I always appreciate Y Combinator’s “Request for Startups.” Because it gives founders very specific insights about what types of startups might of interest to the accelerator program. This time is no different. But the categories are more specific than I remember them being in previous years.
But there are a lot of them. Twenty to be exact:
- Applying machine learning to robotics
- Using machine learning to simulate the physical world
- New defense technology
- Bring manufacturing back to America
- New space companies
- Climate tech
- Commercial open source companies
- Spatial computing
- New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs)
- Developer tools inspired by existing internal tools
- Explainable AI
- LLMs for manual back office processes in legacy enterprises
- AI to build enterprise software
- Stablecoin finance
- A way to end cancer
- Foundation models for biological systems
- The managed service organization model for healthcare
- Eliminating middlemen in healthcare
- Better enterprise glue
- Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones
Does your startup fall into one of those categories? Well you better get your application in. They close today.