TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The successful demo raised what NASA calls the “technology readiness level” of the Gitai robot to TRL 7. million Series B funding round, to hire and accelerate the development of a separate satellite servicing tech demo set to take place in 2023. Providing this option furthers the goals of commercialization of space.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1. YC Demo Day did not have a very long list of creator companies, but here’s who stood out by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch. But if you do decide to commit to the site, it’s $8 per month and can be equipped with a custom domain.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors. Apothecary.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Y Combinator’s Demo Day took place this week , and although the event itself was virtual-only, 86% of the founders in YC’s winter 2023 batch lived in SF while participating. TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

This week saw two big events running in parallel: an Apple hardware announcement and Y Combinator’s Demo Day. From faux fish to teams that want to reinvent flying, the Demo Day team rounded up some of the wildest pitches. The week an Apple event and YC Demo Day collided by Greg Kumparak originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

.” Levitt and Pager co-founded Coast , a platform that enables a sales team to demo its company’s APIs via a dashboard that executes live requests visually and in the browser. Certainly, there’s other software demoing platforms on the market — many with substantial VC backing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day. This week, 240 companies pitched themselves at Y Combinator’s S22 Demo Day, a stark decline from the 402 that participated in the Winter ’22 session. ” Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1. Want to survive the crypto winter?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This collection of startups featured lots of AI-powered startups, some interesting fintech offerings and one company that aims to be the Chipotle of Africa.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most startups never get past the pitch deck stage, so getting an investor to say yes can become a founder’s all-encompassing desire.

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DECEMBER 9, 2023

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the past few days in tech. AI stole the headlines once again, with tech giants from Google to X (formerly Twitter) heading off against OpenAI for chatbot supremacy. But plenty happened besides.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Hey, lovely people — it’s that time of week again: Week in Review (WiR) time. For those unfamiliar, WiR is TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the major events in tech over the past few days. If you’ve been too busy to keep tabs on recent happenings, don’t panic. WiR is here to get you up […]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

During a demo with TechCrunch, a company spokesperson outlined how the retail giant is experimenting with generative AI to help shoppers in all stages of the shopping experience, from the search and discovery phase to making […]

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

. “Hayes Valley truly became Cerebral Valley this year — San Francisco will continue to play a big role in the future of technology and will continue to bring together some of the smartest minds in the world,” Tan said, kicking off Y Combinator’s newest Demo Day. and we have so much work to do.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

Anna Dev tools plus generative AI Y Combinator Demo Days are a strong indicator of the trends investors might be interested in — and that’s one of the main reasons why TechCrunch always watches them pretty closely. In its Winter 2023 batch , three areas stood out, the accelerator said: “ open source , dev tools and AI.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

TechCrunch has covered the company modestly before this seed-extension, noting that it was part of the CRV-backed Liftoff List , and reporting on some of its business details when it took part in a recent Y Combinator demo day. Here are the 98 companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 Demo Day 1.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. Not all teams end up pitching at demo day.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about the new career path to CEO, our favorite startups from Techstars Demo Day and the latest SPAC you should probably know about. A triple-hitter Demo Day. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

As you can tell by the headline of this episode, this is a bonus episode all about Y Combinator Demo Day (and the terms we heard most often during the two-day affair). Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1 . Our 10 favorite startups from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 2.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

He and Friedland’s answer to that problem is a no-code platform for teams to create customized product demonstrations quickly, be able to integrate them into their sales and marketing processes and then generate insights from the demos. Walnut engagement example. Image Credits: Walnut. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2023

TechCrunch+ got to see a number of startups during web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s latest demo day, which we're covering exclusively. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

Sitting through hundreds of startups on YC Demo Days , you’re not always sure whether you are actually perceiving patterns or if your brain, as coffee battles with monotony, is inventing them in a kind of pareidolia for business plans. This year, though, the theme was pretty obvious: “AI can do that, probably! Same thing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But despite being what they described as not the hottest company in the batch, they skipped the accelerator’s well-known demo day, having already raised capital. Du said that it’s not generally encouraged to skip demo day.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Of the 223 companies that participated in the latest Y Combinator batch — not counting the companies taking part while operating under the radar — 79 had a fintech theme of sufficient heft to put them into the category, according to a Demo Day page sorted by the accelerator. That’s a sizable portion.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has opinions on bigger batch sizes , a growing standard deal , competition, the power of venture capital and why startup founders should be prioritizing more than just a check after Demo Day. Seibel spoke to TechCrunch’s Equity podcast , co-hosted by Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm , about Y Combinator amid market change.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We initially wrote about Quell back in August , and named it as one of our top startups from the Y Combinator S20 Demo Day. Our 12 favorite startups from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part 2.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

After securing a $15 million Series A in August, Walnut , a company that creates sales and marketing demo experiences, is back to announce its new round of $35 million in Series B financing. She believes it was the right time for a tool, like Walnut’s, so that companies could ramp up their demos.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Our favorite startups from YC’s Summer 21 Demo Day, Part 1. The group has also moved to remote demo days , something that we’ve appreciated here at TechCrunch as we no longer have to drive down from San Francisco to a large room with too few chairs. From a focus on in-person work, YC went remote during the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

.” For example, a factory that wishes to embed smart fault inspection on a production assembly line will be able to demo the AI project pretty fast by using a single camera on a machine for a few minutes. This will require many months or even years to bring the value the AI provides in the demo across the finish line.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Back in August during Y Combinator’s two-day demo extravaganza , TechCrunch noted a number of startups from India that stood out from the batch. TechCrunch caught up with the company via email, digging into its post-Demo Day results. You can sign up for the email here. Smaller startups are also seeing strong results.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

You will need to build a base prototype to test the first hypothesis and, if it works, you can then work on turning it into an MVP or a short demo version for your future commercial product. Are there enough people who are willing to pay for your product for you to build a sustainable business?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

The Exchange loves a demo day, so we keep an eye on accelerators as best we can. Today, Y Combinator’s latest startup cohort will kick off a two-day presentation cycle. We recently covered the latest concerning YC’s rival group Techstars’ geographic footprint as well.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invites users to vote for newly launched startups “to help them climb up the leaderboard, try out product demos, and learn about the founding team.”. Y Combinator founders, meanwhile, can launch on any day at any time.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

His previous startup PolySync, which has since shutdown, developed an automated vehicle software platform as well as a drive-by-wire kit that numerous other startups used in their own AV demos. And it’s built with fleets and commercial deployments — not demos — in mind.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

” I normally have my nice demo setup that I do, I’ll do like chocolate lava cake and a steak [in the June Oven]. So I got there about 15 minutes early to do that, and [Jim] was already sitting in the front steps of the office, ready to open the door for me — he’s like, ‘I don’t need a demo, I own this.'”

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