Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Y Combinator

Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community.  Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program.  With over 250 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Learn more at www.forumvc.com

Forum Ventures

Magma Partners is an early-stage stage venture capital firm that helps the best Latin American entrepreneurs launch and scale in the US market. They focus on fintech, insurance tech, and blockchain startups in Latin America, and global startups with Latin American tech teams that target the US market. Magma Partners has offices in California, Colombia, Mexico, and China, with its headquarters in Santiago, Chile.  Since 2014, Magma Partners has invested in 38 companies across Chile, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica. They currently investing through their second fund, Magma Fund II, a US$15M fundraised from partners in Chile, the US, and China. Magma Partners also manages the Sino-Latin American accelerator, a program designed to help Chinese entrepreneurs do business in Latin America, and vice versa.

Magma Partners

Grand Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Led by partners Tim Streit and McKeel Hagerty, the fund invests in innovative technologies developed by startups located in emerging regions of USA and Canada. Beyond providing capital investments, the Grand Ventures team leverages the talent in their Advisory Board network to help entrepreneurs refine their strategy and focus, promote talent development, and achieve successful exits.

Grand Ventures

First Close Partners backs venture funds owned by underrepresented managers (“URMs”) -- especially to help them get to a “first close.” The company invests in venture capital firms owned and operated by URMs who are people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and members of other groups that have been historically underrepresented, especially (but not solely) in the venture capital industry. The venture capital funds into which they have invested are predominantly located in the US, Europe, and Africa.

First Close Partners

Marathon is an early-stage B2B focused fund that invests in Latin American startups. Our mission is to maximize the potential of top talent in the region. We back startup alumni or proven executors, solving problems across emerging markets. More than a fund, we also operate as a talent hub helping entrepreneurs and companies across various stages with strategic talent acquisition. We complement our portfolio with a team of operators and world-class advisors like Joe Lonsdale (Palantir/8VC), and Felipe Villamarin (Rappi).

Marathon Ventures

Venture Lane is a startup hub for founders growing early-stage tech companies.

Venture Lane

HelloGuru

HelloGuru allows users to unravel, consolidate and sync their data to their existing systems without writing a single line of code.

HelloGuru, a Y Combinator graduate, offers a no-code platform for businesses to connect their data warehouses with business tools. The platform enables users to analyze buyer intent data, sync data from customer relationship management platforms (CRMs), send personalized automated messages, manageleads, and automate onboarding.

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No-code Software

HelloGuru, a Y Combinator graduate, offers a no-code platform for businesses to connect their data warehouses with business tools. The platform enables users to analyze buyer intent data, sync data from customer relationship management platforms (CRMs), send personalized automated messages, manageleads, and automate onboarding.As of September 2023, HelloGuru offered integration with 100+ platforms, including Facebook, Azana, Airtable, Google Analytics, and Dropbox.

Index offers a no-code platform for enterprises to build dashboards for internal use to obtain insights on business metrics, investor updates and operation overviews, among others. As of June 2021, the product remains at beta, with a limited early preview. The platform provides prebuilt templates, and also has tools for users to build their own dashboards. The dashboard can be integrated with multiple apps including Hubspot ((customer relationship management data), Stripe (payment data), and Postgres and MongoDB (databases), slack (remote working) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets), among others. The company raised USD 2.6 million in Seed funding in October 2020. It intends to invest the funds in hiring two engineers (in addition to the two founders) and continuing to refine and develop the product. The founders aim to reach USD 1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expand their product distribution.

Index

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 Stencyl offers a drag-and-drop no-code platform that enables users to create and publish web and mobile games. Users can build their game logic using the platform&rsquo;s pre-built code blocks, design visual elements via an in-built graphics editor, and publish across a range of platform&rsquo;s such as IoS, Android, Windows and Mac. Moreover,&nbsp; Stencyl also enables users to embed ads into their games as a secondary source of revenue.&nbsp;
 
 
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 As of February 2024, Stencyl was used by over 500,000 registered developers. Apps created on Stencyl have reached top slots in the Apple App Store and Google Play, and its most successful web games have been sponsored by major publishers including ArmorGames, Kongregate, and Newgrounds.
 
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Stencyl

Universe offers a no-code platform for users to build websites that can be added to social media pages. Websites can be built using drag and drop blocks to add images, videos, and other content to create a mobile-first website. The Platform offers creative controls, 30 pre-made themes, and block features to allow users to create a custom site and/or open an e-commerce store directly from a mobile phone.The company began as a landing page builder and progressed to developing websites, which include tools for adding shopping blocks. Universe targets micro businesses that are not tech-savvy.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20509">In July 2023 </a>, Universe launched the beta version of Generative Universe Sites (GUS), an AI-powered website designing tool. This solution provides a conversational interface for users to dictate their requirements for a website and then generates a customized web page.Funding and financialsIn December 2021, Universe raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Addition to develop the company’s block-based system for website building named “GRID,” expand its commercial offering for startups, and extend GRID to more platforms and devices. Additionally, the company used the funds to expand its reach in new markets and grow its employee base.

Universe

Readymag is a web-based drag and drop tool that enables users to create websites, presentations and digital magazines. Its customers include large enterprises such as AirBnB, Forbes, Esquire, and IDEO.

Readymag

UserGuiding is a user onboarding tool that helps create interactive guides for customers. Functions include user onboarding, feature adoption, in-product messaging, and customer feedback, among others. As of September 2020, the company had over 2,000 global enterprise clients. UserGuiding raised USD 1.1 million in seed funding in August 2020, which it intends to use to expand its operations by increasing its workforce, accelerating global expansion, and enhancing product development.

UserGuiding

Allows users to create apps for their own businesses by using their data and ideas and converting them into apps to improve their workflow.

Platforms that allow users to create online/mobile games in a no-code environment.

Platforms and tools that enable users to build mobile-based apps using templates and tools (widgets) in a visual environment.

Platforms that let users create workflow and process management systems in a spreadsheet format integrating with databases. This also includes data science tools, which enable users to run predictive analysis on data sets through drag-and-drop functions using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Tools that allow users to build websites, ranging from blogs to e-commerce sites, in a visual environment without the need for coding. Often has no-code tools to integrate with other online tools, such as payment gateways.

Offers solutions for building internal applications and automations for enterprises

Many solutions enable users to leverage AI/ML for predictive analytics

Offers solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

Some solutions leverage GenAI to enable users to build application and website templates without coding

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