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Simmer (YC W19) tells users what to order using AI. Simmer is now live in SF, DC, NYC and Chicago!

Radical innovation at the core. Resonado Labs is an audio technology company revolutionizing the industry and introducing the world to powerful raw sound in smaller than ever form factors with their patented speaker designs.

Hand back your girlfriend/wife/mom/sister’s eye cream, cause it just ain’t gonna cut it. Men’s skin is a whole other ball game—it’s thicker, tougher, and structured differently than women’s. We craft products tailored to your skin type and formulate regimens that actually take your skin issues head-on.

Hallow: A Catholic prayer & meditation app to help you find peace, deepen your relationship with God, and sleep soundly every night.

Cameo’s mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences on earth! Cameo is celebrating another busy and exciting year as the world’s leading fan engagement platform having enabled over 27,000 hours of personalized connections across the globe. From TV stars and notable athletes to TikTok creators and comedic legends, Cameo has helped fulfill 2.5 million magical moments since our launch in 2017, and just in this past year, we have welcomed almost 10,000 new stars. In support of our employer brand efforts, we’ve grown our employee base by 30% and reached 50/50 gender parity on our global leadership team. In addition, in March of 2021, we announced Cameo’s $100M Series C funding, which brings our total funding to more than $165M, at a valuation of just over $1B. Some of the recognition were most proud of includes LinkedIns Top 50 Startups in 2021, our very own Steven Galanis being recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2021, Cameo was ranked #1 on The Information’s TI50 Most Promising Startups, among Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Inc.’s Best In Business 2020, and Business Insider’s Top 100 Startups of 2020. Read more on our Cameo Blog today: https://cameoblog.medium.com/

Cameo’s mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences on earth! Cameo is celebrating another busy and exciting year as the world’s leading fan engagement platform having enabled over 27,000 hours of personalized connections across the globe. From TV stars and notable athletes to TikTok creators and comedic legends, Cameo has helped fulfill 2.5 million magical moments since our launch in 2017, and just in this past year, we have welcomed almost 10,000 new stars. In support of our employer brand efforts, we’ve grown our employee base by 30% and reached 50/50 gender parity on our global leadership team. In addition, in March of 2021, we announced Cameo’s $100M Series C funding, which brings our total funding to more than $165M, at a valuation of just over $1B. Some of the recognition were most proud of includes LinkedIns Top 50 Startups in 2021, our very own Steven Galanis being recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2021, Cameo was ranked #1 on The Information’s TI50 Most Promising Startups, among Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Inc.’s Best In Business 2020, and Business Insider’s Top 100 Startups of 2020. Read more on our Cameo Blog today: https://cameoblog.medium.com/

Angel Investor

We provide a business-in-a-box for fitness and weight loss coaching. We enable creators to make millions per year.

We are a collection of entrepreneurs who brought our offline industries online. Now, were backing the next generation building across the 81% of U.S. GDP underserved by early-stage capital. We built companies in un-sexy industries, and it was lonely when we started. Most venture capitalists said our industries were too capital intensive, low margin, or difficult to scale. We were outsiders. ‍ Now, we can look back at the $60 billion of value created and the 30,000 employees whose financial trajectories we altered. The very qualities that made our businesses unattractive early are now our greatest strengths. ‍ Our entrenched assets serve as a barrier to entry, our higher-quality revenue inextricably ties to our customer’s daily needs, and our loyal employees who once made $20 per hour now make $100K per year. We chose the harder path, built the right kind of businesses, and improved America. A decade later, not much has changed in early-stage financing. We back early stage companies transforming boring trades, hard work, unpleasant spaces, and structural inequity. We know first-hand that exceptional humans can unknot these un-sexy industries. Now is the perfect time. California is out of water, a generation can’t afford a home, and our skilled tradespeople are in their fifties. Raw input, supply chain, and labor crises are silently cracking America’s infrastructure. Today, 19% of the U.S. GDP attracts more than 50% of early stage investing activity. 81% of the U.S. GDP is under-invested. Trillions of dollars of value are locked up in serious, unsolved problems across the 81%. Tackle a real, often very difficult problem. Use technology, cash flow, and a long-term mindset. America needs you to, and know that we exist to lighten your load.

Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQs total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.

Protégés mission is to democratize access to opportunity by allowing anyone to submit their talent to the best experts in the world for feedback and the chance to become their protégé. We believe that the best talent deserves be discovered, no matter background, family connections, or net worth. Anyone in the world with an internet connection has access to the information and education to break into a career. However, no matter how well you learn and master this or your craft, without the right opportunity to showcase this talent, career progressions stifle. Often, only the few who know someone who has already achieved success are fortunate enough to be positioned to shoot their shot to be able to make it. Protégé changes this.