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Former Twitter COO Ali Rogwhani To Lead Y Combinator’s $700 Million Growth Fund
Almost a year-and-a-half after Ali Rowghani resigned as COO of Twitter, he’s been appointed the head of Y Combinator’s growth fund by the organization’s president, Sam Altman.
TechCrunch had heard whispers of the move earlier this week, but Altman made the announcement official earlier today, tweeting of Rowghani that he’s a “wonderful partner to help companies… Read More
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Translation Startup Unbabel Unveils New Smartcheck Technology
Unbabel, a startup backed by Y Combinator, that combines human editing and machine learning into an online translation platform, announced a new feature today called Smartcheck. The system consists of a translation service built on top of an intelligent translation engine. Translators sign up for work, then customers looking for translators can search by language, business skills and so forth.… Read More
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Y Combinator Gets Hardcore About Hardware
“Hey Robot, make me a sandwich,” I yelled over the ruckus of Y Combinator Demo Day’s break room. The traditional catered lunch had been replaced with a new buffet: hardware startups. Sandwichbots, teabots, futuristic shower heads, and Internet-connected mattress covers lined the room’s perimeter inside Mountain View’s Computer History Museum. Read More
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P2P Payments App Xendit Launches In Indonesia
Xendit, a money-transfer service geared toward Southeast Asian countries, is launching today in Indonesia.
The company is billing itself as a more private money-transfer service that’ll beat companies like Venmo to the market in Southeast Asia. Users can transfer money within private groups, as well as chat, but it’s not about making those transactions public, co-founder Moses Lo said. Read More
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Shotput Wants To Be The AWS For Logistics
“We’re in a unique, extremely unsexy industry,” explained James Steinberg, who founded Shotput with fellow Northeastern University graduate Praful Mathur around 18 months ago. Part of Y Combinator’s summer 2015 class, Shotput provides an end-to-end product delivery and fulfillment suite to customers. Started as a response to the frustration the cofounders experienced… Read More
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This Site Is Your DeLorean For Startup Homepages
When I ran through years and years of homepage designs by Twitter the other day, it was like hopping into a DeLorean and heading back in time. It was really interesting seeing what the company had in mind for its most important page in 2009…and then quickly changing it within months. Read More
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YC-Backed Locent Lets Businesses Sell Products Via Text Message
Launching out of the Summer 2015 Y Combinator batch, Locent is an e-commerce platform powered entirely by text messages. One of the biggest challenges for online retailers is shepherding customers through a lengthy checkout process. By providing businesses with a custom, text-enabled phone number, Locent turns the checkout process into just a text message. Read More
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Y Combinator-Backed CareLedger Aims To Provide Free Medical Care To Employees
Digital health startup CareLedger launched out of Y Combinator today to provide the workers of the world with free, quality medical care. That’s no small feat. The U.S. has one of the most expensive and least functional medical systems in the world, toppling every other country by thousands of dollars. The U.S. also ranks lower on health outcomes and quality, according to a survey… Read More
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Smart Bed Startup Luna Joins Y Combinator, Has Raised $1.3M In Private Funding
Luna had a successful crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, raising more than $1 million for a mattress cover that adjusts temperature, tracks your sleep and connects to other devices. Now the company is sharing more news. It’s part of the current class of startups at incubator Y Combinator, and it has also raised $1.3 million in funding from private investors — roughly the… Read More
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Accelerators Are The New Business School
It’s no secret that most startups fail. What’s a bit less obvious is that most startup accelerators also fail. While a few top-tier programs get the cream of the crop unicorns of the future, the hundreds of others struggle to attract teams that will produce the investment-grade companies on which their models so depend. Read More
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