Crocodoc

Embed PDFs, PowerPoints, and other documents into web and mobile apps

Y CombinatorWinter 2010AcquiredB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDocumentsSaaS

What they do

Problem

Web and mobile apps need a secure, scalable way to display and collaborate on Office and PDF documents without requiring native software.

Solution

Crocodoc provides an HTML5/CSS3-based document viewing and collaboration platform that embeds PDFs and Microsoft Office files into applications with commenting, highlighting, and form filling.

Who it's for

Developers and product teams at consumer and enterprise companies that need to embed document viewing and annotation in their web and mobile apps.

Founders

Ryan Damico

Founder/CEO

Co-founder & CEO of Crocodoc (W10, acquired). Senior product leader @ Box, Wayfair, Meta, and Stripe. Currently taking on part-time and fractional product work while incubating ideas for my next startup.

Peter Lai

Founder

- MIT '08 (EECS & Cognitive Science) - Crocodoc (W10) - Emburse (W16)

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Matt Long

Founder

My career has been very YC-centric. At Crocodoc (W10), I focused on building our infrastructure and designing/maintaining the document conversion API; what would today be described as 50% backend engineer and 50% devops. Crocodoc was acquired by Box in May 2013 where I stayed working on mostly the same stuff for about 2 years. After that, I was Tech Lead of their infrastructure engineering team at PlanGrid (W12) for a while. Now I'm on the software team at YC itself which has been an great fun!!

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