Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Days just wrapped up, with 159 startups taking the stage and making their play for funding.
Just under 10% of the companies — 15 to be exact — were fintech-related. This is about average for a YC incubator class, with the 26% from Summer 2015 being an aberration. (UPDATE: Jim Bruene, who has tracked this percentage for years on the Finovate blog, points out that the previous post was in error. The Summer 2015 percentage was 13% — above average, but only slightly.)
TechCrunch covered all 159, but if it’s fintech you want, and we know it is, we’ve gathered them for you here:
- PayStack helps Nigerian merchants accept card payments
- Cover – Take a picture of your car or home, get insured
- Focal Systems takes on beacons by equipping shopping cards with smart technology
- STILT offers loans to international borrowers
- MeterFeeder allows older parking meters to accept credit cards
- QueueHop – Skip the queue by scanning QR codes and paying via smartphone
- LendEDU is a student loan marketplace
- Landed is a crowdfunding platform for first-time homebuyers
- AlphaFlow helps investors manage their peer-to-peer lending portfolios
- Lynks enables e-commerce in countries that lack it, and handles shipping and customs fees
- TrueBill helps manage subscription payments
- flexReceipts offers digital receipts to merchants
- PocketSuite helps small businesses manage payments and messaging
- Emburse provides corporate cards that enable pre-approved spending
- Bonsai is a contract and billing tool for freelancers