Y Combinator Unleashes 47 New Startups, From the Cloud to the Crowd
Summary
It was the 16th semi-annual Demo Day for the world’s most prestigious and productive startup accelerator, the birthplace of companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Heroku, Reddit, and Disqus.Other hot trends represented in this YC class included big data (Fivetran, Semantic3), cloud services (Bitnamie and Meldium), health IT (MediSAS and Watsi), online legal services (Wevorce and Lawdingo), mobile publishing (Padlet and Strikingly), corporate HR outsourcing (SimplyInsured and Zenefits), edutech (Terascore), marketplaces (Buildzoom and Lollipuff), the sharing economy (FlightCar), fashion (Teespring and StyleUp), and food (Goldbely).For my own part, I was most impressed by Thalmic, which is making a wearable computer interface called MYO that straps to the user’s forearm and senses hand movements.The startup proposes to reduce parking congestion around airports by letting travelers rent out their cars while they’re away, rather than leaving them to gather dust in an expensive lot.I’m also rooting for MediSAS, which wants to reduce medical errors and preventable hospital deaths by tabletizing the “handoff” notes exchanged by doctors and nurses who are changing shifts.
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