This Week at YC: How YC is evolving to meet a changed market

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🎙 Hard Truths in the Game with Michael Seibel
In an exclusive interview with TechCrunch, Michael Seibel talks about 'hard truths in the game' and misconceptions about YC's position, touching on batch sizes, a growing standard deal, competition, the power of venture capital and why startup founders should be prioritizing more than just a check after Demo Day.
 

🔑 5 Critical and Company-Altering Learnings from B2B Startups
How do you test for "Is the product good enough"? Anu joined SaaStr Annual live last week to share how the top B2B startups answer this question and other key learnings to help founders build in any sector.
 

🛠 Why become a Product Engineer? — October 4, 2022
An interesting role that's often overlooked is a Product Engineer — a software engineer who codes every day and also cares deeply about what the customer wants. Join YC founders for a discussion about what it means to be one and how you can become the next product engineer at a YC startup.

🌎 The YC Community

Highlights from our founders

🚀 The Launchpad

Agentnoon
Toronto, Canada
Real-time, visual people planning
Castled Data
Bengaluru, India
Marketing automation platform built natively on top of cloud data warehouses
SiPhox
Burlington, Massachusetts
At-home blood testing hardware using silicon photonic chips

 
Motion
San Francisco, California
Automate team project management and resource planning with A.I.

 
Meet the Newest YC Companies on Launch YC
🔥 Top Posts on Hacker News

💼 Jobs at YC Startups

Ivy
Run any ML code, with any ML framework, on any hardware
HiringML Engineers
Remote • $50k - $70k • 0.50% - 1.50%
PropelAuth
Team-based authentication for B2B SaaS
Hiring: Founding Backend Engineer
Remote • $140k - $160k • 0.50% - 2.00%
MDalgorithms
Democratizing dermatology with AI
HiringVP of Marketing
Remote • $200k - $250k • 1.00% - 1.50%
Landeed
India's fastest property title search engine
Hiring: Founding Backend Developers & React Native Engineers
Bengaluru, India / Hyderabad, India • $64k - $93k • 0.10% - 0.50%

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Remedial Health (YC W22)
$4.4M Seed • Lagos, Nigeria
Nigeria’s YC-backed Remedial Health raises $4.4M seed funding

 
DynamoFL (YC W22)
$4.15M Seed • San Francisco, California
DynamoFL aims to bring privacy-preserving AI to more industries
JITX (YC S18)
$12M Series A • Berkeley, California
Jitx wants to change the way engineers design circuit boards using code

 
Gigs (YC W21)
$20M Series A • Berlin, Germany
A ‘Stripe for phone plans’: Gigs raises $20M to help any company be an MVNO
Noble (YC W21)
$15M Series A • Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Noble emerges from stealth to help companies extend lines of credit to their customers

 
Vendease (YC W21)
$30M Series A • Lagos, Nigeria
Two of Africa’s biggest tech investors are backing a startup in the restaurant business
GiveCampus (YC S15)
$50M Growth Equity Investment • San Francisco, California
The Next Chapter for GiveCampus

 
Zitara Technologies (YC S20)
$12M Series A • San Francisco, California
Zitara Raises $12M Series A to Make Batteries Safer and More Profitable
Motion (YC W20)
$13M Series A • San Francisco, California
Motion wants to automate task planning using AI

 
Heru (YC S19)
$6M Seed • Mexico City, Mexico
Google's Gradient funds online tax startup in Mexico

 
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