Y Combinator - 🟧 This Week at YC — October 24th

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📚 Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring
Pave Founder and CEO Matt Schulman has created one of the most comprehensive and thorough recruiting processes, which has made him one of the most successful recruiters in the YC community. He sat down with us to share his insights on hiring in the early stages, and as CEO of a growth-stage company.
 

🔥 YC Founder Firesides: Mutiny on AI and the next era of company growth
Mutiny co-founder and CEO Jaleh Rezaei joined YC’s Anu Hariharan to talk about their recent acquisition of Intellipse, an AI marketing platform, as well as how AI will impact the next era of growth. Throughout, Jaleh shares advice about acquisitions as a growth strategy and evolving your product with AI. 
 

❄️ Y Combinator Winter 2022 Tech Jobs Expo — November 20
The 2022 YC Jobs Expo is bringing 30+ YC startups and their founders to network and share open tech roles (engineering, product, design). If you're actively looking for a new role or just thinking about what might be next, be sure to apply to join us!

🚀 The Launchpad

Uwi
Makati, Philippines
Southeast Asia's first home-lending-as-a-service
Artemis
San Francisco, California
Drag-and-drop to make interfaces for any program
Spinach.io for Google Meet
Atlanta, Georgia
Better daily standups in Google Meet
Launchcaster.xyz
Nashville, Tennessee
Product Hunt of web3, built on Farcaster

 
Locale
San Jose, California
The affordable food discovery platform
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🌎 The YC Community

Highlights from our founders
🔥 Top Posts on Hacker News

💼 Jobs at YC Startups

SafeBeat
Live-saving ECG technology that replaces a hospitalization
HiringResearch Scientist (Post Doctoral)
Remote • 1+ years exp
Charge Robotics
Robots that build solar farms
Hiring: Mechanical Engineers
Oakland, CA • 3+ years exp
Ivy
Run any ML code, with any ML framework, on any hardware
HiringMachine Learning Engineers
Remote • $35k - $70k • 0.50% - 1.50%
Diversion
A scalable, cloud-native Git alternative
Hiring: Developers (Sr. Software, Backend, Frontend)
Tel Aviv, Israel • 6+ years exp

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Jaasper.ai (YC W18)
$125M Series A • Austin, Texas
AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.5B valuation

 
Cyberdontics (YC W20)
$15M Series A • Boston, Massachusetts
Cyberdontics raises $15M for robotic root canals
shopr.tv (YC W22)
$1.7M Seed • Bengaluru, India
Live-commerce Platform Shopr.TV Raises $1.7 Mn In Seed Capital

 
Netmaker (YC W22)
$2.3M Seed extension • Asheville, North Carolina
Netmaker connects servers spread across multiple locations with WireGuard

 
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