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to judge the latest summer batch of Y Combinator startups
TechCrunch was there, as well, and we were tapping away feverishly as co-founders pitched to woo investors.There are 197 companies in total
as they remain in stealth
Why pay for a free piece of software? The startup says that by streaming the experience from a beefed-up PC your most-used app will be
considerably faster and only use 5% of your CPU
Vice: This startup combines the latest trends with college brands to make fashion-focused college apparel for women
Working with 11 universities to date, the founders say the company has grown 4x YoY, with margins of 84%; meanwhile, they have 50 additional
college licenses in the pipeline.Lumineye: Lumineye wants to help first responders identify people through walls
In domestic violence disputes, hostage rescue or human trafficking situations, first responders often need help determining where humans are
behind closed doors or other barriers
humans from other objects through barriers like drywall, concrete, rubble and brick
For Lumineye, four pilot programs represent $90K in ARR
The startup helps companies scale their college recruiting efforts, saving time and money
The company says they have $8,500 in monthly recruiting revenue, counting Y Combinator itself as one of its customers.Gaiascope: Electricity
Electricity is consumed instantly, which means the supply must always match the demand
That, however, leads to extreme price volatility
online seem to be geared toward 20-something dudes, but Revel is aiming to create an online-to-offline community group for women over the
The site is a $15 per month membership that gives you access to the community-hosted groups
market the founders say is worth $100 billion and growing quickly
In the past year 25 cities have passed legislation to allow these buildings
Node ships a flat pack of materials that it says only take a few days to assemble into a turnkey backyard cottage or sustainable vacation
They saw $185K net revenue in July, with 2.5x yearly growth through word of mouth.Juno College of Technology: JCT is creating the technical
The startup operates a coding bootcamp, expected to do $3 million in revenue by the end of 2019
person due to a reliance on bus transportation
LAIKA, an online pet supplies service for Latin America, aims to make it easier
The company prevents prospective students from filling out endless forms to find scholarships, FAFSAs, income-share agreements and
to get set up with a credit card and a checking account.Sable launched a mobile bank for international people in the United States that
wants to expedite that process
The team has collectively worked on distributed teams that launched 14 banking products in the past
The company is currently managing credit cards and live checking accounts
With Sable, users can get set up with a credit card and checking account online in five minutes
In five days of launch, the company has 135 customers and is managing $200,000
Sable is targeting 4.5 million creditworthy internationals, and what it says is a $3.3 billion market in the United States alone
Whereas many code environments only do plaintext search, Metacode sorts results by relevance, displays code in the context of code around it
and allows you to filter results by keyword
The company says more than 700 engineers from companies like Pinterest and VueJS are currently using it
The cost is $25 per month per engineer.Fad Mania: This is an app that provides users with an endless stream of games with ambitions of being
the next major social network
One of the first games was called Trump Punch, which got more than 100,000 organic users
Fad Mania has 1,000 weekly users.Breadfast: This startup delivers fresh bread, milk and eggs to customers in Egypt
Because Breadfast makes its own bread and works with farmers, its business has 35% gross margins with $180,000 in monthly revenue
were dark, Ever Loved is helping people pay for funeral expenses with a dedicated platform
The crowdfunding site can help families and friends amass cash and the startup will let people pay for services directly from the site,
letting them take a slice on both sides of the transaction.Localyze: Localyze provides international employee relocation as a service
Employee relocation is an expensive cost for businesses, yet every year, two million people are moving to the United States and Europe for
Localyze wants to streamline that process with a software that automates some tasks related to immigration, moving and housing processes 50%
The platform also connects international employees to services like banking, insurance and transportation
Localyze is currently working with 27 B2B customers and says it produced $16,000 in revenue last month.Safely Deposit: This startup provides
on-demand safe deposit boxes specifically for physical papers like estate documents and wills
You mail your documents in via FedEx, they store the physical copy in a safe deposit box while providing you access to digital copies
The cost is $120 per year.Elpha: (IMAGE) This is a networking and communication platform for women in tech to talk candidly online
Elpha today counts 15,000 members and 6,000 members visiting the site each work
They have 23 paying companies who pay $12,000 per year for access to the platform
manages bids from subcontractors
To date, Basis has four signed contracts within three weeks of operating
The big vision is to become a full-fledged platform for the construction industry.Hatchways: Learning to code online has kind of been a
trope for people that are tired of their careers and are ready to do something new
Hatchways is building a platform to help people who have learned to code online find internships and team projects
The startup is aiming to collect fees on both sides, from candidates looking to find opportunities and companies looking for new talent
platform for brands; it focuses on the in-person parts of campaigns
The platform lets businesses manage their ambassador programs and track metrics without being physically present at targeted locations
They managed a campaign for Juli Learning code school, another YC company
Puzzl is currently enabling brands to manage 100 brand ambassadors in what it says is an $8 billion market.Marble Technologies: This startup
provides cashier-free checkout kiosks for restaurants, running on iPads
They have three national restaurant chain contracts in the works, and have processed $3 million in sales to date
officer of Doctor on Demand, Apero Health provides automated claim submission, integrated online patient building and modern APIs to
Petite women can have a hard time finding clothes that fit them
First, petite women complete a style quiz to notify the company of their preferences
Then, Short Story sends them their first monthly box of clothes
To date, Short Story has seen 74% monthly revenue growth.EncepHeal Therapeutics: Non-addictive prescription substitutes have been a very
popular solution for people addicted to drugs like tobacco and opioids
EncepHeal Therapeutics is creating medications to help the 2.5 million cocaine and methamphetamine addicts have a similar option
You can store SQL queries you run regularly, grouping them into folders that can be kept private or shared amongst your team
Version history tracks changes so it can be reverted if/when something breaks
It currently has more than 100 paying companies, and is making $13K per month
The founder equates the current hotel booking process in Latin America to what it looked like decades ago in the United States Kuarti
However, there are currently no standardized hotel options in the country
Kuarti wants to provide another hotel booking option for standardized hotel chains that can be reserved online
The company wants to partner with independent hotels, to make small renovations and offer rooms for $35 per night
The founder identifies this as a $2.5 billion market in Mexico alone, and an $11 billion market across all of Latin America, where it hopes
Kuarti is a Mexican company that is part of the business accelerator with which Airbnb started.UpEquity:The startup lets future homeowners
put down all-cash offers in what they claim is a $20 billion market opportunity
The founders, Harvard Business School dropouts, have a history in the private equity industry
The startup claims to have more than $30,000 in revenue for the month of August
The tech-enabled mortgage solution says it provides customers better bargaining power than traditional solutions, at competitive
rates.Blair: Blair finances college education through income-share agreements
Through ISAs, which require students to pay back Blair a percentage of their future income, Blair finances everything from tuition to cost
Since launching a few weeks ago, Blair has already put $250,000 toward the education of 20 students
Blair will deploy its second fund this week.Intersect Labs: Intersect Labs is building CoreML for enterprise, letting its customers easily
build machine learning models to help make sense of their historical data and deliver insights without having to hire data scientists
Traces is building computer vision tracking tech that relies on cues other than facial structure like clothing and size to help customers
integrate less invasive tracking tech
The 21-year-old founder has been building rockets since he was 16, and is now managing a team of seven aerospace engineers with Epic
The founder describes propulsion as one of the biggest problems for satellite companies, in that it can take up to two years to qualify new
satellite systems and can cost up to $30 million
Soteris is a startup building machine learning software for insurance pricing
Labs: The startup is building a tool for version control on settings pages
The founders come from Firebase, where they were both early employees
itself as the Pinduoduo for India, is an e-commerce platform that enables customers to participate in group shopping and buying via WhatsApp
Million Marker is building testing kits to help people measure their exposure to certain chemicals
The startup is starting with a urine testing kit that analyzes for BPA and Phthalates, plastics chemicals that can disrupt hormones and lead
Companies spend $200 billion on management consultants every year
Well Principled wants to replace that expensive and cumbersome system with its tech that has culled growth and revenue learnings from
academic research and turned it into enterprise software
The company wants to eliminate the need for outside consultants by integrating its software into the daily operations of businesses as they
Well Principled is advised and invested in by early Palantir leaders, and claims $840,000 ARR from its first Fortune 200
Drop in a URL, select the data you want from a page, and it will figure out how to automatically extract it and provide it via API
It has have more than 1,500 users since launching two weeks ago.Valiu: This startup provides remittances, or international money transfers,
focused on the Latin American market
The company is beginning with a focus on Venezuela, where there are limited options for transferring money globally
The company estimates a $15 million market and is currently growing 35% month over month.Vorticity: Vorticity builds custom chips to make
computers 10,000x faster for fluid dynamics modeling
PredictLeads is aiming to help data-driven investors identify companies that are picking up traction
launched new products or are starting to advertise new partnerships.GreenTiger: Billing itself as the Robinhood for India, this startup is
allowing users to trade United States stocks from India for ?0 commission
GreenTiger provides commission-free trades on NASDAQ and NYSE, and allows users to start trading in two minutes
GreenTiger provides transactional shares, allowing Indian traders to start trading with as little as ?100
employees, helping them figure out what their stock options actually mean, forecast their value over time and optimize against things like
Prenda provides everything a teacher needs to run a microschool, from glue sticks to curriculum
materials, parts and tools on-demand
need it for an average delivery of fee of $77
companies, but they also want to kill them
The commission-free rideshare program changes up the business equation by having drivers pay a monthly subscription to Nomad while
collecting all of the ride profits
They are targeting college campuses first
In a two-month illegal trial period, the company facilitated 5,700 rides at Indiana University before the startup had to shut down, but they
predict the location of un-mined rare metals
The company predicts where metals may exist, actually mines the ore and then sells it
billion worth of ore.Binks: Binks provides tailor-made clothing for women in India
The company says that the traditional method requires four-plus visits to a tailor; Binks, meanwhile, uses photos and computer vision to
calculate fit and make clothing within three days.Lang API: A language translation platform that helps businesses translate the language on
market.Rent the Backyard: Imagine building and then renting out a studio apartment in your own backyard
Rent the Backyard handles everything from the construction of the studio to selecting the tenant to occupy it
In exchange, the startup takes a 50% cut of the rent
So far, Rent the Backyard has 10 signed letters of intent from homeowners, with more than 1,200 people on its waitlist
The company sells a kit that users can use and send back to them, at which point Legacy is able to analyze the sperm and let users know
The company currently delivers food, beverages, groceries and pharmaceuticals to users in Iraq
The founder says they are seeing positive unit economics, including a net profit of 63 cents per delivery
Due to the lack of digital infrastructure in the country, Lezzoo is tasked with solving the problems of payments and mapping in addition to
scaling its delivery network.Kern Systems: This startup wants to store information in DNA
The company says their first DNA storage synthesizer should be finished in nine months.Courier: After adding one line of code with Courier,
developers can, first, send messages through every communication channel to users
Since launching the app 10 months ago, Lokal has grown to 260,000 daily active users and is growing at 27% month over month
property taxes, so taxProper is building software that quickly allows customers to easily appeal their property taxes, helping them enter
data about their home and determine if they are overpaying
The startup is charging $79 per appeal.InEvent: This is CRM for corporate events
This platform lets corporate event planners integrate registration, vendor and travel and expense management
cognitive behavioral therapy
It costs $5.99 per month; the company says one month after launch, they have 1,000 paying customers.Zippi: Zippi provides loans specifically
designed for gig workers in Brazil, a booming population underserved by traditional banks
The gig workers repay their loans with a percent of their income each week
Zippi is live and fully compliant
reviews for individual dishes, not just for restaurants
Simmer tells you the best reviewed dishes across all delivery apps and services to help you better decide which food to order on-demand
In a one-month pilot there were 1,300 weekly active users on Simmer
connect data sources and their spreadsheets so that edits made in the spreadsheet will be replicated in the data source
Users are also able to schedule actions related to the data in their sheets.GradJoy: GradJoy is a fintech platform that wants to help recent
grads better-strategize their student loan payments
GradJoy connects loans and financial information to create personalized repayment plans for new borrowers
This is a collaboration tool for remote teams
You can create lists, outlines and mindmaps, then collaborate and chat about them in real-time
It currently has more than 700 active teams, and over 10,000 active users.Alana: Alana helps large businesses headquartered in Latin America
hire and retain blue-collar workers
Their hope is to become the LinkedIn of the blue-collar industry with a better matching process for potential employees and by automating
The company claims to have experienced very fast growth, working with companies like Hilton, Starbucks and Rappi
They charge a monthly subscription per store or $400 in MRR per location.Obie: This is a free analytics platform for commercial real estate
owners to manage their assets
From there, Obie uses that data to sell insurance to those commercial real estate owners
software that helps new employees get connected with veterans inside their company
The onboarding buddy program handles pairing of employees and can help the duos schedule meetings and work their way through development
plans.Holy Grail: Holy Grail says it has built a cheaper and faster way to manufacture batteries
The company isusing AI tofind the next generation of batteries at what it claims is 1,000x faster and hundreds of million dollars cheaper
than traditional R-D processes
have existing high interest loans
Payments are made through salary deductions
They buy cannabis trim for $120 per lb; their robot separates the sticks/leaves from the flower, which can be resold for upwards of $180 per
Pengram enables anyone to create indoor pathways using any iOS device and then easily share those pathways with others
Already, Pengram has a $10,000 pilot with building maintenance company Johnson Controls, which uses the tool to quickly located sprinklers,
smoke detectors, fire extinguishers and other systems they need to find and ensure are properly up to date and working.Yummy Future: Yummy
Future is basically a robotic Starbucks
The company wants to take baristas out of the coffee-making process, using a box of robots to make complex espresso drinks
The founders believe they have what it takes to help college esports eclipse traditional sports, citing that the League of Legends finals
saw 5X the viewership of the NBA finals in 2019
Athlane will enable teams to monetize through its AI-powered sponsorship platform, and has secured two contracts with G Fuel and
TRM helps banks identify and trace cryptocurrency fraud
They charge $20K per user seat
autonomous trucks for the $50 billion Korean trucking market
The goal is to fully automate warehouse to warehouse truck operations to save the trucking market billions
The company has two LOIs with two of the largest logistic businesses in Korea.Wasmer: Wasmer is an application container that works in edge
Powered by WebAssembly, Wasmer is building the next generation of containers that enables developers to run any code on any client.Matagora:
Matagora is delivering pop-up physical storefronts for online brands
The startup is partnering with local businesses to fill areas of their store with online-only gear that brands are looking to get in front
prevention kit that includes medicines, vitamins and herbal shampoo
into spending over a billion dollars on fake hair loss products while continuing to lose hair
Nonu says that within this $7.2 billion market, there are 60 million hair loss patients who can afford this $120 a year subscription in
time you see them.Outtalent: This startup helps engineers living in emerging markets get jobs abroad
The company was launched by a pair of brothers from Kyrgyzstan, one of which landed a life-changing job at Google years ago and wants to
make the entire process easier for other foreigners.SannTek Labs: SannTek created a breathalyzer that detects cannabis consumption, as well
Once it launches, it will charge police officers $20 per test.BuildStream: The startup is a platform for companies to manage and optimize
The team is focusing specifically on the construction industry, trying to minimize idle equipment
Users start by installing off-the-shelf IoT sensors on gear to track the fleet of equipment and pinpoint areas for optimization.Sling
Health: Sling Health wants to build more cost-effective virtual care teams
The ex-Forward founders say they want to turn any doctors office into a One Medical model
The founders say they can save doctors 67% on labor costs while also drastically improving patient experiences with a personalized care team
turns physical spaces into trippy, walk-around virtual reality experiences
