How YC's newest founders met their co-founders

This Week at YC

July 31, 2023

πŸ“Ί 60 YC founders and how they met their co-founders

Just last week we debuted our new video series Office Hours. This week we've got another new series for you!

Founder FAQ introduces you to some of the founders from the latest YC batch, with each episode asking them a different question. This first episode's question: How'd you meet your co-founder?

(And for the Dalton & Michael fans out there: Look for a new episode very soon!)

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders
Javelin Robotics’ (W21) vision for autonomous trucks
Trucknews
Jeeves (S20) hits over $40M in annualized revenue as it expands beyond corporate credit cards
TechCrunch
Mobile website builder Universe (W18) launches AI-powered designer
TechCrunch

πŸš€ The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches 
Xeol β€” Modern platform for software supply chain security

Trayd β€” Construction payroll designed for same-day pay

Neum AI β€” Improve your AI application's accuracy with up-to-date context

Tempo Labs β€” Build UIs 10X faster with AI

Hyperbound β€” Research, generate, and launch hundreds of personalized email campaigns with one click

askLio β€” AI copilot for procurement teams

Corgea β€” Data security and privacy platform that automates sensitive data protection and compliance in the products companies make

Watto AI β€” Intelligent document creation for product managers

Parea AI – Developer toolkit for debugging and monitoring LLM apps

Langdock β€” GDPR-compliant ChatGPT for your team

Health Harbor β€” Automated billing for private medical practices

Continue β€” VS Code extension that brings the power of ChatGPT to your IDE

Flair Health – Tackling chronic disease by unlocking personal lifestyle data

Nowadays β€” AI copilot for event planning

Gleam β€” Easily set up and administer self-funded health plans

Letter AI β€” Personalized and up-to-date sales enablement, built 10X faster with AI

Hegel AI β€” Open-source tools for language model evaluation

Taylor AI β€” We enable every company to finetune open-source LLMs on their own private data

Healthtech-1 β€” Making free healthcare sustainable by automating repetitive processes

Upstream β€” Messaging app for teams, built on top of email

Flex β€” Stripe for HSA/FSA payments

Casehopper β€” AI for immigration lawyers

Ohmic Biosciences β€” Genetically engineering disease-resistant plants

PropRise β€” We are making hard-to-find commercial real estate data accessible at scale

Nanograb β€” Multivalent nanoparticles for next-generation targeted drugs

Metoro β€” Debug production systems faster with AI

Epsilla β€” The information retrieval foundation for the next generation of AI applications

Axilla β€” End-to-end framework to develop LLM applications for enterprise

Certainly Health β€” We predict and guarantee out-of-pocket costs using patients' insurance to prevent surprise bills
Find more YC companies and discover new products

πŸ”₯ Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor? | (https://arxiv.org/)
     
  2. Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium | (https://github.com/)
     
  3. Zenbleed | (https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html)
     
  4. Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be | (https://www.science.org/)
     
  5. Google’s nightmare β€œWeb Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web | (https://arstechnica.com/)
     
  6. Attention Is Off By One | (https://www.evanmiller.org/)
     
  7. Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow | (https://infosec.exchange/)
     
  8. Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API | (https://github.com/)
     
  9. Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints | (https://www.reuters.com/)
     
  10. 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight | (https://www.damninteresting.com/)
Read more on Hacker News

πŸ’Έ Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Depot (YC W23)
$1.8M Seed 
London
Depot: Depot raises $1.8M seed round
Bright (YC W15)
$31.5M Series C
Mexico City

Axios: Bright raises $31.5M to expand rooftop solar in Mexico
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