This Week at YC: Founder Fireside with Gusto's Tomer London

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🎙 Founder Fireside with Gusto's Tomer London
Join us live this Thursday at 9:30am PDT on Twitter Spaces for a Founder Fireside with Gusto co-founder and CPO, Tomer London. He'll be joining YC's Anu Hariharan to discuss building for new verticals and the future of embedded finance.

👩🏽‍💻 Becoming a founding engineer at a YC startup - August 10 @ 2 PM PDT
Want to know what it takes to be a founding engineer at a YC startup? Meet founding & early engineers at YC startups (virtually) to learn about their roles, their stories, and how you can land your own role as a founding engineer.


🍀 Boston Tech Meetup - August 17 @ 3 PM PDT
Calling all Boston startup folks! YC is hosting a meetup in Boston for you to meet founders, hear their stories, and learn about their companies — both early and later stage. Come chat about the Boston startup scene (or what it’s like to work remotely at YC startups). Priority will be given to engineers & scientists since these startups actively looking for technical roles.

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Medplum
San Francisco, California
API-first, open source electronic health record (EHR)

 
Deekard
Berlin, Germany
Identify and resolve data quality issues in seconds
Ballerine
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Financial services growth maximizer & fraud minimizer, on autopilot
Landeed
Hyderabad, India
Title insurance for Landowners in India
Wolfia
Mountain View, California
Turn your app into a link

 
Almond
Los Angeles, California
We make it easy to get great ObGyn care, fast
Derisk
Seattle, Washington
Key custody software that secures crypto assets for businesses

 
Artemis
San Francisco, California
Drag and drop front-end builder for desktop applications
Ruleset
Sunnyvale, California
No-code decision engine for lenders

 
Newscatcher
Paris, France
News API for risk and data teams
Abridge
Mumbai, India
Flexport for APAC

 
Immuna
San Francisco, California
Risk management platform for digital asset investors
Feather
Seattle, Washington
Modern 401(k) for startups

 
Tank Payments
Santa Barbara, California
Neobank built for trucking businesses

 
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💼 Jobs at YC Startups

Terra
Plaid for health, fitness and wellness
HiringFull Stack Software Engineers
London, UK • $50k - $200k • 0.10% - 2.00%
Agave
Plaid for Construction
Hiring: Founding Engineer
San Francisco, CA • $110k - $180k • 0.10% - 1.50%
Verdn
An API to bundle trackable climate donations with any transaction
Hiring: Full Stack Engineer
London, UK • $95k - $150k • 0.50% - 1.00%
Cotera
Find your best customers
Hiring: Founding Engineer, Frontend Engineer
New York, NY / London, UK / Remote • $150k - $200k • 1.00% - 2.00%

 

📈 Funding News

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Vori (YC W20)
$10M Series A • East Palo Alto, California
Vori Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding to Transform Grocery Store Inventory Management

 
Plauyers' Lounge (YC W18)
$10.5M Series A • New York, New York
Players’ Lounge raises $10.5M in funding, plans future expansion
Gymclass VR by IRL Studios (YC W22)
$8M Seed • Los Angeles, California
YC and a16z back virtual reality basketball app Gym Class

 
Spinach.io (YC W22)
$6M Seed • Remote
Spinach.io wants to help agile engineering teams run better online meetings
Genecis Biosciences (YC W20)
$7M Series A • Toronto, Canada
Genecis secures $10m to commercialise biodegradable plastic products

 
Bemlo (YC W22)
$3.3M Seed • Stockholm, Sweden
How the problem of hiring healthcare staff has become a fertile ground for startups
Mudafy (YC S19)
$10M Series A • Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mudafy raises $10M in Founders Fund-led Series A to fix LatAm’s ‘broken’ real estate process

 
MarqVision (YC S21)
$20M Series A • Los Angeles, California
MarqVision grabs $20M to nab counterfeiters with an AI-powered IP protection platform
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