Where: Computer History Museum, California
Admission: Free [by invitation]
Info: Event | Attend | Venue | Outside | Inside
Twice a year, Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups present to a specially invited set of people. You must be an accredited investor under SEC rules to attend. Pick of YC Startups @ Demo Day Winter/March 2016 [ie the previous batch, source: TC1, TC2]:
- Acre - Zero energy homes
- Loop Genomics - Read and fix DNA ✔
- OSV Vehicle - Open source electric car platform
- QueueHop - RFID apparel tag for self-checkout and security
- MI Guitar - A guitar you can learn to play in minutes
- Nova - Data science personalised email
- FlexReceipts - Replace paper receipts with emailed receipts
- MeterFeeder - Smartphone parking meters
- VardenLabs - Machines that drive themselves
- Castle - Lock out a user if he or she behaves abnormally [ie a hacker]
- Talkies - A child's soft toy that is also a restricted phone and messenger
- Boom - Leave NY 6am, arrive UK 1pm; leave UK 9pm, arrive NY 6pm ✔
- Emburse - Create virtual and physical credit cards with spending limits
- Lygos - Engineer microbes to convert sugar into industrial chemicals
- Unima - Medical diagnosis using biomakers and smartphones
- Perlstein Lab - Accelerate drug discovery for rare diseases [image]