One of the biggest start up funding firms in the United States, Y Combinator is currently hosting its semi-annual Demo Day. This occasion is conducted twice a year, in which the start up incubator presents the companies that it has selected to be funded in front of the investors, to make them realize the potential of these start ups and help them get the funds needed to get off the ground. This time, Y Combinator has chosen twenty six companies, that are chosen for the funding rounds.

Here are ten of the twenty six companies from Y Combinator. The rest of the five companies are yet to divulge their details.

* LaunchHear: Founded by Alex Krupp and Allan Young, LaunchHear has been created a platform through which new software can be delivered to bloggers and tweeters, all the while reducing the transition time by almost ten times.

* NewsLabs: Founded by Paul Biggar and Nathan Chong, NewsLabs provides integrated tools such as traffic, monetization and community to offline journalists, so as to help them create a successful online profile without deviating from their writing and reporting.

* Seeing Interactive: Founded by Lloyd Armbrust and Jason Novek, Seeing Interactive works as online classifieds while combining the fruits of Yellow Pages and Craigslist. This start up is targeting the small markets in the U.S and uses local newspapers TV and radio as its preferred outlets.

* Notifo: Founded by Chad Etzel, Notifo is in the business of creating mobile push notification platforms for service, business, app, website etc. It enables such entities to send notifications to the users on their mobile phones, thus eliminating the need of specific hardware models.

* Zencoder: Founded by Jon Dahl, Brandon Arbini and Steve Heffernan, Zencoder creates state of the art cloud service for the sole purpose of video encoding, delivery, and monetization.

* Nowmov: Founded by Thomas Pun, James Black and David Kelso, Nowmov is a direct competitor to YouTube, as it aggregates the most widely watched videos across the web and post them on Twitter in instantaneously, thereby providing the users with a sense of watching television.

* Crocodoc: Founded by Ryan Damico, Bennett Rogers, Peter Lai and Matt Long, Crocodoc provides the users with a platform wherein the users are able to share documents online and the company envisions to keep on the same track as Gmail did in the case of Outlook.

* Gamador: Founded by Kevin Lacker and Dan Silberman, Gamador is in the business of creating social networking games.

* Cardpool: Founded by Anson Tsai and Tim Wong, Cardpool, creates online greeting cards,

* Tweetflow: Founded by Troy Kruthoff, Robert Bagley and Josh Unfried, Tweetflow provides the users with an opportunity to replace their Twitter profile pages with custom web pages.

Via Venture Beat & Wikipedia