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Alum Startup Ideas

4 years ago

A startup co-founded by Y Combinator alum Sam Altman, this is a social network where you can make friends with the people you meet through the app. Users pay for memberships and can then message and chat with others on the platform.

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4 years ago

A daily newsletter about startups, with stories and profiles, written by a team that includes 500-hour Y Combinator alum.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps organizations connect with their alumni and donors.

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5 years ago

A team of four, including two YC alumni, that makes an app that helps you track your heart rate during a workout.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps non-profits and nonprofits raise money by sharing their stories. The company is a YC alum.

166

5 years ago

A Y Combinator alumnus that builds tools for SMB sales teams to build a better sales process.

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5 years ago

A platform that helps colleges and universities manage their relationships with alumni who have given money.

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5 years ago

A company that aims to connect B2B companies with service providers and allow people to view, request, and rate those service providers. They’ve raised $10 million in funding and are a Y Combinator alumni.

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5 years ago

Out of the 70 companies that were selected to join the program, four companies (and 1 alumni) made it to the final round of the Summer 2014 class.

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5 years ago

This is a “Y Combinator for entrepreneurs”, where people can get feedback and advice from Y Combinator alumni.

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3 years ago

A comprehensive technology solution that supports the delivery of video content, from broadcast to pre-recorded video to live event video. The startup provides production services, and is another YC alum.

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4 years ago

A product that helps people manage their digital content. The startup says they’ve been working with the Y Combinator alumni community since 2013 and has already helped them launch a number of products and services.

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5 years ago

A startup that brings the “higher education experience” to students by connecting them with tutors. Notable alumni include Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard, and the University of Michigan.

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5 years ago

A startup founded by Apple alum, which aims to make it easier for people to clean their devices. In exchange for every $10 the company makes, it donates $1 to environmental causes.

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5 years ago

A platform for building and selling online courses. The startup is a Y Combinator alum.

122

5 years ago

Idea (n): A tool for operating systems to help them perform voice commands. It’s being built by a Y Combinator alum, and it’s meant to help people with disabilities to communicate more easily.

120

5 years ago

Y Combinator alum Dan Ellis and co-founder Andrew Conway came up with the idea to make an app that would help people use Microsoft Excel more efficiently. The startup, which has raised $1.3 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz , works with large companies to help them get their work into Excel faster.

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4 years ago

A Y Combinator alum, this startup wants to help online retail stores sell physical products.

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5 years ago

The batch featured Y Combinator alumni and exits.

113

5 years ago

A Y Combinator alum is building a system to help companies build their own enterprise-grade mobile apps, saving them from having to build everything themselves.

112

5 years ago

A platform that connects contractors with clients as a way to bring more of the work to the people who do the work. They’re a Y Combinator alum.

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5 years ago

A group of “startup veterans” that want to build a platform for startups to raise capital. It aims to help startups raise $500,000 in seed funding, as well as $1 million in Series A funding and $5 million in a Series B. The startup is in pre-launch mode, with a staff of 15 that includes YC alumni.

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4 years ago

The startup is developing a system that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help physicians screen for diseases like cancer and heart disease. The startup was founded by MIT alumni.

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3 years ago

A Y Combinator alumni company that hopes to bring the concept of a “pickup artist” to students, in the form of a “dating coach”.

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4 years ago

In November, 2018, YC alumni and partners went on to found

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5 years ago

A tool for freelancers to track how much work they’ve done, pay invoices and manage their projects. The startup is working with YC alumni to grow the team.

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5 years ago

This startup is building a tool to automatically generate landing pages for your campaign. The startup is a Y Combinator alum, having raised a seed round in 2013.

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4 years ago

A Y Combinator alum that allows you to visualize the traffic you get from events you’re attending

93

4 years ago

A startup that uses data science to help companies find new talent. The Startup is currently working with the YC SaaS alum and YC Alumni Wayfair.

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3 years ago

The Startup Battlefield has also been judged by the number of companies that have been funded by YC alumni, who are the most successful of the Y Combinator alumni. In the first year of the event, Y Combinator provided around $240,000 in funding to the winning companies in the Battlefield. In later years, that number has climbed to around $700,000.

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4 years ago

“From the outside, our team is probably the most diverse in the YC batch [of the past five years],” says cofounder Raman Harsh, an MIT alum. “There are no limits on race, ethnicity, religion, or gender.”

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4 years ago

A startup that’s building a way for people to pay bills online. The startup is a YC alum and has raised $1.3M from investors.

83

4 years ago

A Y Combinator alum looking to build a “female-focused social network for millennial women”.

79

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to offer paid vacation time to their employees. It has funding from an angel group including Y Combinator alum Jonah Peretti.

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4 years ago

A project created by YC alum Eric Migicovsky, it’s a device that can measure your physical activity and communicate with your smartphone.

73

3 years ago

A global platform that connects students and alumni with employers, with a focus on helping students transition to the workforce.

70

4 years ago

A Y Combinator alum, who is working on helping companies manage their database systems.

66

4 years ago

A Y Combinator alum, Goodbot is a personal concierge service that helps people find the best places to go out.

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4 years ago

Y Combinator alum. Placed first at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. It’s an online education platform for people who don’t have time to study, but still want to learn.

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3 years ago

A Y Combinator alum building a platform that allows healthcare professionals to book appointments online. The startup has launched in the UK and Ireland, and is looking to expand to other European markets.

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3 years ago

A group of mentors and alumni help startups by giving them advice, introductions, and access to their networks.

60

3 years ago

A startup that helps arbitrage traders figure out where in the world to invest. The startup is backed by Y Combinator alum Sam Altman, who invested in the company’s seed round in November 2018.

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3 years ago

A platform that connects verified people with their college alumni to help them find jobs, and makes the process easier by automating the entire recruitment process.

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3 years ago

Y Combinator alum, a startup that allows people to buy and sell tiny houses

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3 years ago

A Y Combinator alum, Cityzen is building a marketplace for events that boasts a 90% conversion rate. The company is also looking to offer a web-based event-planning platform, with a focus on making events easy to organize.

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3 years ago

A mobile app that helps colleges and universities stay connected and in touch with alumni.

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3 years ago

A Y Combinator alum, now looking for a bank and a partner to launch in the US.

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3 years ago

A student loan refinancing platform from Y Combinator alum Brick Road, launched in August with $10 million in venture funding. Brick Road talks about helping borrowers get lower rates than the ones offered by banks, and promising a “low-cost, low-equity” funding source.

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2 years ago

A Y Combinator alum, this startup’s goal is to help people with their retirement planning. The company is working on something it calls the "Retirement Calculator" which it says will help people plan for their retirement using data sourced from the federal government. It also plans to sell tax-loss harvesting services for retirement accounts.

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3 years ago

A CB Insights alum re-entering the market after 10 years at another firm.

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3 years ago

Working with Y Combinator alum Moovit, which provides navigation to public transportation, the startup is building a platform that enables businesses to automate their commute using public transportation and mobile apps.

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2 years ago

An open-sourcing platform for building and managing mobile apps. The company gives developers a way to build native iOS and Android apps without having to learn Objective-C. The startup is backed by 500 Startups and is backed by Y Combinator alum.

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2 years ago

A company that sells raw materials to Chinese manufacturers. The startup is hoping to build a virtual supply chain to distribute steel and aluminum to China, which is a huge consumer of these materials.

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2 years ago

A startup for ranking US colleges based on a school’s alumni salary, based on data from LinkedIn.

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2 years ago

A Y Combinator alum that makes it easier for employees to take advantage of the company’s health insurance.

31

2 years ago

In addition, YC includes a number of other programs, such as a software development program that develops products for the “Internet of Things”, a mentorship program for entrepreneurs looking to build companies outside of the US, and a program to help alumni launch companies.

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2 years ago

A Y Combinator alum who previously built a startup that helps find new clients for software engineers, saying he’s “not sure what the world of business is like” for product marketing.

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2 years ago

A management platform for video, VR, and AR. The startup is a Y Combinator alum and has $1.6 million in funding.

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2 years ago

A global business conference and expo that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals who work in every aspect of the startup and early-stage business ecosystem. One of its founders is an investment banker and the other is a PayPal alum.

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2 years ago

A Y Combinator alum that’s building a platform for contact centers to manage their customers’ virtual assistants. The startup wants to make it easier for companies to manage the use of their virtual assistants.

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2 years ago

A Y Combinator alum, this startup uses GPUs and other computing hardware to speed up deep learning for machine learning.

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2 years ago

Ideas are created by Y Combinator alumni. Many of the ideas are specific to a company or industry, or are specific to a single city or country. The ideas are shared here to give an idea of the breadth of innovation being pursued by Y Combinator startups.

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5 years ago

A startup that provide an online platform for alumni of specific colleges to meet and build connections

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