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3 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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3 years ago
A startup that helps organizations connect with their alumni and donors.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps non-profits and nonprofits raise money by sharing their stories. The company is a YC alum.
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3 years ago
A Y Combinator alumnus that builds tools for SMB sales teams to build a better sales process.
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1 year 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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3 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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3 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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3 years ago
A platform that helps colleges and universities manage their relationships with alumni who have given money.
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3 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 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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2 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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1 year 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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3 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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3 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.
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2 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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2 years ago
A Y Combinator alum, this startup wants to help online retail stores sell physical products.
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2 years ago
A platform for building and selling online courses. The startup is a Y Combinator alum.
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3 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.
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2 years ago
The batch featured Y Combinator alumni and exits.
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2 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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2 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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8 months 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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2 years ago
In November, 2018, YC alumni and partners went on to found
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1 year 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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2 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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2 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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8 months 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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2 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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2 years ago
A Y Combinator alum that allows you to visualize the traffic you get from events you’re attending
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2 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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1 year ago
A Y Combinator alum looking to build a “female-focused social network for millennial women”.
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2 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.
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2 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.
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2 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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1 year ago
A global platform that connects students and alumni with employers, with a focus on helping students transition to the workforce.
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1 year ago
A Y Combinator alum, who is working on helping companies manage their database systems.
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1 year 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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1 year 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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1 year ago
A group of mentors and alumni help startups by giving them advice, introductions, and access to their networks.
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11 months 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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7 months 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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1 year ago
A mobile app that helps colleges and universities stay connected and in touch with alumni.
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1 year ago
A Y Combinator alum, now looking for a bank and a partner to launch in the US.
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9 months ago
Y Combinator alum, a startup that allows people to buy and sell tiny houses
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1 year 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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1 year 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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1 year ago
A CB Insights alum re-entering the market after 10 years at another firm.
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1 year 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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1 year 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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4 months 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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5 months 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 months ago
A startup for ranking US colleges based on a school’s alumni salary, based on data from LinkedIn.
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2 months 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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14 days ago
A Y Combinator alum that makes it easier for employees to take advantage of the company’s health insurance.
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3 years ago
A startup that provide an online platform for alumni of specific colleges to meet and build connections
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