This Week at YC: Firesides with top founders, hosted by Surbhi Sarna

This Week at YC

January 30, 2023

🤝 YC Firesides and a new book by Surbhi Sarna

Surbhi is one of the newest group partners at YC. She has an incredible founder story — after a teenage cancer scare inspired her to reimagine healthcare, she founded a medical start-up that was eventually acquired for $275M by Boston Scientific.

We're excited to share that her book Without a Doubt drops on March 7. And to celebrate, she's hosting a series of online founder firesides.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Outsail

Sustainable wind-powered container ships
Mountain View, California

GradientJ

Build and manage GPT3 applications at scale
San Francisco, California

Drift Bio

The operating system for life sciences data
San Francisco, California

Meru

Bring generative content to your application
San Francisco, California

Keeling Labs

Applied AI for batteries in the grid
Los Angeles, California

FlexDesk

Book, manage, and track your company's spend on coworking space
San Francisco, California

Middleware

Unified observability platform for cloud native, microservices & distributed apps
San Francisco, California

Glass Health

Frictionless software for learning and practicing medicine
San Francisco, California

Paladiin

SaaS customers' data, stored on their cloud
San Francisco, California

PlusPassword

Share passwords without revealing them
New York, New York

SigNoz

Open source alternative to DataDog, New Relic
Bengaluru, India

Activepieces

Open source alternative to Zapier
San Francisco, California
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
HR company Deel, now valued at $12B, nears $300 million of revenue
Forbes
Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge to launch first space missions this year
Bloomberg
How this Nigerian-American founder raised over $10 million for his agritech startup
Techpoint Africa
This smart new search site is like a mashup of Google and ChatGPT
Fast Company

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021) (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
  2. Realistic computer-generated handwriting (calligrapher.ai)
  3. Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety (lungy.app)
  4. Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts (patterns.app)
  5. Best and worst decisions I’ve made (stonemaiergames.com)
  6. The window trick of Las Vegas hotels (schedium.net)
  7. Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills (archive.org)
  8. Take more screenshots (2022) (alexwlchan.net)
  9. Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (fathy.fr)
  10. Chronophoto (chronophoto.app)
Read more on Hacker News

👩🏼‍🚀 Jobs at YC startups

Early stage to later stage, these startups are hiring now

Chief of Staff

Complete (YC W22)
The complete way to do compensation

San Francisco, CA • $100k - $150k • 0.50% - 1.50%

Product Manager

Reframe (YC S21)
App to help people quit or cut back on alcohol use

Remote • $100k - $200k

Founding UI/UX Designer

Fleek (YC W22)
Modernizing specialty insurance

Remote • $30k - $120k • 0.01% - 0.10%

Sr. Software Engineer, Founding Team

Aviator (YC S21)
Google-level engineering productivity suite

San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA / Remote (US) • $160k - $200k
Browse more open roles

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Angle Health (YC W20)
$58M Series A
San Francisco, California

Fierce Healthcare: Payer startup Angle Health scores $58M to scale operations, expand to new markets
Tranch (YC S22)
$100M Seed & Debt Funding
New York, New York

Finextra: B2B BNPL platform Tranch raises $100 million in debt and equity
Inscribe (YC S18)
$25M Series B
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Inscribe bags $25M to fight financial fraud with AI
Memfault (YC W19)
$24M Series B
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Memfault raises $24M to help companies manage their growing IoT device fleets
Landeed (YC S22)
$8.3M Seed
San Francisco, California

The Economic Times: Proptech startup Landeed raises $8.3 million funding
Accord (YC W20)
$10M Series A
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M
Whalesyync (YC S21)
$1.8M Pre-Seed
Seattle, Washington

TechCrunch: Whalesync wants to simplify the process of syncing data between SaaS apps
Bluedot (YC W23)
$2M Pre-Seed
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Bluedot’s debit card for EV owners offers cheaper charging, cash back
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