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These AI startups stood out the most in Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch | TechCrunch

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Despite an overall decline in startup investing, funding for AI surged in the past year. Capital toward generative AI ventures alone nearly octupled from 2022 to 2023, reaching $25.2 billion toward the tail end of December. So it’s not exactly surprising that AI startups dominated at Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 Demo Day. The Y Combinator Winter 2024 cohort has 86 AI startups, according to YC’s official startup directory — nearly double the number from the Winter 2023 batch and close to triple the number from Winter 2021. Call it a bubble or overhyped, but clearly, AI is the tech of the moment. As we did last year, we went through the newest Y Combinator cohort — the cohort presenting during this week’s Demo Day — and picked out some of the more interesting AI startups. Each made the cut for different reasons. But at a baseline, they stood out among the rest, whether for their technology, addressable market or founders’ backgrounds. August Chen (ex-Palantir) and Elton Lossner (ex-Boston

These AI startups stood out the most in Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch | TechCrunch Image Credits: Precip AI These AI startups stood out the most in Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch Kyle Wiggers 1:01 PM PDT · April 3, 2024 Despite an overall decline in startup investing, funding for AI surged in the past year. Capital toward generative AI ventures alone nearly octupled from 2022 to 2023, reaching $25.2 billion toward the tail end of December. So it’s not exactly surprising that AI startups dominated at Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 Demo Day. The Y Combinator Winter 2024 c

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