🎃 This Week at YC: The Truth About Y Combinator

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🀫 Dalton and Michael spill the beans
With the YC S22 batch coming to a close, Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel reflect on the recent batch and their experience fundraising. The two group partners also clear up some misconceptions about Y Combinator based on feedback from founders.
 

πŸ›  How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale
The #1 question we get from YC founders in the YC Growth Program is: "How do you ship fast as you scale?" Having grown its engineering team from 5 to over 100 engineers in just three years, Faire (YC W17) is one of the best at it. We worked with Faire CTO & Co-founder Marcelo Cortes to shed light on how they do it.
 

πŸ‘©πŸ½β€πŸ’» Engineering culture at small startups vs. big tech companies β€” Nov. 9
If you're an engineer working in big tech who's curious what else might be out there, join us for a live discussion with Y Combinator founders who left big tech to build their startups.

πŸš€ The Launchpad


Superflow
San Francisco, California
Collaborate & comment on live websites just like you do on Figma

Axolo
San Francisco, California
Merge pull requests faster on GitLab and GitHub

 
Meet the newest YC companies on Launch YC

🌎 The YC Community

Highlights from our founders
πŸ”₯ Top Posts on Hacker News

πŸ’Ό Jobs at YC Startups


Sales Development Representative
Remote β€’ $65k - $110k
Release (YC W20) Β» Environments as a service

 
Founding Engineer
Mountain View, CA / Remote β€’ $100k - $200k β€’ 0.50% - 5.00%
Firezone (YC W22) Β» Open-source, blazing fast alternative to corporate VPNs

 
Frontend Engineer
Remote β€’ 0.10% - 0.50%
SigNoz (YC W21) Β» Open source alternative to DataDog

 
Manufacturing Success Manager (US)
Remote β€’ 3+ years exp
Jiga (YC W21) Β» Build physical products faster

 

πŸ’Έ Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
πŸ›° Array Labs (YC S22)
$5M Seed β€’ Sunnyvale, California
Array Labs raises $5 million for 3D-imagery constellation

 
πŸ”Ž Needl (YC S22)
$2.5M Seed β€’ Seattle, Washington
Needl raises $2.5M to build β€˜a search bar for your entire life’

 
πŸ‘£ Pasito (YC S22)
$3.25M Seed β€’ New York, New York
Pasito, a YC grad that helps companies manage benefits, raises $3.25M

 
🀝 Ciro (YC S22)
$3.8M Seed β€’ San Francisco, California
Ciro Raises $3.8 Million Round from CRV, Y Combinator, and SV Angel

 
🦜 Canary Technologies (YC S18)
$30M Series B β€’ San Francisco, California
Y Combinator-Backed Startup Canary Technologies Raises $30 Million

 
πŸ“˜ Notebook Labs (YC S22)
$3.3M Seed β€’ Sunnyvale, California
Bain Capital Crypto Leads $3.3M Round for Privacy-Focused Identity Protocol

 
🏠 Topline Pro (YC W21)
$5M Seed β€’ New York, New York
Topline Pro grabs $5M to help home service businesses scale online

 
πŸ“š Journey (YC W21)
$4.1M Pre-Seed β€’ Remote
Susa Ventures' Investment in Journey

 
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