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✍🏽 How to Apply to Y Combinator
The application deadline for our Winter 2023 batch is in a week! Learn about the admissions process and what we look for when we read applications, from YC co-founder Paul Graham.

👩🏽‍💻 YC Jobs Series: Women Engineers in Startups — October 12th
This fall, we're bringing together a cohort of women engineers who are interested in finding roles at fast growing startups. Hear from women who joined startups as early engineers, get mentorship from YC alumni and alumni company engineering managers, and build a community of peers during this three-week series.

🎲 What Basic Game Theory Teaches Us About Startups
Is your startup making a positive impact on the world or are your business practices a net negative in society? Dalton and Michael discuss the problems with zero sum games within tech culture.

🌎 The YC Community

Highlights from our founders

🚀 The Launchpad

Popsy
Berlin, Germany
Website builder that works like Notion
Cardda
Santiago, Chile
All-in-one spend management for businesses in Latam
Sylva
San Francisco, California
A web3 wallet that automatically offers true cross-chain interest

 
the402
New York, New York
Helps creators monetize their superfans through livestreams and NFTs
Bunting Labs
San Francisco, California
No-code geospatial data pipelines

 
Jasmine
San Francisco, California
Decentralized market for climate assets
Allero
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Open source project that protects your production CI/CD pipelines

 
Apprecio
Mexico City, Mexico
Helping the 10M mom & pop shops in Latam accept card payments
Convoy
Lagos, Nigeria
Building an open-source webhooks infrastructure

 
LiveTrucks
San Francisco, California
Real-time visibility and alerting for freight
Hilos
Mexico City, Mexico
Zapier for WhatsApp

 
Hyperbeam
Waterloo, Canada
API for shared embeddable web browsers
Metriport
San Francisco, California
Universal API for healthcare data

 
Meet the Newest YC Companies on Launch YC
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💼 Jobs at YC Startups

Cotera
The world’s first prescriptive analytics platform
HiringFrontend Engineer
New York, NY / London, UK / Remote • $150k - $200k • 1.00% - 2.00%
Verdn
An API to bundle trackable climate donations with any transaction
Hiring: Full Stack Engineer
London, UK • $95k - $150k • 0.50% - 1.00%
Agave
Plaid for Construction
HiringFounding Engineer
San Francisco, CA • $110k - $180k • 0.10% - 1.50%
Terra
Plaid for health, fitness and wellness
Hiring: Full Stack Software Engineer
London, UK • $50k - $200k • 0.10% - 2.00%

📈 Funding News

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Duplo (YC W22)
$4.3M Seed • Lagos, Nigeria
Duplo digitizes payment flows for African B2B enterprises, gets $4.3M seed funding

 
OneSignal (YC S11)
$50M Series C • San Mateo, California
OneSignal lands $50M to automatically optimize SMS, in-app and email campaigns
R2 (YC W21)
$15M Series A • Mexico City, Mexico
Fintech R2 Reaches $100 Million Valuation After Google-Led Round

 
Anchor (YC S22)
$1M+ Pre-Seed • Lagos, Nigeria
Nigerian YC-backed startup Anchor comes out of stealth with $1M+ to scale its banking-as-a-service platform
Grey (YC W22)
$2M Seed • Lagos, Nigeria
Nigeria’s Grey raises $2M for cross-border payments play and regional expansion

 
Plerk (YC S20)
$12M Series A • Guadalajara, Mexico
Mexico’s Plerk Lands $12M Investment Led By SoftBank Spinoff Upload Ventures
Protex AI (YC S21)
$18M Series A • Limerick, Ireland
Protex AI raises $18 million to help protect workers using AI

 
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