Experiment
Today's funders are so conservative they only fund the most obvious ideas. At Experiment, we fund the ideas that they won't fund; the ideas that matter. Since founding, over 47,000 citizens have pledged $9 million dollars supporting 900 scientific projects on the platform. 46% of all projects on Experiment are successfully funded. When the projects are finished, the scientists share the scientific results with their backers as lab notes and peer-reviewed publications. Scientists from Stanford, H
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yc-company-directory #3392Today's funders are so conservative they only fund the most obvious ideas. At Experiment, we fund the ideas that they won't fund; the ideas that matter. Since founding, over 47,000 citizens have pledged $9 million dollars supporting 900 scientific projects on the platform. 46% of all projects on Experiment are successfully funded. When the projects are finished, the scientists share the scientific results with their backers as lab notes and peer-reviewed publications. Scientists from Stanford, H
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a16z-investment-list #331Experiment is classified as Collaboration and productivity from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.
Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.
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A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.
Upsolve
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shared product terms: most, since, found, over; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
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match 49Since its inception, NS has raised over $80 million to build thousands of homes across Latin America and impact ~20,000 individuals. In 2021, NS launched a venture capital fund, Hometeam Ventures, focused on early-stage construction and housing innovations. NS graduated from Y Combinator and is a 4x recipient of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company.
shared product terms: fund, most, since, over; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
AnswerThis
match 49AnswerThis is a scientific discovery platform used by over 200,000 researchers that reduces weeks of manual research work to hours. Instead of manually searching, reading, and organizing dozens of papers, researchers use AnswerThis to find the most relevant work, see how ideas are connected, and get comprehensive answers to complex scientific questions with line by line answers. This allows them to map research gaps, analyze trends, and draft literature reviews far faster, all while building a s
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shared product terms: so, fund, dollar, support; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
HighlightCam
match 41Founded in 2009, HighlightCam is a YC-alum & 500Startups-funded company bent on taking over the world, one movie at a time. HighlightCam is revolutionizing how users create (and share) movies with a powerful mobile and desktop video-editing platform that takes your favorite videos & pictures & produces professional-quality movies. Now, your most important memories can be automatically transformed into meaningful video snapshots. HighlightCam is based out of Mountain View, CA.
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Discovered Materials
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shared product terms: today, lab, stanford, found; shared affiliation: Y Combinator