Gizmodo

Watch This Startup Pitch Dystopian Sweatshop-Monitoring Software

Following intense backlash, startup accelerator Y Combinator quietly pulled a video from its X account demonstrating a new startup’s AI-powered worker monitoring software. The startup, called Optifye, ...
Fast Company

What it’s like to watch 243 startups give one-minute pitches

A disclaimer about this newsletter’s title: I didn’t quite watch 243 one-minute startup pitches myself during Y Combinator’s Demo Day last week. I think I probably set a personal record for pitch ...
Forbes

7 Must-Have Slides In Your Pitch Deck (According To Y-Combinator)

A typical investor in a venture firm receives roughly 5,000 pitches in a year, and reads about 700 of them. They only spend 3 minutes scanning each deck, and may fund a handful of startups or none at ...
AOL

See the pitch deck this AI studio used to raise $12 million to become the 'Y Combinator for IP'

UK-based Wonder Studios — one of a growing crop of AI startups targeting Hollywood — has raised $12 million in seed funding and aspires to become a kind of Y Combinator for content. Wonder, which ...

This couple (literally) married AI and filmmaking. Read the pitch deck they used to raise $6 million for their startup.

Meet the AI filmmaking startup Flick, which joined Y Combinator and raised a $6 million seed. It wants to be a go-to tool for ...
AOL

Two 19-year-old MIT dropouts joined Y Combinator and raised $2.7 million to arm police with AI. Read the pitch deck.

Two 19-year-old MIT dropouts have raised $2.7 million in seed funding out of Y Combinator to arm police officers with AI. CEO George Cheng and CTO Dylan Nguyen cofounded Code Four, which is police ...