📶 YC request for startups (S25)

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Good morning 👋

I’m not a huge fan of “requests for startups”, but YC is good at it, and I think it’s worth hearing what they are investing in.

Their latest requests for startups came out last week, I went through why they’re excited about each different category, and if I’m being honest, I don’t agree with most of their opinions.

So many of these “AI for X” businesses don’t interest me. Efficiency and growing revenue-per-employee interests me, but do I think that we really need venture dollars chasing voice assistants for email? I don’t, but that’s just my opinion.

With all of that said, here is where YC is requesting startups for their next batch …