Category: Y Combinator

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Startups Weekly: Uber’s headline-grabbing week and sextech at SXSW

sudshr47 March 16, 2019

In this week’s newsletter: The college admissions scandal engulfs TPG, Accel raises $2.5B for three funds and investing app Stash brings in $65M.

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XGenomes is bringing DNA sequencing to the masses

sudshr47 March 15, 2019

As healthcare moves toward genetically tailored treatments, one of the biggest hurdles to truly personalized medicine is the lack of fast, low-cost genetic testing. And few people are more familiar with the problems of today’s genetic diagnostics tools than Kalim Mir, the 52-year-old founder of XGenomes, who has spent his entire professional career studying the […]

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Shiok Meats takes the cultured meat revolution to the seafood aisle with plans for cultured shrimp

sudshr47 March 15, 2019

Rising consumer interest in alternative proteins and meat replacements has brought hundreds of millions of dollars to companies trying to grow or replace beef or chicken, but few companies have turned their attention to developing seafood alternatives. Now Shiok Meats is looking to change that. The company has raised pre-seed financing from investors like AIM […]

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Portal automatically opens doors for wheelchair users, no button pressing required

sudshr47 March 15, 2019

Buttons or plates (like the one above) that automatically open doors can do a lot to make a building more accessible, but they aren’t always a perfect solution. For wheelchair users with limited upper body movement, the buttons can be tough to hit. Other times, the button is installed poorly — too high, too low, […]

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YC-backed Aura Vision analyzes video footage to provide new data to retailers

sudshr47 March 15, 2019

Aura Vision, which is part of the current batch of startups at Y Combinator, helps retailers understand who’s visiting their stores and what they’re doing there. In other words, if you want to see the demographics of who’s visiting the store, or which displays and products are actually prompting customers to linger, or how long […]

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Uber’s IPO targets April, Stash stacks cash, and YC shakes it up

sudshr47 March 15, 2019

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a lot of fun. Connie Lozios took the captain’s chair in San Francisco while I manned the sails, and we had Female Founders Fund’s founder Anu Duggal in the studio to round out our crew. […]

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Adventurous Augmented Reality TC Y Combinator

Adventurous taps live actors and AR to take families on high-tech scavenger hunts

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

Augmented reality looked like it was supposed to a ubiquitous success, Apple and Google and Facebook seemed to say so, but things are taking a bit of time to get kicked off so the startups in the space are having to get real weird with it. Adventurous is an augmented reality scavenger hunt geared towards […]

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The Juggernaut is a subscription media company for the South Asian diaspora

sudshr47 March 12, 2019

Everyone and their dog seems to have an email newsletter today, but what happens if and when yours takes off? Some have gone down the paid route, but another credible alternative is to turn it into a subscription media business. That’s a route that The Juggernaut, a new pay-to-play publication targeted at the Indian diaspora, […]

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