#looks like a specific group of shippers just hit a new low
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well you need to kill yourrself if you ship Thorki, why not ship something healthy and beautiful like lokius. Thor is ugly anyway
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#I cant even#imactually bawlin WITH LAUGHTWR#HELP ME#I KNOW LIKE I KNOW THIS CANT BE FR#WHAT ON WARTH 😭😭😭#THE WAY THEY PROVED MY PIINT IN THE LAST POST#looks like a specific group of shippers just hit a new low#hello to you too#cherrii.txt#yeah so#Thorki#who let their 7yo cousin use tumblr
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Here are the 63 startups that launched today at Y Combinators S18 Demo Day 1
From “cheese 2.0” to connecting flights for satellites, Y Combinator showed off a wide array of early-stage startups fresh from its YC Summer 2018 batch. A total of 63 companies took to the stage in front of a full audience at the Computer History Museum today in Mountain View to pitch on-off switches for organisms, laundry detergent subscription services, gymless gyms, lab-grown palm oil and sugary sugar substitutes.
It felt like every other startup was trying to make us try vegan chicken nuggets, but from a bird’s-eye view, this YC batch saw startups clustered around B2B software and services (30 percent of companies), healthcare (28 percent), consumer goods and services (9 percent) and consumer media (7 percent). (Yes, blockchain companies were right behind, comprising 5 percent of companies.)
For this batch, YC’s efforts to get more female founders on board mostly held steady, with 15 percent female founders, down one percent from last round’s 16 percent. YC’s diversity tracking around race showed a little more activity: 11 percent of this cohort’s founders were black or latinx, up from 9 percent in the previous group. A total of 19 countries were represented across the 132 companies pitching over two days, and 28 percent of companies were based outside the U.S.
Which companies will go on to make a unicorn-sized splash? Are there really that many vegans? To figure it all out, you can read through our full list of the day’s YC S18 companies below (be sure to take a coffee break or two) or check back later for our own picks of today’s most interesting startups. Without further ado…
Public Recreation
The founders of Public Recreation want to take your workout outside. The company offers a modular system of benches, bars and smart lockers that can be installed anywhere, and for a subscription price of $50/month customers get access to classes ranging from yoga to strength training and conditioning. Their first pop up is in San Francisco… literally on the corner of Octavia and Hayes.
BlueCargo
BlueCargo is optimizing container management for ports, kind of like Jenga for shipping containers. Normally, a single move costs a port $30, but up to 50 percent of those moves might not even be needed at all. Due to inefficient shuffling processes, terminals waste as much as $20 billion a year, but BlueCargo would eliminate that waste with machine learning, they say. The company has one paid pilot with France’s port of Saint Nazaire to date, with three more in the works around the world. BlueCargo is also about to start working with the port of Long Beach, Calif. — one of the largest ports in the U.S.
HoneyLove
HoneyLove aims to disrupt the traditional shapewear market by making an affordable, high-quality product that actually works.
The $89 product uses supportive structures inside the seams of the garment, similar to the flexible boning used in old-school corsets, and encases those structures in a soft channel of protective fabric. This simple enhancement ensures that the garment doesn’t bunch up around the legs or waistband. The company has already sold $500K in product
Read more about HoneyLove here.
C16 Biosciences
C16 Biosciences is aiming to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the globe with their lab-grown palm oil, an alternative to a product that is found in a truly massive amount of goods. C16’s alternative grown in bioreactors with yeast is 20 percent less expensive to customers but “doesn’t destroy the planet,” the company says. The startup has already begun early partnerships with a number of beauty and food distributors that together spend about $1.2 billion on palm oil annually.
Kobo360
Kobo360 is a Nigerian startup that wants to be the Uber for logistics and trucking in Nigeria… with a twist. With $1.3 million in funding already in the bank, the startup not only has an on-demand trucking solution linking shippers with excess trucking capacity, it has also set up a crowdfunding platform called Kobo Wealth Investment Network, or KoboWIN to enable Kobo drivers to finance new trucks through citizen investors and pay them back directly (with interest) over a 60-month period.
JetLenses
JetLenses is taking on the major contact lens e-commerce sites and other online ordering systems. The startup’s goal is to bring down the cost of prescription products by automating the overhead associated with these businesses, then pass those savings on to consumers.
For example, it automates the process of contacting doctors to verify prescriptions by maintaining a data set of existing practices, automatically faxing the office to verify the prescription and then processing the doctor’s office response.
Read more about JetLenses here.
Higia
By monitoring thermal patterns inside a breast, the startup Higia hopes it can offer women a better, non-invasive method to detect breast cancer. The company’s wearable device, called EVA, can be placed under any sports bra, and offers a new way to fill the gaps that current screening techniques aren’t addressing — things like early breast cancer detection in women with high breast density. The company has already pre-sold 5,000 units in Mexico and will begin shipping them in the fall of 2018.
Read more about Higia here.
CSPA
Founder and head of engineering at Crunchyroll, James Lin knows all about the pain of finding and hiring talented software engineers. That’s why Lin started The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment, which is basically the SAT for software engineers. Lin and his team have created standardized exams that are held in classrooms on or near college campuses and test both practical knowledge and theoretical principles.
Students pay to take the tests and have their results shared with the more than 60 companies that are now accepting the results when considering new candidates.
Sterblue
Sterblue is a French drone software startup aiming to get off-the-shelf drones inspecting large outdoor structures up close with automated insights that identify anomalies that need a second look.
The startup’s software is specifically focused on enabling drones to easily inspect large power lines or wind turbines with simple automated trajectories that can get a job done much quicker and with less room for human error.
Read more about Sterblue here.
Cambridge Glycoscience
Looking to bake the perfect treat with a sugar substitute that can mimic not just the sweetness, but the gooey caramelization and sticky sweetness that typically only comes from real sugar? Well, YC company Cambridge Glycoscience has the sweetener for you. The company expects to produce its sugar substitutes at a cost that can make low- and no-sugar foods even more accessible for mainstream consumers. So toss that corn syrup and get ready for a new flavor revolution.
Their manufacturing process will let them produce their sugar substitute at scale and they have a patent portfolio to protect their innovation. Notably, they have signed letters of intent with five companies already, including Haribo.
Togg
Yingzhe Fu, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, has been developing this home sensing and automation product at least since his graduation in 2016. Togg’s product is now installed in eight assisted living centers around the U.S. and is able to capture more accurately than actual caregivers at a facility changes in residents’ health, including sleep, breathing, bathroom visits and movement speed.
Given the explosion in the number of elderly in need of home care (both in the U.S. and in Fu’s native China), it seems like Fu’s Togg is a product hitting the market at the right time.
AskMyClass
Using smart speakers like the Amazon Alexa or Google Home, AskMyClass is bringing a deeper set of skills to elementary school classrooms. Like homes, schools are quickly picking up on the benefits of smart speaker deployment, and using AskMyClass teachers now can let those speakers handle a range of daily tasks, from vocabulary reviews to refocusing exercises — the software can even take notes and make lists for teachers on the go.
Teachers using it are reclaiming as much as 75 minutes a week in the classroom by using AskMyClass as a kind of teaching assistant. For example, AskMyClass can run math drills with one set of students while another works directly with their instructor. In five weeks, they’ve on-boarded 436 classrooms.
Skydrop
Making e-commerce easier across Latin America, Skydrop is focused on estimating drop-off times, buying and printing shipping labels and handling returns for its customers. Through a network of independent drivers, alongside a logistics platform recreated from the ground up, Skydrop is looking to offer shipping labels at a fraction of the cost by aggregating orders with thousands of like-minded (and like-sized) businesses. Companies simply add Skydrop’s plugin to their own online store and watch their logistics burdens take off.
Cytera CellWorks
Cytera CellWorks hopes to revolutionize the so-called “clean meat” industry through the automation of cell cultures. It uses robotic automation to configure cell cultures used in things like growing turkey meat from a petri dish or testing stem cells.
Originally, the company was going to go for general automation in the lab, but had enough interest from clients and potential business in just the cell culture automation aspect they’re focused on that for now, and changed the name for clarity.
Read more about Cytera CellWorks here.
JITX
Designing circuit boards as a service won JITX a spot in this latest batch of Y Combinator companies. Currently, every circuit board is designed manually by skilled engineers, but using JITX’s machine learning software, circuit boards can be created automatically, which can save both time and money for hardware companies.
Names & Faces
Not Facebook but not LinkedIn either, Names & Faces aims to offer any growing company a simple, fast directory of employees built specifically for that purpose alone. The company wants to solve a problem experienced by everyone at a company, from its low-level employees to chief executives: when your company gets bigger, it’s hard to keep track of who’s who. Names & Faces already has more than 100 customers, including L’Oreal, Uber and FedEx, with sales doubling month to month.
Buttermilk
Buttermilk offers a variety of Indian dishes at a low price that can be cooked up by simply adding hot water. Based in Seattle, Buttermilk launched in 2017 to the local market and has since expanded to serve their products across the country.
Dishes include Sambar, Daal, Khichdi, Rasam and Upma, all of which cost $6 each. Buttermilk also sells Basmati rice for $1.50. And there are “suites,” which pack a handful of meals into one shipment.
Read more about Buttermilk here.
Send Reality
Send Reality is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walk-throughs of real estate listings. The company sends photographers out to the listing with an iPad, a commodity depth sensor and a specialized Send Reality app. These photographers take hundreds of thousands of photos, and the Send Reality technology stitches those photos together to create a complete 3D model.
Send Reality sells directly to realtors, offering the product for $500 to $800 depending on the size and complexity of the home. In the future, the company can bring down that price point by allowing realtors to scan the home themselves from their own smartphone.
Read more about Send Reality here.
Allotrope Medical
Allotrope Medical has developed an electrical stimulation technology for smooth muscles that allows surgeons to identify critical tissue structures and distinguish functional from dysfunctional urologic and gastrointestinal issues. The Houston-based company is focused initially on decreasing the rate of injury to ureters during surgery.
With more than 3 million surgeries performed in the U.S. alone requiring identification and protection of ureters, there’s a $3.2 billion burden on healthcare systems due to injuries. The company is running an active clinical trial in Dallas and aims to be on the market by the end of 2019.
Augmented Radar Imaging
Augmented Radar Imaging wants to address the kind of issues that have caused high-profile driverless vehicle accidents. The company aims to solve two problems for current radar technologies: recognizing stationary objects and triggering false alarms.
With a team of radio engineers, physicists and data scientists, ARI has built a wide field-of-view high-resolution radar system called Camdar that provides 3D spatial imaging plus velocity data and a solid state sensor with no moving parts that claims to be 300x more accurate than GPS. With five radar units per average in a self-driving vehicle, ARI could be looking at a $100 billion market if it can make inroads on those roads.
Canary Technologies
The Canary Technologies co-founders have worked in the hotel industry, and have come to the conclusion that existing hotel software is awful. The company is working to tackle some of this dated software piece-by-piece, starting with their far less dated programs used to handle offline booking processes. They’re getting rid of paper contracts, instead using modern software that can make life easier for hotels.
Qurasense
Qurasense doesn’t think your period blood should go to waste. The company has developed a “diagnostic menstrual pad” called the Q Pad that includes an embedded collection strip that passively collects blood samples on a test strip that can be mailed for diagnostic testing which is then turned into data.
So far the company has run five clinical trials of a total of 500 women. It has 14 validated blood screening tests and two tests for sexually transmitted diseases and will operate on a $25 a month subscription model. Qurasense is working with Stanford Medicine to become the go-to platform for cervical cancer screening.
Inokyo
Inokyo wants to be the indie Amazon Go, with a cashierless autonomous retail store. Cameras track what you grab from shelves, and with a single QR scan of the app on your way in and out of the store, you’re charged for what you’ve picked up.
The first store is now open on Mountain View’s Castro Street, selling an array of kombuchas, snacks, protein powders and bath products.
Read more about Inokyo here.
Tenderd
Based in Dubai and serving the entire Middle East and North African region, Tenderd is an on-demand marketplace for heavy equipment like bulldozers and cranes. Think of it as the Uber for heavy equipment. The company began when the company’s founder left San Francisco to run the family business in the United Arab Emirates because of a family emergency. When he took the wheel, he steered the company toward what he realized was the most profitable business — renting out the heavy equipment. However, the process was so slow and cumbersome that the seasoned Bay Area resident launched Tenderd to solve his — and the region’s — problem.
Momentus
The heart of Momentus’ propulsion technology for space flight is a new system that uses water as a propellant instead of chemicals.
Using water has several benefits, the startup says. One, it’s a fuel source that’s abundant in outer space, and it’s ultimately better and more efficient fuel for flight beyond low Earth orbit.
Read more about Momentus here.
Spero Foods
Spero Foods is joining the legion of companies trying to transform the food industry with substitutes for animal proteins based on data analytics. Founder Phaedra Randolph launched the company after experiencing the transformative benefits of transitioning to a plant-based diet. Most vegetable substitutes for animal proteins lacked the flavor, texture and nutritional heft of their animal corollaries. So Randolph used her background in bioscience and software engineering to tackle the taste issue.
InkHunter
InkHunter is an augmented reality tattoo try-on app. The idea is that you can see how a tattoo might like on your skin before you actually make a booking with the tattoo artist.
The app requires people to anchor the virtual design by making a few pen marks on their skin where they want the tattoo to live. It also supports taking and sharing photos.
Read more about InkHunter here.
FREY
FREY is pitching dudes a new kind of detergent for the new way they live their lives (read on a monthly subscription basis). The company bills itself as an antidote to the tired myth that only women are doing laundry with products that incorporate natural ingredients, heady fragrances and plant-derived surfactants, enzymes and oils for stain fighting. Add that subscription model and 20 percent month-over-month growth in the last 12 months and product margins post 60 percent post-shipping, and that’s a pitch that won’t rinse out in the wash.
Aalo
If you’re tired of the universal sameness of the typical IKEA, West Elm or CB2-bedecked apartment, well look no further than Aalo, the new YC company that wants you to be your own furniture designer. With a Lego-like (not Legolas) furniture system composed of customizable, hackable and reusable parts, individuals can design their own furniture with a by-the-inch customization system for do-it-yourself designs. Founded by ex-Toyota engineer Sejun Park, Aalo was created when an attempt to “hack” an IKEA shelf collapsed under the burden of its shoddy materials and zero weight support.
Demonpore
Nanopores identify molecules like DNA and Demonpore is the world’s first mechanical nanopore. Because normal, fixed nanopores require a good fit, they can only look at molecules that fit a pore well, which usually means being limited to DNA. Demonpore can change its size, making it possible to examine any kind of molecule at the nanometer scale. With a founder from Halcyon Molecular and a team of 70 scientists and engineers, Demonpore is developing a universal biomolecular sensor that can measure “virtually any type” of molecule with relevance to human health.
Savvy
Imagine being the all-seeing, all-knowing lookout for all of your company’s interactions with vendors, suppliers and customers. That’s what the YC-backed startup Savvy is looking to provide to users by bringing together all of a company’s cloud applications into a single view. “Savvy is the glue between your work applications.” Not just slang for pirates, savvy is the know-how for all external interactions and can make businesses more savvy about their communications and operations.
Cloud Workout
Logging onto Twitch may not be the most physically active experience in the world, but Cloud Workout wants to take the site’s model and build a fitness empire in its image, bringing fitness instructors to their site who can become fitness personalities and build audiences. The company’s streaming product is in private beta currently.
Synvivia
Genetic engineering is one of the most powerful new tools of the 21st century, but its ascendance has come with attendant fears that the technology may not be able to be controlled when it’s unleashed from a laboratory. YC-backed Synvivia is developing what amounts to the kill switch for synthetic biology outside of a lab. Commercializing technology developed by UC Berkeley with grants from the NSF and DARPA, Synvivia’s genetically encoded bio-containment system engineers organisms to only live when they have access to specific, small molecules. These type of control and containment measures are critical for the development of the industry.
RealtyBits
With a service that’s creating blockchain-based tokens for commercial real estate properties, RealtyBits is hoping to increase liquidity for investors and property owners. The goal is to let real estate funds take cryptocurrency investments from verified financiers globally while reducing transaction costs, which can amount to 10 percent in fund creation and investments across what the company says is a $9 trillion industry.
#ME
Taking the Highrise virtual community one step further, #ME is an avatar-based social network where users can make friends and influence virtual people through real-time games and experiences. The original bootstrapped social media avatar game from which #ME evolved has already raked in $5 million in sales and attracted more than 3 million registered users. At the core of that popularity is the company’s ability to create virtual identities untethered from the real world that appeals to a Gen Z audience, according to the founder’s pitch.
“We’re taking everything we learned from Highrise and building a better one,” says Anton Bernstein, the company’s chief executive. “The next Facebook will be a virtual world. And we launched it 30 days ago.”
Grabb-It
Grabb-It turns a car’s side rear window into a full-color display, playing location-aware ads to anyone who might be standing curbside. The product’s designed for rideshare/delivery drivers, enabling them to make a bit of extra coin while doing the driving they’re already doing.
As the driver crosses town, the ads can automatically switch to focus on businesses nearby. Near the ball park? It might pitch you on tickets for tonight’s game. Over in The Mission? It could play an ad about happy hour at the bar behind you.
Read more about Grabb-It here.
Alpha Vantage
For investors seeking a new way to create alpha from financial market data, Alpha Vantage has an API toolkit to give them a leg up. Using these low-cost APIs, developers can create digital assets like iOS/Android apps and trading monitoring, management and suggestion toolkits. The company already has over 100,000 registered users making over 300 million API requests on a daily basis.
BrainHi
Co-founders Israel Figueroa Fontanez and Emmanuel Oquendo came up with the idea for BrainHi in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. When the devastation wrought by the hurricane made communicating with doctors’ offices nearly impossible on the island of Puerto Rico, the two founders thought there must be a better way to manage the process. The solution they came up with is an automated answering service that handles phone calls, texts and Facebook messages with an automated bot that can schedule doctors visits and answer non-medical questions. The company already has 100 doctors, chiropractors and veterinarians in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
BHRD
Managing relationships with shareholders is an expensive business for public companies. Recalcitrant board members, activist shareholders and others can create problems for a management team focused on long-term growth. Using BHRD, companies can focus on targeting and engaging the investors who are aligned with their long-term vision, freeing big business to focus on their business, rather than managing shareholder expectations.
Camelot
Camelot is a mobile app for esports betting… and one of the first companies to blaze a trail in the sure-to-be-lucrative business operating at the intersection of video gaming and sports betting. The company gives fans access to live updates and stats and an interface to bet against friends. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision, there are billions of dollars to be made facilitating betting in any sport — including esports. Camelot is rolling the dice that it can hit the right number in this emerging market.
Inscribe
Using a web platform and APIs, Inscribe is pitching a service to identify digital forgeries in documents. The company’s technology uses image forensics and machine learning to check documents like bank statements, tax forms and forms of state and national identification to look for tampered names, figures, text or signatures. The killjoys at Inscribe may finally get rid of the fake ID, but they’re also solving a billion-dollar market in online fraud.
Fintual
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Betterment, the wildly successful automated financial management and investment platform, is getting a Latin American twist with Fintual. The company offers wealth management services through low-fee mutual funds intelligently managed by the same sort of toolkit that used to be available to big banks and the quant programmers that work for them. It’s already a success in the markets it’s selling into, with week-over-week growth of around 10 percent.
Four Growers
The robot revolution is coming for agriculture, and one of the places where those robots will first raise their flag is in the hothouse. That’s the vision that Four Growers has laid out as it seeks to sell its robots to farms already squeezed by a labor shortage that shows no sign of relenting. The company pitches consistent quality of picked grapes or cherry tomatoes and a “workforce” that’s dependable and efficient. Four Growers predicts it can replace at least four human laborers with its robots, representing incredible economic efficiencies for growers.
AnnieCannons
AnnieCannons is a San Francisco-based nonprofit coding bootcamp aimed at transforming survivors of human trafficking into software developers or professionals in the technology industry.
Founded by Jessica Hubley and Laura Hackney, the organization aims to help the up to 18,000 people who the Justice Department believes are trafficked in the U.S. every year. The organization reaches out to after-care services organizations around legal aid and counseling services that are interested in placing survivors into a job-training program. AnnieCannons starts with basic technical and job proficiencies and then works on getting their students into coding and development work.
BuyCoins
BuyCoins wants to be the cryptocurrency exchange for Africa. Emerging markets are the ideal test bed and proving ground for cryptocurrencies and, in some cases, they’re the least able to take advantage of the purported efficiencies that these new platforms offer. BuyCoins is the only exchange in Nigeria that allows Nigerians to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, ranging from Bitcoin and Ethereum, to Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash, directly with their local bank account or debit card. There’s already $4 billion traded in cryptocurrency in Nigeria and the market is growing quickly.
Mac’d
Mac’d is a build-your-own mac and cheese restaurant that lets customers choose their own adventure from the beginning. The company plans to expand through a low-cost “ghost kitchen” approach, where it rents out kitchen space and sells its mac and cheese strictly through providers like UberEats, Caviar, DoorDash and Postmates.
And to quote TechCrunch’s Megan Rose Dickey: “The mac and cheese was bomb.”
Read more about Mac’d here.
Penta Medical
For professional athletes, nothing is more frightening or career damaging than an injury. And Penta Medical wants to make those fears a thing of the past. The company has developed a wearable cold laser therapy system that purports to relieve muscle and joint pain, increase circulation and relieve muscle spasms, all with a tap of a button on the smartphone. Indeed, Penta also tracks injury data, provides coaches and healthcare providers with visual representations and range of motion trends.
Coaches can even track how their team compares with others in a league. It’s important to note that the company isn’t for athletes alone. People in the U.S. are already spending $6 billion and they’re the ideal market for Penta Medical’s smart hardware for chronic pain treatment and management.
Data Driven Bioscience
The 10 times faster and 10 times cheaper cancer diagnoses that Data Driven Biosciences promises for hospitals that use its genomic diagnostic tests could transform untold numbers of lives. Dr. Sandeep Dave, the oncologist and tenured professor from Duke University who founded the company, experienced firsthand how patients and doctors are affected by delays in getting a correct diagnosis of cancer.
Using standard equipment already deployed at hospitals around the country, Data Driven Bioscience is pitching a test that connects with the company’s cloud-based machine-learning software and a database of more than 10,000 tumors to diagnose cancers within 24 hours.
Rain Neuromorphics
The founders of Rain Neuromorphics found inspiration for their processor for artificial intelligence applications in the function of the human brain. The company touts its Memristive Nanowire Neural Network chip architecture as being able to train larger, more powerful neural networks than any commercial chip that’s currently on the market. Fast, fully parallel and ultra scalable, these chips are said to be capable of both online training and low-power inference, to enable complex machine learning applications both in the cloud and directly on a device.
As neurons increase, training time increases dramatically, but the company’s neuromorphic hardware scales well in time, but take up a lot of space on a chip. The company’s new architecture creates a structure that is filled with neurons connected by nanowires, and believes it can build and train the equivalent of $1 billion. With a $2 million letter of intent from OpenAI, several patents filed and contracts with TSMC, the company is putting its neurons where its synapses are.
Spate
The “Google Trends” for business is exactly what Spate wants to be for its users. The company is pitching a predictive engine that can let companies know what types of latte people will be drinking, the skin care products they’ll be using and the food that their dogs will be eating in the next year. It’s no surprise that the team at Spate is looking to take on Google, since that’s where the company’s founding team cut its teeth.
Their work (initially as one of the famed 20 percent projects) at the search giant led to a product, which drove decision-making over how to steer some of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods brands. They predicted the cold brew and turmeric trends and have a bet that yellow will be the next big color in the fashion world. There’s a spate of information out there, and the company wants to be the funnel to focus that flood of information into the right decisions.
Optic
Optic gives developers a way to grab very common coding use cases that they can drop right into their code. It works by finding the sort of routine additions developers might need, like how to create a form that will add a user to a database, as well as all the ancillary parts that come with it, like tests.
It works within a developer’s IDE, so they don’t have to look externally for the code they need. Right now it works for JavaScript, with Python next on the docket.
Read more about Optic here.
Phiar
Phiar is building an augmented reality navigation app for driving that shows a driver exactly where to go without taking their eyes off the wheel. With efficient AI fit into a smartphone, Phiar’s software can run at 200 fps on a dash-mounted iPhone.
With deep AI and computer vision expertise plus a team with members from Apple, Microsoft and VMware, Phiar wants to build the “killer AR application” to address the 1.7 billion people who use a navigation app each month. Phiar is counting on AR being the next meaningful evolution in driving navigation tech and a software solution that keeps a driver’s eyes on the road in front of them.
Seattle Food Tech
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Seattle Food Tech looks to create what effectively looks and feels like a chicken nugget out of plant-based food — all the way down to the puff it gets in an oven.
It’s planning to sell its first product to larger food services companies. That’s the market that’s most useful, environmentally speaking, given that a significant portion of the chicken consumed by the population comes through food services.
Read more about Seattle Food Tech here.
Prodigal Technologies
Prodigal Technologies wants to improve the ways lenders collect money from borrowers. The company wants to make debt collection, if not kinder or gentler, then certainly more efficient. If a payor misses a payment, lenders can now reach out on any messaging platform and enable lenders to find borrowers where they are. The company has 11 pilots and three paying customers that handle $11 billion in origination of loans. There are $50 billion loans that aren’t paid, and with, Prodigal lenders can get a 20 percent improvement in loan repayment.
Viaopt
In the U.S., trucks are moving goods across the country with roughly 35 percent of their available cargo space underutilized. Viopt, a software company that aims to be an Uber pool for shipping, thinks it has the solution. If the 65 percent of underutilized capacity could be filled it would save $30 billion for companies and remove 100 million tons of carbon emissions. By linking small and medium-sized companies with excess capacity, the company hopes to give small retailers the same logistics opportunities that were only available to the largest retailers, shippers and logistics companies like Anheuser-Busch, Bimbo Bakeries and Turkey Hill Farms.
Goodly
Perks for employees are becoming a big business in the tight labor market and Goodly wants to make one of the most important perks — student loan repayment — easy and accessible for employers. While the benefits of providing this benefit are universally inarguable, when you look at statistics indicating that women hold two-thirds of student debt and owe half a trillion dollars more than their male colleagues, the perk becomes more persuasive. Couple that with the statistic that African American employees hold 31 percent more student loan debt than their white peers, and Goodly’s offering looks even better to employers worried about improving diversity.
In all, an employer contribution of less than the cost of a cup of coffee could help the average employee pay off their debts 8.5 years faster. Talk about potentially doing well by doing good. Offers 50 percent higher retention for millennial employees and is tackling a $5.4 billion market.
Regology
Hoping to take a bite out of the $10 billion market for financial services regulatory compliance, Regology has developed an automated software system to ease the burden for the world’s biggest financiers. Last year companies spent $54 billion on compliance and were still fined $22 billion for compliance failures. The company claims that its software can handle in a matter of hours the manual monitoring tasks that took companies months. Working with wealth management, banking, insurance and cryptocurrency companies, the company’s machine learning software aims to take the sting out of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s oversight.
Enveritas
Battling deforestation and child labor in manufacturers’ supply chains with software, Enveritas is helping companies secure themselves against reputational risk and increase efficiency in their operations. Initially focused on coffee companies, the platform Enveritas has built gives coffee companies a way to verify sustainability at origin for the coffee they source. While coffee may be the first industry, the work can be applied to other tropical products, including cocoa, cotton and palm oil (although if C16 — another YC company — has its way, palm oil may not be an issue).
Mylk Guys
Mylk Guys is the 100 percent vegan online grocery store I’ve never wanted, but maybe you have. Undoubtedly better for the environment than a carnivorous diet, vegan options can be healthy and they may be tasty, but the foods that combine the two are few and far between. Giving a curated approach to all of the foods on the market, Mylk Guys is the online vegan grocery store aiming to make shopping “simple af.” The company bills itself as the “online vegan Trader Joe’s.” There are 21 million vegans in America that spend $54 billion on groceries.
Numericcal
Simplifying machine learning on edge devices. Machine learning today lives in the cloud and it’s the biggest downside of machine learning in many systems, according to the founders of Numericcal. The solution is to move the processing down to the edge — something that can take two to six months for programmers. Numericcal has 20 billion potential devices that it can service in less time and for less money.
Oxygen
Breaking freelancers from the month-to-month boom-and-bust payment cycles that bind them, Oxygen provides working capital loans to freelancers who can go months without getting a paycheck. The company is more than willing to work with a group of borrowers who collectively make $1.4 trillion in 1099 income annually and who are locked out of loans. Oxygen offers flat-fee access to credit and free mobile banking, all while using machine learning to determine credit worthiness. Freelance workers of the world unite, indeed!
Hepatx
Hepatx is creating therapies for severely damaged livers. Chronic liver disease affects 3.9 million Americans and is the cause of death for more than 40,000. The founders of Hepatx are developing a regenerative solution enabling hepatocyte production for therapeutic purposes. That means regenerating liver cells to avoid the cost and morbidity of whole organ transplant. More than 200,000 people in the U.S. need a liver transplant but only a few thousand get one. Hepatx aims to fix the liver by taking fat tissue, turning that into liver cells and introducing that into patients to regrow the liver.
Plexus
Plexus is looking to create a low-cost, flexible glove for controlling augmented reality and virtual reality experiences. It’s a silicone glove, secured by velcro, that doesn’t cover your hands or fingers entirely, so it shouldn’t leave you super sweaty.
The tracking sensors grab the position of where the hands are in space via the magnetically attached tracker and, after calibrating a resting state of the user’s fingers, individual sensors communicate their position to the game engine.
Read more about Plexus here.
We’ll be back again tomorrow for the dozens of startups pitching on Day 2; check back a bit later for our top picks of Day 1, as well.
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From “cheese 2.0” to connecting flights for satellites, Y Combinator showed off a wide array of early stage startups fresh from its YC Summer 2018 batch. A total of 63 companies took to the stage in front of a full audience at the Computer History Museum today in Mountain View to pitch on-off switches for organisms, laundry detergent subscription services, gymless gyms, lab-grown palm oil and sugary sugar substitutes.
It felt like every other startup was trying to make us try vegan chicken nuggets, but from a bird’s eye view this YC batch saw startups clustered around B2B software and services (30% of companies), healthcare (28%), consumer goods and services (9%) and consumer media (7%). (Yes, blockchain companies were right behind, comprising 5% of companies).
For this batch, YC’s efforts to get more female founders on board mostly held steady, with 15% female founders, down one percent from last round’s 16%. YC’s diversity tracking around race showed a little more activity: 11% of this cohort’s founders were black or latinx, up from 9% in the previous group. A total of 19 countries were represented across the 132 companies pitching over two days, and 28% of companies were based outside the US.
Which companies will go on to make a unicorn-sized splash? Are there really that many vegans? To figure it all out, you can read through our full list of the day’s YC S18 companies below (be sure to take a coffee break or two) or check back later for our own picks of today’s most interesting startups. Without further ado…
Public Recreation
The founders of Public Recreation want to take your workout outside. The company offers a modular system of benches, bars and smart lockers that can be installed anywhere and for a subscription price of $50/month customers get access to classes ranging from yoga to strength training and conditioning. Their first pop up is in San Francisco… literally on the corner of Octavia and Hayes.
BlueCargo
BlueCargo is optimizing container management for ports, kind of like Jenga for shipping containers. Normally, a single move costs a port $30, but up to 50% of those moves might not even be needed at all. Due to inefficient shuffling processes, terminals waste as much as $20 billion a year, but BlueCargo would eliminate that waste with machine learning, they say. The company has one paid pilot with France’s port of Saint Nazaire to date with three more in the works around the world. BlueCargo is also about to start working with the port of Long Beach, California — one of the largest ports in the US.
HoneyLove
HoneyLove aims to disrupt the traditional shapewear market by making an affordable, high-quality product that actually works.
The $89 product uses supportive structures inside the seams of the garment, similar to the flexible boning used in old-school corsets, and encases those structures in a soft channel of protective fabric. This simple enhancement ensures that the garment doesn’t bunch up around the legs or waistband. The company has already sold $500k in product
Read more about HoneyLove here.
C16 Biosciences
C16 Biosciences is aiming to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the globe with their lab-grown palm oil, an alternative to a product that is found in a truly massive amount of goods. C16’s alternative grown in bioreactors with yeast is 20 percent less expensive to customers but “doesn’t destroy the planet,” the company says. The startup has already begun early partnerships with a number of beauty and food distributors that together spend about $1.2 billion on palm oil annually.
Kobo360
Kobo360 is a Nigerian startup wants to be the Uber for logistics and trucking in Nigeria… with a twist. With $1.3 million in funding already in the bank, the startup not only has an on-demand trucking solution linking shippers with excess trucking capacity, it has also set up a crowdfunding platform called Kobo Wealth Investment Network, or KoboWIN to enable Kobo drivers to finance new trucks through citizen investors and pay them back directly (with interest) over a 60 month period.
JetLenses
JetLenses is taking on the major contact lens e-commerce sites and other online ordering systems. The startup’s goal is to bring down the cost of prescription products by automating the overhead associated with these businesses, then pass those savings on to consumers.
For example, it automates the process of contacting doctors to verify prescriptions by maintaining a data set of existing practices, automatically faxing the office to verify the prescription and then processing the doctor’s office response.
Read more about JetLenses here.
Higia
By monitoring thermal patterns inside a breast, the startup Higia hopes it can offer women a better, non-invasive method to detect breast cancer. The company’s wearable device, called EVA, can be placed under any sports bra, and offers a new way to fill the gaps that current screening techniques aren’t addressing — things like early breast cancer detection in women with high breast density. The company has already pre-sold 5,000 units in Mexico and will begin shipping them in the fall of 2018.
Read more about Higia here.
CSPA
Founder and head of engineering at Crunchyroll, James Lin knows all about the pain of finding and hiring talented software engineers. That’s why Lin started The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment, which is basically the SAT for software engineers. Lin and his team have created standardized exams that are held in classrooms on or near college campuses and test both practical knowledge and theoretical principles.
Students pay to take the tests and have their results shared with the over 60 companies that are now accepting the results when considering new candidates.
Sterblue
Sterblue is a French drone software startup aiming to get off-the-shelf drones inspecting large outdoor structures up close with automated insights that identify anomalies that need a second look.
The startup’s software is specifically focused on enabling drones to easily inspect large power lines or wind turbines with simple automated trajectories that can get a job done much quicker and with less room for human error.
Read more about Sterblue here.
Cambridge Glycoscience
Looking to bake the perfect treat with a sugar substitute that can mimic not just the sweetness, but the gooey caramelization and sticky sweetness that typically only comes from real sugar? Well YC company Cambridge Glycoscience has the sweetener for you. The company expects to produce its sugar substitutes at a cost that can make low- and no-sugar foods even more accessible for mainstream consumers. So toss that corn syrup and get ready for a new flavor revolution.
Their manufacturing process will let them produce their sugar substitute at scale and they have a patent portfolio to protect their innovation. Notably, they have signed letters of intent with five companies already, including Haribo.
Togg
Yingzhe Fu, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, has been developing this home sensing and automation product at least since his graduation in 2016. Togg’s product is now installed in eight assisted living centers around the U.S. and is able to capture changes in residents’ health including sleep, breathing, bathroom visits and movement speed more accurately than actual caregivers at a facility.
Given the explosion in the number of elderly in need of home care (both in the U.S. and in Fu’s native China), it seems like Fu’s Togg is a product hitting the market at the right time.
AskMyClass
Using smart speakers like the Amazon Alexa or Google Home, AskMyClass is bringing a deeper set of skills to elementary school classrooms. Like homes, schools are quickly picking up on the benefits of smart speaker deployment, and using AskMyClass teachers now can let those speakers handle a range of daily tasks, from vocabulary reviews to refocusing exercises — the software can even take notes and make lists for teachers on the go.
Teachers using it are reclaiming as much as 75 minutes a week in the classroom by using AskMyClass as a kind of teaching assistant. For example, AskMyClass can run math drills with one set of students while another works directly with their instructor. In five weeks, they’ve on-boarded 436 classrooms.
Skydrop
Making e-commerce easier across Latin America, Skydrop is focused on estimating drop-off times, buying and printing shipping labels and handling returns for its customers. Through a network of independent drivers, alongside a logistics platform recreated from the ground up, Skydrop is looking to offer shipping labels at a fraction of the cost by aggregating orders with thousands of like-minded (and like-sized) businesses. Companies simply add Skydrop’s plugin to their own online store and watch their logistics burdens take off.
Cytera CellWorks
Cytera CellWorks hopes to revolutionize the so-called “clean meat” industry through the automation of cell cultures. It uses robotic automation to configure cell cultures used in things like growing turkey meat from a petri dish or testing stem cells.
Originally, the company was going to go for general automation in the lab, but had enough interest from clients and potential business in just the cell culture automation aspect they’re focused on that for now, and changed the name for clarity.
Read more about Cytera CellWorks here.
JITX
Designing circuit boards as a service won JITX a spot in this latest batch of Y Combinator companies. Currently, every circuit board is designed manually by skilled engineers, but using JITX’s machine learning software, circuit boards can be created automatically, which can save both time and money for hardware companies.
Names & Faces
Not Facebook but not LinkedIn either, Names & Faces aims to offer any growing company a simple, fast directory of employees built specifically for that purpose alone. The company wants to solve a problem experienced by everyone at a company from its low level employees to chief executives: when your company gets bigger, it’s hard to keep track of who’s who. Names & Faces already has more than 100 customers, including L’Oreal, Uber and Fedex with sales doubling month to month.
Buttermilk
Buttermilk offers a variety of Indian dishes at a low price that can be cooked up by simply adding hot water. Based in Seattle, Buttermilk launched in 2017 to the local market and has since expanded to serve their products across the country.
Dishes include Sambar, Daal, Khichdi, Rasam, and Upma, all of which cost $6 each. Buttermilk also sells Basmati Rice for $1.50. And there are “suites,” which pack a handful of meals into one shipment.
Read more about Buttermilk here.
Send Reality
Send Reality is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walkthroughs of real estate listings. The company sends photographers out to the listing with an iPad, a commodity depth sensor and a specialized Send Reality app. These photographers take hundreds of thousands of photos, and the Send Reality technology stitches those photos together to create a complete 3D model.
Send Reality sells directly to realtors, offering the product for $500 to $800 depending on the size and complexity of the home. In the future, the company can bring down that price point by allowing realtors to scan the home themselves from their own smartphone.
Read more about Send Reality here.
Allotrope Medical
Allotrope Medical has developed an electrical stimulation technology for smooth muscles that allows surgeons to identify critical tissue structures and distinguish functional from dysfunctional urologic and gastrointestinal issues. The Houston-based company is focused initially on decreasing the rate of injury to ureters during surgery.
With over 3 million surgeries performed in the US alone requiring identification and protection of ureters, there’s a $3.2 billion burden on healthcare systems due to injuries. The company is running an active clinical trial in Dallas and aims to be on the market by the end of 2019.
Augmented Radar Imaging
Augmented Radar Imaging wants to address the kind of issues that have caused high profile driverless vehicle accidents. The company aims to solve two problems for current radar technologies: recognizing stationary objects and triggering false alarms.
With a team of radio engineers, physicists and data scientists, ARI has built a wide field-of-view high resolution radar system called Camdar that provides 3D spatial imaging plus velocity data and a solid state sensor with no moving parts that claims to be 300x more accurate than GPS. With 5 radar units per average in a self-driving vehicle, ARI could be looking at a $100 billion market if it can make inroads on those roads.
Canary Technologies
The Canary Technologies co-founders have worked in the hotel industry, and have come to the conclusion that existing hotel software is awful. The company is working to tackle some of this dated software piece-by-piece starting with their far less dated programs used to handle offline booking processes. They’re getting rid of paper contracts with modern software that can make life easier for hotels.
Qurasense
Qurasense doesn’t think your period blood should go to waste. The company has developed a “diagnostic menstrual pad” called the Q Pad that includes an embedded collection strip that passively collects blood samples on a test strip that can be mailed for diagnostic testing which is then turned into data.
So far the company has run 5 clinical trials of a total of 500 women. It has 14 validated blood screening tests and two tests for sexually transmitted diseases and will operate on a $25 a month subscription model. Qurasense is working with Stanford Medicine to become the go-to platform for cervical cancer screening.
Inokyo
Inokyo wants to be the indie Amazon Go, with a cashierless autonomous retail store. Cameras track what you grab from shelves, and with a single QR scan of the app on your way in and out of the store, you’re charged for what you’ve picked up.
The first store is now open on Mountain View’s Castro Street selling an array of kombuchas, snacks, protein powders and bath products.
Read more about Inokyo here.
Tenderd
Based in Dubai and serving the entire Middle East and North African region, Tenderd is an on demand marketplace for heavy equipment like bulldozers and cranes. Think of it as the Uber for heavy equipment. The company began when the company’s founder left San Francisco to run the family business in the United Arab Emirates because of a family emergency. When he took the wheel, he steered the company toward what he realized was the most profitable business — renting out the heavy equipment. However, the process was so slow and cumbersome that the seasoned Bay Area launched Tenderd to solve his — and the region’s — problem.
Momentus
The heart of Momentus’ propulsion technology for space flight is a new system that uses water as a propellant instead of chemicals.
Using water has several benefits, the startup says. One, it’s a fuel source that’s abundant in outer space, and it’s ultimately better and more efficient fuel for flight beyond low Earth orbit.
Read more about Momentus here.
Spero Foods
Spero Foods is joining the legion of companies trying to transform the food industry with substitutes for animal proteins based on data analytics. Founder Phaedra Randolph launched the company after experiencing the transformative benefits of transitioning to a plant-based diet. Most vegetable substitutes for animal proteins lacked the flavor, texture and nutritional heft of their animal corollaries. So Randolph used her background in bioscience and software engineering to tackle the taste issue.
InkHunter
InkHunter is an augmented reality tattoo try-on app. The idea is that you can see how a tattoo might like on your skin before you actually make a booking with the tattoo artist.
The app requires people to anchor the virtual design by making a few pen marks on their skin where they want the tattoo to live. It also supports taking and sharing photos.
Read more about InkHunter here.
Frey
FREY is pitching dudes a new kind of detergent for the new way they live their lives (read on a monthly subscription basis). The company bills itself as an antidote to the tired myth that only women are doing laundry with products that incorporate natural ingredients, heady fragrances and plant-derived surfactants, enzymes, and oils for stain fighting. Add that subscription model and 20% month-over-month growth in the last 12 months and product margins post 60% post-shipping, and that’s a pitch that won’t rinse out in the wash.
Aalo
If you’re tired of the universal sameness of the typical Ikea, West Elm, or CB2-bedecked apartment, well look no further than Aalo, the new YC company that wants you to be your own furniture designer. With a Lego-like (not Legolas) furniture system composed of customizable, hackable and reusable parts, individuals can design their own furniture with a by-the-inch customization system for do-it-yourself designs. Founded by ex-Toyota engineer, Sejun Park, Aalo was created when an attempt to “hack” an Ikea shelf collapsed under the burden of its shoddy materials and zero weight support.
Demonpore
Nanopores identify molecules like DNA and Demonpore is the world’s first mechanical nanopore. Because normal, fixed nanopores require a good fit, they can only look at molecules that fit a pore well, which usually means being limited to DNA. Demonpore can change its size, making it possible to examine any kind of molecule at the nanometer scale. With a founder from Halcyon Molecular and a team of 70 scientists and engineers, Demonpore is developing a universal biomolecular sensor that can measure “virtually any type” of molecule with relevance to human health.
Savvy
Imagine being the all-seeing, all-knowing lookout for all of your company’s interactions with vendors, suppliers, and customers. That’s what the YC-backed startup Savvy is looking to provide to users by bringing together all of a company’s cloud applications into a single view. “Savvy is the glue between your work applications.” Not just slang for pirates, savvy is the know-how for all external interactions and can make businesses more savvy about their communications and operations.
Cloud Workout
Logging onto Twitch may not be the most physically active experience in the world but Cloud Workout wants to take the site’s model and build a fitness empire in its image, bringing fitness instructors to their site who can become fitness personalities and build audiences. The company’s streaming product is in private beta currently.
Synvivia
Genetic engineering is one of the most powerful new tools of the 21st century, but its ascendance has come with attendant fears that the technology may not be able to be controlled when it’s unleashed from a laboratory. YC-backed Synvivia is developing what amount to the kill switch for synthetic biology outside of a lab. Commercializing technology developed by UC Berkeley with grants from the NSF and DARPA, Synvivia’s genetically encoded bio-containment system engineers organisms to only live when they have access to specific, small molecules. These type of control and containment measures are critical for the development of the industry.
RealtyBits
With a service that’s creating blockchain-based tokens for commercial real estate properties, RealtyBits is hoping to increase liquidity for investors and property owners. The goal is to let real estate funds take cryptocurrency investments from verified financiers globally while reducing transaction costs, which can amount to 10% in fund creation and investments across what the company says is a $9 trillion industry.
#ME
Taking the Highrise virtual community one step further, #ME is an avatar-based social network where users can make friends and influence virtual people through real time games and experiences. The original bootstrapped social media avatar game from which #ME evolved has already raked in $5 million in sales and attracted over 3 million registered users. At the core of that popularity is the company’s ability to create virtual identities untethered from the real world that appeals to a Gen Z audience, according to the founder’s pitch.
“We’re taking everything we learned from Highrise and building a better one,” says Anton Bernstein, the company’s chief executive. “The next Facebook will be a virtual world. And we launched it 30 days ago.”
Grabb-It
Grabb-It turns a car’s side rear window into a full-color display, playing location-aware ads to anyone who might be standing curbside. The product’s designed for rideshare/delivery drivers, enabling them to make a bit of extra coin while doing the driving they’re already doing.
As the driver crosses town, the ads can automatically switch to focus on businesses nearby. Near the ball park? It might pitch you on tickets for tonight’s game. Over in The Mission? It could play an ad about happy hour at the bar behind you.
Read more about Grabb-It here.
Alpha Vantage
For investors seeking a new way to create alpha from financial market data, Alpha Vantage has an API toolkit to give them a leg up. Using these low-cost APIs, developers can create digital assets like iOS/Android apps and trading monitoring, management and suggestion toolkits. The company already has over 100,000 registered users making over 300 million API requests on a daily basis.
BrainHi
Cofounders Israel Figueroa Fontanez and Emmanuel Oquendo came up with the idea for BrainHi in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. When the devastation wrought by the hurricane made communicating with doctors offices nearly impossible on the island of Puerto Rico, the two founders thought there must be a better way to manage the process. The solution they came up with is an automated answering service that handles phone calls, texts, and Facebook messages with an automated bot that can schedule doctors visits and answer non-medical questions. The company already has 100 doctors, chiropractors, veterinarians in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
BHRD
Managing relationships with shareholders is an expensive business for public companies. Recalcitrant board members, activist shareholders and others can create problems for a management team focused on long-term growth. Using BHRD, companies can focus on targeting and engaging the investors who are aligned with their long term vision, freeing big business to focus on their business, rather than managing shareholder expectations.
Camelot
Camelot is a mobile app for eSports betting… and one of the first companies to blaze a trail in the sure-to-be-lucrative business operating at the intersection of video gaming and sports betting. The company gives fans access to live updates and stats and an interface to bet against friends. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision there are billions of dollars to be made facilitating betting in any sport — including eSports, Camelot is rolling the dice that it can hit the right number in this emerging market.
Inscribe
Using a web platform and APIs, Inscribe is pitching a service to identify digital forgeries in documents. The company’s technology uses image forensics and machine learning to check documents like bank statements, tax forms, and forms of state and national identification to look for tampered names, figures, text or signatures. The killjoys at Inscribe may finally get rid of the fake ID, but they’re also solving a billion dollar market in online fraud.
Fintual
Betterment, the wildly successful automated financial management and investment platform is getting a Latin American twist with Fintual. The company offers wealth management services through low-fee mutual funds intelligently managed by the same sort of toolkit that used to be available to big banks and the quant programmers that work for them. It’s already a success in the markets it’s selling into, with week over week growth of around 10%.
Four Growers
The robot revolution is coming for agriculture and one of the place where those robots will first raise their flag is in the hothouse. That’s the vision that Four Growers has laid out as it seeks to sell its robots to farms already squeezed by a labor shortage that shows no sign of relenting. The company pitches consistent quality of picked grape or cherry tomatoes and a “workforce” that’s dependable and efficient. Four Growers predicts that it can replace at least four human laborers with its robots representing incredible economic efficiencies for growers.
Annie Cannons
AnnieCannons is a San Francisco-based non-profit coding bootcamp aimed at transforming survivors of human trafficking into software developers or professionals in the technology industry.
Founded by Jessica Hubley and Laura Hackney, the organization aims to help the up to 18,000 people that the Justice Department believes are trafficked in the U.S. every year. The organization reaches out to after-care services organizations around legal aid and counseling services that are interested in placing survivors into a job-training program. Annie Cannons starts out with basic technical and job proficiencies and then works on giving their students into coding and development work.
BuyCoins
BuyCoins wants to be the cryptocurrency exchange for Africa. Emerging markets are the ideal test bed and proving ground for cryptocurrencies and, in some cases, they’re the least able to take advantage of the purported efficiencies that these new platforms offer. BuyCoins is the only exchange in Nigeria that allows Nigerians to buy and sell cryptocurrencies ranging from Bitcoin and Ethereum, to Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash, directly with their local bank account or debit card. There’s already $4 billion traded in cryptocurrency in Nigeria and the market is growing quickly.
Mac’d
Mac’d is a build-your-own mac and cheese restaurant that lets customers choose their own adventure from the beginning. The company plans to expand through a low cost “ghost kitchen” approach, where it rents out kitchen space and sells its mac and cheese strictly through providers like UberEats, Caviar, DoorDash, Postmates.
And to quote TechCrunch’s Megan Rose Dickey: “The mac and cheese was bomb.”
Read more about Mac’d here.
Penta Medical
For professional athletes nothing is more frightening or career damaging than an injury. And Penta Medical wants to make those fears a thing of the past. The company has developed a wearable cold laser therapy system that purports to relieve muscle and joint pain, increase circulation and relieve muscle spasms all with a tap of a button on the smartphone. Indeed, Penta also tracks injury data, provides coaches and healthcare providers with visual representations and range of motion trends.
Coaches can even track how their team compares with others in a league. It’s important to note that the company isn’t for athletes alone. People in the U.S. are already spending $6 billion and they’re the ideal market for Penta Medical’s smart hardware for chronic pain treatment and management.
Data Driven Bioscience
The 10 times faster and 10 times cheaper cancer diagnoses that Data Driven Biosciences promises for hospitals that use its genomic diagnostic tests could transform untold numbers of lives. Dr. Sandeep Dave, the oncologist and tenured professor from Duke University who founded the company, experienced firsthand how patients and doctors are affected by delays in getting a correct diagnosis of cancer.
Using standard equipment already deployed at hospitals around the country, Data Driven Bioscience is pitching a test that connects with the company’s cloud-based machine-learning software and a database of over 10,000 tumors to diagnose cancers within 24 hours.
Rain Neuromorphics
The founders of Rain Neuromorphics found inspiration for their processor for artificial intelligence applications in the function of the human brain. The company touts its Memristive Nanowire Neural Network chip architecture as being able to train larger, more powerful neural networks than any commercial chip that’s currently on the market. Fast, fully parallel, and ultra scalable, these chips are said to be capable of both online training and low-power inference, to enable complex machine learning applications both in the cloud and directly on a device.
As neurons increase, training time increases dramatically, but the company’s neuromorphic hardware scales well in time, but take up a lot of space on a chip. The company’s new architecture creates a structure that is filled with neurons connected by nanowires, and believes it can build and train the equivalent of $1 billion. With a $2 million letter of intent from OpenAI, several patents filed, and contracts with TSMC, the company is putting its neurons where its synapses are.
Spate
The “Google Trends” for business is exactly what Spate wants to be for its users. The company is pitching a predictive engine that can let companies know what types of latte people will be drinking, the skin care products they’ll be using and the food that their dogs will be eating in the next year. It’s no surprise that the team at Spate is looking to take on Google, since that’s where the company’s founding team cut its teeth.
Their work (initially as one of the famed 20% projects) at the search giant led to a product, which drove decision-making over how to steer some of the world’s largest consumer packaged good brands. They predicted the cold brew and turmeric trends and have a bet that yellow will be the next big color in the fashion world. There’s a spate of information out there, and the company wants to be the funnel to focus that flood of information into the right decisions.
Optic
Optic gives developers a way to grab very common coding use cases that they can drop right into their code. It works by finding the sort of routine additions developers might need, like how to create a form that will add a user to a database, as well as all the ancillary parts that come with it, like tests.
It works within a developer’s IDE, so they don’t have to look externally for the code they need. Right now it works for JavaScript, with Python next on the docket.
Read more about Optic here.
Phiar
Phiar is building an augmented reality navigation app for driving that shows a driver exactly where to go without taking their eyes off the wheel. With efficient AI fit into a smartphone, Phiar’s software can run at 200 fps on a dash-mounted iPhone.
With deep AI and computer vision expertise plus a team with members from Apple, Microsoft and VMware, Phiar wants to build the “killer AR application” to address the 1.7 billion people that use a navigation app each month. Phiar is counting on AR being the next meaningful evolution in driving navigation tech and a software solution that keeps a driver’s eyes on the road in front of them.
Seattle Food Tech
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At this point the notion of tastier, better, plant-based meat substitutes is no longer a fantasy. Investors have poured millions into making it a reality. The pitch from Seattle Food Tech is making that tastier, better, cheaper plant-based chicken substitute at scale. Using novel and efficient food processing equipment and facilities that can enable large scale, low-cost production that can transform the way institutional food service companies that supply the office and university cafeterias across the country deliver tasty foods to hungry breakfast, lunch, and dinner diners.
“We’re using aerospace engineering to make plant based chicken nuggets.” says chief executive Christie Lagally, a former Boeing engineer and technical project manager.
Prodigal Technologies
Prodigal Technologies wants to improve the ways that lenders collect money from borrowers. The company wants to make debt collection, if not kinder or gentler, then certainly more efficient. If a payor misses a payment, lenders can now reach out on any messaging platform and enable lenders to find borrowers where they are. The company has 11 pilots and three paying customers that handle $11 billion in origination of loans. There are $50 billion loans that aren’t paid, and with Prodigal lenders can get a 20% improvement in loan repayment.
Viaopt
In the U.S., trucks are moving goods across the country with roughly 35% of their available cargo space underutilized. Viopt, a software company that aims to be an Uber pool for shipping, thinks it has the solution. If the 65% of underutilized capacity could be filled it would save $30 billion for companies and remove 100 million tons of carbon emissions. By linking small and medium-sized companies with excess capacity, the company hopes to give small retailers the same logistics opportunities that were only available to the largest retailers, shippers, and logistics companies like Anheuser-Busch, Bimbo Bakeries, and Turkey Hill Farms.
Goodly
Perks for employees are becoming a big business in the tight labor market and Goodly wants to make one of the most important perks — student loan repayment — easy and accessible for employers. While the benefits of providing this benefit are universally inarguable, when you look at statistics indicating that women hold two-thirds of student debt and owe half a trillion dollars more than their male colleagues, the perk becomes more persuasive. Couple that with the statistic that African American employees hold 31% more student loan debt than their white peers, and Goodly’s offering looks even better to employers worried about improving diversity.
In all, an employer contribution of less than the cost of a cup of coffee could help the average employee pay off their debts 8.5 years faster. Talk about potentially doing well by doing good. Offers 50% higher retention for millennial employees and is tackling a $5.4 billion market.
Regology
Hoping to take a bite out of the $10 billion market for financial services regulatory compliance, Regology has developed an automated software system to ease the burden for the world’s biggest financiers. Last year companies spent $54 billion on compliance and were still fined $22 billion for compliance failures. The company claims that its software can handle the manual monitoring tasks that took companies months in a manner of hours. Working with wealth management, banking, insurance and cryptocurrency companies, the company’s machine learning software aims to take the sting out of the Security and Exchange Commission’s oversight.
Enveritas
Battling deforestation and child labor in manufacturers’ supply chains with software, Enveritas is helping companies secure themselves against reputational risk and increase efficiency in their operations. Initially focused on coffee companies, the platform Enveritas has built gives coffee companies a way to verify sustainability at origin for the coffee they source. While coffee may be the first industry, the work can be applied to other tropical products including cocoa, cotton, and palm oil (although if C16 — another YC company — has its way, palm oil may not be an issue).
Mylk Guys
Mylk Guys is the 100% vegan online grocery store, I’ve never wanted, but maybe you have. Undoubtedly better for the environment than a carnivorous diet, vegan options can be healthy and they may be tasty, but the foods that combine the two are few and far between. Giving a curated approach to all of the foods on the market, Mylk Guys is the online vegan grocery store aiming to make shopping “simple af”. The company bills itself as the “online vegan Trader Joe’s”. There are 21 million vegans in America that spend $54 billion on groceries.
Numericcal
Simplifying machine learning on edge devices. Machine learning today lives in the cloud and it’s the biggest downside of machine learning in many systems, according to the founders of Numericcal. The solution is to move the processing down to the edge — something that can take two to six months for programmers. Numericcal has 20 billion potential devices that it can service in less time and for less money.
Oxygen
Breaking freelancers from the month-to-month boom-and-bust payment cycles that bind them, Oxygen provides working capital loans to freelancers who can go months without getting a paycheck. The company is more than willing to work with a group of borrowers who collectively make $1.4 trillion in 1099 income annually and who are locked out of loans. Oxygen offers flat-fee access to credit and free mobile banking, all while using machine learning to determine credit worthiness. Freelance workers of the world unite, indeed!
Hepatx
Hepatx is creating therapies for severely damaged livers. Chronic liver disease affects 3.9 million Americans and is the cause of death for over 40,000. The founders of Hepatx are developing a regenerative solution enabling hepatocyte production for therapeutic purposes. That means regenerating liver cells to avoid the cost and morbidity of whole organ transplant. Over 200,000 people in the U.S. need a liver transplant but only a few thousand get some. Hepatx aims to fix the liver by taking fat tissue, turns that into liver cells and introduce that into patients to regrow the liver.
Plexus
Plexus is looking to create a low-cost, flexible glove for controlling augmented reality and virtual reality experiences. It’s a silicone glove, secured by velcro, that doesn’t cover your hands or fingers entirely, so it shouldn’t leave you super sweaty.
The tracking sensors grab the position of where the hands are in space via the magnetically attached tracker and, after calibrating a resting state of the user’s fingers, individual sensors communicate their position to the game engine.
Read more about Plexus here.
We’ll be back again tomorrow for the dozens of startups pitching on Day 2, check back a bit later for our top picks of Day 1 as well.
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From “cheese 2.0” to connecting flights for satellites, Y Combinator showed off a wide array of early stage startups fresh from its YC Summer 2018 batch. A total of 63 companies took to the stage in front of a full audience at the Computer History Museum today in Mountain View to pitch on-off switches for organisms, laundry detergent subscription services, gymless gyms, lab-grown palm oil and sugary sugar substitutes.
It felt like every other startup was trying to make us try vegan chicken nuggets, but from a bird’s eye view this YC batch saw startups clustered around B2B software and services (30% of companies), healthcare (28%), consumer goods and services (9%) and consumer media (7%). (Yes, blockchain companies were right behind, comprising 5% of companies).
For this batch, YC’s efforts to get more female founders on board mostly held steady, with 15% female founders, down one percent from last round’s 16%. YC’s diversity tracking around race showed a little more activity: 11% of this cohort’s founders were black or latinx, up from 9% in the previous group. A total of 19 countries were represented across the 132 companies pitching over two days, and 28% of companies were based outside the US.
Which companies will go on to make a unicorn-sized splash? Are there really that many vegans? To figure it all out, you can read through our full list of the day’s YC S18 companies below (be sure to take a coffee break or two) or check back later for our own picks of today’s most interesting startups. Without further ado…
Public Recreation
The founders of Public Recreation want to take your workout outside. The company offers a modular system of benches, bars and smart lockers that can be installed anywhere and for a subscription price of $50/month customers get access to classes ranging from yoga to strength training and conditioning. Their first pop up is in San Francisco… literally on the corner of Octavia and Hayes.
BlueCargo
BlueCargo is optimizing container management for ports, kind of like Jenga for shipping containers. Normally, a single move costs a port $30, but up to 50% of those moves might not even be needed at all. Due to inefficient shuffling processes, terminals waste as much as $20 billion a year, but BlueCargo would eliminate that waste with machine learning, they say. The company has one paid pilot with France’s port of Saint Nazaire to date with three more in the works around the world. BlueCargo is also about to start working with the port of Long Beach, California — one of the largest ports in the US.
HoneyLove
HoneyLove aims to disrupt the traditional shapewear market by making an affordable, high-quality product that actually works.
The $89 product uses supportive structures inside the seams of the garment, similar to the flexible boning used in old-school corsets, and encases those structures in a soft channel of protective fabric. This simple enhancement ensures that the garment doesn’t bunch up around the legs or waistband. The company has already sold $500k in product
Read more about HoneyLove here.
C16 Biosciences
C16 Biosciences is aiming to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the globe with their lab-grown palm oil, an alternative to a product that is found in a truly massive amount of goods. C16’s alternative grown in bioreactors with yeast is 20 percent less expensive to customers but “doesn’t destroy the planet,” the company says. The startup has already begun early partnerships with a number of beauty and food distributors that together spend about $1.2 billion on palm oil annually.
Kobo360
Kobo360 is a Nigerian startup wants to be the Uber for logistics and trucking in Nigeria… with a twist. With $1.3 million in funding already in the bank, the startup not only has an on-demand trucking solution linking shippers with excess trucking capacity, it has also set up a crowdfunding platform called Kobo Wealth Investment Network, or KoboWIN to enable Kobo drivers to finance new trucks through citizen investors and pay them back directly (with interest) over a 60 month period.
JetLenses
JetLenses is taking on the major contact lens e-commerce sites and other online ordering systems. The startup’s goal is to bring down the cost of prescription products by automating the overhead associated with these businesses, then pass those savings on to consumers.
For example, it automates the process of contacting doctors to verify prescriptions by maintaining a data set of existing practices, automatically faxing the office to verify the prescription and then processing the doctor’s office response.
Read more about JetLenses here.
Higia
By monitoring thermal patterns inside a breast, the startup Higia hopes it can offer women a better, non-invasive method to detect breast cancer. The company’s wearable device, called EVA, can be placed under any sports bra, and offers a new way to fill the gaps that current screening techniques aren’t addressing — things like early breast cancer detection in women with high breast density. The company has already pre-sold 5,000 units in Mexico and will begin shipping them in the fall of 2018.
Read more about Higia here.
CSPA
Founder and head of engineering at Crunchyroll, James Lin knows all about the pain of finding and hiring talented software engineers. That’s why Lin started The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment, which is basically the SAT for software engineers. Lin and his team have created standardized exams that are held in classrooms on or near college campuses and test both practical knowledge and theoretical principles.
Students pay to take the tests and have their results shared with the over 60 companies that are now accepting the results when considering new candidates.
Sterblue
Sterblue is a French drone software startup aiming to get off-the-shelf drones inspecting large outdoor structures up close with automated insights that identify anomalies that need a second look.
The startup’s software is specifically focused on enabling drones to easily inspect large power lines or wind turbines with simple automated trajectories that can get a job done much quicker and with less room for human error.
Read more about Sterblue here.
Cambridge Glycoscience
Looking to bake the perfect treat with a sugar substitute that can mimic not just the sweetness, but the gooey caramelization and sticky sweetness that typically only comes from real sugar? Well YC company Cambridge Glycoscience has the sweetener for you. The company expects to produce its sugar substitutes at a cost that can make low- and no-sugar foods even more accessible for mainstream consumers. So toss that corn syrup and get ready for a new flavor revolution.
Their manufacturing process will let them produce their sugar substitute at scale and they have a patent portfolio to protect their innovation. Notably, they have signed letters of intent with five companies already, including Haribo.
Togg
Yingzhe Fu, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, has been developing this home sensing and automation product at least since his graduation in 2016. Togg’s product is now installed in eight assisted living centers around the U.S. and is able to capture changes in residents’ health including sleep, breathing, bathroom visits and movement speed more accurately than actual caregivers at a facility.
Given the explosion in the number of elderly in need of home care (both in the U.S. and in Fu’s native China), it seems like Fu’s Togg is a product hitting the market at the right time.
AskMyClass
Using smart speakers like the Amazon Alexa or Google Home, AskMyClass is bringing a deeper set of skills to elementary school classrooms. Like homes, schools are quickly picking up on the benefits of smart speaker deployment, and using AskMyClass teachers now can let those speakers handle a range of daily tasks, from vocabulary reviews to refocusing exercises — the software can even take notes and make lists for teachers on the go.
Teachers using it are reclaiming as much as 75 minutes a week in the classroom by using AskMyClass as a kind of teaching assistant. For example, AskMyClass can run math drills with one set of students while another works directly with their instructor. In five weeks, they’ve on-boarded 436 classrooms.
Skydrop
Making e-commerce easier across Latin America, Skydrop is focused on estimating drop-off times, buying and printing shipping labels and handling returns for its customers. Through a network of independent drivers, alongside a logistics platform recreated from the ground up, Skydrop is looking to offer shipping labels at a fraction of the cost by aggregating orders with thousands of like-minded (and like-sized) businesses. Companies simply add Skydrop’s plugin to their own online store and watch their logistics burdens take off.
Cytera CellWorks
Cytera CellWorks hopes to revolutionize the so-called “clean meat” industry through the automation of cell cultures. It uses robotic automation to configure cell cultures used in things like growing turkey meat from a petri dish or testing stem cells.
Originally, the company was going to go for general automation in the lab, but had enough interest from clients and potential business in just the cell culture automation aspect they’re focused on that for now, and changed the name for clarity.
Read more about Cytera CellWorks here.
JITX
Designing circuit boards as a service won JITX a spot in this latest batch of Y Combinator companies. Currently, every circuit board is designed manually by skilled engineers, but using JITX’s machine learning software, circuit boards can be created automatically, which can save both time and money for hardware companies.
Names & Faces
Not Facebook but not LinkedIn either, Names & Faces aims to offer any growing company a simple, fast directory of employees built specifically for that purpose alone. The company wants to solve a problem experienced by everyone at a company from its low level employees to chief executives: when your company gets bigger, it’s hard to keep track of who’s who. Names & Faces already has more than 100 customers, including L’Oreal, Uber and Fedex with sales doubling month to month.
Buttermilk
Buttermilk offers a variety of Indian dishes at a low price that can be cooked up by simply adding hot water. Based in Seattle, Buttermilk launched in 2017 to the local market and has since expanded to serve their products across the country.
Dishes include Sambar, Daal, Khichdi, Rasam, and Upma, all of which cost $6 each. Buttermilk also sells Basmati Rice for $1.50. And there are “suites,” which pack a handful of meals into one shipment.
Read more about Buttermilk here.
Send Reality
Send Reality is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walkthroughs of real estate listings. The company sends photographers out to the listing with an iPad, a commodity depth sensor and a specialized Send Reality app. These photographers take hundreds of thousands of photos, and the Send Reality technology stitches those photos together to create a complete 3D model.
Send Reality sells directly to realtors, offering the product for $500 to $800 depending on the size and complexity of the home. In the future, the company can bring down that price point by allowing realtors to scan the home themselves from their own smartphone.
Read more about Send Reality here.
Allotrope Medical
Allotrope Medical has developed an electrical stimulation technology for smooth muscles that allows surgeons to identify critical tissue structures and distinguish functional from dysfunctional urologic and gastrointestinal issues. The Houston-based company is focused initially on decreasing the rate of injury to ureters during surgery.
With over 3 million surgeries performed in the US alone requiring identification and protection of ureters, there’s a $3.2 billion burden on healthcare systems due to injuries. The company is running an active clinical trial in Dallas and aims to be on the market by the end of 2019.
Augmented Radar Imaging
Augmented Radar Imaging wants to address the kind of issues that have caused high profile driverless vehicle accidents. The company aims to solve two problems for current radar technologies: recognizing stationary objects and triggering false alarms.
With a team of radio engineers, physicists and data scientists, ARI has built a wide field-of-view high resolution radar system called Camdar that provides 3D spatial imaging plus velocity data and a solid state sensor with no moving parts that claims to be 300x more accurate than GPS. With 5 radar units per average in a self-driving vehicle, ARI could be looking at a $100 billion market if it can make inroads on those roads.
Canary Technologies
The Canary Technologies co-founders have worked in the hotel industry, and have come to the conclusion that existing hotel software is awful. The company is working to tackle some of this dated software piece-by-piece starting with their far less dated programs used to handle offline booking processes. They’re getting rid of paper contracts with modern software that can make life easier for hotels.
Qurasense
Qurasense doesn’t think your period blood should go to waste. The company has developed a “diagnostic menstrual pad” called the Q Pad that includes an embedded collection strip that passively collects blood samples on a test strip that can be mailed for diagnostic testing which is then turned into data.
So far the company has run 5 clinical trials of a total of 500 women. It has 14 validated blood screening tests and two tests for sexually transmitted diseases and will operate on a $25 a month subscription model. Qurasense is working with Stanford Medicine to become the go-to platform for cervical cancer screening.
Inokyo
Inokyo wants to be the indie Amazon Go, with a cashierless autonomous retail store. Cameras track what you grab from shelves, and with a single QR scan of the app on your way in and out of the store, you’re charged for what you’ve picked up.
The first store is now open on Mountain View’s Castro Street selling an array of kombuchas, snacks, protein powders and bath products.
Read more about Inokyo here.
Tenderd
Based in Dubai and serving the entire Middle East and North African region, Tenderd is an on demand marketplace for heavy equipment like bulldozers and cranes. Think of it as the Uber for heavy equipment. The company began when the company’s founder left San Francisco to run the family business in the United Arab Emirates because of a family emergency. When he took the wheel, he steered the company toward what he realized was the most profitable business — renting out the heavy equipment. However, the process was so slow and cumbersome that the seasoned Bay Area launched Tenderd to solve his — and the region’s — problem.
Momentus
The heart of Momentus’ propulsion technology for space flight is a new system that uses water as a propellant instead of chemicals.
Using water has several benefits, the startup says. One, it’s a fuel source that’s abundant in outer space, and it’s ultimately better and more efficient fuel for flight beyond low Earth orbit.
Read more about Momentus here.
Spero Foods
Spero Foods is joining the legion of companies trying to transform the food industry with substitutes for animal proteins based on data analytics. Founder Phaedra Randolph launched the company after experiencing the transformative benefits of transitioning to a plant-based diet. Most vegetable substitutes for animal proteins lacked the flavor, texture and nutritional heft of their animal corollaries. So Randolph used her background in bioscience and software engineering to tackle the taste issue.
InkHunter
InkHunter is an augmented reality tattoo try-on app. The idea is that you can see how a tattoo might like on your skin before you actually make a booking with the tattoo artist.
The app requires people to anchor the virtual design by making a few pen marks on their skin where they want the tattoo to live. It also supports taking and sharing photos.
Read more about InkHunter here.
Frey
FREY is pitching dudes a new kind of detergent for the new way they live their lives (read on a monthly subscription basis). The company bills itself as an antidote to the tired myth that only women are doing laundry with products that incorporate natural ingredients, heady fragrances and plant-derived surfactants, enzymes, and oils for stain fighting. Add that subscription model and 20% month-over-month growth in the last 12 months and product margins post 60% post-shipping, and that’s a pitch that won’t rinse out in the wash.
Aalo
If you’re tired of the universal sameness of the typical Ikea, West Elm, or CB2-bedecked apartment, well look no further than Aalo, the new YC company that wants you to be your own furniture designer. With a Lego-like (not Legolas) furniture system composed of customizable, hackable and reusable parts, individuals can design their own furniture with a by-the-inch customization system for do-it-yourself designs. Founded by ex-Toyota engineer, Sejun Park, Aalo was created when an attempt to “hack” an Ikea shelf collapsed under the burden of its shoddy materials and zero weight support.
Demonpore
Nanopores identify molecules like DNA and Demonpore is the world’s first mechanical nanopore. Because normal, fixed nanopores require a good fit, they can only look at molecules that fit a pore well, which usually means being limited to DNA. Demonpore can change its size, making it possible to examine any kind of molecule at the nanometer scale. With a founder from Halcyon Molecular and a team of 70 scientists and engineers, Demonpore is developing a universal biomolecular sensor that can measure “virtually any type” of molecule with relevance to human health.
Savvy
Imagine being the all-seeing, all-knowing lookout for all of your company’s interactions with vendors, suppliers, and customers. That’s what the YC-backed startup Savvy is looking to provide to users by bringing together all of a company’s cloud applications into a single view. “Savvy is the glue between your work applications.” Not just slang for pirates, savvy is the know-how for all external interactions and can make businesses more savvy about their communications and operations.
Cloud Workout
Logging onto Twitch may not be the most physically active experience in the world but Cloud Workout wants to take the site’s model and build a fitness empire in its image, bringing fitness instructors to their site who can become fitness personalities and build audiences. The company’s streaming product is in private beta currently.
Synvivia
Genetic engineering is one of the most powerful new tools of the 21st century, but its ascendance has come with attendant fears that the technology may not be able to be controlled when it’s unleashed from a laboratory. YC-backed Synvivia is developing what amount to the kill switch for synthetic biology outside of a lab. Commercializing technology developed by UC Berkeley with grants from the NSF and DARPA, Synvivia’s genetically encoded bio-containment system engineers organisms to only live when they have access to specific, small molecules. These type of control and containment measures are critical for the development of the industry.
RealtyBits
With a service that’s creating blockchain-based tokens for commercial real estate properties, RealtyBits is hoping to increase liquidity for investors and property owners. The goal is to let real estate funds take cryptocurrency investments from verified financiers globally while reducing transaction costs, which can amount to 10% in fund creation and investments across what the company says is a $9 trillion industry.
#ME
Taking the Highrise virtual community one step further, #ME is an avatar-based social network where users can make friends and influence virtual people through real time games and experiences. The original bootstrapped social media avatar game from which #ME evolved has already raked in $1.8 million in sales and attracted over 3 million registered users. At the core of that popularity is the company’s ability to create virtual identities untethered from the real world that appeals to a Gen Z audience, according to the founder’s pitch.
“We’re taking everything we learned from Highrise and building a better one,” says Anton Bernstein, the company’s chief executive. “The next Facebook will be a virtual world. And we launched it 30 days ago.”
Grabb-It
Grabb-It turns a car’s side rear window into a full-color display, playing location-aware ads to anyone who might be standing curbside. The product’s designed for rideshare/delivery drivers, enabling them to make a bit of extra coin while doing the driving they’re already doing.
As the driver crosses town, the ads can automatically switch to focus on businesses nearby. Near the ball park? It might pitch you on tickets for tonight’s game. Over in The Mission? It could play an ad about happy hour at the bar behind you.
Read more about Grabb-It here.
Alpha Vantage
For investors seeking a new way to create alpha from financial market data, Alpha Vantage has an API toolkit to give them a leg up. Using these low-cost APIs, developers can create digital assets like iOS/Android apps and trading monitoring, management and suggestion toolkits. The company already has over 100,000 registered users making over 300 million API requests on a daily basis.
BrainHi
Cofounders Israel Figueroa Fontanez and Emmanuel Oquendo came up with the idea for BrainHi in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. When the devastation wrought by the hurricane made communicating with doctors offices nearly impossible on the island of Puerto Rico, the two founders thought there must be a better way to manage the process. The solution they came up with is an automated answering service that handles phone calls, texts, and Facebook messages with an automated bot that can schedule doctors visits and answer non-medical questions. The company already has 100 doctors, chiropractors, veterinarians in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
BHRD
Managing relationships with shareholders is an expensive business for public companies. Recalcitrant board members, activist shareholders and others can create problems for a management team focused on long-term growth. Using BHRD, companies can focus on targeting and engaging the investors who are aligned with their long term vision, freeing big business to focus on their business, rather than managing shareholder expectations.
Camelot
Camelot is a mobile app for eSports betting… and one of the first companies to blaze a trail in the sure-to-be-lucrative business operating at the intersection of video gaming and sports betting. The company gives fans access to live updates and stats and an interface to bet against friends. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision there are billions of dollars to be made facilitating betting in any sport — including eSports, Camelot is rolling the dice that it can hit the right number in this emerging market.
Inscribe
Using a web platform and APIs, Inscribe is pitching a service to identify digital forgeries in documents. The company’s technology uses image forensics and machine learning to check documents like bank statements, tax forms, and forms of state and national identification to look for tampered names, figures, text or signatures. The killjoys at Inscribe may finally get rid of the fake ID, but they’re also solving a billion dollar market in online fraud.
Fintual
Betterment, the wildly successful automated financial management and investment platform is getting a Latin American twist with Fintual. The company offers wealth management services through low-fee mutual funds intelligently managed by the same sort of toolkit that used to be available to big banks and the quant programmers that work for them. It’s already a success in the markets it’s selling into, with week over week growth of around 10%.
Four Growers
The robot revolution is coming for agriculture and one of the place where those robots will first raise their flag is in the hothouse. That’s the vision that Four Growers has laid out as it seeks to sell its robots to farms already squeezed by a labor shortage that shows no sign of relenting. The company pitches consistent quality of picked grape or cherry tomatoes and a “workforce” that’s dependable and efficient. Four Growers predicts that it can replace at least four human laborers with its robots representing incredible economic efficiencies for growers.
Annie Cannons
AnnieCannons is a San Francisco-based non-profit coding bootcamp aimed at transforming survivors of human trafficking into software developers or professionals in the technology industry.
Founded by Jessica Hubley and Laura Hackney, the organization aims to help the up to 18,000 people that the Justice Department believes are trafficked in the U.S. every year. The organization reaches out to after-care services organizations around legal aid and counseling services that are interested in placing survivors into a job-training program. Annie Cannons starts out with basic technical and job proficiencies and then works on giving their students into coding and development work.
BuyCoins
BuyCoins wants to be the cryptocurrency exchange for Africa. Emerging markets are the ideal test bed and proving ground for cryptocurrencies and, in some cases, they’re the least able to take advantage of the purported efficiencies that these new platforms offer. BuyCoins is the only exchange in Nigeria that allows Nigerians to buy and sell cryptocurrencies ranging from Bitcoin and Ethereum, to Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash, directly with their local bank account or debit card. There’s already $4 billion traded in cryptocurrency in Nigeria and the market is growing quickly.
Mac’d
Mac’d is a build-your-own mac and cheese restaurant that lets customers choose their own adventure from the beginning. The company plans to expand through a low cost “ghost kitchen” approach, where it rents out kitchen space and sells its mac and cheese strictly through providers like UberEats, Caviar, DoorDash, Postmates.
And to quote TechCrunch’s Megan Rose Dickey: “The mac and cheese was bomb.”
Read more about Mac’d here.
Penta Medical
For professional athletes nothing is more frightening or career damaging than an injury. And Penta Medical wants to make those fears a thing of the past. The company has developed a wearable cold laser therapy system that purports to relieve muscle and joint pain, increase circulation and relieve muscle spasms all with a tap of a button on the smartphone. Indeed, Penta also tracks injury data, provides coaches and healthcare providers with visual representations and range of motion trends.
Coaches can even track how their team compares with others in a league. It’s important to note that the company isn’t for athletes alone. People in the U.S. are already spending $6 billion and they’re the ideal market for Penta Medical’s smart hardware for chronic pain treatment and management.
Data Driven Bioscience
The 10 times faster and 10 times cheaper cancer diagnoses that Data Driven Biosciences promises for hospitals that use its genomic diagnostic tests could transform untold numbers of lives. Dr. Sandeep Dave, the oncologist and tenured professor from Duke University who founded the company, experienced firsthand how patients and doctors are affected by delays in getting a correct diagnosis of cancer.
Using standard equipment already deployed at hospitals around the country, Data Driven Bioscience is pitching a test that connects with the company’s cloud-based machine-learning software and a database of over 10,000 tumors to diagnose cancers within 24 hours.
Rain Neuromorphics
The founders of Rain Neuromorphics found inspiration for their processor for artificial intelligence applications in the function of the human brain. The company touts its Memristive Nanowire Neural Network chip architecture as being able to train larger, more powerful neural networks than any commercial chip that’s currently on the market. Fast, fully parallel, and ultra scalable, these chips are said to be capable of both online training and low-power inference, to enable complex machine learning applications both in the cloud and directly on a device.
As neurons increase, training time increases dramatically, but the company’s neuromorphic hardware scales well in time, but take up a lot of space on a chip. The company’s new architecture creates a structure that is filled with neurons connected by nanowires, and believes it can build and train the equivalent of $1 billion. With a $2 million letter of intent from OpenAI, several patents filed, and contracts with TSMC, the company is putting its neurons where its synapses are.
Spate
The “Google Trends” for business is exactly what Spate wants to be for its users. The company is pitching a predictive engine that can let companies know what types of latte people will be drinking, the skin care products they’ll be using and the food that their dogs will be eating in the next year. It’s no surprise that the team at Spate is looking to take on Google, since that’s where the company’s founding team cut its teeth.
Their work (initially as one of the famed 20% projects) at the search giant led to a product, which drove decision-making over how to steer some of the world’s largest consumer packaged good brands. They predicted the cold brew and turmeric trends and have a bet that yellow will be the next big color in the fashion world. There’s a spate of information out there, and the company wants to be the funnel to focus that flood of information into the right decisions.
Optic
Optic gives developers a way to grab very common coding use cases that they can drop right into their code. It works by finding the sort of routine additions developers might need, like how to create a form that will add a user to a database, as well as all the ancillary parts that come with it, like tests.
It works within a developer’s IDE, so they don’t have to look externally for the code they need. Right now it works for JavaScript, with Python next on the docket.
Read more about Optic here.
Phiar
Phiar is building an augmented reality navigation app for driving that shows a driver exactly where to go without taking their eyes off the wheel. With efficient AI fit into a smartphone, Phiar’s software can run at 200 fps on a dash-mounted iPhone.
With deep AI and computer vision expertise plus a team with members from Apple, Microsoft and VMware, Phiar wants to build the “killer AR application” to address the 1.7 billion people that use a navigation app each month. Phiar is counting on AR being the next meaningful evolution in driving navigation tech and a software solution that keeps a driver’s eyes on the road in front of them.
Seattle Food Tech
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At this point the notion of tastier, better, plant-based meat substitutes is no longer a fantasy. Investors have poured millions into making it a reality. The pitch from Seattle Food Tech is making that tastier, better, cheaper plant-based chicken substitute at scale. Using novel and efficient food processing equipment and facilities that can enable large scale, low-cost production that can transform the way institutional food service companies that supply the office and university cafeterias across the country deliver tasty foods to hungry breakfast, lunch, and dinner diners.
“We’re using aerospace engineering to make plant based chicken nuggets.” says chief executive Christie Lagally, a former Boeing engineer and technical project manager.
Prodigal Technologies
Prodigal Technologies wants to improve the ways that lenders collect money from borrowers. The company wants to make debt collection, if not kinder or gentler, then certainly more efficient. If a payor misses a payment, lenders can now reach out on any messaging platform and enable lenders to find borrowers where they are. The company has 11 pilots and three paying customers that handle $11 billion in origination of loans. There are $50 billion loans that aren’t paid, and with Prodigal lenders can get a 20% improvement in loan repayment.
Viaopt
In the U.S., trucks are moving goods across the country with roughly 35% of their available cargo space underutilized. Viopt, a software company that aims to be an Uber pool for shipping, thinks it has the solution. If the 65% of underutilized capacity could be filled it would save $30 billion for companies and remove 100 million tons of carbon emissions. By linking small and medium-sized companies with excess capacity, the company hopes to give small retailers the same logistics opportunities that were only available to the largest retailers, shippers, and logistics companies like Anheuser-Busch, Bimbo Bakeries, and Turkey Hill Farms.
Goodly
Perks for employees are becoming a big business in the tight labor market and Goodly wants to make one of the most important perks — student loan repayment — easy and accessible for employers. While the benefits of providing this benefit are universally inarguable, when you look at statistics indicating that women hold two-thirds of student debt and owe half a trillion dollars more than their male colleagues, the perk becomes more persuasive. Couple that with the statistic that African American employees hold 31% more student loan debt than their white peers, and Goodly’s offering looks even better to employers worried about improving diversity.
In all, an employer contribution of less than the cost of a cup of coffee could help the average employee pay off their debts 8.5 years faster. Talk about potentially doing well by doing good. Offers 50% higher retention for millennial employees and is tackling a $5.4 billion market.
Regology
Hoping to take a bite out of the $10 billion market for financial services regulatory compliance, Regology has developed an automated software system to ease the burden for the world’s biggest financiers. Last year companies spent $54 billion on compliance and were still fined $22 billion for compliance failures. The company claims that its software can handle the manual monitoring tasks that took companies months in a manner of hours. Working with wealth management, banking, insurance and cryptocurrency companies, the company’s machine learning software aims to take the sting out of the Security and Exchange Commission’s oversight.
Enveritas
Battling deforestation and child labor in manufacturers’ supply chains with software, Enveritas is helping companies secure themselves against reputational risk and increase efficiency in their operations. Initially focused on coffee companies, the platform Enveritas has built gives coffee companies a way to verify sustainability at origin for the coffee they source. While coffee may be the first industry, the work can be applied to other tropical products including cocoa, cotton, and palm oil (although if C16 — another YC company — has its way, palm oil may not be an issue).
Mylk Guys
Mylk Guys is the 100% vegan online grocery store, I’ve never wanted, but maybe you have. Undoubtedly better for the environment than a carnivorous diet, vegan options can be healthy and they may be tasty, but the foods that combine the two are few and far between. Giving a curated approach to all of the foods on the market, Mylk Guys is the online vegan grocery store aiming to make shopping “simple af”. The company bills itself as the “online vegan Trader Joe’s”. There are 21 million vegans in America that spend $54 billion on groceries.
Numericcal
Simplifying machine learning on edge devices. Machine learning today lives in the cloud and it’s the biggest downside of machine learning in many systems, according to the founders of Numericcal. The solution is to move the processing down to the edge — something that can take two to six months for programmers. Numericcal has 20 billion potential devices that it can service in less time and for less money.
Oxygen
Breaking freelancers from the month-to-month boom-and-bust payment cycles that bind them, Oxygen provides working capital loans to freelancers who can go months without getting a paycheck. The company is more than willing to work with a group of borrowers who collectively make $1.4 trillion in 1099 income annually and who are locked out of loans. Oxygen offers flat-fee access to credit and free mobile banking, all while using machine learning to determine credit worthiness. Freelance workers of the world unite, indeed!
Hepatx
Hepatx is creating therapies for severely damaged livers. Chronic liver disease affects 3.9 million Americans and is the cause of death for over 40,000. The founders of Hepatx are developing a regenerative solution enabling hepatocyte production for therapeutic purposes. That means regenerating liver cells to avoid the cost and morbidity of whole organ transplant. Over 200,000 people in the U.S. need a liver transplant but only a few thousand get some. Hepatx aims to fix the liver by taking fat tissue, turns that into liver cells and introduce that into patients to regrow the liver.
Plexus
Plexus is looking to create a low-cost, flexible glove for controlling augmented reality and virtual reality experiences. It’s a silicone glove, secured by velcro, that doesn’t cover your hands or fingers entirely, so it shouldn’t leave you super sweaty.
The tracking sensors grab the position of where the hands are in space via the magnetically attached tracker and, after calibrating a resting state of the user’s fingers, individual sensors communicate their position to the game engine.
Read more about Plexus here.
We’ll be back again tomorrow for the dozens of startups pitching on Day 2, check back a bit later for our top picks of Day 1 as well.
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Here are the 63 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1
From “cheese 2.0” to connecting flights for satellites, Y Combinator showed off a wide array of early stage startups fresh from its YC Summer 2018 batch. A total of 63 companies took to the stage in front of a full audience at the Computer History Museum today in Mountain View to pitch on-off switches for organisms, laundry detergent subscription services, gymless gyms, lab-grown palm oil and sugary sugar substitutes.
It felt like every other startup was trying to make us try vegan chicken nuggets, but from a bird’s eye view this YC batch saw startups clustered around B2B software and services (30% of companies), healthcare (28%), consumer goods and services (9%) and consumer media (7%). (Yes, blockchain companies were right behind, comprising 5% of companies).
For this batch, YC’s efforts to get more female founders on board mostly held steady, with 15% female founders, down one percent from last round’s 16%. YC’s diversity tracking around race showed a little more activity: 11% of this cohort’s founders were black or latinx, up from 9% in the previous group. A total of 19 countries were represented across the 132 companies pitching over two days, and 28% of companies were based outside the US. Which companies will go on to make a unicorn-sized splash? Are there really that many vegans? To figure it all out, you can read through our full list of the day’s YC S18 companies below (be sure to take a coffee break or two) or check back later for our own picks of today’s most interesting startups.
Without further ado…
Public Recreation
The founders of Public Recreation want to take your workout outside. The company offers a modular system of benches, bars and smart lockers that can be installed anywhere and for a subscription price of $50/month customers get access to classes ranging from yoga to strength training and conditioning. Their first pop up is in San Francisco… literally on the corner of Octavia and Hayes.
BlueCargo
BlueCargo is optimizing container management for ports, kind of like Jenga for shipping containers. Normally, a single move costs a port $30, but up to 50% of those moves might not even be needed at all. Due to inefficient shuffling processes, terminals waste as much as $20 billion a year, but BlueCargo would eliminate that waste with machine learning, they say. The company has one paid pilot with France’s port of Saint Nazaire to date with three more in the works around the world. BlueCargo is also about to start working with the port of Long Beach, California — one of the largest ports in the US.
HoneyLove
HoneyLove aims to disrupt the traditional shapewear market by making an affordable, high-quality product that actually works.
The $89 product uses supportive structures inside the seams of the garment, similar to the flexible boning used in old-school corsets, and encases those structures in a soft channel of protective fabric. This simple enhancement ensures that the garment doesn’t bunch up around the legs or waistband. The company has already sold $500k in product
Read more about HoneyLove here.
C16 Biosciences
C16 Biosciences is aiming to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the globe with their lab-grown palm oil, an alternative to a product that is found in a truly massive amount of goods. C16’s alternative grown in bioreactors with yeast is 20 percent less expensive to customers but “doesn’t destroy the planet,” the company says. The startup has already begun early partnerships with a number of beauty and food distributors that together spend about $1.2 billion on palm oil annually.
Kobo360
Kobo360 is a Nigerian startup wants to be the Uber for logistics and trucking in Nigeria… with a twist. With $1.3 million in funding already in the bank, the startup not only has an on-demand trucking solution linking shippers with excess trucking capacity, it has also set up a crowdfunding platform called Kobo Wealth Investment Network, or KoboWIN to enable Kobo drivers to finance new trucks through citizen investors and pay them back directly (with interest) over a 60 month period.
JetLenses
JetLenses is taking on the major contact lens e-commerce sites and other online ordering systems. The startup’s goal is to bring down the cost of prescription products by automating the overhead associated with these businesses, then pass those savings on to consumers.
For example, it automates the process of contacting doctors to verify prescriptions by maintaining a data set of existing practices, automatically faxing the office to verify the prescription and then processing the doctor’s office response.
Read more about JetLenses here.
Higia
By monitoring thermal patterns inside a breast, the startup Higia hopes it can offer women a better, non-invasive method to detect breast cancer. The company’s wearable device, called EVA, can be placed under any sports bra, and offers a new way to fill the gaps that current screening techniques aren’t addressing — things like early breast cancer detection in women with high breast density. The company has already pre-sold 5,000 units in Mexico and will begin shipping them in the fall of 2018.
Read more about Higia here.
CSPA
Founder and head of engineering at Crunchyroll, James Lin knows all about the pain of finding and hiring talented software engineers. That’s why Lin started The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment, which is basically the SAT for software engineers. Lin and his team have created standardized exams that are held in classrooms on or near college campuses and test both practical knowledge and theoretical principles.
Students pay to take the tests and have their results shared with the over 60 companies that are now accepting the results when considering new candidates.
Sterblue
Sterblue is a French drone software startup aiming to get off-the-shelf drones inspecting large outdoor structures up close with automated insights that identify anomalies that need a second look.
The startup’s software is specifically focused on enabling drones to easily inspect large power lines or wind turbines with simple automated trajectories that can get a job done much quicker and with less room for human error.
Read more about Sterblue here.
Cambridge Glycoscience
Looking to bake the perfect treat with a sugar substitute that can mimic not just the sweetness, but the gooey caramelization and sticky sweetness that typically only comes from real sugar? Well YC company Cambridge Glycoscience has the sweetener for you. The company expects to produce its sugar substitutes at a cost that can make low- and no-sugar foods even more accessible for mainstream consumers. So toss that corn syrup and get ready for a new flavor revolution.
Their manufacturing process will let them produce their sugar substitute at scale and they have a patent portfolio to protect their innovation. Notably, they have signed letters of intent with five companies already, including Haribo.
Togg
Yingzhe Fu, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, has been developing this home sensing and automation product at least since his graduation in 2016. Togg’s product is now installed in eight assisted living centers around the U.S. and is able to capture changes in residents’ health including sleep, breathing, bathroom visits and movement speed more accurately than actual caregivers at a facility.
Given the explosion in the number of elderly in need of home care (both in the U.S. and in Fu’s native China), it seems like Fu’s Togg is a product hitting the market at the right time.
AskMyClass
Using smart speakers like the Amazon Alexa or Google Home, AskMyClass is bringing a deeper set of skills to elementary school classrooms. Like homes, schools are quickly picking up on the benefits of smart speaker deployment, and using AskMyClass teachers now can let those speakers handle a range of daily tasks, from vocabulary reviews to refocusing exercises — the software can even take notes and make lists for teachers on the go.
Teachers using it are reclaiming as much as 75 minutes a week in the classroom by using AskMyClass as a kind of teaching assistant. For example, AskMyClass can run math drills with one set of students while another works directly with their instructor. In five weeks, they’ve on-boarded 436 classrooms.
Skydrop
Making e-commerce easier across Latin America, Skydrop is focused on estimating drop-off times, buying and printing shipping labels and handling returns for its customers. Through a network of independent drivers, alongside a logistics platform recreated from the ground up, Skydrop is looking to offer shipping labels at a fraction of the cost by aggregating orders with thousands of like-minded (and like-sized) businesses. Companies simply add Skydrop’s plugin to their own online store and watch their logistics burdens take off.
Cytera CellWorks
Cytera CellWorks hopes to revolutionize the so-called “clean meat” industry through the automation of cell cultures. It uses robotic automation to configure cell cultures used in things like growing turkey meat from a petri dish or testing stem cells.
Originally, the company was going to go for general automation in the lab, but had enough interest from clients and potential business in just the cell culture automation aspect they’re focused on that for now, and changed the name for clarity.
Read more about Cytera CellWorks here.
JITX
Designing circuit boards as a service won JITX a spot in this latest batch of Y Combinator companies. Currently, every circuit board is designed manually by skilled engineers, but using JITX’s machine learning software, circuit boards can be created automatically, which can save both time and money for hardware companies.
Names & Faces
Not Facebook but not LinkedIn either, Names & Faces aims to offer any growing company a simple, fast directory of employees built specifically for that purpose alone. The company wants to solve a problem experienced by everyone at a company from its low level employees to chief executives: when your company gets bigger, it’s hard to keep track of who’s who. Names & Faces already has more than 100 customers, including L’Oreal, Uber and Fedex with sales doubling month to month.
Buttermilk
Buttermilk offers a variety of Indian dishes at a low price that can be cooked up by simply adding hot water. Based in Seattle, Buttermilk launched in 2017 to the local market and has since expanded to serve their products across the country.
Dishes include Sambar, Daal, Khichdi, Rasam, and Upma, all of which cost $6 each. Buttermilk also sells Basmati Rice for $1.50. And there are “suites,” which pack a handful of meals into one shipment.
Read more about Buttermilk here.
Send Reality
Send Reality is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walkthroughs of real estate listings. The company sends photographers out to the listing with an iPad, a commodity depth sensor and a specialized Send Reality app. These photographers take hundreds of thousands of photos, and the Send Reality technology stitches those photos together to create a complete 3D model.
Send Reality sells directly to realtors, offering the product for $500 to $800 depending on the size and complexity of the home. In the future, the company can bring down that price point by allowing realtors to scan the home themselves from their own smartphone.
Read more about Send Reality here.
Allotrope Medical
Allotrope Medical has developed an electrical stimulation technology for smooth muscles that allows surgeons to identify critical tissue structures and distinguish functional from dysfunctional urologic and gastrointestinal issues. The Houston-based company is focused initially on decreasing the rate of injury to ureters during surgery.
With over 3 million surgeries performed in the US alone requiring identification and protection of ureters, there’s a $3.2 billion burden on healthcare systems due to injuries. The company is running an active clinical trial in Dallas and aims to be on the market by the end of 2019.
Augmented Radar Imaging
Augmented Radar Imaging wants to address the kind of issues that have caused high profile driverless vehicle accidents. The company aims to solve two problems for current radar technologies: recognizing stationary objects and triggering false alarms.
With a team of radio engineers, physicists and data scientists, ARI has built a wide field-of-view high resolution radar system called Camdar that provides 3D spatial imaging plus velocity data and a solid state sensor with no moving parts that claims to be 300x more accurate than GPS. With 5 radar units per average in a self-driving vehicle, ARI could be looking at a $100 billion market if it can make inroads on those roads.
Canary Technologies
The Canary Technologies co-founders have worked in the hotel industry, and have come to the conclusion that existing hotel software is awful. The company is working to tackle some of this dated software piece-by-piece starting with their far less dated programs used to handle offline booking processes. They’re getting rid of paper contracts with modern software that can make life easier for hotels.
Qurasense
Qurasense doesn’t think your period blood should go to waste. The company has developed a “diagnostic menstrual pad” called the Q Pad that includes an embedded collection strip that passively collects blood samples on a test strip that can be mailed for diagnostic testing which is then turned into data.
So far the company has run 5 clinical trials of a total of 500 women. It has 14 validated blood screening tests and two tests for sexually transmitted diseases and will operate on a $25 a month subscription model. Qurasense is working with Stanford Medicine to become the go-to platform for cervical cancer screening.
Inokyo
Inokyo wants to be the indie Amazon Go, with a cashierless autonomous retail store. Cameras track what you grab from shelves, and with a single QR scan of the app on your way in and out of the store, you’re charged for what you’ve picked up.
The first store is now open on Mountain View’s Castro Street selling an array of kombuchas, snacks, protein powders and bath products.
Read more about Inokyo here.
Tenderd
Based in Dubai and serving the entire Middle East and North African region, Tenderd is an on demand marketplace for heavy equipment like bulldozers and cranes. Think of it as the Uber for heavy equipment. The company began when the company’s founder left San Francisco to run the family business in the United Arab Emirates because of a family emergency. When he took the wheel, he steered the company toward what he realized was the most profitable business — renting out the heavy equipment. However, the process was so slow and cumbersome that the seasoned Bay Area launched Tenderd to solve his — and the region’s — problem.
Momentus
The heart of Momentus’ propulsion technology for space flight is a new system that uses water as a propellant instead of chemicals.
Using water has several benefits, the startup says. One, it’s a fuel source that’s abundant in outer space, and it’s ultimately better and more efficient fuel for flight beyond low Earth orbit.
Read more about Momentus here.
Spero Foods
Spero Foods is joining the legion of companies trying to transform the food industry with substitutes for animal proteins based on data analytics. Founder Phaedra Randolph launched the company after experiencing the transformative benefits of transitioning to a plant-based diet. Most vegetable substitutes for animal proteins lacked the flavor, texture and nutritional heft of their animal corollaries. So Randolph used her background in bioscience and software engineering to tackle the taste issue.
InkHunter
InkHunter is an augmented reality tattoo try-on app. The idea is that you can see how a tattoo might like on your skin before you actually make a booking with the tattoo artist.
The app requires people to anchor the virtual design by making a few pen marks on their skin where they want the tattoo to live. It also supports taking and sharing photos.
Read more about InkHunter here.
Frey
FREY is pitching dudes a new kind of detergent for the new way they live their lives (read on a monthly subscription basis). The company bills itself as an antidote to the tired myth that only women are doing laundry with products that incorporate natural ingredients, heady fragrances and plant-derived surfactants, enzymes, and oils for stain fighting. Add that subscription model and 20% month-over-month growth in the last 12 months and product margins post 60% post-shipping, and that’s a pitch that won’t rinse out in the wash.
Aalo
If you’re tired of the universal sameness of the typical Ikea, West Elm, or CB2-bedecked apartment, well look no further than Aalo, the new YC company that wants you to be your own furniture designer. With a Lego-like (not Legolas) furniture system composed of customizable, hackable and reusable parts, individuals can design their own furniture with a by-the-inch customization system for do-it-yourself designs. Founded by ex-Toyota engineer, Sejun Park, Aalo was created when an attempt to “hack” an Ikea shelf collapsed under the burden of its shoddy materials and zero weight support.
Demonpore
Nanopores identify molecules like DNA and Demonpore is the world’s first mechanical nanopore. Because normal, fixed nanopores require a good fit, they can only look at molecules that fit a pore well, which usually means being limited to DNA. Demonpore can change its size, making it possible to examine any kind of molecule at the nanometer scale. With a founder from Halcyon Molecular and a team of 70 scientists and engineers, Demonpore is developing a universal biomolecular sensor that can measure “virtually any type” of molecule with relevance to human health.
Savvy
Imagine being the all-seeing, all-knowing lookout for all of your company’s interactions with vendors, suppliers, and customers. That’s what the YC-backed startup Savvy is looking to provide to users by bringing together all of a company’s cloud applications into a single view. “Savvy is the glue between your work applications.” Not just slang for pirates, savvy is the know-how for all external interactions and can make businesses more savvy about their communications and operations.
Cloud Workout
Logging onto Twitch may not be the most physically active experience in the world but Cloud Workout wants to take the site’s model and build a fitness empire in its image, bringing fitness instructors to their site who can become fitness personalities and build audiences. The company’s streaming product is in private beta currently.
Synvivia
Genetic engineering is one of the most powerful new tools of the 21st century, but its ascendance has come with attendant fears that the technology may not be able to be controlled when it’s unleashed from a laboratory. YC-backed Synvivia is developing what amount to the kill switch for synthetic biology outside of a lab. Commercializing technology developed by UC Berkeley with grants from the NSF and DARPA, Synvivia’s genetically encoded bio-containment system engineers organisms to only live when they have access to specific, small molecules. These type of control and containment measures are critical for the development of the industry.
RealtyBits
With a service that’s creating blockchain-based tokens for commercial real estate properties, RealtyBits is hoping to increase liquidity for investors and property owners. The goal is to let real estate funds take cryptocurrency investments from verified financiers globally while reducing transaction costs, which can amount to 10% in fund creation and investments across what the company says is a $9 trillion industry.
#ME
Taking the Highrise virtual community one step further, #ME is an avatar-based social network where users can make friends and influence virtual people through real time games and experiences. The original bootstrapped social media avatar game from which #ME evolved has already raked in $1.8 million in sales and attracted over 3 million registered users. At the core of that popularity is the company’s ability to create virtual identities untethered from the real world that appeals to a Gen Z audience, according to the founder’s pitch.
“We’re taking everything we learned from Highrise and building a better one,” says Anton Bernstein, the company’s chief executive. “The next Facebook will be a virtual world. And we launched it 30 days ago.”
Grabb-It
Grabb-It turns a car’s side rear window into a full-color display, playing location-aware ads to anyone who might be standing curbside. The product’s designed for rideshare/delivery drivers, enabling them to make a bit of extra coin while doing the driving they’re already doing.
As the driver crosses town, the ads can automatically switch to focus on businesses nearby. Near the ball park? It might pitch you on tickets for tonight’s game. Over in The Mission? It could play an ad about happy hour at the bar behind you.
Read more about Grabb-It here.
Alpha Vantage
For investors seeking a new way to create alpha from financial market data, Alpha Vantage has an API toolkit to give them a leg up. Using these low-cost APIs, developers can create digital assets like iOS/Android apps and trading monitoring, management and suggestion toolkits. The company already has over 100,000 registered users making over 300 million API requests on a daily basis.
BrainHi
Cofounders Israel Figueroa Fontanez and Emmanuel Oquendo came up with the idea for BrainHi in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. When the devastation wrought by the hurricane made communicating with doctors offices nearly impossible on the island of Puerto Rico, the two founders thought there must be a better way to manage the process. The solution they came up with is an automated answering service that handles phone calls, texts, and Facebook messages with an automated bot that can schedule doctors visits and answer non-medical questions. The company already has 100 doctors, chiropractors, veterinarians in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
BHRD
Managing relationships with shareholders is an expensive business for public companies. Recalcitrant board members, activist shareholders and others can create problems for a management team focused on long-term growth. Using BHRD, companies can focus on targeting and engaging the investors who are aligned with their long term vision, freeing big business to focus on their business, rather than managing shareholder expectations.
Camelot
Camelot is a mobile app for eSports betting… and one of the first companies to blaze a trail in the sure-to-be-lucrative business operating at the intersection of video gaming and sports betting. The company gives fans access to live updates and stats and an interface to bet against friends. In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision there are billions of dollars to be made facilitating betting in any sport — including eSports, Camelot is rolling the dice that it can hit the right number in this emerging market.
Inscribe
Using a web platform and APIs, Inscribe is pitching a service to identify digital forgeries in documents. The company’s technology uses image forensics and machine learning to check documents like bank statements, tax forms, and forms of state and national identification to look for tampered names, figures, text or signatures. The killjoys at Inscribe may finally get rid of the fake ID, but they’re also solving a billion dollar market in online fraud.
Fintual
Betterment, the wildly successful automated financial management and investment platform is getting a Latin American twist with Fintual. The company offers wealth management services through low-fee mutual funds intelligently managed by the same sort of toolkit that used to be available to big banks and the quant programmers that work for them. It’s already a success in the markets it’s selling into, with week over week growth of around 10%.
Four Growers
The robot revolution is coming for agriculture and one of the place where those robots will first raise their flag is in the hothouse. That’s the vision that Four Growers has laid out as it seeks to sell its robots to farms already squeezed by a labor shortage that shows no sign of relenting. The company pitches consistent quality of picked grape or cherry tomatoes and a “workforce” that’s dependable and efficient. Four Growers predicts that it can replace at least four human laborers with its robots representing incredible economic efficiencies for growers.
Annie Cannons
AnnieCannons is a San Francisco-based non-profit coding bootcamp aimed at transforming survivors of human trafficking into software developers or professionals in the technology industry.
Founded by Jessica Hubley and Laura Hackney, the organization aims to help the up to 18,000 people that the Justice Department believes are trafficked in the U.S. every year. The organization reaches out to after-care services organizations around legal aid and counseling services that are interested in placing survivors into a job-training program. Annie Cannons starts out with basic technical and job proficiencies and then works on giving their students into coding and development work.
BuyCoins
BuyCoins wants to be the cryptocurrency exchange for Africa. Emerging markets are the ideal test bed and proving ground for cryptocurrencies and, in some cases, they’re the least able to take advantage of the purported efficiencies that these new platforms offer. BuyCoins is the only exchange in Nigeria that allows Nigerians to buy and sell cryptocurrencies ranging from Bitcoin and Ethereum, to Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash, directly with their local bank account or debit card. There’s already $4 billion traded in cryptocurrency in Nigeria and the market is growing quickly.
Mac’d
Mac’d is a build-your-own mac and cheese restaurant that lets customers choose their own adventure from the beginning. The company plans to expand through a low cost “ghost kitchen” approach, where it rents out kitchen space and sells its mac and cheese strictly through providers like UberEats, Caviar, DoorDash, Postmates.
And to quote TechCrunch’s Megan Rose Dickey: “The mac and cheese was bomb.”
Read more about Mac’d here.
Penta Medical
For professional athletes nothing is more frightening or career damaging than an injury. And Penta Medical wants to make those fears a thing of the past. The company has developed a wearable cold laser therapy system that purports to relieve muscle and joint pain, increase circulation and relieve muscle spasms all with a tap of a button on the smartphone. Indeed, Penta also tracks injury data, provides coaches and healthcare providers with visual representations and range of motion trends.
Coaches can even track how their team compares with others in a league. It’s important to note that the company isn’t for athletes alone. People in the U.S. are already spending $6 billion and they’re the ideal market for Penta Medical’s smart hardware for chronic pain treatment and management.
Data Driven Bioscience
The 10 times faster and 10 times cheaper cancer diagnoses that Data Driven Biosciences promises for hospitals that use its genomic diagnostic tests could transform untold numbers of lives. Dr. Sandeep Dave, the oncologist and tenured professor from Duke University who founded the company, experienced firsthand how patients and doctors are affected by delays in getting a correct diagnosis of cancer.
Using standard equipment already deployed at hospitals around the country, Data Driven Bioscience is pitching a test that connects with the company’s cloud-based machine-learning software and a database of over 10,000 tumors to diagnose cancers within 24 hours.
Rain Neuromorphics
The founders of Rain Neuromorphics found inspiration for their processor for artificial intelligence applications in the function of the human brain. The company touts its Memristive Nanowire Neural Network chip architecture as being able to train larger, more powerful neural networks than any commercial chip that’s currently on the market. Fast, fully parallel, and ultra scalable, these chips are said to be capable of both online training and low-power inference, to enable complex machine learning applications both in the cloud and directly on a device.
As neurons increase, training time increases dramatically, but the company’s neuromorphic hardware scales well in time, but take up a lot of space on a chip. The company’s new architecture creates a structure that is filled with neurons connected by nanowires, and believes it can build and train the equivalent of $1 billion. With a $2 million letter of intent from OpenAI, several patents filed, and contracts with TSMC, the company is putting its neurons where its synapses are.
Spate
The “Google Trends” for business is exactly what Spate wants to be for its users. The company is pitching a predictive engine that can let companies know what types of latte people will be drinking, the skin care products they’ll be using and the food that their dogs will be eating in the next year. It’s no surprise that the team at Spate is looking to take on Google, since that’s where the company’s founding team cut its teeth.
Their work (initially as one of the famed 20% projects) at the search giant led to a product, which drove decision-making over how to steer some of the world’s largest consumer packaged good brands. They predicted the cold brew and turmeric trends and have a bet that yellow will be the next big color in the fashion world. There’s a spate of information out there, and the company wants to be the funnel to focus that flood of information into the right decisions.
Optic
Optic gives developers a way to grab very common coding use cases that they can drop right into their code. It works by finding the sort of routine additions developers might need, like how to create a form that will add a user to a database, as well as all the ancillary parts that come with it, like tests.
It works within a developer’s IDE, so they don’t have to look externally for the code they need. Right now it works for JavaScript, with Python next on the docket.
Read more about Optic here.
Phiar
Phiar is building an augmented reality navigation app for driving that shows a driver exactly where to go without taking their eyes off the wheel. With efficient AI fit into a smartphone, Phiar’s software can run at 200 fps on a dash-mounted iPhone.
With deep AI and computer vision expertise plus a team with members from Apple, Microsoft and VMware, Phiar wants to build the “killer AR application” to address the 1.7 billion people that use a navigation app each month. Phiar is counting on AR being the next meaningful evolution in driving navigation tech and a software solution that keeps a driver’s eyes on the road in front of them.
Seattle Food Tech
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At this point the notion of tastier, better, plant-based meat substitutes is no longer a fantasy. Investors have poured millions into making it a reality. The pitch from Seattle Food Tech is making that tastier, better, cheaper plant-based chicken substitute at scale. Using novel and efficient food processing equipment and facilities that can enable large scale, low-cost production that can transform the way institutional food service companies that supply the office and university cafeterias across the country deliver tasty foods to hungry breakfast, lunch, and dinner diners.
“We’re using aerospace engineering to make plant based chicken nuggets.” says chief executive Christie Lagally, a former Boeing engineer and technical project manager.
Prodigal Technologies
Prodigal Technologies wants to improve the ways that lenders collect money from borrowers. The company wants to make debt collection, if not kinder or gentler, then certainly more efficient. If a payor misses a payment, lenders can now reach out on any messaging platform and enable lenders to find borrowers where they are. The company has 11 pilots and three paying customers that handle $11 billion in origination of loans. There are $50 billion loans that aren’t paid, and with Prodigal lenders can get a 20% improvement in loan repayment.
Viaopt
In the U.S., trucks are moving goods across the country with roughly 35% of their available cargo space underutilized. Viopt, a software company that aims to be an Uber pool for shipping, thinks it has the solution. If the 65% of underutilized capacity could be filled it would save $30 billion for companies and remove 100 million tons of carbon emissions. By linking small and medium-sized companies with excess capacity, the company hopes to give small retailers the same logistics opportunities that were only available to the largest retailers, shippers, and logistics companies like Anheuser-Busch, Bimbo Bakeries, and Turkey Hill Farms.
Goodly
Perks for employees are becoming a big business in the tight labor market and Goodly wants to make one of the most important perks — student loan repayment — easy and accessible for employers. While the benefits of providing this benefit are universally inarguable, when you look at statistics indicating that women hold two-thirds of student debt and owe half a trillion dollars more than their male colleagues, the perk becomes more persuasive. Couple that with the statistic that African American employees hold 31% more student loan debt than their white peers, and Goodly’s offering looks even better to employers worried about improving diversity.
In all, an employer contribution of less than the cost of a cup of coffee could help the average employee pay off their debts 8.5 years faster. Talk about potentially doing well by doing good. Offers 50% higher retention for millennial employees and is tackling a $5.4 billion market.
Regology
Hoping to take a bite out of the $10 billion market for financial services regulatory compliance, Regology has developed an automated software system to ease the burden for the world’s biggest financiers. Last year companies spent $54 billion on compliance and were still fined $22 billion for compliance failures. The company claims that its software can handle the manual monitoring tasks that took companies months in a manner of hours. Working with wealth management, banking, insurance and cryptocurrency companies, the company’s machine learning software aims to take the sting out of the Security and Exchange Commission’s oversight.
Enveritas
Battling deforestation and child labor in manufacturers’ supply chains with software, Enveritas is helping companies secure themselves against reputational risk and increase efficiency in their operations. Initially focused on coffee companies, the platform Enveritas has built gives coffee companies a way to verify sustainability at origin for the coffee they source. While coffee may be the first industry, the work can be applied to other tropical products including cocoa, cotton, and palm oil (although if C16 — another YC company — has its way, palm oil may not be an issue).
Mylk Guys
Mylk Guys is the 100% vegan online grocery store, I’ve never wanted, but maybe you have. Undoubtedly better for the environment than a carnivorous diet, vegan options can be healthy and they may be tasty, but the foods that combine the two are few and far between. Giving a curated approach to all of the foods on the market, Mylk Guys is the online vegan grocery store aiming to make shopping “simple af”. The company bills itself as the “online vegan Trader Joe’s”. There are 21 million vegans in America that spend $54 billion on groceries.
Numericcal
Simplifying machine learning on edge devices. Machine learning today lives in the cloud and it’s the biggest downside of machine learning in many systems, according to the founders of Numericcal. The solution is to move the processing down to the edge — something that can take two to six months for programmers. Numericcal has 20 billion potential devices that it can service in less time and for less money.
Oxygen
Breaking freelancers from the month-to-month boom-and-bust payment cycles that bind them, Oxygen provides working capital loans to freelancers who can go months without getting a paycheck. The company is more than willing to work with a group of borrowers who collectively make $1.4 trillion in 1099 income annually and who are locked out of loans. Oxygen offers flat-fee access to credit and free mobile banking, all while using machine learning to determine credit worthiness. Freelance workers of the world unite, indeed!
Hepatx
Hepatx is creating therapies for severely damaged livers. Chronic liver disease affects 3.9 million Americans and is the cause of death for over 40,000. The founders of Hepatx are developing a regenerative solution enabling hepatocyte production for therapeutic purposes. That means regenerating liver cells to avoid the cost and morbidity of whole organ transplant. Over 200,000 people in the U.S. need a liver transplant but only a few thousand get some. Hepatx aims to fix the liver by taking fat tissue, turns that into liver cells and introduce that into patients to regrow the liver.
Plexus
Plexus is looking to create a low-cost, flexible glove for controlling augmented reality and virtual reality experiences. It’s a silicone glove, secured by velcro, that doesn’t cover your hands or fingers entirely, so it shouldn’t leave you super sweaty.
The tracking sensors grab the position of where the hands are in space via the magnetically attached tracker and, after calibrating a resting state of the user’s fingers, individual sensors communicate their position to the game engine.
Read more about Plexus here.
We’ll be back again tomorrow for the dozens of startups pitching on Day 2, check back a bit later for our top picks of Day 1!
Via Lucas Matney https://techcrunch.com
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MS Dhoni Breaks The Internet By Showing Off Dance Moves On Instagram
You have visible MS Dhoni dance down the tune to break bowlers out of the park. But how often have you visible Captain Cool set the dance floor on the hearth? Here’s your threat.
MS Dhoni took to Instagram to the percentage a video where he is seen shaking a leg with teammate Ben Stokes and Ajinkya Rahane. He’s not most effective left Growing Pune Supergiant games in awe But all and sundry around the world.
Before the begin of the Indian Choicest League, MS Dhoni turned into eliminated as captain of the RPS franchise. His substitute changed into Steve Smith, who led them to their first victory of the season against Mumbai Indians.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Traces of Arrogance
After India didn’t win the third take a look at in opposition to New Zealand at Wellington Dhoni stated abnormal matters in defending himself or his selections. He stated that extra 70-80 runs supply his bowler’s extra scope to assault. This is opposite to commonplace good judgment. The less the target the extra self-assurance you display on your bowlers. Putting a humanly impossible target of over 600 runs makes the court cases a mere ritual. The time you lose inside the procedure adds to the competition’s resolve to stop the suit.
No group in check Cricket history ever efficiently chased more than 418 runs in the last innings. India created history in 1976 at Port of Spain once they won the third check against West Indies efficaciously chasing a huge 403 runs within the fourth innings. within the New Zealand grounds, the final innings largest run chases were a whole lot lesser than that. At the Wellington pitch, the winning run chases inside the fourth innings had been much less than even 300.
Dhoni once more said that he predicted to get the new Zealand all out in 110-
120 overs and so he did now not hassle a whole lot approximately the climate component. How on the planet could one count on the competition to cave in as per his wish? You just can not afford to be overconfident or complacent in a game of cricket.
And, those utterances from a captain who’s replete with plentiful nice vibes and absolutely the maximum a hit one to steer group India. Fulfillment in cricket ends in tremendous riches and for that reason hype is created and hype ends in an entire lot of bad characteristics such as arrogance. And, this leads to a possible painful decline like we’ve seen in the case of Saurav Ganguly.
Arrogance is the last element that cricket lovers could need Dhoni to domesticate.
His high-quality power is doing wonders to a crew that becomes used to play broadly speaking safe video games and try to save or lose matches in place of trying to win.
MS Dhoni is the first-rate possible aspect to take place to Indian cricket and he’s something to be handled with utmost care. His nice body language and attacking cricket have to pass on undeterred to take India to the pinnacle.
Chinmay Chakravarty is an expert specialized in the innovative subject with over a long time of enjoying in journalistic writing, media co-ordination, movie script writing, movie dubbing, movie & video making, management of international film festivals and editing of books & journals. Talented in imparting professional offerings in those related fields. Currently working in Mumbai Doordarshan as a News Editor.
Porter’s Five Forces Model And Internet Competition
online Porter’s 5 Forces Model, in my opinion, the opposition has expanded average as a result of the internet and e-Trade. The net and IT has made it feasible to both cognizance on the pinnacle and backside online and a market percentage is accelerated and fees are reduced. Many products and services exist just online, primary agencies have long past online to effectively increase the brick and mortar businesses, and the gambling on-line is all the manner to edges of our on-online, anyplace this is. We are able to further examine this stepping thru all 5 forces.
Client strength is better whilst consumers have greater choices.
Businesses are pressured to feature value to their services and products to get loyalty. Many loyalty applications consist of extraordinary services that customers demand . clients need to remedy their troubles and often they are greater a hit than on-phone. Also, we see net savvy Agencies bobbing up providing more valuable items and offerings at decrease charges. Now with the advent of eBay, many people are assuming roles as drop shippers. Individuals could have a thriving enterprise selling goods of large companies while not having to carry stock.
Supplier energy is better whilst consumers have fewer selections from whom to buy
As noted in advance, drop transport has extended a number of providers available. All a man or woman has to do is form and settlement to sell products for the company. The company looks after all the logistics. The equal is true of pals programs that Amazon.Com and Google.Com offer. associates permit a webmaster to earn cash through recommending merchandise from others. This will increase Provider services.
Chance of replacement services or products is high when there are many product options. This is special than having many suppliers. Examples of alternatives are exchanging emblem names, substituting credit score card abilities, and looking at higher values from less expensive resources. The internet allows this with the “global economy”. I’m able to replacement my product by means of buying from agencies remote places wherein exertions, services and products are inexpensive but of similar exceptional.
The danger of new entrants is excessive when it is simple for brand spanking new opposition to go into the marketplace
Well, what have we been talking about? Now, small operations can open shop with less than $10.00 per online month and make loads of money. As ingenious as people are, there are continually possibilities to do enhance a services or products or just create and sell something new. Lately, many new entrants have made even extra cash authoring Ebooks that inform others the way to do what they did. Competition amongst competitors is high when competition is more excessive within industries.
Bookstores and catalog groups are the first-rate instances
Amazon.Com and Barnesandnoble.Com are very competitive. However, there are many Also smaller niche affiliate bookstores that once combined take a lot of market shares. They offer even more competition. However, each predominant bookstores have used IT to create the fee for his or her customers. These values include friends programs, ease of fee and shipping and many, many others.
The net offers avenues of competition to existing companies and possibilities for start-ups. Now Agencies can enter the market with few boundaries to entry. Porter’s 5 Forces Model can help display the attractiveness of starting your commercial enterprise. A commercial enterprise man or woman ought to use the Version to pick out opposition, make a plan, and enforce the method.
To Instagram or Not? How to Use Social Media to Your Advantage in Modeling
Maintain everything moderately, inclusive of your social media posts. Publish pix naturally and usually Hold connecting along with your audience. Explicit exact values which include gratitude by using thanking your fans for compliments.
Gain fans and follow influential models yourself
Aside from collecting your vital statistics, top and weight etcetera, businesses and scooters are increasingly more looking at your media presence, your likes, and fans. There isn’t a selected variety but of course greater the merrier. It signifies your capacity to market yourself, and your enchantment to the common folks, or audience. With that said, social media best gives a delivered benefit, and you still have to impress all through your interviews and casting calls. Find out extra approximately how you can ace your casting call.
Walk the communicate and comply with influential models yourself inclusive of Adrian Lima and Gisele Bundchen who frequently Put up their version photos and replace their social media money owed. Following such humans may also provide your ability model corporations an experience of your interest in fashion and modeling. Take caution that these excessive-profile models have an exceptional dynamic from you and if you are nevertheless new or low key on social media your use of it have to be strategically applicable on your function. Do now not simply replica the pinnacle fashions style complete sale. Even though it by no means hurts to analyze from the first-rate, models have to take the positives and practice them such that it fits our unique network as it should be.
Include social media, but continue to be a mystery too
There are a few high profile fashions that remain low-key on social media. Kate Moss is one such instance; she is press-shy and never takes snapshots in public. Publish essential images, however, remember to constantly Preserve the thriller. Do now not Maintain spamming posts; hold a few restraint to your posting. You virtually need to avoid the effect of disturbing your fans by way of constantly acting anywhere on their social media feed,
Specifically, if you posting matters which can be less crucial like cat or food snapshots. supply some days destroy and periods between posts, and do not forget much less is greater. If you have not anything properly don’t Put up it. Most significantly, staying low also means lesser possibilities to make offensive posts. With the intention to upward thrust up the ladder of social media enchantment, it is critical posts are nicely excellent checked and that which keeps enthusiasts and followers, therefore maintaining your enchantment for a longer time period.
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MS Dhoni Breaks The Internet By Showing Off Dance Moves On Instagram
You have visible MS Dhoni dance down the tune to break bowlers out of the park. But how often have you visible Captain Cool set the dance floor on the hearth? Here’s your threat.
MS Dhoni took to Instagram to the percentage a video where he is seen shaking a leg with teammate Ben Stokes and Ajinkya Rahane. He’s not most effective left Growing Pune Supergiant games in awe But all and sundry around the world.
Before the begin of the Indian Choicest League, MS Dhoni turned into eliminated as captain of the RPS franchise. His substitute changed into Steve Smith, who led them to their first victory of the season against Mumbai Indians.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Traces of Arrogance
After India didn’t win the third take a look at in opposition to New Zealand at Wellington Dhoni stated abnormal matters in defending himself or his selections. He stated that extra 70-80 runs supply his bowler’s extra scope to assault. This is opposite to commonplace good judgment. The less the target the extra self-assurance you display on your bowlers. Putting a humanly impossible target of over 600 runs makes the court cases a mere ritual. The time you lose inside the procedure adds to the competition’s resolve to stop the suit.
No group in check Cricket history ever efficiently chased more than 418 runs in the last innings. India created history in 1976 at Port of Spain once they won the third check against West Indies efficaciously chasing a huge 403 runs within the fourth innings. within the New Zealand grounds, the final innings largest run chases were a whole lot lesser than that. At the Wellington pitch, the winning run chases inside the fourth innings had been much less than even 300.
Dhoni once more said that he predicted to get the new Zealand all out in 110-
120 overs and so he did now not hassle a whole lot approximately the climate component. How on the planet could one count on the competition to cave in as per his wish? You just can not afford to be overconfident or complacent in a game of cricket.
And, those utterances from a captain who’s replete with plentiful nice vibes and absolutely the maximum a hit one to steer group India. Fulfillment in cricket ends in tremendous riches and for that reason hype is created and hype ends in an entire lot of bad characteristics such as arrogance. And, this leads to a possible painful decline like we’ve seen in the case of Saurav Ganguly.
Arrogance is the last element that cricket lovers could need Dhoni to domesticate.
His high-quality power is doing wonders to a crew that becomes used to play broadly speaking safe video games and try to save or lose matches in place of trying to win.
MS Dhoni is the first-rate possible aspect to take place to Indian cricket and he’s something to be handled with utmost care. His nice body language and attacking cricket have to pass on undeterred to take India to the pinnacle.
Chinmay Chakravarty is an expert specialized in the innovative subject with over a long time of enjoying in journalistic writing, media co-ordination, movie script writing, movie dubbing, movie & video making, management of international film festivals and editing of books & journals. Talented in imparting professional offerings in those related fields. Currently working in Mumbai Doordarshan as a News Editor.
Porter’s Five Forces Model And Internet Competition
online Porter’s 5 Forces Model, in my opinion, the opposition has expanded average as a result of the internet and e-Trade. The net and IT has made it feasible to both cognizance on the pinnacle and backside online and a market percentage is accelerated and fees are reduced. Many products and services exist just online, primary agencies have long past online to effectively increase the brick and mortar businesses, and the gambling on-line is all the manner to edges of our on-online, anyplace this is. We are able to further examine this stepping thru all 5 forces.
Client strength is better whilst consumers have greater choices.
Businesses are pressured to feature value to their services and products to get loyalty. Many loyalty applications consist of extraordinary services that customers demand . clients need to remedy their troubles and often they are greater a hit than on-phone. Also, we see net savvy Agencies bobbing up providing more valuable items and offerings at decrease charges. Now with the advent of eBay, many people are assuming roles as drop shippers. Individuals could have a thriving enterprise selling goods of large companies while not having to carry stock.
Supplier energy is better whilst consumers have fewer selections from whom to buy
As noted in advance, drop transport has extended a number of providers available. All a man or woman has to do is form and settlement to sell products for the company. The company looks after all the logistics. The equal is true of pals programs that Amazon.Com and Google.Com offer. associates permit a webmaster to earn cash through recommending merchandise from others. This will increase Provider services.
Chance of replacement services or products is high when there are many product options. This is special than having many suppliers. Examples of alternatives are exchanging emblem names, substituting credit score card abilities, and looking at higher values from less expensive resources. The internet allows this with the “global economy”. I’m able to replacement my product by means of buying from agencies remote places wherein exertions, services and products are inexpensive but of similar exceptional.
The danger of new entrants is excessive when it is simple for brand spanking new opposition to go into the marketplace
Well, what have we been talking about? Now, small operations can open shop with less than $10.00 per online month and make loads of money. As ingenious as people are, there are continually possibilities to do enhance a services or products or just create and sell something new. Lately, many new entrants have made even extra cash authoring Ebooks that inform others the way to do what they did. Competition amongst competitors is high when competition is more excessive within industries.
Bookstores and catalog groups are the first-rate instances
Amazon.Com and Barnesandnoble.Com are very competitive. However, there are many Also smaller niche affiliate bookstores that once combined take a lot of market shares. They offer even more competition. However, each predominant bookstores have used IT to create the fee for his or her customers. These values include friends programs, ease of fee and shipping and many, many others.
The net offers avenues of competition to existing companies and possibilities for start-ups. Now Agencies can enter the market with few boundaries to entry. Porter’s 5 Forces Model can help display the attractiveness of starting your commercial enterprise. A commercial enterprise man or woman ought to use the Version to pick out opposition, make a plan, and enforce the method.
To Instagram or Not? How to Use Social Media to Your Advantage in Modeling
Maintain everything moderately, inclusive of your social media posts. Publish pix naturally and usually Hold connecting along with your audience. Explicit exact values which include gratitude by using thanking your fans for compliments.
Gain fans and follow influential models yourself
Aside from collecting your vital statistics, top and weight etcetera, businesses and scooters are increasingly more looking at your media presence, your likes, and fans. There isn’t a selected variety but of course greater the merrier. It signifies your capacity to market yourself, and your enchantment to the common folks, or audience. With that said, social media best gives a delivered benefit, and you still have to impress all through your interviews and casting calls. Find out extra approximately how you can ace your casting call.
Walk the communicate and comply with influential models yourself inclusive of Adrian Lima and Gisele Bundchen who frequently Put up their version photos and replace their social media money owed. Following such humans may also provide your ability model corporations an experience of your interest in fashion and modeling. Take caution that these excessive-profile models have an exceptional dynamic from you and if you are nevertheless new or low key on social media your use of it have to be strategically applicable on your function. Do now not simply replica the pinnacle fashions style complete sale. Even though it by no means hurts to analyze from the first-rate, models have to take the positives and practice them such that it fits our unique network as it should be.
Include social media, but continue to be a mystery too
There are a few high profile fashions that remain low-key on social media. Kate Moss is one such instance; she is press-shy and never takes snapshots in public. Publish essential images, however, remember to constantly Preserve the thriller. Do now not Maintain spamming posts; hold a few restraint to your posting. You virtually need to avoid the effect of disturbing your fans by way of constantly acting anywhere on their social media feed,
Specifically, if you posting matters which can be less crucial like cat or food snapshots. supply some days destroy and periods between posts, and do not forget much less is greater. If you have not anything properly don’t Put up it. Most significantly, staying low also means lesser possibilities to make offensive posts. With the intention to upward thrust up the ladder of social media enchantment, it is critical posts are nicely excellent checked and that which keeps enthusiasts and followers, therefore maintaining your enchantment for a longer time period.
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