TechCrunch posted a list of contestants at the latest Y Combinator demo day, and you can learn from the one-liners that describe the company. A few words capture the essence of a pitch and instantly makes it clear what the company does, and even more importantly, teases you to find out more about a potentially interesting idea.
No buzzwords, filler words, no hype. See how the headlines use concepts that we already know, often brands of established companies. This is a quick memory short cut for a story that would have taken 30 minutes to explain to someone in 1995 who never heard of Palantir.
Voodoo Manufacturing – A robotic 3D printing factory Volt Health – An electrical stimulation medical device Terark – Making databases faster Wright Electric – Boeing for electric airplanes Speak – AI english tutor NanoNets – A machine learning API Scribe – Automating sales development representatives Breaker – Making podcasts a real business Bitrise – Automated build/test/deploy for mobile apps Fibo – Mobile work tracking for construction teams Paragon One – Career coaching from real professionals Tress – A social community for black women’s hairstyles Bicycle AI – Automated AI customer support Vize Software – Self-Serve Palantir Simple Habit – Netflix for meditation Snappr – On-demand pro photographers IQBoxy – Software that replaces human bookkeepers Beek – Book review site for Latin America Bulk MRO – Industrial supplies for India Soomgo – Thumbtack for South Korea Cartcam – Shopping app for the Snapchat generation Peer5 – P2P Serverless CDN Pit.ai – Automatically mining trading strategies SmartAlto – Software suite for commercial real estate XIX.ai – Predictive assistant that anticipates your needs Zestful – Employee activities as a subscription service Arthena – Art investing for everyone Mednet – Stack Overflow for oncologists Penny – A mobile personal finance coach Moneytis – The cheapest way to send money abroad Hogaru – Cleaning for SMBs in Latin America Bulletin – WeWork for retail space Sycamore – Onboarding drivers for on-demand jobs Aella Credit – Consumer and low-income lending platform Tolemi – Software to help cities find distressed properties Niles – Conversational wiki for business Upcall – Outbound calls as a service KidPass – One pass for “amazing activities for kids” Lively – Modern healthcare savings account (HSA) Indigo Fair – Amazon for local retailers Collectly – Stripe for medical debt collection Tetra – Automatic notes for business meetings FloydHub – Heroku for deep learning ACLU – A non-profit you might know
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