Y Combinator's kicked off Demo Day for its summer batch Wednesday, and even though this cohort was smaller than the previous group, the accelerator is still holding the event over two days.
The cohort had 240 startups, compared with 414 in the preceding winter batch, and it's also the first group to get the accelerator's larger investment.
In January, the accelerator announced that it was quadrupling its investment in startups to $500,000, with the first $125,000 giving it a 7% stake and the remaining capital applied towards future shares.
The accelerator accepted 40% fewer startups this time due to "macroeconomic conditions and the 'realities of being back in person,' and not in response to prior criticism" about the growing size of its batches, The Information reported in early August.
Of the startups that have launched publicly in Y Combinator's online database, more than five dozen in this summer batch are based in the Bay Area, including 51 in the San Francisco area.
A quarter of these local startups are building developer tools, and a few are developing no-code tools. Unsurprisingly, software dominates here but this local batch also has companies working in virtual reality gaming, consumer health care, fintech, autonomous vehicles, logistics, dating, e-commerce, satellites and biotech.
Without further ado, here are the San Francisco area startups, which is made up of S.F. and the East Bay, that are potentially pitching this week, organized by industry (though many cross over into multiple categories):
Biotech and health
- Keylika (Walnut Creek) — developing treatments for conditions like anemia with a wearable patch.
- Maverick Bioworks (S.F.) — using biotechnology to extract lithium more sustainably.
- Signatur Biosciences (S.F.) — developing diagnostics kits using PCR technology.
- Slingshot (S.F.) — developing software to automatically reduce medical bills.
Climate
- Array Labs (S.F.) — using satellite data for earth observation.
- Cambio (S.F.) — decarbonizing real estate.
Consumer and e-commerce
- Be Golden (S.F.) — using at home blood collection kits to assess inflammation and manage lifestyle decisions.
- Delight (S.F.) — a dating app for "relationship seekers" who only want to date one person at a time.
- Jamble (S.F.) — a secondhand marketplace for fashion that incorporates video and live streaming.
- Polymer (S.F.) — testing consumer responses to product pricing to find the "optimal price" to sell at.
DevTools
- Artemis (S.F.) — using in-line code to create an interactive interface for running and documenting scripts.
- Bunting Labs (S.F.) — developing a drag and drop tool for geographic information services.
- CodeCrafters (S.F.) — coding education and professional development.
- Dev Tools (S.F.) — automating and visualizing code testing for mobile and web apps.
- Grai (S.F.) — simplifying data transformation.
- Integrated Reasoning (S.F.) — computer hardware to optimize business needs.
- Medplum (S.F.) — open source tools for healthcare web apps.
- Metriport (S.F.) — making electronic health data interoperable for health companies.
- Morf Health (S.F.) — integrating patient data.
- Nucleus (S.F.) — reducing the amount of time it takes to launch enterprise software tools.
- Sematic (S.F.) — open source machine learning and data science tools.
- Sherlok (S.F.) — managing company data so that it's organized and searchable.
Fintech
- BlueHill Payments (S.F.) — reducing credit card transaction fees.
- Coris (S.F.) — helping other fintechs manage risk.
- Paigo (S.F.) — billing solutions for SaaS businesses.
- Ruffo (S.F.) — facilitating cross-border real estate transactions online.
Gaming
- Blacktop Hoops by Vinci Games (Berkeley) — a virtual reality game studio building competitive sports games like multiplayer basketball.
- Metafi (S.F.) — blockchain infrastructure for web3 gaming.
- Roforco (S.F.) — mass producing games to mitigate risk for other developers.
No Code Tools
Pets
Productivity and human resources
- Knowtex (S.F.) — a virtual assistant for health care providers using artificial intelligence and voice recognition.
- Monterey AI (S.F.) — simplifying product development.
- Peoplebox (S.F.) — tools for large companies to track goals and progress on initiatives.
- Pilot AI (S.F.) — automating data from call recordings for sales teams.
Software and artificial intelligence
- Abridge (S.F.) — automating logistics for freight in the Asia Pacific region.
- Banabo (S.F.) — making marketing more efficient amid evolving regulations and the phasing out of third-party cookies on major platforms.
- BiggerPicture (S.F.) — automating logistics for trucking and warehousing.
- Ciro (S.F.) — sales prospecting and data.
- Lotus (S.F.) — billing and pricing tools for SaaS businesses.
- Mercator (S.F.) — simplifying geospatial analytics.
- Polymath Robotics (S.F.) — developing software to make industrial vehicles autonomous and operable remotely.
- Relate (S.F.) — collaborative sales platform for startups and small and medium businesses.
Web3
- Coinbooks (S.F.) — accounting for crypto companies.
- Immuna (S.F.) — alternative asset management for institutional investors.
- Openpod (S.F.) — fundraising through tokens for open source projects.
- Probably Nothing Labs (S.F.) — multichain indexing for the Ethereum and Solana protocols.
