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This Week at YC

June 20, 2023

👁️ Critiquing AI Startup Websites with YC President Garry Tan

Our Design Review series is back! For this episode, Group Partner Aaron Epstein invited YC President and CEO Garry Tan to break down what’s working (and what’s not) on the websites of five different AI startups. Watch along as they provide concrete advice that will help you improve your own site designs, regardless of what type of company you’re building.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

OpenMeter

Usage Metering for AI, Billing, Infrastructure, and IoT use-cases.
San Francisco, CA

Outset.ai

AI-powered user interviews
San Francisco, CA

Laudspeaker

Let us set up in-app guides / onboarding for you!
Mountain View, CA

Superpowered

The AI copilot for your meetings
Toronto, Canada

Roundtable

We simulate responses to online surveys in seconds
Princeton, NJ
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders and other YC news
Y Combinator-backed Rever aims to modernize refunds and returns
TechCrunch
Y Combinator "dominates
startup accelerator programs
for investment value"

Institutional Investor
How MindsDB became a hot AI startup worth $160 million
Insider
Nigeria’s Termii to launch a mobile app and scale customer engagement business with new funding
TechCrunch

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private | (https://old.reddit.com)
  2. My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do | (https://raymii.org)
  3. Full Time | (https://www.marginalia.nu)
  4. Imaginary problems are the root of bad software | (https://cerebralab.com)
  5. McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game | (https://retrododo.com)
  6. Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps | (http://www.jdawiseman.com)
  7. Cormac McCarthy has died | (https://www.nytimes.com)
  8. I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours | (https://rwmj.wordpress.com)
  9. New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes | (https://ogletree.com)
  10. Daniel Ellsberg has died | (https://www.nytimes.com)
Read more on Hacker News

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Humanly (YC W20)
$12M Series A
Seattle, WA

GeekWire: Recruiting automation startup Humanly lands $12M as it doubles down on AI
Hyper (YC S20)
$3.6M Seed
San Francisco, CA

Poko (YC W22)
$4.5M Seed
Singapore

TechInAsia: Poko raises $4.5m to reduce Web3 payments friction
Type (YC W23)
$2.8M Seed
New York, NY

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