With one very generious donation to the Great Slate @mediaptera has awakened the YC Demo Day kraken! Let's go see what rough beasts, their YC acceptance come round at last, are slouching towards Sand Hill Road ready to be born
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CB Therapeutics is trying to make cannabinoids without the need for pot plants, which if you are a target customer is probably blowing your mind right now.
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HeyDoctor is a company that believes health care is broken, and the way to fix it is to offer an app-based private version of it targeted at startupshttps://www.heydoctor.co/about
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ShopWith is bucking the conventional wisdom that YouTube "beauty influencers" should be purged from the Earth by cleansing fire, and giving people a way to make in-app purchases of this crap insteadpic.twitter.com/iZsP8EUDAR
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"ZiffyHomes is bringing the co-living model popularized in the U.S. to millennials in India." I think this is a reference to living in a SF apartment with 12 roommates who are all doing a startup. Filling your rental home with young tech people as a service!
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Reformer Therapeutics is part of a fascinating YC trend of funding medical research, in this case for cancer meds. I wonder how this works structurally—are they a funder of last resort for big pharma rejects, or seen as an easy mark, or what? https://reformertherapeutics.com/
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Ajaib is at least the second startup in this group trying to democratize wealth management, an interesting reflection on what problems YC founders think people have. This one is for Indonesia specifically.
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Snark AI is promoting innovation in exploit development by renting GPU time on rigs also being used for cryptocurrency mining.https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/25/snark-ai-looks-to-help-companies-get-on-demand-access-to-idle-gpus/ …
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Grin is bringing mobile scooter startups to Mexico, in the process validating President Trump's prophecy that Mexico will pay to build the Wall.pic.twitter.com/40TtmPUpqp
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"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." This is the best one. Humans have been ruining the blockchain since Day One.https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/17/incentivai-smart-contract-security/ …
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Kunduz combines the chocolate of funding a gig economy "do my homework" app with the peanut butter of investing in authoritarian Turkeypic.twitter.com/cwHKY4T905
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And Comfort makes clothes for large women, which is unusual in being a morally unobjectionable YC startup. But why is a tech incubator funding half of these companies? https://www.andcomfort.com/
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"Leena AI is building HR bots to answer questions for employees instantly." Leena uses adaptive learning and connects wirelessly with the trap door under your standing desk.https://www.leena.ai/
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Splish is Vine if it were one second shorter and not ruined by Twitter. https://splish.app/ pic.twitter.com/sjEw2Ot0fR
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"CowryWise wants to bring the benefits of algorithmically managed investment platforms to Africans across the continent." This is wealth management startup #3 by my count. "We invest your savings in risk free instruments offered by the Nigerian government" https://cowrywise.com/faqs/
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Outvote will end slacktivism by giving users an easy, one-button way to spam their friend network with targeted political ads. It's like this twitter account meets Yo!https://www.outvote.io/campaigns
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SparkSwap lets you "trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in seconds without depositing assets with a third party." No more waiting 1-3 days for a bank transfer to clear before losing the value of your house.https://sparkswap.com/
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