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Startup Trends from YCombinator's Demo Day

Tomasz Tunguz

I’ve been to many YC Demo Days and I always look forward to them. This increase in activity seems to be driven by advances in data analysis for drug discovery and novel sensors. Demo Day is a window into the future of consumer and enterprise investments. This year was no exception.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Startups from industries like AI, Information security, Blockchain, IoT, FinTech, Big Data, Robotics, Gaming, etc., At the end of the program in December 2016, a demo day was organized in which 20 promising startups received funding of $33,000 from the government, with the top four getting an additional $6,000 to $100,000.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

TechCrunch

” Emperia collects a lot of datadata that not every shopper might be comfortable sharing. The startup’s experimenting with machine learning as well, focusing on the tech’s ability to create visuals and 360-degree videos for product demos.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022: The world’s most tech-savvy country South Korea invites startups to grow their businesses

AsiaTechDaily

XQuant is Asia’s leading specialist in using AI to process text documents, extract meanings and perform data analysis and second prize winner of KSGC 2021. The Demo Day will be part of the largest startup event in South Korea – “COMEUP 2022.”

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Korea’s leading accelerator program, K-Startup Grand Challenge’s alumni startups thriving in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. Xquant, FinTech, Hong Kong, Second prize KSGC 2021 Xquant won the second prize at KSGC 2021 XQuant is Asia’s leading specialist in using AI to process text documents, extract meanings and perform data analysis.

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Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses will join us at TC Sessions: SaaS

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, Monte Carlo wants to make sure that companies around the world are alerted when some of their incoming data pipelines go off the rails. That way when the corporate world does run data analysis on their collected information, it isn’t skewed by zeroes and other effluent.

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The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

Both Sides of the Table

And naturally we have built in quality controls like: frequency capping, automated measurement so we can pull ads that people respond poorly to, A/B testing tools, data analysis to tell celebrities & brands which products will resonate, etc. Sure, there needs to be ad disclosure.

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