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This Week at YC

April 3, 2023

💰 Modern Startup Fundraising 101

YC's Brad Flora has coached hundreds of companies on fundraising. He's seen startup fundraising from every angle: as a founder, as one of the most prolific angel investors in Silicon Valley, and now as a YC Group Partner. In this talk, he shares stories and advice on how modern startup fundraising works.

 

🤝 Co-Founder Matching April Meetup in SF

Join other exceptional founders from the YC Co-Founder Matching network to meet potential co-founders. The agenda will include advice on the co-founder search, time to meet YC group partners and staff, structured 1:1 conversations, and general mingling. Sign up to attend.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Finex

All-in-one financial platform for e-commerce

Glass AI

GPT for doctors
San Francisco, California

Theya

The world's simplest Bitcoin self-custody solution
San Francisco, California

Hightime

AI assistant for sales
San Francisco, California

Flair Labs

Unlock insights from conversation data with LLMs
Seattle, Washington

Squack

Natural language RPA tools for accountants
San Francisco, California

LinkGrep

AI browser copilot for teams
San Francisco, California

Coldreach

Automate sales email personalization for 10x conversions
San Francisco, California

Numeral

Ecommerce sales tax on autopilot
San Francisco, California

Swishjam

Open-source suite of page speed optimization tools
Los Angeles, California

TeamOut

The retreat planning platform
Los Angeles, California

Reviewify.io

AI powered code reviews
San Francisco, California

Spadeworks

One-stop maintenance solutions for Indian SMBs
Hyderabad, India
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
Meet the tech CEO going deep on sleep
Forbes
Known Medicine is using machine learning to cure cancer
Utah Business
How Brex sprang into action as Silicon Valley Bank collapsed
Fast Company
3D-printed, factory-built homes coming to a community near you
Forbes

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. John Glenn’s $40 camera forced NASA to rethink space missions (petapixel.com)
  2. Bicycle (ciechanow.ski)
  3. Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket (oliverburkeman.com)
  4. Incompetent but Nice (jacobian.org)
  5. The age of average (alexmurrell.co.uk)
  6. Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children (scratch.mit.edu)
  7. Janet for Mortals (janet.guide)
  8. AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects (simonwillison.net)
  9. Thinking hard makes the brain tired (economist.com)
  10. The day Windows died (thomasbandt.com)
Read more on Hacker News

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Coursedog (YC W19)
$90M growth
New York, New York

Yahoo Finance: Coursedog Receives $90 Million Strategic Growth Investment from JMI Equity
Careerist (YC S21)
$8M Series A
Sunnyvale, California

Business Insider: Pitch Deck That Y Combinator Alum Careerist Used to Raise $8 Million
NuMind (YC S22)
$3M Seed
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Slator: NLP Startup NuMind Raises USD 3m in Seed Funding
Neptyne (YC W23)
$2M Pre-Seed
New York, New York

TechCrunch: Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists
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