Y Combinator - Meet the YC Winter 2023 batch

This Week at YC

April 10, 2023

🌱 Learn about the companies presenting at Demo Day

For the Winter 2023 batch, we received over 20,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 282. Smart founders know now is a great time to start a startup.

 

πŸ‘©πŸ½β€πŸ’» Why should you apply to YC?

Run by startup founders who have built exactly what they wanted when starting and growing a startup, YC gives founders a disproportionate advantage. We help them make something people want and the results speak for themselves.

πŸš€ The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Intently

Identify the best sales targets using AI
San Francisco, California

Sensible Biotechnologies

Engineering cells to make better mRNA
Bratislava, Slovakia

Semantic Finance

Real-time AI-powered financial news data
San Francisco, California

Rainmaker

DeFi for everyone
New York, New York

Nirva

Holistic treatment programs for chronic conditions
London, United Kingdom
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
The Social Radars Ep. 4: Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator
Apple Podcasts
Alga Biosciences wants to help climate change, one bovine burp at a time
TechCrunch
Sensible Biotechnologies is unlocking the promise of RNA therapeutics
Forbes

πŸ”₯ Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. From deep to long learning? (stanford.edu)
  2. Why human societies developed so little during 300k years (woodfromeden.substack.com)
  3. Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me? (nytimes.com)
  4. Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again (npr.org)
  5. β€˜Alien calculus’ could save particle physics from infinities (quantamagazine.org)
  6. If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed (sbstatesman.com)
  7. A trick to reaching flow: Leave your work broken (census.dev)
  8. Grid World (miller.garden)
  9. Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022) (contextkeeper.io)
  10. How to be a -10x Engineer (taylor.town)
Read more on Hacker News

πŸ’Έ Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Satsuma (YC S21)
$5M Seed
San Francisco, California

The Block: Blockchain data indexing platform Satsuma raised $5 million in seed round
Coast (YC S21)
$2.1M Seed
Evanston, Illinois

TechCrunch: Coast, a demo platform for β€˜API-first’ companies, lands $2.1M
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