Category Archives: Y Combinator

Spokn slurps out the BS in corporate internal comms and replaces it with audio storytelling

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The podcasting world remains one of the most vibrant formats in media (and I am not just saying that since the Equity crew won a Webby yesterday for our not-that-humble podcast). Its openness, diversity, freedom, and ease-of-authoring has broadened the medium to all sorts of hosts on every subject imaginable. We experience that dynamism and […] Continue reading Spokn slurps out the BS in corporate internal comms and replaces it with audio storytelling→

PingPong is a video chat app for product teams working across multiple time zones

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From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was no secret that video chat was about to become a very hot space. Over the past several months investors have bankrolled a handful of video startups with specific niches, ranging from always-on office surveillance to platforms that encouraged plenty of mini calls to avoid the need […] Continue reading PingPong is a video chat app for product teams working across multiple time zones→

Nigeria’s Termii raises $1.4M seed led by Future Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures

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Ideally, it is expected of every business to reach its customers effectively. However, that’s not the case as limiting factors that hinder proper digital communication come into play at different growth stages. Termii, a Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup that solves this problem for African businesses, announced today that it has closed a $1.4 million seed round. […] Continue reading Nigeria’s Termii raises $1.4M seed led by Future Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures→

Airbyte raises $5.2M for its open-source data integration platform

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Airbyte, an open-source data integration platform, today announced that it has raised a $5.2 million seed funding round led by Accel. Other investors include Y Combinator, 8VC, Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen, former Cloudera GM Charles Zedlewski, LiveRamp and Safegraph CEO Auren Hoffman, Datavant CEO Travis May and Alain Rossmann, the president of Machinify. The company […] Continue reading Airbyte raises $5.2M for its open-source data integration platform→

Aquarium scores $2.6M seed to refine machine learning model data

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Aquarium, a startup from two former Cruise employees, wants to help companies refine their machine learning model data more easily and move the models into production faster. Today the company announced a $2.6 million seed led by Sequoia with participation from Y Combinator and a bunch of angel investors including Cruise co-founders Kyle Vogt and […] Continue reading Aquarium scores $2.6M seed to refine machine learning model data→

Accord launches B2B sales platform with $6M seed

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The founders of Accord, an early stage startup focused on bringing order to B2B sales, are not your typical engineer founders. Instead, the two brothers, Ross and Ryan Rich, worked as sales reps seeing the problems unique to this kind of sale first-hand. In November 2019, they decided to leave the comfort of their high-paying […] Continue reading Accord launches B2B sales platform with $6M seed→

Polytomic announces $2.4M seed to move business data where it’s needed

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There is so much data sitting inside companies these days, but getting data to the people who need it most remains a daunting challenge. Polytomic, a graduate of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 cohort set out to solve that problem, and today the startup announced a $2.4 million seed. Caffeinated Capital led the round with […] Continue reading Polytomic announces $2.4M seed to move business data where it’s needed→

Jitsu nabs $2M Seed to build open source data integration platform

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Jitsu, a graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 cohort, is developing an open source data integration platform that helps developers send data to a data warehouse. Today, the startup announced a $2 million seed investment. Costanoa Ventures led the round with participation from YCombintaor, The House Fund and SignalFire. In addition to the open […] Continue reading Jitsu nabs $2M Seed to build open source data integration platform→

Datafold raises seed from NEA to keep improving the lives of data engineers

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Data engineering is one of these new disciplines that has gone from buzzword to mission critical in just a few years. Data engineers design and build all the connections between sources of raw data (your payments information or ad-tracking data or what have you) and the ultimate analytics dashboards used by business executives and data […] Continue reading Datafold raises seed from NEA to keep improving the lives of data engineers→

Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack

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Mozart Data founders Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman have been friends for over 20 years, working at various startups, and even launching a hot sauce company together along the way. As technologists, they saw companies building a data stack over and over. They decided to provide one for them and Mozart Data was born. The […] Continue reading Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack→