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A cloud-hosted platform that helps small companies and startups grow.

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A cloud-hosted chat platform with built-in support for text, voice and video, and an API to build custom integrations.

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The Startup Grind podcast is a weekly podcast about entrepreneurship, hosted by founders of SBJ’s own portfolio companies.

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Diverse companies that have to deal with enormous data volumes are looking to make their data analysis more efficient with a hosted, cloud-based analytics service.

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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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This startup is building a super fast service for running machine learning algorithms on a cluster of computers, hosted by Amazon EC2 and using the company’s Machine Learning Service.

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A self-hosted online classroom for teachers, allowing them to bring their classes online. They’re looking for co-founders to help build out the platform.

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A startup that helps users create digital assets and manage them. It's a sort of self-hosted Dropbox for the digital world.

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A company that wants to help businesses advertise on their own websites. It offers hosted advertising and a platform to create custom ads.

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Ticket sales for anime conventions and concerts, with a focus on anime conventions. The startup works with publishers and artists to build events, and has already hosted events at Anime Expo, Tokyo’s Anime Digital Expo, and Anime Boston.

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An online community for entrepreneurs and innovators. With over 3,000 members, it’s hosted by a number of founders, including Evan Williams. The startup has raised $8M to date.

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A platform that allows people to crowdsource their ideas and work with others to turn them into reality. The startup hosted its first hackathon in Tel Aviv in October.

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A CPA firm that helps small businesses go paperless by launching them into the cloud and offering them a low-cost, fully-hosted accounting package.

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The company is looking to provide an “app store” for home-based businesses, letting them easily create custom apps for their business, using the startup’s API, hosted on their own servers

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The Specialized Technology Fund (STF) is a $25 million venture fund hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, where it was founded in 2011. The fund is meant to facilitate the creation of new technologies that can improve the lives of people in developing countries. It is the first university-backed venture fund focused on developing technologies for developing countries. The fund is run by the university's Haas School of Business.

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A feature-rich, fully-hosted virtual networking and collaboration platform for businesses. The startup says it has 1,000 paying users, including YC companies.

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A startup that wants to trip up criminals on the dark web with its browser extensions, which will show you where the site is hosted and how secure it is.

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The Y Combinator events also hosted a number of side events with non-YC startups, including a Startup Battlefield event that featured startups from other incubators. As with the main event, startup pitches were split into teams of 4-5 people, which was organized by Y Combinator, the incubator, and the startup. The teams would then have the chance to pitch their businesses to a panel of judges.

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A platform that lets a brand manage their marketing, social media, and search on one platform. It’s available as a hosted service, or on the IBM Cloud as a managed service.

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The first annual Startup Battlefield took place in 2016, and was hosted by the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival. The event brought together over 60 startups from across the United States and around the world.

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A self-hosted, free, open-source program for health-tracking.

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A platform that connects online users with nearby people to attend live events, like conferences and meetups. The startup has already hosted a few events and has a few hundred paid users.

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A social network for people who want to make and share photos at the same time. The startup says it has already hosted over 1 million photo-based social events.

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Idea: Open source, self-hosted analytics for ecommerce

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A SaaS provider offering free cloud-hosted customer service for small businesses.

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A simple, self-hosted WordPress site for small businesses. It will be made available for free for businesses with fewer than 10 users.

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A data-analytics platform for the cannabis industry. It’s a cloud service that helps marijuana dispensaries run their businesses more efficiently. The startup’s makers say it’s hosted by The ArcView Group, one of the nation’s largest cannabis consulting firms.

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Tomo is building a way to make it easier for businesses and other organizations to handle their customer data. They’re a self-hosted app for multiple cloud providers, letting people create databases and use them for marketing, CRM, and analytics.

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A web-hosted project management tool where projects can be assigned tasks and milestones, as well as tracked.

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2 years ago

Co-working space for freelancers, located in New York City. The space is designed to encourage collaboration, with desks scattered around the common areas and a large kitchen. Red Kettle says it’s already hosted over 150 startups, and is currently looking to expand.

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A startup building a way to enable people to buy and sell goods, with all transactions going through a platform that is hosted by the consumer and controlled by the seller. The startup’s technology provides a way for people to accept payments with the click of a button.

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Apollo is an enterprise-grade, hosted, private cloud for developers. It wants to be a cloud that enables developers to build critical software, and has even made an API available to anyone. It helps businesses save money on cloud-based infrastructure.

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A self-hosted, flat-rate conference call service

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A self-hosted video platform built on top of YouTube. The founders say they want to ensure that creators can get paid fairly when using their platform.

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Idea: A podcast for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It’s called “Sales & Marketing” and it’s hosted by two former startup founders.

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Idea: The world’s first self-hosted JavaScript IDE

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Idea: A free, full-stack, hosted CI/CD platform for web and mobile apps

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Idea: A startup building a mobile app that helps people make year-long commitments to a goal. It’s a self-hosted tool that’s currently free, but looks to monetize with premium features.

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Hosted Startup Ideas

A cloud-hosted platform that helps small companies and startups grow.

A cloud-hosted chat platform with built-in support for text, voice and video, and an API to build custom integrations.

The Startup Grind podcast is a weekly podcast about entrepreneurship, hosted by founders of SBJ’s own portfolio companies.

Diverse companies that have to deal with enormous data volumes are looking to make their data analysis more efficient with a hosted, cloud-based analytics service.

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.

This startup is building a super fast service for running machine learning algorithms on a cluster of computers, hosted by Amazon EC2 and using the company’s Machine Learning Service.

A self-hosted online classroom for teachers, allowing them to bring their classes online. They’re looking for co-founders to help build out the platform.

A startup that helps users create digital assets and manage them. It's a sort of self-hosted Dropbox for the digital world.

A company that wants to help businesses advertise on their own websites. It offers hosted advertising and a platform to create custom ads.

Ticket sales for anime conventions and concerts, with a focus on anime conventions. The startup works with publishers and artists to build events, and has already hosted events at Anime Expo, Tokyo’s Anime Digital Expo, and Anime Boston.

An online community for entrepreneurs and innovators. With over 3,000 members, it’s hosted by a number of founders, including Evan Williams. The startup has raised $8M to date.

A platform that allows people to crowdsource their ideas and work with others to turn them into reality. The startup hosted its first hackathon in Tel Aviv in October.

A CPA firm that helps small businesses go paperless by launching them into the cloud and offering them a low-cost, fully-hosted accounting package.

The company is looking to provide an “app store” for home-based businesses, letting them easily create custom apps for their business, using the startup’s API, hosted on their own servers

A feature-rich, fully-hosted virtual networking and collaboration platform for businesses. The startup says it has 1,000 paying users, including YC companies.

A startup that wants to trip up criminals on the dark web with its browser extensions, which will show you where the site is hosted and how secure it is.

A platform that lets a brand manage their marketing, social media, and search on one platform. It’s available as a hosted service, or on the IBM Cloud as a managed service.

The first annual Startup Battlefield took place in 2016, and was hosted by the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival. The event brought together over 60 startups from across the United States and around the world.

A self-hosted, free, open-source program for health-tracking.

A platform that connects online users with nearby people to attend live events, like conferences and meetups. The startup has already hosted a few events and has a few hundred paid users.

A social network for people who want to make and share photos at the same time. The startup says it has already hosted over 1 million photo-based social events.

Idea: Open source, self-hosted analytics for ecommerce

A SaaS provider offering free cloud-hosted customer service for small businesses.

A simple, self-hosted WordPress site for small businesses. It will be made available for free for businesses with fewer than 10 users.

A data-analytics platform for the cannabis industry. It’s a cloud service that helps marijuana dispensaries run their businesses more efficiently. The startup’s makers say it’s hosted by The ArcView Group, one of the nation’s largest cannabis consulting firms.

Tomo is building a way to make it easier for businesses and other organizations to handle their customer data. They’re a self-hosted app for multiple cloud providers, letting people create databases and use them for marketing, CRM, and analytics.

A web-hosted project management tool where projects can be assigned tasks and milestones, as well as tracked.

Co-working space for freelancers, located in New York City. The space is designed to encourage collaboration, with desks scattered around the common areas and a large kitchen. Red Kettle says it’s already hosted over 150 startups, and is currently looking to expand.

A startup building a way to enable people to buy and sell goods, with all transactions going through a platform that is hosted by the consumer and controlled by the seller. The startup’s technology provides a way for people to accept payments with the click of a button.

Apollo is an enterprise-grade, hosted, private cloud for developers. It wants to be a cloud that enables developers to build critical software, and has even made an API available to anyone. It helps businesses save money on cloud-based infrastructure.

A self-hosted, flat-rate conference call service

A self-hosted video platform built on top of YouTube. The founders say they want to ensure that creators can get paid fairly when using their platform.

Idea: A podcast for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It’s called “Sales & Marketing” and it’s hosted by two former startup founders.

Idea: The world’s first self-hosted JavaScript IDE

Idea: A free, full-stack, hosted CI/CD platform for web and mobile apps

Idea: A startup building a mobile app that helps people make year-long commitments to a goal. It’s a self-hosted tool that’s currently free, but looks to monetize with premium features.