This Week at YC: What YC's Head of Admissions looks for in an application

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📚 Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier
Today, Zapier automates work by connecting with over 5,000 apps. The company has been profitable since 2014 and is valued at $5B – with 700 employees working remotely. Wade, Zapier CEO, shared his learnings growing into the role of a growth-stage CEO.

👩🏽‍💻 YC's Head of Admissions shares her best application tips
Stephanie Simon is reviewing over 20,000 startups for our next cohort, even in the middle of the downturn. Here's what she's looking for.

🍀 Transitioning from engineering to product - August 24 @ 3 PM PDT
Are you an engineer interested in getting into product? Are you a PM looking to level up your product game? Come meet with YC to learn about product roles at startups & building products that customers love.

🌎 The YC Community

Highlights from our founders

🚀 The Launchpad

Anchor
Lagos, Nigeria
Banking as a service and embedded finance for Africa

 
Kemnet
Edmonton, Canada
Premium reformulated medications for specific groups of patients
Manatee
College Park, Marlyand
Interactive demos for SaaS companies
Array Labs
San Francisco, California
Satellites to create a real-time 3D map of Earth
Lyra
Houston, Texas
Pay with crypto anywhere

 
Provision
Toronto, Canada
Document intelligence platform for the construction industry
Gullak
Bengaluru, India
Automate savings and invest it in gold

 
Hostfi
New York, New York
The neobank for vacation rental hosts
Masref
London, United Kingdom
Offshore USD accounts for people in distressed economies

 
Conversion Pattern
London, United Kingdom
The website tag manager that prevents misreporting
Lumo
Barcelona, Spain
Residential building manager in Europe with automated operations

 
Maya Labs
Bengaluru, India
Build custom software using natural language
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💼 Jobs at YC Startups

Draftbit
Build mobile apps visually. Source-code included.
HiringSenior Software Engineer
Chicago, SF, or remote • 3+ years experience
Geneni
Genei build AI tools that learn from human feedback.
Hiring: NLP Research Engineers and Senior Full Stack Engineers
London, UK / Remote • $80k - $120k • 0.50% - 1.50%
Patterns
Low-code data modeling and orchestration
Hiring: Developers, Data Science and Data Infrastructure Engineers
San Francisco • $110k - $160k • 0.25% - 1.00%
SimpleHash
Multi-chain NFT API
Hiring: Senior Backend / API Engineer
San Francisco • $170k - $220k • 1.00% - 2.00%

 

📈 Funding News

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Dropbase (YC W20)
$1.75M Pre-Seed • San Francisco, California
Dropbase can help turn your messy spreadsheet into queryable SQL database

 
Marble (YC S21)
$2M Seed • Seattle, Washington
Ex-Adobe and Facebook engineers raise $2M for Seattle software startup that helps small landlords
Take App (YC W22)
$1M Seed • Singapore
Meta invests in Take App, a Singaporean startup that helps merchants sell via WhatsApp

 
Cashmere (YC W22)
$3M Seed • San Francisco, California
Cashmere Raises $3M at $30M Valuation to Build Solana Enterprise Wallet
Positive (YC W19)
$7M Venture Round • Los Angeles, California
Nothing negative about Positive Food’s meal expansion plan after $7M investment

 
Landeed (YC S22)
$2.5M Seed • Hyderabad, India
Proptech Startup Landeed Bags INR 19.5 Cr For Its Property Title Search Engine
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