The Social Radars: A new podcast from YC's Jessica Livingston & Carolynn Levy

This Week at YC

March 27, 2023

🎙 The Social Radars

Jessica Livingston, cofounder of Y Combinator, and Carolynn Levy, creator of the YC SAFE, have been working together to help thousands of startups at YC for almost 20 years. Come be a fly on the wall as they talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it. Their first guests are the creator of Gmail, Paul Buchheit, and creator of Google Photos, David Lieb. Tune in here.

 

🤖 Building APIs for AI: An Interview with Zapier’s Bryan Helmig

YC's Garry Tan sat down with Bryan Helmig, the CTO and founder of Zapier, to talk APIs and interoperability, and learn more about the company’s first-ever public API: Natural Language Actions (NLA).

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Fluid Markets

Invest in public company fundamentals
New York, New York

Magicflow

Webflow for AI development
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Pursuit Properties

Invest in premier properties without the property management hassle
Denver, Colorado

Ruby Card

The bank for e-commerce businesses
New York, New York

Warrant

Open source application authorization and access control
San Francisco, California

Narrative

Bill.com for the logistics industry
San Francisco, California

Layerup

ChatGPT for data analytics and business intelligence
San Francisco, California

Berilium

Invest in top Private Equity and Private Credit
San Francisco, California

Homeflow

Simplifying insurance for large real estate investors
San Francisco, California

DailyPe

Indian marketplace for business loans, that are repaid daily
Bengaluru, India

Dailybot+ AI

A ChatGPT assistant and AI workflow builder for your work chat
Remote, Oregon

Mantys

ARR tracking & forecasting for SaaS companies
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
Young father defying the odds of his ALS diagnosis says the disease is 'no longer hopeless'
People
Inside a bank run
NPR
Pilot AI taps algorithms to extract info from sales calls
TechCrunch
We ran a phone check at a YC event in San Francisco. Here’s how it went.
Medium
Why Nearshoring Is Closer Than Ever: How Mexico Is Becoming The Next Big Thing In Global Markets
Forbes

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Engineers Need to Write (developing.dev)
  2. Gordon Moore has died (moore.org)
  3. Juice (bradwoods.io)
  4. Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos (theguardian.com)
  5. Relativity Space launches first 3D-printed rocket on historic test flight (space.com)
  6. You can't tell people anything (2004) (habitatchronicles.com)
  7. ChatGPT Plugins (openai.com)
  8. The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets (markessien.com)
  9. Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat (newscientist.com)
  10. So you've installed `fzf` – now what? (andrew-quinn.me)
Read more on Hacker News

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Parker (YC W19)
$157M equity & debt funding
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Here’s a new corporate card startup, backed by $157M in equity, debt, going after Brex, Ramp
Mindset Health (YC S19)
$17.8M Series A
Melbourne, Australia

Financial Review: Melbourne brothers build a $77m business from hypnotherapy apps
Tavus (YC S21)
$6.1M Seed
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Tavus taps generative AI to power personalized videos with voice and face cloning
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How to build an MVP

Monday, March 20, 2023

Michael walks through how to determine your initial feature set, build prototypes and demos for testing, and present your MVP to early customers and.. This Week at YC March 20, 2023 🧑🏽‍💻 Pre-launch

Your startup's secret superpower

Monday, March 13, 2023

Dalton and Michael reveal how startups can gain a competitive advantage by doing something deceptively simple: caring deeply about your customers. This Week at YC March 13, 2023 💕 How to earn customers

The REAL potential of generative AI

Monday, March 6, 2023

What is a large language model and how can it be used to enhance your business? Learn about the cutting-edge AI powering innovations today. This Week at YC March 6, 2023 🤖 The REAL potential of

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They're building across almost every industry, from entertainment to biotech — with many leveraging the power of machine learning and generative AI. This Week at YC February 27, 2023 🤐 The hard

How to launch (again and again)

Monday, February 20, 2023

YC's Kat Mañalac wants to change the way you think about launching. This Week at YC February 20, 2023 🚀 Change the way you think about launching As the head of our Outreach team, Kat advises early

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