This Week at YC

August 28, 2023

🧡 Dalton & Michael on why investors (secretly) love Y Combinator

YC is undeniably an integral part of the venture capital ecosystem, helping to shine the first spotlight on many of the companies that go on to be featured high up in a huge font on the top investor portfolio pages.

But how do investors really feel about YC? In this episode, Michael and Dalton dig in!

🌎 YC Community

Highlights and news from around YC

Instacart (S12) files for its IPO
Axios

America’s bridges, factories and highways are in dire need of repairs. Bring in the robots.
Wall Street Journal

"A common negotiating tactic of seed investors is to convince YC founders their fundraising strategy / price is incorrect and their advisors are not worth listening to. Turns out..."
YC Group Partner Michael Seibel on X (Twitter)

Zepto (W21) becomes India’s first 2023 unicorn
TechCrunch

The European startups in Y Combinator’s S23 cohort
Sifted

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches

OpenPipe — Convert expensive LLM prompts into faster, cheaper fine-tuned models.

Slingshot — Next generation video games with characters and mechanics powered by GenAI.

Surface Labs — Building personalized user flows around AI-powered forms.

Mano — Augment LLM retrieval with your enterprise data, all in your own cloud.

Onward — Streamline your meetings + automate your action items, instantly.

Octo — We generate AI agents from historical data to instantly resolve 70% of customer support tickets.

Magic Loops — Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations.

Giga ML — Customized LLMs for Industry-specific needs. On-premise & secure.

RecipeUI — Open source Postman alternative.

Quack AI — AI companion for developer onboarding.

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