Y Combinator Demo Day
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All 51 startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2
More than 15,000 founders from 7,200 startups applied to this batch of Y Combinator. It chose just over 100 to go through its accelerator program. Today, the second half of those companies launched onstage, and we have breakdowns of all 51 of these businesses. Read More
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Wright Electric unveils its commercial electric plane business
Gas is the biggest cost for airlines. The easiest way to reduce these costs? Don’t use gas at all. That was the pitch from Wright Electric, a startup building a commercial passenger plane that runs on batteries and can handle flights under 300 miles. Read More
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The 52 startups that launched at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 1
Today was Y Combinator’s 24th Demo Day, where the accelerator shows off its fresh companies to investors. International, AI and hardware products were the emergent themes of the 52 companies that launched on Day 1. Read More
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Launching at YC’s Demo Day, mRelief has a new tool to make public assistance more accessible
After years of hearing the private sector in the U.S. complain about the inefficiencies of government, investors are beginning to marshall their resources to help solve the problem. And no organization exemplifies that notion of harnessing private industry tools for public good more than mRelief, a non-profit launching in the latest Y-Combinator batch of companies. Read More
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Airmada poised to show their automated drone concept at Y Combinator Demo Day
During an afternoon call with me, Airmada CEO Dan Danay, outlined his autonomous drone product offering that he and co-founder Boris Lipchin are preparing for Y Combinator Demo Day next week. They duo plan to disrupt the commercial drone market with everything from automated maritime deliveries to automated aerial photography and ship inspection. Read More
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Here Are The 52 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2
Hardware was the clear cut theme of Day 1, Demo Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2015 was a bit more… eclectic. Moving services! Streaming services! Hotel booking, augmented reality, eSports! There was a little somethin’ for everybody today. Want to see every startup that pitched today? Here’s the full roundup. Read More
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The Top 10 Startups Of Y Combinator Winter ’15 Demo Day 2
Y Combinator unveiled one of its most impressive startup batches to date yesterday, featuring big ideas in medicine, finance, and marketplaces. After carefully watching the demos, speaking with founders in the class, and querying prestigious investors about their favorites, TechCrunch has compiled this list of the top 10 startups of the 47 that launched at Winter 2015 YC Demo Day 2. Here they… Read More
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YC Demo Day Session 3: UPower, Edyn, Craft Coffee, Immunity Project, And More
The crowd of founders, investors, and press has finished eating lunch here at Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 Demo Day (quinoa, salad, some kind of beef stew thing, soda, and beer, FYI) and we’re back in the saddle for the third of four sessions of startup pitches. We’re halfway through a historically big day as far as YC Demo Days go: There are 75 startups pitching onstage today… Read More
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YC Demo Day Session 2: Helion, BitAccess, uBiome, Fixed, And More
Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 Demo Day is in full swing here at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The room is packed with investors and press, the coffee is flowing, people in startup t-shirts are pitching, and a team of us TechCrunch writers are hunched over our laptops taking notes on each company that takes the stage. There will be four sessions in total today, and… Read More
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YC Demo Day Session 1: Gingko Bioworks, Bikanta, Checkr, WalkSource, ClearTax, And More
We’re at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to see the startups in the Y Combinator Summer 2014 class pitch their wares to investors and the press. There will be four sessions in total today, and we’ll be writing up a post for each. This is the largest number of startups that YC has ever had as part of its batch, so bear with us! Read More
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Y Combinator’s Top Three Startups From Winter 2014, According To Y Combinator Startups
With each class, the startups within Y Combinator vote to determine which colleagues they thought were most likely to be successful. One source sent us a list of those companies, listed in order. Read More
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A Leaner, Stronger, More Modest Y Combinator
“This is way better.” That was the prevailing sentiment at today’s Y Combinator Demo Day where 47 fresh startups strutted their stuff for investors. Compared to the 65 demos a year ago and tedious 75 in August, investors told me this tighter Demo Day was more manageable, the quality of startups was higher, and it felt like the YC of old that earned the reputation as… Read More
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TechCrunch’s Picks: The Top 7 Startups From Y Combinator’s W13 Demo Day
Y Combinator was tougher to get into than ever this season, and the quality showed on stage. 33 startups presented on the record at the incubator’s Winter 2013 Demo Day today. Picking the most promising ones was no easy task. But after a team huddle and taking input from VCs and founders, TechCrunch chose seven startups that could disrupt big businesses and make the world a better place… Read More
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Women Make Up 10% Of Founders In Y Combinator’s Current Class
Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 Demo Day is a scaled back affair in many ways — 47 startups are graduating at today’s event, down significantly from the 84-startup Summer 2012 class and the 66-startup Winter 2012 class. However, there’s one very notable aspect of YC that saw growth this time around: The percentage of founders that are female. Read More
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Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1: Meet Wevorce, FlightCar, Thalmic, And More
It’s Demo Day time once again for Y Combinator, the startup incubator that has become a Silicon Valley institution since shaping its first class of startups back in 2005. A handful of us TechCrunch writers are here in Mountain View, California at the Computer History Museum, where the 47 startups that made up YC’s Winter 2012 class are set to pitch to a room filled with tech… Read More
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