It’s that time of year again. When startup founders worry for weeks, the long-awaited Demo Day is approaching. Investors pore over lists of startups participating in various accelerator programs and have their associates ping dozens of founders for coffee meetings.
The Demo Day season is upon us. Soon, the latest batch of Y Combinator startups will launch investors for two days, starting August 19 and 500 Startups. Another San Francisco-based accelerator program for early stage businesses will hold its own Demo Day on August 22.
We will report live from YC Demo Day next month. For now, let’s take a closer look at all the startups that finish the latest 500 Startups program. As a reminder, through its four-month seed program, the 500 Startups seed fund invests $ 150,000 in participating companies in exchange for 6% equity. The companies below include a combination of fintech, digital health, edtech, and e-commerce businesses, 33% of which 500 Startups say They are led by women and 40% have black or Latinx founders.
- Alluva: It rewards individual users for their blockchain and crypto price predictions.
- AMPA jobs: An inventory management tool focused on hospitals. The startup uses computer vision to track and manage inventory in real time.
- Beatdapp: Help music labels and artists track their songs for royalties by providing real-time audit reports of real-time play counts.
- BlackCart: A try-before-you-buy app for ecommerce fashion stores.
- Blue studios: The STEM education platoon focused on teaching the STEM skills of 1 billion children.
- Blue wire: A sports podcasting network.
- Bytez: Help developers and data scientists work faster.
- Chemtech: A AI-product for the automation of manufacturing plants.
- Shock: A tool to help people launch their career.
- Curie: A camera-based shopping assistant.
- Dispatchr: Helps electric utilities prevent wildfires, catastrophes and crippling outages.
- File: A SaaS workflow management and recording system for legal teams.
- Eino: An artificial intelligence platform that produces predictive and historical information on localized population movement and intent in urban areas for business enterprise users.
- EZFarming: A market that helps farmers finance their businesses and sell their products.
- FitzyTV: An Internet TV platform designed to help consumers watch and record all of their streaming TV channels across multiple services.
- Gentem: A tool that provides iNstant claims for physicians.
- Glyph: A digitally woven footwear company.
- Hearo Live: Turn passive media into a powerful, live social experience for gaming, sports, streaming, and more.
- Heartex: It helps companies quickly build artificial intelligence products and features.
- HYVE: It helps users navigate their social media universe by allowing them to follow more people.
- Internal trends: A data science service for SaaS that uncovers insights about customer onboarding, retention, and engagement without the need for data scientists.
- KIKI: The first app that pays you to have fun. A social market where you can meet people and buy and share experiences with them.
- Lucidact Health: An artificial intelligence assistant for nurses and case managers to help them know what to do faster and eliminate errors.
- Nanno: The first on-demand child care app that allows parents to book select caregivers across the country.
- Nanogrid: Building advanced costing technology that enables home energy companies to ensure that their customers get the most value from their products.
- NewoldStamp: An email signature platform that turns every employee’s email into a marketing tool.
- Renaissance: It allows users to earn loyalty points by listening to music.
- Resonated: Reimagining business audio systems with patented Flat Core speaker technology.
- Subtract: 3D capture and display of products for e-commerce using AI with any mobile device.
- Rovilus: Developing Safe and reliable battery packs for commercial vehicles and electric light aircraft.
- Send4: It enables retailers to offer a seamless after-purchase experience to their customers.
- Sharebee: A vertically integrated marketplace where anyone can book moving and storage in a couple of minutes for half the traditional price.
- Commercial space: A global intellectual property market for companies to buy, sell, license and invest in technology.
- Visionary: It connects smart cities and autonomous vehicles by leveraging artificial intelligence and computer vision to provide complete automation for parking and traffic monitoring.
- Voogy: A IP to domain name database that allows companies to track and discover anonymous web visitors that do not convert to their sales funnel.
