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Alchemist is the Valley premiere enterprise accelerator and every season they feature a group of promising startups
They are also trying something new this year: they&re putting a reserve button next to each company, allowing angels to express their
interest in investing immediately
It a clever addition to the demo day model.You can watch the live stream at 3pm PST here.Videoflow & Videoflow allows broadcasters to
The founding team is a duo of brothers — one from the creative side of TV as a designer, the other a computer scientist
Their SaaS product delivers personalized and targeted content on top of live video streams to viewers
Completely bootstrapped to date, they&ve landed NBC, ABC, and CBS Sports as paying customers and appear to be growing fast, having booked
over $300k in revenue this year.Redbird Health Tech & Redbird is a lab-in-a-box for convenient health monitoring in emerging market
pharmacies, starting with Africa
Africa has the fastest growing middle class in the world — but also the fastest growing rate of diabetes (double North America&s)
Redbird supplies local pharmacies with software and rapid tests to transform them into health monitoring points & for anything from blood
sugar to malaria to cholesterol
The founding team includes a Princeton Chemical Engineer, 2 Peace Corps alums, and a Pharmacist from Ghana top engineering school
They have 20 customers, and are growing 36% week over week.Shuttle & Shuttle is getting a head start on the future of space travel by
building a commercial spaceflight booking platform
Space tourism may be coming sooner than you think
Shuttle wants to democratize access to the heavens above
Founded by a Stanford Computer Science alum active in Stanford Student Space Society, Shuttle has partnerships with the leading spaceflight
operators, including Virgin Galactic, Space Adventures, and Zero-G
Tickets to space today will set you back a cool $250K, but Shuttle believes that prices will drop exponentially as reusable rockets and
landing pads become pervasive
They have $1.6m in reservations and growing.Birdnest & Threading the needle between communal and private, Birdnest is the Goldilocks of
office space for startups
Communal coworking spaces are accessible but have too many distractions
Traditional office spaces are private but inflexible on their terms
Birdnest brings the best of each without the drawbacks: finding, leasing, and operating a network of underutilized spaces inside of private
The cofounders, a duo of Duke and Kellogg MBA grads, are at $300K ARR with a fast-growing 50+ client waitlist.Tag.bio & Tag.bio wants to
make data science actionable in healthtech
The founding team is comprised of a former Ayasdi bioinformatician and a former Honda Racing engineer with a Stanford MBA
They&ve developed a next-generation data science platform that makes it easy and fast to build data apps for end users, or as they say,
&WordPress for data science.& The result they claim is lightning-fast analysis apps that can be run by end users, dramatically accelerating
They count the UCSF Medical Center and a &large Swiss pharma company& as early customers.nCorium & They&ve built a new server architecture
to handle the onslaught of AI to come with what they claim is the world first AI accelerator on memory to deliver 30x greater performance
The quad founding team is intimidatingly technical — including a UCSD Professor, and former engineers from Qualcomm and Intel with 40
They have $300K in pilots.Spiio & Software eats landscaping with Spiio, which combines cloud-driven AI with physical sensors to monitor
watering and landscaping for big companies
Their smart system knows when to water and when not to
This reduces water consumption by 50%, which means their system pays for itself in less than 30 days for big companies
They want to connect every plant to the internet, and look like they are off to a good start — $100K in orders from brand name Valley tech
firms, and they are doubling monthly.Element42 & Fraud is a major problem — For example, if you buy a Rolex on eBay, you run the risk of
winding up with a counterfeit
Started by ex-VPs from Citibank, the founders are using risk models and technologies that banks use to help brands combat fraud and
Designed with token economics, they also incentivize customers to buy genuine products by serving exclusive content and promotions only to
Built on blockchain at the core, they claim to be the world first peer-to-peer authentication platform for physical assets
They have 45 customers across two industry verticals, 800K in ARR and are a member of World Economic Forum global initiatives against
corruption.My90 & Distrust between the public and the police has rarely been more strained than it is today
My90 wants to solve that by collecting data about interactions between the police and the public—think traffic stops, service calls,
etc.—and turn these into actionable intelligence via an online analytics dashboard
Users text My90 anonymously about their interactions, and My90 dashboard analyzes the results using natural language processing
Customers include major city police departments like the San Jose Police Department and the world largest community policing program
They have booked $150K in pilots and are expanding aggressively across the US.Nunetz & A Stanford Computer Science grad and UCSF
Neurosurgeon have come together to try to build a single unifying interface to replace the deluge of monitors and data sources in today
clinical health environment
The goal is to prepare a daily &battle map& for physicians, nurses, and other providers, with an initial focus on the Intensive Care Unit
They have closed 3 paid pilots with hospitals through grants.When Labs & If you hate managing people, When Labs wants to unburden you
Using an AI-powered assistant that texts with employees to negotiate assignments for hourly work, WhenLabs is trying to free customers like
Hilton from spending money on managers who would normally do this manually
As the system gets smarter, they claim employees will prefer interfacing with their AI bot more than a human
AI and HR is a crowded space, but this might be the team to separate from the pack: the founding team previous company had a 9 figure exit
to IBM.FirstCut & FirstCut helps businesses put video content out at scale
Video dominates social media — it creates 10x more comments than text — and is emerging as a necessity for B2B media
But putting video out if you are a B2B marketer normally requires using agencies that charge hefty fees
FirstCut wants to disrupt the agencies with software and marketplaces
They use software automation and an on-demand talent marketplace to offer a fixed price product for video content
They are at $180k revenue, and most of it is moving to recurring subscriptions.LynxCare & LynxCare claims that 90% of healthcare data goes
untapped when doctors make critical decisions about your life
Further, they claim the average person life could be extended by 4 years if that data can be converted into insights
Their team of clinicians and data scientists aims to do just that — building a data platform that aggregates disparate data sets and drive
insight for better clinical outcomes
And it looks like their platform has fans: they are active in 9 hospitals, count Pharma companies like Pfizer as Partners, and grew 4x over
the past year and now are at $800K ARR.ADIAN & Adian is a B2B SaaS product that digitizes the complex agrochemical supply chain in order to
improve the sales process between manufacturers and distributors
The company claims manufacturers reduce costs by 20% and increase sales by 4% by using their online framework
$1.5 Billion and 70,000 orders have gone through the platform to date.Hardin Scientific & Hardin is building IoT-enabled, Smart Lab
The hardware becomes a gateway to become the hub for monitoring, controlling, and sharing scientific data across teams
They&ve closed over $1.5m in revenue, and raised $15m in equity and debt financing
One of their smart devices is being used to 3D print bio-tissues and human organs in space.ZaiNar & This team of 5 Stanford grads — 3 PhD
and 2 MBAs — joined up with the Co-Founder of BlueKai to build the world best time synchronization technology
ZaiNar claims their ability to wirelessly synchronize and distribute time between networked devices is a thousand times better than existing
This enables them to locate RF-emitting devices (i.e
phones, cars, drones, RFID) at long distances with sub-meter accuracy
Beyond location, this technology has applications across data transmission, 5G communications, and energy grids
ZaiNar has raised a $1.7 million seed from AME Cloud and Softbank, and has built an extensive patent portfolio.SMART Brain Aging & This
startup claims to reduce the onset of dementia by 2.25 years with software
They are the only company approved by Medicare to get reimbursed on a preventative basis for the treatment of dementia
In conjunction with Harvard University, they have developed 20,000 exercises that are clinically proven to reduce the onset of dementia and,
they claim, help build neurotransmitters
The company works with 300 patients per week ($2.2 million annual revenue) and is building to a goal of helping 22,000 people in 24
months.Phoneic & Phoneic believes the data trapped in voice calls from cellphones is a gold mine waiting to be unleashed
Their app records and transcribes cell phones conversations, and the company has built an integration layer to enterprise AI and CRM systems
that traditionally didn&t have access to voice data
The team is led by the co-founder of 3jam, one of the first group SMS and virtual number companies, which was acquired by Skype in 2011
He is keenly aware of the power of virality — and like Skype, the use of Phoneic spreads its adoption
The company has already raised $800,000 in seed funding.Arkose Labs & Whether or not you think Russia interfered with the 2016 election, it
no secret that bots are having significant impact on society
Arkose Labs wants to fight fraud, without adding friction to legit users
Most fraud prevention platforms today focus on gathering info from the user and providing a probability score that the traffic is good or
This leaves companies with a difficult decision where they may be blocking revenue generating users
Arkose has a different approach, and uses a bilateral approach that doesn&t force this tradeoff
They claim to be the only solution to offer a 100% SLA on fraud prevention
Big companies like Singapore Airlines and Electronic Arts are customers
USVP led a $6 million investment into the company.
