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.