Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6 • Hacker News Board

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by ycorvar » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

jranieri wrote: post #57

ycorvar wrote: post #7

Hi there! We are Orestis and Urs from Zeit Medical ( https://www.zeitmedical.com ). We enable fast stroke detection at home. 90% of strokes go untreated due to stroke recognition delays. Many patients live in fear that a stroke might happen and go unnoticed for hours, particularly if they are asleep when it starts. Stroke is currently impossible to detect based on symptoms. Unlike a heart attack, there is no distinct…

Best of luck to Orestis & co, they have been investigating this domain for many years and they are in a great position to find the product-market fit.

Thank you!

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #6

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Post by danvoell » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

ChrisCarde wrote: post #4

This is Chris and Robert from HeyCharge ( https://heycharge.io/ ). We're developing low-cost EV charging for indoor environments like underground parking garages. Current indoor EV chargers are expensive to buy, install, and operate, especially because they need internet connections and cloud-based backends. They're also unreliable, because even if the charger's internet connection works, the user might not have one…

Great idea. Good Luck!

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Post by whymauri » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

rdifazio wrote: post #59

whymauri wrote: post #44

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Very cool and promising. Is there any literature on this "immune system in a dish", or is it ,understandably, proprietary? Three main Q: * How's reception been with med chemists? * How do you expect cost to compare with some of the individual existing immunological wet lab screens? No individual numbers, just comparative would be interesting to know. * How granular is data collection for this kinda all-in-one system,…

There are some reviews on immune organoids that I posted below. This is the first human one though able to recapitulate these features at a commercial scale. We haven't gotten any feedback from med chemists yet! The cost is comparable to other in vitro systems and is cheaper than using animals. *The data collection can be very granular. You can use single cell techniques like flow and RNA-seq to generate high resolut…

Oh wow, your upcoming plans sound great. Keep up the good work guys!

And I highly recommend reaching out to a med chemist for some input. There's a lot of veteran retirees specializing in spaces adjacent to this who are open to consulting here and there. They're generally quite kind.

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Post by neonate » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 5:31 PM UTC

kall wrote: post #49

imharkunwar wrote: post #34

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On point - Its /wan-iz-tu-ex/ - referring to scale like 1:100, 1:500, 1:5 etc. In design, especially tangible design subjects like industrial design and architecture, everything is prototyped at some scale or proportions that is friendly to understand the design development.

If you have already considered this enough, disregard my comment..This name really trips me up as a german reader. If you like that it‘s a bit out there, that’s cool. If you want most people to read it like you just explained, you might need to capitalize the individual words. Edit: just saw your logo. That reads well on first glance.

Looks like https://onetox.com/ is available. Maybe they can get big and buy it.

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Post by ChrisCarde » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

saraQOA wrote: post #60

ChrisCarde wrote: post #4

This is Chris and Robert from HeyCharge ( https://heycharge.io/ ). We're developing low-cost EV charging for indoor environments like underground parking garages. Current indoor EV chargers are expensive to buy, install, and operate, especially because they need internet connections and cloud-based backends. They're also unreliable, because even if the charger's internet connection works, the user might not have one…

I love the idea! Cannot wait to have one here, as the the few charging stations are in the center of the small village where I live, so always have to park there, and pick up the charged car later...

Exactly the problem we want to solve!

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Post by rdifazio » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 6:02 PM UTC

whymauri wrote: post #63

rdifazio wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are some reviews on immune organoids that I posted below. This is the first human one though able to recapitulate these features at a commercial scale. We haven't gotten any feedback from med chemists yet! The cost is comparable to other in vitro systems and is cheaper than using animals. *The data collection can be very granular. You can use single cell techniques like flow and RNA-seq to generate high resolut…

Oh wow, your upcoming plans sound great. Keep up the good work guys! And I highly recommend reaching out to a med chemist for some input. There's a lot of veteran retirees specializing in spaces adjacent to this who are open to consulting here and there. They're generally quite kind.

Thank you! If you have a good recommendation, we'd love an introduction. Please let me know at robert at parallel.bio.

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Post by lharries » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

ycorvar wrote: post #7

Hi there! We are Orestis and Urs from Zeit Medical ( https://www.zeitmedical.com ). We enable fast stroke detection at home. 90% of strokes go untreated due to stroke recognition delays. Many patients live in fear that a stroke might happen and go unnoticed for hours, particularly if they are asleep when it starts. Stroke is currently impossible to detect based on symptoms. Unlike a heart attack, there is no distinct…

This looks fantastic! I’d love to know what are the signals and models you’re using to detect strokes? (any papers you could link to would be awesome) And what’s the accuracy like?

Also, are you thinking you’ll try and sell into hospitals or purely D2C?

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Post by reilly3000 » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 6:12 PM UTC

Etai wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I’m Etai, together with Andrew a co-founder of Secoda ( https://www.secoda.co ). Secoda is a collaborative workspace for data teams that makes it easy to share metadata, queries, charts and documentation with any employee. Companies store a growing amount of knowledge in BI tools, data warehouses, data pipelines, queries and documentation. Because these tools are not connected, it has become more difficult to…

This addresses key usability issues with most data initiatives. Don’t be dismayed that people who haven’t tried to share reports with teams don’t get it… I get it and I presume end users will love it. There is a particular need for metadata support in Google data studio that would be great if you could help solve: there are no folders or any real way to curate data outside of report sharing and leaving text boxes on the reports themselves. It’s kind of a nightmare for an otherwise powerful and popular tool.

I’d also like to see comment threads over data discoveries. Like a snapshot of a report with in-context exploration would be super helpful. In my experience the default behavior is a report screenshot dropped into a slack thread, and I know there can be better. QlikView does a decent job at this but it has the trappings of enterprise software. I think that would unlock a lot of value out of reports and give a place for teams to understand opportunities and celebrate wins. Congrats on the launch!

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Post by troelsSteegin » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 6:19 PM UTC

Etai wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I’m Etai, together with Andrew a co-founder of Secoda ( https://www.secoda.co ). Secoda is a collaborative workspace for data teams that makes it easy to share metadata, queries, charts and documentation with any employee. Companies store a growing amount of knowledge in BI tools, data warehouses, data pipelines, queries and documentation. Because these tools are not connected, it has become more difficult to…

Long term, do you see yourselves in the MDM space [0]? Informally, I think of MDM as "enterprise into analytics", and my first impression of Secoda is "analytics out to enterprise". Schemas and data dictionaries seem central to both. An MDM solution like Tamr looks a lot heavier weight than I think the experience you target.

[0] https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/m...

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Post by sahaskatta » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 6:20 PM UTC

ChrisCarde wrote: post #4

This is Chris and Robert from HeyCharge ( https://heycharge.io/ ). We're developing low-cost EV charging for indoor environments like underground parking garages. Current indoor EV chargers are expensive to buy, install, and operate, especially because they need internet connections and cloud-based backends. They're also unreliable, because even if the charger's internet connection works, the user might not have one…

Hi Chris and Robert. I'm the cofounder of Smartcar.com. We're an API for EVs. We're backed by a16z and NEA. (I also went to UC Davis too!)

I'm excited about what you folks are doing and would love to connect. We've been helping many companies in this space better integrate with electric cars.

Can you shoot me an email? sahas@smartcar.com