This Week at YC: The cult of conformity in Silicon Valley

This Week at YC

February 13, 2023

🧠 The cult of conformity in Silicon Valley

What happens when the unconventional becomes conventional? Michael and Dalton share stories of how the tech scene has changed since they were in school β€” and offer their advice on navigating a world that doesn't always reward those embarking on risky entrepreneurial journeys.

 

πŸ“ˆ Discover Black-founded companies

The YC directory dedicated to highlighting Black-founded companies now includes 175+ companies, and combined, they are valued at $11.5B and have raised $2.4B in funding β€” an increase of $4.8B and $1.1B respectively in the last year.

 

πŸ”₯ YC Fireside: Surbhi Sarna and Tracy Young

To kick off Women’s History Month, YC's Surbhi Sarna will be hosting a fireside chat with YC alumni and second-time founder Tracy Young. Tracy first went through YC in Winter 2012 with her company PlanGrid, a construction software company that was sold to Autodesk for $875M. Sign up and join us live!

πŸš€ The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

CodeComplete

GitHub Copilot for enterprise
San Francisco, California

Vector

Unlock the value of your customer conversations
Raleigh, North Carolina

Kivo Health

Telehealth lung rehab
San Francisco, California

Blocksfabrik

Create your own design system without all the work
New York, New York

Rubber Ducky Labs

Better recommender systems with machine learning plus human expertise
San Francisco, California

Apollo Group

Hire trained blue-collar workers in frontier markets
Lahore, Pakistan

Map3

Supercharge crypto deposits
New York, New york

LaunchFlow

System design to deployment in seconds
New York, New York

Edgebit

Secure your software supply chain
San Mateo, California

Uptrain

Open-source tool to observe your ML models
San Francisco, California

Tailfin

Maximize revenue with usage-based pricing
San Francisco, California

Pando Biosciences

Decipher complex disease using protein networks
Boston, Massachusetts

Arroyo

Serverless stream processing
Berkeley, California

Fern

Build APIs twice as fast
San Francisco, California
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
Meet Shekel Mobility, the fintech powering car dealerships in Africa
techcabal
Progress, not perfection, sustains long-term growth
Fast Company
Sweden's Heart Aerospace hopes to bring electric flight to the masses
Sifted
Airbnb’s cofounder just donated $25 million to get plastic out of the ocean and tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Fortune

πŸ”₯ Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Big data is dead (motherduck.com)
  2. Van life in Japan (kumazen.com)
  3. Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004? (jvns.ca)
  4. What I think about LeBron breaking my NBA scoring record  (kareem.substack.com)
  5. A GPT in 60 lines of NumPy  (jaykmody.com)
  6. The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020) (airfactsjournal.com)
  7. My fifth year as a bootstrapped founder (mtlynch.io)
  8. QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed (chollinger.com)
  9. I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation (moritz.pm)
  10. A Heisenbug lurking in async Python (textualize.io)
Read more on Hacker News

πŸ‘©πŸΌβ€πŸš€ Jobs at YC startups

Early stage to later stage, these startups are hiring now

Founding Designer

Findly (YC S22)
The AI chatbot for your data warehouse

Remote β€’ $36k - $72k β€’ 0.10% - 0.50%

Founding Engineer (Frontend)

Keeper (YC S21)
Software for bookkeepers

Austin, TX / Remote β€’ $100k - $170k β€’ 0.10% - 1.00%

Scientist

Modulari-T (YC W23)
We teach your immune system to attack & cure cancer

Montreal, QC, CA β€’ $55k - $72k β€’ 1.00%

Director, Product Management

CaptivateIQ (YC W18)
Agile commission software to design, deploy & adapt commission plans

Remote β€’ $186k - $272k
Browse more open roles

πŸ’Έ Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Zeitview (YC W15)
$55M Series E
Santa Monica, California

Axios: DroneBase nets $55M for inspections, rebrands as Zeitview
MindsDB (YC W20)
$16.5M Series A
San Francisco, California

Forbes: Startup MindsDB raises $16.5 million to power the AI race in the workplace
Mino Games (YC W11)
$15M Series B
Montreal, Canada

Venturebeat: Mino Games raises $15M to create Dimensionals Web3 game
Riot (YC W20)
$12M Series A
Paris, France

TechCrunch: Riot prepares your team against highly sophisticated cyberattacks
SNAB (YC W22)
€1.1M Seed
Madrid, Spain

EU-Startups: Spanish startup Snab snaps up €1.1 million for its B2B banking platform
Replo (YC S21)
$4.2M Seed
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Replo gives businesses a low-code option for creating Shopify landing pages
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