This Week at YC: Summer Internships, Keeping Your Startup Alive, the First Quiet Supersonic Airliner and more

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☀️ Join the YC Internship Program - Summer 2022
There’s no better way to learn about startups than joining one yourself! At a startup, you’ll jump into real projects and work with founders to solve mission-critical problems. If you’re an undergraduate or graduate student, apply to join our summer 2022 cohort.

 

📺 Is Your Startup "Default Alive or Default Dead?"
This week, Dalton and Michael discuss Paul Graham's essay on the concept — and share strategies to cut your company's burn rate and keep your startup alive to see another day.

 

✈️ Exosonic (YC W20) Completes Quiet Supersonic Airliner Conceptual Review and Closes a $4M+ Seed Round
The company is building the first low boom, quiet supersonic passenger airliner, capable of getting passengers to their destination 2x faster than commercial flights available today.

 

🚀 The Launchpad

Y Combinator companies that launched this week.

HyperGlue
San Francisco, California
Business intelligence on text


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💼 Jobs at YC Startups

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Theneo (YC W22)
Stripe-like API Docs in just a few clicks
HiringBackend Engineer, Sr. QA Engineer, Sales Operations Intern
TrueVault (YC W14)
Privacy Software for SMBs
Hiring: Founding Head of Sales, Sr. Product Designer, Staff Engineer
Piepacker (YC S20)
Play retro games online with friends
Hiring: Sr. Game Developer
Wagetap (YC W22)
Advance next payday, and BNPL for bills
Hiring: Lead Software Development Engineer


🌎 The YC Community



📈 The Bar

The latest raises and rounds from YC Companies.
Henry (YC S20)
$10M Series A • Buenos Aires, Argentina
Esta edtech que capacita en empleos tecnológicos levanta US$10 millones de inversión
Zen (YC S21)
$3.5M Pre-Seed • San Francisco, California
Back pain? This app uses your webcam to detect bad posture and says it doesn’t spy…
earnJarvis (YC W22)
$3.5M Seed • San Francisco, California
earnJARVIS’ $3.5mm seed raise!
Pachama (YC W19)
$55M Series B • San Francisco, California
Carbon credit platform Pachama raises $55 mln in latest funding round
LootRush (YC S21)
$12M Seed • San Francisco, California
Paradigm, a16z Back $12M Round for Blockchain Game Platform LootRush
Doppler (YC S18)
$40M Series B • San Francisco, California
Curebase thinks the future of clinical testing is decentralized and raises $40M to prove it
Lumify (YC S21)
$1.25M Seed • San Francisco, California
Nurse-led startup Lumify Care raised a seed round and launched its marketplace app
Manara (YC W21)
$3M Pre-Seed • Berkeley, California
Manara gets $3M to grow tech talent pool in the Middle East and North Africa
Mashgin (YC W15)
$62.5M Series B • Palo Alto, California
Mashgin Hits $1.5 Billion Valuation With AI-Powered Self-Checkout System
Mentum (YC S21)
$4.2M Seed • San Francisco, California
Gradient Ventures backs Mentum’s goal to democratize investment services in LatAm
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