This Week at YC

August 14, 2023

📺 Founder FAQ: How'd you get your first customer?

Just a few weeks back we shared the first episode of our new series Founder FAQ. Now we're back with another episode!

Founder FAQ gives you a pre-Demo Day peek at some of the companies going through YC right now, with each episode asking dozens of the newest YC co-founders a question. The question this time around: how'd you get your first customer?

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders and other YC news

The Circuit - Inside Silicon Valley's Famous Startup School
Bloomberg

Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
Conversations with Tyler

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches

Studdy — An AI tutor for every student

Onnix — Personalized AI co-pilot for bankers

Fynt — Supercharge your financial department with AI insights, reconciliation, and reporting

Pure — Marketplace for gold/silver coins & bars

Wattson Health — Pharmacy automation to increase RX throughput & accuracy

Cheq UPI — Digital payments for NRIs and foreigners in India

Latentspace — Your AI data assistant

Serra — Simplify SQL with one command

Chatter — Dead simple LLM iteration and testing

Cascading AI — Automate manual banking processes

Capi Money — Helping businesses in Africa pay their international suppliers

Medobed — Transforming healthcare in India with fast and reliable medicine delivery

Cleancard — Making cancer screening as easy as a pregnancy test

MediSearch — AI search engine for trustworthy medical information

Silimate — Co-pilot for chip designers

Anneal — Create & share short-form videos using generative AI tooling

Simbie Health — We enable women’s health providers to start and grow their own practices

Strada — Fastest way to connect enterprise software like Salesforce and NetSuite

Envelope Money — We make good financial behavior fun, measurable and addicting

Accend — Accelerate manual reviews for Fintech Ops & Compliance teams

Feanix Bio — Saving farmers from 8.5 million wasted animal pregnancies a year

Raz — Collect deeper insights with forms that users can fill out by having a conversation

Baserun.ai — Ship LLM features with confidence

Telophase — Clone your AWS environments with the click of a button

Synaptiq — AI-guided training for doctors

Truemetrics — Provides logistics companies with precise delivery coordinates to guide couriers to their customer's doorstep

Khoj — Get more done with your open-source, trustworthy personal AI

Kite — Helps software companies create stunning marketing videos in minutes

Metalware — Co-pilot for firmware engineers

Trainy — LLM training and serving on any cloud

Inlet — Build powerful automations for your business

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