Retail ecommerce

Auctomatic

Website

Auctomatic, a Y Combinator company, offers an auction and marketplace management system for all of those individual sellers on such sites as Ebay, Amazon, Overstock and others. The application lets you list your items as well as manage your sales, but it also helps you understand how to best optimize your selling and maximize profits. The company

Overview

Auctomatic, a Y Combinator company, offers an auction and marketplace management system for all of those individual sellers on such sites as Ebay, Amazon, Overstock and others. The application lets you list your items as well as manage your sales, but it also helps you understand how to best optimize your selling and maximize profits.

The company also received an investment from Paul Buchheit, the lead developer of Gmail.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Harj Taggar

Founder

Harj Taggar was previously the co-founder & CEO of Triplebyte, a technical skills assessment for software engineers, funded by Y Combinator in 2015. Before that, he joined YC in 2010 as the first non-founding partner. During college he founded Auctomatic, which was funded by YC in 2007 and acquired by Live Current Media in 2008.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Kulveer Taggar

Founder

Scaled Zeus to over $450M in revenue before selling it late 2023 (YC TopCo in 2019) to Blueground. Raised over $200M from investors like Airbnb, Initialized, SIG, Soros. Investing out of Phosphor Capital.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite unreachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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