π»π today is YC Demo Day!! Cornell has the most startups this batch (more than Stanfordβ¦
π»π today is YC Demo Day!! Cornell has the most startups this batch (more than Stanford again)!! when YC came to the East Coast, they stopped at 4 schools, and 2 of them were Cornell (Cornell in Ithaca and Cornell Tech!!!)!!
and on the VC side, the two most prolific investors in YC startups are Cornellians!! and the founder of YC is a Cornellian too (Paul Graham β86)
YC Batch (S25)
π Halluminate - Wyatt Marshall β22 - Jerry Wu β22 - Datasets to train AI models
π Ambral - Sam Brickman β21 - Jack Stettner β22 - Mission control for customer management
π Idler - Nalu Concepcion β22 - Platform for reinforcement learning
π Palace - Leeds Rising β20 - Private market investor data analysis
π Verne Robotics - Aditya Jha β20 - Robot labor automation
π PARES - Daniel Weiner β27 - Kai Patragnoni β28 - Commercial real estate deal workflow
π Monarcha - Everett Lee β24, MEng β25 - James Spokes β25 - AI for geospatial data workflows
π Spotlight Realty - Raymond Allie β27 - Jacob Phelan β25 - AI-powered realtor for reduced commissions
π Wisp AI - Aditya Mahna β23 - Ayush Mahna β26 - AI executive assistant
π Janet AI - Adhit Sankaran, MEng β24 - Triage for JIRA tickets
π Uplift AI - Hammad Malik, MS β14 - Voice AI for underserved languages
most amazing is the steady stream of Cornellians dropping out of Cornell to start startups!! inspiring the next generation of Cornellians to start startups!!!!!