This Week at YC: The Top Ways Startups Waste Money

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💸 The Top Ways Startups Waste Money
Step inside the Group Partner Lounge this week to hear Y Combinator Group Partners Harj Taggar, Michael Seibel and Brad Flora discuss what startups waste money on — from marketing and sales to legal and hiring.


 🎙️ Same, Same but Different with Vanta and Zapier
Both Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo and Zapier CEO Wade Foster made the decision to take a disciplined approach to fundraising. YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Christina and Wade to talk about their unique funding history in our first episode of Same, Same but Different.


 🗠 Startup Talk with Compound: Understanding Equity
Equity is a major part of startup employee compensation, but how exactly should you think about equity as a (potential) startup employee? Join us for a discussion about understanding startup equity and how to think about your offer and compensation.

🚀 The Launchpad

Integrated Reasoning
San Francisco, California
Fast hardware for optimization problems

 
EUGIT Therapeutics
Boston, Massachusetts
Engineered T cell based cancer immunotherapy
Malama Health
Stanford, California
Malama improves management of diabetes in pregnancy

 
Uwi
Makati, Philippines
Embedded mortgage brokerage for Southeast Asia residential developers
Quindar
Denver, Colorado
Automated spacecraft test and operations

 
Weltio
Mexico City, Mexico
LatAm's financial instruments shopping mall
Signatur Biosciences
San Francisco, California
Expanding PCR testing to a whole new range of disease

 
Slingshot
San Francisco, California
Automating reducing people's medical bills
Ping
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The global neo-bank for contractors

 
Be Golden
San Francisco, California
Measuring and managing your inflammation levels
Openpod
San Francisco, California
Crypto/web3 infrastructure tool for open source projects

 
Bitstack
Paris, France
The easiest way to save and invest in Bitcoin in Europe
Browse the latest launches on Launch YC

🌎 The YC Community

Highlights from our founders
🔥 Top Posts on Hacker News

💼 Jobs at YC Startups

Yunit Inc (YC W22)
The app for investment groups
HiringFull Stack Engineer (NodeJS & Python)
Remote • $100k - $135k • 0.35% - 0.50%
Genei (YC S21)
AI tools that learn from human feedback
Hiring: NLP Research Engineer, Sr. Full Stack Engineer
London, UK • $80k - $120k • 0.50% - 1.50%
Rally (YC W22)
User Research CRM
Hiring: Founding Software Engineers (Product, Backend)
London / Remote • $100k - $150k • 0.50% - 1.50%
Arketa (YC S20)
Everything for your fitness or wellness business
Hiring: Product Designer, Software Engineer (Backend)
Los Angeles / Remote • $80k - $180k • 0.10% - 1.00%

 

📈 The Bar

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Pina Earth (YC W22)
$2.5M Seed • Munich, Germany
Pina Earth gets seed backing to grow sustainable forestry carbon credits

 
Whaly (YC S21)
$1.9M Seed • Paris, France
Whaly raises $1.9m seed to transform business intelligence
Kernal Biologics (YC S20)
$25M Series A • Cambridge, Massachusetts
Amgen-backed Kernal Biologics pops off with $25M for mRNA platform

 
PINA (YC W22)
$3M Seed • Jakarta, Indonesia
PINA offers wealth management for Indonesia’s growing middle- to upper-class
Tesorio (YC S15)
$17M Series B • Burlingame, California
Tesorio’s tools aim to help businesses automate payments collection

 
Peakflo (YC W22)
$4.1M Seed • Singapore
Peakflo’s bid to build business payments for Southeast Asia attracts capital, customers
AntWalk (YC W22)
$7.5M Series A • Bengaluru, India
Edtech startup AntWalk raises $7.5M in Series A round led by GSV

 
Massdriver (YC W22)
$3.9M Seed • Los Angeles, California
Announcing Massdriver's $3.9MM seed round
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