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Wheelys Café

Wheelys is a chain of organic bicycle cafés that enables young people to start their own cafés. Since starting last year, Wheelys has sold over 800 cafés in 75 countries, which means it’s growing faster than any fast food chain. Ever. Wheelys vision is to make it easier for passionate people without money to open their own cafés, shops, and restaurants. Wheelys was hosted at Y Combinator (the accelerator behind Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit) and has been funded by, among others, Othman Laraki (Col

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Wheelys is a chain of organic bicycle cafés that enables young people to start their own cafés. Since starting last year, Wheelys has sold over 800 cafés in 75 countries, which means it’s growing faster than any fast food chain. Ever. Wheelys vision is to make it easier for passionate people without money to open their own cafés, shops, and restaurants. Wheelys was hosted at Y Combinator (the accelerator behind Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit) and has been funded by, among others, Othman Laraki (Col

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match 54

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shared extracted concept terms: people; shared product terms: faster, easier, start, passionate; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 51

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shared extracted concept terms: young; shared product terms: combinator, start, young, grow; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 51

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shared extracted concept terms: people; shared product terms: fund, year, cafe, shop; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 51

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shared extracted concept terms: people; shared product terms: people, start, grow, any; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared extracted concept terms: people; shared product terms: combinator, fund, among, people; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 38

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shared extracted concept terms: young; shared product terms: young, faster, any; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator