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4 years ago

A digital platform for automated room service ordering in hotels. Users can order from a menu of the hotel’s dishes, and the order is sent to the kitchen directly. The startup is working with a dozen hotels in India.

1,109
5 years ago

A startup that sells a box of essential tools for people who are traveling abroad !!!

669
2 years ago

We've all sent emails at work with typos and typos-of-typos, but this startup wants to make the process of fixing typos easier.

555
5 years ago

A tool to help users keep track of their spending, which can be shared with others. It also provides a monthly report on spending, which is sent to the user via email.

374
5 years ago

A startup that is building a consumer-facing app that’s essentially a data-driven diary. The startup wants to help people understand what they’re eating, how much they’re exercising, etc.

344
5 years ago

A startup that helps people on the US-Mexico border get groceries and other essentials from Walmart

303
3 years ago

Combining data science and machine learning with social media sentiment analysis to predict the likelihood that a new product will be a hit.

283
2 years ago

Social media monitoring startup focused on helping brands and agencies track sentiment on social media. The startup is focused on helping brands track competitors’ message and content sharing across social media.

271
5 years ago

A startup that sells monthly boxes of essential tools for people who are traveling abroad

228
4 years ago

A platform for creating and sharing high quality screencasts for web apps, with a focus on creating screen casts for websites. Essentially, it wants to be the video editing equivalent of the “Slideshow” feature in Word or “Compose” in a browser. A $50,000 investment in June and a partnership with Apple followed soon after.

210
4 years ago

A solution for data scientists to turn their computer code into visualizations that can be used in presentations.

186
4 years ago

A startup building a dashboard for small businesses, essentially a toolset that allows small businesses to manage their online presence in one place.

184
3 years ago

This startup is building a smart jacket for dogs. It’s essentially a wearable dog leash that lets you bring your pet anywhere, such as to a cafe, park, or hotel.

180
5 years ago

The University of New South Wales presents the Startup Genome annually.

178
5 years ago

In the summer of 2016, the Y Combinator Summer School launched a $100,000 scholarship for students who attend the program. The scholarship is awarded to graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds.

176
5 years ago

This is a game that teaches players about the history of transportation, from the earliest days of the wheel to the present. The game has been played over 100 million times.

176
5 years ago

A platform that helps English language learners practice by presenting them with text in a way that will help them understand.

175
4 years ago

Free-to-play game that’s essentially a “Neverwinter Nights” clone, allowing players to create their own character and craft their own story. Their goal is to allow players to create entirely unique experiences. The game will launch on Steam later this year.

174
4 years ago

A platform, built by Google, that lets you order business essentials in bulk and save money by buying in advance.

171
3 years ago

A startup that helps people build a profile of their past selves and present selves by creating a “personal timeline”.

171
5 years ago

A way to keep track of what’s being sent between two strangers, without someone having to physically keep an eye on it.

170
4 years ago

"We're a team of entrepreneurs who formed to create a company that helps the world's most powerful brands get more relevant and influential messages sent their way."

169
5 years ago

A startup that sells essential oil diffusers

167
3 years ago

A startup that is creating a shared inbox for people and businesses to get their communications from services like Slack, Gmail, and Trello organized and sent to the correct person or business.

165
5 years ago

HousingBridge is building a new kind of mortgage broker, which essentially performs mortgage origination services for large banks. The company is headquartered in New York and has offices in Chicago and San Francisco.

163
5 years ago

A startup that lets you create videos and images with text in the background in real-time to create what’s called a "Voxel" — an image with a 3D representation of a text sentence.

162
3 years ago

A startup that lets you know if your health insurance policy will pay for a medication before you buy it, essentially providing a “pre-approval” for your doctor to prescribe it.

161
3 years ago

A way to pay your friends back for things they’ve done for you, like a small payment that can be sent as a text message.

161
5 years ago

A platform that allows businesses to send out automated emails from a customer service representative. The company is building the technology to replace the phone call.

159
4 years ago

WeWork, which lets you rent out desks and office space by the hour, is expanding its services to include space for meetings, presentations, and training.

159
5 years ago

"The world’s first social dating app for underrepresented groups,” which is to say, people of color.

158
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they come to your house and stock up your refrigerator with the essentials

155
5 years ago

 A startup that gives people a way to create a mascot to represent their business

153
5 years ago

This startup lets a lawyer write a letter for a client that looks like it was written by the client, but all the essential details are still correct.

152
4 years ago

A mobile app for businesses that represent the next generation of mobile commerce. The startup built a platform for Facebook to build its Messenger platform into businesses, and has 10,000 businesses using it.

152
5 years ago

Matching job seekers with employers, coupled with goal-setting and coaching, could help reduce the representation of men in the American workforce.

151
5 years ago

A healthcare service that provides a platform for human resources to view and search through the health records of employees. Providers can also use the platform to set up secure access for their employees, and then billing details are sent automatically.

151
5 years ago

Lever provides a free, open source platform for all kinds of digital content including documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and even video. Lever is transforming the way people collaborate and learn.

151
5 years ago

The list is not all-inclusive, but we've tried to include a representative sample of the many companies, startups, and other organizations in the Philadelphia tech scene.

150
5 years ago

An iPhone-based app for tracking your health and habits, along with the data from your FitBit. The app averages out your personal data and presents a picture of how healthy you are overall.

149
3 years ago

This is a service that helps car dealerships automate the process of selling cars through customer service. It’s a way to outsource the work of selling cars to customer service representatives.

146
5 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the transparency of online voting to the world of online retail, where many retailers don’t always do their best to represent their products to their customers.

145
4 years ago

A technology startup that is building a platform that will be able to help companies evaluate, discover and manage talent — it’s essentially a way for recruiters to manage their entire talent pipeline and onboard candidates.

145
3 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help Indian businesses dismiss their employees. Instead of sending a letter, you pay to have a letter that says you’re firing someone sent by email.

145
5 years ago

This startup will help people create powerpoint-style presentations with built-in live video.

140
5 years ago

A software platform for creating presentations for meetings and meetings for presentations.

140
5 years ago

A platform that helps colleges and universities manage and share course-related data. The company claims to have over 300 clients, and at present has over 10M enrolled students.

139
3 years ago

A startup that focuses on bringing school supplies and other essentials to kids in developing countries.

139
3 years ago

The New England Aquarium has just added a new exhibit called the “Eco-Dome”, which is a way to turn the existing aquarium into a living representation of the ocean. The exhibit will be a hands-on experience that allows visitors to see the conditions of plastic, microbeads, and other ocean waste in the wild.

139
3 years ago

The District app helps people find a lawyer, file a case if needed, and get legal advice. It’s a digital platform that helps people find legal representation and decision support.

139
5 years ago

A bicycle sharing startup that's looking to build a global network of bike-sharing services. The company wants to bring bike sharing to places it's been absent thus far.

135
5 years ago

An analytics startup for small to medium-sized businesses that collects and analyzes data on online purchases. The startup also provides a tool that allows companies to schedule their marketing content to be sent out at specific times during the week.

134
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for people to record a speech or presentation and then have it transcribed

133
5 years ago

Firms can collect data on their customers and then have that data sent to the cloud and analyzed for insights. The company currently has the same set-up as a consulting firm before being purchased by a larger firm.

132
5 years ago

A startup that helps people create and sell custom clothing through a web browser without having to design the entire garment from scratch. Loom wants to help consumers sell their clothing as a service — it’s essentially an Uber for fashion.

131
5 years ago

A company that’s building a web app that makes it easy for non-technical users to create and update documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

131
4 years ago

New York based startup that is taking the stress out of managing your own private cloud, allowing you to manage your own servers, backups, and other essential infrastructure.

130
5 years ago

An artificial intelligence platform that allows companies to analyze the sentiment of images and videos on social media, helping them make better marketing decisions.

128
5 years ago

A startup that makes it cheaper and faster for online businesses to choose the best suppliers. It’s essentially a marketplace for business to compare suppliers.

128
5 years ago

A personal computer for managing back pain. It’s essentially a smartphone that sits on a medical table and provides a diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and a system for collecting patient data.

128
4 years ago

The startup uses digital technology to help prevent fraud in the food supply chain, essentially helping to prevent food poisoning in a way that’s less intrusive than the E. coli outbreak that occurred in the fall.

127
5 years ago

DropBox for consumer goods, allowing you to send an item to your DropBox account, get a notification when it arrives, and have it sent back to you.

126
5 years ago

A company that uses artificial intelligence to help people be more persuasive with their conversations. Their best bet is to use AI to take sentences that a person says and make them more convincing.

124
5 years ago

A startup for users to text in a short sentence and have it translated into a dozen languages in real time. The startup currently has 25 beta testers.

123
5 years ago

Ex-Google engineers are building a new living room device they call the “Echo” that’s essentially a giant voice-controlled speaker. The device is a stripped-down, Google-made version of the Google Home, and can be controlled by voice, music, and TV apps. It’s set to launch in November.

122
4 years ago

A company that helps employees get paid even if their company is out of money. A startup called Yieldbot essentially acts as a middle man between companies and their employees.

122
5 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help people find the best doctors, dentists and other medical professionals in their area. The startup is looking to build out a health care recommendation system based on personalized data from the patient’s current doctor. Gives the patient a recommendation, which is then sent to the doctor, where they can then make a decision on how to proceed. The company is looking to launch in early 2021.

121
5 years ago

This startup is building a tool to automatically find data entry errors and fix them before the document is sent to customers.

120
5 years ago

A new way to store and manage your digital media. The team at Briefly is building a platform that enables users to “train” their computer to automatically organize and discover their files, and then creates a “smart folder” that’s a digital representation of the physical one.

120
5 years ago

A platform for backpackers to connect with people and earn money, essentially.

119
5 years ago

A new way to personalize a conference that helps you book a room, attend a presentation, and find a new friend.

119
5 years ago

A company that’s looking to disrupt the insurance market by providing a platform for users to buy and sell insurance plans across the web, essentially creating the world’s largest market for insurance on the internet.

118
5 years ago

A company that conducts regular polls to help companies measure consumer sentiment.

117
5 years ago

A company that makes a smartphone app that is essentially a robo-advisor. The startup will use data from the app to make recommendations for the user.

114
5 years ago

A new startup that creates “micro-apps” for Web sites and apps, which are small pieces of software that can be embedded into a site or app to do powerful things like pull data from an external API and present it in a way that’s easy to use. For instance, one startup called Jingo lets small-business owners track employee schedules by giving them a “checklist” embedded in their website.

112
5 years ago

This startup is building a platform for restaurants to manage their staff’s schedules and payments. Redshift is essentially a company payroll app that helps restaurants manage their scheduling and payroll in a scalable way.

109
4 years ago

A software that uses a data-driven approach to help identify potential drivers of consumer sentiment.

108
5 years ago

A company to help online retailers in China tackle the country’s ever-present counterfeit goods problem. The startup offers services such as in-store analytics, product testing, and education.

103
5 years ago

A company that helps major brands like Target and Chipotle via a “three-second check-in” that lets customers add a fast, simple rating to a product to build a sentiment score for it.

102
4 years ago

A startup that allows people to make local videos, and then sell them to advertisers, essentially turning them into a YouTube-style video creator.

99
4 years ago

A tool for making presentations in a Google Doc.

99
4 years ago

“A product discovery platform for product teams”. It’s essentially like a resume manager that lets you see what your peers are doing in other companies, and gauge how you stack up against them.

96
4 years ago

A startup that makes it possible to play League of Legends without loading up 20 minutes of video. The app pulls high-level play out of the video and presents it in a condensed format, with highlights and stats.

95
4 years ago

A startup that allows for a visual representation of any API, to help developers quickly see what information they have access to.

95
4 years ago

Ideny is a platform that lets users share their ideas in written form, get feedback from others, and see a live visual representation of their ideas – so they can see how others are responding to their thoughts. Their results indicate that they’ve successfully engaged more than 80,000 people in the process.

94
4 years ago

This startup is building an app that allows speakers and presenters to publish and sell their presentations offline — and to do so on their own terms.

94
4 years ago

A tool that helps users create visual representations of their email accounts in order to better manage them.

94
5 years ago

A tool meant to simplify the process of building and maintaining a slide deck for an investor presentation in order to minimize the need for custom development.

93
2 years ago

An employee-benefit platform that helps companies, employees and HR professionals design plans that can be sent electronically to the plan.

89
4 years ago

A B2B company building a platform that helps energy companies manage their energy spending and present it in a way that’s easy to understand.

88
4 years ago

A video conference system that’s “a complete, unified communication and collaboration platform that allows companies to securely connect, share and present video, even if an individual is miles away”.

88
3 years ago

A startup to help people make good financial decisions by presenting them with an income forecast for every month of a job and helping them see how much they need to save for retirement.

88
4 years ago

A startup for connecting people with legal representation when they’re in trouble.

87
3 years ago

A health-focused startup provides a service that automatically pulls in data from the patient’s phone and presents it in a way that helps them make better decisions.

87
4 years ago

A tool that helps make sharing a central focus of a workplace environment. It’s essentially an internal messaging system for companies that use Slack.

86
4 years ago

A startup that lets people text a friend and have it sent to their phone as a reminder.

86
5 years ago

A video platform that allows users to create and curate content in real time. It’s essentially a competitor for Meerkat and Periscope. The startup wants to be a place for people to interact with each other on-demand.

84
4 years ago

a startup building a search engine that crawls the internet for duplicates, then presents a list of options to the user. They’re building a free version that’s already available in the Chrome store, and a paid version that’s not yet.

84
4 years ago

A breadcrumb-based application that helps you find the nearest bakery, bakery cafe, or bakery cafe cafe. It’s essentially a Yelp for bread.

83
4 years ago

A web-based tool for hiring customer service representatives who can use their real-time chat to handle support calls.

83
4 years ago

A startup that helps find and book essential medical appointments anywhere.

82
4 years ago

This platform provides a way for people to “pay friends with bitcoin”, essentially allowing you to transfer money to a friend in a peer-to-peer way.

82
4 years ago

A digital platform to track the condition of your car’s parts. It’s essentially a modern version of a mechanic’s notebook.

82
3 years ago

Intrinsic is building a way for anyone to track their credit card spending on the web, giving them a visual representation of their spending habits.

82
4 years ago

A startup that lets people earn money by helping their friends book trips. At present, the company has partnered with Airbnb and Kayak to help people book their own trips.

81
3 years ago

A startup that lets you ask a bunch of questions, and then gives you personalized answers from experts. You’re presented with a bunch of questions, and then given a series of answers from other users. The answers are often things you wouldn’t have known to ask.

81
4 years ago

A startup that aggregates all of the world’s data on climate change and presents it in an easy-to-digest format.

79
4 years ago

An AI-powered product to help companies understand the sentiment around their products. They’re currently working with 100 small and medium sized companies.

79
4 years ago

A startup that has built an AI-powered platform to manage the growth of your startup’s social media engagement, allowing the company to monitor customer sentiment, measure engagement, and optimize their content.

79
4 years ago

A startup that wants to help people find a doctor appointment or store. It’s essentially an online concierge service that connects consumers to local providers.

79
4 years ago

If kids are being sent to school by themselves, they may do poorly if they’re already scared of new situations. To help kids transition, the startup will send them to a therapist to help them “develop a calming presence” that they can use throughout their school life.

79
2 years ago

Helping people with their social media presence, the company gives people an avatar they can customize with different avatars that represent their different roles.

79
4 years ago

A company that’s looking to solve the problem of tracking and maintaining essential household appliances and cars.

77
4 years ago

The company’s vision is to make the process of creating a video game “as simple as making a PowerPoint presentation”. It wants to make video game creation accessible to non-programmers, and today’s software for that is too difficult to use.

76
4 years ago

Pitchbook presents two popular pitch events: the "Pitch It" event and the "Pitch It" event.

76
4 years ago

A startup that helps people manage and record social interactions, and then presents it as a graph on a website.

76
4 years ago

A digital platform for women, who are often underrepresented in the tech industry, to access and develop their ideas.

76
4 years ago

FuturePundit helps companies in the US and Europe to better understand how consumers’ online comments and reviews will affect their sales, and how such sentiment can be used to decide on future marketing and sales strategies.

74
4 years ago

A company that makes a software that tracks all the emails sent or received by any one person.

74
4 years ago

A company that offers a closed-loop technology for managing real-time customer service representatives. Unbounce’s system enables companies to manage customer interactions in real-time, and give back control of the customer’s experience to the organization.

73
4 years ago

A VR/AR platform that uses 3D scans of real estate to present you with a virtual walkthrough of a home or apartment. The startup is currently in private beta and has raised $1.5M.

73
3 years ago

A startup that allows users to broadcast video messages and have them sent to phone numbers and text messages.

73
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

72
4 years ago

A data visualization tool that offers individualized reports for each user, combining data from multiple sources and presenting them to an end user in a way that is easy to digest. The company’s first product, released in 2019, is for healthcare and financial services.

71
4 years ago

The startup is building a full-stack platform to help companies manage their own internal customer service, essentially taking the customer service team out of the sales cycle.

71
3 years ago

This startup is a “smarter way of sending money”, replacing paper checks with digital payments. The startup is essentially a digital alternative to pre-paid gift cards.

71
2 years ago

The startup is creating a way for users to use their personal media content in presentations and meetings.

71
4 years ago

A digital representation of a physical card game for the internet, replacing the physical card deck with a virtual one. The startup’s founder says they’re close to the top 500 in the iPhone app store. They have a few hundred users.

70
4 years ago

A team of three full stack engineers, two graphics designers, and a marketing lead, Capital’s goal is to disrupt the legal sector of the marketplace by providing a full service legal shop. Capital is a firm that represents individuals and small businesses in a variety of legal matters. The team is currently focusing on the representation of individuals, but also does work for small businesses.

70
4 years ago

A company that helps other companies create and use “smart contracts”, essentially creating decentralized software that runs on the blockchain and helps solve business problems.

69
4 years ago

A company that aims to help people and companies plan sales and sales presentations online. They're currently working on a product for sales managers who want to be more strategic about sales by designing sales presentations ahead of time.

69
4 years ago

A Slack-like platform for online chat rooms and one-on-one messaging using customizable avatars to represent each user.

69
3 years ago

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to create “magic” applications that can read and interpret data in multiple formats and present it in visual and understandable ways.

69
3 years ago

A “solution for consumers to manage their personal finances”, the startup wants to essentially let users manage their personal finances on their phone.

69
3 years ago

A strategy game that teaches people how to think strategically by presenting both positive and negative scenarios.

69
2 years ago

A startup that makes it easier to manage a group of people who share the same set of interests, sent messages to each other, and get updates from each other. It’s basically a more robust version of a group text.

69
3 years ago

A software system that makes it easy to order medical supplies through an online form and have them sent directly to the patient.

68
3 years ago

A text marketing tool that helps users to create text campaigns that are sent to their audiences at a per-click rate. The startup launched in January but has only been used by 22 people.

68
3 years ago

A real time, data-driven sentiment analysis for financial markets that predicts the next move, based on their historical data.

67
4 years ago

A company that enforces anti-spam policies and sends notifications to email accounts that have sent messages that’ve been flagged by the platform.

66
3 years ago

A company that’s developing technology to help people with disabilities who rely on electrical assistive devices to communicate with technology. Essentially, the startups is building a sensor that is easily connected to a computer, and when someone presses the button, the computer responds.

66
3 years ago

Eclipsum is a startup that is making it easier for users to create visual presentations with the use of “smart” software. The software runs on a laptop, tablet, or smartphone and allows users to create and share interactive graphs, charts, and maps.

66
3 years ago

A three-year-old startup that offers a social networking platform for people who are underrepresented in the tech industry — women and minorities.

66
3 years ago

E-commerce site that helps users compare products by price, function, and other factors, with a focus on helping women, who are not as well-represented in comparison sites.

66
2 years ago

A mobile app that helps people inject consent to their posts, allowing them to create posts with biometric data without the burden of having to manually type in their passwords.

66
4 years ago

A system that helps you create compelling presentations by automatically capturing slides, then automatically creating videos for your content.

63
4 years ago

This startup is building an artificial intelligence that can read texts, detect sentiment, and predict the intent of a text. The company claims it can help organizations eliminate “false positives” and focus on the right people, at the right time.

63
4 years ago

A tool for users to “design better apps”. The app essentially does the same thing as a prototyping tool, but for app design. It essentially lets you create a mock-up of your app in a design app, then export it to an actual app to use.

63
3 years ago

A startup that lets small businesses take a picture of an invoice and have it automatically sent to the debtor’s email inbox, or printed out if they’re unable to copy and paste the email.

63
3 years ago

This startup wants to replace the manual process of gathering data from social networks with a software solution. It’ll aggregate data from multiple social networks and present it in a way that’ll allow users to make better decisions.

63
3 years ago

A company that wants to bring health insurance to the world’s poorest. The startup is already in talks with the government of the Philippines about expanding the product, and is sending representatives to India to talk about it too.

62
4 years ago

A digital notebook for recording and annotating presentations.

61
4 years ago

A platform designed to help independent musicians, record labels, and music supervisors build digital distribution platforms. It hosts collectives, which are essentially websites for independent bands, allowing artists to share their music, playlists, and receive royalties.

61
4 years ago

A startup that sells webinars that present real-life examples of how to use your tech product.

61
2 years ago

A way to collaborate with others on an audio recording, which is then sent out to the world. It’s a combination of Google Music and Skype.

60
4 years ago

 A startup that wants to help people use their own existing content as a source for their brands. It’s essentially a feed builder for social media, where a user can build a feed from their own feed. The startup’s founders say they’ve reached 10,000 users right after launching, and have doubled in size in the past month.

59
4 years ago

A startup that helps people make smart purchases based on their personal style. The app uses a proprietary algorithm to recommend items based on presented trends, using a “personality profile” to make purchases.

58
3 years ago

This startup is a distribution platform for home goods. They are currently working with partnerships with several brands, including Royal Caribbean and Quintessentially.

58
3 years ago

A machine that prints out your designs, like a 3-D printer, but for essentially any object, meaning you could print out a phone case, mug, or shirt. The machines, which look like a 3-D printer, are rolling out in the US and will be in the UK by the end of the year.

58
3 years ago

A free, open-source software application that helps people protect and manage their digital assets with a consent-based approach. The tool allows users to provide explicit consent before they let their data be used.

58
3 years ago

This company is looking to disrupt the marketing and sales industry by connecting companies with people interested in working for them. It’s a tool for recruiting, and connects the two parties so recruiters can find people interested in the companies they represent.

58
3 years ago

The Startup Pitch Competition is held annually at Y Combinator. Since 2012, over 150 teams have participated in the competition, where a panel of judges evaluates every team's presentation. The top 20 teams participate in an on-stage interview with a panel of judges, after which two teams are selected to move on to the company presentation stage.

58
4 years ago

A “smart” train that can read and understand which cars are unoccupied and stop them from being sent down the tracks.

57
3 years ago

A company that wants to provide a different type of “digital twin” for companies, an online representation of the physical asset.

57
2 years ago

A tool for presenting data in an interactive way.

57
3 years ago

A company that makes it easy for people in the US to register for and apply for EU residence cards through an application on their smartphone, and have them sent to them.

56
3 years ago

A tool to create visualizations of spatial data. The tool works by taking data from an API, and generates a graphical representation that shows the data in a new way.

56
3 years ago

A group of photographers who create a “worldwide portfolio of travel images”, focusing on “underrepresented cultures”.

56
4 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the convenience of Evernote-like note taking to PowerPoint presentations.

55
3 years ago

A tool that brings together data from multiple sources and presents it in a single place.

55
3 years ago

A product for creating videos and photos to go with presentations.

55
3 years ago

A startup that’s trying to bring the messaging platforms of the future to the present.

55
3 years ago

A startup that’s essentially Airbnb for VR. They allow users to host virtual tours of their homes and events in VR.

55
3 years ago

A software platform that helps brands understand their audience, by making use of CRM, sentiment analysis, and other data and insights. They have over 50 customers with a combined annual recurring revenue of $10 billion.

54
2 years ago

A “fashion and travel” app that is essentially a lifestyle directory. It’s a category that’s been crowded with competitors, but Zara says it has a unique combination of a curated store and exclusive content.

54
4 years ago

A “situational awareness” app for drone pilots. Essentially it’s a way to keep pilots of small UAVs in the loop with what’s happening around them, at the same time as they’re operating.

53
3 years ago

This startup is developing a new way to manage calls. The company wants to provide a way for call center representatives to manage their job while they’re on the phone with customers, and cut down the amount of time they spend away from the desk.

53
3 years ago

A startup that wants to create a one-stop marketplace for healthcare and home goods — from doctor’s appointments to kitchen essentials. It’s a B2B business, with healthcare providers handing over their patients to a doctor to manage their care and sending in goods.

53
2 years ago

This startup builds digital credentials for teens and young adults at risk of dropping out of high school, aiming to help them learn essential skills like reading and math, improve their confidence, and help them graduate. It’s being used in Washington D.C. and in schools in the Bronx.

53
3 years ago

A product that helps people to manage their food allergies and reactions. Once you set up a profile, the company creates an interactive shopping list, which can be sent to your phone as a notification.

52
4 years ago

An AI-driven platform for insurance companies to manage customer accounts and bill payments. It will also offer insurers a way to present better offers to their customers. It’s already in the process of signing up a million customers in Brazil.

51
4 years ago

Introduces the concept of “smart contracts” to the world of eCommerce. Essentially, it’s a smart contract that’s built on the Ethereum blockchain.

51
3 years ago

 A company building an application for iPhone and Android that helps users prevent identity theft, by sending alerts and notifications to users when their personal information is used to make a purchase, and even to notify users when their information is being used without their consent.

51
3 years ago

A B2B company that’s building a platform to help companies identify and manage the best people and content for different jobs in different industries. They work with recruiters and hiring managers to comb through hundreds of candidates and their portfolios and create a single searchable database of the best candidates possible, then present those candidates to companies in real-time as they fill open positions.

50
3 years ago

A startup that helps refugees and asylum seekers to find legal representation in the United States.

50
2 years ago

A web-based tool for managing and sharing “professional content” like presentations, videos, stories, and more. The company wants to create “an online environment where professionals can share their content with a community of peers and followers in a way that is both simple and engaging”.

50
4 years ago

A startup that makes a tool to help people with visual impairments view and manipulate digital content, by creating a 3D representation of images and text. The goal of the startup is to give the blind access to the same content that is available to sighted people.

49
3 years ago

A startup that lets anyone create a token to represent themselves online. The company is looking to sell the tokens for $1 each, and offers a selection of pre-made tokens to get people started.

49
3 years ago

Since the economic crisis, companies have been struggling to find the best way to track their internal performance. HR software company TheWorkPlace has launched a new product that turns spreadsheets into actionable information, presenting managers with data on employee performance in real-time.

48
3 years ago

Essentially, a personal dating app with the goal of creating a more systematic, less chaotic way of matching people up. Potential users include people who have a special interest in a specific topic and want to find like-minded people.

48
3 years ago

A tool for building PowerPoint presentations that uses the latest design and content tools, including CSS3 and HTML5.

48
5 years ago

Idea: The startup is building a tool that automatically writes a person’s will and will updates, letting you track wills from multiple users in the same account. It’s built on top of a free service that lets you write a will once and store it with them. They’re aiming to replace legal representatives with their software, while still giving users the option to use a lawyer.

47
3 years ago

A startup focused on the idea that “the future is here” and that the “present is not what it used to be”. Founded in 2018, it has written and produced 9 episodes so far.

47
3 years ago

Yupi is an app-based ordering system designed to replace the need to call in an order or visit a restaurant. The startup is building an app that allows customers to order food, and the app will call the chef and place the order, which gets then sent directly to the kitchen. The chef can also text back and tell the app when they’re done with their orders.

46
3 years ago

SaaS company that provides customer service representatives with a way to communicate with customers who call the company’s 800 number via text message and email.

46
3 years ago

A platform for selling and buying things from local factories that are in the same area, essentially providing a local version of Uber.

46
3 years ago

A company building a way to manage and share video classroom presentations.

45
3 years ago

A startup that lets people share what they’re reading, presenting or watching. It’s designed to be a one-stop shop for content discovery.

45
3 years ago

An online platform that helps professionals give presentations online, either in front of a group or to a single person, who can then edit those presentations and share them via email or other services. They also claim that their platform has a higher percentage of “live” presentations than competitors like Slideshare.

44
2 years ago

A tool to help you create video presentations online, with tools to make your slides interactive.

44
3 years ago

A tool that helps people find the right legal representation, based on their case. The startup is building an AI tool to help people find the right attorney for their situation.

43
3 years ago

A Slack competitor that aims to bring the same feel of a voice-based chat app to a text-based one. The startup wants to build a Slack competitor that’s as easy to use as a text-based chat app, including the ability to chat in full sentences rather than snippets of text.

43
2 years ago

A startup that helps people find “gigs”, which are essentially tasks that can be completed in a short span of time. For instance, someone might want to get a temp job, or someone may want to pick up a shift at a coffee shop. Once you find a gig, you’re paid through PayPal and can complete your assignment with a single click.

43
2 years ago

A machine learning tool that analyzes video in real time to determine the tone and sentiment of different speakers and what they’re trying to say.

43
3 years ago

A way to organize and track your work and learning as you progress through your career. It’s essentially a LinkedIn for people in the working world.

42
2 years ago

This startup is building a device that helps people get their hands on medicine without going to a pharmacy. The device is essentially a kiosk that dispenses medicine, which it claims is more cost-effective and saves 90% on time spent at the pharmacy.

41
3 years ago

This startup is developing a new way to interpret and present the digital genome data that is being produced. Their work is based on the premise that a person’s DNA doesn’t change, but that the environment in which they live and the medications they take can change it.

40
2 years ago

A startup that is building a system that allows patient data to be sent between healthcare systems.

40
3 years ago

 A way for people to test their writing skills before sending them off to a publisher or agent. The startups’ writing samples can be sent to “writers of interest” that can rate it, and then the writer can see what changes he/she needs to make.

39
2 years ago

The list is not comprehensive. The above startups represent some of the more notable applicants that have been accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch. For a full list of all the startups accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch, see here.

38
2 years ago

A team of designers and developers who have made an iPad app, which helps users visualize their goals, visualize the future or visualize scenarios, essentially.

37
2 years ago

A company that helps companies discover and hire new talent in the US. The startup claims that the way the US works for finding talent is broken, and wants to solve it with a more fluid system that can be presented in a more transparent way.

37
2 years ago

The startup wants to make a “remote assistant” — essentially a virtual personal assistant that’s accessible on any device. The company wants to use the service to help its customers shop for groceries, send holiday cards, and more.

37
2 years ago

A tool that lets you create extremely simple, small text-based games (think, “add up the total of all the numbers in this sentence”)

36
2 years ago

A visual tool for reviewing and learning from presentations. It’s a visual way to capture and share feedback from a presentation, and is useful for getting feedback on a presentation or a presentation you’re giving, too.

35
2 years ago

A startup that builds a mobile app that allows users to see a full-color 3-D representation of what a piece of furniture would look like in their homes.

35
2 years ago

A real-time feedback tool for live presentations and lectures

34
2 years ago

A company that helps students apply to college by creating an online application and advising them on how to best present themselves and their academics.

33
2 years ago

An e-commerce marketplace for designer jeans. The startup wants to create a one-stop shop for consumers to buy jeans and have them sent to their home or office.

33
2 years ago

A group of people who are trying to build the first chatbot that can handle more than just one single sentence.

32
3 years ago

A platform that makes it easier for companies to share and work on presentations, and to use them for presentations to investors.

31
2 years ago

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

31
2 years ago

A Chrome extension that makes it easy to find and redeem coupons on sites like Groupon and Living Social. Coupons for the essentials like groceries, electronics, and restaurants are built into the extension.

30
2 years ago

An online platform for “positive” feedback, meant to help you give and get feedback on your work, whether it’s a presentation or your reaction to a restaurant.

29
2 years ago

A “DIY” app that lets you automatically order flowers and gifts on demand, sending them to the person you want them sent to.

29
2 years ago

The startup is building a tool that will help you create a real-time contract with your customer service representative.

29
2 years ago

A startup that helps companies monitor employee productivity using analytics. It also sells a mobile app that helps managers manage workflows, essentially a replacement for existing work management tools.

28
2 years ago

A startup that helps people construct 3D printed furniture from 3D-printed files that are sent to them digitally.

27
2 years ago

An API to help people build smart contracts for representing asset ownership in any type of legal agreement.

27
2 years ago

Getting food to the table is an essential part of social justice movements.

26
2 years ago

TEDx is a series of independently organized TED-like events held worldwide, featuring local TEDTalks and other TED-like presentations. TEDx events are organized independently and are not affiliated with TED in any way.

26
2 years ago

The cofounder of a company called Too Good To Go is opening a new business that delivers groceries and other essentials in reusable boxes.

25
2 years ago

A company that provides tools for sales reps to manage sales, essentially building CRM software for salespeople.

24
2 years ago

A platform to manage and streamline the RMA process for computer repair companies; fixes can be sent back by a computer repair technician, and the company can get paid.

23
2 years ago

A company that builds “digital products” – essentially, a set of tools used to help people spread their ideas and messages.

21
2 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for people to coordinate events with an app. Users set up a group and invite others to attend, and can get reminders and updates sent to their phones.

20
2 years ago

A popup that helps you know when your house is about to flood. It’s essentially a warning system for when your house is about to flood.

20
2 years ago

Transparently allows people to set up a “digital planner”, which is essentially a digital assistant that follows a user’s schedule, and manages their tasks.

18
2 years ago

A group messaging app that allows photos to be sent and shared in a group at a set time and date. The app’s founders say it’s built for events like weddings and birthdays, and that the group chat feature allows for a lot of customization.

18
2 years ago

This startup promises to revolutionize the way we do feedback to our coworkers. The video feedback platform is similar to a video chat, with the added benefit of taking a digital snapshot of the employee at the moment they need some feedback. The software is meant to be used in a group setting for multiple people to give feedback and have it be easily sent to the person in question.

16
2 years ago

A startup that is testing a way to move office supplies. The company is essentially creating a system that will let you order supplies from anywhere and transfer them to your home, saving you money on shipping.

16
2 years ago

An on-demand dog walking service that offers custom training and activities. They currently have 3 clients, including a company representative who has taken 15 dogs on walks.

15
2 years ago

The application, which is currently in beta, lets users buy and sell their unused movie tickets online. Tickets are sent through the app so that users can check in and redeem the tickets at their local theater.

15
2 years ago

A startup that gives you the option to “cash out” your Amazon Prime subscription. The startup wants to undercut the “ongoing subscription” model that Amazon has in place, essentially allowing you to sell your membership.

13
5 years ago

Idea: An automated platform for “in-app” marketing and advertising. Essentially, the startup lets brands advertise inside of other apps, and then track whether those ads successfully inspired users to install the sponsored app.

12
2 years ago

Coding bootcamp for women, especially those who have been previously underrepresented in tech.

12
2 years ago

A startup that essentially allows you to build a group of friends or a small team to work together on certain tasks, then assign tasks to them.

11
2 years ago

A startup building a platform that helps users create personalized videos for their businesses. The company’s founder said the videos can be used to present to clients, potential partners, employees, or customers.

11
2 years ago

Startup that uses machine learning to identify the exact time a customer is coming into a store, and then turns that data into a notification that is sent to a mobile device.

10
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can upload pictures of their children and then the pictures are put into a video and sent to them every week or month

5
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for people to have a list of companies they’ve applied to sent to them every month so they can follow up

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can post a free ad for your lost pet and it gets sent out to everyone in your

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A tool that helps you develop “driverless” presentations for business

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that builds a platform for “constituents” to get in touch with their elected representatives, with the goal of making it easier for people to get their voices heard in cities and states across the US.

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5 years ago

A startup for launching and managing a podcast, essentially a podcast-specific Wordpress or Squarespace.

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