This Week at YC: Rigetti Computing Goes Public

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Congrats to Rigetti Computing (YC S14) on going public!
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🚀 The Launchpad

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

Ankr Health
Houston, Texas
Automating side effect prevention & support for cancer clinics.

Fuell
Madrid, Spain
All-in-one expense management automation solution

Blocknom
Jakarta, Indonesia
Coinbase Earn for Southeast Asia.

Fleek
San Francisco, California
A B2B marketplace for wholesale second hand fashion.

Bloom
Khartoum, Sudan
Stable savings for East Africa.

Toko
San Francisco, California
Learn English by speaking with an AI.

earnJARVIS
San Francisco, California
Premium crypto platform, automating asset & yield management.

Pyrls
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Modern medical reference app for healthcare providers.

Boya
Nairobi, Kenya
All in one spend platform for businesses in Africa.

Agentnoon
Toronto, Canada
Collaborative people planning.

Tradezi
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Robinhood for Southeast Asia.
Bunkyr
Denver, Colorado
Zero-Knowledge security without seed phrases or backup codes.

Strong Compute
Sydney, Australia
10x-1000x faster compute for Neural Network training.

Curacel
Lagos, Nigeria
Plaid for insurance in Africa.

NearWave
South Bend, Indiana
Predict breast cancer therapy response after 1 week.

Valari
Mexico City, Mexico
Embedded finance platform for B2B in LatAm.

Blaze
San Francisco, California
Product insights from customer support data.

Emigre
Santa Monica, California
Indian bank accounts and investments for NRIs (non-resident Indians).

Trusty
San Francisco, California
Private MLS for exclusive off-market real estate.

Stairs Financial
New York, New York
The operating system for home investing.

Plumter
Lagos, Nigeria
Easy foreign payments for Africa.

Blitzllama
Bengaluru, India
A toolbox to collect and analyze in-app user feedback.
 


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