This Week at YC: Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company

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📺 Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel on common pitfalls in the advice from different types of investors and why you, the founder, are ultimately responsible for the success of your company.

🚀 The Launchpad

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

AstroForge
Huntington Beach, California
We mine asteroids.

RecordBook
Bengaluru, India
Airtable for 400 million SMBs globally.

Hydra
San Francisco, California
Query Postgres, route to any database.

Rally
New York, New York
User Research CRM.

Harmoney
Mumbai, India
Data-driven electronic trading platform for bond markets.

Neural Dynamics Technologies
Boston, Massachusetts
High-resolution implantable electrodes for brain machine interfacing.

Soon
Salt Lake City, Utah
Automated sweep account, invest more without the stress of speculating.

Alga Biosciences
San Francisco, California
We stop cows from burping methane.

Unlayer
San Francisco, California
White-label content design tools for SaaS and Enterprise.

Boardcave
Gold Coast, Australia
Online surf marketplace for gear and surf knowledge.

Syrona Health
London, United Kingdom
Employee benefits for Women’s health: Endometriosis to Menopause.

Bonsai Desk
Atlanta, Georgia
FullStory for VR.

Flightcontrol
Dayton, Ohio
Easily deploy anything to AWS.

Starling
Houston, Texas
AI enabling digital urine diagnostics in the home.

Craniometrix
San Francisco, California
We diagnose Alzheimer’s 3x more accurately, all from a cellphone.

Creizer
Mexico City, Mexico
Clear.co for LATAM. Granting money advances to online sellers.

Rebill
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Payments orchestration and recurring billing platform for LATAM.

Campfire
Toronto, Canada
Actually fun remote team socials.

Vimmerse
San Jose, California
Platform and SDKs to create and play 3D video.

AirMyne
Berkeley, California
Carbon dioxide removal from air at industrial scale.

Alfie
New York, New York
Meeting men's health in the middle, starting with weight loss.

GrowthBook
Palo Alto, California
Open source feature flagging and A/B testing.

Seabound
London, United Kingdom
We capture CO2 emissions from cargo ships.

Placid Money
New York, New York
Lower interest rates on existing credit cards.

Stackshine
Los Angeles, California
The new operating system for enterprise IT teams.