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Y Combinator selects 12 Indian startups for Winter 2023 cohort

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US-based early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator has included 12 Indian startups as part of its Winter 2023 cohort. The Indian startups that made the cut are: Atri Labs: Atri Labs, founded in 2022 by Darshita Chaturvedi and Shyam Swaroop, provides an application development framework using a fast API, enabling users to deploy applications on Github, AWS, and more. Codeparrot: Founded by Royal Jain, CodeParrot automates API testing for developers to speed up release cycles and increase test coverage. SuperAPI: Founded by Adithya Kavuluru and Aditya Agrawal, Chennai-based SuperAPI is a programmable API gateway that makes fetching APIs cacheable by monitoring incoming calls, and invalidates stale data to keep the API cache fresh. Mantys: Bengaluru-based Mantys, founded by Mudit Dangi and Kriti Arora, helps SaaS companies calculate and forecast their ARR accurately in real time without using multiple spreadsheets. Clueso: San Francisco- and Bengaluru-based Clueso, founded in 2023 by Akash Anand, Neel Balar and Prajwal Prakash, combines RPA with generative AI to crawl through SaaS apps, auto-generate guided tours and video tutorials, and help update articles. Qoohoo: Bengaluru-based Qoohoo, founded by Vimal Singh Rathore and Aseem Gupta in 2020, helps creators engage with, manage and monetize their communities with actionable insights. UpTrain: UpTrain founded by Sourabh Agrawal, Vipul Gupta, and Shikha Mohanty, is an open-source ML observability and refinement tool to improve AI models by observing them in production, sending alerts when they go wrong, and identifying model failure cases to improve upon. ShortLoop: San Francisco- and Bengaluru-based ShortLoop, founded in 2022 by Sumit Mulchandani, Deepak Thakur, and Vishnu Vinjam, uses API traffic to automatically create a centralized API hub with up-to-date collections and identify dependencies, breaking changes and API behavior without any manual effort. Floworks: Founded in 2021 by Sudipta Biswas and Sarthak Shrivastava, Floworks helps sales teams close more deals by letting reps send CRM updates, schedule follow-ups, send emails, and get reports—all from Slack. Magik: San Francisco- and Bengaluru-based Magik, founded in 2021 by Himanshu Bamoria, Mohit Kumar Jandwani and Shiv Sakhuja, removes the need for Web3 applications to integrate with multiple onramps across different geographies. Doctor Droid: Founded by Siddarth Jain and Dipesh Mittal, Doctor Droid help engineers understand how their code is impacting product metrics. The platform automatically correlates observability data (logs, metrics) with product markers (clickstreams, backend events) and shares insights on impact zones. Shyp: Kolkata-based Shyp, founded in 2022 by Shivam Bharuka and Sanchit Narang, connects shippers and carriers in real-time, which ensures that freight is moved efficiently and quickly.