[napoleond]

Wow, this definitely is the strongest looking batch in recent memory. Interesting to see a few companies in the group that are or will be competing head-on with previous YC alums.

Airware is particularly exciting. There are a lot of parallels between today's hobby UAV market and the hobby PC market of decades past.

I love Circuitlab, but "the founders estimate their market to be $500 million, because of CircuitLabs’ influence over which components the developers using the platform choose" (emphasis mine) is annoying.

Fivetran seems pretty ambitious, but it will be very cool if they can make it work.

[anandkulkarni]

Actually, TechCrunch misheard the pitch. CircuitLab's founders are pursuing a $500 million market in circuit simulation software, and a market in the billions that might come from recommending ideal component choices at the CAD level.

Now that's more like it!

[pisarzp]

Fivetran looks very cool, although I'm only worried that it's web based tool.

Advanced Excel / SPPS/ Matlab is used by professionals, who want very fast and responsive, something that is hard to replicate in web based app.

I wish them good luck though!

[zmitri]

1010data provides a web product for performing transformation on large sets of data and it's quite nice. We used it when we used to do analysis of mortgage pools etc.