10 favorite startups from Techstars’ October 2020 class

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A few weeks back, The Exchange

dug through a number of Techstars demo days

and parsed a few dozen startups to find a few favorites. Today, we’re back for more of the same, albeit with a different set of accelerators’ results to examine.

As a reminder, the last time we dug through the various cohorts, we liked

YearOne

, MyFavorito

, Livelii

, Albo

, Space Products and Innovation GmbH

and SATIM

.


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This morning let’s take a look at the startups from

Techstars’

Atlanta (full class here

), Los Angeles (full class here

), and New York City cohorts (full class here

), with a final peek at what the so-called “Techstars Western Union Accelerator” managed (full class here

).

TechCrunch has also taken looks at startups from the latest Y Combinator batch (parth one

, part two

), Acceleprise

, Envision

and others. It’s a time-honored tradition around here — we think startups are inherently interesting. With that, let’s begin.

Favorites and standouts

I wanted to kick off with Atlanta this morning, and not merely because the Falcons are somehow worse than my Eagles. A startup accelerator in Atlanta feels exciting because,

while we know

that there is lots of startup activity

coming out of the city

, it’s still not a place I know well.

Unluckily for our goal of picking favorites, I liked nearly every startups’ demo.

Meal Me

is cool, and as a former San Francisco resident who didn’t cook, *where was this when I lived there. *Swivl

is also worth checking out, because we should be able to expand who can really work with data. And Please Assist Me

is pretty spot-on for my generation’s yuppies.