This Week at YC: First Five Hires with PostHog

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🎥 Most Transparent Startup Ever? This Is How They Hire
PostHog is a suite of open source product analytic tools that companies can host themselves. Co-Founder and CEO James Hawkins joined us and reflected on the first five hires he and his co-founders made when they were first starting out — and how they created their culture of transparency.

🎙 YC Founder Firesides: Gusto on building for new verticals
YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Gusto co-founder and CPO Tomer London to talk about building for new customer segments and the future of embedded finance — sharing advice for startup founders and CEOs along the way.

✨ Work at a Startup: Filter jobs at the best YC startups by equity
YC's job board now lets job seekers filter by equity offered on the job description. Over 380 startups have posted roles with equity, with some early engineering roles offering 2%.

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Highlights from our founders

🚀 The Launchpad

Instant
New York, New York
The modern Firebase

 
Notebook Labs
Stanford, California
Decentralized, anonymous, and accountable identity on Web3
Juicebox
New York, New York
Zero-commission marketplace for vetted independent talent

 
Cambio
San Francisco, California
Decarbonizing commercial real estate at scale
Illuminant Surgical
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Safer surgeries by projecting guidance directly on the patient’s skin
Pivo
Lagos, Nigeria
Bank accounts and payments for freight carriers in Africa
Invofox
Madrid, Spain
Automatic invoice data extraction for software companies

 
Poly
Los Angeles, California
Generate design assets in seconds with AI
Bridgecard
Lagos, Nigeria
Mastercard / Visa card issuer for Africa

 
Entvin
San Francisco, California
Retool for sales teams
Trebu
Mexico City, Mexico
A data sharing network for LATAM to fight fraud and default

 
Rampay
Delaware City, Delaware
Global payment gateway to buy and sell crypto with fiat
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💼 Jobs at YC Startups

PolicyFly
Modernizing specialty insurance
HiringDirector of Engineering
Remote • 6+ years experience
Landeed
Title insurance for landowners in India
Hiring: Rust and React Native Engineers
Hyderabad / Bengaluru • $13k - $93k • 0.10% - 0.50%
MDalgorithms
Low-code data modeling and orchestration
Hiring: VP of Marketing
Remote • $200k - $250k • 1.00% - 1.50%

📈 Funding News

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Sphere (YC W22)
$4M Seed • San Francisco, California
Y Combinator-Backed Edtech Startup Sphere Raises $4 Million Seed Round

 
Guesty (YC W14)
$170M Series E • Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Guesty books $170M to double down on property management tools for Airbnb and other rental platforms
Arc (YC W22)
$20M Series A • San Francisco, California
YC-backed Arc, a digital bank for ‘high-growth’ SaaS startups, lands $20M Series A

 
Explo (YC W20)
$12M Series A • San Francisco, California
Explo garners $12M Series A as BI dashboard service gains traction
AtoB (YC W19)
$75M Series B • San Francisco, California
With Fuel Costs High, Trucker-Focused Fintech AtoB Reaches $800 Million Valuation

 
Quotabook (YC W21)
$11M Series A • South Korea
YC grad QuotaBook raises $11M to scale its equity management platform
Byte Kitchen (YC S21)
$6M Seed • San Mateo, California
Byte Kitchen raises $6M for digital food halls

 
Microverse (YC S19)
$4M Series A extension • Remote, Oregon
Gmail creator backed edtech startup Microverse bags €3.9M, doubles its valuation
Venue.live (YC W19)
$4M Seed • Toronto, Canada
Venue raises $4M from Accel and the CEOs of Slack, Remote and SquareSpace to give teamwide video meetings a new breath of life

 
Rebill (YC W22)
$3.6M Seed • Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tiger Global, YC back Rebill’s subscription payment platform for Latin America
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