This Week at YC: Kicking Off YC Winter 2022

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🚀 The Launchpad

The YC Winter '22 batch kicked off this week! These are all the Y Combinator companies that launched:

Gravitl
Asheville, North Carolina
Automated WireGuard networks for cross-cloud computing and Kubernetes.

Trackingplan
Barcelona, Spain
No code customer data observability and monitoring

Axross
Jakarta, Indonesia
Sales tracking and promotions platform for cornerstores.

Speechly
Helsinki, Finland
The fast, accurate and simple voice UI API for web, mobile and e-com.

Shuttle Central
Cancún, Mexico
API for travel companies to sell shuttles, car rentals, and ferries.

Philippo
Santiago, Chile
Easy access to home equity for Latam.

LifeAt
Seattle, Washington
A customizable virtual workspace to help you focus.

Spade
Vancouver, Canada
Universal financial transaction data enrichment.

Slai
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The machine learning development sandbox.

Agency
New York, New York
Cybersecurity, coverage, & monitoring for people.

Pluto.markets
Copenhagen, Denmark
Social investing app for the new generation of investors.

HelloGuru
San Francisco, California
Data connector with SQL-free technology.

Mono
Bogotá, Colombia
Bank account that integrates LatAm SMEs' finances and operations.

AeonCharge
Seattle, Washington
One app to book and pay for any EV charger in the US.

Hokali
San Francisco, California
Sport lessons marketplace.
Zorba
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Helping distressed homeowners sell their house online, fast.

Marathon Education
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
An after-school education metaverse.

CrediBook
Jakarta, Indonesia
Faire for Indonesian SMEs.

beU Delivery
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Food delivery service in Africa.

8vdX
Norwalk, Connecticut
Founder-friendly acceleration capital.

Cogram
San Francisco, California
Coding assistant for data scientists.

Unravel Carbon
Singapore
'Stripe' for decarbonization.

Spinach.io
Distributed, United States
Crush your daily standup.

Litebulb
Toronto, Canada
Automated onsite tech interviews.

Cerebrium
London, United Kingdom
Enabling businesses to be data and AI-driven - no coding required.

Compra Rapida
São Paulo, Brazil
One-click checkout for LatAm.

Vecindario
Medellín, Colombia
Technology to simplify the home-buying process in LATAM

Karate Labs
Wilmington, Delaware
Figma for web APIs.

Joon
Oakland, CA
A game that motivates kids to build positive habits.

PropelAuth
Redwood City, California
Authentication that works before you write any code.

Stock Unlock
New York, New York
Financial education and stock analysis platform built for everyone.

acasa
Bogotá, Colombia
Buy your new home before you sell your old one in Latinamerica.


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