This Week at YC: How to Handle Investor Rejection

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📺 Investors Said No, Now What?
Step inside the Group Partner Lounge to hear Y Combinator Group Partners Harj Taggar, Michael Seibel and Brad Flora discuss how you should handle rejection from investors and why you should "believe the no, not the why."

 

📅 Y Combinator Startup Career Expo, Summer 2022
If you're actively looking for a new role or just thinking about what might be next, we're bringing 30+ YC startups and their founders to network and share open tech roles in engineering, product, and design. Apply to join and come meet founders of startups from seed to growth stage.

 

🚀 The Launchpad

Y Combinator companies that launched this week.

GEn1E Lifesciences
Palo Alto, California
AI platform accelerating therapies for rare & inflammatory diseases.


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💼 Jobs at YC Startups

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Regology (YC S18)
Regulatory compliance powered by AI
HiringProduct Marketing Manager
Great Question (YC W22)
User research on autopilot
Hiring: Senior Account Executive, Q&A Engineer, Content Manager, Full Stack Engineer
Zeit Medical (YC S21)
Immediate stroke detection at home
Hiring: Sr. Software Engineer, ML/AI Scientist
Kable (YC W22)
Usage-based billing for API companies
Hiring: Founding Engineers (Full-Stack, Big Data, Backend)


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📈 The Bar

The latest raises and rounds from YC Companies.
Zepto (YC W21)
$200M Series D • Mumbai, India
Zepto, a 10-minute grocery delivery app, raises $200 million at $900 million valuation
Rinsed (YC W21)
$12M Series A • New York, New York
Rinsed, the car wash CRM, announces $12 million Series A financing from Bedrock Capital and Founders Fund
Mooji Meats (YC W22)
$3M Seed • Baltimore, Maryland
Mooji is 3D printing plant-based meat
Teleport (YC S15)
$110M Series C • Oakland, California
Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access
Lygos (YC W16)
$160M Growth & Merger • San Francisco, California
Lygos and Flexible Solutions International Announce Definitive Merger Agreement to Form Leading Sustainable Specialty Ingredient Company
Doppler (YC W19)
$20M Series A • San Francisco, California
Doppler lands $20M to help companies manage their app secrets
Mozart Data (YC S20)
$15M Series A • San Francisco, California
Mozart Data raises $15M to help startups spin up a data stack
Pyka (YC S17)
$37M Series A • Oakland, California
Pyka adapts its autonomous electric plane for cargo runs with a $37M round
Aerones (YC W18)
$9M Seed • Riga, Latvia
Aerones raises $9M to inspect wind turbines with robots
Ruth Health (YC S21)
$2.4M Seed • Los Angeles, California
Ruth Health Raises $2.4M To Offer Post-Pregnancy Telehealth Services
Kable (YC W22)
$2.65M Seed • Santa Monica, California
Announcing our $2.65MM seed round led by Matrix Partners
HoyTrabajas (YC W22)
$3.5M Seed • Bogotá, Colombia
Startup colombiana HoyTrabajas.com levantó una ronda semilla por US$3,5 millones
CommandBar (YC S20)
$19M Series A • San Francisco, California
CommandBar lands $19M to inject in-app searches with smarts
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