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1 year ago

An AI-powered voice device that allows people to communicate with their pets.

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2 years ago

A startup that an online marketplace for VR powered by blockchain to reduce the transaction cost

339
2 years ago

A “machine-learning-powered” customer review management tool.

225
1 year ago

An AI-powered tool for investors to make more informed decisions about what stocks to invest in. The AI scans the news, stock market data, and social media to provide investors with trends and insights.

225
2 years ago

An AI-powered solution for the construction industry. It’s a predictive maintenance platform that helps maintenance staff fix machines before they break down.

205
1 year ago

A startup that is building an AI-powered inventory management system for retailers. The startup is working with retailers like Nike and H&M.

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1 year 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

An AI-powered tool to help you personalize your resume

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1 year ago

Startups were selected by a panel of judges from Y Combinator:

182
9 months ago

A solar-powered garden hose for cleaning.

182
1 year ago

The following companies were selected as semi-finalists in the 2014 Y Combinator Winter batch:

178
1 year ago

A company that tries to make the world's best artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.

177
1 year ago

An AI powered work scheduling app for HR managers, telling them who is available and what their availability is like.

176
2 years ago

A hotel booking app for the Middle East, powered by a social network of travelers and a marketplace of local and international hotel partners.

174
2 years ago

A company building an AI-powered community of users who can share their expertise and help others.

169
1 year ago

An AI-powered search engine that learns from your searches to create personalized content. It’s meant to serve as a search engine for all things like local events, weather, news, and sports, with a focus on the “people-centric” aspects of the internet.

169
1 year ago

A startup that wants to build an AI-powered chatbot that allows your Facebook friends to talk to your bot for all the things.

168
2 years ago

A company that wants to take stock trading to the next level with an AI-powered app that can trade stocks with the same confidence and speed as a human.

164
1 year ago

A toolkit to help non-profits build and manage websites. Its pre-built themes include a person-powered fundraising site, an environmental website, and a donation-based site.

161
2 years ago

A customized AI-powered chatbot that helps you optimize your online dating experience.

157
2 years ago

A solar-powered $15,000 jacket that generates energy from the sun and has a built-in battery to charge itself.

153
2 years ago

A startup that helps you make your house a solar-powered, internet-connected network, allowing you to control lights, appliances and other devices through an app.

152
2 years ago

This startup is working on an AI-powered system that monitors data on Amazon’s servers, allowing companies to guard against potential security breaches.

151
2 years ago

This startup is building an AI-powered tool that helps people communicate with their doctors, who can then respond with medical advice.

151
1 year ago

A startup that’s looking to build a chatbot that can serve as a digital concierge for your home. The startup is already working with a few dozen home service providers to offer its AI-powered service.

149
2 years ago

An AI-powered dating site for people looking for long-term relationships.

148
2 years ago

A startup that is building an AI-powered chatbot to help you find and buy your favorite sneakers. Users can create an account with the startup and then have the chatbot ask them questions about their favorite sneakers.

148
2 years ago

A “human-powered” startup that helps people to organize tasks and conversations around a particular topic.

147
2 years ago

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

147
2 years ago

An AI-powered bot that helps people find and stay in touch with their friends. The bot, which launched in beta in May, has over 100,000 users and is being tested with some of the biggest social media companies.

147
1 year ago

Amazon Web Services is popular for its cloud computing capabilities, but its AI-powered e-commerce system has not made it to market. Their SaaS product, Amazon Machine Learning, is intended to help companies use AI to improve their own products.

146
2 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.

145
1 year ago

This startup is building an AI-powered customer service chatbot that can help companies do customer service work without a human. Right now it works for customer support, but the company is planning to expand into other areas.

145
1 year ago

An AI-powered video platform that helps users find and share videos with similar themes and content. The startup has integrated with Vimeo and YouTube.

144
1 year ago

A virtual assistant that helps with customer service, social media, and email. The startup wants to make it easier for small businesses to use AI-powered assistants.

144
6 months ago

This startup is building an AI-powered email marketing platform for managing email marketing campaigns across all of an organization’s email addresses.

144
2 years ago

A software company that makes it easier to train learning machines. The company is building an “AI-powered note taking” system for students.

143
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.

142
2 years ago

In August 2018, Crunchbase reported that there were over 150 venture-backed startup accelerators in the United States. The list of top accelerators in the United States was as follows:

141
1 year ago

A platform that provides personal finance advice in the form of an AI-powered personal financial advisor. The startup is currently in private beta.

141
9 months ago

An artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform that helps brands find the most relevant influencers to engage with and buy from.

140
2 years ago

A company that looks to take the data from the medical devices in your home and learn what your body needs to stay healthy. CIMA aims to build an AI-powered platform that can help you better manage all your health data, and then recommend medications based on what your body needs.

139
2 years ago

A startup for buying and selling tickets to events. The startup is focused on events in the UK and Europe. They were formerly known as Ticket Vending.

139
1 year ago

This startup is building a portable bio-sensor that can measure drugs in the body through non-invasive blood tests. The sensors are worn like a necklace and are powered by a single AAA battery.

139
2 years ago

In 2018, there were a total of 15 startups selected to participate in the program.

138
2 years ago

A SaaS accounting service focused on small businesses. It’s powered by Intuit’s QuickBooks enterprise software.

137
1 year ago

An AI-powered product that converts music into a format that sounds good on all of your devices.

137
2 years ago

A question-and-answer startup where users can ask questions of and then be answered by people all over the world.

136
2 years ago

A platform for volunteer-powered projects that allows citizens to crowdsource solutions to local problems. It helps cities and nonprofits connect with volunteers to solve challenges like pollution, hunger, homelessness.

136
2 years ago

Idea: A startup for “solar powered cars”. The startup wants to build a rooftop solar system that generates energy for your car, allowing the car to run on solar power.

135
2 years ago

An AI-powered financial advisory platform that helps people make better financial decisions.

135
1 year ago

"These were the most popular ideas from the 9th batch."

135
2 years ago

Idea: This company is building an AI-powered solution for retailers and suppliers to match inventories, to combat stockouts and to reduce markdowns.

134
2 years ago

A startup that lets you store documents online as if they were in a shared Google Docs account.

134
2 years ago

An AI-powered chatbot that can respond to questions about a person’s current location, and provide more detailed answers as you learn more about their habits.

134
2 years ago

An AI-powered HR platform that helps companies recruit and manage employees.

133
2 years ago

They want to build a self-driving, electric, solar-powered truck that can deliver goods by the hour.

132
2 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.”

132
2 years ago

The 2017 batch was selected based on their work in the field, their potential to drive positive social impact, and their fit with Y Combinator’s mission. The following companies were selected:

132
2 years ago

In June 2018, the Startup Genome Project released data on the 100 most active venture-backed startups in the world. Of the top 100 startups, 12 were based in the San Francisco Bay Area. That was more than any other single city in the world.

131
2 years ago

A group of entrepreneurs who were tasked with building out the Internet of Things for the US government. The team is building a programmable thermostat, which they say will “change the way people live and work”.

131
2 years ago

A company that provides an AI-powered chatbot that helps customer service reps improve their customer interactions.

131
2 years ago

An AI-powered chatbot that will guide buyers through the home buying process, with an interface that is designed to make the experience very similar to that of a real agent. The startup believes that this will lead to a significant increase in home sales.

131
1 year ago

A Bluetooth-powered bra that connects to a smartphone app to track exercise and sleep cycles.

131
2 years ago

A startup creating a platform for the creation of customized, AI-powered marketing mailers

130
2 years ago

A software that helps users create and manage their online portfolios. The software is powered by a sophisticated algorithm that helps users design a portfolio that is SEO-friendly and engaging.

130
2 years ago

This startup is building an AI-powered platform that helps people manage their relationships with their doctors. It uses machine learning to automatically scan medical records and find patterns that indicate better compliance with doctor’s orders.

130
1 year ago

A mobile game that teaches you how to invest with a real-time, AI-powered advisor that gives you advice on what stocks to buy.

130
2 years ago

An AI-powered assistant that helps build websites. The startup is looking to help people build high-quality websites in short cycles of time.

129
2 years ago

An AI-powered robot that can answer questions and track trends for business owners. The robot can capture data and use it to make decisions, and can work alongside human employees.

129
1 year ago

A California-based startup that makes a low-cost, low-power, solar powered charger for phones and other devices. It’s a rival to the crowd-funded Fission, which offers a similar product.

129
2 years ago

The following were selected by our judges in a preliminary round of judging:

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2 years ago

An AI-powered platform that allows artists to create unique video content, and also that provides a way for them to sell their videos for revenue. It is based on an idea for YouTube-based video sharing that was pitched in 2016, but has been in development since then.

128
2 years ago

This company wants to build an AI-powered data platform to provide businesses with the information they need to make better, more informed decisions.

127
1 year ago

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

127
2 years ago

A startup that has created a chatbot that helps people organize their lives The chatbot is powered by NLU, machine learning, and natural language generation

126
2 years ago

This startup is building an app that helps people design their own personalized delivery drones. The drones will be powered by the startup’s own solar-powered drone charging technology.

126
2 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.

126
2 years ago

Out of the 70 companies that were selected to join the program, four companies (and 1 alumni) made it to the final round of the Summer 2014 class.

126
1 year ago

An AI-powered text editor that helps you write more consistently

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8 months ago

This startup is building an AI-powered chatbot assistant for entrepreneurs, to help guide them through their first year, handling things like financial planning, tax preparation, and other needs.

125
2 years ago

A startup that launched in May, Empowered Launchpad is a marketplace for a variety of services including legal, accounting, and engineering, with the goal of making it easier for startups to get off the ground. They’re already working with 100 companies around the world.

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2 years ago

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

124
2 years ago

An AI-powered service that helps streamline the process of buying, selling, renting and managing a fleet of vehicles.

124
2 years ago

The following startups were named to the list of top startup ecosystems for the sixth year in a row.

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1 year ago

A startup that hopes to replace the need for human financial advisors with an AI-powered automated wealth manager.

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1 year ago

An AI-powered marketing platform for marketers working on social media.

124
2 years ago

A startup that builds custom devices for businesses, such as a GPS-powered shelf for a refrigerator to keep track of stock, or a phone-controlled washing machine. It has raised $4.2 million in investments since it was founded in September.

123
2 years ago

MailChimp wants to build a new kind of email, one that feels like a conversation and is powered by AI.

123
2 years ago

A company that provides AI-powered technology for online retailers, including an AI-powered website that can automatically suggest new products and changes to products based on consumer behavior.

123
2 years ago

AI-powered machine learning platform for the fashion industry that helps brands measure product fit and recommend products for different sizes and styles.

123
2 years ago

An AI-powered personal assistant that finds the cheapest ride for the user. The startup has over 500,000 rides booked since launching in April, with a 2% take rate.

123
2 years ago

A company that makes AI-powered software to help nonprofits, raising funds from the community.

122
2 years ago

This startup says that it is building a marketplace for humans to hire AI-powered chatbots and voice assistants.

122
2 years ago

The idea: A mobile phone that can be powered by your body movement, rather than by a battery. The goal is for the device to be small enough to fit in your pocket, but powerful enough to run a full computer. The company was founded in May 2016 by two ex-Apple engineers.

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1 year ago

In the 2017 Philadelphia Startup Week, 10 companies were featured.

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2 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.

121
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform that lets media teams shorten the time they spend on content creation by identifying which pieces of content will be most popular, as well as predicting the best time to post it.

121
2 years ago

A chatbot-powered automated service for making purchases at the airport.

120
2 years ago

A startup that is building a new kind of e-reader that uses a 3-D lens to let users see books as if they were 3-D movies.

120
2 years ago

An AI-powered personal assistant that helps people access their organization’s knowledge base to find information on the go. The startup wants to build a simple single-app solution that’s paired with a native iOS app.

120
1 year ago

In addition to the main list above, a number of companies that were not selected for the finals were chosen for a special list of honorable mentions in three categories: Technology, People and Process. The Bottom Line is the only company that was not chosen for the finals from this list.

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2 years ago

This is a “tech-for-good” project that wants to build a marketplace where people can donate their old smartphones and tablets to be refurbished and repurposed into solar-powered lights for developing countries.

119
1 year ago

This startup is building AI-powered virtual assistants that talk to you and learn what you like.

119
2 years ago

 A startup building a virtual assistant powered by artificial intelligence.

118
2 years ago

A company making an AI-powered HR assistant that learns from employees and helps them work better. The startup was recently acquired by a bigger startup called TalentBin.

118
2 years ago

 “A personal assistant for the last mile: an AI-powered tool that serves the last mile of travel needs of both humans and machines.” The startup, which was founded in May, seeks to take on the likes of Uber and Lyft with a new platform designed for last-mile travel.

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2 years ago

The winners of the first two Eastern European deals were announced in a blog post on July 1, 2018.

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2 years ago

An AI-powered digital assistant that helps with personal finance and investing. The startup wants to become the go-to resource for financial information and advice.

117
1 year ago

A camera-based artificial intelligence system for the home that offers an AI-powered personal assistant to control your lights and other home automation devices.

117
2 years ago

An AI-powered onboarding platform for IT professionals. The company is hiring additional engineers to build out a team of over 100 currently.

116
1 year ago

A toolkit for building AI-powered chatbots using Node.js.

116
1 year ago

According to the 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, there were over 2.4 million startup founders working in the United States.

116
2 years ago

A software/hardware company that builds AI-powered IoT devices like TVs and speakers.

115
1 year ago

A human-powered team of recruiters that help companies hire.

115
1 year ago

A startup in Singapore that plans to replace the human middleman in real estate transactions with an AI-powered software platform. It’s currently running a pilot in Singapore, and plans to launch in Australia next year.

115
2 years ago

The startup is working with a range of retailers, from Ikea to J.Crew, to build out an AI-powered recommendation system.

114
2 years ago

An internal startup within Forte to create a series of products for the company. They wanted a brand that was fun and modern, but not too distracting for customers. The new app was designed to be a reward for people who were servicing Forte’s customers.

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2 years ago

CEO and co-founder, Josh, is a self-proclaimed "Serial Entrepreneur." He's built startups in the past five years, including a few that were acquired by larger tech companies.

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1 year ago

"We are a group of experienced marketers and developers who believe in building companies that are powered by users and not investors. We want to move from a world of transactional businesses to ones that are built on relationships. Our mission is to build a platform that allows people to create and share their own content in the same way that they share links or photos on Facebook."

114
2 years ago

An ML-powered sales and marketing tool that helps companies connect with their customers.

113
2 years ago

This startup’s utility is powered by the sharing economy. The app allows people to connect with local drivers and couriers to take care of what can be a labor-intensive activity, like moving a couch to a new apartment or delivering art to a new home.

112
2 years ago

A provider of “AI-empowered” imagery for advertising, which identifies and tags objects in photos to generate ad campaigns.

112
2 years ago

This startup wants to build an AI-powered chatbot to help you manage your money, with a focus on millennials.

112
2 years ago

An AI-powered tool for building mobile apps with a focus on helping non-technical people.

112
1 year ago

A startup that’s building an AI-powered email marketing platform, where emails are a lot more personal, without the need to go through a third-party service.

111
1 year ago

This is an AI-powered chatbot that will help you find the best products for your personal style.

111
2 years ago

 Playboard is an AI-powered tool that helps automate the search for new hires and finds data to validate job candidates.

110
2 years ago

An AI-powered chatbot that helps you negotiate the best deal on a car loan.

110
2 years ago

One of the key differences between this year’s class and last year’s was the level of public interest in highlighting the work of the companies that were accepted. This year that level was very high, with over 10,000 people visiting the project page. That interest was a major factor in the growth of the class.

109
10 months ago

A company focusing on building an AI-powered platform to help manufacturers plan and think through production processes.

109
2 years ago

A community of people who want to live in space, and want to live in space for at least $200,000. They want to live in space because they think it’s a better place to live than Earth. They want to live in space because they think it will be cheaper than if they were to live on Earth. And they want to live in space because they think it will be safer than if they were to live in Earth.

108
2 years ago

A startup that’s building a blockchain powered tracking system for food. The startup is building a network of sensors that allow people to track their own food and what it’s been through.

108
2 years ago

A solar-powered way of tracking crops that takes the heat off of big, expensive satellite and aerial data collection

107
2 years ago

A company that makes solar-powered charging stations for electric vehicles. The startup has built an entire flexible solar panel that can be connected to any car.

107
2 years ago

This is an AI-powered service for finding the cheapest flights online. The startup currently boasts over 1 million users, and has built a complex machine learning model that it says can find you the cheapest flights.

107
2 years ago

This startup is building an AI-powered and hyper-personalized digital assistant to help consumers with their day-to-day tasks like booking travel, flight status check, and tracking packages.

106
2 years ago

A startup that builds AI-powered chatbots to help businesses automate customer service and other support tasks. Their aim is to replace human customer service agents with chatbots.

106
2 years ago

The following companies were featured in the Inc. 5000 in the “Healthcare” category:

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2 years ago

A startup that “provides an AI-powered, ad-free content-based search experience for social media that allows users to see engagement, content, and activity across multiple social media channels and news outlets.”

105
2 years ago

An AI-powered chatbot that helps people find and make reservations at restaurants with the ease of an automated messaging system.

104
2 years ago

An AI-powered product recommendation platform that helps users find and shop for products across Amazon and other retailers. The startup wants to build the first recommendation platform for consumers in the US, where it’s been testing.

103
1 year ago

An AI-powered app that helps organizations develop and implement AI strategies that maximize value, efficiency, and ROI.

103
2 years ago

A startup that offers an AI-powered service that helps patients decide where to seek treatment for cancer

102
2 years ago

A startup that makes a “human-powered robot” that helps companies track their employees’ movements

101
10 months ago

A platform for human-powered drones to fly for small businesses, agricultural operations, and for research purposes.

101
2 years ago

An AI-powered chat bot that can help people select a best-suited payment method for their spending.

100
4 months ago

This startup allows brands to track their press mentions and then see which outlets they were featured in.

100
2 years ago

A space-saving, eco-friendly, solar-powered tent that's built with bamboo and recycled plastic. It's also waterproof, and when the time comes to move, it folds up into a waterproof bag, taking up less space than a cooler while still providing a dry, protected space for outdoor camping.

99
2 years ago

The idea is a really simple one — it’s like a smart pen to help you remember the answers to your phone-based quizzes and tests. The pen has a button that acts as a button to the app, and the app has a button that acts as a button to the pen. The pen vibrates when the app thinks you have answered the question wrong, and the app vibrates when you get the question right.

99
2 years ago

A startup that wants to build an AI-powered bot for streamlining the process of buying and selling tickets on secondary markets like Stubhub. The startup is also building a mobile app that helps users make these transactions more easily.

99
11 months ago

Solar-powered bottle caps that allow users to keep track of the amount of time they’ve spent at the gym.

99
2 years ago

An AI-powered AI assistant, Pexel is building a bot that will handle tasks like making phone calls, scheduling appointments, and even answering questions.

98
2 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses in India build their websites, they were bootstrapped with seed funding from Y Combinator.

97
2 years ago

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

96
2 years ago

A startup that is building an AI-powered app for home delivery of plant medicine.

96
1 year ago

A startup that’s developing an app that allows users to crowdsource design work in real time. As the company says, “the platform is set up in a way that allows site visitors to create a profile, to rate designs, and to leave feedback on the designs of other site visitors. The power of the platform comes from the fact that it’s powered by a community of designers that are incentivized to be helpful.”

96
7 months ago

An AI-powered alternative to SMS, which promises to be “a next-generation messaging client that’s faster, cheaper and more secure”.

96
2 years ago

A startup that aims to help US cities build 100,000 solar powered charging stations across major highways to help people get around.

95
1 year ago

In 2015, a total of 9,615 seed-stage deals in the US were led by women with 108 companies, a 2% increase from 2014. A total of 1,906 companies from women-led startups raised a total of $1.1 billion in funding.

95
2 years ago

An AI-powered chatbot that helps doctors diagnose and treat patients. The company says it is already being used by over 20,000 doctors in the US.

94
2 years ago

An AI-powered, data-driven small-business analytics tool that helps businesses with a focus on operations, HR, sales and marketing.

94
2 years ago

In 2018, the founders of OpenTable were awarded the National Venture Capital Association’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Consumer Products and Services category.

94
2 years ago

A video conferencing platform that’s powered by the cloud and designed to work on all devices. It’s already integrated with Slack, allowing customers to schedule meetings from anywhere and get notifications when they’re available.

94
2 years ago

An AI-powered platform that helps travel companies and agents book seats and deals on the most popular airline websites. The startup's proprietary technology is a SaaS product that can be integrated with any travel site.

94
1 year ago

An AI-powered assistant that provides financial advice to users based on their goals, ideas, and personal interests.

94
2 years ago

This startup is building an AI-powered bot that can help customers resolve disputes with their favorite brands

93
9 months ago

An AI and deep learning startup that helps companies create AI-powered chatbots.

93
2 years ago

People are tired of waiting on hold for customer service, so they’re putting their calls into a queue to be answered and retrieved. The startup is aiming to be the de facto customer service app for the next generation of companies, and says it’s already working with several major companies in the space.

92
1 year ago

A digital platform that helps companies recruit and hire employees in remote areas, powered by artificial intelligence. The company has brought on nearly 1,000 employees in remote areas, and is now focused on the US.

92
8 months ago

A workplace application that automatically analyzes emails to determine which emails are the most important and should be answered immediately. It’s trying to replace the traditional “email triage” process with a more targeted process that says, for instance, “take care of these 10 emails first, then this one”.

92
2 years ago

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

91
9 months ago

An AI-powered help desk that connects to 3rd-party apps and services and is meant to help companies understand how their customers are using their products.

91
7 months ago

One of the first building tools to be powered by code and designed to last a lifetime. The company builds furniture from wood, metal, and concrete using woodworking robots.

91
2 years ago

A video editing platform that’s meant to make it easier to create and share videos without creating a video editing crew. The startup is powered by a virtual assistant that handles tasks like organizing clips, adding music, and fine-tuning the final product.

90
2 years ago

An AI-powered platform that allows people to create and manage a digital portfolio of assets. In beta with 500 customers.

90
2 years ago

This is a company that makes solar powered bike lights for cyclists to use on dark streets and trails.

90
2 years ago

The startup is building an AI-powered chatbot that helps you make better decisions about your health.

87
4 months ago

An AI-powered e-commerce platform that allows customers to shop and buy items direct from manufacturers and importers. The company is also building out a supply chain management system.

87
10 months ago

This startup is building an AI-powered role playing game, “The Sims” for financial advisors.

86
4 months ago

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

86
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform to allow businesses to manage social and digital marketing activities from one place.

84
10 months ago

A startup that brings together all the different AI-powered products on the market, allowing users to “bundle and reuse” the AI products they’re already using.

84
10 months ago

An AI powered call center that promises to help businesses tackle customer service issues more effectively. The startup calls itself “the first AI-powered call center” and claims to be able to solve customer service issues more efficiently than humans. The startup is currently in closed beta in the US.

82
2 years ago

An AI-powered platform for understanding and automatically classifying IoT data.

80
4 months ago

An AI powered tool that helps HR managers with their hiring process by discovering the right talent.

80
2 years ago

Spots are a blockchain-based social network powered by artificial intelligence. The company lets users create and manage their own chat groups, with each group being able to run a mini-economy.

79
2 years ago

A startup that offers a distributed human-powered AI that can help organizations build AI-driven chatbots.

79
10 months ago

A platform for building your own smart contracts, powered by Ethereum and the ERC20 token standard.

78
1 year ago

An AI-powered text to speech solution, that releases a text-to-speech solution for iOS and Android.

77
3 months ago

This startup is building an AI-powered tool to help people connect to the right people at the right time. Like LinkedIn’s Answers, it aims to wring value out of the information you already have.

77
1 year ago

An AI-powered marketing tool for content publishers. The startup says it helps publishers manage their social media marketing efforts and track marketing ROI.

76
1 year ago

An AI-powered customer service platform that aims to make the process of searching for an agent easier and faster.

76
2 years ago

A standalone browser that integrates with the Slack team chat app. It allows users to create polls, polls that can be used in other Slack channels, and even polls that can be customized to display a specific emoji when they’re answered.

75
1 year ago

An AI-powered chatbot that can help companies and employees schedule meetings, handle travel coordination, book rooms and even help with pre-determined tasks in the office.

75
1 year ago

A company that makes an AI-powered solution for retail workers to help them keep track of inventory and sales.

74
1 year ago

An AI-powered “digital concierge” that helps companies manage customer interactions. The B2B startup has a client list that includes Netflix and IBM.

74
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform that uses machine learning to help employees get the most out of their time.

74
1 year ago

The company is working on building an AI-powered chatbot that can sort through all your different college degrees and track your progress. The idea is that college degrees can be tracked in a way that makes them useful for future employers or graduate school applications.

73
1 year ago

An AI-powered chatbot that helps consumers with their payments, including mobile wallets.

72
1 year ago

This startup is building an API for API companies to build API integrations into their API. API integrations are a key part of growing an API-powered business by letting users access the API without actually running the API themselves.

72
2 months ago

An AI-powered, real-time credit score for consumers.

72
1 year ago

An ecommerce-focused startup selling T-shirts and other clothing. The app is powered by a backend API that makes it possible for retailers to integrate their offline commerce into their online platforms.

71
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform that can provide insights to help companies identify, identify, and reach talent.

71
1 year ago

A company that’s building machine-learning technology to help train and manage AI-powered chatbots.

71
4 months ago

A messaging app that lets you communicate with AI powered assistants.

71
1 year ago

A company that’s building an AI-powered traffic monitor.

70
1 year ago

The startup’s goal is to create a “travel agency on steroids”. The idea is to use AI and AI-powered services to plan trips and recommend hotels and activities.

70
1 year ago

This startup is building an AI-powered service that allows brands to send messages to their customers through their social media feeds.

70
1 year ago

This company makes a “cute,” AI-powered tool that allows developers to translate a website into a number of other languages.

70
1 year ago

An online marketplace for hotels where they can access the best hotel deals, with an AI-powered booking engine.

70
25 days ago

A system that acts as a “digital notary”. It takes a digital file, such as an email or video, and makes it as if it were signed in person. The company is targeting legal and healthcare situations, where the need for a notary is real.

70
2 years ago

An AI-powered product that helps you determine whether you’re likely to succeed at something, like getting into a top university.

69
1 year ago

In October 2017, AdExchanger ranked them as the #7 ad tech company to watch, and as of February 2018, they were ranked as one of the top 50 ad tech companies. In July 2017, they won the Red Herring Europe Award in the Enterprise Solutions category.

69
1 year ago

A startup that builds an AI-powered chatbot to help businesses with product research, customer support, and sales.

69
9 months ago

A company that makes an AI-powered platform for blending and remixing audio.

69
1 year ago

Idea is an interface to create and edit content for any electronic device that is powered by iOS or Android.

68
1 year ago

 A maker of solar-powered vehicles

68
1 year ago

A startup that wants to build AI-powered chatbots that can automatically generate chat transcripts, allowing companies to save time and money by using automated chat systems.

68
1 year ago

A solution for “scaling” public schools. It lets school districts work with an “empowered community” to decide how schools should be run, including how many teachers and administrators are required.

68
1 year ago

 An AI-powered search engine that searches the web to find the latest, best sales and coupons. It uses an algorithm to scan the web for relevant information and compiles it into a report by category, city, and brand.

68
1 month ago

A startup where people can rent and sell their properties, powered by the Trulia dataset.

68
1 year ago

A startup that enables users to create a ‘vision profile’ and share it with friends. Created by a couple in their twenties who wanted to know how other people were making it in the world.

67
1 year ago

A platform that allows users to create and monetize short videos with an interactive component. This platform is powered by a community of curators and collaborators.

67
1 year ago

Zujaa is building a machine learning-powered platform that helps those in the freight industry manage their freight.

67
1 year ago

The following startups were selected because of their unique and innovative approaches to building businesses.

67
1 year ago

A company that helps companies refund customers money when they don’t get the product they were promised.

67
1 year ago

An AI-powered app for pairing workers with projects around the world.

67
1 year ago

Notion is building an AI-powered platform for collaborative editing of online documents in real time. It would allow users to collaborate on documents in real time, with the team reviewing each other’s work and then making edits on the fly.

67
4 months ago

 A startup that makes it easy for developers to test HTML and CSS in real time, without having to re-install and re-configure their web dev tools. The service is entirely browser based, and is the product of two former Google employees who were frustrated by their experience with the standard HTML5 build process.

67
1 year ago

Co-founders said they were inspired by the success of Airbnb but found themselves frustrated by the startup’s inability to deliver on its promises. Rival hotel booking site Hotels.com filed for an IPO in April 2016.

66
1 year ago

LendingClub is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company that aims to cut out the middleman lending market by allowing borrowers to connect with each other directly. The company’s P2P model is based on an algorithm designed to match borrowers with lenders. P2P loans were responsible for $2.7 billion in loans in 2017.

66
1 year ago

A startup that wants to connect freelance workers with jobs through an AI-powered marketplace. The startup is currently working with Capital One to help the bank recruit independent workers.

66
1 year ago

The startup is building a smart, AI-powered platform for hiring, connecting talent to employers, and helping talent find new opportunities.

66
9 months ago

An AI-powered tool to help people plan their morning. It’ll suggest things like a workout, breakfast, coffee, etc. for each user based on their location, time of day, and what they’ve done in the past.

66
4 months ago

An AI-powered app that helps people eat less by offering automated reminders and a way to track progress

66
1 year ago

The startup is building a way for consumers to check their credit scores on their phones, so they can see what if they were to refinance a mortgage, apply for a credit card, or shop for a new loan.

65
1 year ago

An AI-powered employee engagement tool.

65
1 year ago

The following startups were featured on the show as a part of the Airtime segment, but did not have a pitch session:

65
1 year ago

A company that provides an AI-powered platform for hospitals to manage patient scheduling.

65
1 year ago

A visual search engine for online video, powered by user-generated content.

65
1 year ago

“A first-of-its-kind consumer credit-scoring product that’s powered by behavioral science.”

64
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform to help users find and compare loans and credit cards.

64
1 year ago

A machine/machine learning-powered platform for insurance that helps carriers and agents make smart decisions about coverage and pricing. Their solution is a white label platform that is built on top of a managed services provider.

64
1 year ago

A startup that aims to bring more transparency to the global trade and supply chain process, they say they’re building a “digital procurement platform powered by artificial intelligence”

64
1 year ago

Other companies were pitched before being accepted into the program.

64
11 months ago

An AI-powered video platform that aims to provide a more personal communication platform for video.

64
1 year ago

These 10 startups were profiled by "Fast Company" in May.

63
1 year ago

The startup helps businesses streamline their operations, process payments, and cut down on errors by using AI-powered chatbots.

63
10 months ago

A platform for lawyers to easily collaborate on documents with clients’ lawyers, as well as a way for public records requests to be answered.

63
1 year ago

A machine learning and AI-powered app for machine learning and AI-powered apps.

62
1 year ago

An AI-powered network for the internet of things to share data from devices, enabling devices to talk to each other and enabling the creation of new business models like predictive maintenance and maintenance as a service.

62
1 year ago

A portable, solar-powered “newsroom” for journalists covering breaking news.

62
1 year ago

The company, which was founded in 2016, uses AI to make videos of your life, so that when you look back on your life, you can show friends and family how you were at different stages of your life.

61
1 year ago

A wave-generated, self-powered electricity generator

61
3 months ago

An AI-powered machine translation app that converts text from one language to another, with built-in grammar and pronunciation.

61
1 year 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.

60
1 year ago

A tool for automating email marketing for businesses. Its founders, having previously built a small email marketing SaaS for startups, were looking for a way to automate the process.

60
1 year ago

A “human-powered” platform that connects users with other people in their niche-of-interest. The idea is that each user has an “agent” who will help them find other people in the same area or have similar interests.

60
1 year ago

Finds the best car insurance rates with an AI-powered tool that helps you compare car insurance quotes.

60
4 months ago

Location-based messaging app that allows people to navigate their cities using AI-powered directions

60
1 year ago

What is it: An AI-powered HR tech company, with the CEO saying it’s “the future of HR tech.”

59
1 year ago

A personal finance app that helps people track their spending and save money. Based on a survey of over 1,000 people, the company found that the top things most people wanted to track were their net worth, credit, and income.

59
1 year ago

An automated, artificial intelligence-powered tool for pricing and managing the supply chain of online retailers.

59
1 year ago

 A photo processing startup in the LA area that wants to build the world’s first AI-powered photo editing tools

59
1 year ago

A healthcare blockchain powered by the Ethereum network. It’s a digital patient ledger system that can share patient data with physicians, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies with the goal of reducing costs and improving patient outcomes.

58
1 year ago

An AI-powered chatbot that helps with financial planning. The startup wants to bring AI to the financial planning industry, which has historically been dominated by humans, who can be biased and inefficient.

58
1 year ago

An AI-powered chatbot that helps you stay organized in your email inbox by flagging the things you should act on right away.

58
4 months ago

An AI-powered microlearning platform that helps companies learn more about their employees by leveraging the company’s Salesforce data. it’s currently in private beta with 10 companies.

58
1 year ago

An AI-powered hiring platform that gets inside the hiring process and helps candidates find the best opportunities.

57
1 year 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.

57
1 year ago

This is a software platform that allows call center workers to find out which of their client’s questions are likely to be answered by a computer and which ones need a human operator.

57
9 months ago

Twelve months ago, the founders of this startup were trying to find a better way to communicate with their patients. Today they’re launching a digital health platform that lets providers manage patient records, schedule appointments, and communicate with patients.

57
1 year ago

This startup aims to help users of the cryptocurrency Ethereum create and manage DApps on their own platform. The DApp Store will let users deploy and manage their apps, and will be powered by a decentralized transaction system that allows users to send and receive payments for their work.

56
1 year ago

A blockchain-powered two-factor authentication provider that claims to prevent phishing, improve user security, and reduce fraud.

56
1 year ago

 A startup that helps healthcare professionals and patients collaborate to improve patient outcomes, and it’s powered by an AI bot. The company’s founders tell us it does all of its work by sending patients personal questions and tracking their responses to them, building a database of their responses to doctors and clinicians.

56
1 year ago

The company is building an AI-powered platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to automatically identify and recommend products to customers.

56
1 year ago

An artificial intelligence powered platform that connects merchants and consumers to automate and simplify the payment process.

56
1 year ago

A company building an AI-powered product that helps doctors determine the best treatment for a patient.

56
4 months ago

A personal assistant who handles your travel planning for a flat fee, using a mix of algorithms and human-powered help. The company has been in stealth since August 2014.

56
3 months ago

A company that helps big companies automate their marketing and sales teams. One of the co-founders used to manage the sales teams at Rackspace, and she noticed that the same tasks were being repeated over and over again.

56
1 year ago

A data scientist-powered machine learning platform for the retail industry, enabling retailers to serve customers with personalized, real-time recommendations for their shopping trips.

55
1 year ago

A Y Combinator spin-out that’s building a search engine for AI-powered chatbots.

55
1 year ago

A joint project between an artist and an engineer, this startup is building an AI-powered bot that can help artists create music.

55
1 year ago

It’s an AI-powered app that lets you make low-cost, sustainable, end-to-end custom versions of your favorite products at home.

55
1 year ago

A wearable, solar-powered device that makes it easy for people to send money to one another

55
1 year ago

A startup that wants to build an AI-powered platform that lets people create online profiles that can be used to help them make local hiring decisions.

55
1 year ago

In addition to everything on this list, there were also a handful of other companies that were pitched that I didn’t write about.

55
11 months ago

A startup that helps AI-powered personal assistants and smart speakers understand the spoken words and phrases of their users, and then build answers in response, rather than just answer questions.

55
1 year ago

This startup is building a platform for AI-powered chatbots. Their system can be used to power chatbots for any industry or vertical, but they’re currently focused on businesses that are doing customer service.

54
1 year ago

An open source platform for people to find and buy organic food, powered by new technologies.

54
1 year ago

An AI startup that uses machine learning to create a virtual but not overwhelming sales assistant and help people get their questions answered.

54
1 year ago

A new way to get you to your appointments and in the right place at the right time, powered by self-driving cars.

54
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform that makes it easier to manage and price online ads. The startup wants to simplify the process of buying online ads so that more people can participate.

54
1 year ago

An AI platform for investing in stocks and managing portfolios with a focus on behavioral finance. The platform is built around artificial intelligence, machine learning, and AI-powered algorithms, and it’s focused on finding out how people really invest.

54
10 months ago

A platform for building AI-powered chatbots. The company is building its own natural language processing engine, which it says is better than others on the market.

54
5 months ago

A software company that provides customer service agents with more training, encouraging more calls to be answered faster and with more customers getting a more personalized response.

54
10 months ago

An AI-powered chatbot that offers financial advice to people.

53
10 months ago

A startup that will buy your old TV sets, build them into solar-powered generators, and then resell them to people in Africa who need power.

53
9 months ago

One that provides an AI-powered tool to help companies identify and hire the best candidates. The startup’s tool allows recruiters to identify top talent from a shortlist of candidates, and then helps manage their recruiting process. There are no guarantees of success in the recruiting landscape, and a startup like this is a way for recruiters to get ahead.

53
11 months ago

A mobile, voice-controlled smart thermostat that helps people save on energy costs. Once updated, it’s compatible with all existing HVAC systems, including the ones that were retrofitted for the Nest.

52
10 months ago

A blockchain-powered video platform for publishers, allowing them to monetize their content. The startup’s platform is built on the Ethereum blockchain, with a native token called the Vibe Coin.

52
3 months ago

A startup that wants to provide AI-powered technology for companies to bring in data from their various cloud sources.

52
1 year ago

A data science platform that helps companies understand their customers better with AI-based tools and AI-powered insights. The startup is based in New York City and is backed by Y Combinator and SV Angel.

51
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform that improves the performance of software development teams by helping them more efficiently access, manage and leverage data.

51
1 month ago

A software-as-a-service platform that helps apply machine learning to the data. The startup is building a predictive analytics platform that will be powered by artificial intelligence.

51
1 year ago

AI and machine learning-powered call center service that helps call center agents make better decisions.

50
11 months ago

Combining a solar-powered, connected scale and a coffee roaster to make a perfect coffee every time.

50
11 months ago

A solar-powered furniture startup that makes furniture that’s both fashionable and environmentally friendly.

50
8 months ago

an AI-powered personal assistant for people with disabilities.

50
1 year ago

An AI-powered artificial intelligence system that helps optimize and automate the tasks of a salesperson.

49
1 year ago

In these polls, the respondents were asked to pick the most innovative young companies in San Francisco Bay Area.

49
1 year ago

This startup wants to help their customers improve their sales by offering an AI-powered interface to help them create sales proposals, automatically pulling in information from their customers' existing data to build out proposals.

49
1 year ago

This startup is building an AI-powered tool for marketers to monitor and optimize their campaigns. The company says they’re delivering “the best performance of any AI-powered agency in the world”.

49
10 months ago

An AI-powered customer service bot that integrates with your email inbox, can respond to queries, and make suggestions to save you time.

49
1 year ago

A company that helps clients manage the relationship between their brand and the people who use its products. The startup was originally built to help the non-profit World Vision, but they found they weren’t a good fit and pivoted.

48
1 year ago

A hardware wallet for bitcoin. A recent redesign has brought in some features that were previously only available for the Ledger.

48
1 year ago

A visual dashboard for Uber's drivers, letting them see how many hours they've driven, what they've driven, and what they were paid.

47
1 year ago

An AI-powered assistant to help people with mental health issues. The startup is focused on helping users manage their depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.

47
11 months ago

An AI-powered assistant that can help you find the best nearby restaurants that serve food you like.

47
10 months ago

A startup that wants to create a marketplace where anyone can give and receive peer-reviewed ride-hailing reviews, powered by a crowd-sourced rating system.

47
9 months ago

An artificial intelligence-powered analytics platform that helps healthcare companies better understand their products, customers and communications.

47
3 months ago

A digital assistant to help people get the most out of Slack, through artificial intelligence-powered chatbots.

47
2 months ago

A company aiming to build a frictionless, AI-powered, social media-based marketing platform.

47
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform for tracking employee’s performance and proactively providing bonuses, benefits and rewards

46
1 year ago

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

46
11 months ago

An AI-powered Slack bot that can answer regulatory questions for companies

46
7 months ago

A “text-based” personal assistant for home and cars, “powered by machine learning and AI”.

46
2 months ago

1. Startup founders who were born in the 1980s that graduated from top universities

46
2 months ago

An AI-powered assistant that helps doctors diagnose patients and manage their appointments.

46
1 year ago

An AI-powered digital assistant that helps people track their health and wellness. The startup wants to help people start taking better care of themselves, with a tool “that helps you make the right decisions throughout your life”.

45
11 months ago

An AI-powered recommendation system.

45
8 months ago

An AI-powered chatbot that empowers people with information about their health and condition.

45
3 months ago

This startup is developing a way to let your phone charge up a USB-powered battery pack. The startup is looking to replace the bulky and expensive power bank with a $25 battery pack that can be plugged into your phone to charge up.

45
2 months ago

A startup that’s working on a GPS-powered wearable assistant, which will allow people to speak and send text messages to their devices in order to get notifications, check out weather, and find their location.

45
10 months ago

An AI-powered assistant for the deaf, built with natural language understanding and the ability to understand tone and context.

44
9 months ago

WeRequest is a startup that’s building a protocol that allows companies to request services from other companies — think Uber for lawyers.

44
8 months ago

This startup builds an AI-powered bot that can help your team collaborate more effectively.

44
1 year ago

A company that wants to build an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for the home that can help with many everyday tasks like making a reservation, paying bills, and buying things online. The startup is based in San Francisco.

43
1 year ago

A “social shopping” app that helps people discover and buy items that they like. The startup hopes to create the first social media-powered shopping platform.

43
1 year ago

An AI-powered productivity tool that’s meant to help people with autism take notes, organize their notebooks and produce “high-quality” work.

43
10 months ago

While it’s still in the works, this company is building an AI-powered assistant that would allow people to speak to it and get personalized recommendations on what to do in cities around the world, sort of like the way Pandora is personalized music.

43
8 months ago

The startup is building a 3D printer for small scale production. The founders met at Techstars, where they were early on a Y Combinator batch.

43
8 months ago

A platform for building AI-powered chatbots for marketers. They want to be the next Slack.

43
7 months ago

An AI-powered platform that enables customers to compare loan options and choose the lowest monthly payment, with a focus on student loans.

43
6 months ago

A research startup that works with museums, universities, and art galleries to crowdsource the kinds of questions that can be answered by crowdsourcing.

43
4 months ago

The startup is building an AI-powered assistant that helps Millennials manage their finances. The app will first be launched in the U.S., and then roll out to other markets like Brazil, Canada and the U.K.

43
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform for visualizing data that allows users to visualize and interact with data using simple drag-and-drop.

42
1 year ago

A tool that lets you automate your Twitter feed, sharing posts at the exact time periods they were intended to be shared.

42
1 year ago

An AI-powered, real-time news site that helps users stay up to date on what’s happening in the world.

42
11 months ago

Equinor has created a third-party API (application programming interface) that allows online retailers to accept and follow up on online orders from consumers. This can help online retailers get their products to customers faster than if they were shipping in-store.

42
7 months ago

A human-powered logistics startup that helps companies, and especially retailers, get products from suppliers to customers.

42
2 months ago

“A better way to manage dental laser procedures”. The company says they were the first to automate the process of placing the device over the tooth.

42
1 year ago

A startup called Vostu is building a tool that helps users translate and interpret data into more accessible formats. The current service runs on Slack, but is also available as a standalone product. Vostu also offers a translator for users to translate into other languages, and plans to launch an AI-powered translation service in the future.

41
1 year ago

Data visualization for video games, powered by the world’s largest video game database.

41
1 year ago

A startup for managing insurance claims for commercial and residential properties, using a combination of AI and “people powered” claims processing.

41
10 months ago

An artificial intelligence powered tool that analyses financial data to help investors make money.

41
9 months ago

An AI-powered insurance company that uses chatbots to provide 24/7 customer service, and claims management for customers. Currently testing in Arizona.

41
8 months ago

A startup that builds an AI-powered search engine that can identify the right products for a given search.

41
7 months ago

An AI-powered assistant for hiring employees, sharing benefits and HR paperwork. It’s also a service for companies to manage their employee benefits.

41
1 year ago

A startup that wants to create an AI-powered AI for a better customer service

40
1 year ago

An AI-powered platform to help content creators create better content.

40
9 months ago

A housing startup that’s building a “blockchain-powered” rental platform, to help individual agents and investors rent out apartments.

40
9 months ago

This startup is building an AI-powered law firm. The company is hiring legal research engineers, data scientists and analysts, and an HR tech lead.

40
8 months ago

A company that lets you buy the right to use someone else’s content online. Upon buying the license, you can upload your own content, and it can appear as though it were created by the original author.

40
3 months ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for clients to collaborate and communicate with their lawyers, giving them a better way to communicate and get legal questions answered.

40
1 month ago

A programming language that teaches its users to build AI-powered bots using dynamic programming.

40
9 months ago

An AI-powered tool for social media marketers, allowing them to increase the reach of their posts, and filling in all of the gaps in the traditional social media marketing process.

39
5 months ago

An AI-powered data scientist that makes it easier to identify and fix problems with websites.

39
1 year ago

A startup that wants to reinvent the way financial advisors do marketing. It wants to build an AI-powered system that empowers advisors to create personalized content for their clients, based on their data. The company says this will help advisors find new clients, and increase the ROI on their existing ones.

38
1 year ago

This startup is building an AI-powered sales assistant for business sellers in a “strategic sales” role.

38
1 year ago

An AI-powered messaging-based dating app that brings a human element back to online dating.

38
1 year ago

In their first year, people were able to book a total of 3,000 rides with this startup in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.

38
8 months ago

An AI-powered platform that allows businesses to provide customers with tailored and highly-personalized product recommendations.

38
3 months ago

A toolkit for making websites that looks like they were built in the 1990’s. The startup developed this software to make programmers feel more comfortable writing in C, a programming language that hasn’t been updated since the 1990’s.

38
12 days ago

An AI-powered medical transcription tool meant to help reduce the costs of medical transcriptionists. The app offers a predictive tool that predicts the best time to transcribe a medical record, and it also gives an income estimate based on the time it would take to transcribe a file.

38
2 years ago

A startup that’s built an open-source, artificial intelligence-powered bot that helps you schedule meetings on Slack. The bot is called Lino and was built by a team of ex-Google and ex-Yahoo engineers.

37
1 year ago

A system that helps health care organizations manage their patient records, powered by AI and connected to other health care providers.

37
11 months ago

An AI-powered chatbot that responds to queries like “what is the weather like tomorrow” and “what are the sales for this week” in a manner that’s “personalized” and “conversational”. The startup hopes to move into the voice assistant space.

37
7 months ago

A startup that helps users reduce the cost of their energy consumption, building “solar-powered” homes that can be used as a blueprint for other buildings.

37
5 months ago

An AI-powered matching tool that connects employers with job seekers.

37
1 year ago

A company that’s building AI-powered technology to make it easier for people to search for, select, and buy the most-used products on Amazon

36
1 year ago

An AI-powered AI that helps work with different machine learning tools to automate the process of automating work.

36
11 months ago

This startup is building a new way to interact with the world of digital assistants, allowing users to talk to them as if they were a person rather than an external app. The company has built a new AI that they say can answer questions while also listening and learning.

36
11 months ago

 A startup that uses big data to analyze and predict the effectiveness of different marketing campaigns. The company is based in Palo Alto, where they were founded.

36
10 months ago

A startup that wants to sell “supercapacitor-powered” batteries for electric vehicles.

36
10 months ago

Builds and markets solar-powered electric bicycles, like the one below, that can carry up to 300 pounds and travel up to 60 miles per charge.

36
9 months ago

A “human-powered search engine” meant to give users a “personalized and intuitive” interface to search their email inbox.

36
7 months ago

An AI-powered virtual assistant for doctors and nurses. It’s meant to be the AI that helps you find the right doctor when you’re experiencing an ailment. It uses the data from your phone to figure out what your ailment is, and then it uses that data to find the doctor who is closest to you.

36
6 months ago

In the same way that Gravity is a way to take meals on-the-go, Eatsa is a way to take food on-the-go. The startup is developing a way to make first class dining at a local restaurant feel as if you were sitting in a restaurant across the street.

36
3 months ago

A company that builds AI-powered chatbots for customer service, handling things like password resets, shipping tracking, and account recovery.

36
1 year ago

Forbes and Matter were the only two to feature SMU in their 2017 and 2018 lists of the Top 50 Under 50.

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11 months ago

This is a new venture from the co-founder of the company that spent $8,000 on a round of venture funding to make a $400 smart phone. The company is building a home security camera that can use AI to alert its users of intruders. The founders were inspired by the startup that once owned their smart phone.

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10 months ago

A startup that wants to sell solar-powered air-conditioners that cut energy costs by 70%, and are made out of recycled materials.

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3 months ago

In 2018, YC Labs selected a total of 36 startups from the batch to continue on to the next phase of the program. The majority of the founders were based in the US, with three from Israel, two from Canada and one each from Germany, Singapore, Thailand, Netherlands, Hong Kong, France, Hungary, India and England.

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3 months ago

This company is building an AI-powered chatbot that learns from its users. The startup wants to be the Uber of chatbots.

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8 months ago

An investment management platform, except the company is building a new way to invest in high growth companies like companies that grow 1,000% in a year, 5,000% in 3 years, and so forth. The company is powered by artificial intelligence, and generates recommendations based on your investment desires and risk tolerance.

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8 months ago

A network of robot-powered drones that delivers packages to customers in real time.

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7 months ago

In the early days of mobile, people didn’t have ways to reconnect with friends when they weren’t together. Now, with everyone having access to mobile data and voice, they can easily make phone calls with friends who are traveling and even call their friends’ phones.

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6 months ago

An AI-powered system that analyzes video for plagiarism and automatically flags the instances of it happening. It's currently in the pilot phase, with 1000 users.

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5 months ago

An AI-powered system that predicts and manages the risk of a given portfolio of investments, using an algorithm that’s been trained off historical market data.

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1 month ago

A startup working on an AI-powered personal assistant, with a focus on entertainment, fashion, and travel.

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8 months ago

The following people were named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Health Care in 2015.

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6 months ago

An AI chatbot that’s powered by text message.

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6 months ago

An artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant that can read through and learn from text, making suggestions to improve.

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6 months ago

The startup’s first product is a set of AI-powered smart lockers in Manhattan that can be unlocked by your phone and only unlock when you’re in the vicinity of one. The lockers are meant to help you travel more freely, as well as help improve traffic flow and security at the same time.

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2 months ago

An AI-powered concierge service that helps people schedule appointments, make plans and book travel.

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14 days ago

A startup that wants to build a tool that makes it easy for companies to create an AI-powered chatbot to fill various customer service requests.

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13 days ago

A startup that wants to help you get a job by building an AI-powered personal coach.

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1 year ago

An AI-powered video platform that teaches people how to make video and train them to create better content.

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8 months ago

An AI powered app to help people find a dog walker. It’s a daily email to subscribers who sign up to receive it, with a suggested day for a walk near them.

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8 months ago

 A startup that wants to provide AI-powered software to help keep track of and manage your online content — which is probably a lot of things, but probably also doesn’t mean “the copyright for everything you’ve ever published”.

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6 months ago

A virtual assistant for medical billing and coding. The startup wants to become “the first AI-powered, cloud-based, and machine-learning enabled billing platform”.

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5 months ago

An AI-powered service that takes live video from a camera and automatically analyzes it to help producers improve the quality of the video.

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3 months ago

A startup that’s building a platform to help recruiters and hiring managers access the best candidates through an AI-powered matching algorithm that helps streamline the process.

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2 months ago

A startup building AI for remote customer support. They are solving an existing problem with an AI-powered solution that they say will “support a wide set of businesses”.

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1 month ago

Indian customers were using Invoice2Go to avoid paying taxes, but the startup is changing that by letting companies avoid paying tax on the invoices they’re sending to their customers.

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9 months ago

The startup offers an AI-powered call center that helps businesses address their customer service needs.

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8 months ago

 Armed with an AI-powered chatbot and an online marketplace, Pepper is a service that helps retailers find suppliers and manufacturers. Pepper claims that its buyers and sellers connect directly, saving them time and money.

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5 months ago

An artificial intelligence-powered software platform that helps businesses make more money by better matching people with openings and making sure they get hired.

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3 months ago

The idea is to create an online platform that helps professionals save time and money by planning their own trips to conferences. The founders are both professional travel writers, and say that a lot of the best trips they’ve taken were planned on their own.

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11 days ago

A startup that uses AI to create an AI-powered personal assistant that can be used to help manage a person’s diet and weight.

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building an AI-powered platform, intended as an alternative to the likes of Verint and others, meant to help call centers

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2 years ago

Idea: A small team of workers in the UK is building a new browser called Rethink… which is meant to be the only browser you need. The startup is building out a single browser with an artificial intelligence-powered search function as the core of the browser.

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11 months ago

This startup is building a virtual assistant that’s powered by AI to help answer questions and execute commands on Slack. It’s currently in private beta.

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9 months ago

A startup that aims to create an AI-powered personal assistant that works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

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6 months ago

A startup that is creating a new type of screen that allows users to interact with their TV as if it were a tablet, as well as other devices, without needing to turn off the TV.

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2 months ago

A human-powered AI that helps you learn languages faster, with a focus on English, Spanish, German, and French. It can be used to learn via text and audio, and the company is currently taking sign up for its beta. The idea is to teach you a language and then try to teach you another one by using the same systems.

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2 years ago

Idea: A tool for building out voice interfaces, powered by Alexa, Google Home, and Google Assistant.

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5 months ago

A “human-powered ride-share” that lets people take a bike to the train station, leave it there and have it brought back to them later.

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12 days ago

This startup is building an AI-powered chatbot to help with customer service. The chatbot automatically handles routine questions and can even handle complex ones like “Can I bring in a pet” with a simple “Yes, bring in a pet.”

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5 months ago

This is an AI-powered sales assistant for B2B companies, to help salespeople find leads and understand the value of different products and types of customers.

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5 months ago

The founders of many of these startups have connections in the Philadelphia tech scene. Some, like Zuddle and Zpack, are backed by angel investors in the region. Others, like Farmako and Tella, were founded by students at the University of Pennsylvania.

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1 month ago

A bitcoin-powered online marketplace and exchange. The company is focused on the underbanked in Latin America as well as on international transfers. It’s also working on a way to let users pay savings and loans with bitcoin. Launched in Brazil and Argentina.

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2 years ago

A startup that offers an AI-powered video-chat system that allows you to exchange documents and files by just pointing at them

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6 months ago

The startup is building an AI-powered tool that helps small businesses sell online, with a focus on e-commerce. They’re currently targeting the travel, food and beverage, and education sectors.

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8 days ago

An AI-powered assistant that coaches you through your daily workout and helps you set goals and track your progress.

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7 months ago

An AI-powered tool that helps you slash your monthly energy bill by 20% in the first year

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1 month ago

A new way of building solar-powered batteries that are more flexible than traditional solar panels.

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2 months ago

This startup is building an AI-powered service that can help advertisers and agencies determine which consumers are most likely to buy a product and when.

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1 month ago

This is a tool for taking photos of your food and then sending a request to a network of other food bloggers to recreate the dish. The platform is powered by a community of “food influencers” who are also food bloggers and are compensated by the platform.

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5 months ago

A company that sells solar-powered charging stations and bottled water systems.

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1 month ago

A new insurance platform that combines smart contract-powered solutions with “traditional insurance products”. The platform uses a hybrid “Smart Contract+Insurance” product, allowing users to choose between a traditional insurance policy with a “smart contract” endorsement, or a traditional insurance policy without the smart contract endorsement.

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2 years ago

Idea: An AI-powered marketing platform for small companies. The startup plans to launch a tool that can help companies like physical therapists and yoga teachers market themselves to nearby customers who are looking for similar services. The startup claims that their AI-driven marketing campaigns have a double or triple digit ROI.

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2 years ago

Idea: An AI-powered chatbot that will perform basic legal tasks like signing documents or finding a lawyer for you.

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1 month ago

A startup that’s building an AI-powered tool that helps companies hire remote employees, and a service that helps those employees manage their time, tasks, and information.

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1 month ago

A blockchain-powered enterprise software platform. The company aims to make it easier for companies to manage their enterprise data, and make the process of tracking it more transparent.

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22 days ago

This startup’s goal is to make the customer experience more predictable, helping customers know what to expect so they can better plan their day. It’s a personalized concierge, which helps people check in with companies like AT&T, Venmo, and Square to get customer service questions answered.

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps small businesses build websites that look like they were built by a big company. Envision helps businesses upload a logo and other elements that look like they belong on a big-name site.

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1 month ago

A fitness app that lets people track their workouts through a “gym-in-a-box”. It was built by a team of three who, after years of working in the fitness industry, were frustrated by fitness tracking technology.

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23 days ago

This startup is building a platform based on artificial intelligence to map out the Internet’s hyperlinks, helping people find things they may not have known they were looking for. The startup’s map is already being used to help people discover hidden gems on the web, and to build apps that can automatically map out the web.

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25 days ago

An AI-based platform for helping businesses understand the impact of their marketing spend. The company says its AI-powered algorithm delivers “more actionable insights than any other marketing intelligence platform”.

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2 years ago

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

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26 days ago

A robo-advisor based on machine learning techniques, meant to help people manage their personal finances, with AI-powered algorithms that recommend best-fit financial products.

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24 days ago

An all-in-one, mobile-first CRM app, built on the architecture of Salesforce and powered by the mobile company's own APIs.

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2 years ago

Idea: An AI-powered email platform that integrates with Gmail, with a focus on the “personal touch”. The startup’s founder says there’s a generation of people who grew up on AOL’s chat interface and have since forgotten how to write emails (because they’ve been using chat).

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that aims to help people learn to code through a combination of chatbots and online courses The company’s founders say they’re currently working on an AI-powered chatbot that can make coding exercises more interesting

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2 years ago

Idea: An AI-powered platform that helps law firms with their equity promotions

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2 years ago

Idea: A tool to let people vote on questions they want answered and then pay to have the question answered

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2 years ago

Idea: A text-to-speech AI-powered assistant that can connect with virtually any virtual assistant It has already raised $23 million and is growing fast

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2 years ago

Idea: A way to organize your photos into albums based on the locations they were taken.

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