99Dresses co-founder Nikki Durkin describes her company as an enabler to one of the world’s most powerful drugs: shopping.
“I have created crack for women,” said Durkin at today’s Y Combinator Demo Day.
The company allows women to upload items …
3D printing is turning heads these days, especially with do-it-yourselfers. Y Combinator startup Matterport has invented a small scanner, pictured above, that can scan any space or object and create a 3D model.
“We turn reality into 3D models and …
There a new search engine in town to freak out about: Ark, a “people” search engine that scrapes social networks to compile its own profile of you.
Ark found that over 30 percent of searches were for individuals. The startup …
Creating and managing a wiki can take work. It requires a special syntax to format your text and build out the wiki how you’d like it. Hackpad is trying to make the wiki fresh again, with real-time updating and no …
Boutiques are the last type of store you’d expect to get technical, but Shoptiques co-founder Olga Vidisheva is confident she can bring the tiny shops to your digital doorstep.
“The type of inventory boutiques sell is produced in small batches,” …
If your friends are sick of seeing lovey-dovey status updates meant only for your significant other, it might be time to take your love to a new private social network.
Pair is an iOS app for couples to share pictures, …
The problem with kids these days is … actually a problem with smartphones. Parents are hard-pressed to find a safe way let kids have the smart-gadgets they really want. Kyte, however, believes it has found a solution for Android phones.…
Priceonomics wants to be the service to tell you how much anything you want to buy will cost you. Following in the footsteps of FindTheBest, Priceonomics searches for prices on consumer goods so you can compare sellers and find the …
Where much of technology tries to push new ideas into the hands of consumers, TiKL is putting an old stand-by on smartphones: the walkie-talkie.
“We created TiKL with the vision of redefining the way we communicate,” said co-founder Zafir Ahmed …
Midnox wants to help maximize the iPhone’s great camera to shoot awesome video. Its app, Luma, stabilizes video as you record in real time to give it a more clean and professional look.
Typically, you have to use an editing …
Crowdtilt wants you to take the pool of money your friends gather for a vacation and put it online. The company does crowdfunding for small groups of people who already know each other; friends and family looking to pool their …
Waiting in a mechanic shop while your car gets a new set of brakes can be incredibly boring. Your Mechanic takes the auto shop out of the equation and brings a mechanic to wherever you are, instead of you going …
Apple’s virtual-assistant Siri isn’t available on Android phones, so copycat apps are popping up all over the Android Marketplace. Sonalight, however, promises to not just be another voice-activated assistant app, but rather a life-saving voice-activated assistant app.
“I’m from the …
42Floors is breaking into the commercial real estate world, helping new tenants find office spaces in an otherwise broker-run industry.
“This process is really broken,” said 42Floors co-founder Jason Freedman. “We have the determination and the talent … we’re going …
Old-fashioned paper resumes are starting to disappear, and Coderwall has a plan to replace them. The startup creates resumes for coders and developers that show off how great they are at the jobs they already have. Using gamification, developers can …
Celebrity investors are on the rise, with Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher, Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, and a number of other big names throwing money into hot new startups. But what if they took advantage of their influence to boost crowdfunding …
You’re jamming out to your favorite track on Spotify, and then all of a sudden a song that makes your want to scream starts playing. Instead of running over to your computer and frantically pressing keys and clicking at your …
There was once a time when blueprints existed as big spools of paper, spread out across an architect’s desk. Despite computer-aided design, architects on the job still lug that paper around. PlanGrid is making the obvious and needed move to …
Y Combinator’s semi-annual Demo Day is taking place today, and 66 companies are pitching their products at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Twenty seven of the presenting companies are still in stealth mode.
Twice a year, the …
