This Week at YC: Navigating market cycles with Snapdocs’ Aaron King

This Week at YC

February 6, 2023

📈 Snapdocs’ Aaron King on navigating market cycles

Founder & CEO Aaron King expertly built Snapdocs (YC W14) through volatile market conditions and with minimal outside funding into the mortgage industry's leading digital closing platform, valued at $1.5B. This is what he learned from navigating market cycles along the way.

 

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Discover new YC companies and products

Quazel

An AI language tutor in your pocket
Zürich, Switzerland

Modulari-T

We teach your immune system to attack and cure cancer
Montreal, Quebec

Pyq

Easy AI integration into applications
San Francisco, California

Vitalize Care

Improving the mental health of healthcare professionals
San Francisco, California

Invopop

Global sales tax compliance with a single integration
San Francisco, California

highlight.io

Open-source session replay & error monitoring
San Francisco, California

Adventris Pharmaceuticals

We make cancer vaccines
San Francisco, California

BidSight

Modernizing pre-construction for CRE developers
New York, New York

Babylog

A lightweight open-source logging library for computer vision
San Francisco, California

Whalesync

2-way sync your no-code tools
Seattle, Washington

Welcome

A webinar platform designed to drive revenue
San Francisco, California

Trellus

Real-time sales AI coach for cold calls
New York, New York
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🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
Inside ChatGPT’s breakout moment and the race to put AI to work
Forbes
World’s largest electric cargo plane unveiled, here’s how far it can fly on its own
Electrek
How Egypt’s Pylon is “saving the planet” one smart meter at a time
Disrupt Africa
Startup SilkChart is helping brands tap into their own user data
BizJournals
The ChatGPT and generative-AI 'gold rush' has founders flocking to San Francisco's 'Cerebral Valley'
Business Insider

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery (sive.rs)
  2. Universal Summarizer (labs.kagi.com)
  3. Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser (play-cs.com)
  4. Math breakdown: Anime homing missiles (littlepolygon.com)
  5. Stable Attribution (stableattribution.com)
  6. Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later  (nature.com)
  7. Ghost boat with GPS leads father-son duo to man overboard (garmin.com)
  8. Scalability is overrated (waseem.substack.com)
  9. ChatGPT Plus (openai.com)
  10. Reversing UK mobile rail tickets (eta.st)
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👩🏼‍🚀 Jobs at YC startups

Early stage to later stage, these startups are hiring now

Frontend Engineer, Entry-level

GoLinks (YC W19)
Internal, human-readable short links for teams

Remote • $75k - $110k

Technical Product Manager

shuttle (YC S20)
Build backends. Fast.

London, UK / Remote • $80k - $150k • 0.50% - 1.50%

Product Designer

Paladin Cyber (YC S17)
Empowering every organization to be cyber resilient

Remote • $120k - $180k • 0.20% - 0.50%

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Seam (YC S20)
API for IoT Devices

San Francisco, CA • $100k - $180k
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💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Method Financial (YC S19)
$16M Series A
Austin, Texas

Method: Propelling the next decade of consumer finance
Beek (YC W17)
$13M Series A
Mexico City, Mexico

TechCrunch: Meet Beek, a startup bringing audiobooks to LatAm with big-name backing
Oxygen (YC S18)
$20M Series B
San Francisco, California

IO: Oxygen announces $20 million funding and new CEO
Finley (YC W21)
$17M Series A
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Finley closes $17M to turn 100-page debt capital agreements into software-managed code
Entocycle (YC S17)
$5M Series A
London, United Kingdom

TechCrunch: Entocycle grabs $5 million for its insect breeding technology
Recurrency (YC S20)
$22M Series A
San Francisco, California

Recurrency: Recurrency raises $22 million to revolutionize ERP for distribution
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