YC Winter 2017 Data Room

The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee…

Aella is a diversified credit payments platform with over 2 million users, offering a raft of financial services to underbanked users across Africa with a focus on lending. We are at the forefront of financial inclusion …

AlemHealth connects hospitals and diagnostic centres in emerging markets to a global network of diagnostic imaging services. Our suite of plug-and-play radiology solutions makes it easy for any facility anywhere to a…

Ambient.ai is a computer vision intelligence company transforming enterprise security operations to prevent security incidents before they happen. The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to ex…

Anasen is an app that makes data analysis easy and accessible to non-technical business users.

AON3D is a rapidly growing startup on a mission to put industrial 3D printing capabilities into the hands of those who need it most. Our technology has made it 10 times cheaper than before to 3D print with advanced therm…

Apozy is a browser defense platform powered by "Native Browser Isolation" technology. It neutralizes phishing, malware, and impersonation attacks in real-time by sandboxing dangerous websites at the time of click. This c…

Your software is your competitive advantage, and your customer experience is everything. Armory Continuous Deployment solutions empower you and your teams to confidently deploy every application, every time; safely and s…

Arthena is a financial product that gives you access to the alternative asset class with the highest barrier to entry and strongest historical returns. We invest in the most liquid segment of the art market, with the low…

Arylla has created a printable tag that can be scanned with any phone using our API. We piggyback on legacy commercial printers to get our tag onto products at scale and license our API to developers who build services o…

Beek is the app where latinos listen to the best audio content in Spanish from their favorite creators (audiobooks, meditations, audio series, and original content). Users pay a subscription to access all the content, a…

At Bicycle AI we use the best of machine intelligence with human supervision to provide an exceptional customer service experience.

BIOS Health was previously called Cambridge Bio-Augmentation Systems (CBAS) and focused on prosthetic neural interfaces as a first market. Now we use

Bitrise helps you automate your daily app development tasks from building through testing to deployment. With Bitrise you can configure these tasks with a unique, visual workflow editor, with dozens of service integratio…

BloomAPI simplifies how medical records are transferred. Today the majority of records are still moved by fax and couriers. Patients, Doctors, and Insurance companies all benefit when medical records are available when t…

We’re on a mission to optimize the agricultural industry. When we started Bountiful in 2015, the grape error rate for predicting production was 30 percent. Why? We found that many farmers in the specialty crops space …

Boxouse is the product of curiosity and mishap by Luke and Heather. They build beautiful, sustainable, portable, affordable houses for everyone. Inspired by portable, modular shipping containers and fed up with paying r…

Breaker is a podcast listening and discovery application. Most podcasts are free, but serious publishers are spending big budgets to make high quality audio content like Serial, which hit 100 million downloads and mad…

Brex is the AI-powered spend platform for modern companies, from startups to enterprises. Combining corporate cards, expense management, travel, business accounts, and bill pay, Brex makes it easy to control spend before…

Bulk MRO is a Full Stack Fintech and Supply Chain Platform for Global Trade. We provide our customers and suppliers turnkey solutions for procurement, sales and financing of long-tail industrial products (MRO items) …

Bulletin is a small business community that allows independent brands and retailers to connect, transact, and grow together.

BuyPower is the modern bill payment platform for Africans. We make it easy for individuals to pay their energy bills, businesses to pay international vendors, and lenders to make smarter lending decisions using our propr…

Cartcam is a shopping platform that gives people discounts for creating short video reviews. The company hopes to take advantage of the trend of consumers who are 85% more likely to purchase an item after watching a vide…

Clear Genetics is developing innovative, patient-centric software to thoughtfully integrate genetics into routine patient care. Our HIPAA-compliant platform offers an automated and comprehensive solution to deliver genet…

We exist to lift as many people up the socioeconomic ladder as possible. We dramatically improve lives by letting professionals turn extra time and ambition into career growth and financial opportunity. We achieve this w…

About 50% of all out-of-pocket payments get never collected in U.S. healthcare. Collectly helps medical groups and practices accelerate and increase patient cash flow, decrease costs to collect, and increase patient sati…

Cowlar, a fitbit for dairy cows provides data as a service to help dairy producers optimize operations and improve herd health. It's simple. You strap it around a cow's neck. It measures temperature, activity and cow be…

Delee is a medical device company that developed a blood-testing device for early diagnosis of cancer and treatment monitoring through the isolation and analysis of the circulating tumor cells.

Dost is an ed-tech nonprofit building a platform to expand access to early childhood development in low-resource settings through parent education. Our mission is to unlock children’s full potential by focusing on early …

Easily onboard, verify IDs, authenticate and continuously verify credentials and the identities of your users - in one place.

At Extern, we’re solving the experience gap. Extern created the remote Externship, a skill-building work experience that is easier for students to access, and easier for companies to run, than an internship. Our missio…

Faire is an innovative online marketplace that uses machine learning to match local retailers with the brands and products that uniquely fit their stores. We are using the power of technology to connect brands and indepe…

Fiix offers auto repair services for its clients. The company offers on-demand auto repair services in terms of battery, brakes, diagnostics, inspections, doors, windows, engines, exhaust systems, filters, fluids, fuel …

They provide the kiosk, the products, and the software — you just provide the space and they send you a check with your share of the profits at the end of the month.

FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your DL models in the cloud. Start running your first project in < 30 sec! Floyd takes care of the grunt work so you can focus on the core of your problem.

Technology finds information and delivers physical products to us almost instantly. mRNA does the same for biology. At HelixNano, we see a world where treatments are cheap, progress is decentralized, and you can modify b…

Hivy is a task management tool for office operations teams and helpdesk system for employees. The platform enables office managers to collect employee requests, manage projects, assign tasks and notify employees when the…

Hogaru provides professional cleaning and maintainance services to homes and micro businesses in Latin America. Differently from marketplaces, we employ directly our cleaners, to foster retention and quality of service.

Humi is building important infrastructure for Canada's economy. Software that helps SMBs employ Canadians. Payroll, HR, and Benefits all together in a single simple to use platform. Serving thousands of Canadian c…

We fix and monitor emails in spam. We monitor automatically where your emails is going, we alert you when it's going in spam and we fix it with you. Best of all, the monitoring is free!

Intracellular delivery is the most problematic step in T cell immunotherapy discovery, development and manufacturing. Indee Labs is developing a non-viral intracellular delivery system based on microfluidic vortex sheddi…

InnaMed's HomeLab device and software take the hassle out of blood testing and let you access precision medical care from the comfort and privacy of your home. Healthcare providers and researchers can now receive timely …

KidPass is a new way for parents to discover and book amazing children's activities. Get access to exclusive events, classes, camps, museums, and more. Unlock a new world of experiences.

Ledger Investing provides an exciting opportunity for asset managers, pension funds, hedge funds, family offices and other institutions interested in earning a great return through insurance investing. The company dep…

LitHit creates smart shooting targets that light up on impact. Their devices connect to your smartphone and helps improve your skills with real-time analytics and games.

Out-of-pocket healthcare costs are skyrocketing and every day, people all across America are forced to make difficult decisions about their health. Lively is the benefits solutions provider that gets it right. We des…

We build pre-employment assessments that accurately simulate the work your applicants will actually be doing on-the-job.

Marketfox is a Marketing Automation software that simplifies Marketing with AI. Launched in 2017, Marketfox is a YC backed company. Its powerful features allow websites to attract, convert, and engage more visitors into …

MDalgorithms is revolutionizing dermatology by delivering convenient, effective AI-powered solutions for skin and hair care. Since pioneering machine-learning models for acne treatment in 2017, we’ve advanced to develop …

The Mednet is a physician-only Q&A platform for expert answers to real world clinical questions. With medical knowledge evolving faster than ever before, theMednet addresses the gap between textbooks and real-patient exp…

Mirror Emoji Keyboard by Mirror AI is an app that takes a photo of your face and creates you a set of personalized emoji. You get hundreds of them ready to be shared on messengers or social networks.

Nanonets is an AI-driven solution that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. Leveraging advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and deep learning models, Nanonets helps companies automate docu…

Neema is an app that helps people manage their money as well as send money to other people. Neema is a financial solution for 70 million underbanked Americans. Users download their app, which is a digital wallet, where t…

Niles is a real-time wiki who lives in Slack and turns chats and docs into team knowledge.

No Lean Season reduces the negative effects of seasonality on the poorest in rural agricultural areas by enabling labor mobility that increases incomes. It is a new program that they are testing in Evidence Action Beta's…

Nomba provides Banking and payment to over 200k+ business in Africa (Nigeria & DRC).

At Nuvola, we're commercializing SafeCoat, a spray-on separator that is directly deposited onto electrodes, removing the need for conventional separator films and the massive infrastructure to build them. SafeCoat has…

Building a plug-and-play suite of APIs and lending tech stack to enable financial inclusion. OneFin is backed by marquee investors from Silicon Valley like Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, etc. Leading NBFC, SFB and fintec…

Origin built a kiosk for offices that lets employees buy pre-packed pods from a freezer, and make them into fresh juice smoothies silently in 30 seconds. It works similar to a Keurig coffee machine, but Origin thinks it …

Pearl lets any office, hotel or restaurant serve the world's best coffees & teas at the push of a button. Pearl's proprietary brew technology matches the speed and convenience of a Keurig without using wasteful, low…

Peer5's P2P CDN improves content delivery for live and on demand video streams. As video streaming continues to become more mainstream and the streams themselves become HD and 4K, traditional CDNs struggle to deliver hig…

Penny is a personal finance app that helps you track your income and spending. Penny accesses your statement history—with your permission—and uses that information to help you manage your finances. Whenever you open the…

Pit.AI Technologies aims at solving intelligence for investment management. We combine bleeding-edge AI research with powerful computing to automatically mine profitable trading strategies in financial markets. Our p…

Plane is an all-in-one people platform for fast-growing teams. We build easy-to-use payroll and compliance tools that help companies go global from day one.

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination."​ Playment is a fully managed data labeling platform generating…

Pulse develops and offers a iPad based application that enables doctors in India to digitize all their patient medical records.

Rally Tennis is the best way to compete in leagues, find practice partners and improve your tennis game - all within a simple mobile app designed to help you play more tennis.

RankScience is the #1 trusted agency to grow SEO traffic for venture-backed Silicon Valley startups to the Fortune 500.

Reliance Health uses technology to make quality healthcare delightful, affordable and accessible in emerging markets. Through an integrated approach that includes affordable health insurance, telemedicine and a combinati…

Request allows companies & people to pay and get paid in cryptocurrencies by relying on the most innovative payment request technology. On top of it, apps such as Request Invoicing allow professionals to send proper…

Retool is the fast way to build internal tools.

REZI is a leading real estate technology company founded in 2016 and the only fully remote and automated marketplace for long-term apartment rentals. REZI empowers landlords to lease their vacant apartments using the…

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first…

Sandbox Banking provides a low-code platform to quickly build and run banking integrations. Our software is literally a web application named Glyue, and it's typically used by banks, credit unions, and fintechs to conne…

Scaphold is the world's most powerful GraphQL as a service platform. The platform will provide a number of services including push notifications, analytics, file storage, custom code, multiple environments, and more to a…

ScopeAI automates the process of communicating user insights to product and operation teams. The product leverages natural language processing (a form of AI) to extract insights from customer conversations. It integrates…

Scribe is an AI-Powered Sales Assistant for your inside sales team, that you can hire in <10 minutes. Scribe magically finds the best prospects, writes highly personalized emails, handles objections and schedules dem…

Shipamax's core technology can 'understand' any logistics document - outputting a business-ready, machine-readable format. Why does this matter? When customers order online - it feels smooth & simple. But in the back…

Sigma Genetics develops devices that can deliver DNA, RNA, and other charged molecules into cells by using magnetic fields. When compared to conventional electroporation, this technique has several key advantages, which …

We use the printing methods used for newspapers, packaging, posters, and other graphic media to make beautiful, emissive electronic displays with high-end OLED technology aimed at low-cost applications. Our displays are …

Our mission is to improve quality of life for millions of people by providing easy, immediate access to the world’s best sleep care. Sleep Reset is a digital, personalized sleep clinic, available in a convenient mobil…

Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation, backed by the largest marketplace for on-demand photography and photo editing services. Snappr Shoots is a self-service product for anyone to book a photoshoot …

Solugen is decarbonizing the chemistry of everyday life with enzymes and innovative metal catalysts. Our new to the world Bioforge platform technology can produce high value chemical goods that are biobased and carbon ne…

Soomgo is a local services marketplace that connects providers with new customers across 1,000+ services such as moving, piano lessons, wedding planning, and more.

SourceBeacon is an on-demand procurement concierge for sourcing products from China. We connect your product requests to our network of verified vendors and deliver quotes directly to you.

Sudden is great coffee you can enjoy anywhere in just seconds. We buy beans from amazing producers and roasters, brew the coffee by hand and turn it into delicious instant coffee. Get our 2-Cup Trial Pack FREE Today! …

Supr Daily is a daily grocery delivery service in India. We use daily milk subscriptions as a railroad to reduce the last-mile delivery costs by 10x. We leverage this as a 'Trojan Cow' to deliver all groceries to your do…

Sycamore is committed to up to date, clear earnings information for contractors. The goal is to let you choose the job that maximizes your earnings.

Terark built a new storage engine for Database and Data Systems. Our technology enables direct search on highly compressed data, with 200X faster read performance and more than 10X storage savings (better than Google's L…

Tetra uses AI to take notes on phone calls, to help you focus, remember the details, and keep your team in sync.

effective altruism — the use of high-quality evidence and careful reasoning to work out how to help others as much as possible. Its purpose is to help you figure out how you can do the most good. It will help you think a…

The Essential is e-commerce 2.0. What we do We make and sell the single best version of all your essentials, at the best price possible. How we do it We're not an "everything store."We sell only the essentials, w…

Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OP…

Token Transit puts cities in the center of managing new mobility by providing a complete fare payment platform for public transportation. Token Transit launched our mobile ticketing app in 2016. We now provide payment…

A smart city technology platform that helps state and local governments take a data-driven approach to ensure safe, stable, and affordable housing.

Trade is a platform that connects buyers, sellers, and transporters of commodities in Ghana. Trade allows buyers and sellers in Ghana to trade directly, cutting out the middlemen. You pick your quantity, grade, and pr…

Tress is a social community app to discover and share beautiful hairstyles. Many ladies are crazy about their hair. They change their hairstyles often, a lot and radically. Whether they have natural, relaxed, texlaxed…

Upcall helps hundreds of companies acquire, qualify, engage and retain more customers through outbound phone calls. Upcall's platform and API give 24/7 access to 1000s vetted US based callers as well as various tools …

Mobile-First CMMS/Enterprise Asset Management System UpKeep is asset and maintenance management — done the right way. We take a mobile-first approach to the traditional desktop-based enterprise software. We keep tech…

Veryfi's cutting-edge multimodal AI transforms documents into structured data with unparalleled accuracy, bulletproof privacy, and lightning-fast speed. Experience the power of data extraction, fraud detection & product …

The richest data source about customers — their conversations — is the least accessible. Their mission is to provide easy access to customer conversations, and make voice data queryable. Their product analyzes the conten…

Volansi builds and operates high-payload long-range unmanned aerial vehicles to service B2B customers with a point-to-point delivery solution that saves them millions of dollars in down-time costs. We service customer…

Volt is an electrostimulation wearable to treat diseases like incontinence. The founder has already taken six medical devices to market, including the Cool Sculpting device that sold for billions. Incontinence affects 25…

AWS for manufacturing. Founded in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, NY, Voodoo operates a robotic 3D printing factory with over 250 3D printers, capable of making thousands of parts faster than traditionally possible. Voodoo h…

WaystoCap takes the pain out of working internationally for businesses all over the African continent, improving their ability to trade. They help them find partners internationally, and regionally; sourcing the most com…

We enable humans & machines with internet connectivity at a price that they can afford. The inspiration for Wifi Dabba came from the founders working together for the last decade in the mobile application industry and…

Wright Electric is building commercial electric airplanes for lower prices, higher safety, and zero emissions. The Wright 1 is a 186 passenger electric plane designed for routes like LA-SF and London-Paris. We work with …

Zinc Platform, Inc. is focused on providing software that digitizes the last frontier of the mortgage origination process– getting homeowners insurance. Zinc builds technology that integrates with the core systems of tod…

We are a group of expats in Hong Kong that want easy and affordable access to buy the products we love from back home. Snacks, foods, health products, and other daily essentials that we miss are either not found in Hong …