Y Combinator’s S24 batch: Here are the European startups that made the cut

California-based Y Combinator, a startup accelerator and venture capital firm, announced the list of European startups participating in the YC S24 batch.

According to Y Combinator, “The overall goal is to help startups really take off. For most startups, better shape translates into two things: to have a better product with more users, and to have more options for raising money.”

What to expect?

The Y Combinator batch will be held in person at Y Combinator’s campus in San Francisco, starting with a 3-day kick-off and featuring weekly meetups.

During the batch, Y Combinator will invite people from the startup world to speak, including the founders of Airbnb, Stripe, Doordash, and Reddit to tell the inside story of what happened in the early days of their startups.

Each company will work with a dedicated Y Combinator Group Partner. Additionally, companies will be organised into small groups and will have the opportunity to build both personal and professional relationships.

After the batch, founders will be introduced to people who can help with any challenge, including other YC alumni. Towards the end of the batch, Y Combinator will help companies raise additional funds by introducing them to YC’s extensive network of investors. 

Here is the list of European startups that will be attending the Y Combinator S24 batch

Omnidock

HQ: Berlin

Founder/s: Christian Kohrs, Sebastian Rödling, Shayan Zakerzadeh

Omnidock develops AI marketing software designed to help merchants expand their market presence. Brands can seamlessly integrate with Omnidock’s operating system, which scans their catalog, evaluates marketplace qualifications, and automatically lists their products on approved marketplaces. Omnidock manages all transactions, streamlining the complexities of selling on multiple marketplaces for their clients.

The Forecasting Company

HQ: Paris, France

Founder/s: Joachim Fainberg, Geoffrey Negiar

The Forecasting Company builds planning systems based on its in-house foundation models for time series. Currently, the company is focusing on forecasting problems for logistics.

ReactWise

HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Founder/s: Alexander Pomberger, Daniel Wigh

ReactWise offers a software solution to optimise chemical reactions. The company’s interface allows wet-lab chemists to employ machine learning-based modelling to efficiently predict and identify the most promising reaction conditions. ReactWise’s solution help in quickly analysing and optimising reactions, saving time and resources in the lab.

Saturn

HQ: London, United Kingdom

Founder/s: Amal Jolly, Michael Ettlinger, Rohit Vaish

Saturn is an AI-powered operating system for wealth management developed to automate investment research, streamline operations, and ensure compliance.

Saturn AI automates operations, compliance, and insights using data from back-office tools and offline files, establishing a single source of truth. At present, Saturn supports over 200 firms globally that manage more than £35bn in assets under management (AUM) and over 200,000 clients.

ideate.xyz

HQ: London

Founder/s: Jasper Jia, Elliott Thompson

ideate.xyz is an AI design co-pilot for content teams to create engaging thumbnail designs for their social media channels. According to the company, the thumbnail design process is orchestrated by AI with layout, composition, copy, and imagery all optimised for brand consistency.

Patchwork Technologies

HQ: London

Founder/s: Ben Hall, Sam Kramer, Alex Maass

Patchwork is a logging automation tool that simplifies the process of logging code to storage.

With Patchwork, developers are relieved from the burden of manual log writing or rewriting.

This ensures the logs generated are actionable, context-rich, and secure, setting a new standard across the entire codebase. Patchwork currently supports Java, Go, Python, Ruby, TypeScript, JavaScript, Scala, and Kotlin.

Tabular

HQ: Berlin

Founder/s: Tim Hermes, Markus Jungnickel, Kilian Justus, Leo von Kleist

Tabular uses AI to automate the core workflows of accounting firms, starting in Europe. It generates finished ledger entries that users can export with just one click, streamlining tasks such as document classification, VAT filing determination, and the selection of the correct booking accounts.

Glasskube

HQ: Vienna

Founder/s: Philip Miglinci, Louis Weston

Glasskube is an open-source package manager for Kubernetes that makes deploying, updating, and configuring packages on Kubernetes 20x faster than tools like Helm or Kustomize.

The company is also ‘working on a cloud-native templating language so anyone building packages for Kubernetes can use a DSL and won’t have to use the Go templating engine anymore.

Evolvere BioSciences

HQ: Oxford, UK

Founder/s: Piotr Jedryszek, Weronika Slesak, Adam Winnifrith

Evolvere BioSciences uses its computational models to make next-generation antibiotics that outcompete bacterial evolution and precisely target pathogenic bacteria, without harming good microbes or human cells.

The company’s approach leverages co-evolutionary protein-protein interaction datasets combined with AI to forecast bacterial mutations and create ‘future-proof’ antibiotics, addressing antibiotic resistance before it develops.

Fuse

HQ: London

Founder/s: Sho Sugihara, Oscar Wilsby

Fuse offers AI-powered analysis of healthcare contracts and payments to help providers detect underpayments and collect the revenue they’re owed from insurers.