YC's $500,000 Standard Deal
We're excited to announce our new standard deal at Y Combinator. When a company is accepted into YC, we now invest a total of $500,000.

Rookie Mistakes: Should You Follow Your Passion?
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel talk about solutions in search of a problem, whether or not to follow your passion, how to figure out what to work on, and how to motivate yourself.
 

🚀 The Launchpad

Markaz Technologies
Islamabad, Pakistan
Reselling marketplace for social media entrepreneurs in Pakistan.

Identitypass
Lagos, Nigeria
Compliance and security infrastructure for Africa.

digiventures
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Reinventing loan applications in LatAm.

Finku
Jakarta, Indonesia
Personal finance platform for Indonesia.

Celeri
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Compliance tools for financial companies.

Pina
Jakarta, Indonesia
Digital wealth management platform for Indonesia.

Janani.life
Bengaluru, India
India's first at-home diagnostic driven reproductive and sexual health platform.

SaveIN
Delhi, India
Buy now, pay later for healthcare in India.

shopr.tv
Bengaluru, India
Live commerce for the first 100m internet users in India.

Koala
San Carlos, California
Shopify for online tutors.
 

📈 Top Posts on Hacker News

• Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil fuels to be burned (billmckibben.substack.com)
• My First Impressions of Web3 (moxie.org)
• Procrastinatory Doom Loops (brennancolberg.com)
• What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) (loc.gov)
• The UX on this small child is terrible (mcsweeneys.net)
• I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months (benadam.me)
• Search engines and SEO spam (twitter.com/paulg)

💼 Jobs at YC Startups

• Doola (YC S20) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead
• SigNoz (YC W21) Is Hiring First Developer Relations Engineer
• Taktile (YC S20) Is Hiring Senior Front End Engineer (Remote in Europe)
• Banner (YC S19) is hiring a remote full-stack engineer
• Release (YC W20) Is Hiring – Senior Back End Engineer

🌎 From the YC Community

• How this Founder is Disrupting the World of EdTech & Empowering More Students to Break Into Tech || Career Karma (W19)
• The First NFT Billionaires: OpenSea Founders Each Worth Billions After New Fundraising || OpenSea (W18)
• On the Y Combinator Summer 2021 batch
• New York Times Co. to Buy The Athletic for $550 Million in Cash || The Athletic (S16)