This Week at YC

August 21, 2023

🔥 YC’s Group Partners share their worst investor meetings

Before they were Group Partners at YC, they were founders.

For this latest episode of Office Hours, the Group Partners are sharing stories from their worst investor meetings. They’ll outline some of the weird plays they’ve seen investors try to pull — but they’ll also confess times that they, as founders, bungled meetings they could’ve nailed.

📚 Check out the new YC Library!

We’re excited to show you the new YC Library — a hub for the best videos, talks, essays, and more that Y Combinator creates for startup founders.

It’s an easy way to keep up with YC's growing lineup of new video series — from the founder-favorite Dalton & Michael to the recently launched Founder FAQ — while also helping you explore a wealth of content we’ve made over the years.

As Michael Seibel put it, it's "all of the best startup advice in one place."

🌎 YC Community

Highlights and news from around YC

How Seabound (W22) is using carbon-capture tech to tackle the shipping industry's problematic emissions
Insider

"Pitch-deck advice: I don't think I have ever seen a fundraising deck getting better by using a designer to design it..."
YC Group Partner Gustaf Alströmer on X (Twitter)

How to grow a mission-driven organization? The CEO of GiveCampus (S15) explains
Inc.

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches

Vango AI — Vango makes it 10x easier to build and evaluate Stable Diffusion workflows in your app.

Cardinal Gray — Auto lenders spend 30M hours a year sending title documents to 50 different state DMVs. Cardinal Gray automates this.

FleetWorks — We automate the 1B+ phone calls and emails that keep freight moving.

Twine — Turning missed calls into bookings.

Slicker — Use a single interface for all your global payment needs.

Elythea — 80%+ of pregnancy deaths are preventable. We use ML to catch and prevent life-threatening complications starting from the first visit.

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