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This Week at YC

December 12, 2022

🏷 Which sales strategy is best for your startup?

In this episode of Versus, YC Visiting Group Partner Pete Koomen explores these two common B2B sales strategies, helps define each, and discusses how a startup should choose and build their sales motion.

 

🧠 YC Generative AI Co-Founder Meetup - Dec 17

If you’re interested in using generative AI to drive innovation register to attend! You'll have the chance to pitch your idea, listen to others' pitches, and connect with potential co-founders who share your vision and values.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Shekel Mobility

The neobank and trading platform for car dealers in Africa
Lagos, Nigeria

Blocktool

Get a financial report on spreadsheet from your CRM data
San Francisco, California

Depot

A faster way to build Docker images
London, United Kingdom

Happl

Set up global benefits and recognition in seconds
London, United Kingdom

Woeden

Data infra for robotics
Denver, Colorado
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
They dropped out of Stanford to compete against Amex and now their company Brex is worth $12.3B
Forbes
Durham startup BotBuilt is using robotic arms to attack the housing crisis
GrepBeat
The co-founders of Eight Sleep want to optimize your performance (in bed)
The Information

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer (bbc.com)
  2. Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT (notesbylex.com)
  3. This to That (thistothat.com)
  4. I don’t want to be an internet person (palladiummag.com)
  5. The GPT Architecture, on a Napkin (dugas.ch)
  6. Open-source hospital price transparency (dolthub.com)
  7. A fake job offer gone wrong (pages.dev)
  8. Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups (support.apple.com)
  9. Ten Minute Physics (matthias-research.github.io)
  10. 100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth (news.mit.edu)
Read more on Hacker News

👩🏼‍🚀 Jobs at YC startups

Early stage to later stage, these startups are hiring now

Mechanical Engineer

Charge Robotics (YC S21)
Robots that build solar farms

Oakland, CA • 3+ years exp

Founding Engineers (Backend, Fullstack)

Ciro (YC S22)
SMB search engine for sales teams

San Francisco, CA • $150k - $200k • 1.00% - 2.00%

ML Engineer

Ivy (YC W23)
Run any ML code, with any ML framework, on any hardware

Remote • $50k - $70k • 0.50% - 1.50%

Sr. Library Developer

Enso (YC S21)
No-code interactive ELT and data-driven process automation tool

Remote • $80k - $100k • 6+ years exp
Browse more open roles

đź’¸ Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Reach (YC S15)
$30M Series B
Emeryville, California

Reuters: Reach to Deliver the First Industrial-Scale Wireless Power Solution
Nestor (YC S18)
$2M Seed
San Jose, California

Reuters: Nestor, a YC-backed company, raises $2 million to help organizations
Argus (YC S21)
$2.8M Seed
New York, New York

Business Insider: Y Combinator Crypto Compliance Startup Argus Raises $2.8 Million
SilkChart (YC S22)
$5.2M Seed
San Francisco, California

Business Insider: See the Pitch Deck That YC Alum SilkChart Used to Raise $5.2 Million
Kitekraft (YC S19)
$1.6M Seed 
Munich, Germany

Kitekraft: Kitekraft raises $1.6M to make wind turbines that fly
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