This Week in YC 7
Welcome to the 7th 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!
🌐 SaaS
OlaClick
We make it easy for SMBs in Latam to take direct orders on WhatsApp
Batch: W21
Changes:
Description
Before: ... We have +7000 restaurants in Latam and we increase their sales by 20-40% …
After: … We have +30000 restaurants in Latam and we increase their sales by 40% …
authzed
A globally available, serverless platform for SpiceDB
Batch: W21
Changes:
Headline
Before: The managed permissions database for everyone
After: A globally available, serverless platform for SpiceDB
Description
Before: Authzed is a platform to store, compute, and validate application permissions. Permissions are modeled based on relationships between objects that are defined by an application. Developers design and test the objects and relationships that will be used for determining permissions for their application. They then extend their application using client libraries that create, delete, and check relationships within that data model
After: SpiceDB is a database system for managing security-critical permissions checking. SpiceDB acts as a centralized service that stores authorization data. Once stored, data can be performantly queried to answer questions such as "Does this user have access to this resource?" and "What are all the resources this user has access to?". Authzed operates the globally available, serverless database platform for SpiceDB
Copia
For-profit technology company that solves food waste & hunger at scale
Batch: W16
Changes:
Description
Before: … We have recovered over 3,000,000 pounds of edible food from landfills and provided businesses and nonprofits with over $15M in savings. We are currently on our way to feeding over 4 million people with great food that would have otherwise been wasted!
After: … We have recovered over 5,500,000 pounds of edible food from landfills and provided businesses and nonprofits with over $21M in savings. We are currently on our way to feeding over 5 million people with great food that would have otherwise been wasted!
🧑💻 Developer Tools
Parsagon
Developer tool for data pipelines
Batch: W21
Changes:
Headline
Before: Developer tool for web scraping
After: Developer tool for data pipelines
Description
Before: Parsagon allows developers to scrape data from anywhere on the web in just 3 lines of code. Our customers use us to turn a month long engineering project into a single day task
After: Parsagon writes optimized code to transform data. Researchers and data scientists use us to create data pipelines that run 3 times faster in a quarter of the time
💰 FinTech
Lucky Card
The first card built for young people
Batch: W21
Changes:
Name
Before: Galaxy
After: Lucky Card
Headline
Before: Drop in payouts
After: The first card built for young people
Description
Before: Galaxy makes it easy to send bank transfers, crypto, and gift cards
After: We're building the a rewards card from the ground up for the next generation of consumers. Our rewards program gives users the opportunity earn points and win really cool stuff
Zage
Payments without the middlemen
Batch: S21
Changes:
Headline
Before: Payments without middlemen for everyone
After: Payments without the middlemen
Description
Added: Making the exchange of value seamless and equitable for everyone
Bulk MRO Industrial Supply
Full Stack Fintech and Supply Chain Platform for Global Trade
Batch: W17
Changes:
Industry
Before: B2B, GovTech, Marketplace
After: B2B, Fintech
Headline
Before: Bulk MRO is a B2B platform for industrial products and medical…
After: Full Stack Fintech and Supply Chain Platform for Global Trade
🧬 BioTech
Probably Genetic
Helping biotech find genetic disease patients by testing them for free
Batch: W19
Changes:
Headline
Before: We sell direct-to-consumer DNA tests to diagnose rare genetic diseases
After: Helping biotech find genetic disease patients by testing them for free