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Hey everybody, welcome to this week in Startups today on the program.

As is our tradition, every time one of our accelerator classes graduates,

we have the top three vote getters as determined by investors come on the program and talk about

their companies and even their fundraising process.

And then what they're going to do once they have that money and they're going to deploy it,

these are very early-stage startups to give you a little background.

We started the launch accelerator about four years ago.

We've done 20 cohorts.

This is LA20.

So you might see YC20 or YC21W.

Generally, how accelerators work is we count up each class or you use the year.

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