This Week at YC: Evaluating Startup Ideas


This Week at YC

November 21, 2022
 

🤔 How do you find and evaluate startup ideas?
YC Group Partner Jared Friedman shares a framework to help you do just that, with examples from YC founders and the inside stories of how they came up with the ideas that turned into billion dollar companies.
 

👩🏻‍⚖️ Carolynn Levy, inventor of the SAFE
Carolynn Levy, who invented the SAFE, may be the most influential person in Silicon Valley you've never heard of. She rarely talks to reporters. But no one in the world understands startup law better.
 

🔎 Finding your next role: AMA with YC Recruiters — Dec 2
Exploring your next career move? Come chat with YC Continuity's Talent team: the recruiters who help our later stage portfolio companies grow their teams. We'll share what we're seeing the tech job market, talk through why it might be interesting to work at a startup, and answer any questions you have about your own career.  

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

roverX
Bengaluru, India
Deep NFT Analytics for pro-traders


HUBUC Travel
Barcelona, Spain
Virtual credit cards for business travel


doola Company Formation API
New York, New York
Create a US company from the command line

Dots
San Francisco, California
No-code bot builder for Discord


Rivia.AI
Bengaluru, India
Interactive videos for product demos


Argonaut
Sunnyvale, California
Deploy apps and infra to your cloud in minutes

 
Meet YC companies and discover new products on Launch YC

🌎 The YC Community

Highlights from our founders
🔥 Top Posts on Hacker News

💼 Jobs at YC Startups

Browse more open roles at workatastartup.com

Mechanical Engineer
Oakland, CA • 3+ years experience
Charge Robotics (YC S21) » Robots that build solar farms

 
Machine Learning Engineer
Remote • $50k - $70k • 0.50% - 1.50%
Ivy (YC W23) » Run any ML code, with any ML framework, on any hardware

 
UI/UX Designer
Remote • $50k - $150k
8vdX (YC W22) » AngelList for venture debt

 
Staff Data Engineer (Flink)
San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA / Remote • $100k - $400k • 0.25% - 1.60%
Promoted.ai (YC W21) » Marketplace optimization

 

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies

TRM Labs (YC S19)
$70M Series B+ • San Francisco, California
TRM Labs’ Financial-Service Backers Come Back For More In $70 Million Series B Expansion

 
Freshpaint (YC S19)
$9.5M Series A • San Francisco, California
Looking to ease engineers from customer data tasks, Freshpaint raises $14.5 million

 
Cityfurnish (YC W19)
$2.5M Debt Funding • New Delhi, India
Cityfurnish Raises $2.5 Million In Debt Funding Round


REZI (YC W17)
$100M Debt Funding • New York, New York
REZI Lands $100M In Funding To Further National Expansion

 
Payload CMS (YC S22)
$4.7M Seed • Grand Rapids, Michigan
Payload raises $4.7M for its developer-first headless CMS

 
Atmos (YC S20)
$12.5M Series A • San Francisco, California
YC, Khosla-backed Atmos lands $12.5M to design custom dream homes

 
Sematic (YC S22)
$3M Seed • San Francisco, California
Sematic Raises $3M to Build an Open-Source Continuous ML Platform

baraka (YC S21)
$20M Series A • Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Valar Ventures leads $20M round in online brokerage platform baraka

 
OneSchema (YC S21)
$6.8M Seed • San Francisco, California
OneSchema Raises $6.3M to Make Ingesting CSV Data Magical For Developers

 
Heroic Story (YC S19)
$6M Seed • Los Angeles, California
Heroic Story raises $6M to build tabletop RPG platform for Web3


SigmaOS (YC S21)
$4M Seed • London, United Kingdom
SigmaOS raises $4 million to build a browser for productivity nerds

 
Supernova (YC W19)
$4.8M Seed • Prague, Czech Republic
Supernova wants to make it easy to move design elements to code bases

 
Sieve (YC W22)
$4M Seed • San Francisco, California
Sieve's Video AI API Beta and ~$4M Raise
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