The Top 12 Companies that Launched at Y Combinator’s Demo Day
2 min readAug 25, 2017
The world’s most prestigious startup school, Y Combinator, launched over 100 companies this week as part of its August 2017 Demo Day. Here are our picks for the top 12 from this week’s set:
- JavaBot — AI powered bot to order your coffee for you, because who has time for that
- InstaDozen — on demand grocery delivery for 12 items or less
- CrapChat — share photos of your crap, only to disappear within seconds. Big market because everyone poops.
- SpaceY — retreats on flights to space with a focus on self-reflection and personal growth
- Dish.io — on demand dish washing, since most apartments in San Francisco don’t have a dishwasher
- Pickupbox — on demand pick up boxes delivered to you when you’re not home
- YouWork — a space for all the people you’re hiring to work for you
- Circle — an app for payments. You send to friends. Your friends send it to someone else, who can then send it to you. It’s a circle of payments.
- JustSign — an app for celebrities to sign stuff online
- Sloth — an app that helps employees communicate about the work they’re not doing
- YoFresh — fresh food delivered to you and your friends with an app that facilitates chatting between you and your friends to talk about your fresh food
- LooBoo — An Internet of Things connected plush toy to keep you company on the loo
With companies this great, we can’t wait to see what world changing solutions the next batch brings!
[Note: in case it’s not clear, this is satire!]