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5 years ago

The company was founded by Ramy El Bannaoui and Chris Curtis, who had previously founded the company in 2007 and sold it in 2011.

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5 years ago

In the middle of April, Lyft announced it was making $1.25 billion in revenue per quarter, with over $1 billion in cash. In the middle of May, Uber announced that it had $7.4 billion in cash.

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2 years ago

An accounting app that helps small businesses prepare and file their own taxes. The startup is focused on people who have never had to file taxes before.

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4 years ago

A car sharing startup that lets people rent cars by the hour or by the day. In July, the company had 13,000 people on the waitlist for their limited-time $500,000 raise.

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5 years ago

A startup that sells a kit for people who want to do the things they have always wanted to do but never had the time to do

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4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a platform that allows companies to create online courses in minutes and distribute them to email lists or social media. They currently have one client with a course on web design that had over 1,000 people sign up for it.

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5 years ago

A company that sells an AI-powered financial advisor to help people save for retirement. The company says it has had more than $30 million in AUM.

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5 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for hotel guests to use their credit card on property. The company’s founders came up with the idea at a conference where the hotel they were staying at had a similar feature, and thought there was a better way to do it.

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5 years ago

Rental car companies have had a tough go of it lately, thanks to the rise of ride-sharing companies. What if a car could be rented on demand from the owner That’s what WizeRent aims to do.

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5 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup in the education marketplace space that wants to help lower-income students afford higher education. The startup tells me it’s had over $200,000 in investments, has more than 10,000 students, and has been used by more than 3,000 colleges and universities.

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5 years ago

A company that brings together a community of people with the same interests. Its main community is focused on cooking, but it also had an early-stage fitness community.

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5 years ago

A game where you play a healer and have to heal your friends from the shadow that is chasing them

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5 years ago

The startup’s founders say that since launching a year ago, they’ve had over 6,000 paying customers.

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5 years ago

"Idea 2.0 is a tool for entrepreneurs to help them learn about new technologies in the market and network together. It’s the Uber of technology conferences. The conference is in its second year and has had over 1,000 attendees and 300+ speakers from 45 countries. The conference’s format is based on the model of Airbnb, where the host gets to pick the guests. The guest list is highly curated and the speakers are handpicked by the company’s CEO. The conference has been very well received by attendees and has been named a Top 10 conference in the US in 2018.

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5 years ago

A startup called eCredentials is building a connected ring that stores and connects to your medical records, and lets you keep track of changes and see a history of everything you’ve ever had done.

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5 years ago

A platform for companies to host live video webinars on their own websites or via a third party. The company says the software is easy to use, and has had over 12,000 live webinars hosted, with over 90% of those lead to more sales.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps with recruitment. Founders have a hard time finding good developers to hire and have had to spend hours sifting through LinkedIn profiles, applying to jobs, and then waiting for responses.

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5 years ago

A company that makes it easier for developers to build apps for every device they can imagine: phone, tablet, tv, car, etc. The business is bootstrapped and has had a $1.3M in seed funding.

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5 years ago

Founded in 2015, Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley-based startup incubator and seed fund. Y Combinator has invested in several companies that have gone on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. It has also had several companies drop out of its program.

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4 years ago

A tool for determining whether a person is a good fit for an internship or a job. The startup has had over 100 job profiles posted, with over 500 people applying.

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5 years ago

The co-founders of the company Seers are trying to undo the stigma of the “office dog”. They had their first pup, Mitzi, on the playground of Spotify's offices, and the company asked them to bring her to work. Now, she’s a dog who visits office visits from time to time to make sure that everyone is having a good time.

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5 years ago

We've had plenty of success with travel apps that make it easier to find flights and hotels. Now with Spring, we're doing the same for car rental.

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4 years ago

This startup has an app that helps people save for retirement. It’s a tool for people who haven’t had the time to prepare for retirement, but who are now approaching it.

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3 years ago

An online tool that allows any member of the public to report a dangerous or illegal activity. The company says it has had over 75,000 reports of bad behavior.

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5 years ago

There’s a huge amount of open software in the world, but there’s also a huge amount of open source software. The company has built a platform that curates open source projects, allowing others to easily see what’s out there. The team is currently working on a browser extension, and says they’ve had “hundreds” of companies use the platform to create software.

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5 years ago

A company that provides automated software for product development teams to manage their internal development processes, including functionality for code reviews, bug tracking, and test automation. The company is growing and had $1.5 million in monthly recurring revenue in 2019.

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5 years ago

The soft-spoken CEO of Young Living believes that as the industry gains more attention, it will lose the stigma it once had — and that “the stigma will fall like a rock”.

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5 years ago

The founder of this startup grew up in a remote village in India and remembers a time when he was able to get a computer for the family and a year later they were able to get the internet. The founder realized the internet had brought a lot of connectivity to the country, but the next step was to bring connectivity to the millions of people who still didn’t have it. That’s what led him to start Jana, a startup that aims to give 1.5 billion people in India access to the internet.

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3 years ago

We’re all connected and we’re all looking for ways to simplify things. The founders of Disconnect are looking to bring together all these different systems into one place and make it all work together. This is a familiar idea that’s been around for a long time and has had a few iterations over the years. The idea is that you get more done with less effort and it’s all because your apps are all working together.

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5 years ago

A multi-services platform that provides a complete end-to-end solution for small businesses. The company says that they’ve had $10m in bookings and a $1m ARR.

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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

This startup and its founders were inspired by the story of their friend who had to wait two years to get a colonoscopy. They want to make the process easier.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps teachers track students’ progress, in a way that can be used to incentivize or sanction students. They had an initial launch at the beginning of October.

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5 years ago

A retail solution that allows customers to order groceries from a variety of retailers and have their goods delivered to their doorsteps within a few hours. In the first year of operations they had 10,000 customers and raised $1 million in seed funding.

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4 years ago

A tech startup whose product is a home-based network of technicians that fixes your home’s issues or installs equipment. The company says that since it launched in early 2019 it has already had several million dollars worth of work.

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4 years ago

The Y Combinator Summer 2019 batch had 56 companies, down 8 from the previous batch. This batch was the first to feature more only-female teams than male teams.

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3 years ago

A commerce platform for the Indian market, where many consumers have previously had to go through multiple vendors to make a purchase.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps foreign companies find workers in the US. The startup’s founders say they’ve already had over 25,000 job postings on their platform.

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5 years ago

An e-commerce platform for zoos and aquariums to sell souvenirs to customers. The startup is working with three aquariums in the United States, and has had over $360,000 in sales in its first year.

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4 years ago

This startup, based in the US, is building a way to connect brands and their customers. The company’s co-founder says they’ve already had over 1,000 customers sign up.

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4 years ago

A blockchain startup that aims to bring “fraud” detection to the supply chain, preventing “shady retailers” from selling counterfeit goods.

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5 years ago

Wrapping up our list of the best startups in Y Combinator’s class of 2020, we've selected 5 startups from the batch that had the best business ideas and the best execution. (If you're curious, we'd recommend checking out the list of the top Y Combinator startups of 2019 here .)

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5 years ago

A software startup that aims to make it easier for "anyone from a small business to a large enterprise" to create and manage training programs. "We've had some success so far with the enterprise space, but we're mostly focused on education at the moment," the team writes.

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5 years ago

A platform that brings medical students and doctors together for consultations via video calls. The company says it has more than a thousand doctors signed on, and that in its first six months it had $300,000 in revenue.

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3 years ago

The company is looking for a new CEO to help it grow beyond its current 2,000-customer base. The CEO had a bumpy time at the helm and the company hasn’t grown much since he arrived.

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4 years ago

The California-based company, which previously had raised $16 million, is selling custom-designed power banks, which are basically portable chargers for smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices. The company is selling them through its website but is also looking to partner with retailers to sell them in their brick-and-mortar stores.

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4 years ago

A startup that wants to help people make a living from freelance writing. The company currently has a few thousand subscribers, and they’ve had a few hundred paid customers since launching in Fall 2018.

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4 years ago

As of August 2016, Y Combinator had invested in 138 companies.

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3 years ago

A product-marketing platform and software as a service (SaaS) for event organizers and brands. The company has had 15,000 events in its portfolio, reaching 8million people.

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4 years ago

This startup is building a connection between developers and local governments to help them build projects faster. They’ve had a great response so far, and the city of San Francisco is using them to build projects like the “people’s hub” on Market Street.

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2 years ago

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden-wins-world-s-first-million-dollar-app/2018/06/10/worlds-

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3 years ago

In May 2018, it was reported that the government of Japan had invested $1.5 million in the company.

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4 years ago

A startup for movie scripts. It lets users browse and comment on scripts, and the startup says it’s already had over 40,000 scripts submitted.

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4 years ago

A startup that allows companies to deliver a customer service experience that is both efficient and personable. The startup is a spinoff of a company called Customer.io, where the founders had to implement a customer service software for a customer support company.

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3 years ago

This startup is building a solution for companies that handle big data to build their own analytics applications on top of Hadoop.

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4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps businesses manage their phone calls with a single dashboard that can be accessed from any device. The founders say they’ve already had over 400,000 calls a month through their platform.

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4 years ago

A startup that allows businesses to manage their expenses, including all in-house expenses, software licenses, and other expenditure. The company was founded by two ex-Googlers, one of whom was the first employee at Google and the other had worked on Google's AdWords.

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3 years ago

An online platform that connects schools and businesses, allowing students to learn about careers by shadowing professionals for a day in their workplace. It’s a great way to introduce young people to the working world.

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2 years ago

A startup that connects employers with people who want to work from home. The company says it’s already had more than $1 million in revenue, and is growing quickly.

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3 years ago

A software company that helps drivers deliver packages to their doorsteps. The company says they’ve had to deal with many different delivery platforms, and there isn’t one that works well for drivers.

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3 years ago

A startup that allows people to book meetings with doctors and other medical professionals over the phone. The startup, founded in May, has already had more than 10,000 calls placed.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps whitepapers go viral by building a social network around them. WhiteHat Hacker has already had a 100,000 users sign up to its platform, and plans to release an app that lets a user make a white paper available to everyone they share a public email address with.

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4 years ago

A company that manages your rent and allows you to pay it with a credit card. The company says they’ve had over $500,000 in monthly revenue, and they’ve also had clients like the Delaware Public School System.

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3 years ago

A company that helps users track and manage their cryptocurrency assets, in a manner similar to their competitor Coinbase. The company is funded by the founders of Bibox, a Chinese exchange that has been involved in controversy before and has had expensive legal battles against the IRS.

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3 years ago

A startup that wants to help people avoid getting hit by cars. Their app, which is now in the US, has had over 1,000 downloads.

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4 years ago

A tool for building a list of people to invite to a job interview. The startup had a good response from the hiring world after it was featured in the New York Times.

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3 years ago

A SaaS HR software company that helps businesses like hotels and restaurants manage their staff, find new hires, and end-of-employment benefits. The company had its first round of funding in June.

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4 years ago

A wearable device designed for women to track sleep. The founders say their design and concept is inspired by the experience of their own mothers, and specifically the struggles they had with sleep disorders.

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4 years ago

This startup aims to bring access to credit to the estimated 2 billion people without it. In countries that have traditionally had difficulty accessing credit, the startup has been able to build a credit scoring model, and is now looking to bring that model to places with more need.

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3 years ago

A smart home platform that lets you control all your smart devices from one app. At launch, the company had over 3,000 users for its “Control” platform, which let you control light switches, thermostats, and more directly from one app.

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A group of three former Amazon employees have built a tool that helps guide people to the best deals. The company says they’ve had over 10,000 purchases through the app since launching in May.

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4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps multinational companies grow in emerging markets. The startup’s founders say they’ve had over 50% growth in the last six months.

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3 years ago

A financial services firm that helps business owners manage their finances. The firm’s founder, 19-year-old Christopher Cagney, says he came up with the idea after he saw a “bunch of people who had been ripped off” by their banks.

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4 years ago

A startup whose mission is to help people who have lost jobs or had their hours cut to find other work.

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3 years ago

A company that helps brands maintain their brand personalities across the web. The startup started in 2014 and has had to make some adjustments to its business model after being acquired by Rakuten for $300 million in 2018. It’s now a Rakuten company and expanding from the US to the Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions.

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3 years ago

A startup that “combines a credit card and a wallet” for users. In May the founder said it had $2 million in funding.

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3 years ago

In 2014, the number of accepted startups from Y Combinator had tripled since launching in the summer of 2010.

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3 years ago

In the spring of 2015, Y Combinator launched a branch in San Francisco as its first outside of Silicon Valley. It also expanded its new branch to Berlin, London, Toronto, and Madrid. By 2017, Y Combinator said it had over 150 active startups on its program.

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3 years ago

A dating app for those who’ve never had sex, for those who haven’t in a while, for those with certain medical conditions, for those who don’t want to meet up with people they don’t know well. It’s currently in the pre-launch stage, with a new version launching in August.

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3 years ago

A global platform to help small businesses find good talent. As of the end of July, the startup had 15,000 job offers on the platform.

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4 years ago

A software company building a web platform for small businesses to use for marketing and sales, with many of its customers already using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The company claims it’s already had over 1,000 customers sign up to use its platform, and has raised $1.2 million.

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3 years ago

This platform is meant to be a place where people can express their political beliefs and have conversations that they otherwise might not have had.

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3 years ago

In 2018, more than half of the companies in Y Combinator had been founded within the previous three years, with many of the companies founded in 2017.

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3 years ago

A company that aims to make it easier for companies and people to pay for things by using bitcoin. The startup has already had some success, with a half million users, but is still in the process of developing its own wallet.

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3 years ago

A social network for organizations that helps them better communicate, manage and track their projects and the impact they’ve had. Built on top of a powerful AI engine that can monitor, predict, and maximize the effectiveness of a company’s output.

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3 years ago

A startup that is building a ride-hail app for parents to get access to child care facilities and pick up kids from school. Previously, parents had to go to a parent-only school.

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3 years ago

An AI app that helps people plan their workout routines and get them to stick to them. The startup, which is aiming to launch in Q3 2019, has already had over $70,000 in funding and has already launched in the UK.

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2 years ago

An on-demand service for those who want to purchase a domain name that they can then use for their own business. The service was first launched in March, and the team has had 50 early adopters.

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3 years ago

A tool for creating websites and landing pages. The startup’s founders had built a similar tool for their own business, but realized that the majority of their work was spent on the “unfun” tasks of putting together a page.

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2 years ago

In 2014, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the number of Americans living in poverty had fallen from 15.2 million in 2007 to 12.5 million in 2013, but it remains at 20% of the population. In contrast, the poverty rate for China is around 3%, and for India it is roughly 20%.

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3 years ago

An online marketplace for jobs that pays you in cryptocurrency. The company says they’ve had over $1 million in monthly transactions and have helped hundreds of candidates find jobs.

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2 years ago

A payment processor that helps merchants accept payments in under a minute. The company had $54,700 in revenue in the previous quarter, up from $6,100 a year ago.

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3 years ago

The startup’s founders say they’ve had to raise over $14,000 to fund their efforts so far. The team is focused on creating a single management platform that can manage every aspect of a business, from HR to marketing to accounting to sales, and it’s already in private beta.

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3 years ago

An online real estate marketplace in Argentina with a focus on young buyers and sellers. The startup’s founders have local names, and say they’ve already had over 40,000 unique visitors per month.

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2 years ago

A utility for managing employees’ work hours. If you’ve ever had to stand in line at your boss’s office to get sub-par hours that are still more than what you’re currently working, you know how boring it can be.

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2 years ago

A new online bank with a focus on millennials and people who have had bad experiences with banks. The startup plans to be the bank for the unbanked

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3 years ago

The founders of this startup have been working in the tech industry for decades, however they have had no success starting companies. Some of their friends on LinkedIn have noticed that they have a lot of business cards and they don’t have a company. They wanted to build a company that helps other entrepreneurs — not just friends and family — to get off the ground.

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2 years ago

The founders of the startup had been using hammers for decades and decided to create a tool for anyone to use to make custom hammers.

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3 years ago

A tool for cleaning up your photos, with a focus on removing many of the imperfections that make modern photos look similar to each other. The startup says it has already had 5 million downloads and 4 million photos deleted.

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2 years ago

A company that helps people learn how to play the ukulele. They’ve had over 500 private lessons in their first four months.

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2 years ago

Hackable street light that lets people monitor it from their phone. The startup says they’ve had several businesses in the San Francisco area interested in a prototype.

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3 years ago 1 views

A software startup that wants to disrupt the insurance industry by allowing people to choose an insurance company based on their price and the experience they’ve had with that company in the past.

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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

Biospace is building a data platform that helps identify the types of genes that contribute to cancer. The startup, which was founded in March, has already had applications of their technology in the lab and clinical trials.

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2 years ago

A restaurant chain that has already built out a network of over 1,000 locations across the US. It’s now trying to build out a network of brick-and-mortar restaurants. As of June, it had 94 locations in the US.

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2 years ago

The incubator has been home to a number of startups that have gone on to raise significant funding rounds or have attracted large customers. As of March 2019, Y Combinator had $1.7 billion in total funding across its two funds.

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2 years ago

A web-based service for student loan debtors, currently in beta. The startup’s founders had both student loans and were really frustrated by the lack of resources to address them.

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2 years ago

A platform for data-driven decision making. As a startup, they had to secure a $1.5 million investment to get their product in the hands of customers.

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5 years ago

Idea: An online platform that helps companies post jobs in Africa and screen for the right candidates It was created by two brothers, one who had worked at Google, the other who had worked at Uber in Nigeria, where they were inspired to make it easier for companies to hire in Africa

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2 years ago

This product is designed to help people massage their muscles with light to help reduce pain and increase blood flow. It is the first product of its kind that uses a new kind of light therapy called near-infrared laser therapy. Cofounders Ryan and David Berger, both of whom have had shoulder problems, were the original inspirations for the product.

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2 years ago

An “online marketplace for event tickets”, which currently has a database of 150,000 tickets and has had over 40,000 unique ticket sales.

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2 years ago

In April 2017, Facebook announced a $1 billion investment in virtual reality company Oculus, with the vision for the two platforms to work together. However, the companies have since been involved in a dispute over the acquisition of Oculus, and subsequently, the sale of their VR software to Microsoft. In 2018, Facebook lost a motion for a summary judgement of fair trade and in June 2018, a jury found Oculus had a binding contract with Facebook.

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5 years ago

Idea: A SaaS CRM for the hospitality industry The company started with $20k in the bank, and by the end of 2015 had $33,000 in recurring revenue

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2 years ago

A startup that records, shares, and aggregates the history of conversations people have had with brands on social media.

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2 years ago

The team had been working on a variety of other startups before launching Birch:

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2 years ago

A crowdfunding campaign service, targeted at companies that have had problems with their last campaign.

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2 years ago

A platform for the sharing economy that connects all kinds of people who need rides with drivers who want to work. It’s a business that’s split into three parts: a marketplace, a pool, and a technology platform. It also had a recent partnership with Lyft.

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2 years ago

The startup founder, Aarti Krishnan, had been a software engineer at Facebook for six years before deciding to start her own company. She was inspired by a friend’s experience of starting a business, and is helping women in the US start their own businesses.

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to help them get their driver’s license (maybe they’re from out of state and don’t have one, or maybe they’ve had problems with bad driving and need help getting

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5 years ago

Idea: Web-based user interface for managing, monitoring, and visualizing Hadoop clusters

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5 years ago

The event was held on a larger scale than any previous TechCrunch event. It had a venue capacity of 2,500 people, and received 2,200 applications to attend.

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