Y Combinator Summer 2015 (S15) Companies

80,000 Hours provides in-depth research, podcasts, a job board, and free career advising to help people use their careers to address the world's most pressing problems, with a current focus on ensuring a positive transition to advanced AI.

1 investor

Afrostream is a video streaming service offering films, shows, and web series focused on African and African-American content, available across multiple devices and in 28 countries in Europe and Africa.

1 investor

Airmada builds automated ground stations that house drones, swap batteries, and launch missions, enabling remote and autonomous drone operations for commercial and industrial data collection.

1 investor

Apollo is a global asset management and financial services company that manages capital across alternative and traditional investments, including credit, private equity, and insurance solutions for institutional and individual investors.

3 investors

AppCanary is a security vulnerability monitoring and alertment service for developers working with open-source dependencies.

1 investor

Assembly provides quality monitoring and compliance software for Chinese electronics manufacturers, using on-site cameras and remote oversight to verify production standards and reduce defects. The platform charges manufacturers per unit produced and offers revenue sharing when quality benchmarks are met, addressing the opacity and inconsistent quality that plagues offshore manufacturing relationships.

1 investor

Auro Robotics builds autonomous shuttle vehicles designed to transport people within enclosed or controlled environments such as university campuses, resorts, airports, and retirement communities.

2 investors

Bistrobot develops automated systems that prepare sandwiches in food service settings, reducing wait times and order errors for customers.

1 investor

Bitmovin provides video infrastructure software including a player, encoding, and streaming capabilities for online video providers building streaming services.

4 investors

Blitz Esports produces educational video content on competitive gaming titles and operates a League of Legends coaching application that analyzes gameplay through computer vision to provide real-time decision-making feedback to players.

1 investor

BlueCrew is an industrial staffing platform that places workers into light industrial roles. It operates as the nation's largest light industrial staffing provider, combining digital technology with staffing services.

2 investors

Bodyport develops an FDA-cleared cardiac scale that non-invasively measures hemodynamic biomarkers through a patient's feet to detect early signs of worsening heart failure in a home setting. The company's platform pairs this hardware with a proprietary algorithm called the Congestion Index and a software system that integrates with electronic health records to enable remote patient monitoring and clinical decision support for heart failure management.

4 investors

Branch8 provides dedicated operational teams for digital commerce and customer experience management, serving e-commerce brands and enterprises across CRM, marketing automation, platform development, and customer service operations.

1 investor

Call9 provides emergency and palliative care to patients in skilled nursing facilities by combining onsite clinical care specialists with remote emergency medicine physicians who evaluate and treat patients via a proprietary platform, reducing response times from an average of 64 minutes to immediate care.

2 investors

CareLedger provides employers with pricing data on local healthcare providers and tools to encourage employees to choose lower-cost options, with the goal of reducing overall healthcare spending.

1 investor

Chaldal.com is an online grocery and necessities delivery service available in Dhaka, Jashore, and Chattogram. It delivers everyday essentials directly to customers' homes in urban Bangladesh.

6 investors

Circle Medical provides telehealth services specializing in ADHD diagnosis and treatment for adults through remote video consultations with healthcare providers. The service offers affordable, convenient access to care for patients seeking ADHD assessment and medication management.

6 investors

A platform that allows web and mobile applications to use spreadsheets as their underlying database, with bidirectional syncing so that changes in the app update the spreadsheet and vice versa. It serves web developers looking for an alternative to building custom backends.

2 investors

Cofactor Genomics develops predictive diagnostics for cancer immunotherapy using RNA-expression models to characterize tumor microenvironments and predict patient response. The company serves oncology and precision medicine markets by enabling more accurate patient-to-therapy matching.

7 investors

Confident LIMS is a cloud-based laboratory information management system serving analytical testing labs across cannabis, food, agriculture, nutraceuticals, environmental, cosmetics, and specialty testing industries. The platform automates sample management, compliance workflows, and regulatory reporting while providing clients with a self-service portal for test ordering and result tracking.

1 investor

Convox provides a platform for deploying and managing cloud-native applications across multiple cloud providers including AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. The platform abstracts infrastructure complexity to help development teams accelerate deployment cycles and reduce operational overhead.

4 investors

Cymmetria develops deception-based security software that detects and responds to attackers operating inside networks. The company provides products for hunting intruders, identifying lateral movement within enterprise environments, and automating breach response, along with customizable deception services for different business needs.

5 investors

Drip provides trade financing and working capital solutions for small and midsize businesses conducting cross-border commerce, using automated underwriting and transaction processing to assess credit and connect borrowers with capital providers and logistics partners.

9 investors

Eden provides an all-in-one workplace experience platform that helps companies manage hybrid and office operations through integrated HR, people operations, and workplace software. The platform enables visitor management, employee ticketing, room booking, desk reservation, and mail management for mid-to-large enterprises.

3 investors