This Week at YC: Advantages Of A First-Time Founder

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šŸ£ Advantages Of A First-Time Founder
Can having experience founding a startup in the past actually be disadvantageous? This week Harj, Michael, and Brad discuss the advantages of being a first-time founder and the instances when it pays to have experience founding a startup in the past.
 

šŸ”¬ YC's First Health & Bio Summit ā€” October 21, 2022
Weā€™re excited to announce the first YC Health and Bio Summit in San Francisco next month ā€” join us! The half day conference will feature bio and healthcare founders and investors who will tell their stories and share advice for entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

šŸ‘©šŸ½ā€šŸ’» Women Engineers in Startups Series ā€” October 12, 2022
If you are currently a woman engineer working at a tech company, are thinking about your next role, and might want to transition to a startup, this series is for you. 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.

šŸŒŽ The YC Community

Highlights from our founders

šŸš€ The Launchpad

Sameday
Lehi, Utah
A virtual sales agent that answers any phone calls your team would otherwise miss
DolarApp
Mexico City, Mexico
Latin America's global dollar USDc account
Ashby
San Francisco, California
All-in-one recruiting software for high growth companies

 
Apollo: BizFirst
Bengaluru, India
Web3 payments & loyalty infrastructure
Massdriver
Los Angeles, California
Production-ready cloud infrastructure in minutes

 
Meet the Newest YC Companies on Launch YC
šŸ”„ Top Posts on Hacker News

šŸ’¼ Jobs at YC Startups

Ivy
Run any ML code, with any ML framework, on any hardware
HiringML Engineers
Remote ā€¢ $50k - $70k ā€¢ 0.50% - 1.50%
Keeper Tax
Tax software for gig workers
Hiring: Platform Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA ā€¢ $140k - $185k ā€¢ 0.15% - 0.35%
MDalgorithms
Democratizing dermatology with AI
HiringVP of Marketing
Remote ā€¢ $200k - $250k ā€¢ 1.00% - 1.50%
Landeed
India's fastest property title search engine
Hiring: Founding Backend Developers & React Native Engineers
Bengaluru, India / Hyderabad, India ā€¢ $64k - $93k ā€¢ 0.10% - 0.50%

šŸ’ø Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Fazz (YC S17)
$100M Series B ā€¢ Jakarta, Indonesia
Southeast Asian fintech Fazz raises $100M Series C to serve businesses of all sizes

 
Magna (YC W22)
$15M Seed ā€¢ New York, New York
Token Management Platform Magna Raises $15M Seed Round at $70M Valuation
91Sqaurefeet (YC W22)
$10M Series ā€¢ Gurugram, India
91Squarefeet Raises $10 Mn To Help Companies Build Retail Stores

 
WhiteLab Genomics (YC W22)
$10M Series A ā€¢ Paris, France
How WhiteLab Genomics is using AI to aid gene and cell therapy development
Ashby (YC W19)
$21.5M Series B ā€¢ San Francisco, California
Ashby lands $21.5M to automate key aspects of recruiting

 
DolarApp (YC S21)
$5M Seed ā€¢ Mexico City, Mexico
Kaszek, YC back DolarAppā€™s mission to ā€˜dollarizeā€™ Latin Americaā€™s finances with crypto
AOA Dx (YC S21)
$7M Seed ā€¢ Cambridge, Massachusetts
AOA Dx Closes $7 Million Funding Round To Bring The First Accurate Early Detection Test For Ovarian Cancer To Market

 
Shipmates (YC S22)
$2.2M Seed ā€¢ Makati, Philippines
Shipmates makes order fulfillment less tedious for the Philippinesā€™ online sellers
Clinikally (YC S22)
$500k Pre-Seed ā€¢ Gurugram, India
Clinikally secures $500,000 pre-seed funding to expand digital derma platform

 
erad (YC S22)
$2.4M Pre-Seed ā€¢ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
erad raises $2.4m in Pre-Seed

 
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