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Here are the 59 startups that demoed at Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2

Published March 24, 2016

ycombinator “Food, housing, healthcare, transportation. Life essentials made better and more affordable.” These are the types of startups that partner Paul Buchheit said were demoing today at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 2. Yesterday, we covered the first 60 startups from the batch, and picked our 7 favorites. Plus, check out our picks for the top 8 startups from these 59.… Read More

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Gecko Robotics Does The Heavy Inspecting At Power Plants To Prevent Human Fatalities

Published March 23, 2016

6-gecko-inspection-robot Y Combinator-backed Gecko Robotics is hoping to save a few human lives at our nation’s power plants with wall-climbing robots.
Gecko’s proprietary magnetic adhesion technology works much like the sticky foot of a gecko, allowing its robots to crawl up walls to inspect for damage along the way.
A human would normally be the checker, but that presents an often dangerous situation. Read More

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The top 7 startups from Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 1

Published March 23, 2016

Stanford Y Combinator We asked investors what their favorite startups were from the 60 that launched at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 1. After huddling with our writers and adding our input, here are TechCrunch’s picks for the 7 most promising companies from the batch, plus an honorable mention. Additional reporting by Greg Kumparak and Megan Rose Dickey. Read More

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Truebill raises seed funding to help you cancel unwanted subscriptions

Published March 22, 2016

truebill-img-devices Truebill, a startup that helps people track and cancel their subscriptions, announced it has raised a small round of seed funding.
The round includes $120,000 from Y Combinator, with additional funding from angel investors like David Marcus (formerly a PayPal executive and now vice president of messaging products at Facebook), KISSmetrics co-founder Hiten Shah and Saba founder Bobby Yazdani… Read More

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The REVL Arc is a 4K smart action camera with a built-in gimbal

Published March 17, 2016

colors-2 Part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class, REVL just launched a smart action camera that solves the two worst things about action cams: shaky footage and a cumbersome editing process.
Developed by ex-NASA, Sikorsky and HP engineers, the REVL Arc has a built-in motorized gimbal to keep the camera’s view level with the horizon. Read More

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MIT spin-out Thunkable hopes its drag-and-drop app builder can be a money-spinner too

Published March 5, 2016

apps Bagging lots of users is a challenge one of the startups in Y Combinator’s 2016 winter batch is worrying about a bit less than the average. The two-man strong founder team of Thunkable is coming from the rather more comfortable position of already having fostered a community over four million strong — thanks to the drag-and-drop app builder interface they helped developed at MIT… Read More

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Gravitational Helps Deliver Software On-Prem And In Cloud From Single Code Base

Published February 14, 2016

Servers sitting on clouds. Gravitational, a graduate of the Y Combinator 2015 class set out solve a very difficult problem for companies — how to deliver software in the cloud and on-premises from a single code base.
Without a solution like the one from Gravaitional, companies would have to maintain two sets of code, which is simply too costly for most companies to pull off. That meant these companies were… Read More

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Magic Bus Aims To Magically Ease Silicon Valley Commuter Woes With City-To-City Transportation

Published January 18, 2016

Magic Bus Magic Bus is a new startup out of Y Combinator that hopes to end many Bay Areas commuter’s slow, soul-crushing daily drive down the 101 with a scheduled, WiFi-enabled, private bus system to transport them anywhere from San Francisco all the way down to Sunnyvale. There are a number of startups focused on carpooling in the Bay Area – Chariot, Shuddle and even Uber and Lyft among… Read More

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