This Week at YC: Introducing the Startups for Students Guide

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Startups for Students Guide
In the past two years, we’ve met over 6000 students during our virtual outreach tours. We compiled a list of the questions they most frequently asked about startups, and created this Startups for Students Guide.

2021 — YC Year in Review
In 2021, many YC founders led their companies to achieve outstanding results, and we are honored to be part of these companies’ history.

Rookie Mistakes: Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From?
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel talk about where the ideas for Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe came from. Then they discuss what you can learn from these founders.

Feb 9 - 21: Black Engineers in Startups Seminar
A month-long series for participants to meet black technical founders and engineers of YC startups, learn about their career path, get mentorship from YC alum, and build a community of peers.

🚀 The Launchpad

These are all the Y Combinator companies that launched this week:

Durioo
Cyberjaya, Malaysia
The Disney and Netflix for Muslim children.

Lovage Labs
Provo, UT
Smart, virtual receptionists for SMBs.

Topship
Lagos, Nigeria
Flexport for African merchants.

Nyckel
Distributed, California
Lightning fast machine learning for developers.

Oto
London, United Kingdom
Digital self-therapy for overlooked chronic conditions.

Supersheets
London, United Kingdom
Data exploration for everyone.

PayCaddy
Panama City, Panama
Simplified Banking as a Service for Latam.

EXO Freight
Royal Oak, Michigan
Managed marketplace connecting open deck carriers and shippers.

Arc
San Francisco, California
Helping startups grow — full-service finance platform for SaaS.

Massdriver
Los Angeles, California
Deploy best-practice, secure cloud infrastructure in minutes not days.

Gym Class - by IRL Studios
Los Angeles, CA
Play basketball in virtual reality.

Aigis
Jakarta, Indonesia
Digital health insurance for employee benefits in Indonesia.

OurEye.ai
Bengaluru, India
Virtual auditing employee for brick and mortars through CCTV Cameras.

Flagright
Berlin, Germany
Real-time compliance & fraud prevention for startups.

Wyvern
Edmonton, Canada
High-res hyperspectral images from unfolding space telescopes.

Dojah
Lagos, Nigeria
All-in-one KYC/Identity Platform for Africa.

Alima
Mexico City, Mexico
Produce procurement made easy.

Nullstone
Atlanta, Georgia
Platform to help software teams launch/manage apps in their cloud.

Bobidi
Los Gatos, California
Bug bounty as a Service for AI models.

Cofactr
Brooklyn, New York
De-stress your electronics supply chain.

Courtyard
San Francisco, California
Bringing physical collectibles to the blockchain.

Strac
Bellevue, Washington
Detect & mask sensitive personal data.

Sarus
Paris, France
Use personal data for analytics and ML, safely and seamlessly.

Armilla AI
Toronto, Canada
Quality assurance platform for machine learning systems.

Seis
Salt Lake City, Utah
Banking for the 44 million native Spanish speakers living in the US.

Vista
Los Angeles, California
The easiest way to manage user permissions.

CloudEagle.ai
Palo Alto, California
End-to-end SaaS management and AI-powered personalized buying platform.

Moni
Lagos, Nigeria
Community bank for Africa.

Kable
Santa Monica, California
We help subscription businesses build bundles.

Aklimate
London, United Kingdom
Decarbonising enterprise supply chains.

Kiter
San Francisco, California
The best way to manage opportunities for your next job.

Fresh Factory
Jakarta, Indonesia
Smart cold chain fulfillment platform.

Tendo
Accra, Ghana
Enabling Africans to sell online with zero capital.

RedBrick AI
Pune, India
Collaborative and rapid medical data annotation.