Kosh
Kosh is a digital lending platform in India, empowering blue-collar workers with a unique joint liability model (much like microfinance but for a different segment). The social component of their underwriting helps control credit risk significantly and lower CAC/Opex in one go, making this 150mn-strong segment credit-worthy.
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yc-company-directory #4254Kosh is a digital lending platform in India, empowering blue-collar workers with a unique joint liability model (much like microfinance but for a different segment). The social component of their underwriting helps control credit risk significantly and lower CAC/Opex in one go, making this 150mn-strong segment credit-worthy.
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Companies similar to Kosh
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PowerUs
match 71PowerUs helps skilled blue-collar workers like electricians and mechanics to find better full-time jobs. With only 10 minutes of effort, our users get job offers that pay them up to 50% more than they are making today.
shared extracted concept terms: blue, collar, worker; shared product terms: blue, collar, worker, like; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Airwork
match 58Airwork is an on-demand labor marketplace for premium blue collar workers. You can get an Airworker the same way you get an Uber, except instead of a taxi, someone shows up at your work site to work for the day. Airwork fills 98% of shifts in 2 hours. We're currently live in 8 industries across Southern Ontario, Canada, and customers include Tesla, the Toronto Pearson Airport, and the CNE. We're funded by YCombinator, Expa, Village Global, and SHL Capital.
shared extracted concept terms: blue, collar, worker; shared product terms: blue, collar, worker; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Cohesive
match 53Cohesive is the agentic CRM for blue collar businesses like janitorial, pressure washing, landscaping, HVAC, and pest control businesses. Cohesive fully automates sales and marketing outreach to local businesses and property owners in the service area, helping local service businesses grow even while servicing clients in the field.
shared extracted concept terms: blue, collar; shared product terms: blue, collar, like, control; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Vahan
match 48AI recruiter for India's massive blue-collar workforce
shared extracted concept terms: blue, collar; shared product terms: india, blue, collar; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Kashin
match 46Credit for the emerging economy in Latam. We have 10K users and nearly $2M in annualized revenue, from our small loans to micro-merchants and individuals in the informal economy. We do our underwriting with our proprietary AI risk model processing 250+ variables from the user's smartphone and credit bureau.
shared product terms: credit, underwrit, risk, model; shared product theme: finance and payments, security and compliance; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Forum
match 46Forum is building the first exchange to trade on cultural attention. We create indices from search, social, and streaming data to measure what the world cares about, enabling users to go long or short on changes in relevance. Attention is the primary driver of business success in the digital age, but it has never been directly tradable. Forum introduces attention as a new asset class for managing cultural and demand risk.
shared product terms: social, go, digital, but; shared product theme: security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator