How Y Combinator Changed the World
WIRED's Steven Levy has been following and covering YC for nearly 17 years. Here he shares his assessment of YC's impact, aside from the giant companies it helped nurture.
 

🚀 The Launchpad

Requestly
New Delhi, India
Cross-Platform developer tool for API testing & debugging.

NinjaSalary
Kolkata, India
Earned wage access platform for employees.

Palitronica
Kitchener, Ontario
Protection for critical infrastructure, assets, and the supply chain.

Tahora
London, United Kingdom
Creating meaningful connections in the workplace.

Castled Data
Bengaluru, India
Activate data from your warehouse into business apps (Reverse ETL).

Circular
Singapore
Subscription consumer electronics for APAC.

GIMO
Hanoi, Vietnam
We help underbanked workers get paid anytime, anywhere.

Verdn
London, United Kingdom
An API to bundle trackable, sustainable pledges with any transaction.

The Ankler
Los Angeles, California
The leading source of news, information and analysis for insiders in the entertainment industry.

📈 Top Posts on Hacker News

• Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life (epsilontheory.com)
• Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
• A New Coefficient of Correlation (arxiv.org)
• Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand (fabiensanglard.net)
• My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (jeffhuang.com)
• Skillsoft Buys Codecademy (YC S11) for $525M (skillsoft.com)
• Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?
• Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes (justine.lol)

💼 Jobs at YC Startups

• Sequin (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer to Get Women Credit
• Terra (YC W21) Is Hiring for a Founder Associate in London
• Decent (YC W22) Is Hiring a Senior Full Stack Web3 (Solidity) Engineer
• SuperTokens (YC S20) is hiring a head of technical content
• Lofty AI (YC S19) hiring Blockchain Eng. to build real estate token DEX and DAOs

🌎 From the YC Community

• A Philadelphia start-up wants to bring health care to hourly workers who can’t afford insurance - Vitable Health (S20)
• YC Startup Releaf Revolutionizes Nigeria’s Palm Oil Industry Through Its Principles - Releaf (S17)
• This New Company Wants to Help Homeowners Turn Their Unused Spaces Into Rentable ADUs - Homestead (W20)
• Why Retool’s CEO Took A ‘Risky’ Fundraising Approach On The Way To A $1.9 Billion Valuation - Retool (W17)
• Airbnb’s $10 Billion Engineer Is Tackling The Lodging Giant’s Toughest Projects - Airbnb (W09)