This Week at YC: Elon Musk & The Midwit Meme

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📺 Elon Musk & The Midwit Meme
In a fun new episode, Dalton and Michael dive into the midwit meme, how it applies to startups, and the best example: Elon Musk.
 


 

🚀 The Launchpad

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

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.

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.

Fogbender
Oakland, California
Customer support tool purpose-built for companies that sell APIs.

Shaped
New York, New York
APIs for ranking.

Lovecast
San Francisco, California
The platform where couples host virtual/hybrid weddings.

Material Depot
Bengaluru, India
Search engine for the Architectural & Design industry.

Snippyly
San Francisco, California
Make your web app multiplayer, just like Figma.

Craniometrix
San Francisco, California
Diagnose Alzheimer’s 3x more accurately - all from your cellphone.
DynamoFL
San Francisco, California
Simplified model training across privacy-critical datasets.

Olympian Motors
Los Angeles, California
Building the most aesthetic and minimalistic Electric Vehicles.

InsureMyTeam
Mumbai, India
Employee healthcare and wellness platform.

Lenco
Lagos, Nigeria
Pan-African digital bank for Africa's 50m businesses.

Telematica
Bengaluru, India
Plaid for Electric Vehicles.

HomeRoom
San Jose, California
We help investors make 50% income from their real estate investments.

Kable
Santa Monica, California
Usage-based billing and authentication with 3 lines of code.

Ping Labs
San Francisco, California
We build tools for video creation.

Miggos
São Paulo, Brazil
Wholesale marketplace for mom & pop clothing shops in LATAM.

Tuva Health
Salt Lake City, Utah
Open source software that cleans and transforms messy healthcare data.
 


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