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This week in Europe: 3 European YC startups you should know about

August 30th | #40

Twice a year, for the past 14 years, the best investors in the Valley flock to the star event of the season. No, it's not Burning Man. But it's almost as good – YC Demo Day.

Earlier last week, YC CEO Michael Siebel kicked off S2019 Demo Day by noting that 15% of the batch is focused overseas, with a big emphasis in India an Europe.

Overall, 9 European startups crossed the Atlantic to go through YC S2019. I usually don't pay attention to these things, but this year, I went through all of them, and I gotta say... some of them are impressive.

So in today's edition we are going to go over three of the most promising European YC startups (in no particular order).

Let's dig in.

Prolific

https://prolific.co

I LOVE startups that take an obscure, off-line niche and use software to beat the shit out of the incumbents.

Well, Prolific is just that – a marketplace that connects researchers with verified study participants. My dad is a doctor who happens to do research, and I know how big of a pain recruiting participants for studies is.

This startups allows you to launch your study to tens of thousands of trusted participants in minutes (vs weeks) by recruiting niche or representative samples on-demand.

Why is this so cool?

• There are thousands of studies launched each year, so the market is huge. Approximately 2.5 million new scientific papers are published each year.

• It’s a real problem that no one knows about except the people who REALLY know about it.

• The #1 competitor is not another company, but the status quo.

• They have traction, over 3000 researchers from 500+ institutions and companies.

• It takes a time consuming, dreading task into something that can be done over a matter of minutes.

PredictLeads

https://predictleads.com

The PredictLeads team describes their product as "providing business intelligence via clean APIs."

In 4-year-old terms, they help companies and investors figure out emerging trends, identify potential customers, and gain insights into a company by predicting what's