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

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📺 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
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💼 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
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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!

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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:

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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'

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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

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