90 of 180 Startups from Summer 2021 of Y-Combinator’s Day 1

(to give you some Ideas for your own Startup)

(YC) is an American seed money Startup Accelerator, It has been used to launch more than 2,000 companies, including Stripe, Airbnb, DoorDash, Coinbase, Instacart, Dropbox, Twitch, & Reddit. The combined valuation of the top YC companies was >$300B by Jan 2021.The company’s accelerator program is in Mt View,CA. It’s considered to be the most successful Startup Accelerators in Silicon Valley.

Some Types of Startups: Password Mgr, Medical, E-comm, Edu, CRM, S/Media, Robotics, Analytics, Health, Fitness, EV, Project Mgt, No-Code, RE, BioTech, AeroSp, Solar,FinTech, DeBug, eSign, Virtual, Workspace, etc.

The collection of early-stage startups on day 1-of-2 alone numbered in the hundreds, meaning that we had to assemble a team here at TechCrunch just to cover it all. – But before we get into notes on each company that presented, a few notes on the Startups themselves. Per Y Combinator leadership, the 377 Startups have Founders from 47 different countries, and 37% of the founders were from under-represented groups (which YC’s Michael Seibel says the accelerator defines as Black, Latino or Female.)

International Breakdown of these companies parallels that of this past winter. Nearly 50% of YC startups are based outside of the USA, with India, U.K. & Mex making up the largest part of that percentage. What follows is a list ___ of the 180+ companies in the order that they pitched, and our notes on each pitch. TechCrunch will follow up this post with a list of our favorites. So, enjoy the below and happy hunting to all the Founders & Investors. The most relevant selected by Peter/CXO Wiz4.biz

Day One companies

1. Phykos: Autonomously grows seaweed to capture carbon, selling offsets to companies to uphold their climate commitments. Built by GoogleX mechanical & software engineers.
2. Apollo: A debit card that rewards users with stocks. Making purchases with the card earns the user a fractional share of a stock, plus “a chance to win” full shares.
3. PlusIdentity: A password manager for startups, focused first on a Slack app that hits the high points of enterprise-level options (Okta) and consumer apps (LastPass). Only one month old, they already have 10 startups signed up and aim to be the next identity management platform for the startup world.
4. AOA Dx Inc.: AOA is building blood tests that help detect ovarian cancer early when survival rates are much higher. The founding team has two successful exits in the health startup space behind them and their product has already shown early success in a 600-person patient study.
5. Cococart: An online store builder that claims to have a setup process 10x faster than Shopify. The team says they’re currently working with over 2,000 active merchants.
6. Metaphor: What’s the metaphor for taking on Google? Metaphor is a language-model-based search engine. With this technology, users can search by ideas; think queries like “one of the most promising startups in the health tech space is” or “a smart essay about love is” instead of relying solely on keywords.
7. Turion Space: Space trash removal. It’s a well-known issue that the orbit around Earth is littered with crap of all sorts, junk that is circling the planet at high speeds. Turion Space wants to build spacecraft that can get that out of orbit, and it also wants to service satellites & mine asteroids. You have to start somewhere, we suppose. Space companies are hard to judge at this stage, but we can say that the TAM Turion is pursuing is, well, as big as the planet.
8. Warpfy: Built by the founders of Wayfair Asia, Warpfy is on a mission to acquire & grow e-Commerce stores into global brands. It will help brands bring distribution multi-channel, breaking out of a tradition of Amazon roll-ups as a key way to grow.
9. .Slip: is building a marketplace for top developers to create & monetize courses helping young coders hone their skills. The team is looking to get their product into the corporate learning space and get major tech companies providing their courses to employees.
10. Lumify: We’re all familiar with the concept of super Apps for consumers. First popularized in Asia, they may bring together ride-hailing, food delivery, e-commerce and chat. But what about a super app for nurses? Lumify thinks the idea has legs. Its app can help nurses find whatever they need, from scrubs to shifts it claims. The company has generated $275,000 in revenue so far this year from a user base of 15,000 nurses. The concept makes sense. Nurses are busy, in demand and earn good wages; why not sell to them?
11. Crew: is building a recruiting-centric CRM designed to make it easier to reach out to candidates. The company’s software is designed to help recruiters tackle proactive outreach with tooling designed for each part of the hiring process, keeping things streamlined & personalized.
12. Pinglend: wants to let people pledge items and, in return, offer credit based on those assets. Per the company, its model will allow it to loan money to users at around 20% of the rate that pawn shops or payday lenders charge. The company has yet to launch, but as it is playing in a space rife with consumer abuse, it will have questions over its head as it proves out its model. The company wants to “graduate” its users to unsecured credit cards in time.
13. AppX: has built a platform that helps social media creators build their own apps that play to their strengths & monetize their audiences better than personal websites do. The company started with educational creators and is looking to expand with gaming and fitness creators.
14. Membo: A premium way to grocery shop. Membo is a next-day grocery delivery service in Europe that optimizes for freshness and quality, instead of 15-minute speed. The startup does $30,000 monthly GMV and makes money through a per-order commission fee.
15. Abatable: wants to bring robo-advising into the carbon-removal game, creating portfolios that “focus on carbon removal.” Given the rising focus on more socially and environmentally conscious investing around the world, it’s a neat idea.
16. Varos: helps companies understand how their performance stacks up against the competition by creating anonymized databases of customer data. The startup is tackling the $21 billion planning software market with a specific focus on marketing, product & finance teams.
17. Zensors Inc: Google analytics for the physical world. The startup is a software-only AI solution that connects to security cameras dispersed around airports, transit hubs & stores — helping companies offer actionable advice to better the customer experience. Its software footprint currently impacts over 1 million people a week.
18. Cache: Gopuff is a big deal these days, having raised roughly 80 zillion dollars. But the Cache team thinks that there is still room in the on-demand market for convenience goods. The startup operates so-called “dark” stores to give goods to on-demand drivers. Dark stores in general are a hot commodity these days, thanks to rising delivery needs.
19. SenpAI.GG: AI-powered video game coach. They’re building a tool that uses overlays & a voice assistant to help you figure out the best move to make, or the best character to pick. they currently have over 450,000+ monthly active users and are seeing 20% growth month over month.
20. Iona Mind: is a Mental health app that wants to teach people how to overcome anxiety & depression. The company’s content is derived from evidence-based protocols and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). The platform is sold directly to employers that are growing their benefit programs and searching for ways to boost engagement.
21. Storylane: Selling a digital product or service is a lot easier when the customer can try it for themselves. Storylane lets marketing teams deploy personalized product demos to prospective customers, which they have found increases conversions considerably.
22. Liv Labs Inc.: The startup is building fitness programs that help women deal with incontinence, building exercise programs that help women strengthen their pelvic floor muscles & decrease risks of pee leaks, an issue the startup says 27 million American women struggle with.
23. Ferveret: inspired by nuclear plants, has created a liquid-cooling technology for data centers. The startup helps reduce costs & carbon footprint while improving server performance. So far, Ferveret has landed two paid pilot contracts with Enel & Crusoe Energy.
24. Coulomb AI: Electric vehicles run on batteries, and batteries degrade with use — but exactly how much? When should companies replace theirs? What’s the cost of preventative maintenance? Couloumb AI aims to provide battery analytics for any and all EV companies (focusing first on fleets in India and government applications) and hopes to become the standard analytics platform worldwide.
25. Arengu: focused on sign-up flows. That is the bet, which is building signup flow for other companies. Its pitch noted that a host of major companies devote whole teams to this work, something it points out that smaller firms can’t afford. If the fundraising history of checkout companies is any indicator, we expect Arengu to raise a mountain of money by Thursday.
26. BluumBio: Companies are under pressure to reduce their environmental impact, and BluumBio allows them to do this simply by seeding bio-engineered plants & bacteria at sites polluted by micro-plastics, heavy metals or petroleum byproducts. These engineered organisms have regulatory approval and are heading to their first field trial this fall, and the company already has lucrative partnerships lined up.
27. Goodkind: thinks its vision of the future is going to be big business. Powering video messaging for “B2C teams,” the company has racked up $375,000 in ARR, a figure it claims is growing by 28% on a month-over-month basis. That figure could rise if its pipeline comes through by a factor of more than two.
28. Matidor: is a Project Mgt platform combining geo-spatial data with team collaboration software. The startup has $80,000 in ARR and is chasing the $4 billion natural Resources market.
29. Promakhos Therapeutics: is a therapeutics platform focused on curing inflammatory diseases using bacteria. The company’s first drug is focused on reversing symptoms in Crohn’s disease patients. They’re also looking to help patients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) and Type I Diabetes.
30. Whaly:  A no-code platform for modeling your business data, automatically imported from tools like Hubspot, Google Ads, Google Analytics, etc.
31. Vital: An API for collecting at-home health data. Using at-home lab tests and fitness wearables like Oura or Fitbit, Vital aggregates data without requiring one to step foot into a doctor’s office. The developer-designed API is currently in closed beta.
32. Moving Parts: Rebuilding your User Interface (UI) to accommodate new features or migrate to a new code base can be costly & time consuming. Moving Parts is a component library from former Apple & SoundCloud designers full of “Apple-quality” UI bits & pieces that companies can drop in and customize to cover common needs like sign-up & log-in processes.
33. Ivella: a bank for couples, beginning with a Debit card that automatically splits expenses between two users.
34. Malloc: a mobile app that prevents other mobile apps from recording & sharing data without the user’s approval. It notifies users when a mobile app uses their camera or microphone and offers a monitoring console to understand how long those features are being used. Malloc’s spyware tracker has 80,000 active users and over 100,000 users to date.
35. Flowbo Inc.: wants to help creators access funding, fast. Instead of forcing creators to rely on payment from traditional brand deals or sponsors, they can upload proof of those income streams to get a Loan upfront. Then, creators are invited to pay money back over time through a percentage fee based on total monthly revenue.
36. Synth: is building software to help knowledge workers better recall the information that they consume, be it in video format or text. The founder said that current software products like Roam just don’t cut it.
37. Humane Genomics: The startup is building a development platform for making artificial viruses focused on cancer therapeutics. The team has helped design hundreds of unique oncolytic viruses & was previously working on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
38. Mailmodo: a no-code platform for easily building forms & widgets to embed within Emails.
39. Digistain: One of several startups in this cohort taking on the cancer market, Digistain wants to use infrared scanning to better understand which breast cancer patients are truly a fit for chemotherapy. Its view is that more folks than needed get chemotherapy, which is not only expensive – but can actually kill you.
40. Rinse: pitched as “One Medical for Dental,” Rinse is looking to make it easier to book same-day dental cleanings & exams — because more checkups = less drilling.
41. DiveHealth: helps migraine sufferers find the right treatment among the dozens of migraine drugs on the market today. Users take a genetic test, fill out a questionnaire and receive a custom treatment plan. 20 million Americans currently suffer from migraines, so it’s a huge opportunity.
42. Zinite: this team wants to help companies build better performing chips within the same product real estate with what it says is “only high-performance transistor which can be built along the z-axis.”
43. Kiwi Biosciences: built by an IBS patient and former IBS digital health founder, Kiwi has created an enzyme that helps customers digest food better by breaking down common dietary triggers. It charges $50 a month for the patent-pending enzymes — and as of last pull, Kiwi has $23,000 in monthly recurring revenue.
44. Algen Biotechnologies: born out of CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna’s lab, Algen aims to treat cancers with no known effective drugs by applying machine learning to RNA messaging and finding ways to change it. They’ve already found one oral inhibitor for one such cancer and aim to enter clinical trials within 18 months — and of course Big Pharma is already sniffing around.
45. Pillar: is building a Health coaching platform to help Americans live healthier lifestyles and minimize costs associated with lifestyle-based diseases. The startup is aiming to build a solution that easily plugs into corporate health platforms, allowing clients to easily access health coaches.
46. Commery: An interesting flip on the commercial real estate marketplace. It lets tenants submit an ask for real estate, which brokers work to match. Brokers pay the startup. So far it has snagged 25 listings. The timing of this company is interesting thanks to a shift in the world away from IRL work, but as Commery also works with industrial spaces it could still have a market to sell into.
47. Talus Bio: is a drug discovery biotech startup focused on studying gene regulatory proteins in their natural cell environments. The company hopes this new platform will help further grasp the role of these proteins in various diseases and facilitate therapeutics that tackle them.
48. Nabla Bio: this startup co-develops antibody drugs “that are more likely to get approved” with pharmaceutical companies. The company has partnered with three top-tier companies resulting in $800,000 in revenue.
49. Clear: Skin care is super important to a whole lot of people (ie, women), and they happen to also spend quite a bit on it. Clear is a debit card just for cosmetics and skin care, giving cash back on numerous brands. But it also grants access to a social media community of skin care enthusiasts who can share their routines … full of useful data for cosmetics companies, too!
50. Playhouse: playing on the trend of browsing Zillow “for fun,” Playhouse is a mobile app for quickly perusing video listings of homes for sale. Co-founder Alex Perelman says the company’s most engaged users are watching 50+ videos on their first day alone.
51. InstaKin: helps immigrants in the U.S. manage projects & tasks back in their home countries, connecting them with verified Vendors from afar and handling payments securely.
52. ShipBlu: promising “Amazon level logistics” for companies in MENA, ShipBlu does 24-hour delivery with live tracking. Co-founder Ali Nasser says that 47 merchants have signed on so far.
53. Scispot.io: is building a Project Mgt platform for bio companies leveraging automation to help track projects, samples & inventory while collaborating with team members.
54. Muse: A no-code editor for building immersive 3D websites, charging only $12 per site per month. Co-founder Ben Ha says users have built 300+ websites so far.
55. Zeit Medical: has created a wearable headband that warns users & caregivers of early signs of stroke while sleeping, preventing damage to the brain from progressing too far before treatment.
56. Kurios: online courses for professionals in Latin America. Co-founder Carlos Lau says the company is currently seeing $60,000 revenue and 25% growth per month, with 90% of users completing their courses.
57. Buoyant Aero: is using electric Blimps to move air freight over medium-range distances, which the startup says is 4x more efficient than using small aircraft. The company has built four Aairships and is aiming to tackle the $6 billion rural U.S. middle-mile freight market.
58. KaiPod Learning: wants to be the go-to place for online learners & learning pod families to get in-person interactions into their curriculum. KaiPod learning grows through launching centers, reminiscent of Kumon and WeWork, that welcome children to swing by during the school day — either for a refresh in existing curriculum, or for some social activities with peers.
59. SolarMente: is a marketplace for Solar rooftops – focusing on Europe. They’re bringing in $120,000/mo already for installations and financing about $10,000 per home. Spain is their first market because electricity costs are high — so they take over the whole process, and hope to do so for millions more.
60. idemeum: Helps small/medium-sized businesses manage employee access to their ever-growing collection of SaaS apps, aiming to replace manual password-sharing with biometrics.

60. Revolve Surgical: is building Surgical robots for operating rooms, aiming to create a device that’s much smaller (and cheaper!) than the incumbent solution.
61. Hotswap: helps you onboard companies when they’re looking to switch from another Vendor, breaking Vendor lock-in & automating the import of complex data from one platform to another.
62. Luminate Medical: hair loss from chemotherapy is one of the medical world’s most recognizable side effects, and Luminate may have a solution: a compression therapy Helmet that prevents the drug cocktail from reaching and damaging the hair follicles. It’s on its way to clinical trials and FDA approval.
63. Filta: Face filters are hugely popular on Snapchat and other apps, and Filta aims to monetize them with an NFT market for limited edition filters that creators can sell to their fans. Look for them on the app store in November.
64. Customily: is a design tool for helping online stores sell more personalized products. Companies can use Customily to design, sell & print customizable products, letting users take control with their embeddable tool.
65. HeyCharge: patent-pending technology for customer-friendly indoor EV charging. HeyCharge wants to bring low-cost EV charging to offices & apt buildings. Two unique bits of the startup’s tech: It claims to work offline & underground, a rarity for the industry.
66. Clarity: is a workspace for teams that focuses on simplicity without losing too much in capability. With document collaboration, project mgt & task tracking built in, it’s meant to reduce your tab load, organize & centralize.
67. Careerist: edtech meets SaaS in Careerist’s job placement learning platform. The startup trains job seekers through live & self-paced training taught by third-party tutors. The adaptive learning SW is meant to help candidates prep for tech interviews. Once a candidate is well equipped, Careerists uses automation to help them apply for jobs. The startup doesn’t require tuition until candidates are placed.
68. Lago: growth teams need to segment & sync customer data across lots of channels, like marketing, sales + +, but the existing tools for this are expensive, require engineering work + are generally enterprise-oriented. Lago does it no-code style so smaller teams can onboard quickly & simply with no extra hires or second mortgages.
69. Matrubials Inc.: in the health tech space, is creating milk-derived therapeutics to target bacterial infections. It’s starting with a product that targets recurrent bacterial vaginosis with an anti-microbial peptide that attacks the bad bacteria, but not the healthy biome it is attacking. The company plans to target other infections in the future.
70. Hypercore: helps Lenders automate workflows & access real-time analytics through software. The team estimates that more than 90% of private lenders use Excel or antiquated systems to manage processes, so Hypercore would be a welcome, albeit late, addition amid the broader landscape of digitization.
71. Pipekit: is looking to help enterprise customers scale their data pipelines quickly, with a control panel for Argo workflows, allowing for speedy implementation.
72. Zen: Webcam-based posture correction software that alerts the user when they’re slouching. Meant to be offered as a perk to employees to reduce a company’s workers’ comp costs.
73. Meticulous: a tool to catch bugs in web apps. The startup reduces the need for manual/integration testing, freeing up developer time to work on more complicated issues. The startup has two pilots and one secured deal for its software.
74. Carbonfact: this sustainability startup is creating a carbon footprint database for consumer products, helping certify companies that have low-carbon-output product offerings and providing a tool for comparing a company’s sustainability efforts to industry averages. In the past 10 weeks, the company has on-boarded 20 brands to the platform.
75. Cloudthread: Analytics meant to help engineers build for the cloud more cost-efficiently, and incorporate cost into engineering decision-making.

76. Pabio: this startup wants to make furnishing your home a light lift – metaphorically speaking. For a monthly subscription, Pabio creates a 3D scan of your home, has it professionally furnished by an interior designer, and then offers rent-to-own furniture that matches your aesthetic. The service is currently available in Switzerland, but is soon expanding to other countries.
77. Plai: is an Ad tool for micro-businesses that lets people like Etsy sellers & YouTubers launch targeted ads from their phones in seconds. It’s a simple, low-risk way to get your brand out there, and with more people than ever working for themselves, that’s an attractive proposition.
78. Deed: A modern, super pretty take on the backend powering your employee’s charity/donation/volunteering system. Handles donation matching, volunteer hours, etc. Already working with companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Doordash and Adidas.
79. Pactima: is building an e-signature platform that reaches the use cases that DocuSign can’t, letting users tap real-time video-signing when a witness is required as well as in-person digital signing.
80. Aleph Solutions: a tool for offline businesses to bring their services online. AS is building an online marketplace for resellers, which it monetizes through a SaaS & transaction fees – whenever a sale occurs. It revealed 18% month-over-month growth, with $115,000 monthly recurring revenue.
81. Flow Club: a virtual co-working space modeled on group fitness classes and social clubs intended to motivate people to work in sprints. Join for a few hours when you need that push to stop procrastinating — and who doesn’t every once in a while in this day and age?
82. Codex: deeper collaboration for programmers, built especially for remote/async teams. Lets you, for example, highlight code in your editor, determine who wrote it and request information without switching screens.

83. Café: The remote work boom is now so entrenched that startups are being built to make remote work better & easier. The company wants to help remote & hybrid workers figure out where to work from each day. Apparently the answer is not only in your home office. The company has $8,000 in MRR and sees a future where offices are optional and not mandatory.
84. Cabal: is a private workspace for founders, investors & advisers to update one another and organize things. Sure, you could do it in Slack or something, but this one is built with the startup & stakeholder crew in mind. Plus it’s cool to be able to say “join our Cabal.”

85. Potion: AI to help R&D teams formulate their products, replacing processes that generally require lengthy trial-&-error with simulation.
86. Legion Health: a B2B marketplace that helps therapists (ie, psychiatrists, social workers, etc) sell their time by the hour — which, as the company points out, lets these professionals take on extra hours while allowing hospitals & tele-health companies to scale considerably without more full-time headcount. Co-founder says that five weeks post-launch – the company has already signed contracts worth $3 million in annual value.
87. Dots: If you’re a seller or service provider, the platform you sell on may very well not want to pay you in the way you want to be paid, whether that’s old-school ACH or instant transfer via Venmo or CashApp. Dots provides a single API to marketplaces that lets them pay out via any of those methods and more, simplifying the finances of everyone involved.
88. Inai: a no-code platform for handling payments globally. It hooks into your payment providers (like Stripe, Paypal), fraud tools (like Sift & Tax tools), then wraps them all up in a easy to configure dashboard.
89. Breadcrumbs.io: analyzes customer & prospect data to help companies identify hidden revenue opportunities. The no-code scoring engine has attracted $185,000 in annual recurring revenue to help startups make sure they don’t leave any lucrative breadcrumbs behind. Non-obvious revenue may just pique investor interest, especially when it comes to serving their portfolio companies.
90. ContainIQ: An easy to install platform for monitoring Kubernetes events & metrics over time, with hooks like Slack support for alerting your team when things break.
91. Hotglue: A developer tool designed to help create native SaaS integrations with data sources in minutes, aiming to help users sidestep jumping thru development & maintenance hoops.

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from Tech Crunch 31 Aug 21 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4.biz

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