Honeydue is a collaboration tool for couples to manage their finances together. This is music to the ears of anyone looking to target financial products to the millennial couples demographic. Park proudly noted a 16x click through rate for financial products offered up via Honeydue.
Read more about Honeydue on TechCrunch. D-ID — Protect your identity from face recognition technologies. D-ID has developed an AI to protect your photo from facial recognition. With just your photo, hackers can steal your identity and hack your devices. D-ID has created software that processes your photo and creates a protected image that looks similar to the naked eye.
Life Bot — One voice app for everything. Eventually it wants to work in your car and on every other device. While it may have to contend with native omni-apps from voice platforms like Amazon and Google, the voice bot space is exploding and there are few name brands. Read more about Life Bot on TechCrunch. Modular Science — Outdoor robot farming. Elon Musk may be concerned about robots taking over the world, but Modular Science just wants robots to farm our vegetables.
The startup, which currently has robots out in the field! Audm — Subscription audio content. Unafraid of Apple, Spotify and other incumbents, Audm is trying to find white space in monetizing spoken word audio content. By taking a revenue sharing approach, Audm has managed to get Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, Wired, Esquire and more on board.
The startup sees itself as the disruptor of Sirius XM, beginning the long journey of building out a library of podcasts, news and talk radio. Read more about Audm on TechCrunch. GameLynx — Next generation mobile eSport. GameLynx wants to build a competitive eSport game to bring hardcore gaming to mobile. The company believes that success will be defined not just by creating a new type of game, but creating a better user experience. Mobile devices are now powerful enough to support the types of games hardcore gamers love to play, so now the company wants to bring eSports gaming to that platform.
GameLynx will launch its first game in its first test market in the next six months, but is already backed by one of the largest game companies in the world. Gopher — An app platform atop email. We all hate email, but still spend most of our day there. Gopher wants to make that time more productive by letting any developer build apps for your inbox. For example, you can forward it emails of data for entry into Salesforce, or collaboration plans to schedule a meeting.
Its first extension for sending follow-up emails has earned it 13,00 monthly users, and devs have signed up to build on the platform. Rather than forcing you to waste your hours hopping back and forth between email and other apps, Gopher will help you get things done all in one place. There are 70 million Americans with a criminal record in this country and when it comes to finding employment, things can get complicated.
Founder Richard Bronson knows some of the challenges facing the recently incarcerated, as he spent two years in a federal prison after being convicted of securities fraud in Since then he has joined with Defy Ventures to help formerly incarcerated people get a second chance through entrepreneurship. The startup is starting its efforts with job recruitment, working with companies like Uber, but Bronson hopes the startup becomes a hub for providing services to those with a criminal record.
May Mobility — Autonomous vehicles for urban environments. May Mobility is the latest of a ballooning number of startups tackling the autonomous vehicle space. Rather than beat competitors purely on technology, May just wants to be first to market. And with a paid partnership lined up in the City of Detroit, that actually just might happen. The vision is one of reduced variables — the vehicles would operate in more predictable environments like central business districts and residential communities.
Read more about May Mobility on TechCrunch. Flock — Wireless security systems for neighborhoods. Flock builds wireless cameras that can be used to protect neighborhoods. The company has developed an outdoor camera that can track cars and record license plates. It can provide data to local police officers when crimes occur, but it can also proactively notify them when a stolen vehicle enters a neighborhood.
Advertisers know that the best performing ads come from creating tons of variants and whittling them down to what works. Indivio takes the work out of video ad optimization. It can use motion graphics instead of traditionally filmed video to make different versions of an ad for different locations and target customers.
As ad spend shifts from television to social, plenty of brands will need help, and Indivio will charge them 5 percent to 10 percent to make sure their marketing resonates with our fast-moving feeds. Relationship Hero — Relationship help for the digital age. Jerry, Inc.
Just Appraised. Just Appraised automates property valuation for local governments. Kestrel Materials. Kestrel Materials makes temperature responsive fabrics for bedding and clothes. Lambda School. We train people to be software engineers for free in exchange for a share of their future income.
Long Term Stock Exchange. The Long-Term Stock Exchange designs an SEC-regulated national securities exchange that aligns great companies and long-term investors. May Mobility. May Mobility is transforming cities with self-driving shuttles.
Modern Fertility. Modern Fertility is an at-home fertility test for women who aren't ready for kids right now but want Modular Science. We help kids stay curious by creating better explanations. NextDrop is the water marketplace for urban India. Opearlo produces voice apps for Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Paladin Cyber. Cyber security insurance for small businesses. Passerine Aircraft. Passerine Aircraft is building the next generation of drones We are developing autonomous fixed win App for Indians to make investments in mutual funds, manage their investment portfolios, and save fo Polly is a social polling app for Snapchat and Instagram stories.
PreDxion Bio. Prelim is simplifying the go-to-market digital originations process for banks, helping banks help pe Prism Labs. Community Development Platform for the Blockchain Economy. Code review as a service - combining automation with a network of on-demand reviewers.
Py is democratizing access to career opportunities in tech. Pilotless, short takeoff and landing electric airplanes for urban transportation. Rabbet brings efficiency, accuracy and transparency to construction finance. Relationship Hero. Selling quality crops to African food factories using novel hardware. Rev Genomics. Ribbon Health. We save lives by giving police and health workers key info to safely interact with those with mental Marketplace for roofing providing instant satellite roofing estimates for homeowners.
We're building the simplest way to send and receive business-to-business payments. Social Construct. Volans-i steers its drones to this company with up to 50 lbs of payload going 1, miles — or 15, shipments per year per customer, according to the company. Apozy — Software aiming to stop phishing and malware.
Phishing and malware are the single biggest issues for businesses worldwide, and one of the largest VC firms in the world was recently attacked. The founder says he knows how to hack anyone in the audience because he worked as an ethical hacker. More malicious hackers use similar-looking sites to trick you into giving away your password.
Apozy is a browser extension that detects a suspicious link and will warn you when a site is fake. Kudi — Bill payment through mobile messaging in Africa. Venmo and PayPal have penetrated the U. There are million mobile phones in Africa and people hardly install new apps, but 90 percent of payments happen offline.
Using Kudi, people send a message they want the money to move from one place to another and Kudi will process the request. The company launched in January and is growing 70 percent weekly.
The team also seems to know their stuff when it comes to banking and technology, as it is a bunch of fintech experts working in Europe and Africa for the last 5 years. UpKeep Maintenance Management — Maintenance software for small to medium businesses. UpKeep is designed to keep technicians happy by creating easier solutions, including simple barcode scanning applications, task management and inventory management accessible through a mobile device. Why does this matter? However, UpKeep works by snapping a picture and taking notes as technicians are out in the field, eliminating the need to write it down several times.
It is cash-flow positive and has more than paying customers, 95 percent of which came in organically. Solugen — Converting plant sugars into hydrogen peroxide. Scientists border on alchemy these days and Solugen is a good example. The startup processes plant sugars in a new way to make hydrogen peroxide, a solution used by many industries — and is even in the chair we all sat in at YC Demo Day.
Solugen says this process is cleaner, safer and purer than anything else on the market. Currently, hydrogen peroxide costs a lot and easily explodes, causing dangerous working conditions. But peroxide is only the first entry point. Credy — Peer-to-peer lending in India. Lending is a new concept for India, and Credy intends to capture this market using biometric identification for fraud protection. Credy also supports real-time credit scores and provides paperless zero fraud protection lending.
Founded by two former Goldman Sachs VPs with 15 years of experience between them, so far Credy has received loan applications. Marketfox — Marketing automation. Marketfox helps optimize for mobile and website by helping marketers acquire users through web push and in-app, as well as cutting through the marketing silos. It does this by tracking users across devices rather than on just your laptop or just your phone. Do you need a universal API? Maintaining integrations is a time-consuming and costly process, but Scaphold.
Mere Coffee — A coffee machine for your small to medium business. If you are like most business people you likely already have a coffee machine at your office. However, Mere promises a superior experience with its champion machine using compostable single-serve whole bean coffee.
The company promises to bring your business the best beans on a weekly basis, and provides the machine to create a craft-brew experience. It has already conducted a paid beta and makes a 50 percent margin on its subscription service. It is now rolling out to the Bay Area and says it is getting traction from several tech startups.
Delee — A blood test for circulating tumor cells. Cancer is one of the biggest killers in the U. The patent-pending device aims to personalize cancer treatments based on a new approach. The founding team comes from Stanford and the Rochester Institute of Technology and works in biomedical engineering; the startup has already run a successful clinical trial using 15 patients, isolating tumor cells for 13 of them. REZI rovides a new model for owners to ensure they will be able to rent out their rental properties.
It can generate rental offers for tenants in seconds and pays rent to property owners upfront, reducing the risk they face. The whole thing is powered by a product called Morpheus, which prices tenant risk and models vacancy risk. Algoriz — AI that turns ideas into automated trading algorithms.
Algoriz allows traders to turn ideas into trading algorithms without having to hire a programmer or wait weeks for custom code. The company allows traders to tag their ideas in English, which it turns into code on the spot. Since launching in March, Algoriz has signed up professional traders on the platform who are implementing their strategies. AlemHealth — Building a radiologist in a box using machine learning.
AlemHealth is building a platform that will bring better radiology diagnosis to emerging markets. While there are thousands of CTs and X-rays in emerging markets, less than 20 percent are read by radiologists. Bit amidst all the hard work, there was still plenty downtime.
Much of which tended to involve food. At the outset, YC partners advised founders to do only three things for the three months: talk to customers, build their product, and keep healthy. People took different approaches to the third rule. Its also very important to get in plenty of good sleep and rest during YC. Whether it is at home on the couch…. Many hockey-stick revenue charts and lines of code later, the pointy end of YC was upon us. It was almost Demo Day.
At this point, YC shifted gear from product-building and hustling to pitching and preparing for investor discussions. The build-up looked like this: pitching one-on-one to each other, pitching to partners, then to small groups, then to the entire W17 batch, then to the alumni network, and then Demo Day itself, where hundred of seasoned investors were present. Demo Day is actually Demo Days.
That is, there are two, with around 50 companies presenting each day. Founders and investors alike sign into the building with, you guessed it… their HackerNews IDs.
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