YC Companies/Winter 2018

YC Winter 2018 Data Room

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Lego-like furniture for design geeks. We create furniture that's…

Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
Toronto, ON, Canada
Design
Furniture
Public profile enrichment pending.1
Sejun Park

Every student's AI coach for college readiness

Hiring
Education
Education
San Francisco, CA, USA
Education
eLearning
Consumer

Acely is the leading AI tutor for the digital SAT and ACT, helping students get into their dream college. Our mission is to democratize opportunity for high school families through AI-native tools that empower students t…

30
Vivian Midha Shen

Robotics for wind turbine maintenance.

Industrials
Industrials -> Climate
Riga, Latvia
Robotics
Drones
Climate

We have created a robotic system for wind turbine blade maintenance. It can perform tasks such as lightning conductivity testing, high-resolution inspection, drainage hole cleaning, cleaning, painting and leading-edge re…

250
Dainis Kruze
Janis Putrams

Responsive materials, better lives.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Medical Devices
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Medical Devices
Consumer Products

AesculaTech believes in building better lives through smart chemistry. We design custom smart materials for a range of biomedical, commercial, and industrial applications. Our platform technology, AesculaGel offers adapt…

6
Niki Bayat

We make AI technology for Robotic and AR Surgeries

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare Services
MH, India; Remote
Augmented Reality
Robotic Surgery
Medical Devices

AlgoSurg makes AI software solutions, for various next-generation surgical applications ranging from Robotics-surgeries, AR-based-navigation/training, cloud-based 3D surgery planning and automatic patient-specific instru…

8
Amit Maurya
Vikas Karade

Anjuna enabled organizations to trust any infrastructure

B2B
B2B -> Security
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Cloud Workload Protection
Security

Anjuna makes hardware-grade application and data protection simple, fast and enterprise-ready. Anjuna software enables IT to “lift and shift” applications and data into the hardware-encrypted confines of a secure enclave…

55
Ayal Yogev

Replacing orthodontic braces with our clear aligner and software

Hiring
Healthcare
Healthcare -> Medical Devices
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Robotics
Health Tech
Medical Devices

Archform is teeth aligner software startup that lets orthodontists create, design and 3D print aligners within their own offices. The idea is to provide orthodontists with a way to better compete against some direct-t…

23
Andrew Martz

All-in-one Finance OS for businesses

Hiring
Fintech
Fintech -> Payments
Singapore, Singapore
Fintech
SaaS
Payments

Aspire is the all-in-one finance operating system for businesses. We help companies pay, manage, and earn smarter - by doing more than a bank, bookkeeper, or rewards program could ever do alone. Our mission is to e…

500
Andrea Baronchelli
Giovanni Casinelli

Create remarkable client experiences

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Productivity
New York, NY, USA
B2B
E-commerce
AI

Assembly is the AI-powered platform for professional service firms. Give clients a clean, branded portal that brings everything together — tasks, payments, messages, files, contracts, and forms — and give your team a sim…

25
Marlon Misra
Neil Raina

Modern law firm for startups powered by proprietary technology

B2B
B2B -> Legal
San Francisco, CA, USA
LegalTech

Atrium is a new kind of law firm. We serve the startup community in ways our clients want to be served. We are organized like a modern business. We incentivize our team’s creativity and productivity through good manageme…

180
Justin Kan

Skin patches for generic drug delivery.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Biotech
Drug Delivery
Public profile enrichment pending.8
Keean Sarani
Shak Lakhani

Great tasting produce, farmed around the corner

Industrials
Industrials -> Agriculture
Washington, DC, USA
Food Service Robots & Machines
Grocery
Vertical Farming

Brothers, Michael and Jack, started Beanstalk as a solution to solve a local restaurant’s need for consistent, high-quality salad. In doing so, they created a vertical farming technology capable of growing lettuces, spin…

15
Jack Ross
Mike Ross

Autonomous driving technology for farm tractors.

Top Company
Industrials
Industrials -> Agriculture
Newark, CA, USA
Robotics
Agriculture

Bear Flag Robotics is developing autonomous driving technology for farm tractors. By equipping tractors and implements with technology, Bear Flag allows growers to automate and optimize many of their most common tasks. T…

10
Aubrey Donnellan
Igino Cafiero

The easiest way to learn about, buy, and store cryptocurrency.

Fintech
Fintech -> Banking and Exchange
San Diego, CA, USA
Crypto / Web3

Ben aims to be a unified platform for learning about, buying, selling, and storing cryptocurrency. With the hundreds of wallets and exchanges floating around in the blockchain ether, it’s easy for novices to get lost …

2
Alex Sismanis
Miguel Kudry

Population health analytics powered by wastewater.

Government
Government
Cambridge, MA, USA
Health Tech
Analytics

Our mission is to transform wastewater infrastructure into public health observatories. Named as one of Fast Company’s most innovative companies in the world in 2021, Biobot Analytics is a wastewater epidemiology comp…

12
Mariana Matus
Newsha Ghaeli

'Figma/Canva for scientists’

Hiring
B2B
B2B
Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote
SaaS
Collaboration
Design Tools

You can think of BioRender as the ‘Figma/Canva for scientists’, with a suite of web-based graphics communication products to empower scientists to create beautiful scientific visuals and presentations with ease. BioRe…

205
Katya Shteyn
Ryan Marien

24/7 pediatric clinic in every family's living room

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare IT
Mountain View, CA, USA; Remote
Consumer Health Services
Health Tech
Telehealth

Blueberry Medical provides concierge pediatric care with at-home medical diagnostics and an always-available team of Pediatricians. Blueberry handles twice as may illnesses as any other telemedicine provider and has prov…

15
Harrison Gordon

Cannabis infused beverages

Consumer
Consumer -> Food and Beverage
Sacramento, CA, USA; Remote
Cannabis

We're disrupting the $210B Alcoholic Beverage industry with all natural cannabis drinks.

2
Amy Bishop
Peter Bishop

Agile commission software to design, deploy & adapt commission plans.

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Finance and Accounting
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
SaaS

CaptivateIQ is on a journey to modernize the world of incentive compensation. Our hope is that people will feel more connected at work if there is greater transparency in how they are rewarded for their efforts. We pa…

280
Conway Teng
Hubert Wong
Mark Schopmeyer

Causal Analytics for Growth Teams

B2B
B2B -> Marketing
San Francisco, CA, USA
Analytics

ClearBrain (YC W18) is a startup building the first self-serve AI platform for growth marketing. We help companies automatically predict and retarget users when they are most likely to purchase. Fortune 1000 companies…

10
Bilal Mahmood
Eric Pollmann

Mobile streaming platform connecting professional athletes with their…

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare IT
Sports Tech
Live
Public profile enrichment pending.2
Gopal Ramachandran
Jeffrey Warren

CodeStream is a Developer Collaboration Platform designed to…

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
New York, NY, USA; Remote
Developer Tools
SaaS
Collaboration

CodeStream's IDE plugins take the pain out of code reviews. With one command, request feedback on a snapshot of your repo, including uncommitted & unpushed code, allowing you to verify that your work-in-progress is on th…

10
Claudio Pinkus
Peter Pezaris

Flat-fee patent & trademark counsel with top firm results

B2B
B2B -> Legal
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Artificial Intelligence
GovTech
B2B

Cognition IP is a tech-powered San Francisco based intellectual property law firm with partners who have represented some of the most innovative companies in the world in many aspects of intellectual property planning, i…

12
Andrew Tjang

The gold standard in cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and taxes

Hiring
Fintech
Fintech
San Francisco, CA, USA
Fintech
SaaS
Crypto / Web3

[CoinTracker](https://www.cointracker.io) makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. CoinTracker enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment per…

70
Chandan Lodha
Jon Lerner

Next-gen blood testing to provide 1000x more data to pharma companies

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Diagnostics
Berkeley, CA, USA
Hardware
Lab-on-a-chip
Microfluidics

Correlia Biosystems is a UC Berkeley spinoff company based in Berkeley, CA. Correlia develops innovative microscale tools that accelerate rapid quantification of biomolecules. Our versatile "SimpleScan" technology ope…

16
Akwasi Apori
Kursad Araz
Samuel Tia

We grow cells for biotech companies.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Industrial Bio
South San Francisco, CA, USA
Cellular Agriculture
Biotech

Culture Biosciences grows cells for biotech companies. Our customers genetically modify organisms to produce new therapeutics, materials, fuels and foods. We help them quickly run experiments and develop manufacturing …

40
Matt Ball
Will Patrick

Patreon for professional authors.

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
San Francisco, CA, USA
Subscriptions

Read short stories on the go, tip authors for stories you love.

2
Tanya Breshears

Manage data in Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift

B2B
B2B -> Analytics
London, England, United Kingdom
Analytics

Dataform helps data teams build, version control, and deploy SQL pipelines in their data warehouse. Acquired by Google Cloud in December 2020.

10
Guillaume-Henri Huon
Lewis Hemens

Dear Brightly makes personalized prescription skincare products,…

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Consumer Health and Wellness
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Telehealth

Dear Brightly offers prescription skin products online. Our mission is to get people access to the most effective, dermatologist vetted skincare products for healthy skin, using technology.

3
Alda Luong
Amy Chiu

Build mobile apps visually. Source-code included.

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Chicago, IL, USA; Remote
Developer Tools
Design Tools

We're building Draftbit to make it easier for everyone to build, launch, and iterate on mobile apps. And do it without writing code, unless you want to. Over time, we hope to make building great looking, high quality app…

10
Brian Luerssen

Edwin is virtual English tutor - an AI-powered service for learning…

Education
Education
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
AI-Enhanced Learning
Education
Machine Learning

It combines the latest adaptive learning and Natural Language Understanding technology with pedagogical content as well as on-demand human instructors to offer its students affordable, personalized, 1:1 learning. Based i…

14
Dmitry Alekseev
Dmitry Stavisky

End-to-end encrypted configuration and secrets management

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Security

EnvKey is a developer-friendly, cross-platform, end-to-end encrypted configuration and secrets manager. It can be used to store API keys, database credentials, and other application config securely. EnvKey makes it e…

2
Dane Schneider

Digital financial services for students in Southeast Asia

Fintech
Fintech -> Credit and Lending
Singapore, Singapore
Education
Fintech

ErudiFi is a mission-driven technology company focused on expanding access to financial services for students. Operating as Danacita in Indonesia and Bukas in the Philippines, ErudiFi provides students a smarter way to p…

88
Naga Tan
Susli Lie

Podcast App is for the curious.

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Sleep Tech
Consumer
Digital Health

We’re a team of podcast fanatics with more than 20 years of combined experience in the audio space. We are building the fastest-growing podcast player and are now backed by YCombinator (W18). At Podcast App, we are bu…

23
Juan Catalano
Martin Siniawski

Better health insurance for mid-size companies

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare Services
Dallas, TX, USA; Remote
Fintech
Healthcare
Health Insurance

We build health insurance for mid-sized companies that costs 20% less and provides more effective medical care.

40
Chris Gay
Jay Startz
Mark Jamilkowski

FidoCure® is the leader in Precision Medicine for Canine Oncology.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare Services
Palo Alto, CA, USA; Remote
Oncology

Cancer is a genetic disease. We know this from decades of human and veterinary cancer research. Precision medicine and targeted therapies are successfully used to treat humans with cancer. At FidoCure®, we bring this app…

14
christina lopes

Mexico's digital wallet

Fintech
Fintech -> Payments
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Fintech
Consumer
Latin America

Send money to friends, pay at merchants, and take care of your bills through your phone, even without a bank account.

Alonso Garcia Molina
Eugenio Sánchez Rabiella
Tiago Sada

Bookkeeping, tax, & tax credits on autopilot for 1,000+ startups

B2B
B2B -> Finance and Accounting
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Fintech
SaaS

Fondo is the easy way for startups to get their bookkeeping done, taxes filed, and cash back from the IRS (average startup gets $21k). We’ll optimize and file your taxes, and you’ll get cash back — up to $500k per year. …

80
David J. Phillips

Personalized Performance Nutrition

Consumer
Consumer -> Food and Beverage
New York, NY, USA
Consumer
E-commerce

Gainful is performance nutrition that unlocks your full potential. We provide personalized products and 1:1 Registered Dietitian support to empower active people to reach their unique goals by transforming their health. …

30
Jahaan Ansari

Glimpse eliminates ineffective spending in schools.

Education
Education
Huntsville, AL, USA
Education
Analytics

Glimpse12 captures everything you're doing to impact student outcomes and evaluates these activities in the context of student achievement. Traditionally, eROI is virtually impossible to track and manage. The company'…

6
Nicole Pezent

Unified, enterprise messaging platform for leading brands of the world

B2B
B2B
Las Vegas, NV, USA
SaaS
B2B
Messaging

Glowing enables leading global brands and their customers to text message with each other via existing popular mobile messaging platforms. Our solution allows for brands to appeal to millennials (and other digital trave…

11
Jasen Lew

Making financial services simple, transparent and delightful.

Top Company
Hiring
Fintech
Fintech -> Asset Management
Bengaluru, KA, India
India
Investing

Groww aims to empower people in India by making financial services simple, transparent and delightful. By leveraging technology, we build reliable and accessible financial services. Groww is India's largest stock bro…

1050
Harsh Jain
Ishan Bansal
Lalit Keshre
+1 more

Collaboration tools for software companies

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Developer Tools
Fintech
B2B

We offer several products — Marketing & Sales: Haiku Optimizer (https://getoptimizer.com) Branding: Diez (https://diez.org) Design & Code: (https://www.haikuforteams.com/animator)

Zack Brown

Helloverify is a background screening platform (Checkr for India).

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Human Resources
Noida, UP, India
Artificial Intelligence

With increasing fraud rates, the need for a credible background check system is more important than ever. Unlike other background check solutions that are manual, expensive and require a ton of documentation, HelloVerify…

600
Karan Mirchandani
Varun Mirchandani

Create a cryptocurrency for your community.

Consumer
Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism
San Francisco, CA, USA
Crypto / Web3

Hexel lets you create a cryptocurrency for your community.

2
John Palmer

Hunter2 trains engineering teams in application security through…

B2B
B2B -> Security
Boston, MA, USA
Developer Tools
Education
Cybersecurity

Hunter2 teaches modern appsec to engineering teams through interactive labs. Developers get hands-on practice exploiting and patching real web apps written in their tech stack.

Fletcher Heisler
B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Washington, DC, USA

We help organizations read and process large amounts of text-based data usually handled by humans.

2

Jasper is a leader in creating content using Artificial Intelligence

B2B
B2B
Austin, TX, USA; Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI
AI

Launched in February 2021, Jasper is an AI content platform that helps creators and companies of all types expand their creative potential. Over 105,000 active customers are using Jasper to break through writer’s block, …

195
Chris Hull
Dave Rogenmoser
JP Morgan

Turn your data into a deployed computer vision model

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
Berkeley, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Deep Learning
Indoor Mapping
Machine Learning

We help teams that may or may not have machine learning expertise quickly turn their data into deployed computer vision models. Example applications include security camera monitoring, automating data entry, interpreting…

6
Jaeyong Sung
Mark Stauber

Helping software developers find teams that share their values.

B2B
B2B -> Recruiting and Talent
Recruiting
Careers
Public profile enrichment pending.1
Lynne Tye

We build self-serve bubble tea dispensers! :D

Consumer
Consumer -> Food and Beverage
Hardware
Food & Beverage
Public profile enrichment pending.2
Cat Zeng
Robert Henning

Automating document-based workflows

B2B
B2B -> Legal
San Francisco, CA, USA
Documents
SaaS
Legal

Lawyaw is a vertical SaaS platform focused on enabling the digitization of legal services. Our platform solves a foundational gap in the market by making it easy to incorporate programmable documents into digital workflo…

15
Tucker Cottingham

The online company that gets everyone offline

Consumer
Consumer -> Travel, Leisure and Tourism
London, England, United Kingdom
Marketplace
Sports Tech

Marketplace for experiences starting with mass participation sports events

75
Alex Rose
Sam Browne

Personal fintech - we optimise your bills, every year, automatically.

Fintech
Fintech -> Consumer Finance
England, United Kingdom
Fintech

Look After My Bills is a new auto-switching service making sure you're always on the best possible energy deal.

2
Henry de Zoete
Will Hodson

Lucy’s mission is to reduce tobacco-related harm to zero. We provide…

Consumer
Consumer -> Food and Beverage
Los Angeles, CA, USA
3D Printed Foods
Biotech
E-commerce

If it isn’t bad enough that smokers don’t realize the scientific facts about nicotine, most non-tobacco nicotine products are poorly designed and unappealing to use. The leading gum is sold like a pharmaceutical drug, wi…

7
David Renteln
John Coogan
Samy Hamdouche

Hair care products for curly hair.

Consumer
Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics
Toronto, ON, Canada
Beauty

LUS (Love Ur Self) Brands is a "non-beauty"​ beauty brand startup based in Toronto, Canada. Launched as an e-Commerce brand in Jan 2017, LUS aims to create innovative products that help consumers embrace their own natura…

20
Sahar Saidi

Computational antibody design

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery
Austin, TX, USA
AI-powered Drug Discovery
Deep Learning
Therapeutics

Macromoltek: Revolutionizing antibody design. Description: Macromoltek, a computational de novo drug design company, rapidly produces accurate and credible antibody designs. We have built a proprietary platform that …

14
Monica Berrondo
Susana Kaufmann

Mayhem is the easiest way to play with your gaming community.

Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
San Francisco, CA, USA
Gaming

Acquired by Niantic in 2020. Automatic game tracking, real-time leaderboards, and global chat built into every community event.

10
Anhang Zhu
Ivan Zhou

We manage patient instructions for hospitals

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare IT
Boston, MA, USA
Healthcare
Healthcare IT

We’re a group of Harvard and Yale-trained physicians, engineers, designers, and social entrepreneurs who came together to transform care delivery. Medumo’s CareTours™ enable healthcare organizations to effectively pro…

12
Adeel Yang
Jacob Cohen

Opentable for the world's top restaurants; we help them increase…

B2B
B2B -> Retail
Palo Alto, CA, USA; Remote
SaaS
B2B

Online reservations, guest and revenue management for the world's top restaurants.

9
Juan Caviglia
Luis Caviglia

Digitize and Automate Complex Care Workflows

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare IT
San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Tech
Digital Health
AI

Memora Health helps healthcare organizations digitize and automate complex care workflows, making them simple for patients and clinicians to navigate. Memora ingests existing data on clinical workflows, converts them int…

115
Kunaal Naik
Manav Sevak
Nisarg Patel

Meson is a stablecoin swap protocol among blockchains and Layer 2s

Consumer
Consumer
Singapore, Singapore; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Crypto / Web3

Meson is the faster and safer way to execute low-cost, zero-slippage stablecoin cross-chain swaps across all leading blockchains and layer-2 rollups.

10
Edrick Guan
Xin Sun
Zehao Li

3D printing beautiful, high-quality, and sustainable homes.

Real Estate and Construction
Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate
Oakland, CA, USA
Robotics
Construction
3D Printing

Mighty Buildings is an innovative construction technology company based in Oakland, CA creating beautiful, sustainable, and high-quality homes using 3d-printing, robotics, and automation. Their mission is to have a posit…

200
Dmitry Starodubtsev
Slava Solonitsyn
Healthcare
Healthcare -> Therapeutics
Public profile enrichment pending.1
Dan Siroker

Experience any piece of furniture in AR

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
Augmented Reality
Furniture

Miru is an augmented reality app that shows you what any piece of furniture will look like in your home. We use a computer vision pipeline to create an augmented reality experience for furniture from any retailer's websi…

1
Rohan Relan

A mental health benefits platform for employers.

Hiring
Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare Services
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Mental Health Tech
Health Tech

Modern Health is the leading mental wellness platform that combines clinically validated assessments, personalized stress management support, an international network of certified behavioral health coaches, and licensed …

375
Alyson Watson

Mobile app for creating pro-quality social media videos

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Consumer
B2B
Design Tools
Public profile enrichment pending.20
Francescu Santoni
Jean Patry

A credit bureau for the renting generation.

Real Estate and Construction
Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate
Toronto, ON, Canada
Artificial Intelligence
Fintech
Real Estate

Naborly has reinvented how credit reports and scores work for the rental industry to help landlords know who they're renting to, while helping tenants build credit by just paying their rent.

25
Dylan Lenz

ISP starter kit

Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
San Francisco, CA, USA
Telecommunications

Everything one would need to start an ISP

4
Adam Montgomery
Benjamin Huang

Building a way to preserve long-term memories.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Therapeutics
South San Francisco, CA, USA
Neurotechnology

Nectome is a neuroscience startup that aims to preserve the brain and keep all its memories intact. The company is building the next generation of tools to preserve the connectome. The connectome is all the connection…

5
Aurelia Song

Universal API for HR & Payroll

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Remote
Developer Tools
B2B

NewCraft makes it easy for developers to connect to employee platforms like Workday, ADP, and Paylocity with a single API. To get access to these systems, some companies have spent over $10M in development costs alongsid…

2
Cameron Sadler

Modern insurance brokerage.

Top Company
Fintech
Fintech -> Insurance
San Francisco, CA, USA
Fintech
Insurance

Newfront is building the modern insurance brokerage. Transparent data delivered real-time translates into a lower total cost of risk and greater insights. We work with 20% of US unicorns, 100s of YC startups, and 150+ pu…

800
Gordon Wintrob
Spike Lipkin
Education
Education
San Jose, CA, USA; Remote

We can provide you with the skills, experience and knowledge you need to skyrocket through the ranks of the IT industry faster than anyone even if you have zero experience right now. Our job-ready training program …

25
Terry Kim

Personalized liquid supplements based your health data

Consumer
Consumer -> Food and Beverage
San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Tech

Our mission is to optimize health and prevent nutrition-related disease, which affects over half of the world’s population. Current supplement solutions are ineffective and inconvenient. Dried pills lack potency while li…

Min FitzGerald

Radically simplifying cross-border logistics between USA & Mexico

B2B
B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Fintech
Logistics
Supply Chain

Nuvocargo is a digital-first freight forwarder and licensed US customs broker focused on helping shippers seamlessly move cargo over the road between USA and Mexico. Our goal is to make your life easier by combining exce…

150
Deepak Chhugani

iPhone-based driver monitoring for commercial fleets.

B2B
B2B -> Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Autonomous Trucking
Hard Tech
Machine Learning

Observant AI is an iPhone-based driver monitoring system for commercial fleets. It uses machine learning + iPhone's depth sensors to detect unsafe driver behavior, prevent accidents, and save lives.

5
Daniel DeCovnick
Dave Schukin

Contact center AI platform.

B2B
B2B -> Sales
San Francisco, CA, USA
SaaS
Customer Service
AI

Observe.AI, a leader in Contact Center AI, transforms customer experiences and improves agent performance by helping top brands analyze 100% of calls and streamline quality assurance workflows. With Observe.AI, businesse…

240
Swapnil Jain

Dental Insurance API

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare IT
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
SaaS
Healthcare
Dental

Onederful is an API for dental insurance. Automate verifications and claim submissions across 200+ dental insurance carriers.

2
Alex Yee
Karen Taylor

Messenger for communities

Consumer
Consumer -> Social
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Community
Messaging
Social

Openland is a messenger for communities. It is focused on fundamental human needs: making new friends, safe self-expression, and learning from others. Openland is a home for some of the most active and supportive chat co…

14
Yury Lifshits

OpenSea is theOpenSea is the best place to trade everything onchain —…

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
New York, NY, USA
Marketplace
Crypto / Web3
NFT

OpenSea is your home for trading everything onchain. Founded in 2017, OpenSea pioneered the first non-custodial marketplace for digital assets and has evolved into the destination for the entire onchain economy. Trade to…

250
Devin Finzer

Orangewood Labs makes worlds most affordable and easiest AI robot arms

Hiring
Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
San Francisco, CA, USA; Noida, UP, India
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI
Hardware

Orangewood Labs makes the world's most affordable AI-powered industrial robotic arms for small businesses! Our robots can be programmed by just using natural language prompts and cost a fraction of human labor.

40
Abhinav Das
Aditya Bhatia
Akash Bansal

Software for inspectors to automate their paper workflow.

Real Estate and Construction
Real Estate and Construction -> Construction
Kitchener, ON, Canada
Workflow Automation
Enterprise Software

OSIMple automates data entry for inspectors by replacing stacks of paper with tablets and by generating completed inspection forms. This saves inspectors almost half of their inspection time. Founder Amanda Chan and Mich…

2
Amanda Chan
Mike Miller
B2B
B2B -> Retail

OurMenu provides an online food ordering service. The company replaces ordering from a waiter with ordering from a website. OurMenu wants to let its users to order from phone instead of talking to a waiter, without down…

3
Hamik Mukelyan
Vicky Su
Yogi Seetharaman

Automated insect farming

Industrials
Industrials -> Agriculture
LaBelle, FL, USA
Biotech
Climate
Food Tech

Ovipost builds automated insect farms. Insects are the most efficient way to convert abundant, cheap byproducts into nutritionally dense protein. Today live insects are a $175m industry in the US, but the future of the i…

20
James Ricci
Trina Chiasson

Pagedraw is a platform for productionizing designs into code. Thanks…

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
Design Tools
No-code

Pagedraw turns UI drawings into code, bringing your app's look to life, and ready to deploy to production Our mission is to make programming more powerful.

5
Gabriel Guimaraes
Jared Pochtar

The world's first digital clinic for substance use management

Hiring
Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare Services
New York, NY, USA
Healthcare

Pelago, formerly Quit Genius, is the world’s leading virtual clinic for substance use management. We are transforming substance use support—from prevention to treatment—delivering education, management skills, and opport…

180
Maroof Ahmed
Sarim Siddiqui
Yusuf Sherwani

We are using the gut microbiome to end cancer.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Therapeutics
San Diego, CA, USA
AI-powered Drug Discovery
COVID-19

Persephone Biome develops live biotherapeutic products to modulate the metabolism of gut microbes, for applications in disease prevention and cure. We take a unique engineering approach using systems and synthetic biolog…

6
Stephanie Culler
Stephen Van Dien

Win money betting on yourself playing AAA video games

Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
NY, USA
Gaming

Players’ Lounge enables gamers of all skill levels to bet on the outcome of their video game matches and win money. Our mission at Players’ Lounge is to give gamers a monetary return on their gaming time, while adding a …

13
Austin Woolridge
Dan Delaney
Zach Dixon

High-performance gloves for VR and AR

Consumer
Consumer -> Virtual and Augmented Reality
London, England, United Kingdom
AR
Public profile enrichment pending.3
Charles Duffy
Matt Hogbin

Point stores things you send over and over again and helps you re-use…

B2B
B2B -> Productivity
Cambridge, MA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Assistive Tech

Point stores things you send over and over again and helps you re-use them instantly. Point can store ANYTHING, including long email templates, links, images, and emojis! When you want to re-send your pitch, support t…

5
Lambert Chu

AI to curate your baby photos

Consumer
Consumer -> Social
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Artificial Intelligence

Precious is the iPhone app that tells the story of your children growing up. Using Artificial Intelligence, the app automatically finds the best baby pics on your phone, and then creates deliciously cute photo stories…

7
Chris Lau
Daniel Lau

Better payment systems for governments and the communities they serve.

Hiring
Government
Government
Oakland, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Fintech
GovTech

Promise modernizes government payments helping agencies recover more revenue while giving residents flexible, humane ways to pay. We replace broken systems with tech that actually works for everyone.

80
Diana Frappier
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

PROVEN is using AI, data and personalization to disrupt CPG

Hiring
Consumer
Consumer
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Consumer

Proven is a data powered skincare company that creates personalized skincare products based on more than 47 factors about an individual's skin, genetic background, lifestyle and environment. Our formulations are rooted i…

40
Amy Yuan
Ming Zhao

Psychotherapy through autonomous and personalized VR-sessions.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare Services
Maastricht, LI, Netherlands
Mental Health Tech
VR Health

We empower mental healthcare clients with virtual reality sessions that are additive to traditional therapy. Clients regain their self-reliance the moment they are given the chance to contribute to their treatment. Thera…

23
Christoph Lynen

We're crowdsourced Gartner so IT executives can learn directly from…

B2B
B2B -> Productivity
San Francisco, CA, USA
Marketplace
Enterprise

Pulse is a startup building a crowdsourced knowledge marketplace for C-Suite Technology executives and the vendors that work with them. With nearly 15,000 C-Suite execs already on the Pulse platform and hundreds being ad…

11
Anand Thaker
Mayank Mehta

Security auditing for Web3

B2B
B2B -> Security
Toronto, ON, Canada; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Crypto / Web3
Security

Quantstamp has protected billions in digital assets from hackers on our mission to secure web3. As a global team of security professionals, we have honed our technology and expertise through hundreds of audits and gained…

80
Richard Ma

The people, management, and culture operating system for your startup.

B2B
B2B -> Human Resources
San Francisco, CA, USA
Human Resources
Culture

Qulture.Rocks makes people management, OKR management, and culture management software for some of the world's most innovative companies, backed by the likes of Founders Fund, Blackstone, Sequoia, and Tiger Global. Ou…

70
Francisco Homem de Mello

Collaborative in-browser IDE

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
Developer Tools
Collaboration

Replit is the world-leading collaborative browser-based development environment -- learn, create & deploy! Join a community of 20m+ developers.

65
Amjad Masad
Haya Abdalla

Engineering next-generation, brain-penetrant cancer therapies.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Therapeutics
Cambridge, MA, USA
AI-powered Drug Discovery
Machine Learning
Biotech

Reverie Labs is engineering next-generation, brain-penetrant cancer therapies.

29
Ankit Gupta
Connor Duffy
Jonah Kallenbach

Read interesting conversations

Consumer
Consumer -> Social
Mountain View, CA, USA
Community
Social

Rhythmm is a social app that enables its users to share interesting thoughts and conversations. Users can follow awesome channels and tap through each thought, finding their Rhythmm. They can also create their own cha…

2
Raymond (George) Kennedy
Zachary Waleed Saraf

Automating payroll for Latin America.

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Human Resources
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Fintech
SaaS
Payroll

Runa is a modern, cloud-based payroll and human resources software built for companies in Latin America. Companies can manage payroll, human resources, time tracking, performance management and reporting all in one platf…

100
Courtney McColgan

Health insurance for remote teams

Hiring
Fintech
Fintech -> Insurance
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Consumer Health Services
Insurance
Remote Work

At SafetyWing, we’re building a global social safety net for remote workers—simple health, insurance, and retirement products designed to replace national welfare systems.

130
Hans Nyvold Kjellby
Sarah Sandnes
Sondre Rasch

Tools for Sneaker, NFT & web3 investors

Consumer
Consumer -> Apparel and Cosmetics
London, England, United Kingdom; Remote
Subscriptions

Our vision is that anyone with a passion for collectibles (sneakers, NFTs, sports cards, Pokemon cards etc.) will need a Secured membership to access the ultimate market advice and best connect with their community.

12
Jack Ryder
Sam Howarth

Wearables and AI to predict and prevent sepsis outside the hospital

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Healthcare IT
San Francisco, CA, USA
Deep Learning
Health Tech
Medical Devices

Formerly known as Patchd Medical, now acquired by Cytovale. Wearable technology and AI to predict and prevent sepsis outside of hospital.

5
Robert Quinn
Wei-Jien Tan

Peer-to-peer mentorships through income-share agreements.

B2B
B2B -> Recruiting and Talent
Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote
Artificial Intelligence
Education
Income Share Agreements

SharpestMinds is a mentorship program for data scientists based on income share agreements. Experienced engineers mentor aspiring data scientists, who then pay the engineers back a percentage of their first year's salary…

4
Edouard Harris

Shogun empowers brands to create exceptional ecommerce experience.

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Carlos, CA, USA; Palo Alto, CA, USA; Remote
SaaS
B2B
E-commerce

Shogun is an ecommerce experience platform empowering brands to drive higher conversions, revenue, and brand loyalty. Our products Shogun Page Builder and Shogun Frontend help teams build and optimize their online stores…

90
Finbarr Taylor
Nick Raushenbush

Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit.

Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Logistics
Public profile enrichment pending.8
Antoine de Maleprade

No code enterprise SaaS for financial control automation.

B2B
B2B -> Finance and Accounting
Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia; Remote
Fintech
SaaS

No code enterprise SaaS for financial control automation. Empowering finops and accounting teams with a no code platform that allows them to automate and maintain financial control automation throughout the finops proces…

350
Alejandro Casas
Santiago Gomez

Delivering RNA therapies.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery
London, England, United Kingdom
Gene Therapy
Nanomedicine
Drug Delivery

Sixfold is focused on the commercialisation of its patented drug delivery systems for RNA therapeutics such as siRNAs for gene silencing and mRNAs for gene expression.

27
Anna Perdrix Rosell
George Foot

Wordpress for AR & VR

Consumer
Consumer -> Virtual and Augmented Reality
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality

Sketchbox is like WordPress for VR training simulations, we’ve built the underlying infrastructure that makes creating and updating VR training simulations fast. We primarily work with Fortune 500 companies, and all of o…

20
Joe Connolly
Peter Le Bek

Electric scooters for reliable last-mile transportation.

Consumer
Consumer -> Transportation Services
San Francisco, CA, USA
Transportation

Skip Scooters operates shared electric scooters for reliable last-mile transportation. The company works with cities to ensure our fleets are operated with the support of the surrounding communities, and they stand be…

2
Matt Tran
Sanjay Dastoor

Team documentation removing the pain of maintaining and finding info

B2B
B2B -> Productivity
Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Remote
Documents
SaaS
Collaboration

Slite is an AI-powered knowledge base making it easy to create, manage, and access company information. Teams can quickly find what they need by simply asking questions. Slite makes it easy to keep your company's k…

40
Christophe Pasquier

Order ahead at restaurants and get rewards with friends.

Consumer
Consumer -> Food and Beverage
San Francisco, CA, USA
Marketplace
E-commerce

Skip the line, collect points and send gifts to friends 🎁 Snackpass is an app that makes ordering food more convenient, affordable and social.

38
Jamie Marshall
Kevin Tan

Sourcify helps brands manufacture products in Asia.

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Retail
San Diego, CA, USA; Remote
Manufacturing
Supply Chain

Sourcify is a profitable high growth sourcing platform that helps ecommerce brands and Fortune 500s manufacture products in Asia.

15
Nathan Resnick

Making Anime Real

Hiring
Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
San Francisco, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Generative AI

Here at Spellbrush, we're passionate about making a good anime game. We also happen to be the world's leading generative AI studio — we're the team behind niji・journey. We are currently investigating how AI can be …

35
Cory Li
Haitao Mao
Ruwen Liu

Sqreen is the application security platform for the modern enterprise

Top Company
B2B
B2B -> Security
San Francisco, CA, USA
DevSecOps
B2B
Security

Sqreen is the application security platform for the modern enterprise. More than 800 organizations trust Sqreen to protect, observe and test their applications, APIs and microservices. As opposed to pattern-based approac…

120
Jean-Baptiste Aviat

Squad is an app for live communities to have shared experiences…

Consumer
Consumer -> Social
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Social

Squad adds screen sharing to video chats so you can use any app with friends

10
Ethan Sutin

Powering a better future for textiles.

Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
Montreal, QC, Canada
Hard Tech
Smart Clothing
Consumer

SRTX builds new materials and software to enable better textiles. SRTX is best known for its first technology, Sheertex, a knit made from one of the world's strongest polymers which has disrupted hosiery through impossib…

150
Katherine Homuth

Your team’s automated knowledge base

B2B
B2B -> Productivity
Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote
SaaS

Station is the central interface for your team’s knowledge. Thanks to our browser extension teams easily visualize and switch across all apps, documents, notes, messages, and more. Connect any app to Station, customiz…

9
Julien Berthomier

Create Alexa Skills without coding

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
London, England, United Kingdom
B2B
Design Tools

No-code Alexa Skills builder.

3
Maksim Abramchuk
Vasili Shynkarenka

A place for independent writing.

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Marketing
San Francisco, CA, USA
Marketplace

Start a newsletter. Build your community. Make money from subscriptions. Publishing is free, with no limits. We only make money when you do.

90
Chris Best
Hamish McKenzie
Jairaj Sethi

Super is the first and leading Indonesian social commerce platform

Consumer
Consumer
Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia; Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Marketplace
Consumer
E-commerce

We are building Pinduoduo for Indonesia by enabling community leaders to become retailers within their communities, starting by selling daily products through the Super app. We use technology to: 1) Help community lead…

1037
Michael Rendy Tanuwidjaja
Steven Wongsoredjo

VR space of immersive utilities

Consumer
Consumer -> Virtual and Augmented Reality
San Francisco, CA, USA
Virtual Reality

Supermedium is a VR space to read books and comics, watch videos, view art, browse the Web, send messages, browse social media in a comfortable and focused environment. We're building a post-screen world to improve how w…

2
Diego Marcos Segura

Swayable predicts consumer opinion and the impact of content

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Marketing
New York, NY, USA
Machine Learning

Swayable partners with the world's leading brands and advocacy groups to change minds, behaviors and attitudes. We are hiring in data science, full stack engineering, data visualization, design, and operations. We wel…

30
James Slezak

Meet other creators. Get daily matches. Find brand deals.

Consumer
Consumer -> Social
Cambridge, MA, USA
Entertainment
Community
E-commerce

The biggest social network in the world for TikTok celebs. One of the first 5 companies in the US to get the TikTok API. Launched over 400 companies on TikTok in under a year. Work with Ridge, Hopper, and more. Acquir…

5
Luke Heine

Translating for Humanity

Consumer
Consumer -> Social
Mountain View, CA, USA; Remote
Nonprofit

Tarjimly is a YC-backed nonprofit (YC W18) that allows anyone to volunteer their language skills to help refugees and immigrants in need. We connect the world's bilingual speakers with the 23 million refugees struggling…

4
Atif Javed
Aziz Alghunaim

tEQuitable's mission is to create work culture that works for everyone

B2B
B2B -> Human Resources
Oakland, CA, USA
B2B
HR Tech
Diversity & Inclusion

tEQuitable helps companies get in front of and prevent harassment. We are an independent, confidential platform to address issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. For employees, we provide a…

6
Lisa Gelobter

Tilt lets anyone build an index out of any content on the web.

Fintech
Fintech -> Consumer Finance
Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote
Fintech
Machine Learning
AI

Tilt lets anyone build evidence-backed, point-in-time, and deterministic rules-based investment strategies... in minutes. All you need is a prompt — whether a theme, trend, or detailed thesis — we'll take care of the res…

25
Andrew Peek
Cliff van der Linden

Find content that helps you relax and fall asleep.

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
San Francisco, CA, USA
Sleep Tech

Tingles is a video platform for relaxation. It's the best place to find content that helps you relax and fall asleep. Our main focus is a video genre called ASMR, the biggest and fastest growing relaxation technique.

6
Gasper Kolenc
Miha Mlakar

Open-source, customizable, headless CMS

B2B
B2B -> Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Open Source

Tipe allows teams to edit, preview, and publish content for their apps. You can use tipe to change static content to dynamic, allow non-technical team members to edit anything. They can then preview those changes and get…

5
Michael Moss
Patrick Stapleton
Scott Moss
B2B
B2B -> Recruiting and Talent
San Francisco, CA, USA
Marketplace
SaaS
B2B

Torch is a learning and development company that helps employers manage and measure employee growth at scale. Customers can draw from a pool of over 6000 mentors and coaches to pair with high performers and new managers …

130
Cameron Yarbrough
Keegan Walden

Tradewind translates scientific insight into innovative ways of…

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Therapeutics
San Francisco, CA, USA

Our lead candidate is a multifaceted attack antibody for ovarian cancer. Our approach enables targeting primary cancer cells directly, alongside enabling the immune system's natural anti-cancer function, all with one the…

2
Thaddeus Allen

Embedded banking software platform and marketplace

Hiring
Fintech
Fintech -> Banking and Exchange
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Banking as a Service
Fintech
B2B

Founded in 2017, Treasury Prime is an embedded banking software platform connecting enterprise companies to a vast marketplace of banks and product partners to launch next-gen payment ecosystems on their platform. Our b…

100
Chris Dean

Tax filing automation for individuals in Latam.

Consumer
Consumer -> Home and Personal
Antioquia, Colombia
Fintech

Tributi automates tax filing for individuals in Latam, and offers curated financial services to those users based on their financial data.

20
Andrés Vélez
Simón González

Design and build any kind of website. On your iPhone or iPad.

Consumer
Consumer -> Content
New York, NY, USA; Remote
Design Tools

Our mission is to empower everyone to build the internet. Universe is a magical new way to build websites –– it’s the first website builder designed for phones. Our app makes it easy for anyone to make a great looking we…

25
Joseph Cohen

Vanta—the proven leader in automated compliance helping startups…

Hiring
B2B
B2B -> Security
San Francisco, CA, USA
B2B
Compliance
Security

About Vanta Vanta (YC W18) is the leading automated compliance and trust management platform designed to simplify and centralize compliance and security workflows for organizations of all sizes. Why YC Startups Need …

700
Christina Cacioppo

Accelerating machine learning through software

Industrials
Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
Portland, OR, USA; Remote
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Machine Learning

Previously: Building machine learning hardware 10X faster than ASICs. After Pivot: Accelerating deep learning through software YC Winter 2018.

6
Debabrata Ghosh

Vena Medical is providing physicians with the world's smallest camera…

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Medical Devices
Kitchener, ON, Canada
Hardware
Medical Devices

Pre-clinical results published in the Journal of Neuro-Interventional Surgery. Technology presented at the World Live Neurovascular Conference. Technology selected as a top 3 finalist for Innovator of the Year by the Con…

7
Michael Phillips
Phillip Cooper

AI-powered identity verification solution for fraud prevention.

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia; New York, NY, USA; London, England, United Kingdom; Barcel…
Fintech
SaaS

Veriff is a global online identity verification company that enables organizations to build trust with their customers through intelligent, accurate, and automated online IDV. Veriff’s intelligent decision engine can ana…

5
Kaarel Kotkas

Uber pool for corporate trucking fleets

B2B
B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics
San Francisco, CA, USA
Autonomous Trucking
Logistics
Public profile enrichment pending.2
Mustafa Sakalsiz
Yusuf Umac

Automated voice acting and emotive speech synthesis with deep neural…

B2B
B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Machine Learning
SaaS
B2B

Voicery synthesizes the most realistic human voices using deep neural networks. Prior to starting Voicery, Andrew, one of the founders, led the speech synthesis research team at Baidu Research. By synthesizing speech nea…

2
Andrew Gibiansky

Voice AI games on smart speakers, TVs, and mobile

Hiring
Consumer
Consumer -> Gaming
San Francisco, CA, USA
Speech Recognition
Entertainment
Gaming

Volley builds the best voice AI games and entertainment experiences for Amazon Alexa, smartphones, and TVs. Popular Volley voice games include “Song Quiz”, “Jeopardy!”, and “The Price Is Right”. Our voice apps are …

80
James Wilsterman
Max Child

Analytics to improve how teams work and collaborate

B2B
B2B -> Analytics
Seattle, WA, USA
Human Resources
Productivity

Worklytics identifies leading drivers of employee engagement, without the need for repetitive surveys. It does this by passively analyzing anonymous collaboration data, in tools like Google Workspace and Slack, and detec…

Philip Arkcoll

We make it easy for startups to hire engineers.

B2B
B2B -> Recruiting and Talent
Mountain View, CA, USA
Marketplace
Human Resources

YouTeam has helped more than 60 YC startups hire top-notch engineers they couldn't find elsewhere. YouTeam connects you with select offshore developers seeking full-time contracts that aren't listed on any freelance p…

34
Yura Riphyak

ZBiotics makes genetically engineered probiotics.

Healthcare
Healthcare -> Consumer Health and Wellness
San Francisco, CA, USA
Synthetic Biology
Health & Wellness
Food & Beverage

ZBiotics is a synthetic biology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company bioengineers probiotic bacteria for nutraceutical and other applications. They launched the world's firs…

22
Stephen Lamb

Recreating social networks for brands.

B2B
B2B -> Marketing
San Francisco, CA, USA
Social
Networks

Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing tool that enables brands to identify and engage with the top 1% of their social following, turning them from passive followers to active advocates. These brand fans …

35
Amber Atherton