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The founders of a $60,000 startup are creating a platform that gets people to help lend each other money at a rate of about 1% interest.
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3 years ago
A data science company that helps people better understand their personal data.
1,626
1 year ago
“A tool for better understanding customers”
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2 months ago
A startup that wants to use technology to help retailers manage wasted food. The founders of the company say it’s a $200 billion industry that is growing.
722
8 months ago
This startup wants to be a free app for keeping track of your expenses and helping you to understand your cash flow.
711
1 year ago
A supply chain management tool for small businesses that manages everything from physical inventory to internal supply chains. The service is aimed at businesses with under 100 employees and is currently in private beta.
613
3 months ago
A startup that helps landlords manage their properties by helping them understand how to manage their units for long-term success.
567
8 months ago
A software company that helps startups in the energy sector understand and manage their energy consumption
423
1 year ago
Unexpected startup success, the founders say it has grown from $8 million in sales in Q1 2018 to $7 million in Q3 2018 and $7 million in Q4 2018.
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3 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.
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2 years ago
Inventor Dr. Ramesh Kale has been working on a low-cost, disposable "smart" pacemaker for under $1,500. The device is implanted in a pocket-sized battery pack that an individual wears around their waist. The pacemaker is connected to the battery pack via a small wire. When the device senses irregular heartbeats, it sends a signal to the battery pack, which then notifies the individual's doctor. The battery pack is replaceable, and is expected to last up to a year.
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3 months ago
A team of three founders came up with an idea for a drone that uses satellites to locate and track lost or stolen drones.
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2 years ago
M-KOPA is a tool allowing developers to create their own specialized hardware. The founders say the company has sold $4M worth of hardware over the last two years, though they’ve only launched on Kickstarter today.
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3 years ago
An online service for companies that allows them to connect their products to third-party markets. The company’s goal is to allow companies to sell their products in other countries, and also to help them better understand demand.
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3 years ago
In the past year, there have been a few notable exits from Indian startups and their founders. Vani Kola, co-founder of Zomato, sold her company to local rival Swiggy for an estimated $50 million.
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3 months ago
A SaaS for small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s founder claims that the platform has saved them around $3 million in annual expenses by facilitating remote access and communication between employees.
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3 years ago
A monthly subscription service that sends you an e-book on a topic you’ve selected every month. The company launched in December, and is signing up more than 50,000 new subscribers every month, the founder tells me.
259
2 years ago
A platform for helping students better understand college loans, with an interactive quiz that helps students create a personalized repayment plan.
259
3 months ago
A startup for teaching robotics. The founders claim to have 10 employees, including some former Google employees.
259
2 years ago
A tool for retail managers to understand and mitigate their staff’s stress levels.
240
2 years ago
A data science company that uses machine learning to help brands better understand the number of people who’ve seen their ads.
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2 years ago
A startup that provides a gamified platform to help businesses understand and improve products and services to their customers. The startup sees itself as a kind of “Twilio for data”.
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3 years ago
This is a startup that makes it easier for people to understand that their health insurance isn’t covering the entirety of their medical expenses.
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2 years ago
This year’s judges were Jason Ho, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures; Kristi Puller, Founder, and CEO, Techstars; Bill Gaver, General Partner, 500 Startups; and Sanjay Dastoor, Founder, and CEO, InVenture Partners.
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2 years ago
A payments company that offers a way for small businesses to pay for their own invoices. The founders say they’re aiming to replace “payroll” software.
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2 years ago
The company is building a platform for people to create and share videos of what they're building. The company's founder says that they've already sold their first video to a client.
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3 months ago
A tool that helps marketers better understand the conversation happening on social media, helping them to get more out of their paid efforts.
222
2 years ago
This SaaS company helps doctors and patients collaborate on medical records. The founders are also building a medical device to connect a patient’s vital signs to medical professionals.
221
2 years ago
This startup uses voice recognition and artificial intelligence to understand the emotions that are being expressed by voice (like “I’m angry”) and determine if this voice is coming from a human or machine.
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3 months ago
A “platform for understanding and managing the impact of content on all social media channels,” with a focus on building tools for brands and their agencies.
220
2 years ago
The founders of a startup that helps veterans and employers identify and hire each other.
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1 year ago
A startup that helps companies create data visualizations to understand their market
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1 year ago
A supply chain management platform for restaurants and other food-related businesses. Growth is strong and the founders say they’re trying to make a dent in the $8.5 trillion food and beverage industry.
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2 years ago
This startup wants to build a new type of credit card for the underbanked, especially in developing countries. It takes the form of a prepaid card and is available in any currency. Given the lack of banking options in many such countries, the startup sees a lot of potential for growth.
213
2 years ago
A natural language processing startup that is building software that helps companies better understand user conversations, especially in chat. The company is launching in the US in 22 countries and is working on a US expansion for early next year.
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3 years ago
The founders of this startup say they are “building the first truly global, blockchain-based, decentralized and transparent peer-to-peer marketplace for advertising.”
203
3 years ago
A tool that helps companies in the green economy get a better understanding of their carbon footprint.
203
2 years ago
A directory of the world’s best remote job sites, curated by the founders of Remote Year.
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2 years ago
An SaaS data platform meant to help companies understand what types of influencers they should be advertising to and which ads are effective.
201
2 years ago
The founders of this startup are trying to create a new kind of credit card that can be used across multiple merchants, instead of different cards for different merchants.
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3 years ago
A startup that provides a service for helping people find a co-founder
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2 years ago
A startup that helps you learn to code by making you build a simple tool that you eventually turn into a real product. The startup’s co-founder saw a need for the same kind of bootcamps in the area, and created the site to fill it.
196
2 years ago
Take a multi-pronged approach to recruiting, matching a candidate with multiple companies, and then helping them understand the role they’re interviewing for.
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2 years ago
An ad-tech startup focused on helping brands to better understand their ad campaigns.
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3 months ago
A startup that aims to help people save money by helping them understand the costs of their life insurance policies. The startup hopes that, by helping customers understand what their policies are really costing them, they can lower the premiums.
193
2 years ago
A company that uses AI to help people understand their credit score. It’s founded by a former VP of risk at FICO, and has raised $40 million.
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2 years ago
This startup offers a platform to help companies and organizations collaborate on content, from making public records to organizing conferences. Its founders describe it as a “LinkedIn for events”.
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3 years ago
Idea: A smart wallet that understands how you spend your money
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2 years ago
An organization that helps small businesses in the US and Canada understand and reduce their tax liabilities.
185
7 months ago
A design studio for offices and retail. The startup wants to create a stylish, personalized workspace for each employee, which can be installed in under 15 minutes.
185
3 years ago
A group of four-hour-old startups that are still around from Demo Day in June. The goal is to help early stage founders get funding and grow their businesses.
181
3 years ago
A software company that builds tools for eCommerce businesses to understand their customers better and increase conversion.
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2 years ago
This startup has two co-founders, and they describe themselves as “…the first and only platform that helps [you] create and learn from inspiring and engaging content about personal finance, investing, and life.”
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3 years ago
A credit card for the underbanked.
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2 years ago
Founders came up with an idea for an app that would help people discover good food and drink in their neighborhood and pay for it.
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3 years ago
A company that builds vehicle tracking devices for businesses like car washes to help them better understand their workers’ locations.
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3 years ago
A startup that aims to make banking better for the underbanked in emerging markets.
175
3 years ago
Business software for the home that allows homeowners to manage their utilities. The company’s founders say they’re targeting the $80 billion home and building automation space.
175
2 years ago
A real estate brokerage that helps people buy and sell homes in Brazil. The startup makes it possible to get an apartment in Brazil in under 30 minutes. It currently has 1,500 agents, but wants to expand to other countries.
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1 year ago
A company that makes it easier for businesses to discover products your customers want. The startup is working with 1,000 brands, including Lululemon and Warby Parker, to help them better understand their customer base.
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3 years ago
A tool for distribution of food and groceries to people in need, in the form of a vehicle equipped with a fridge, a microwave, and a coffee machine, and that can travel down the street from a central hub. The startup’s founders are veterans of the American military.
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2 years ago
The startup’s pitch is that “we help people save money by visiting restaurants that are good, but not the best.” The app now has 100,000 users in the UK, and its founders say they’ll be able to expand globally if their funding round meets its goal.
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2 years ago
A company that offers a platform for delivery of medical supplies to remote and underserved communities.
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2 years ago
A startup that builds hardware startups. The founder, Jibran Salfi, built his first hardware startup at age 20, and has since been working at Nest Labs. He was the first employee at Nest Labs, and was part of the team that built the original Nest thermostat.
172
2 years ago
A startup that connects insurance companies to underwriters in the event of a claim, allowing everyone to focus on customer service while the underwriting process is handled.
172
3 years ago
A company focused on corporate software for the cannabis industry. The founders say they’ve already secured $2m in funding.
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3 years ago
A digital education platform for low-income students, helping them understand their financial aid eligibility.
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2 years ago
This startup is building a system to help engineers understand the best ways to program to particular chips.
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2 years ago
A payments app that allows you to lend or borrow money in minutes, for under 1% interest. The app is in the process of getting Fintech licenses in the UK, France, and Germany.
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1 year ago
This startup is looking to use AI to find trends in the social media posts of brands, to help them better understand their consumers.
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11 months ago
A digital health startup that helps you manage your health, in real time. It is the only startup in the YC batch with a female founder.
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1 year ago
A company that is building software to help banks and other lenders connect to new sources of data like social media, livestreams and more, to get a better understanding of their clients and make better decisions.
170
3 years ago
A startup that provides a service to help people understand the job market in the country they are traveling to
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3 years ago
Builds a retail website for selling products via Instagram. The startup’s founder says that the website is “the world’s first” to use the social platform to sell physical products online.
169
3 years ago
A fast-food delivery service that can deliver food to you in under 15 minutes. Their model is a bit like Uber Eats, but they’ve automated a lot of the process so you can order online, and the food will be delivered to you.
169
3 years ago
A tool to create a photo-realistic simulation of an office environment with a 3D avatar. Its founders say it’s the first 3D avatar platform that is both accessible and real-time.
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2 years ago
A digital detox service, helping people focus when they’re under a lot of stress.
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3 years ago
Startup founders are being more aggressive in the US, with a few companies in the last year getting VCs to fund them at seed or Series A-level, when they may have previously been too early.
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3 years ago
A platform that helps English language learners practice by presenting them with text in a way that will help them understand.
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3 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.
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3 years ago
If you own a home in the US, you can log into an app and see what the utilities are costing you in real time. However, the founders say that households throughout the world can benefit from a similar application.
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10 months ago
A startup that aims to bring the “sharing economy” to farmers, who are often left out of the vast majority of transactions related to food, be it restaurants or grocery stores. The founders say that since they can use shared resources, they can cut the cost of a farm by 75%.
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3 years ago
A credit card for the underbanked. It eschews traditional bank systems and instead relies on direct deposit.
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2 years ago
As startups have left their desks behind, founders have become increasingly worried about their physical whereabouts, and have invented apps to help. In the new book, “Fearless: How to Be Unafraid and Do Anything,” entrepreneurs and founders like Dave McClure, David Karp, and Adam D’Angelo share their stories of building their companies in secret, and how they’ve gained confidence and fearlessness.
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3 months ago
A German startup that’s building a library of public domain content for publishers to help them better understand their audience.
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3 years ago
A food delivery service that promises to deliver food to your door in under 30 minutes.
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3 years ago
The startup is building a tool that allows companies to build a website for their services or products without them having to understand how to code.
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3 years ago
A solution for startup founders to find and hire technical talent.
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3 years ago
Founders: Austin, Elsie. They are building a platform for Facebook data scientists to easily access data in the form of lakes, rivers, and mountain ranges, and make data-based decisions to improve their products.
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3 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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2 years ago
A company that wants to build software that helps footballers around the world look at the footage of their matches and understand how they could be better.
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3 years ago
The Startup Genome is a biannual report on the state of entrepreneurship. It is produced by a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The report is based on interviews with founders about their businesses, the challenges they face, and their plans for the future. The report is intended to give entrepreneurs, investors, and other stakeholders a comprehensive overview of the startup ecosystem in a particular country, and to help predict trends between countries.
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3 years ago
This is a mobile application that helps entrepreneurs find, vet and manage teams. It was built by Y Combinator’s own team and is a set of tools that help founders navigate the startup ecosystem.
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3 years ago
A startup that uses machine learning to identify fraud and money laundering in transactions between banks.
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2 years ago
A startup that helps people track the money they’re spending online, including all their subscriptions and subscriptions to services like Netflix. The startup’s co-founder said it’s been profitable in the past year.
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1 year ago
The founder of this startup wants to do for video marketing what Spotify has done for music.
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3 years ago
A tool for working with data in order to understand the real world. For instance, a medical researcher can use it to investigate how much stress the human body can handle, or to understand how people interact with their surroundings.
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3 years ago
A platform for micro-transactions for online merchants. The startup wants to eliminate the need for credit cards. The startup has its first pilot under its belt, with $300,000 in monthly revenue.
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3 years ago
Startup that aims to make it easier for retailers to monitor and understand how their products are selling in real time.
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3 years ago
A marketing tool for crowdfunding platforms that helps founders and project managers track projects and keep track of fundraising progress.
160
3 years ago
A travel app that claims to be fully integrated with Airbnb. The startup’s founders say they’ve already been in talks with Airbnb about using their platform.
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2 years ago
A startup that uses AI to help companies better understand how their employees are spending their time and what kinds of activities they want to do.
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2 years ago
An email marketing tool that integrates with all of your favorite email clients. The startup’s founders say they’ve already closed $1.5 million in pre-launch investment.
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2 years ago
The startup is building a platform that allows developers to build apps that integrate with Amazon Echo. It’s a side project for the founders of the company.
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1 year ago
A software platform that enables retailers to provide more personalized service to their customers. The company's platform provides an interface for customers and associates to track the contents of their shopping carts, as well as provides analytics to help the retailer better understand their customers.
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3 years ago
This startup is building a platform with just under 1,000 clients that allows people to create their own version of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and frozen yogurt – with the added benefit of being vegan.
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3 years ago
A bank account that the founders say is “like a personal investment account with 100x the transparency of other accounts and no fees.” The account is meant to be a savings account for small businesses or freelancers.
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3 years ago
A startup that builds software for Facebook Ads that helps marketers understand how their ads work and how they perform.
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3 years ago
A “big data” solution that helps food companies track their supply chain and predict how much food they’ll need to produce. The startup’s founders say they’ve already signed up over 500 clients, including Walmart, Nestle, and Cargill.
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2 years ago
A visual way to understand what your network of friends and contacts are doing, which the startup says will eventually include things like board games, sports, and other group activities.
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2 years ago
Recode is a project from Cheddar that provides video interviews with the founders of startups in the technology sector.
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1 year ago
The Startup Genome is a resource for founders and investors. It covers early stage
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1 year ago
A group of four co-founders who launched the software for digital assistants in February, who then later launched a hardware startup.
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3 years ago
A last-mile delivery service for restaurants. The startup's founders say food deliveries are a $21 billion market and it's growing 15-20% per year.
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3 years ago
The startup is building a platform that is able to recognize a set of facial expressions and, in real-time, translate them into emotions. It also translates any other language into emotions. The company promises to keep an eye on emotions in real-time, helping businesses avoid misunderstandings and improve customer service.
158
3 years ago
A startup to help you understand your current credit card’s reward programs
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3 years ago
A visual analytics tool that helps non-technical people understand what their data means. The startup is backed by Y Combinator.
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2 years ago
The company’s founders have been called "the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of the Indian startup scene" by a reporter in Quartz.
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2 years ago
A tool for understanding the many different ways in which people can make money online, such as blogging, affiliate marketing, and paid video production.
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3 months ago
The startup has created a service that uses AI to help companies understand their customers’ expectations, analyze their data to understand what works best for them, and automatically send that information to users.
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3 years ago
A startup that wants to help people in Latin America track their expenses and grow their credit score The company’s founders say that after launching in early august, they’re already working with over 3,000 retail accounts
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3 years ago
A chatbot that aims to help people better understand their credit score and make more informed decisions about credit.
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3 years ago
This startup is building a self-learning platform to help teach people the fundamentals of coding. The startup’s founders say that the product they have built is already powering over 20,000 students in 300 schools.
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1 year ago
• How the founders of two startups from opposite sides of the world are working together to solve the same problem of how to find and hire talented engineers in remote areas.
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3 years ago
Cofounder Alex Zabludowicz co-founded this fintech company with his brother, Alex. It wants to make payments faster, cheaper, and more secure, with a focus on the developing world.
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3 years ago
The annual list is compiled by a group of judges, including founders and investors such as Paul Graham, Michael Arrington, Fred Wilson, and others.
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3 years ago
A startup that’s building a tool to help schools estimate their energy costs. The startup’s founders say they want to make it easier for schools to measure and manage their energy costs, but they also want to make it easier for them to implement energy saving measures.
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3 years ago
"The world’s first social dating app for underrepresented groups,” which is to say, people of color.
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2 years ago
The most influential students in the YC community are the founders and co-founders of YC startups. These are founders that have gone on to found their own companies in the seven years since YC.
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1 year ago
An “Uber for dog walking”, which the founders say is “like the Uber of dog walking”. The company is planning to bridge the gap between the gig economy and the traditional dog-walking industry.
156
3 years ago
A tool that helps small businesses connect with customers. The company’s founders say that the company’s users have saved over $500,000 by using the tool.
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3 years ago
This startup is building a way to find homes to rent on a per-minute basis for under $1 a minute.
155
3 years ago
Another company built by former Quid co-founders, this one is building a suite of tools to make it easier for women to own businesses in emerging markets.
155
3 years ago
A platform that enables people to interact with their favorite brands through video. The startup’s founders say they have 40,000+ customers for the product.
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2 years ago
A startup that wants to help banks with payments in Peru. The startup's co-founder says they have more than 1,000 business accounts as of September.
155
2 years ago
A startup that makes it easy for companies to build apps for their customers, by building an app store for developers to build apps for their customers. The startup’s founder tells us that he’s gotten 10,000 signups in 2 weeks.
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2 years ago
A student loan refinancing startup that promises to reduce interest rates. It just closed a $10 million round, and its founders said they’re targeting 15% of student loan holders.
155
3 years ago
A health-maintenance company for the elderly, focusing on their social needs. The company’s founder and president, Alejandro Ortiz, said that for many older people, social engagement often goes missing, making it harder for them to stay healthy.
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3 years ago
This is a financial platform for the “urban poor” that helps track their income, expenses, and savings. It connects people to financial services and also helps them understand how to make savings and investments.
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3 years ago
A platform that allows developers to take their app and run it via IP. It's aimed at mobile apps, but its founders say it can run desktop programs too.
154
3 years ago
A startup that works with large finance companies to build a tool to help them understand their customers’ credit scores.
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3 years ago
A tool to help broadcast companies understand how their content is being consumed. The company is currently seeking $5 million in funding, and is looking for a $2 million seed round.
154
3 years ago
A platform that aims to bring transparency in the consumer data industry with a set of tools that help customers understand what data is being collected about them
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3 years ago
A product that helps customers compare different financial products to understand which is best for them.
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3 years ago
A platform to help companies build working group meetings that promote collaboration and shared understanding.
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2 years ago
The founders of an AI-powered dating app want to use their product as a platform for investors to invest in AI startups.
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2 years ago
This startup is building a digital bank account in India. The founders say it’s a simpler, cheaper alternative to the physical ATM cards found in most cities.
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1 year ago
According to the 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, there were over 2.4 million startup founders working in the United States.
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1 year ago
The startup’s founders say they’re the first to offer a marketplace for like-minded people to share their unique skills and talents with each other.
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3 years ago
From the founders of digital agency All Day I Dream About Food, a platform aimed at helping restaurants and chefs improve food quality and service.
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3 years ago
Chargeback is an online platform that helps users dispute utility bills. It’s a B2B startup catering to utility companies. The founders hope to build a worldwide network of users.
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3 years ago
A company that works with agencies to improve their digital marketing and optimize ROI by helping clients understand how their digital marketing is performing.
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3 years ago
A platform where users can create virtual islands for multiplayer gaming. It launched in 2014, with the founders saying that it’s on track to reach $1.5 million in annual revenue.
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1 year ago
A startup that provides customers with the ability to pay bills, bank transfers, and other expenses with their mobile phones. The company’s founders say they’ve already signed up 300,000 users and are working to expand their service to other countries.
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1 year ago
A “conversational robot” that can access the web, read and understand the news and answer questions.
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1 year ago
A product developed for the Department of Defense to help soldiers train for their jobs under simulated conditions. The startup wants to connect with both military and civilian facilities, so it can create virtual training environments and simulate real-life scenarios.
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1 year ago
A startup that wants to build out a suite of consumer-facing services and products that can help users understand their health data and make decisions based on it.
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3 years ago
Media startups are often built on the back of a single product, such as Skype or YouTube. The company’s founders say its technology can help companies figure out whether a new product is worth the investment.
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3 years ago
A tool for creating tools. The startup’s founders say they’re building a tool that allows users to distribute GitHub tools, like their own GitHub for Excel, by other users.
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3 years ago
A new company that wants to help people in need, particularly those who can't afford to buy an iPhone. The founders say that for a typical customer, "you'd have to work about 30 years to pay off a plan that costs $350."
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1 year ago
A health system of doctors and nurses who can provide virtual care. The company plans to open 1,000 clinics in underserved areas.
150
3 years ago
A startup that helps you organize your life and write to-do lists (similar to Wunderlist, but aimed at parents).
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3 years ago
A do-it-yourself insurance company for self-employed people. The company, which launched a year ago, is using tech to help people underwrite their own risks.
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3 years ago
The founders say that their product is “the best place to get the news, weather, and video you want.”
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2 years ago
While this is a new company, the founders’ past experience and work on other startups and products and their location in São Paulo, Brazil, makes it an interesting choice.
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1 year ago
A startup that wants to use AI to help brands better understand how customers engage with their product.
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1 year ago
A startup that helps brands to understand their customers better. The app tracks the behavior of users with a large focus on the word "love".
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3 years ago
A startup that helps people find the best deal on a car insurance policy. The founders say they’ve already signed up 20,000 users and have been accepted to Y Combinator.
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3 years ago
A secure, automated email-based system for handling sensitive transactions. They’ve built a tool that uses the public keys of people’s email accounts to take payments and even file taxes. The founders tell us they have $6 million in funding from participants in Y Combinator and have received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from YC.
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3 years ago
A startup that’s building an online platform for people who want to build and sell their own custom iPhone cases. The startup’s founders say that about 1% of the cases sold in the US are custom-made, and a handful of startups have tried to build their own platform for selling such cases, without much success.
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3 years ago
A mobile app that helps people make better decisions about their health. The startup’s founder says they are on track for $1 million in revenue in 2019.
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3 years ago
Fintech company for unbanked and underbanked customers in Latin America and Brazil.
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3 years ago
This company’s founders were previously in the gaming industry, and want to help make that industry more inclusive. The startup is building a platform to help game developers with user acquisition and retention by building in features for “people of color, women, and LGBTQ people.”
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3 years ago
A technology that helps companies understand what customers are looking at on their mobile devices.
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3 years ago
A startup that wants to make open-source software for 3D printers. The founders are tech veterans who have built digital fabrication tools before.
147
3 years ago
A credit card for people who are underbanked. The company offers a line of credit that doesn’t require a credit check, allowing people to put down as little as $1.
146
3 years ago
A company that helps software engineers gather data from the Internet of Things and bring it in a common format, allowing them to better understand what their end-users are doing.
146
3 years ago
A startup that aims to help people understand the underlying code of their favorite apps, and how to improve them.
146
3 years ago
A new type of event registration system, which is a hybrid of Google Apps and Eventbrite. The company’s founder says that while it currently is free, it will be a subscription model in the future. The startup was founded in June.
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3 years ago
A crowdfunding platform that aims to help entrepreneurs pitch their projects on a more intimate level. It’s a tool to help founders speak directly to the crowd without the need for a large team of people. It’s currently in private beta.
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1 year ago
The company is building a platform for managing citizen dialog on local issues. The cofounders say that more than $6 billion is spent on lobbying each year, and the platform would make it easier for citizens to have their voices heard in government.
146
3 years ago
An adtech startup that provides a way for publishers to target users based on their browsing history, to help them understand their behavior and improve their ad content.
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3 years ago
A venture capital firm that invests only in female founders, focusing on early-stage companies that focus on women’s health.
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3 years ago
The startup’s goal is to help scuba divers understand the visibility of their masks, how to optimize their gear, and get the best fit for their face and face shape.
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3 years ago
Online brokerage which helps consumers better understand their investment products and gives them access to a licensed broker.
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3 years ago
A startup that’s building an end-to-end GPS-based tracking app to help college students stay safe when they’re out on the town. The founders say that they’re already working with a number of colleges on their app, and that it’s been saving students from dangerous situations.
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3 years ago
The Startup Grind podcast is a weekly podcast about entrepreneurship, hosted by founders of SBJ’s own portfolio companies.
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3 years ago
This company wants to teach people how to be a good entrepreneur. The company’s founder is Anand Rajaraman, who ran a business development and strategy practice at Amazon and Google for more than a decade.
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3 years ago
A company that wants to build a way to understand the meaning of phone calls (through audio) and help courts make educated decisions on them.
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3 years ago
A startup to allow people to get a quote for a car lease in under a minute
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1 year ago
A platform that helps people with no credit understand how credit works.
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1 year ago
A “Trump-proof” tax reform calculator that’s pre-populated with the latest tax brackets and deductions to give individuals a better understanding of the proposed tax changes.
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3 years ago
This startup is building an enterprise-level analytics platform within an insurance company. The software helps insurance companies better understand claims and assess risk.
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3 years ago
Two founders left YC to build a $10 per month service to help food delivery services become more cost effective and more like an on-demand service. It’s available in a few cities in the US, and it’s simple: a “geofenced” area with a few delivery zones that are cheaper than a full city block.
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3 years ago
This startup is working on a platform that helps app developers understand how users click, swipe, click, and tap on their apps.
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3 years ago
A market research app that helps companies understand the wants and needs of their consumers better. It’s paid for by a company like SurveyGizmo or SurveyMonkey that charges a small fee every time a survey is completed.
144
3 years ago
An AI-based system that helps companies better understand new hires by collecting data on their personality traits.
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1 year ago
A platform that helps you understand your payment and credit card data and helps you use it to make smarter financial decisions.
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3 months ago
A way to help employers understand and make better decisions about employee experience.
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3 years ago
A tool for organizations that want to manage their data. The founders say they’re working with several large companies.
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3 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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3 years ago
The founders of this startup are building a device to help you identify the origin of your food. It can be used to eliminate food fraud, and help the world’s poorest populations.
143
3 years ago
A venture for helping people find and book cheap flights on both domestic and international flights. The startup is a spin-off of co-founder and CEO Zachary Mider’s previous startup, which is also focused on domestic flights.
143
3 years ago
An online platform for sharing and selling small tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, and other DIY goods. The company’s founders say they want to make it easy for people to find and sell their tools, and the startup is planning to add more categories and tools in the future.
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1 year ago
A predictive analytics tool that helps restaurants better understand their customers and plan accordingly.
143
3 years ago
A digital platform that provides what its founders call a “dynamic ‘recipe’—a step-by-step process that guides users through every step of the creative process from start to finish.”
142
3 years ago
A startup that helps companies like Amazon and Google better understand their customers. The startup is taking a deeper look at the data that companies have about customers in order to optimize their products and services.
142
3 years ago
A B2B service for the financial industry that helps banks identify potential customers and understand their spending habits.
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3 years ago
An accountant tool that helps companies understand their expenses and track when they should be paid.
142
3 years ago
Alluvium is a company that makes artificial intelligence software for image recognition. The founders say it’s better than other tools because it was built from the ground up to work with the way humans think, rather than the way machines work.
142
3 years ago
A system that tracks a person’s location and data for the purpose of health management. The startup wants to make it easy for people to have a better understanding of how their data is used.
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2 years ago
A startup that wants to use AI to create a more natural color palette in fashion. The company’s founder says that the color palette industry is “a $20 billion market, and it has been a very low touch market.”
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1 year ago
The big promise of this startup is a way to make your company’s data more usable. The founders say they can help companies get their data out of spreadsheets and into a platform they can actually use.
142
1 year ago
A platform that takes a person’s social media data and combines it with their location data to identify how people regularly move around. The startup is selling to brands and agencies who want to track and understand how people use their products.
142
3 years ago
An AI-based platform for helping companies measure and understand the impact of their employees’ spending and behavior.
141
3 years ago
An algorithmic startup that is a marketplace for job board ads, allowing companies to target their job search to a specific demographic. The company’s founders say they’ve raised $1.6 million in a round led by Greycroft Partners.
141
3 years ago
This startup aims to help people identify the underlying cause of their pain and then sell them an app that’ll help them treat it.
141
3 years ago
A company that aims to build a web-based, third-party curator for Amazon. The startup’s founder says that by offering a third-party curator of Amazon, a company can take advantage of the huge inventory of products that Amazon offers and cut out the middleman.
141
3 years ago
A company that is building a tool that allows consumers to make use of the data from their fitness tracker to better understand what they’re eating and how they’re exercising. The company is working with fitness trackers like Fitbit and Jawbone, and has also been working with the makers of the Nike+ FuelBand.
141
3 years ago
A startup that offers a platform for digital nomads to rent out their homes in a peer-to-peer fashion. It’s in the early stages of development, but the founders say it will be “like Airbnb, but also a concierge service and protocol for renting out your home when you’re away”.
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3 years ago
Allows teachers to create lesson plans for their students, and customize them to their unique needs. The founders are hoping to recruit teachers to be the company’s first customers.
140
3 years ago
A system of devices that can detect if an employee is over-committing or under-committing to projects, and adjust a person’s work schedule accordingly.
140
3 years ago
A tool for procurement managers that helps them understand their spend and reduce costs.
140
3 years ago
A company that helps restaurants deliver delivery right to customers’ doorsteps. The founders say they have over 200 restaurants, including Shake Shack, that they’re working with
140
3 years ago
A “fintech for the legal industry”. It wants to make legal contracts easier to understand and fill out, so they don’t need lawyers to review them.
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1 year ago
The founders want to build a way for people to monetize their work through a new, more transparent, and more scalable model.
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3 years ago
A company that provides software to help people make money while they sleep. The company has raised $2.6 million from a number of investors, including the founder of Origo.
139
3 years ago
A platform for photography that lets users sell photos against their copyright. The startup’s co-founder, Jake Sion, says it started as an homage to the Instagram addiction many have to sharing their photos.
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3 years ago
Giving Demo Day startups advice can only go so far. So Y Combinator does a bit more to help startups. YC has created a forum for startup founders to share information and advice with one another. They also host “Ask-Me-Anything” sessions for founders to talk about their companies.
139
3 years ago
A platform that helps companies organize their email, Slack, and other messaging systems. The startup’s founders say it can save companies 5% to 30% on their monthly email costs, and that it’s used by companies like MercadoLibre, Zappos, and Expedia.
139
3 years ago
A startup for startups looking to grow internationally. It’s a more self-serve approach than other startups, but the founders believe that they can provide the best service for a given price.
139
3 years ago
A tool that helps you find the best interest rates for your credit card. The startup says they have more than 1,000 users and are growing by 100 users a month. The founders say they’ve raised $1.3 million in funding from angel investors.
139
2 years ago
A startup that helps companies get a better understanding of their customers by using read receipts, call recording, and pop-up notifications to get real-time feedback.
139
3 years ago
A company that provides a toolkit for self-storage facilities to manage their inventory. The startup was developed by former YC founders.
138
3 years ago
A SaaS-based email marketing tool with an emphasis on design. The startup’s founders have raised nearly $500,000 in seed funding, including from Y Combinator, and have been named as YC’s top-ranked summer 2019 company.
138
2 years ago
A company that helps people live longer, healthier lives by providing health tech to doctors. The startup’s founders say they’ve already raised $7.5 million, with plans to launch in early 2018.
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1 year ago
Helps online retailers understand which products are hot, and which are not, with their innovation platform
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1 year ago
The startup is building an AI platform to help brands and publishers better understand how users interact with their content, and how content affects their purchase decisions.
138
1 year ago
A startup that wants to help companies manage inventory, shipping, and other logistics through game-like mechanics. The startup wants to help people track their inventory via a mobile app and understand what goes into making a sale.
138
1 year ago
The Startup Grind is a podcast network that highlights the best stories in business, technology and startup news. The podcast is produced by TechCrunch, and features interviews with entrepreneurs, founders and investors.
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3 months ago
This startup makes it easy for teams to track and manage their expenses. The startup’s co-founder says that she runs a tight household and she uses the app to keep track of different expenses for her family.
138
3 years ago
A tool that helps the deaf and hard-of-hearing understand the information they’re hearing.
137
3 years ago
A startup that wants to bring the benefits of the web to under-resourced countries, equipping them with internet access.
137
3 years ago
A startup that helps caregivers create their own day-to-day schedules for their patients to ensure they’re not over- or under-scheduled.
137
3 years ago
What’s a startup to do when they’ve secured $500,000 in funding and they don’t know what to build Unity is a tool that helps founders go from idea to prototype to product, all in a matter of weeks.
137
3 years ago
is a new startup that wants to help HR departments keep track of employee performance. The company has raised $7 million in Series A funding from investors like Accel, Founders Co-op, The Battery Ventures, and others.
136
3 years ago
A crowd-funded project to bring the benefits of underfloor heating and cooling to the underdeveloped world. The startup’s founders came up with the concept for a client-focused project as a way to combine the technology with other humanitarian efforts.
136
3 years ago
A company building analytics software to help e-commerce companies better understand their customers and their buying habits.
136
3 years ago
The startup is building a toolset to help people in the UK understand their personal finances and see how they stack up against the national average.
136
3 years ago
A B2B startup that’s building a SaaS platform for wholesalers to help them manage inventory — allowing them to identify mispricing, under- and over-supply and other issues that could affect their bottom line.
136
3 years ago
This startup is building an all-in-one platform for Fintech services, with the goal of bringing them all under one roof.
136
3 years ago
A company that helps people understand how their salary compares to others in their industry.
136
3 years ago
A market research and recruiting tool for the beauty industry. The startup’s founders say they have already worked with brands like Revlon and L’Oréal.
136
1 year ago
A pitch from a pair of former YC founders, who say they’re using self-driving cars to help Detroit’s homeless.
136
3 years ago
An artificial intelligence-powered system that lets businesses see how their employees are performing. The underlying AI platform is able to understand the inner-workings of a company. The company recently closed a $4 million Series A funding.
135
3 years ago
Tech that helps build companies in the US that are startups in other countries. The startup’s founders say that over $500 million is being raised in new funds in the US, but only $10 million is being raised in these other countries.
135
3 years ago
The founder of a company that re-skins the Windows operating system has launched a company that wants to make it possible to put Windows 10 on your phone.
135
3 years ago
A new startup that wants to provide a way for investors to connect with companies in the early stages of development, with a focus on B2B companies. The founder said it has around $24 million in funding so far, and has already worked with companies like TaskRabbit, Instacart, and Stripe.
135
1 year ago
A product that helps managers and HR to identify employees who are underperforming and get them new jobs.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps small businesses understand how to use social media to help them reach new customers
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3 years ago
A platform that enables fans to interact with players and teams to better understand their interests. The startup is currently in a partnership with the NBA; it’s also in a partnership with the A’s to help fans in the Bay Area get better access to the team.
134
3 years ago
A payment technology company that works with online retailers and e-commerce platforms. The startup uses blockchain technology to enable payments between the retailer and the customer. It has been featured on the “top 10 under-the-radar blockchain startups” from CB Insights.
134
3 years ago
A product that helps companies understand their brand’s performance in the market.
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1 year ago
This startup aims to help people use AI to understand their financial and professional performance and improve their earnings.
134
1 year ago
A platform that sells data to insurers. They want to act as a middleman between the insurance industry and the data they use to calculate risk, and they want to do it in a way that’s transparent and easy to understand.
134
3 years ago
A startup that helps people understand their credit score and how to use it to their advantage
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3 years ago
A startup that helps people understand and track their employee performance
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3 years ago
An AI-powered analytics engine for games that helps developers understand players. The startup is trying to revolutionize the way game developers track and analyze their players.
133
3 years ago
A marketing software service for small and medium-sized companies. The company’s founders say they’re seeing a huge demand for the service from companies after a number of competitors have fallen by the wayside.
133
3 years ago
The company’s founders say they plan to push a “geo-federated” app to help people spend time virtually in a place they’ve never been.
133
3 years ago
A solution for the $4 trillion global oil market where producers don’t have reliable inventories and retailers don’t have a clear picture of demand or low prices. Oil can be stored in underground tanks and is more valuable if it’s in the right place. Oil Tracker aims to connect all the different stakeholders in the oil market.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps people who are self-employed or in small businesses understand their taxes. It’s building a better tax calculator and tax software for small businesses, with some initial funding from Accel Partners.
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3 years ago
A platform that helps small businesses buy and sell excess inventory. The startup’s founder says that they have over 15,000 businesses using the platform and over $1 million of inventory moving through the system.
132
3 years ago
A platform for professional book authors who want to sell their books through Amazon. The startup’s founders say they’re working on integrations with other retailers like iTunes and Google Play and are making it easier for authors to sell their books to readers.
132
3 years ago
A platform for small business owners to rent their property out. The company is a joint venture between a local business incubator and the co-founder of Airbnb.
132
3 years ago
A B2B company that helps banks take advantage of underutilized data in their systems. The company claims its technology can help banks save up to $500m a year.
132
3 years ago
A firm that helps B2B companies understand their data. They’re also in the process of building a tool for companies to create a B2B team.
132
2 years ago
Software that helps people understand and calculate their personal risk of missing out on the next big thing.
132
2 years ago
A startup that helps sales reps in the insurance and banking industries better understand their clients.
132
3 years ago
A startup for on-demand car services in Singapore. The startup’s founder says he’s been offering the service with Uber for the past year and says it’s a $1 billion market in Singapore.
131
3 years ago
A platform that helps a person’s insurance company manage assets and payments. The startup wants to help the more than 2 trillion dollars of assets under insurance in the US.
131
3 years ago
A new app that allows users to “virtually” connect with a well-known psychologist. The app was launched in April and is being used by students and their parents to help them better understand their experiences with mental illness.
131
1 year ago
This startup is building a “social streaming” feed that allows users to track how others are watching videos or articles on their social media profiles. The founders say this is a way for brands to see how their content is being consumed without having to ask for permission.
131
3 years ago
A payment processor for small businesses that provides low-cost ATM withdrawals and cash-back payments. The company wants to partner with ATMs that have locations in underserved areas that have a high concentration of cash-carrying customers.
130
3 years ago
A company that builds products that help people understand their finances and save money. It saves customers money in the form of lower interest rates and lower cost of credit, and it pays interest on all savings in a person’s bank account.
130
3 years ago
A startup that offers a service to organize a team of employees. The startup’s team members are former YC founders, and they say they have over 1,000 customers.
130
3 years ago
A startup that helps people understand their finances by helping them compare their spending to income, spending history, and trends. The startup wants to make people more aware of their personal finances.
130
3 years ago
A company that helps companies book tours and events at museums and galleries. The startup’s founders previously worked at the Louvre, and want to help them grow their business in the UK, US, and Canada.
130
3 years ago
A software company that aims to help employers and HR departments manage the cost of employee benefits. It aims to make it easier for employers to understand what they’re paying and how to improve it. They’re currently in talks with banks to offer a new product.
130
3 years ago
A B2B company specializing in helping companies understand and manage the risks of their sales and operations.
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3 years ago
An automated subscription service that promises to send you a box of the best things it finds on the internet for you — and it’s free. It’s based on a Reddit post from early January in which the founder said he was “unemployed and bored” while on a trip.
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3 years ago
Startup building software for farmers to help them understand weather patterns and predict crop yields. It also plans to create a bank for farmers, and expand into a larger platform for farmers to exchange information.
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2 years ago
A startup that helps companies like Adidas and Under Armour connect with their customers by building out personalized shoppin
