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Inside the Group Partners' Lounge: When to Launch Your Startup and When to Wait
In this week's episode, Harj, Michael and Brad discuss how startups should approach launching and the exceptions to the rules, with insight from the early days of Instacart, Brex, Magic, and Rippling.

Meet The Companies Presenting At YC's W22 Demo Day
Tomorrow, we'll be kicking off our 34th Demo Day, featuring founders from 43 countries and startups in every sector, from fintech, B2B SaaS, Web3, consumer, healthcare, hard tech, and more. Meet them all ahead of Demo Day here.

🚀 The Launchpad

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

Industrial Next
Suzhou, China
Tesla autonomous manufacturing for everyone.

Attain
Berkeley, California
Faire for convenience stores.

Reality Defender
New York, New York
Enterprise deepfake detection.

Instant Domains
Victoria, Canada
Mobile-first domains for businesses and creators.

Samos Insurance
Kitchener, Canada
Accidental death insurance for surgery,

Bracket
Los Angeles, California
Rich, complete data without internal tools.

Flike
San Francisco, California
GitHub for spreadsheets.

SubscriptionFlow
San Francisco, California
AI-based customizable subscription & revenue management.

Inedit (Brandazine)
South Korea
Fashion rental service for content creators.

Takt
Chicago, Illinois
No-code workflow analytics.

Moneytree
Los Angeles, California
Unlocking solar for rental properties.

ngrow.ai
San Francisco, California
Low-code SaaS for marketing push notifications.

Lightmeter
London, United Kingdom
SendGrid for sales emails.

Winter
San Francisco, California
Checkout widget to sell NFTs via credit card.

Deall! SejutaCita
Jakarta, Indonesia
Handshake for South East Asia.

Kaso
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
B2B platform connecting restaurants with food suppliers.

PermitFlow
San Jose, California
TurboTax for construction permitting.

AntWalk
Bengaluru, India
An employee up-skilling platform for fast-growing companies.

Darsel
Remote
Chatbot teaching K12 math in developing countries.

The Ankler
Los Angeles, California
Subscription entertainment news.

Spot
Cincinnati, Ohio
At-home lab tests via API.

Magna
New York, New York
Carta for Web3 - token vesting and tokenholder management.

Botin
San José, Costa Rica
Investment super app for Latin America.

Arpari
New York, New York
A better financial platform for commercial real estate.

Rocket Pocket
Jakarta, Indonesia
First fintech for teenagers in Indonesia.

PolicyFly
New York, New York
Modernizing specialty insurance.

Iron Leap
San Francisco, California
Operations on autopilot.

SNAB
Madrid, Spain
B2B payments in one click.

Koko
San Francisco, California
Free online mental health treatment for everyone.

Sophys Health
San Francisco, California
Analytics platform for EHR data.

WishRoll
New York, New York
Matchmaking app for internet friends.

Eventual
San Francisco, California
Data warehouse for computer vision.

Rook
San Francisco, California
End-to-end sales tax tool for e-commerce.

Momento
Mexico City, Mexico
Full-stack auto insurer for the underserved in Latin America.

Yatima
Boston, Massachusetts
A verifiable computing platform.

Charge Robotics
Oakland, California
Robots that build solar farms.

Vance
Mumbai, India
Pipe.com for India.

voize
Berlin, Germany
App for healthcare workers to fill out forms using speech.

Nash
Nairobi, Kenya
All in one finance platform for borderless businesses in Africa.

Invert
Copenhagen, Denmark
Data analytics software for biomanufacturing.

Lygg
Palo Alto, California
Building new sunscreen ingredients with Lignin.

Nest Genomics
New York, New York
Genomic medical record to manage results for life.

Alixia
San Francisco, California
Targeting the Tumor Ecosystem to address cancer drug resistance.

Harmonic Discovery
New York, New York
Multi-targeted therapeutics to treat complex diseases.

MoGen
Palo Alto, California
Flatiron for Rare Disease.

Eto
San Francisco, California
Snowflake for AI datasets.

Mahaana Wealth
Islamabad, Pakistan
The first & only licensed digital wealth manager in Pakistan.

Cinder
Washington, DC
Operating system for trust and safety teams.