, Delivered. · localmilkrun.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPerfekto Grocery subscription service against food waste in Latam · perfekto.mx | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCByte On-demand food delivery from dark kitchens in Pakistan. · web.thebyte.app | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOlaClick Restaurant Solution (E-commerce via WhatsApp + POS + CRM/Marketing) · olaclick.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCGainful Personalized Performance Nutrition · gainful.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCGlimpse Glimpse is the system of action for CPG retail operations · tryglimpse.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Upgrading Your Wine Experience · undergroundcellar.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCZBiotics ZBiotics makes genetically engineered probiotics. · zbiotics.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Frozen beauty products. · naturallclub.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCOffbeast We make plant-based steaks with an authentic texture · offbeast.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | A brand-new blend of sugars – made from plant fiber! · supplant.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCyhangry Marketplace for private chefs · yhangry.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCDuffl 10-minute delivery service for college students. · duffl.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | Keurig machine for smoothies. · getreplenish.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLocale Organic and gourmet high-protein meals, designed for longevity. · shoplocale.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | Hyperlinking the real world. · paperlinks.com | gone |
| 2009-01-01 | YCFoodoro foodoro.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCGrouper We set up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls. · joingrouper.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCLabdoor Labdoor is building the trusted online drugstore. · labdoor.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Wine by the glass, delivered · getvinebox.com | gone |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.