Tagged: y combinator

November 11, 2014 @ 12:16 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Wevorce is a national divorce company that keeps families out of court using a high-tech and high-touch approach to amicable divorce. Currently trending on AngelList, Wevorce’s software-supported process connects families with Wevorce certified mediators across the United States. “We help mitigate the mental anguish and… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 12:27 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Science for the people, by the people. Experiment, the crowdfunding platform for scientific research, is currently trending on AngelList, and for good reason: researchers from over 150 institutions and universities are using Experiment to fund important seed-stage research that would otherwise go unfunded.  The new… Read More

August 15, 2014 @ 9:14 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Kickstarter’s first synthetic biology project, the Glowing Plant, which was launched April 2013 by Antony Evans, Fulbright Stanford post-doc fellow Omri Amirav-Drory, PhD and Kyle Taylor, PhD (from Stanford) has made the news again for its syncing with Y Combinator.  The Silicon Valley venture capital firm… Read More

March 31, 2014 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform RealCrowd has received an additional $1.6 million in seed funding to aid in the growth of the young company.  The  San Francisco based startup  received the investment from multiple investors including: Data Collective, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Paul Bucheit and several… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdTilt has an interesting crowdfunding campaign on their platform,  “Cross Country Love” is raising money to fly New York based women to San Francisco to bridge the gender disparity between the two coastal communities.   According to the campaign their are  100,000 single women in… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 10:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Paul Graham will take a step back from famed Silicon Valley tech accelerator Y Combinator to focus on his writing, although he will still consult startups. Over nine years at Y Combinator, Graham has built the organization into one of the most desirable entrepreneurial experiences… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 10:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Every day, 4,000 people die from AIDS. 35 million people around the world are currently living with HIV. It’s one of the great tragedies of our time. Now a group of scientists have gathered under the Immunity Project in hopes of eradicating the disease by… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 4:23 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

When we first reported on payment startup Celery, the company had just come out of Y Combinator (by proxy via Airbrite) to launch a payment solution for crowdfunding project creators who had already closed a crowdfunding round. We did an in-depth interview with Chris Tsai… Read More

January 29, 2014 @ 12:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundersClub just announced the release of a new social content channel called Venture News. The news aggregator aims to provide a hub of conversation and content for the world of finance. It works similarly to Hacker News, Y-Combinator’s tech news meritocracy. Users can sign up and… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 10:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has invested $20 million in Teespring, an innovative crowdfunding platform for t-shirts. RELATED | Teespring Crowdfunds T-Shirt Preorders Teespring is a Y Combinator alum and has seen some pretty insane growth early in its lifecycle, so it is no huge surprise that… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 2:06 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Y Combinator-backed Apigy created Lockitron just as the connected home movement was really taking off. The company promised some pretty slick features. The device integrated with your home’s deadbolt and promised to allow things like remote unlocking from a smartphone. It was even said to have… Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Single Card Replaces All Credit Cards, Debit Cards & Loyalty Cards. As hard as I try to minimize the number of cards I lug around in my wallet the number continues to grow.  Yes I have an app for loyalty cards which I regularly use,… Read More

October 28, 2013 @ 10:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Founded in 2010 by Monique Coleman, the Gimme Mo Foundation was started to address issues facing young people globally.  In support of the foundation Monique has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Prizeo.  It has been 5 years since High School Musical ended and now they… Read More

August 21, 2013 @ 11:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Yesterday real estate crowdfund investing platform RealCrowd pitched to investors at Y Combinator’s demo day. This marks the culmination of RealCrowd’s experience as part of the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Wired magazine calls Y Combinator “the most prestigious program for budding digital entrepreneurs.” RealCrowd… Read More

August 16, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier in 2013 we reported on San Francisco-based payment startup Celery, who had launched an initiative targeting successful Kickstarter projects. Celery’s Peter Shih recently took to Medium to share 10 things he hates about the city he works in. Kevin Montgomery followed up by completely… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 3:58 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

FundersClub has closed the first fund in their “Accelerate Series.” The fund offered early-stage investment opportunities in companies participating in the Winter 2013 class of Y Combinator. This new fund gave accredited investors the sought-after opportunity to invest in startups that have benefited from selection… Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 3:11 am By DelwareOnline  |  

The $100,000 Thiel Foundation fellowship James Schuler just won allows young entrepreneurs to drop out of college to pursue their business ideas – except he never got there in the first place. Before graduating from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, N.Y., last year, the… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 9:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart and his team have settled on Crowdhoster as the platform of choice for their crowdfunding campaign for Soylent. We wrote about Soylent in the past, a meal replacement drink that garnered both praise and criticism in the press. Click here to see the… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 4:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Legendary incubator – venture capital group Y Combinator founder Paul Graham has announced a “First Ever” – Graham is joining the board of medical charity crowdfunding site Watsi. Graham announced this event via twitter, of course; For the first time I agreed to be on… Read More

March 27, 2013 @ 9:37 am By Daniel Terdiman  |  

Watsi is hoping to use a Kickstarter model to help fund crucial medical cases around the world. Thirteen health care institutions are using Watsi already. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Though it is the undisputed king of incubators, many Y Combinator alumns have failed to make a… Read More