| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.09.2025 | ZoomRx and Watsi Mark 12 Years of Partnership, Delivering Life-Changing Care to Hundreds Globally | Donations from ZoomRx’s HCPs funded the surgery Tway needed to restore his health and confidence
More Than $340K Donated—Hundreds of Patients in 31 Countries Receive Life-Changing Care Thanks to Physician-Powered Giving
ZoomRx and its globa... |
| 10.04.2023 | Find Yourself A Side Gig, Help Your Company, And Have A More Fulfilling Career | Chris Federspiel (right) and colleague Brett Waters on a volunteer assignmentChris Federspiel |
| 28.11.2017 | 13 ways you can give back this holiday season | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United... |
| 28.11.2017 | 13 ways you can give back this holiday season | It’s the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States, which means that after all the family dinners and the early morning rush to get in all that shopping, it’s time to give back to those less fortunate. Fortunately, today is the fifth ... |
| 25.04.2017 | A call to action for tech | Eric Liu Contributor
Eric Liu is a co-founder and U.S. Executive Director at Bayes Impact.
Tech is uniting against President Trump.
Indeed, a host of companies have come out in opposition to the new administration. From 127 tech firms teami... |
| 07.02.2017 | YC Research: Universal Healthcare | Four years ago, Watsi became YC’s first non-profit. They’ve since raised over $7.5 million to fund life-changing healthcare for more than 10,000 patients in 24 countries.
Today, we’re excited to announce that YC Research is funding Watsi f... |
| 07.02.2017 | Y Combinator and Watsi launch study to see how technology can fix health care | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Y Combinator’s research arm YC Research announced... |
| 01.02.2017 | Ethical issues complicate the benefits of medical crowdfunding | Medical crowdfunding — using social networks and media to raise funds for medical treatment — is growing in popularity and visibility. Recent examples include an American university student seeking $30,000 on YouCaring to help pay for medic... |
| 26.12.2016 | Watsi now lets you donate unwanted gift cards to fund patient healthcare needs | The day after Christmas isn’t a holiday per se, but it’s a day people take notice of, largely because it’s the first chance they’ll get to exchange presents they’ve received or run to stores to purchase the ones they didn’t get. However, pe... |
| 26.12.2016 | Watsi now lets you donate unwanted gift cards to fund patient healthcare needs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The day after Christmas isn’t a holiday per se, b... |
| 29.11.2016 | Here are at least 12 ways to give back this holiday season | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s once again Giving Tuesday, a day that encour... |
| 29.11.2016 | Here are at least 12 ways to give back this holiday season | It’s once again Giving Tuesday, a day that encourages you to give back to those less fortunate. You had Thanksgiving and Black Friday to splurge on yourself and your loved ones, but now it’s time to think about those with fewer means. If yo... |
| 09.03.2016 | Five Ways Non-Profits Can Think Like Startups | It’s been three years since Y Combinator backed its very first nonprofit, medical treatment funding platform Watsi.
Since then, a total of 16 nonprofit startups have graduated from YC, with several more in the current Winter 2016 batch.
L... |
| 06.11.2015 | YC Digest: October 31-November 6 | Top Stories from the YC World — October 31 to November 6, 2015
YC News
Y Combinator profiled in the Economist
Jessica Livingston interview with Aaron Harris on Startup School Radio
Luke Iseman quoted in the Korea Herald and China’s Tech... |
| 04.11.2015 | Watsi Receives $3.5M “Philanthropic Round” Donation For Nonprofit Healthcare Crowdfunding | Ron Conway, Tencent and Paul Graham aren’t getting their money back, and that’s the point. They’re part of today’s $3.5 million round that’s actually a donation to fund the operations of Watsi, Y Combinator’s first nonprofit that hosts crow... |
| 04.11.2015 | Watsi raises $3.5M philanthropic growth round to help it treat 1M patients by 2020 | Silicon Valley nonprofit Watsi announced today that it has raised a $3.5 million philanthropic growth round designed to fund its administrative functions. This is the second round of funds the organization has made and will likely help it t... |
| 24.09.2015 | Watsi launches 5-day donation campaign after raising $5M to help 5K patients | Watsi announced today that it has helped more than 5,000 patients from around the world receive funding for their medical treatment. To mark this occasion, the nonprofit organization says it’s starting a five-day campaign to raise additiona... |
| 23.08.2015 | Sam Altman and Jessica Livingston explain Y Combinator’s success | Twenty-four-year-old Brian Liou was a little nervous. But he had to focus. His turn was next. Liou is the cofounder of Leada, a startup to help businesses train better data analysts, and he had a lot riding on this. After all, his company h... |
| 11.08.2015 | How Taylor Swift inspired this Philly dev’s charity hack | Generate money for charity while you sleep.
It works like this: Loop a white noise track and the royalties will go toward charity. (In this case, Watsi and charity: water.)
Developer Chris Overcash built the tool, called Donate Your Streams... |
| 07.03.2015 | µTorrent latest victim of crapware paranoia | reader comments 240 with 148 posters participating
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BitTorrent Inc. has been accused of loading its popular µTorrent BitTorrent client with cryptocoin miners that install si... |
| 18.02.2015 | 50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley | “One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science, and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that we’ve got a... |
| 08.02.2015 | Female Founder Stories: Grace Garey, Founder of Watsi (YC W13) | Watsi is a non-profit that lets anyone directly fund life-changing healthcare for people who need it around the world.
Q: What did you do before starting Watsi?
We live in a world where potential is universal but opportunity is not. I’ve ... |
| 06.01.2015 | Run A Nonprofit Like A Startup To Move Fast And Help Things | Ryan Seashore Contributor
Ryan Seashore is the founder and chief executive of CodeNow.org, a non-profit teaching under-represented youth how to code.
Editor’s Note: Ryan Seashore is the founder and CEO of the non-profit programming educatio... |
| 04.08.2014 | Bypass Shady New York City Brokers with Circumrent | Although I don’t live in New York, as someone who has considered moving to “The Big Apple,” I found it exhausting to even begin searching for places to live. For anyone who’s ever paid ridiculous broker fees, spent hours upon hours searchin... |
| 09.07.2014 | Interview with YC’s Kate Courteau | New Profit, a venture philanthropy fund, posted a two-part interview with YC’s Director of Nonprofits Kate Courteau.
Excerpt from Part 1:
(SH): Why did YC decide to start supporting social entrepreneurs?
(KC): We came to this somewhat by... |
| 09.07.2014 | Interview with YC's Kate Courteau | New Profit, a venture philanthropy fund, posted a two-part interview with YC’s Director of Nonprofits Kate Courteau.
Excerpt from Part 1:
(SH): Why did YC decide to start supporting social entrepreneurs?
(KC): We came to this somewhat by... |
| 19.05.2014 | Startup School New York Speakers | We’re getting excited for Startup School New York on June 18. There’s still one day left to apply: http://startupschool.org/.
Here are the speakers who will be joining us:
Chase Adam
Founder, Watsi
Shana Fisher
High Line Venture Partners... |
| 21.04.2014 | Fred Wilson Leads $23M Funding In CrowdRise, A ‘Charity Water’ For Everyone | How do charities and non-profits raise enough money for their causes? Well, the normal route, that which needs to be “disrupted” if you will, means a lot of thousand dollar per-plate dinners, a lot of individual reaching out and maybe some ... |
| 26.02.2014 | Watsi To Change Its Logo Following Legal Threats From “Multi-Billion Dollar Health Insurance Company” | Watsi, a nonprofit startup that crowdfunds medical treatments for those who can’t afford it, has a problem: a company with lots and lots of money doesn’t like its logo.
Watsi announced this morning that it’ll be changing its logo by the end... |
| 10.02.2014 | Edward Snowden’s NSA Revelations Win Crunchie For Biggest Social Impact | Tonight at the Crunchies, Edward Snowden’s massive leak of NSA material won the Biggest Social Impact category.
Besting rivals like Code.org and CrowdTilt, Snowden’s successful efforts to demask the mass surveillance undertaken by the Natio... |
| 08.02.2014 | Incubator grad takes on another side of crowdfunding in healthcare: Medical bills | Its website describes it also as a white-label solution where charities can create profiles for the individuals they sponsor, as well as where hospitals and clinics can help recoup the cost of emergency care provided to underinsured individ... |
| 04.02.2014 | Join VB to find the king (or queen) of Ping-Pong at the 2014 Golden Gate Smackdown | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Game on! It’s time once again to stretch, dust of... |
| 25.01.2014 | Meet 6 Entrepreneurs Who Use Tech To Change The World | This latest wave of funding for Internet startups has resulted in a slew of applications that seem to benefit the one percent: Limos via smartphone! On-demand wash-and-fold laundry! Cheeseburgers and shakes to your desk! Snail mail opened a... |
| 06.01.2014 | Congratulations to the YC founders featured in Forbes’ ’30 Under 30′ | Congratulations to the founders of Coinbase, Stripe, iCracked, Meta, Pebble, Parse, Watsi, Amicus, Prizeo, Humble Bundle, Clever, Panorama, Scribd and FarmLogs for being featured in Forbes as part of the ’30 Under 30′.
See the full list on... |
| 06.01.2014 | Congratulations to the YC founders featured in Forbes' '30 Under 30' | Congratulations to the founders of Coinbase, Stripe, iCracked, Meta, Pebble, Parse, Watsi, Amicus, Prizeo, Humble Bundle, Clever, Panorama, Scribd and FarmLogs for being featured in Forbes as part of the ’30 Under 30′.
See the full list on... |
| 02.01.2014 | Happy New Year from Y Combinator
> Land a new job
> Learn to code
> Take a trip
> Be smarter with money
> Make a positive impact in the world | We’ve collected advice from the founders of a few YC companies that can help you with some common New Year’s resolutions. > Land a new job
HackerRank: A community of programmers who solve interesting problems for fun, prizes and jobs.
... |
| 02.01.2014 | Happy New Year from Y Combinator | We’ve collected advice from the founders of a few YC companies that can help you with some common New Year’s resolutions. > Land a new job
HackerRank: A community of programmers who solve interesting problems for fun, prizes and jobs.
... |
| 16.12.2013 | Watsi (YC W13) lands $1.5 million donation from Humble Bundle (YC W11) | Not-for-profit healthcare crowdsourcing platform Watsi has received a $1.5 million donation towards its business. The amount came from Y Combinator alumnus Humble Bundle, a video game startup that allows users to pay whatever they want for ... |
| 25.11.2013 | Watsi x Goldbely (YC W13) holiday gift package funds patients on Watsi | Watsi and Goldbely (powered by Strikingly) teamed up to launch a holiday gift package, where 100% of the proceeds fund medical care for patients on Watsi.
Check it out and order here: http://watsibely.com/ |
| 31.10.2013 | Startup School notes are now for sale as a book, all profits go to Watsi | Startup Notes is now selling its doodles from Startup School 2013 in book form, and they’re donating 100% of the profits to Watsi. A note from Startup Notes creator Gregory Koberger:
“Like everyone else at Startup School, I was mesmerized ... |
| 26.10.2013 | Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Goes From Snapchat “Role Model” To Potential Investor | Snapchat is looking to raise up to $200 million at a valuation of $3 billion to $4 billion and one of the potential investors that founder Evan Spiegel has talked to the most is Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings, reports WSJ.
Spiegel ... |
| 13.09.2013 | Watsi (YC W13) in Salon: Click here, save a life, for real | The “conference room” in the San Francisco office the crowd-funding healthcare start-up Watsi shares with two other fledgling companies is a Silicon Valley cliché. There’s a ping-pong table and a couple of chairs and that’s it.
Chase Adam,... |
| 26.07.2013 | Watsi Raises $1.2M in Funding | Watsi, a San Francisco, CA-based global crowdfunding platform for healthcare, raised $1.2m in funding.
Backers included:
– Paul Graham.
– Tencent.
– Y Combinator.
– Ron Conway.
– Vinod Khosla.
– Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
– Joe Gree... |
| 25.07.2013 | Watsi raises first-ever 'philanthropic seed round' from Silicon Valley investors | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Watsi has already made history as the first nonpr... |
| 25.07.2013 | Funding Daily: Sweaters and scarves | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In today’s funding news, there were the usual sus... |
| 25.07.2013 | Healthcare Crowdfunding Platform Watsi Grabs $1.2M From Tencent, Paul Graham, Vinod Khosla, Ron Conway And More | At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC back in April, former Facebook exec-turned-venture capitalist, Chamath Palihapitiya delivered a deflating critique of the tech industry — in particular, the quality of its startups. Had he been issuing a report car... |
| 25.07.2013 | Watsi (YC W13) raises a $1.2M philanthropic seed round from PG, Tencent, YC, Conway, Khosla, Draper Richards Kaplan | We dropped everything for Watsi. We quit our jobs, moved across the country, and worked hundred-hour weeks to prove that by connecting people, we could change the future of healthcare.
Three months ago, we had the opportunity to pitch Wats... |
| 08.05.2013 | CrowdMed Wants To Crowdsource Your Medical Care To Strangers | Would you trust the “wisdom of the crowd” over your own doctor? CrowdMed thinks you might. The San Francisco start-up has an audacious plan to use crowdsourcing techniques to tap the “collective wisdom” of strangers to help diagnose patient... |
| 17.04.2013 | Microsoft Makes 1,000 Windows 8 Quickstart Kits Available To iOS Developers: $25 For Win 8 Pro & Parallels For Mac | Two weeks ago, Microsoft launched its Windows 8 Quickstart kits for web developers who want to test their web apps on Internet Explorer 10 and Windows 8 on their Macs. That offer sold out very quickly, but today, Microsoft announced that it... |
| 08.04.2013 | Watsi (YC W13) profiled in The Next Web: YC's first startup non-profit | This is the story of Watsi a non-profit that found itself in the care of a startup accelerator called Y Combinator (YC). YC normally works with for-profit companies focused on technology innovation, and has generated successful businesses w... |
| 08.04.2013 | Watsi (YC W13) profiled in The Next Web: YC’s first startup non-profit | This is the story of Watsi a non-profit that found itself in the care of a startup accelerator called Y Combinator (YC). YC normally works with for-profit companies focused on technology innovation, and has generated successful businesses w... |
| 26.03.2013 | YC’s first nonprofit wants medical care for everyone on the planet | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Watsi is the first nonprofit ever accepted into Y Combinator. Today at the accelerator’s demo day, founder Chase Adam said his startup is going to change the world and make basic medical care accessible to anyone who... |
| 26.03.2013 | YC’s first nonprofit wants medical care for everyone on the planet | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Watsi is the first nonpro... |
| 26.03.2013 | TechCrunch’s Picks: The Top 7 Startups From Y Combinator’s W13 Demo Day | Y Combinator was tougher to get into than ever this season, and the quality showed on stage. Thirty-three startups presented on the record at the incubator’s Winter 2013 Demo Day today. Picking the most promising ones was no easy task. But ... |
| 26.03.2013 | Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1: Meet Wevorce, FlightCar, Thalmic, And More | It’s Demo Day time once again for Y Combinator, the startup incubator that has become a Silicon Valley institution since shaping its first class of startups back in 2005.
A handful of us TechCrunch writers are here in Mountain View, Calif, ... |
| 18.02.2013 | Why developers should start choosing conscience over profit | This is a guest post by Jason Cavnar, the co-founder and CEO of Singly.
Over the holidays, I looked around the living room and saw eight adults over 55 sending text messages, having video conversations with loved ones in other cities, and s... |
| 25.01.2013 | Y Combinator Backs Its First Non-Profit, Watsi; Paul Graham Says He’s “Never Been So Excited” To Invest | Back in August, we wrote about the launch of a startup non-profit organization called Watsi, which offers anyone and everyone the opportunity to fund “low-cost, high impact treatment” for those who lack access to necessary care. Again, cons... |
| 25.01.2013 | Silicon Valley incubator backs its first nonprofit | Prestigious accelerator Y Combinator is expanding its horizons by backing a nonprofit called “Watsi.”
The startup, which caught the eye of YC’s outspoken founder Paul Graham, is helping impoverished people pay their medical bills through sm... |
| 25.01.2013 | Silicon Valley incubator backs its first nonprofit | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Prestigious accelerator Y Combinator is expanding... |
| 30.08.2012 | Watsi Is Using Crowdfunding To Treat The 1B+ Worldwide Without Access To Medical Care | Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big, difficult problems. I mean the type of big, honking problems no one likes to tal... |
| - | Five Ways Non-Profits Can Think Like Startups | Y Combinator backed its very first nonprofit, medical treatment funding platform [Watsi] in 2013 1.
A number of YC nonprofit alums came together to discuss their experiences building 501(c)(3) organizations with a startup mindset. Here, we... |
| - | Y Combinator отобрал новые стартапы на свою программу | Y Combinator является наиболее успешным бизнес-инкубатором современности, поэтому он уже стал неким индикатором "what's hot" в технологическом предпринимательстве. Предлагаем вам подробку самых интересных стартапов из нового набор... |
| - | Incubator grad takes on another side of crowdfunding in healthcare: Medical bills | Among the first set of graduates from a new San Jose incubator is a tech company using the power of the crowd to help people pay their medical bills.
HealthDonor is similar to Kickstarter or Indiegogo in that users create profiles, set fund... |
| - | Founder Stories: Grace Garey, Founder of Watsi (YC W13) | Watsi is a non-profit that lets anyone directly fund life-changing healthcare for people who need it around the world.
Q: What did you do before starting Watsi?
We live in a world where potential is universal but opportunity is not. I've ... |
