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This Week at YC

January 16, 2023

🎯 The secrets to setting smarter goals

To maximize your startup's potential, start by setting the right goals. Dalton and Michael share tips and strategies for setting goals that will help keep you and your new business focused on success—along with examples of bad goals to avoid.


🚀 Discover new products launching out of YC W23

The Winter 2023 batch officially kicked off this week! Vote for newly launched startups to help them climb up the leaderboard, try out product demos, and learn about the founding teams on Launch YC.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Baseplate

End-to-end model management for generative AI models
San Francisco, California

Sanvivo

DoorDash for pharmacies
Munich, Germany

Sapi

Use SaaS APIs directly from your mobile and web clients
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Javelin Robotics

Autonomous trucks helping drivers flourish
San Francisco, California

Littio

Dollar banking for Latin America
Bogotá, Colombia

0pass

Passwordless authentication for the workforce
San Francisco, California

Vendah

All-in-one app transforming the reselling space in LATAM
São Paulo, Brazil

Scanbase

The API for at-home test analysis
San Francisco, California

Vocify

AI that tells you which feature to build next
Houston, Texas

Gluetrail

Smart tables that trigger automated workflows
Paris, France

Wisp Finance

The crypto payments SDK
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
American Dreamers: Tracy Young has the eye of the tiger
Forbes
How Parallel Bio aims to turn drug development on its head
Drug Discovery & Development
HPE acquires YC alum Pachyderm as looks to bolster its AI dev offerings
TechCrunch
Snowflake spend on the rise? How to tackle the ‘chaos’
VentureBeat

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Part II: The failure points from $5m to $100m in ARR  (tracy.posthaven.com)
  2. A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system (cnn.com)
  3. NYC Slice (elkue.com)
  4. NanoGPT (github.com/karpathy)
  5. Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?
  6. Taking over a Dead IoT Company (blog.kchung.co)
  7. How to store your app's entire state in the url (scottantipa.com)
  8. Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas (longform.asmartbear.com)
  9. ‘That girl is going to get herself killed’ (2022) (longreads.com)
  10. If you like startups you should love anti-trust (alexwrites.substack.com)
Read more on Hacker News

👩🏼‍🚀 Jobs at YC startups

Early stage to later stage, these startups are hiring now

Frontend Generalist

Extensional AI (YC W23)
AI's interface to the world

San Francisco, CA • $80k - $800k

Staff Engineer, Full Stack

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

Remote • $60k - $85k • 1.00% - 2.00%

Founding Backend Engineer

Ciro (YC S22)
SMB search engine for sales teams

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

Mechanical Engineer

Charge Robotics (YC S21)
Robots that build solar farms

Oakland, CA • 3+ years exp
Browse more open roles

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Celeri (YC W22)
$2.6M Seed
Buenos Aires, Argentina

LatamList: Argentinian compliance platform Celeri nabs a $2.6M seed-round
Shekel Mobility (YC W23)
$1.95M Pre-Seed
San Francisco, California

Nairametrics: Mobility Fintech startup, Shekel Mobility, raises $1.95M in pre-seed funding
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