This Week at YC: Introducing YC Deals 🛍️

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🛍 Exclusive access to software deals for employees at YC companies
We're thrilled to announce that employees at YC companies can now leverage one of the major benefits previously only available to YC founders – YC Deals. Through YC Deals, employees have access to more than 100 discounts and over $500,000 in exclusive offers on industry leading tools.
 

🎓 Startup Talk for Students: How to join a YC startup — October 25, 2022
Join the Y Combinator team for a discussion targeted at current students who are interested in working at startups. We'll talk about what questions to ask yourself to determine if a startup is right for you, as well as methods to find which startups might be a great fit.
 

👩🏽‍💻 Women Engineers in Startups: Tess's Story
Last year we launched the first Women Engineers in Startups series, with a goal to encourage more women to consider working at high-growth startups. Tess Huelskamp, a participant in the first cohort, went on to accept a role at Middesk (YC W19). She shared with us her experience and advice for women thinking about joining a startup.
 

🚀 The Launchpad

Zen
San Francisco, California
Track and correct your posture with your AirPods
Novel
New York, New York
The first business bank account made for international founders
Northwind
Los Angeles, California
Tele-dermatology for chronic skin conditions
Rootly
San Francisco, California
Manage incidents like outages directly in Slack
Meet the Newest YC Companies on Launch YC

🌎 The YC Community

Highlights from our founders
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💼 Jobs at YC Startups

Craniometrix
Screen for cognitive impairment from your cellphone
HiringFounding Full Stack Engineer
New York, NY • Any exp
Fractional
Social platform for fractional ownership of investment properties
Hiring: Product Engineers
San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Remote • $120k - $250k
Release
Environments as a service
HiringSenior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
Remote • $175k - $250k • 0.10% - 0.25%
Promoted.ai
Marketplace optimization
Hiring: Staff Data Engineer (Flink)
San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA / Remote (US/Canada) • $100k - $400k • 0.25% - 1.60%

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Humaans (YC W21)
$15M Series A • London, United Kingdom
Humaans raises $15M to simplify HR tasks like onboarding

 
Lightdash (YC S20)
$8.4M Seed • London, United Kingdom
Lightdash takes on Looker with an open source BI platform built for dbt
Ochre Bio (YC W20)
$30M Series A • Oxford, United Kingdom
RNA therapies startup Ochre Bio lands $30M to take on chronic liver disease

 
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