This Week at YC: The Founders Building from a Bomb Shelter

View this email in your browser

 

📺 The Founders Scaling Their Startup in a War Zone
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, the lives of Stacy Pavlyshyna and Roman Sevast changed from startup founders to survival coordinators. Headquartered in Kyiv, the founders of Awesomic (YC S21), share their experience of securing their safety and evacuating their team members from across Ukraine under the dangers of war and missile attacks—all while continuing to build and scale their startup.


 ðŸŽ“ Startup School Kicks Off
Our free, live summer course begins today! Whether you're an aspiring founder still looking for an idea or a founder already actively working on your own startup, we've got you covered. There's still time to sign up — the 7 week course is free and open to everyone. Register today at startupschool.org.


 ðŸŽ§ YC Video Podcasts Now Available on Spotify
Prefer listening to our video podcasts? YC's videos are now available on Spotify! We'll be uploading more episodes in the coming weeks — listen and watch here.

 

🚀 The Launchpad

The latest YC company launches
AccessOwl
Mountain View, California
Access Management for SaaS applications

 
Cone
Hyderabad, India
Modern finance and accounting platform for business
Sunlight
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Plaid for the Creator Economy

 
Lamin Labs
Munich, Germany
Data & analysis management for computational biology
Terrace
Los Angeles, California
Institutional-Grade Trading Solutions for DeFi

 
Levo Financial
Salt Lake City, Utah
Spendable Investment Account
Bend
New York, New York
1-click climate assessments with spend data

 
Videobug
Bengaluru, India
Code record and replay tool for faster debugging
Levers
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Seamless accounting & insights for MENA SMEs

 
NuMind
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Build custom NLP models
Revenir
London, United Kingdom
API solution for tax returns

 
Chariot
New York, New York
A button that nonprofits add to their website to accept $ from DAFs
🔥 Top Posts on Hacker News

💼 Jobs at YC Startups

Browse more open roles at workatastartup.com
Emerge Tools (YC W21)
The ultimate mobile performance platform
HiringSr, Android Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer
Remote • $100k - $200k • 0.10% - 1.00%
Keeper Tax (YC W19)
Tax software for gig workers
Hiring: Product Designer
San Francisco / Remote • Contract • 3+ years exp
Porter (YC S20)
Heroku in your own cloud
Hiring: Founding Engineers
New York City • 0-3+ years exp
MedCrypt (YC W19)
MedCrypt gives medical device vendors cybersecurity features
Hiring: Embedded Software Development Engineer
Remote • $130k - $135k • 0.05% - 0.20%

 

🌎 The YC Community

Highlights from our founders

📈 The Bar

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Anfin (YC W22)
$4.8M Pre-Series A • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Vietnam-based Anfin makes stock investing accessible

 
Courier (YC S19)
$35M Series B • San Francisco, California
Courier lands $35M to build a service for app notifications
Posh (YC W22)
$3.8M Seed • San Francisco, California
Posh raises $3.8M seed round to automate EV battery recycling

 
Examedi (YC S21)
$17M Series A • Santiago, Chile
The presentation that sold General Catalyst on a 21-year-old founder's at-home lab-testing platform for Latin America
Epsilon3 (YC S21)
$15M Series A • Los Angeles, California
Epsilon3’s space industry OS powers more than launches as it brings in $15M in new funding

 
Statiq. (YC S20)
$25.7M Series A • Gurugram, India
EV Infra Startup Statiq Raises INR 200 Cr Funding For Building EV Charging Stations
Twitter
Instagram
YouTube
Spotify
Facebook
Copyright © 2022 Y Combinator, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive emails from Y Combinator.

Our mailing address is:
Y Combinator
320 Pioneer Way
Mountain View, CA 94041

Add us to your address book


Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp

Key phrases

Older messages

This Week at YC: Job Searching During an Economic Downturn and Startup School Live

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Given the recent economic downturn and resulting tech layoffs, we're hosting an event to help candidates better approach the job search. View this email in your browser ⭐ AMA with YC: Job searching

⭐ YC is back in person!

Monday, June 13, 2022

Dalton and Michael announce the S22 batch will be in person, talk about trends among the most recent YC applicants, the economic downturn, and more. View this email in your browser ⭐ We have some news:

This Week at YC: How Awesomic Scaled Amidst the Chaos of War

Monday, June 6, 2022

The founders of Awesomic on how they survived, relocated a team, and scaled their startup during the war in Ukraine. View this email in your browser 🌱 Scaling a Startup From a Bunker: Founders'

☀️ YC's First IRL Event - Meet Brex, Pave, Pulley and more

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

San Francisco is starting to warm up, and YC is looking to host our first IRL event (safely) in the Dogpatch. View this email in your browser ☀️ YC Jobs IRL: Meet Brex, Pave, Pulley & more @ Park

This Week at YC: Announcing Startup School Live 2022

Monday, May 23, 2022

For the first time ever, YC alumni will host in-person meetups and talks in their offices across 30+ cities, all over the world. View this email in your browser 👩‍🎓 Announcing Startup School Live 2022

You Might Also Like

Need helping getting to $10K MRR?

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Hey Reader 👉 If you're already doing over $10K MRR, please ignore this email. I'm putting together a case-study group of between 5 and 10 founders who I'll work personally with to help them

Forloop, aiPDF, and FridayGPT

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

The most advanced AI document assistant BetaList BetaList Daily FridayGPT Fast and Native ChatGPT mac app aiPDF The most advanced AI document assistant Forloop A no-code way of building pipelines Too

🚨 UNIGNORABLE enrollment now open! 🚨

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Act fast to get up to $200 off ‌ ‌ ‌ Now's your time to become UNIGNORABLE Hey UNIGNORABLE folks! It's time. Enrollment for the April 22nd cohort of UNIGNORABLE is now open. We strive to create

i hate this question

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Read this in 1 min, 13 sec I just got back from a weekend in NYC. (my old stomping grounds) I shared some meals with old friends, played some pickleball, and schvitz'd in a bathhouse. I spent most

digital health trends in 30

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

your questions about funding numbers, deals, unicorns births and more will be answered in this webinar The Digital Health Resurgence Save a Spot Hi there, We need to talk about digital health. The

Anger Pal and A Blinking Box 🫴

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

And the magic number to get to the beach View this email in your browser Anger, Anxiety, And an AI Pal A few weeks ago we heard about the physical GPT - the AI with a body. And we thought: well,

The Founders Guide to Listening to Your Customers

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

The systems and strategies to help you build a truly customer-centric organization. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏

A one-man e-comm brand with $1.1M in revenue

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Ignoring all the "shoulds" ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

We’re LIVE NOW!

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Day 2 of Start Your Ecommerce Business is LIVE! Link here >> , We are LIVE with Day 2 of the Start Your E-commerce Business Summit! Join us here: https://foundr.com/pages/start-your-ecommerce-

🗞 What's New: A copywriting framework that converts

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Also: Crafting your best giveaway ever! ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌