How YC companies get their first customers

This Week at YC

August 14, 2023

πŸ“Ί 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

πŸš€ The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches 
Studdy β€” An AI tutor for every student

Onnix β€” Personalized AI co-pilot for bankers

Fynt β€” Supercharge your financial department with AI insights, reconciliation, and reporting

Pure β€” Marketplace for gold/silver coins & bars

Wattson Health β€” Pharmacy automation to increase RX throughput & accuracy

Cheq UPI β€” Digital payments for NRIs and foreigners in India

Latentspace β€” Your AI data assistant

Serra β€” Simplify SQL with one command

Chatter β€” Dead simple LLM iteration and testing

Cascading AI β€” Automate manual banking processes

Capi Money β€” Helping businesses in Africa pay their international suppliers

Medobed β€” Transforming healthcare in India with fast and reliable medicine delivery

Cleancard β€” Making cancer screening as easy as a pregnancy test

MediSearch β€” AI search engine for trustworthy medical information

Silimate β€” Co-pilot for chip designers

Anneal β€” Create & share short-form videos using generative AI tooling

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

Strada β€” Fastest way to connect enterprise software like Salesforce and NetSuite

Envelope Money β€” We make good financial behavior fun, measurable and addicting

Accend β€” Accelerate manual reviews for Fintech Ops & Compliance teams

Feanix Bio β€” Saving farmers from 8.5 million wasted animal pregnancies a year 

Raz β€” Collect deeper insights with forms that users can fill out by having a conversation

Baserun.ai β€” Ship LLM features with confidence

Telophase β€” Clone your AWS environments with the click of a button

Synaptiq β€” AI-guided training for doctors

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

Khoj β€” Get more done with your open-source, trustworthy personal AI

Kite β€” Helps software companies create stunning marketing videos in minutes

Metalware β€” Co-pilot for firmware engineers

Trainy β€” LLM training and serving on any cloud

Inlet β€” Build powerful automations for your business
Find more YC companies and discover new products

πŸ”₯ Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Downfall Attacks | (https://downfall.page/)
     
  2. I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs | (https://github.com/)
     
  3. Vim Boss | (https://neovim.io/)
     
  4. Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer | (https://github.com/)
     
  5. TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe | (https://pr.tsmc.com/)
     
  6. Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release | (https://blog.mozilla.org/)
     
  7. Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use | (https://github.com/)
     
  8. Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office | (https://www.washingtonpost.com/)
     
  9. CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking | (https://www.theverge.com/)
     
  10. I would rather see my books get pirated than this | (https://janefriedman.com/)
Read more on Hacker News

πŸ’Έ Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Daybreak Health (YC S20)
$13M Series B
San Francisco, CA
BH Business: Daybreak Health Raises $13M in Campaign to Bring Free School-Based Mental Health Services to Youth
Rootly (YC S21)
$12M Series A
San Francisco, CA
TechCrunch: Incident response management platform Rootly secures $12M
Arpio (YC W21)
$8.2M Seed
Durham, NC
Arpio: Arpio Raises $8.2 Million Round
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