This Week at YC: Introducing the YC Founder Directory

This Week at YC

January 9, 2023

📇 Discover the 9,000 founders who went through YC

The YC community is made up of founders from all different backgrounds – each with a unique road to entrepreneurship. For prospective founders who are looking for inspiring leaders, this is a way to discover founders who have had experiences that reflect your own and learn more about their founder journey.


💪🏽 How to stand out when applying to startups

Join YC's Work at a Startup team for a candid conversation about how to stand out when applying to startups. Come with questions about your job search and, if you're brave, a copy of your resume!

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Defog.ai

ChatGPT for data, embedded in your app
San Francisco, California

Common Paper

Faster sales with standard contracts & structured data
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Radical

Wireless connectivity from the stratosphere
Seattle, Washington

Trackstar

Real-time monitoring and issue resolution for e-commerce brands
New York, New York

Matano

Open source security lake platform for AWS
San Francisco, California

Supercool

Marketplace for secure NFT mints

Learn with Koala

A fun alternative to Zoom for kids’ online classes
San Francisco, California
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
These robots crawl all over wind turbines so humans don’t have to
Electrek
Epic Aerospace launches its space tug for the first time
TechCrunch
Meet the 21-year-old dropout turned Web3 founder who raised $3.2M
TechBullion
Pigeon debuts personal loan app as paycheck pressures rise
PYMNTS

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers (nature.com)
  2. U.S. moves to bar noncompete agreements in labor contracts (nytimes.com)
  3. Twilio’s toll fraud problem (billychasen.medium.com)
  4. Fun, danger, and 70s airplane toys (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
  5. Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years (mattmazur.com)
  6. Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing (bloomberg.com)
  7. Infinite AI Array (ianbicking.org)
  8. Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs (techemails.com)
  9. Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address (omg.lol)
  10. My bad habit of hoarding information (andreisurugiu.com)
Read more on Hacker News

👩🏼‍🚀 Jobs at YC startups

Early stage to later stage, these startups are hiring now

Sr. Back-End Ruby Engineer

Lago (YC S21)
Open source metering and usage based billing

Paris / Bogota / Remote • $50k - $100k

Senior Mobile Engineer

Emerge Tools (YC W21)
The ultimate mobile performance platform

Remote • $100k - $200k • 0.10% - 0.50%

Sr. Software Engineer, Founding Team

Aviator (YC S21)
Google-level engineering productivity suite

San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA / Remote (US) • $175k - $200k

Sr. Product Manager

Banner (YC S19)
The OS for commercial real estate teams

Remote • $160k - $190k • 0.40% - 0.60%
Browse more open roles

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
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