All the companies from Y Combinator’s W20 Demo Day, Part III: Hardware, Robots, AI and Developer Tools

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pacing from investors
Alas, this meant switching up its plan for each company to have a recorded pitch on the Demo Day website; instead, each company pitched via
These are the companies that are working on hardware, robotics, AI, machine learning or tools for developers
You can find the other categories (such as biotech, consumer, and fintech) here.AI and Machine LearningDatasaur: A tool meant to help humans
label machine data data sets more accurately and efficiently through things like auto-correct, auto-suggest and keyboard hotkeys
data-driven job cost estimates for construction companies
confidence is low
Nine months after launch, the company is seeing an ARR of $0.9 million.Zumo Labs: Uses game engines to generate pre-labeled training data
for computer vision systems
By synthesizing the data rather than collecting it from photos/videos of the real world, the company says it can create massive data sets
faster, cheaper and without privacy issues.Teleo: Retrofits existing construction equipment to allow operators to control them remotely
construction companies a flat monthly fee per vehicle
design new protein-based drugs.Turing Labs Inc.: Automated, simulated testing of different formulas for consumer goods like soaps and
deodorant
Home products and cosmetics can be months of work for R-D labs
You can find our previous coverage on Turing here.Segmed: Segmed is building data sets for AI-driven medical research
Rather than requiring each and every researcher to individually partner with hospitals and imaging facilities, Segmed partners with these
organizations (currently over 50) and standardizes, labels and anonymizes the data.Ardis AI: Ardis AI wants to build the foundation of
pricing, delivery menus and staffing
For $3,600 per year per restaurant location, Agnoris claims to be able to raise profits by 20%
The company started after the founder opened a restaurant that was packed yet losing money, so it built machine learning tools to improve
solar and wind energy production, delivery delays, staffing shortages, sales demand and food availability
rideshare, restaurant and event businesses.PillarPlus: PillarPlus is a platform that automates the blueprint-designing phase of a building
project
It takes a design from an architect or contractor and maps out mechanical, fire, electrical and plumbing details, and estimates the bill of
materials and project cost, steps that otherwise take months of work.Glisten: Glisten uses computer vision and machine learning technologies
to develop better, more consistent data sets for e-commerce companies
Its first product is an AI-based tool to populate and enrich sparse product data
Find our previous coverage of Glisten here.nextmv: Nextmv gives its customers the ability to create their own logistics algorithms
Owners can create customised alerts so they get notifications only for what they care about
and synthesize molecules faster and at a lower cost than the typical R-D lab, speeding up the research time it takes to test new
combinations in the drug discovery process.Hardware and RoboticsCyberdontics: Robotics have already revolutionized surgery, courtesy of
companies like da Vinci-maker, Intuitive
The company says its robot is capable of performing the generally two-hour procedure in 15 minutes, charging a mere $140 for the job.Avion:
Focused on inhabitants of difficult to reach areas in Africa, Avion is building a drone-based delivery system
The plans consist of medium and long-range medical drones tied to a centralized hub
The drones are hybrid and autonomous with vertical take-off capabilities, able to take 5-kg payloads as far as 150 kms.SOMATIC: Industrial
Somatic builds large robots that are trained to clean restrooms via VR
The system sprays and wipes down surfaces and is capable of opening doors and riding up and down in the elevator
process can be
RoboTire promises to cut the wait time from 60 minutes down to 10 for a set of four tires
The company has begun piloting the technology in locations around the United States Find our previous coverage of RoboTire here.Morphle:
The startup processes higher-resolution images than far pricier systems and with a much smaller failure rate
Morphle has begun selling its system to labs in India.Daedalus: Founded by an early engineer at OpenAI, Daedalus is building autonomous
software to allow industrial robots to operate without human programming, beginning with CNC machines
The company projects that it can improve productivity in the metal machining market by 5x.Exosonic, Inc.: Exosonic makes supersonic
Its goal is a plane that can fly from SF to NYC in three hours
Exosonic now has letters of intent from a major airline and two Department of Defense groups, plus a $300,000 United States Air Force
contract.Nimbus: Founded by a serial entrepreneur and based in Ann Arbor, Mich., Nimbus is developing the next-generation vehicle platform
for urban transportation
UrbanKisaan is a vertical farming operation based in India that delivers fresh produce subscriptions to households
Its farms of stacked-up hydroponic tables can be located near cities with just 1% of the land usage of traditional agriculture, and there
are no pesticides necessary
In a market with a growing middle class seeking healthy foods, delivering from farm-to-door could let UrbanKisaan control quality and its
margins.Talyn Air: Two former SpaceX engineers have developed a long-range electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for
passengers and cargo
The startup has created an electric fixed-wing aircraft that is caught mid-air with a custom winged drone during take offs and landings, an
approach that its founders say give this aircraft three times the range of its competitors, at 350 miles.Developer ToolsBuildBuddy: Two
Bazel software
The company says that their solution speeds up build times by up to 10x
features required.Dataline: Meant to let websites gather analytics data from users who are using ad-blocking tools
Claiming that most ad-blocker users care mostly about display ads or cross-site tracking, the company says that first-party analytics gets
when one breaks.apitracker: Even if your website seems to be loading fine, the APIs you use to make it work might be having trouble,
breaking things in not so obvious ways
It monitors the APIs you use, alerting you when one of them starts to fail and providing insights into their overall performance.Freshpaint:
across your site, allowing you to push it into tools like Google Analytics/Facebook Pixel etc
retroactively without requiring your dev team to make manual trackers for each event
The base plan is free for sites with fewer than 3,000 users and $300 for sites with up to 50,000 monthly users, after which point the
pricing shifts to custom packaging.Datree: Datree allows companies to set up rules and security policies for their codebase, and ensures
those rules are followed before any code is merged
and improving the user experience
If your app grows more popular in a certain city, Fly detects that and scales resources accordingly.Sweeps: Sweeps claims that they can make
your website 40% faster with one line of code, by more intelligently loading all of the third-party tools that a website is using
The team says that their tech not only improves speed but does so while improving SEO.Orbiter: Orbiter is an automatic real-time monitoring
and alert system integrated with Slack to ensure better customer service and revenue management.Release: Product releases can be tricky
collaborative development cycles.Signadot: Signadot is monitoring and management software for the microservices that modern startups rely on
to power their own applications and services, hopefully flagging issues before they become apparent to the end user.Raycast: Raycast is a
universal command bar for developers and many of the tools they use
Users can integrate apps including Jira, GitHub or Slack and take a Superhuman-like approach to completing forms and tasks
The team is pitching the tool as a way to help engineers get their non-engineering work done quickly.Cotter: Cotter is building a phone
SMS-based OTP without the security issues
founders are hoping to create the Figma for words, helping teams plan out more thoughtfully the copy they use to describe their products and
workflows
The collaboration tool created by Stanford roommates Jolena Ma and Jessica Ouyang currently has 80+ different companies represented among
their users.Scout: A continuous integration and deployment toolkit for machine learning experiments inside a GitHub workflow.ToDesktop:
ToDesktop has designed a service to automate all of your desktop application publishing needs
It works with Windows, Mac and Linux and provides native installers, auto-updates, code signing and crash reports without the need for any
infrastructure or configurations for developers.DeepSource: DeepSource is a code review tool that allows developers to check for bug risks,
anti-patterns, performance issues and security flaws in Python and Go.Flowbot: Flowbot is a natural language, autocomplete search tool for
coding in Python
lets developers understand how their users are actually working with their products