Y Combinator - This Week at YC: YC's Spring Tour 2022

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YC’s Spring Tour 2022
Come meet YC group partners and alumni from all over the world — learn about how they got started, the YC experience, and the myths around starting startups. This year, we’re also working with Amazon Web Services to offer $1,000 in AWS credits for participating attendees.

If you are starting a startup or have questions about YC, we want to meet you.

📺 Rookie Mistakes: Simple Products That Became Big Companies
Since launching Work at a Startup in 2018, we’ve collected a lot of data about the startup job landscape. YC's Ryan Choi shares some trends we’ve seen over the last year that show where we’ve been – and inform where we’re going as a product:

Feb 9 - 23: 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:

Onboard.io
Detroit, MI
Customer onboarding and implementation SaaS for modern success teams.

Numida
Kampala, Uganda
Working capital for African micro-businesses.

PayCrunch
Bengaluru, India
UPI-based Pay Later option for college students.

Unsaddl
New York City, New York
Student loan contributions as an employee benefit.

Nophin
New York City, New York
Rental income, on-demand.

Touch and Pay Technologies
Lagos, Nigeria
Digitizing and processing microtransactions in Africa.

Unforgettable AI
Seattle, Washington
Personalized rich media marketing at scale.

LunaJoy
Atlanta, Georgia
Precision mental health care for women.

Radius
Jakarta, Indonesia
15-minute grocery delivery in Indonesia

Powerhouse AI
Singapore
AI-based app automating warehouse inventory checks.

Glocally
Munich, Germany
Urban logistics designed for sustainable and convenient delivery.

Better Opinions
Gurugram, India
Stock market exchange of opinions.

Yezza
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Storefronts on WhatsApp in Southeast Asia.

Cinapse
Los Angeles, California
The Operating System of Hollywood.

Agave
Santa Barbara, California
Unified API for construction.

Actipulse Neurosciences
Mexico City, Mexico
Bringing non-invasive brain stimulation from the hospital to the home.

Avocademy
Miami, Florida
We teach people UX/UI design and help them get great jobs.
Frain Technologies
Lagos, Nigeria
Redis for webhooks.

Ole
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
On-demand fashion marketplace.

HoyTrabajas
Bogotá, Colombia
LinkedIn for low-skilled workers in LATAM.

SOTERI SKIN
San Francisco, California
Reinventing skincare science for eczema and chronic skin conditions.

Toolchest
Mountain View, California
Computational biology tools in the cloud with a few lines of code.

Eazipay
Lagos, Nigeria
Apps and APIs for payroll and bookkeeping.

Fieldproxy
Chennai, India
No-code app builder for organizations with field teams.

Loops
Washington, D.C.
Simple and beautiful email sending for startups.

Rownd
Raleigh, North Carolina
Stripe for user accounts and personal data.

Ploomber
Remote, United States
Heroku for data science.

Andi
Miami, Florida
Radically better search immune to spam.

Quan
The Hague, Netherlands
Closes the gap between engagement surveys and wellbeing perks.

Finnt
Miami, Florida
DeFi made accessible.

Drifting in Space
New York City, New York
Server infrastructure to supercharge browser-based tools.

Legistify
Gurugram, India
Helping enterprises digitise, track & resolve disputes.

Edustack
Hyderabad, India
Digital, interactive worksheets for K12 schools.

IoTFlows
Pune, India
Cloud software making industrial machines smart.


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