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This Week at YC

March 6, 2023

🤖 The REAL potential of generative AI

What is a large language model, and how can it be used to enhance your business? Ali Rowghani, Managing Director of YC Continuity, talks with Raza Habib, CEO of Humanloop (YC S20), about the cutting-edge AI powering innovations today—and what the future may hold.

 

⭐️ Congratulations to the 2023 YC Top Companies!

Since 2005, YC has funded over 4,000 startups, including many that have become household names.There are now 16 public YC companies, 290 private YC companies and 33 exits that are valued at over $150M, and over 80 that are worth more than $1B.

 

📆 Meet the Founders at YC's Spring Tech Hiring Event

On March 8th, we're hosting the first in-person hiring event at YC in over two years, and we have 8 YC-backed startups who are looking to hire engineers and technical talent.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

This was another big week for YC Winter 2023 company launches! Meet them all below:

Resync

Inbox zero for PMs and Eng Managers who are feeling swamped
New York, New York

Dill

Faster payments in foodservice distribution
San Francisco, California

Metal

Helping developers easily implement machine learning embeddings
New York, New York

Serial

Root cause manufacturing issues in minutes
San Francisco, California

Warp

Modern payroll and compliance for startups
New York, New York

Wallbit Pay

Neobank in the US for global remote workers
San Francisco, California

Waveline

The fastest way to integrate AI into your business
San Francisco, California

Orchid

An EHR for independent mental health professionals
San Francisco, California

Bumper

Simplifying supply chain payments

Upfront

Turning rebates into instantly lower prices
San Francisco, California

BuildJet

Managed high-performance runners for GitHub Actions
Berlin, Germany

Vellum

Build production-worthy LLM applications
San Francisco, California

Doctor Droid

Proactively detect issues before it impacts your customers
San Francisco, California

Cloudchipr

Cloud costs observability, management and automation platform
Berlin, Germany

Pair AI

The mobile-first gamified course platform
San Francisco, California

Plutis

Semantic search as a service
San Francisco, California

Jaldi

The online supermarket for South Asians in the US
New York, New York
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Kyber

ChatGPT for enterprise support
San Jose, California

Rubbrband

Train open-source ML models in a line of code
San Francisco, California

Berry

Co-browse and work together in any web app
San Francisco, California

Vocode

The SDK for building voice AI interfaces
San Francisco, California

Mirio

Spin up personalized demos for your API product in minutes
San Francisco, California

Inquery

Real-time events for PostgreSQL
San Francisco, California

Hammr

Rippling for the construction industry
San Francisco, California

Baselit

AI copilot for analytics

Inkeep

Conversational search for your developer product
San Francisco, California

Propify

Plaid for real estate
Boston, Massachusetts

Bluedot

Single payment platform for EV drivers and fleets
San Francisco, California

Luca

The pricing co-pilot for e-commerce businesses
San Francisco, California

Intrinsic

Safety tooling for Trust & Safety teams
San Francisco, California

Parlan

A spreadsheet that talks to your database
San Francisco, California

Trigo

Rent data API for landlords and lenders
New York, New York

Cardinal

Enabling product teams to build measurable features
San Francisco, California

Forfeit

Complete your habits or we take your money
Manchester, United Kingdom

Momentum Foods

Adding meat back to plant-based meat
Los Angeles, California
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Vaero

Make self-hosting as easy as SaaS
San Francisco, California

Peeba

Faire for Asia

Storyboarder

Create, buy, and sell webcomics
San Francisco, California

Milio

Operating system for B2B payments and treasury in emerging markets
Mexico City, Mexico

Vooma

Backoffice automation platform for logistics
San Francisco, California

Cerebrium

An AWS Sagemaker alternative
New York, New York

DAGWorks

Open Source ML ETL platform for Data Science teams
San Francisco, California

Constant

Invest in top private credit funds
New York, New York

Nebula

Understand & debug enterprise-scale codebases
San Francisco, California

Electric Air

Tesla for heat pumps
San Francisco, California

Yuma

ChatGPT for customer support
San Francisco, California

Bayes HQ

Automated sales tax for SaaS companies inside and outside the US
San Francisco, California

Sidekick

Open source AI support bot for CX teams
San Francisco, California

AiFlow

LLMs for private equity diligence
San Francisco, California

Texel.ai

Optimizing AI and video pipelines
New York, New York

MagnaPlay

AI-powered game translation
San Francisco, California

Dream3D

AI-powered 3D design
New York, New York

Flower

Train AI on distributed data
Hamburg, Germany
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🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
YouTube
This steak is tender, marbled, meaty—and 100% vegan
Singularity Hub
Common Paper’s founders are halfway through Y Combinator’s winter cohort. Here’s what they’ve learned so far.
Technical.ly

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. 3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous (abortretry.fail)
  2. What I Learned Reading 1k Investor Reports (collabfund.com)
  3. A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview (interviewing.io)
  4. Honestly, It's Probably the Phones (noahpinion.substack.com)
  5. 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World (spectrum.ieee.org)
  6. My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used (blog.dijit.sh)
  7. 5,000-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in Iraq (smithsonianmag.com)
  8. The Camera-Shy Hoodie (macpierce.com)
  9. Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery (writing.samsonhu.com)
  10. Most data work seems fundamentally worthless (ludic.mataroa.blog)
Read more on Hacker News

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Spade (YC W22)
$5M Seed
New York, New York

Spade: Spade raises $5m in seed funding round led by a16z
Shef (YC W19)
$73.5M Series B
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Culinary marketplace Shef whips up nationwide expansion with new funding, growth ingredients
Betterhalf (YC W21)
$8.5M Series A
Bengaluru, India

inc42: Matrimony startup Betterhalf secures $8.5 Mn in Series A round
Devyce (YC S22)
$2.7M Seed
London, United Kingdom

Tech.eu: Y Combinator-backed Devyce dials up $2.7 million
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