INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
From yeast-grown Cannibinoids to project management software to consumer apps looking to gauge opinions on college campuses, there was quite
the wide variety of spaces represented on the second day of pitches from Y Combinator Summer 2018 class.
As we noted yesterday, B2B software
and services was the biggest vertical with 30 percent of the 132 startups falling into that slice of the categorical pie
Healthcare-related startups were close behind with 28 percent
Here the full breakdown if you&re curious
Aerospace: 3%
Agriculture: 1%
Automotive: 2%
B2B Software and Services: 30%
Blockchain: 5%
Consumer Goods and Services:
9%
Consumer Media: 7%
Education: 3%
Fintech: 6%
Government: 1%
Healthcare: 28%
Industrial: 1%
Real Estate and Construction:
4%
Below is anexhaustive look at the group of 59 startups that presented today
We swear you&ll feel like you were actually there at the Computer History Museum watching the presentations alongside us
Also, if you&re thirsty for more of the latest picks from one of Silicon Valley premiere acceleratorscheck out our list from Day 1.
Mental
Happy
Mental Happy is an employee gifting service that assembles what it calls a Cheerbox
Taking sham expressions of care for laboring office drones to the next level, Mental Happy throws out the flowers and ditches the dumb
office knickknacks in favor of positive messaging and things they reckon employees can actually use, including food, wellness gifts, and
The average price for one of these bundles of joy $59 on average
Some people are buying, too
The young company says it has already generated $50,000 in sales over the last two months.
Titan
With a service that already holds $10
million in assets from thousands of clients, Titan is setting itself up to stand above other consumer-facing fintech offerings
The company is an asset manager that building, managing, and explaining its investment theses for normal investors
The company takes its customers through their portfolio using in-app video and other illustrative tools to make understanding strategies
easier — and investing with the company more transparent
Kinside
The cost of childcare is one of the biggest financial burdens American families face, and though there up to $30 billion in
government money available for childcare in the United States each year, it locked up in flexible spending accounts that are so complicated
that 90 percent of that funding goes unused.
Kinside wants to help by automating the claims process.It also serves as a childcare management
tool, letting parents pay their care providers with a Venmo-like feature, while making it simpler for companies to offer childcare benefits
that can help attract talented employees
The company, which launched just six weeks ago, says it plans to target employers with more than 20 employees, which is a big market
There are more than 620,000 such businesses in the United States As for the total addressable market Kinside sees itself chasing, it $2.8
billion.
Read more about Kinside here.
Fixers
Travel and experience marketplaceFixerspitches experiences ranging from yoga retreats to
trail running weekends and music festivals that are curated by the locals in-the-know
It designed to help travelers discover and book trips they couldn''t find anywhere else
The company has seen $1.7 million in sales in 8 months, with 7,000 activities booked, and the company hasn''t spent a dollar on marketing
The founders assert that millennial travelers are primarily motivated by experiences, rather than destinations
Entrepreneurs like yoga teachers are running businesses and retreats and making money on Fixers
64-x
With a founding team including some of the leading luminaries in the field of biologically inspired engineering (including George
Church, Pamela Silver, and Jeffrey Way from Harvard Wyss Institute) 64-x is engineering organisms to function in otherwise inaccessible
Chief executive Alexis Rovner, herself a post-doctoral fellow at the Wyss Institute, and chief operating officer Ryan Gallagher, a former
BCG Consultant, are looking to commercialize research from the Institute around accelerating and expanding the ability to produce
functionalized proteins and sequence-defined polymers with diverse chemistries.
Papa
Papa slogan is &grandkids on demand.& To solve the
problem of loneliness, Papa connects college students with senior citizen homes
College students are matched with seniors to help them with tasks related to transportation and technology, but mainly the goal is to
provide companionship for people who are at risk of loneliness
The founders assert that loneliness puts the country more than 50 million seniors at risk for health problems like Alzheimer&s; indeed,
Medicare covers Papa through a UPMC health plan because of the more widely accepted belief that socializing well into one golden years is a
critical component to living a healthier life.
Tall Poppy
Unhappy employees cost money, but Tall Poppy thinks it can keep more of them in
place by providing an educational toolkit to those who are being harassed, a kit that teaches them how to lock down their online presence
and manage incident response properly.
The brainchild of Leigh Honeywell, a security specialist, the startup grows out of the work that
Honeywell has been doing to hunt down trolls in online communities since 2008, including at Slack, where she protected colleagues who&d been
targeted by outsiders by starting, first, with strengthening their otherwise vulnerable personal accounts, then targeting sites where bad
actors congregate.
Tall Poppy not only works with customers to educate them how to protect themselves but also to make them aware of the
laws in each state that they can use to protect themselves and punish their attackers
Meanwhile, for $150 a seat per year, its software is comparable to other risk management tools.
Read more about Tall Poppy
here.
AnchorUSD
AnchorUSD is a stable cryptocurrency backed one-for-one by the US dollar
The founding team wants to be the trusted reserve currency of the crypto financial system
They are aiming to develop a service that will provide the most trusted, stable storage of value on the blockchain.
Tether is not trusted,
but since there no other option it has become the medium of exchange
Anchor wants to replace Tether
It built on Stellar and has become the official partner of Stellar, which means they&re cheaper, faster and safer
Transaction costs plus interest on float
The founder claims to have solved Stripe scaling problems and the other worked on growth at Facebook.
Ixora
Ixora technology wants to do
nothing more than enable the creation of photorealistic environments for any kind of visual entertainment, and it says it can do this a heck
of a lot more cheaply than big studios
According to Ixora, major film studios produce 100 blockbuster films each year that feature than 1,000 CGI shots — each costing them
Its software can do the same for next to nothing, Ixora says, and it can do it within &hours.& If that pitch isn''t compelling enough,
consider beyond movies that TVs, games, and VR experiences are all beginning to require movie-level graphics
With rich photorealistic environments becoming the norm across the entertainment industry (witness &Game of Thrones& and &The Jungle Book&
as just two examples), Ixora could be catering to a sizable market for a long time to come.
Berbix
Image: Bryce
Durbin/TechCrunch
Collecting and identifying photo identification becomes a breeze with Berbix, a company that aiming to make what amounts
to Stripe for identity verification
The company has developed an integration with its software so that companies can cut costs and deter fraud
Founded by two former product and engineering leaders for trust and safety at Airbnb, they&re trying to build identity verification for all
kinds of peer-to-peer marketplaces and online platforms, which they see as a $10 billion opportunity (at least).
Dataform
Project
management in the pharmaceutical industry is time-consuming, costly, and mostly manual these days
Dataform says it changing all of that with its cloud-based project management software
Specifically, the company argues, using its software, data teams no longer need to spend 80 percent of their time on &cleaning preparation,&
and just 20 percent devoted to actual analysis
By enabling data teams to produce &data sets in minutes,& says the five-month-old company, data teams need spend no more than half their
time on preparing data with the rest spent finding insights
The market here isn''t enormous to start
Dataform founding team — which worked on Google Adsense previously — say they are right now targeting 2,000 customers who are currently
using cloud-based warehouses, which they estimate to be a $1 billion market
They also say that just a starting point.
CB Therapeutics
Sher Butt, a former lab directory at Steep Hill, saw that cannabinoids were as
close to a miracle cure for pain, epilepsy and other chronic conditions as medicine was going to get
But plant-based cannabinoids were costly and produced inconsistent results
Alongside Jacob Vogan, Butt realized that biosynthesizing cannabinoids would reduce production costs by a factor of ten and boost production
With a deep experience commercializing drugs for Novartis and as the founder of the cannabis testing company, SB Labs, Butt and his
technical co-founder are uniquely positioned to bring this new therapy to market.
RevenueCat
RevenueCathelps developers manage their
It offers an API that developers can use to support in-app subscriptions on iOS and Android, which means they don''t have to worry about all
the nuances, bugs and updates on each platform.
The API also allows developers to bring all the data about their subscription business
It might be on to something, though it isn''t clear how big that something is quite yet
The nine-month-old company says it currently seeing $350,000 in transaction volume every month; it making some undisclosed percentage of
money off that amount.
Read more about RevenueCat here.
HeyDoctor
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
HeyDoctor is the
online prescription service for a growing of startups and services that are pitching medications and prescriptions online
Working with companies like Hims, Romans, and Nurx, HeyDoctor can prescribe and refill prescriptions for medicines ranging from birth
control, hair growth or replacement, urinary tract infection treatments, lab work and much more
The company envisions creating an alternative medical record platform that open and accessible to patients and portable among on-demand
Already, more than 125,000 primary care visits have been conducted on the platform in the last 6 months
Last month, it made $105,000 in revenue, and it says that number reflects 22 percent growth month over month
Anima App
Or Arbel, the former chief executive and cofounder of YO, is back with a new company that a bit more sophisticated in its goals
and complicated in its execution
Arbel is one of the co-founders of the new Y Combinator-backed startup Anima, which allows designers to convert design to code,
Using the tool, Arbel and his team — individuals who are culled from the engineering and design ranks of Google, Apple, and Amazon
&estimate that development teams can save weeks of work, eliminating crosstalk between designers and developers
It has some early believers, too
According to Arbel, Netflix, Google, and Amazon are already using its tools, for which it plans to charge $500 per seat per year
ShopWith
Influencers of the world are uniting on mobile app, ShopWith, which allows shoppers to browse virtual storefronts and aisles
alongside their favorite fashion and beauty creators and YouTubers
Users can see exactly what products those influencers have featured and can buy them without ever leaving the app
It a free download and hours of commercially consumptive fun
It like the QVC model, but for GenZ shoppers whose buying habits are influenced by social video content on YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat
The company revealed that one beauty influencer made $10,000 within five hours, using the ShopWith platform
The founders are former product managers with experience building social commerce products at Facebook and Amazon.
ZiffyHomes
ZiffyHomes
is bringing the co-living model popularized in the United States to millennials in India
With a clutch of managed, co-living, furnished apartments already in its portfolio, ZiffyHomes is already serving more than 2,000 young
Indian professionals and seeing $2.2 million in annual revenue from the three Indian cities in which it operates
But it has ambitions to cater to up to 60 million more people across the country who fit into its target demographic, and given that it
takes 20 percent of the rent paid, you can see how its revenue could grow quickly
The company has competition, of course
It compares itself to WeWork, yet WeWork itself is making major inroads in India
Another, smaller competitor, a Mumbai-headquartered startup called Awfis meanwhile announced $20 million in new capital last month
But given the relative newness of this model to India and the size of the addressable market, this opportunity looks like a solid one to us
Reformer Therapeutics
Reformer Therapeutics is developing a pipeline of drugs for many diseases, with an emphasis on deadly triple
negative breast cancer that is currently treated with an outdated toxic chemo
Their breast cancer drug is called Reformer 1 and targets cells that cause cancer to spread
The drug has proved safe in human clinical trials, and the team is starting a 3 year FDA trial
The founders met working together at Science Exchange.
Ajaib
Indonesia is a country in a transition, with a growing class of individuals
with assets to invest yet who, financially, don''t meet the bar set by many wealth managers
Enter Ajaib, a newly minted startup with the very bold ambition of becoming the &Ant Financial of wealth management for Indonesia.& Why the
comparison Because China was in the same boat not long ago — a country whose middle class had little access to wealth management advice
With the founding of Ant Financial nearly four years ago, that changed
In fact, Ant now boasts more than 400 million users
China is home to nearly 1.4 billion, compared with Indonesia, whose population of 261 million is tiny in comparison
Still, if its plans plan out to charge 1.4 percent for every dollar managed, with an estimated $370 billion in savings in the country to
chase after, it could be facing a meaningful opportunity in its backyard if it gains some momentum.
Emojer
Creating animated emojis made
from real photos, Emojer just might be the most fun you can have with a camera
The company software uses deep learning algorithms to detect body parts and guides users in creating their own avatars with just a simple
photo take from a mobile phone
It replacing deep Photoshop expertise and animation skills with a super simple interface
The avatars look very similar to Elf Yourself, a popular site that let you paste your friends& faces on dancing Christmas elves that went
viral every year at Christmastime
Founders have PhDs in machine learning and computer vision
Snark AI
Snark AIhelps companies rent GPUs that aren''t in use
It one way to potentially reduce the cost of that GPU over time, which may be a substantial investment initially but could produce a
meaningful return over time while it isn''t in use
How it works broadly: The startup matches the proper amount of GPU power to whatever a team needs, and then deploys it across a network of
distributed idle cards that companies have in various data centers.
Snark approach can also ostensibly make &deep learning& run faster
In fact, its founders say the company is already working with five companies (which, okay, fine, could well be other startups in its cohort)
to make their research cycles ten times faster.
Read more about Snark AI here.
Scanwell Health
Urinary tract infections are highly
uncomfortable and distracting and worse, often become more advanced, fast
It long been the case that treatment has required a doctor visit
But as of last month, a young San Francisco-based startup called Scanwell Health began selling directly to consumers the first time and, for
now, remains the only FDA-cleared urine testing app that allows someone to test their urine at home using a paper test strip and a camera
(Its app uses sophisticated color metrics to analyze the strip and determine what what.)
Little wonder there some demand for the product
Company founder Stephen Chen said the company sold out of its kits & & 2,000 of them — as soon as they became available
A call to Scanwell to confirm the results — it relies on outside physicians — costs customers another $25
Read more about Scanwell
Health here.
Grin
The scooter craze is hitting Latin America and Grin is greasing the wheels
The Mexico City-based company was launched by co-founder Sergio Romo after he and his partner realized they weren''t going to be able to get
a cut of the big &birds& on the scooter block in the United States (as Axios reported)
Romo and his co-founder have already lined up a slew of investors for what may be the hottest new deal in Latin America
Backers include Sinai Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, 500 Startups, Monashees and Base10 Partners
Mutiny
Mutiny helps business-to-business, software-as-a-service companies present a message that customized to each visitor on their
website.
For example, when you visit the homepage of Mutiny customer Amplitude, things like the customer testimonials and the call to action
will change depending on the size of your company
As for the size of the opportunity that Mutiny is chasing by helping its customers personalize theirsites It claims it $5 billion.
Read more
about Mutiny here.
LemonBox
LemonBox is a startup that lets Chinese consumers buy United States health products at affordable prices
Today, it allows Chinese consumers to buy LemonBox-branded daily vitamin packs.
Further down the line, the goal is to expand into more
specific verticals, including mother and baby, as well as beauty
It could even move beyond e-commerce with services like consultations with dietary experts.
Read more about LemonBox here.
Osh Affordable
Pharmaceuticals
Osh Affordable Pharmaceuticals is a public benefit corporation connecting doctors and patients with sources of low-cost,
compounded pharmaceuticals
The company is looking to decrease barriers to entry for drugs for rare diseases
Three weeks ago the company introduced a drug to treat Wilson Disease
There was no access to the drug that treats the disease before in Brazil India or Canada
It slashes the cost of drugs from $30,000 a month to $120 per month
The company estimates it has a total addressable market of $17 billion
&Generic drug pricing is a crisis, people are dying because they can''t get access to the medicine they need,& says chief executive Alex
Osh might have a solution
Ubits
Ubits is Lynda.com for Latin America
Ubits offers corporate training classes in Spanish for topics like leadership, sales and Microsoft Excel
Currently, there are no good options available in Spanish, the second most common language in the world
Ubits has 1000 videos on 80 online courses
They have 75 customers including Citi, Dow, Nestle, BNP Paribas, who pay on average $9K a year
They have $700K in ARR, growing 40 percent month over month.There are 40 million office workers in Latin America
They charge $50 per employee per year
Incentiveai
Cryptocurrency projects can crash and burn if developers don''t predict how humans will abuse their blockchains
Incentiveai has built artificial intelligence simulations that test not just for security holes, but for how greedy or illogical humans can
crater a blockchain community.
Crypto developers can use the service to fix their systems before they go live
They can either pay Incentivai to audit their project and produce a report, or they can host the AI simulation tool like a
Already, the company — founded just two months ago — says it seeing $250,000 in revenue from three paying customers, including market
forecasting startup Augur, which is perhaps best known for orchestrating the first ICO on the ethereum network.
Read more about Incentiveai
here.
Toybox
Toybox is pitching a software service that lets designers communicate changes to developers on any website without ever
having to write a line of code
The changes are noted as CSS edits for developers, so the quick fixes can be implemented easily
It reduces the need for communication between designers and developers over minor changes to images or visuals and can significantly speed
up production, the company said
The company has picked a $180 price point per seat
They have 400 active users after launching four weeks ago
Kunduz
Using a network of 7,000 tutors, Turkish test-prep app Kunduz is building a service that the company argues is ten times cheaper
and faster than traditional tutoring options
Like its United States counterpart, Toot, Kunduz users take a picture of a problem using the app, and then it links the studen with a tutor
Students looking for help typically get an answer in 10 minutes, according to the company, which says that one-third of the questions asked
are &repeat& questions and thus can be answered within seconds without the help of a human
Launched in Turkey first, Kunduz has already answered 3 million questions in its home market, where its addressable market is in the $2.4
Next up, it says, is India.
The Good Food Institute
The current system for making meat is broken
The Good Food Institute, a non-profit promoting meat alternatives and clean meat, is operating as a think tank and accelerator for the
plant-based and clean meat sector
It designing curriculum for colleges across the country
It currently has 350 entrepreneurs in its ecosystem
And it launching a conference around clean meat and plant-based meat
The organization is trying to boost portfolio growth in the plant-based substitute and clean-meat space, and it consulting with venture
firms that are looking at investing in the industry
And Comfort
Plus-size women have limited clothing options even at the largest retailers like Nordstrom and Macy&s
While a majority of American women fall into the plus-size clothing category, 100 million women are constrained to shopping for a very small
And Comfort wants to solve the supply problem
To do this, the founders, two former Harvard classmates, are building a direct-to-consumer fashion brand with stylish, minimalist offerings
for plus-size women, including tunic shirts and an apron dress
It very early days for the brand, but since launching in recent weeks, they&ve seen $25,000 in sales.
Bot M.D.
Doctors in emerging markets
will have access to an artificially intelligent clinical assistant if the founders of Bot M.D
The company has developed a bot that can provide answers to questions about drugs, drug interactions and diseases, while also transcribing
For any doctor with a smartphone, Bot M.D
could be their downloadable, affordable, and scalable way to improve patient care in places where the help is sorely needed
The data it gleans from these interactions could prove lucrative, too
As the company notes, pharmaceutical companies shell out $3 billion a year to understand their doctor-customers
If it can be repository for them, it can potentially garner a percentage of that spend.
OKCredit
OKCredit helps small and mid-size
businesses in India — the world largest base of SMBs — which extend $500 billion of credit to consumers every year…on paper
OKCredit digitizes their transactions and records payment, reducing the burden of these businesses that are currently maintaining and
accounting paper account books.
It appears to have struck a chord
Already the company is working with 15,000 businesses, and it hasn''t spent any money on marketing it says
As for the need it addressing, it says it a $300 billion market.
Emptor
No need to caveat this Emptor
Helping local companies find facilities and maintenance providers like janitors, landscapers and HVAC repair technicians, Emptor bills
itself as a Thumbtack for the enterprise and includes a machine learning system that will classify spending and provide recommendations for
cost reductions.
That kind of offering could be music to hospitals& ears
Many hospitals lose money, and those that don''t see margins on average of just 2.6 percent, says the company
Things are poised to grow worse for them, too, owing to a regulation passed in 2015 that could reduce spending on hospital services by up to
$250 billion by 2030, according to a study published last year in Health Affairs
If Emptor can give them a way to control their operating expenses and improve their margins, everyone wins.
Dinesafe
Put simply, Dinesafe
wants to ensure that outbreaks of food poisoning will be a thing of the past
Foodborne illnesses sicken 48 million people, and kill roughly 3,000 people in the United States alone each year
Through its website iwaspoisoned.com, the company allows for user-generated reports of food poisoning to detect outbreaks in real time
In fact, the company says it predicted that Chipotle would have food safety issues prior to its spate of outbreaks earlier this year
The company has 25,000 consumer subscribers and offers data services, surveillance, benchmarking and industry analytics to corporate
customers and 280 public health agencies
The service is helpful for restaurants, too
If they want to stay ahead of these trends, they need this data
No wonder 16 restaurant chains are already signed up for the service
Modern Treasury
Providing payment fulfillment services for businesses that still use old line payment mechanisms like checks, wire
transfers or automated clearing houses, Modern Treasury wants to save companies time and money
Acting as a Stripe for non-credit card transactions, the company offers a way for businesses to swap out the homegrown infrastructure and
excel spreadsheets they were using to manage payments
Leena AI
Leena AI is building HR bots to answer questions for employees instantly
The bots can be integrated into Slack or Workplace by Facebook, and they&re built and trained using information in policy documents and
back-end systems.
Some of of the questions and answers are pretty standard, covering things like vacations and expense reports
But Leena AI also uses natural language processing to understand a company unique terminology or just the unusual ways someone might ask
those questions.
Read more about Leena AI here.
Abacus Protocol
Abacus Protocol allows any company to tokenize both fungible and
non-fungible assets (like commodities, equities, or debt) and automate their compliance demands — like know your customer, SEC
registration exemptions and securities restrictions
These functions happen not just at the time of issuance but also on every secondary transaction or transfer of the security token
Using the platform, companies can take advantage of the benefits of tokenizations, making assets more liquid and simplifying bookkeeping
without needing to hire a dev team
HappiLabs
HappiLabs is a virtual lab manager, spanning topics from biotech and brain research to robotics
It already working with 26 labs across the country, helping them buy everything from beakers to gloves to specialized machines in a
cost-effective way.
Founder and CEO Tom Rugins is a former Ph.D
student and lab manager himself, and he said he was taken aback at how far behind scientific purchasing was from the rest of the retail
world.
Read more about HappiLabs here.
Federacy
Federacy has a mission to make bug bounty programs available to even the smallest startup
The idea is to make it free and simple for startups to set up bug bounties.
For now, the co-founders are vetting every researcher they bring
While they realize this approach probably won''t be sustainable forever, they want to control access while they build out the platform.
Read
more about Federacy here.
College Pulse
The youngs in Gen Z love to take quizzes and companies love selling to the youngs in Gen Z
Those two truths have the team behind College Pulse salivating about the opportunity they see for their business
Using the company service, students can poll their community to find out what going on around their campus
Queries range from finding the correlation between sexual activity and GPA, to what the most popular spot to get a malt around town
Already active on 33 college campuses around the country, the company is profitable from selling its access to a much-envied audience of
Founded on Dartmouth campus, the company sees a future in an ad-supported content delivery platform for folks who want to know
Medinas Health
Tackling a $75 billion problem of healthcare waste Medinas Health is giving hospitals an easy way to resell their used and
surplus medical equipment and supplies
The company has already raised $1 million for its marketplace to help healthcare organizations buy and sell equipment
With a seed round led by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary Sound Ventures, and General Catalyst Rough Draft Ventures fund, the company is also
working to lower costs for cash-strapped rural health care centers
OpenPhone
OpenPhone has been working on an app to make it easier to get and use a business phone number
You don''t need a second phone, you don''t need to get an expensive solution designed for big teams.
After downloading the iOS or Android
app, you can get a second phone number for $9.99 per month
It can be a local or a toll-free number in the United States or Canada
You can also port an existing phone number and get rid of your second phone.
Read more about OpenPhone here.
iLabService
iLabService is a
Chinese laboratory monitoring, management and automation service
They use sensors to monitor lab equipment and alert you when something is wrong
They are currently tracking 1500 pieces of equipment
There are 300,000 labs in China using 25 million pieces of equipment
They charge 200 million for the equipment per year, creating a $5 billion market opportunity in China
The founders spotted this massive unmet customer need while working at ThermoFisher
Splish
The Splish app pops content into video loops of between 1-5 seconds
Photos can be uploaded too, but motion must be added in the form of an animated effect of your choice
So basically, nothing on Splish stays still.
While wobbly, content on Splish is intended to stick around, rather than ephemerally pass away
The idea is that sharing stuff on Splish is a bonding experience; part of an ongoing smartphone-enabled conversation between mates, rather
than a selectively manicured photoshoot
In fact, the startup has quickly zeroed in on teens, primarily because unlike adults who take vacation photos and capture dinner outings
that they post to social media, teens &don''t have anything to do,& so it tells them what to post
(These &cues& can include suggestions like that users film themselves chugging hot sauce, for example.) Teens apparently like the idea
Launched six weeks ago, the company says the average user opens the app four times a day
It isn''t disclosing how many users it has attracted so far.
Read more about Splish here.
CowryWise
CowryWise wants to bring the benefits
of algorithmically managed investment platforms to Africans across the continent
Taking a page from the Betterment and Wealthfront playbooks that have been popularized in the United States , CowryWise enables young, high
net-worth Africans to invest their money more intelligently — with the machine learning tools previously available only to large financial
Radix Labs
Radix Labs wants to be the operating system for laboratories
Organizing lab equipment in a networked fashion could have a dramatic impact on research and development
Today, lab equipment is like maniframes in the 80s, where each device needs to be programmed separately
Running experiments serially can reduce the time it takes to come up with results, letting biologists automate their labs and
experimentation to mimic the mass production of manufacturing
Kyte
Last year, Indian businesses sent 180 billion SMS messages to customers, 60 percent of which was spam according to the team at Kyte
The company AI-powered SMS inbox looks to ditch the spam and organize transactions notes as well as coupons for Indian users into a cleanly
The inbox decluttering startup is growing 13 percent week over week as it looks to capture the 300 million smartphone users in
India.
Hypcloud
Hypcloud is building a real estate development financing platform in Germany
The team is hoping to distinguish what they&ve built by enabling more collaborative and efficient negotiation times through a more
streamlined workflow that will hopefully give customers quicker access to financing partners
Using the web-based software, clients can negotiate with up to 5 banks at the same time to get better terms.
Miru
Miru built an AR app
that shows users what any piece of furniture will look like in their home
The Miru app places items in your living space using a computer vision pipeline that lets you pull items from any retailers website
Ikea has similar services, but only for their own catalogue of products
Furniture visualization is a 6.5 billion market, but that just the beginning
While using Miru visualization service, the app can map your home and gather data for future home projects like painting and flooring
Klarity
Klarity wants to automate parts of the contract review process by applying artificial intelligence, specifically natural language
It offers a subscription cloud service that checks contracts in Microsoft Word documents, making suggestions when it sees something that
doesn''t match up with the playbook checklist.
The product then generates a document, and a human lawyer reviews and signs off on the
suggested changes, reducing the review time from an hour-plus to 10 or 15 minutes.
Read more about Klarity here.
SF17 Therapeutics
The
founding team from precision medicine startup Simpatica Medicine is back with SF17 Therapeutics, a precision medicine analytics platform
providing monitoring for pediatric rheumatologists for life-threatening conditions
The technology enables pediatricians to match patients with the right treatment regimen or regimen changes if a course of treatment isn''t
That same platform is also being used to demonstrate drug discovery capabilities that can identify targets for new drug compound development
Outvote
Outvote wants to make grassroots-style campaigning easier and more personal, with the launch of an app that allows people to text
their friends with reminders to vote.
While today there are a lot of tools for voter outreach, many of those operated by well-known
organizations like MoveOn involve people opting in to receive texts from the group in question
Outvote is different because it a tool that helps individual voters reach out to their own personal acquaintances, family and friends
The idea, says its founder, is to learn which of one friends and associates are not voting, then pressure them to get to the polls.
Read
more about Outvote here.
Curebase
Curebaseis aiming to run clinical trials faster and cheaper than anyone else via software that reduces
recruitment times, automates manual steps, andlets drug companies distribute their trials to clinics
Considering that clinical trials are logistical nightmares, often coordinated across dozens of locations, any solution sounds like an
improvement, and Curebase &clinical trial marketplace says that already, three deals are expected to generate $175,000 in revenue that
should help it convince more customers of the merits of its software and full-service support.
OneGraph
OneGraph is a GraphQL service that
aims to connect the world wide web SaaS APIs and help customers build integrations way quicker than is currently possible
OneGraph has support for than a couple dozen APIs including Stripe, Salesforce, GitHub and more.
DreamCraft
DreamCraft is a platform that
lets video game modders create and monetize games without writing code
The company says game modding is a $4 billion industry, but that modders generally don''t make any money because they simply don''t own the
On DreamCraft, modders will be able to create new games, while keeping 70% of the revenue and gaining the freedom to host these titles
The co-founders hail from Google and EA, and want to build the platform that will act as the app store for game modders.
Sparkswap
Using
the Lightning Network to perform trustless, peer-to-peer swaps, SparkSwap is looking to build a new way to trade cryptocurrency pairs like
Bitcoin and Litecoin without depositing assets on an exchange.
ExceptionAlly
ExceptionAllyaims to help parents understand, organize and
communicate all the info around providing care and education for a child with special needs, from autism to Down Syndrome.
The first step is
education: Based on information provided by the parent, the startup platform assists the parent in understanding both the condition itself,
what they can expect from a school, and what their rights are (like whether their kid merits a front-row seat or how often teachers are
sharing reports on a child progress)
It can also help parents collaborate with schools and teachers to create individual education plans.
Beyond education planning,
ExceptionAlly has plans to replace the costly financial and healthcare planning experts who often cost these same parents upwards of $10,000
How big a business the startup can create is an open question, but we love the idea of parents no longer needing a lawyer or other pricey
professional to negotiate on their behalf of their child.
Read more about ExceptionAlly here.
Congratulations if you&ve made it this far,
you&re pretty informed on the latest batch, stay tuned a bit later for a rundown of our favorites from today group of startups.
