This Week at YC: Discover Black-founded Companies

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Discover Black-founded Companies
This week, we updated the YC directory dedicated to highlighting Black-founded companies. It now includes over 175 companies, and combined, these companies are valued at $6.7B and have raised $1.4B in funding — an increase of $1.5B and $300M respectively in 1 year.

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🚀 The Launchpad

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

Lumina
Jakarta, Indonesia
LinkedIn for blue/grey collar workers in Indonesia, then SEA.

Sieve
Berkeley, California
Software and APIs for video search.

Amal Invest
Manama, Bahrain
Investing app for Muslims.

Selia
Bogotá, Colombia
Online therapy platform for LatAm.

Fleetzero
New Orleans, Louisiana
Battery-electric cargo ships.

Humand
San Francisco, California
Create a digital community for your company.

yhangry
London, United Kingdom
Private chefs for your family & friends get togethers from £20pp.

1Flow
San Carlos, California
Clean, on-brand user surveys for startups.

KorrAI Technologies
Nova Scotia, Canada
Simplifying satellite data for mining.

Cube
New York, New York
Easily automate all your data work.

Pigeon Loans
Miami, Florida
Simplifying loans with your friends & family.

Pina Earth
Munich, Germany
Unlocking carbon markets for European forest owners.

Bby
New York, New York
Condensing breast milk that lasts 6 months & is immunologically active.

Realize
New York, New York
Integrate your website or mobile app with popular retail brokerages.

Pelm
San Francisco, California
Plaid for utilities.

Kaagaz
New Delhi, India
Mobile 'office' for Bharat solopreneurs.

Hippo.Build
Bogotá, Colombia
Automating back office functions for Construction SMBs.

SmartHelio
Lausanne, Switzerland
Software to prevent downtime in a solar plant.

Criya
San Jose, California
Empowering creators, enabling your business.

Passiv
Fredericton, Canada
Plaid for investments.

Perl Street
Austin, Texas
Developing the next-generation of infrastructure projects.

Heyfood
Ibadan, Nigeria
Doordash for Africa.

Syncware
Singapore
No-code tool to make robots from different vendors collaborate.

Strac
Bellevue, Washington
Detect & mask sensitive personal data.

Poko
Hanoi, Vietnam
Put a digital supermarket in every community.

Cherry Recommends
Brisbane, Australia
Easy personalized customer experiences at scale.

SALT
Bengaluru, India
B2B cross-border payment & compliance platform for India.