This Week at YC

August 7, 2023

📺 Does your startup need to be in San Francisco?

In this episode of Dalton & Michael, the two YC Group Partners discuss a hot button issue: If you’re starting a company, does it need to be in San Francisco?

One rare aspect of this episode: It’s one where Michael and Dalton disagree.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders and other YC news

YC Group Partner Nicolas Dessaigne on mistakes founders make on YC applications
Sifted

Jasmine Energy (S22) launches energy trading app
Axios

Orangewood wants to build a cheap, programmable robotic arm for manufacturing
TechCrunch

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches

AutoEmber — A visual design tool for making real websites

Chow Central — Virtual restaurant chains in African cities

Structured — Helping developers analyze logs with AI using plain English

Magik — Your AI-powered Salesforce admin

Hidden Hand — AI-powered client intake for law firms

Obento Health — Shopify for healthcare providers

HockeyStack — Revenue intelligence & attribution for B2B

Sola — Build AI agents in co-pilot

Humanlike — Replace your call center with voice AI that sounds human

Egress — Automations on top of your data

CambioML — Helping data scientists at large enterprises build machine learning infrastructure

Vizly – AI-powered data analysis, privately on your own device

DSensei — Pinpoint the root cause of metric fluctuations in one minute

Happyrobot — AI co-pilot for geospatial imagery analysis

Cedana — Automatically move workloads across instances without interrupting progress or breaking anything

Retake — Real-time universal search infra for developers

Poozle — Plaid for ticketing SaaS tools

Sweep — AI-powered junior developer that writes, fixes, and debugs its own PRs

Ten.dev — The knowledge-gathering co-pilot for development teams

Stellar Sleep — We help people break the insomnia cycle using psychology

Haven — Makes it easy to deploy LLMs on your own infrastructure

MICSI — Higher resolution MRI acquired faster

Transformity — Modern point-of-sale for liquor stores

Constructable — The AI co-pilot for construction teams

Glaze — AI shopping platform for premium fashion brands

Dioxus Labs — Web, Desktop, and Mobile apps with one codebase

Fortuna Health — We simplify Medicaid application filing and renewals

Inventive AI — Automate sales tasks with AI agents

VectorShift — We let you design, integrate, and deploy internal LLM tools in minutes

Tremor – Webflow for dashboards

Shasta Health — We combine expert physical therapists with AI care programs

Campfire — Revenue management for Series A+ tech companies

Trench — Open-source fraud prevention platform for marketplaces

LifestyleRx — Virtual care for Type 2 Diabetes reversal

INFOBOT — The AI-generated news network

Cercli – Automating payroll, HR, compliance, onboarding & more for Middle East and North Africa

Deasie — Data governance for language model applications

Sizeless — Make ML reproducible and safe

Inari — An AI co-pilot for product, ops, and analytics

Olio Labs — Using AI to design better treatments for disease

CodeStory — An AI-first IDE re-imagined for the future

Hyperlight — Automating customer support with AI agents

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