This Week at YC: The First Five Hires At Gusto, The $10 Billion HR Disruptor

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5️⃣ The First Five Hires At Gusto, The $10 Billion HR Disruptor
Introducing First Five, a new video series where growth stage companies look back on their first five hires, customers, and launches. In the first episode, YC Managing Director Anu Hariharan sits down with Tomer London, the co-founder and CPO of Gusto, to look back on the company’s first five hires.

 6 Founding Engineer Roles at W22 YC startups
Joining an early-stage startup provides a unique opportunity to impact the future of the company. You'll have significant ownership and responsibility over your work, and you'll see it directly impact the company's future. If you're up for the adventure, here are 6 founding engineer roles at the latest Y Combinator startups.

🚀 The Launchpad

Garage Mobility
Accra, Ghana
Auto parts distribution platform for Africa

 
Tranch
London, United Kingdom
Buy Now Pay Later for B2B SaaS and Services
Overwatch
New York, New York
Automated intelligence tailored to your global interests

 
DeploySentinel
Foster City, California
Fastest way for devs to debug E2E Cypress tests
PreStacks
College Park, Maryland
Create infrastructure in seconds

 
Paigo
San Francisco, California
Intelligent billing for data, infrastructure and platform
Apply Design
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Automatically create amazing property listings

 
MovingLake
Mexico City, Mexico
Realtime, event-driven data connectors
SilkChart
San Francisco, California
Turn product data into revenue growth

 
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Highlights from our founders
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💼 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%
Novig (YC S22)
The first commission-free, high-frequency sports betting exchange
Hiring: Mobile Engineer, Backend Product Engineer
New York / Remote • $100k - $180k • 0.05% - 1.00%
earnJarvis (YC W22)
Premium crypto platform, automating asset & yield management
Hiring: Founding Engineers (Fullstack, Frontend, Backend)
SF / Remote • $120k - $200k • 0.25% - 1.25%
Snippyly (YC W22)
APIs to make your app multiplayer, just like Figma
Hiring: Founding Software Engineers
Remote • $100k - $180k • 0.20% - 1.00%

 

📈 The Bar

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
May Mobility (YC S17)
$111M Series C • Ann Arbor, Michigan
May Mobility aims for fully driverless autonomous shuttles by 2023

 
Massdriver (YC W22)
$12M Series A • Boston, Massachusetts
Arist raises $12 million to simplify workplace training
Pulley (YC W20)
$40M Series B • San Francisco, California
Pulley's Series B - Welcome Founders Fund

 
Kindly (YC W22)
$3.2M Seed • Bengaluru, India
Kindly makes hormonal health care more approachable
Bobidi (YC W22)
$5.8M Seed • Seoul, South Korea
Bobidi launches to reward developers for testing companies’ AI models

 
Assembly (YC S15)
$30M Series B • Redwood City, California
Flush with new cash, AssemblyAI looks to grow its AI-as-a-service business
Vista (YC W22)
$2.6M Seed • Los Angeles, California
Announcing Vista's $2.6m seed round

 
Oto (YC W22)
$3.3M Seed • London, United Kingdom
UK-based tinnitus relief app raises $3.3M funding
Swadesh (YC S19)
$2.25M Pre-Seed • New York, New York
Swadesh Raises $2.25 Mn From Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, 8VC

 
Fieldproxy (YC W22)
$750k Pre-Series A • Chennai, India
Y Combinator leads $750k round of India-based SaaS firm
Intellect (YC S21)
$10M Series A extension • Singapore
Backed by Tiger Global, Intellect is creating culturally competent mental health care for Asia
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