🚨 Top 5 startups of 2023 🚨
We covered 49 companies this year.
We’re ringing in the New Year by reviewing our favorite startups of 2023.
Here are our top 5 👇
Exoskeletons and power suits? Sounds like something out of a movie.
But it isn't—
@germanbionic
is keeping workers safe with smart suits.
👉 German Bionic is a Germany-based robotics company that designs and manufactures wearable technologies for the workforce. Its offerings
“Doing work by yourself is becoming a choice.” 🤖
@respellai
is automating your work with AI.
👉 Respell allows users to create no-code workflows and chat with all their data across typical file-sharing platforms like Google Drive and Notion.
💰 Respell’s personal and team
Search through your photos, powered by AI. 🔍
Prompt AI's debut product, Prompt Photos, enables users to get more from their photos.
👉 Features include AI-generated albums and more efficient searching capabilities
💰 Freemium pricing model under works
📈 Raised $5 million
Robots are coming for our nuts. 🥜
@bonsai_robotics
is bringing automation to orchard harvesting, including almonds.
👉 Using equipment similar to self-driving technology like Tesla’s, Bonsai is building software that can autonomously traverse orchards using AI.
💰 Bonsai has
@TurnerNovak
In 1994, Jeff Bezos would personally deliver all Amazon packages using his '87 Chevy Chevette. He would kiss every early customer on both cheeks.
Do things that don't scale
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🚀 YC W22 DEMO DAY LIVE COVERAGE 🚨
We'll be posting rapid-fire rundowns of our favorite companies throughout Demo Day. Follow this thread for more info 🦄👇
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Pigeon Loans (
@PigeonLoans
)
🦄 Simple way to give and track loans to your friends and family without awkwardness. Lenders can lend up to 500k without fees.
📈 $1M gross transaction volume, over 14,000 individuals on the service
🔗
Remember all that data about yourself that you're giving away for free?
@cadenhq
lets you understand your data and get paid for it.
Pretty neat stuff. Let's dive into it 👇
YC DEMO DAY WINTER 2023 🚨
Stats:
• 282 companies
• 77% had no revenue before
@ycombinator
• Largest industry is B2B/SaaS
• Top themes: AI, dev tools, open source
We'll be posting rapid-fire rundowns of our favorite companies throughout Demo Day. Follow this thread 🦄👇
This week, we featured
@heyday_hq
, an AI-powered memory assistant that resurfaces content you forgot about while you browse the web. Some highlights 👇
Creating interactive demos has never been easier 📽️
👉
@layerpath
(launched today!) is building AI-driven, no-code products that make every step of building interactive product demos simple
💰 The product is available with a freemium model
📈 Currently bootstrapped and looking
This week, we published a special edition of Unicorner in collaboration with
@TomJWhiteIV
🦄
Read out first Fund of the Week spotlight on rpv: an early stage deeptech fund, founded by
@arkady_kulik
and
@Khunjua_rpv
🔭
Your dentist is going to be happy with this startup.
Introducing
@goflaus
, the world's first electric flosser.
👉 Flaus is a dental care company that aims to make flossing a breeze through its flagship patented electric flossers.
Remember hall passes in elementary school? Turns out keeping track of them is pretty difficult.
@GetSmartPass
is building a digital solution for over a thousand school nationwide.
Some highlights from our latest Unicorner article👇
📈 Raised $1.2 million pre-seed from
@Techstars
(
@Koz
),
@7pcventures
, and strategic angels
👫
@AstroLawyer
- Co-Founder, CEO
Yukun Yin - Co-Founder, CTO
Read the full article on our website 🦄
👉 Metafy has 550+ coaches offering 1:1 coaching for over 90 games. They have 3.5k+ paying students.
💰 People can book sessions starting at $15/hr.
📈 Raised $5.5mm seed round with investors like
@sevensevensix
,
@DCM_VC
, and
@ForerunnerVC
👫
@JoshFabian
- Co-Founder & CEO
Access paid articles on the web with just one click. 🖥
👉
@ZetteMedia
offers readers a pay-per-article model for paywalled content from a vast network of premium publications. It also has an AI-powered curated newsfeed.
💰 Readers choose from three monthly payment tiers for
AI-powered robotic arms, for everyone.
👉
@OrangewoodLabs
is a company that builds and sells affordable robot arms for various industrial applications, such as visual inspection, painting, and pick and place.
💰 Orangewood’s arms are available for purchase for $5,000.
📈
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Paid marketing spend is down in 2023.
Introducing
@Stiddleapp
, the one-hub platform that will optimize your ad spending.
👉 Stiddle is building one hub to manage all your marketing campaigns. Its core features revolve around convenience and better attribution tracking.
Updates from YC:
#⃣ 17,000 companies applied to W22
💰 414 companies funded
📈 Largest sector funded: 34% B2B / Enterprise SaaS
🕴️26% of founders are from underrepresented groups
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🚨 It's Y Combinator S22 Demo Day today! 🚨
We'll be posting quick coverage of our top-pick companies from hundreds of companies presenting today and tomorrow.
With the return to in-person cohorts, this YC season is sure to excite. Make sure to follow this thread for updates 👇
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This week, we featured
@RewindAI
, a software tool that enables you to revisit anything you’ve seen, said, or heard on your computer. Some highlights 👇
Let's chat about AI... using another language.
@Tutor_Lily
is your personal AI language partner, powered by ChatGPT
👉 Users choose a language they want to learn + their native language. Users can have practice conversations and explanations for any mistakes in their native
👉 Utopia is building a way to effectively manage Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (or DAOs) through a variety of different tools.
💰 Currently pre-revenue