SUMMARY
Y Combinator has selected 19 Indian startups for its Summer 2022 cohort, out of the total 250 it selected across the world
The US-based startup accelerator reduced its cohort size by 40% from the Winter 2022 cohort
While India has experienced a funding slowdown, investment in early-stage startups went up by 165% year-on-year in H1 2022
The US-based early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator announced the list of startups that made it to the summer edition of its biannual cohorts for 2022. The list includes 200+ startups from around the world, 19 of which are of Indian origin.
This year’s Summer cohort comes against the backdrop of reduced startup funding across the world, with fears of a funding winter abound. Multiple new-age tech startup stocks have also underperformed massively.
India’s startup ecosystem has also felt the heat (or rather, the cold) of the global macroeconomic conditions being as hard as they are currently.
July 2022 was the worst month of the last 17 months in terms of startup funding in India, as Indian startups could only raise $1.16 Bn, according to Inc42 data. Last month, startup funding was down 90% from the corresponding month last year.
However, early-stage funding in India is on the rise. In the first half of 2022, $1 Bn was raised in seed funding across 419 deals, 165% higher than the $377 Mn raised in the corresponding period in 2021, according to Inc42 data.
In May, the US-based accelerator issued a 10-point survival strategy for its portfolio startups to prepare for a 24-month-long funding winter. “The safe move is to plan for the worst,” Y Combinator had said back in May.
YC added, “If the current situation is as bad as the last two economic downturns, the best way to prepare is to cut costs and extend your runway within the next 30 days. Your goal should be to get to Default Alive.”
It is little surprise that Y Combinator has reduced the size of its Summer cohort this year by around 40%. Summer 2021 had seen 414 startups picked for the cohort, which includes Y Combinator investing $500K in the startup, along with three months of YC’s accelerator program.
In a statement given to TechCrunch, Y Combinator said that while the Summer 2022 cohort is significantly smaller than its most recent cohorts, it is still bigger than most of the cohorts over the last five years.
Consequently, the number of Indian startups that got into the cohort halved over six months. In the Winter 2022 cohort, YC had selected 30 Indian startups, double the amount that it had selected in the Summer 2022 cohort.
We have compiled a list of the 19 startups that feature in Y Combinator’s latest cohort from the Y Combinator Startup Directory and our primary research.
The 19 Indian Startups At Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 Cohort
Abridge
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Mumbai
Sector: Enterprisetech
Abridge is an end-to-end software for freight logistics companies. Based in Mumbai and Mountain View, California, the startup allows freight logistics companies to digitise their processes by accepting a booking, automating compliance documents and communicating with supply chain partners on its platform.
AlgoTest
Founded In: 2021
Headquarters: Delhi NCR
Sector: Investment Tech
AlgoTest is an investment tech startup that allows retail traders to do backtesting for their trading strategies for free. In retail investment, backtesting allows users to access historical data to gauge profitability and risk before investing any actual capital.
Users can also execute their trading strategies in the real market with AlgoTest by buying credits to do the same.
Cone
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Hyderabad
Sector: Fintech SaaS
Cone is a B2B SaaS platform that provides financial services to SMBs and startups. Cone provides full-service bookkeeping, tax filing, corporate cards, expense management, and financial reporting.
Coupl
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Fintech
Coupl is a neobank that is made specifically for couples. Users can open a new account by inviting their partner to the app after signing up and can save for financial milestones and invest by jointly contributing.
Craze
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Mumbai
Sector: Gaming
Craze is a gaming platform where people can discuss real-world events and trade them like stocks. Users can buy ‘shares’ of a poll and if the answer is correct at the close of the poll, the user wins INR 100. The ‘traders’ can withdraw their winnings and also put in money in Craze’s app to participate in more ‘trades’.
Clinikally
Founded In: 2021
Headquarters: Delhi NCR
Sector: Healthtech
Clinikally is a dermatology-focused healthtech startup, which features telemedicine and an e-pharmacy for treating conditions such as eczema, acne, hyperpigmentation, ageing and hair loss.
Entvin
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Enterprisetech
Entwin allows product-led SaaS businesses to get high-paying users from communities such as Reddit, Twitter and LinkedIn. The startup also allows users to automate reach by allowing them to create automated messages to be sent to relevant communities.
EthosX
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Fintech
EthosX is a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform that creates end-to-end financial derivatives on the blockchain. The startup has started with cryptocurrencies as the basis of its financial derivatives and allows users to buy derivatives from the platform without the need for an exchange or counterparty.
Gullak Money
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Fintech
Gullak Money is a fintech startup that allows users to save money by investing in digital gold. A customer can set up autopay for daily contributions towards the goal, or choose between opting for spare change savings or one-time investments.
Hiresure.ai
Founded In: 2020
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: HR Tech
Hiresure.ai is an HR tech platform that allows companies to communicate better with job candidates. The platform offers a more visual and engaging format of offer letters, company information and other details about the company than the normal communications and offer letters.
Landeed
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Hyderabad
Sector: Proptech
Landeed is a proptech startup that digitises land records and issues Encumbrance certificates to landowners to make sure that there are no land disputes. The app is currently only available to property owners based in Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
Maya Labs
Founded In: 2020
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Enterprisetech
Maya Labs is a no-code platform that allows users to build programs and processes with the help of natural language. A user can build a program to fetch data, visualise the data or perform actions such as trigger an API or modify an entry. Users can mix and match different blocks of code to create a program specific to their use case.
PayO
Founded In: 2020
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Fintech
PayO is a B2B fintech platform that allows businesses to simplify their billing processes, stock management, payment collections and supplier payments.
Rampay
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Delaware City
Sector: Fintech
Rampay is a cryptocurrency-based fintech startup enabling web3 businesses to onboard more users with local payment methods across multiple countries. The startup does so by bridging crypto and fiat currencies, with support for more than 150 fiat currencies and more than 100 cryptocurrencies and API integrations.
Raven
Founded In: 2020
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Enterprisetech
Raven is a SaaS platform that allows businesses to manage customer notifications in one place. With the help of APIs, Raven’s platform brings all the notifications from channels including WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Emails, and Telegram into one dashboard.
RootFi
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Fintech
RootFi is a fintech SaaS platform that builds APIs for banks, lenders, and fintech companies to help streamline their lending operations. The company also offers lending-as-a-service, that is, companies can embed RootFi’s solution into their products. The startup also offers APIs, loan servicing and underwriting for the same.
Shelf
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Fintech
Shelf is a finance app that allows groups of users to manage their money using only one platform. The app offers group wallets, tracking expenses as a group and a debit card for the group.
Tersho
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Jaipur
Sector: Enterprisetech
Tersho is a formula generator tool for Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Available as both a platform and an add-on, Tersho allows users to get a formula per the user’s requirement. Tersho doubles up as an explainer for more complex formulas.
Videobug
Founded In: 2022
Headquarters: Bengaluru
Sector: Enterprisetech
Videobug is a devtools platform that logs code execution so that developers can replay it and watch it execute line by line. The developers can use Videobug to detect bugs in their code and debug faster and with more efficiency.
Editor’s Note: This list has been collated from Y Combinator Directory & Inc42 Sources. For any changes or additions, please write to us at [email protected].
This is a running list, we will be updating it as and when new startups are enrolled.
Update | August 8, 2022, 5:10 PM
The profiles of Coupl, Entvin, Gullak Money and Rampay added to the list.
