YC Digest - March 20-26, 2015

by Y Combinator3/27/2015

Hello from the YC Team at Demo Day (photo credit: April Buchheit)

Top Stories from the YC World – March 20-26, 2015
The deadline to apply to YC S15 is tonight at 8pm PT!

Here Are The Companies That Presented At Y Combinator Demo Day 1 – TechCrunch

47 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2 – TechCrunch

Ebola Drugs, Prison Inmates, Real, Live Rockets: Y Combinator’s New Launchpad – Fast Company

I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA – Hacker News

Sam Altman: Why Hardware Could Yield the Next $10 Billion Startups – WSJ 

How Platzi (YC W15) bootstrapped its way into Y Combinator to build the future of education – TNW

A Look Inside Transcriptic’s (YC W15) New Biotech Testing Facility – TechCrunch

Launches
YC S14: Nightingale Launches Its Support Platform For Autism Therapy

YC W15: Pigeon.ly, A Startup Focused On Serving The U.S. Prison Population, Joins Y Combinator

YC W15: SmartHires Helps Startups Find Tech Talent Within The Same Investment Portfolio

YC W15: GiveMeTap Offers Free Water And Footfall Data For Stores, And It Helps Africa

YC W15: Introducing Priime – a new way to edit photos on your iPhone

YC W15: Kickpay Is A Marketplace For Invoices That Helps SMEs Get Paid Quickly

YC S14: uBiome Is Now Doing An Indiegogo Campaign To Check Out Dental Bacteria

YC W15: SlideMail Is An Intelligent Email App For The Rest Of Us 

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  • Y Combinator

    Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Twice a year we invest a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200). The startups move to Silicon