Category Archives: Y Combinator

Explo snags $2.3M seed to help build customer-facing BI dashboards

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Explo, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 class, which is helping customers build customer-facing business intelligence dashboards, announced a $2.3 million seed round today. Investors included Amplo VC, Soma Capital and Y Combinator along with several individual investors. The company originally was looking at a way to simplify getting data ready for models […] Continue reading Explo snags $2.3M seed to help build customer-facing BI dashboards→

Leena AI nabs $8M Series as it expands from chatbots to HR service platform

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When we covered Leena AI as a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 cohort, the young startup was firmly focused on building HR chatbots, but in the intervening years it has expanded the vision to a broader HR policy platform. Today, the company announced an $8 million Series A led by Greycroft with help […] Continue reading Leena AI nabs $8M Series as it expands from chatbots to HR service platform→

YC grad DigitalBrain snags $3.4M seed to streamline customer service tasks

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Most startup founders have a tough road to their first round of funding, but the founders of Digital Brain had it a bit tougher than most. The two young founders survived by entering and winning hackathons to pay their rent and put on food on the table. One of the ideas they came up with […] Continue reading YC grad DigitalBrain snags $3.4M seed to streamline customer service tasks→

Datasaur snags $3.9M investment to build intelligent machine learning labeling platform

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As machine learning has grown, one of the major bottlenecks remains labeling things so the machine learning application understands the data it’s working with. Datasaur, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 batch, announced a $3.9 million investment today to help solve that problem with a platform designed for machine learning labeling teams. The […] Continue reading Datasaur snags $3.9M investment to build intelligent machine learning labeling platform→

Narrator raises $6.2M for a new approach to data modelling that replaces star schema

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Snowflake went public this week, and in a mark of the wider ecosystem that is evolving around data warehousing, a startup that has built a completely new concept for modelling warehoused data is announcing funding. Narrator — which uses an 11-column ordering model rather than standard star schema to organise data for modelling and analysis — […] Continue reading Narrator raises $6.2M for a new approach to data modelling that replaces star schema→

Avo raises $3M for its analytics governance platform

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Avo, a startup that helps businesses better manage their data quality across teams, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed round led by GGV Capital, with participation from  Heavybit, Y Combinator and others. The company’s founder, Stefania Olafsdóttir, who is currently based in Iceland, was previously the head of data science at […] Continue reading Avo raises $3M for its analytics governance platform→

YC alum Paragon snags $2.5M seed for low-code app integration platform

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Low-code is a hot category these days. It helps companies build workflows or simple applications without coding skills, freeing up valuable engineering resources for more important projects. Paragon, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 cohort, announced a $2.5 million seed round today for its low-code application integration platform. Investors include Y Combinator, Village […] Continue reading YC alum Paragon snags $2.5M seed for low-code app integration platform→

Reflect wants to help you automate web testing without writing code

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Reflect, a member of Y Combinator Summer 2020 class, is building a tool to automate website and web application testing, making it faster to get your site up and running without waiting for engineers to write testing code, or for human testers to run the site through its paces. Company CEO and co-founder Fitz Nowlan […] Continue reading Reflect wants to help you automate web testing without writing code→

Recurrency is taking on giants like SAP with a modern twist on ERP

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Recurrency, a member of the Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, was started by a 21 year old just out of college. He decided to take on a highly established market that is led by giants like SAP, Infor, Oracle and Microsoft, but instead of taking a highly complex area of enterprise software in one big […] Continue reading Recurrency is taking on giants like SAP with a modern twist on ERP→

QuestDB nabs $2.3M seed to build open source time series database

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QuestDB, a member of the Y Combinator summer 2020 cohort, is building an open source time series database with speed top of mind. Today the startup announced a $2.3 million seed round. Episode1 Ventures led the round with assistance from Seedcamp, 7percent Ventures, YCombinator, Kima Ventures and several unnamed angel investors. The database was originally […] Continue reading QuestDB nabs $2.3M seed to build open source time series database→