This Week in YC 4
Welcome to the 4th weekly series of Y Combinator startup updates!
This Week in YC is an attempt to form major Y Combinator startups changes such as pivots, market expansions, team changes on C-level and metrics improvements into (possibly) valuable insights.
Feedback is indeed very welcome since I’m still on the way to figuring out the best possible representation of such information. Enjoy!
💰 FinTech
Fuse
Making FinTech multiplayer 🎮
Batch: W19
Changes:
Name
Before: YSplit
After: Fuse
Headline
Before: Financial infrastructure for group payments
After: Making FinTech multiplayer 🎮
Description
Before: Pay & split your utility, phone, subscription, restaurant & travel bills automatically - Everyone only pays their share
After: Pay & split your utility, phone, subscription, restaurant & travel bills automatically - Everyone only pays their share. We believe that the future of payments is multi-player. Groups transacting together will no longer need to rely on one person making the full payment, use peer-to-peer payments apps or track "I Owe Yous"
🔐 Web3
Hedgehog
Cryptocurrency Robo-adviser. Learn. Track. Trade. Crypto.
Batch: S21
Changes:
Description
Before: … Clients already manage $70 million in assets on the platform using 130 centralized exchange APIs, and we are adding support for layer 2 DeFi protocols
After: … Clients already manage $80 million in assets on the platform using 170 centralized exchange APIs, and we are adding support for layer 2 DeFi protocols
RealtyBits
We tokenize real assets
Batch: S18
Changes:
Headline
Before: Blockchain platform for private offerings
After: We tokenize real assets
Description
Before: RealtyBits is a blockchain platform to fully streamline onboarding, payments and administering private offerings across real estate and other verticals. We provide a one stop solution for efficient issuance and subscriptions for private offerings covering 35 countries. Private offering issuers can verify investors who can flexibly make investments using fiat or digital currencies. Our platform also provides a secondary market solution, where investors can conveniently create a sell offer for their holdings
After: RealtyBits is a hybrid cloud+blockchain platform to create and manage real assets offerings. Global asset issuers can setup their custom digital platform in a few minutes using our compliant and secure solution. Investors can be verified to make capital contributions using fiat or digital currencies. Our solution also provides a secondary market solution, where investors can conveniently liquidate their private holdings
📚 Education
KidPass
Online & In-Person Kids Activities
Batch: W17
Changes:
Status
Before: Active
After: Acquire
🏔 Travel
Stayflexi
Modern Operating System for Hotels and Vacation Rentals
Batch: W21
Changes:
Description
Before: ... We are live across 600 hotels in 6 different countries. Through our SaaS offering, we are sourcing around 15,000 rooms and logging over 2500 room bookings every single day
After: ... We are live across 900 hotels in 10 different countries
🏥 Health
Medisas
Medisas builds workflow & collaboration software for hospitals
Batch: W13
Changes:
Status
Before: Active
After: Inactive
🧠 Artificial Intelligence
LabelFlow
GitHub for visual data
Batch: S18
Changes:
Name
Before: Sterblue
After: LabelFlow
Headline
Before: Software for drones to inspect power lines and wind turbines
After: GitHub for visual data
Description
Before: Sterblue builds software for drones to inspect power lines and wind turbines. Sterblue software guides drones along trajectories that wrap tightly around structures, finds anomalies from the collected images, and outputs reports. The whole process is automated and triggered by the click of a button, using off-the-shelf drones
After: At LabelFlow, we build GitHub for visual data. Our mission is to facilitate and accelerate the development of AI at scale thanks to top-notch labeling tools and a dataset marketplace
Mars Auto
Autonomous trucks for warehouse-to-warehouse shipping
Batch: W19
Changes:
Headline
Before: Autonomous trucking company
After: Autonomous trucks for warehouse-to-warehouse shipping
Description
Before: Mars Auto is building autonomous trucks to completely automate long-haul truck operations
After: Mars Auto is building autonomous trucks to completely automate warehouse-to-warehouse truck operations
Yummy Future
We build robotic coffee shop
Batch: S19
Changes:
Industry
Before: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Robotics
After: Artificial Intelligence, Food Service Robots & Machines, Robotics
Description
Before: We are building AI+Robotics for coffee services. Specifically, we are focusing on human-robot interaction through TPU enabled IoT applications
After: Yummy Future is a robotics company working on massive adoption of intelligent robots into everyday life. We are launching one of the world’s most advanced coffee vending systems (https://yummy-future.webflow.io/ ), as the first step towards a future where humans co-living with robots. Our robotic coffee shops can run on 40X lower labor cost ,6X higher profit margin compared to normal coffee shops
🛠 Hardware
Zergo
We make a urine test that helps women get pregnant
Batch: S19
Changes:
Status
Before: Active
After: Inactive
Landing Page (pivot spotted!)
Before: Web Archive
After: Web Archive