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5 years ago

A social network built for black professionals. It’s a version of Facebook for black professionals that’s designed for different demographics, with features like a photo gallery and a newsfeed that’s tuned for black users.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps publishers sell ads to people in their target demographic.

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4 years ago

This startup wants to democratize access to medical research data for students and researchers. It’s a software platform that allows medical students and researchers to build their own datasets and access global research in a user-friendly way.

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5 years ago

This is “a healthcare startup for the world’s largest democracy” – India. It aims to help patients get their prescriptions filled at the lowest prices possible, and is already working with several pharmaceutical companies in India for a $3 million revenue run rate.

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4 years ago

A Swiss startup that wants to democratize the online lending market.

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4 years ago

Mentioned in the "2017 YC Demo Day" video, where they discuss the concept of a "mobile printing program" for small businesses. They are now calling their service "Quick Print," and the company is no longer in YC.

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5 years ago

A group of four-hour-old startups that are still around from Demo Day in June. The goal is to help early stage founders get funding and grow their businesses.

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5 years ago

A chatbot that helps people learn how to kickstart conversations and build rapport quickly. The startup is working on a demo with YC.

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4 years ago

The 2018 edition of the Y Combinator Demo Day featured 41 startups in three different tracks: Hardware, Software, and Networking & Events. The startups were chosen from 5,000 applicants by Y Combinator.

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4 years ago

One of the two startups in the Finalist batch to make the Demo Day pitch, Haptik is another VR system that allows you to create VR-based simulations of the real world. Haptik is targeting the market for VR training simulations, which is an idea that’s already working for real estate agents and other companies.

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5 years ago

The winners of the 2018 Y Combinator Demo Day will be announced on September 13, 2018.

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5 years ago

A tool that helps companies convert web traffic into revenue. It’s an example of a promising tool that will help democratize data.

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4 years ago

A startuplicant tracking platform for online job applications. The startup wants to scale to support large recruitment events like the YC Demo Day.

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5 years ago

A company that documents and shares the most popular requests for charity and non-profit organizations with the goal of “democratizing” the process for donors.

166

5 years ago

A social network for those in finance, made with the goal of “reducing the cost of the financial system by democratizing access to financial markets.”

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5 years ago

Giving Demo Day startups advice can only go so far. So Y Combinator does a bit more to help startups. YC has created a forum for startup founders to share information and advice with one another. They also host “Ask-Me-Anything” sessions for founders to talk about their companies.

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5 years ago

This is a startup that helps businesses demo their products on the web, using pre-made widgets that look like online store pages.

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5 years ago

A platform to find and book airfare and hotels. The company’s mission is to democratize travel with a transparent and fair marketplace.

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5 years ago

A startup that wants to democratize “blockchain for the masses”.

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5 years ago

Collaborating with organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank, Geotime provides demographic, economic, and climate data in a user-friendly way that’s useful for businesses.

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5 years ago

The following startups were all listed in the “premier” category at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, but didn’t make the final cut to the demo stage of the event.

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5 years ago

An email marketing tool that helps e-commerce brands push their sales and follow up with customers. The startup needs to complete a YC Demo Day.

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5 years ago

An algorithmic startup that is a marketplace for job board ads, allowing companies to target their job search to a specific demographic. The company’s founders say they’ve raised $1.6 million in a round led by Greycroft Partners.

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5 years ago

Real Democracy is a platform for elections, designed to make voting more accessible while improving the quality of elections.

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5 years ago

The startup wants to democratize the hiring process for college graduates, using Facebook to find job candidates.

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5 years ago

SaaS business that connects women and their partners to maternity care. They’re headed to Y Combinator’s Demo Day.

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2 years ago

A platform for selling and renting virtual real estate, aimed at the “Millennial” demographic.

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5 years ago

A startup that aims to democratize the profession of “salesman” by making the sales process more effective and efficient.

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4 years ago

A software company that is building a technology platform that helps e-commerce retailers and merchants deliver tailored messages to consumers based on their gender and demographic information.

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4 years ago

A startup that plans to decentralize the media industry, making it more democratic and giving users more control. The company wants to allow creators to be paid by their fans.

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5 years ago

Given that it was the first company to launch in the YC Demo Day, the list below is the most complete list of all of the startups that have been accepted into YC.

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5 years ago

A way for companies to increase their B2B sales, the startup wants to use a combination of machine learning to identify inbound leads and then text them to see if they’re interested in a demo.

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5 years ago

A mobile application that uses a custom demo version of Facebook’s Graph API to allow users to create and share an interactive digital business card that includes information about their company, including their team.

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4 years ago

A startup that is looking to build a new demographic of users and sell them on the idea that they need their cars to be “smart”.

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a way for people to book and pay for their medical appointments from their mobile phones, the startup plans on democratizing the healthcare system by making it more accessible to the general population.

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3 years ago

A team that aims to “democratize [the] buying and selling of art”. It wants to create a platform that is fair and easy to use.

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5 years ago

An ad network that focuses on under-served demographics, focusing on users who are under 18 and worth around $600 to advertisers.

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4 years ago

A startup working to democratize credit in the developing world, creating a new financial product that would give people access to credit in a way they haven’t had before. The company, which was founded in India, wants to make it more affordable for people in the developing world to use and maintain credit.

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5 years ago

A startup that used machine learning to automatically identify the best apps for people based on their demographics, to help navigate the app store.

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5 years ago

A video platform for sales teams to capture a video demo of a product or feature. The startup is currently working with a few Fortune 500 companies.

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2 years ago

A startup that creates a digital version of a newspaper for the over-55 demographic.

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4 years ago

The startup is looking to build a platform that will allow organizations to “build, launch and track a new app within minutes”. The startup built a demo app, called “the app builder”, that allows users to build and launch an app within minutes. The startup has raised $2.7M in seed funding as of September 2019.

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5 years ago

A platform for selling and buying used cars, introduced at YC’s Demo Day in 2015. The startup brings a car buying platform to a market where many people don’t have credit or don’t want to deal with the hassle of financing. It’s already in use in the Bay Area, and is looking to expand to other areas of the country.

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3 years ago

This startup is building a platform for investors to make investment decisions on AI-powered portfolios. The company says that it wants to democratize AI investing, in order to make it more accessible to everyone.

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4 years ago

A computer-aided design app with an emphasis on the “2D” side of things. The startup is looking to do two things: first, it’s trying to “democratize” design, a notoriously expensive and time-intensive process, by helping people do their own designs. Secondly, it takes some of the things people do on their own and turns them into a “compelling product”.

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5 years ago

A platform for advertisers to find and target the right demographics and psychographics. The startup is also working on an ad tech platform for brands that want to target “hard-to-reach” consumers.

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4 years ago

A startup that uses AI to help retailers understand how their customer demographics are changing. The company says it can help retailers identify who their new customers are, and how they’re growing.

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4 years ago

An engineering staffing startup that partners with companies to bring in new talent. After a company does a demo, Minimum runs a search for top candidates using its proprietary algorithm. The company says they’ve so far found candidates at top engineering schools, raised $1.4 million in VC funding, and secured over a dozen jobs.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps companies create better customer profiles, including demographic data, psychographic data, location data, preferences, and other factors.

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2 years ago

The startup is building an intelligent marketing platform around data-driven offers. The company says it can help brand-owners better target customers based on their behavior, and uses machine learning to collect data on what its customers buy, as well as their demographics.

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4 years ago

A chat app that lets you order food at home and pay ahead of time. The startup has already worked with two restaurants in New York City to demonstrate the concept.

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4 years ago

An end-to-end personal financial system for millennials. The startup wants to use the blockchain to create a “democratized” personal financial system for millennials.

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3 years ago

The founders of this startup say their technology will “democratize access to capital”.

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4 years ago

This company is looking to disrupt and democratize real estate. It wants to make it easy and affordable for people to buy and sell houses and apartments.

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3 years ago

Hoping to “democratize” the process of making art. The startup wants to create a “curatorial” platform that allows artists to crowdsource art, curate it and share in the profits.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps people reduce their phone bills. It’s being announced today at the YC Demo Day.

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3 years ago

This startup is developing a new type of seismic-based sensor that can be used to detect changes in seismic activity. The startup will demo the sensor at the upcoming American Geophysical Union meeting in December.

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4 years ago

The company makes a point of celebrating the diversity of its employees, regardless of background. They’re relatively young — the company is the youngest in YC to go from demo day to $1 million in revenue — and more than half of the team is female.

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4 years ago

A new way to demo products to consumers, connecting manufacturers with the buyers of their products through an easy-to-use site.

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4 years ago

A collection of tools that helps users track and manage their expenses, and is currently in Y Combinator’s Demo Day.

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2 years ago

The Winter 2014 class was the first class to include the class-wide submission of a side project. The submission was to build a side project that would be presented and discussed at the demo day of the Winter 2014 class. The submission was to build MoonVox, which is a

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4 years ago

A startup that lets users pay for their own ads on websites and social media. The startup is also announcing its first acquisition, a company called ad optimization engine Storefront that has developed a technology to show ads to people based on their demographic profile.

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3 years ago

A platform for creating and sharing training videos, which uses the webcam and microphone on a computer to record and edit a visual demonstration.

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4 years ago

This is a software platform for housing associations, which give communities disabilities and demographic data. In the past year, the company has grown to serve over 3,200 housing associations.

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4 years ago

A B2B company that aims to “democratize” the way companies get paid. The company wants to make accepting payments easier for small businesses and companies with irregular cash flows.

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4 years ago

A health care startup that wants to democratize the patient record by making it open-source and opening it up to the development community.

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4 years ago

A new kind of online sales platform for small businesses that’s built around a mobile channel. The startup wants to help small businesses build their own mobile app sales channel in two hours, with a demo version available now, and a full version launching in mid-2020.

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4 years ago

A messaging app for over-60s that helps them communicate with their families. The company is currently in a YC Demo Day.

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4 years ago

A platform that aims to “help advertisers better target specific people based on their behavior, location, interests and demographics.”

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3 years ago

This year’s shortlist was announced in February at the annual Demo Day in New Delhi, where startups pitch their ideas to investors.

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3 years ago

The platform connects customers and brands, allowing brands to bid on geographical and demographic information, and then shows what that information could be used for.

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3 years ago

A startup that aims to democratize and automate the geolocation of small businesses.

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4 years ago

The startup says it’s building the “Wiki for accounting”, but that’s not clear from the demo. Ledger is a software company building a cloud-based accounting platform for small businesses.

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3 years ago

The 2018 TechStars World Demo Day featured more than 300 startups from all around the world.

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3 years ago

“The first global video-based social network”, aimed at the 18 to 30 year-old demographic.

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3 years ago

The Y Combinator “demo day” event is a major launchpad for program companies. It takes place in January each year at Y Combinator's offices in Mountain View, with companies pitching their ideas. The event is open to the public and takes place on-site.

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4 years ago

The startup’s goal is to democratize the industry of television, allowing anyone to create their own show without having to be a producer or actor.

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4 years ago

A startup that lets you pay your friends and family without any fees. Currently in YC Demo Day.

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3 years ago

A company that helps advertisers understand the demographics of the videos they’re running on Facebook. They’re currently working with 7 companies including Comcast, Nissan, and Advicent.

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3 years ago

One of the most ambitious startups at Demo, Abhi makes a “facial recognition” security system that can be installed on home doors or windows to let you know when someone tries to come in.

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3 years ago

The following people have been selected as the 2019 class of YC Demo Day Fellows:

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3 years ago

This startup is building a cryptocurrency wallet for the “insecure,” hoping that by giving the masses a way to hold and use cryptocurrency, it will help to democratize the market.

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3 years ago

A social network for the under-educated and under-employed, aimed at the 18-25 demographic.

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3 years ago

The following companies have been selected to participate in the YC Demo Day in New York City on November 16th.

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3 years ago

A startup that’s teaching people to be better at interviewing and hiring remotely. The startup is built on video interviewing, meaning candidates can be interviewed through a webcam and then asked to do a demonstration of their skills. The platform will also help employers to screen and hire remotely, as well as manage their whole hiring process.

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4 years ago

A digital micro-investments platform for the masses, the startup’s goal is to democratize wealth.

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3 years ago

A company that helps marketers build apps that allow them to target not only specific demographics, but specific moments in time. The startup’s co-founder says that it’s “the first company in the world to do this”.

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3 years ago

A civil engineering startup that aims to help demolish buildings and then build the foundations for new ones, in a single process. The company currently has nearly 30 customers in Europe and Asia.

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3 years ago

A startup that’s building a “digital hotline” for consumers, which lets them contact different brands to ask questions about products, and receive live demos, videos, and social media updates. It’s focused on the UK market early on.

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2 years ago

These are the companies that are finalists at the YC Demo Day. A few startups are also in the YC batch of companies that did not raise capital.

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3 years ago

A startup working on an automated “planning and scheduling” platform for the construction industry. They have a demo and have been working on the platform since 2017.

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2 years ago

A startup that aims to “democratize” financial advice with a platform that empowers anyone to become a financial adviser. The company wants to reduce the cost of financial advice, and have a service for consumers that is “less expensive, better quality, and more accurate than traditional products”.

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2 years ago

This startup is building a bank that caters to the “millennial” demographic of 18- to 35-year-olds by offering a 24/7 customer support line, chat support, fast payments, and rewards programs.

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2 years ago

The following companies had their YC Demo Day presentations on September 30:

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2 years ago

This video game startup is headed by former Telltale Games employees. It has a game in the works that serves as a “digital board game”, and has a playable demo that lets players design their own board game.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup for organizing and publishing video interviews with people on the internet, initially for people who are doing YC interviews before Demo Day.

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2 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help social and ethnic entrepreneurs understand their market and how best to reach it. The startup offers demographic data, education data, income data and more.

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2 years ago

This is a shared-office startup that’s trying to democratize the experience of working at an office. They’re trying to build out a centralized office space that can host up to 200 people in a building, with a design that makes it feel less like a corporate space.

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2 years ago

Pointsy is a platform that aims to democratize the cost of banking for low-income individuals.

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2 years ago

All ideas listed here are in some way connected to the "Y Combinator" startup accelerator, which has been running since 2005, and is known for its "democratized access" to seed capital for startups.

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2 years ago

An online software that helps small businesses increase their sales by calculating sales and demographic data and then using it to show them the best way to market to their customers.

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2 years ago

This is an open-source platform for data scientists to build on top of. The company is trying to democratize data science by making it easy for anyone to pick up the skills necessary to crunch numbers.

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2 years ago

A startup that launched in August 2020 and plans to use AI to democratize online education by having online courses be open for anyone to take, without having to pay a fee.

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2 years ago

In addition, there are 6 companies that have announced they will join the YC Demo Day, but have not yet been accepted into YC.

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2 years ago

- this is a way for developers to demo their software

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5 years ago

A startup that provides affordable vehicle insurance to people under 25. The startup wants to become the go-to resource for young drivers and disrupt the current auto insurance industry which targets only the high-risk demographic.

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2 years ago

Note: These companies were accepted into YC, but have not announced their Demo Day

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5 years ago

Idea: A tool for keeping your software up to date. In a demo, the founder showed that the service updates a user’s phone to the latest version of Android.

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