Smyte stops bad actors on marketplaces and social networks.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $4M
Founded date: 2014
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Founder Co... | foundercol... |
| 21.07.2020 | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| 30.05.2020 | Baseline V... | baselinev.... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 30.03.2017 | Series A | $4M | Avalon Ven... |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.06.2018 | Twitter ‘smytes’ customers | Twitter today announced it was acquiring the “trust and safety as a service” startup Smyte to help it better address issues related to online abuse, harassment, spam, and security on its platform. But it also decided to immediately shut dow... |
| 21.06.2018 | Twitter acquires anti-abuse technology provider Smyte | Twitter this morning announced it has agreed to buy San Francisco-based technology company Smyte, which describes itself as “trust and safety as a service.” Founded in 2014 by former Google and Instagram engineers, Smyte offers tools to sto... |
| 30.03.2017 | Smyte Raises $4M in Series A Funding | online security startup and Y Combinator Winter 2015 graduate, has raised $4 million in Series A funding. >> Click here for more funding data on Smyte >> To export Smyte funding data to PDF and Excel, click here Smyte, th... |
| 29.03.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 29 | IPOS ARE COOL AGAIN For that reason, I’ve always thought the official end of the unicorn era would happen when the biggest, most valuable, most high profile and most quintessential billion-dollar startups, Airbnb and Uber, finally went publ... |
| 28.03.2017 | Smyte Raises $4M in Series A Funding | Smyte, a San Francisco, CA-based online security startup, secured $4m in Series A funding. The round was led by Avalon Ventures with participation from Baseline Ventures, Founder Collective, Harrison Metal, Upside Partnership and Y Combinat... |
| 28.03.2017 | YC alumnus Smyte raises $4 million to counter online attacks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Smyte, which provides software to keep scams, fra... |
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| 19.08.2015 | 11 startups you should know from Y Combinator’s summer 2015 demo day | It’s time for another batch of startups to show off what they’ve got. It’s Y Combinator’s demo day, and over the past two days, 104 companies have presented their services, devices, technology, and promise. Will one of these companies becom... |
| 19.08.2015 | Here Are The 52 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2 | Hardware was the clear-cut theme of Day 1, but Demo Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2015 was a bit more… eclectic. Moving services! Streaming services! Hotel booking, augmented reality, esports! There was a little something for everybody tod... |
| 22.06.2015 | YC-Backed Smyte Launches To Fight Online Fraud | As we spend more and more of our lives on social networks and marketplaces, YC-backed Smyte is launching out of beta to make sure we don’t get defrauded, spammed, or harassed. While the Googles and Facebooks of the tech world have entire de... |