Welcome to the 6th 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!
Subscriptions, usage-based pricing, & teams for SaaS apps
Batch: S20
Changes:
Industry
Before: Artifical Intelligence, Ecommerce, Machine Learning
After: B2B, Fintech
Name
Before: Bandit ML
After: Iron Plans
Headline
Before: Machine learning tools for e-commerce companies
After: Subscriptions, usage-based pricing, & teams for SaaS apps
Description
Added: Out-of-the-box subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and teams for your SaaS app. Save months of developer time using our low-code API, client SDK, and embeddable UI
Landing Page
Before: Web Archive
After: Web Archive
All-in-one platform for NLP
Batch: S20
Changes:
Headline
Before: Train and deploy NLP with 10x less labelled data
After: All-in-one platform for NLP
Description
Before: A platform for annotating, training and deploying Natural Language Processing models
After: Annotation, training, monitoring in one unified platform powered by active learning, enabling humans and AI to do knowledge work at scale
Landing Page
Before: Web Archive
After: Web Archive
Shopify for LatAm
Batch: W21
Changes:
Description
Before: ... This process takes 25 minutes and users can start selling immediately
After: ... This process takes less than 30 seconds and users can start selling immediately
Memo is modern communication that helps you get your focus back
Batch: S20
Changes:
Status
Before: Active
After: Inactive
Where devs jump from web2 to web3
Batch: S20
Changes:
Headline
Before: Project-based courses for developers
After: Where devs jump from web2 to web3
Description
Before: Join live sessions with instructors you can trust, build cool projects that you can show off, and join a supportive community full of motivated developers
After: If you're a dev that's curious about web3 but not sure where to start — this is the spot for you. Learn + start building cool stuff right now, earn NFTs, access secret work opportunities in crypto
Apollo helps engineering teams accelerate delivery
Batch: S11
Changes:
Headline
Before: We make Apollo, the leading GraphQL implementation. (We are also the team that built Meteor, the JavaScript framework.)
After: Apollo helps engineering teams accelerate delivery
Description
Before: Apollo is a developer tools company focused on GraphQL. Our mission is to simplify app development by combining APIs, databases, and microservices into a single data graph that you can query with GraphQL. We are proud of our culture that encourages caring & inclusivity, supports distributed workers, and recruits people who have a history of delivering the highest caliber results. We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, and individual investors
After: Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo’s open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production by over 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, Y Combinator and individual investors
Wealth manager
Batch: S18
Changes:
Description
Before: We allow people to invest. We manage USD 600m from +60,000 customers. We are regulated in Mexico and Chile
After: We allow people to invest. We manage USD 680m from +70,000 customers. We are regulated in Mexico and Chile
Daily telehealth care for people with chronic conditions
Batch: W19
Changes:
Name
Before: AIRx Health
After: DailyDoctor
Headline
Before: Remote patient monitoring for chronic conditions and COVID-19
After: Daily telehealth care for people with chronic conditions
Description
Before: AI driven tech/service to remotely monitor patients with chronic conditions and COVID-19, centered around predicting/preventing flares/hospitalizations
After: Telehealth clinic that monitors patients with chronic conditions and prevents their hospitalization
Landing Page
Before: Web Archive
After: Web Archive
Stealth Psychedelic Co
Batch: S09
Changes:
Name
Before: Alphacare
After: SSovereign
Headline
Before: A Universal mental healthcare system for psychedelic medicine
After: Stealth Psychedelic Co
The self hosting company
Batch: S19
Changes:
Headline
Before: KubeSail is a Deployment platform that you never outgrow
After: The self hosting company
Description
Before: KubeSail is a Deployment platform that's as easy as Heroku and built on top of Kubernetes. Our customers grow with us, and we scale with them, which means the next generation of startups will be built on our platform
After: KubeSail is the home hosting company. We make it easy to take back your privacy, fix the internet, and de-google all at once: host apps at home! Plug in a spare PC or buy our custom home-hosting hardware (pibox.io), install apps like PhotoPrism, NocoDB, and Minecraft, and enjoy complete ownership of your data. We build everything you need to make hosting at home viable and fun. For companies, we make it easy to deploy software on-demand for your customers (either in the cloud, or by physically shipping them pre-configured hardware) to your users. Companies like ChatWoot use KubeSail Platform to deploy instances of their software dynamically, the moment a user pays.
Landing Page
Before: Web Archive
After: Web Archive
We use solar and wind power to make zero net carbon electrofuels
Batch: W19
Changes:
Headline
Before: We remove CO2 from the air and turn it into gasoline
After: We use solar and wind power to make zero net carbon electrofuels
Description
Before: A new way to make zero-net-carbon gasoline and jet fuel that can compete with fossil fuels on price
After: We remove CO2 and water from the air and use electricity from solar and wind power to turn them into zero net carbon electrofuels. These are gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels that work in existing cars, trucks and planes without requiring modification of their engines, and don't contribute to global warming because they don't add any new CO2 to the atmosphere. Each gallon of our electrofuels means a gallon of fossil oil left in the ground forever. Importantly, these fuels for the first time can compete with fossil fuels on price - our zero net carbon jet fuel has a price of one cent per gallon less than fossil jet fuel. American Airlines ordered 10 million gallons of this fuel and we will start shipping it next year
Find any product, in stock nearby
Batch: S20
Changes:
Status
Before: Active
After: Inactive