This Week at YC

September 29th, 2024

✨ The Latest

How to Find a Co-Founder

Building a startup is hard, especially if you’re trying to do it alone. YC Group Partner Harj Taggar explains why you need a co-founder, when to bring them on, where you can find one, and how to maintain the relationship.

What Founder Mode Really Means

After a recent talk by Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and an essay by Paul Graham, the concept of "founder mode" was everywhere. But what does it mean and who does it really apply to? Dalton and Michael dig in to find out what lessons can be learned.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies

World’s largest pilotless cargo drone Pyka zips $40M Series B to spread wings in defense
TFN

Liveflow uses AI to automate accounting — but hopes to keep accountants in jobs
TechCrunch

Supabase, a Postgres-centric developer platform, raises $80M Series C
TechCrunch

Ian Brooke wants to revolutionize flight as we know it
Freethink

Raycast raises $30M to bring its Mac productivity app to Windows and iOS
TechCrunch

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies

DeepSim – AI physics simulations

Run complex physics simulations signficantly faster than any commerical tool.

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Finosu: Automated compliance for consumer lending

We automate mandatory compliance to save lenders, investors, and auditors time and money.

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Corpdaq: AI-powered financial simulator and financing marketplace

Using AI to automate financial simulations and debt raising for SMBs.

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NetworkOcean - Underwater data centers

We build underwater data centers to cut power usage by up to 30%

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Modus: Headcount management to save costs as you scale

We help companies hire and retain only the people they need without the unnecessary bloat.

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Syntra: Personalized and Automated Electronic Health Records

Syntra is the first EHR to automate administrative tasks for doctors.

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Simplex: on-demand photorealistic vision datasets

Receive millions of high quality images and labels for training your AI models.

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Parity - The World's First AI SRE

Parity is the first line of defense for on-call engineers working with Kubernetes - it triages alerts and inspects your cluster to determine root cause.

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