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S Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator’s S12 Demo Day. 75 startups pitched their hearts out today at Y Combinator’s 15th Demo Day.

s Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator’s S12 Demo Day

We saw surefire small businesses to risky big bets but after collecting opinions from their YCS12 classmates and top VCs, these are TechCrunch’s top 10 picks. [Chosen and compiled in random order by TechCrunch writers Josh Constine, Anthony Ha, Colleen Taylor, and Kim-Mai Cutler. There were many other great presentations, so choose your own favorites from our full coverage of all 64 startups that pitched on the record: Batch 1, Batch 2, Batch 3, Batch 4] Vastrm – The Warby Parker for shirts Why? Vastrm has a very simple goal: to get you the perfect fitting shirt. Vastrm aims to solve that problem by providing a unique suite of t-shirt sizes, and let customers find exactly the size for them by trying several on at home until they find one that’s just right.

Double Robotics — A teleconferencing robot with an iPad for a face Why? “Forget everything you know about telepresence robots.” Why? Why? Meet the inaugural class of startups that will step aboard ‘Yacht Combinator’ Unreasonable at Sea, a floating incubator for tech startups, has selected its first group of companies to expand their business operations while cruising through the high seas.

Meet the inaugural class of startups that will step aboard ‘Yacht Combinator’

Invited to join the sailing party are founders, venture capitalists, and students from Semester at Sea, a shipboard program for global study. The ship will call to 14 international ports to learn how to bring their business operations to new markets. At each stop, they’ll pitch their ideas to local politicians, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. The accelerator describes itself as “mentorship driven” and recently announced its A-list advisors. Y Combinator has nothing on these mentors — there’s even an archbishop to assist entrepreneurs on their spiritual quest. 11 стартапов, которые перевернут мир. Meet the Startup Alley companies of our first Silicon Prairie Awards. Be sure to come early and stay late at the Silicon Prairie Awards to give a high-five to the Startup Alley companies showcasing their products during the opening and closing receptions.

Meet the Startup Alley companies of our first Silicon Prairie Awards

We're excited to announce the inaugural group of startups selected to participate in the Startup Alley at our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards on August 30th. This group of nine companies will have the exclusive opportunity to show what they've been working on to the crowd at the Awards event. Each will have a demo table and the opportunity to share swag during the opening and closing receptions. If you haven’t bought your tickets, yet, be sure and do so soon.

You won't want to miss out on the chance to meet these startups. Without further ado, Startup Alley 2012 is (in alphabetical order): Thank you to all the companies who applied. Learn more about the Silicon Prairie Awards at siliconprairienews.com/awards. Credits: Photo by Malone & Company / Big Omaha Previous Post Next Post.

Customer Engagement Platform. 11 стартапов, которые перевернут мир. Invest In Startups. Startups. How it Works. And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Is… YourMechanic! Meet The Startups Bringing Online Dating Out Of The 90s. Online dating is a huge business, but most dating sites are still stuck in the 90s.

Meet The Startups Bringing Online Dating Out Of The 90s

They don’t take advantage of developments in video and social networking, and they don’t have good mobile experiences. Here are a few startups I met at TechCrunch Disrupt SF that want to bring online dating into the modern era. VideoDate Michael Cafferata, a firefighter, started VideoDate on the side. He says he used to use online dating sites but was always frustrated by the process. His solution: a mobile video chat app.

VideoDate is only available for mobile devices, but Cafferata says a full web version may eventually follow. Frimper, A Video Speed-Dating App For Facebook Like Cafferata, Frimper co-founder Maayan Kimhi was jaded by online dating and decided to add a video component to the experience. The speed-dating component is the catchy part, but Frimper is investing heavily on the algorithm. Kimhi says Frimper is dealing with the “flasher problem” in two ways. The Final 7 Disrupt SF Startups: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Saya, YourMechanic And Zumper. This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has been the biggest yet.

The Final 7 Disrupt SF Startups: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Saya, YourMechanic And Zumper

Nearly 3,000 people poured in to watch a wonderful keynote by top product CEO Jack Dorsey, talks with legends like Reid Hoffman and Ben Horowitz, and they were standing in the aisles during Michael Arrington’s historic post-IPO interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg today. Tomorrow, we end on a high note with the Startup Battlefield grand finale… But before that, in addition to a panel on all things Apple with some of the world’s most vociferous Apple experts, we’ve got talks from Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Vinod Khosla planned for the day. For the Battlefield, we’ve narrowed down the 30 companies in our startup battlefield to seven startups competing for the grand prize: the Disrupt Cup and a $50,000 stipend. Finals judges Michael Arrington (CrunchFund), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Chris Dixon (Founder Collective), David Lee (SV Angel), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!)