This Week at YC: Meet the YC Winter 2022 Batch

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Meet the YC Winter 2022 Batch
Last week, we kicked off our 34th Demo Day — featuring founders from 42 countries and over 400 startups building in every sector, from fintech, B2B SaaS, Web3, consumer, healthcare, education, climate, energy, and more. Meet the Winter 2022 companies and learn more about what they're building.
 

📺 Dalton & Michael: How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel take a look at Paul Graham's essay "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" and share tips on how to be more effective and productive on the journey to creating a billion-dollar business.


 

🚀 The Launchpad

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

Rome
San Francisco, California
The freight marketplace for truck drivers.

Ozone
San Francisco, California
Figma for video.

Enlightra
Ecublens, Switzerland
Multicolor lasers for ultrafast data transmission.

Demo Gorilla
Ecublens, Switzerland
Multicolor lasers for ultrafast data transmission.
 
WorldQL
Denver, Colorado
Developer tools for multiplayer games and virtual economies.

Dagger
San Francisco, California
Code deployment that just works, by the creators of Docker.

Better Financial Corporation
New York, New York
Family of fintech brands built on a shared stack.

Snab
Madrid, Spain
B2B payments in "One Click."


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📈 The Bar

The latest raises and rounds from YC Companies.
Glimpse (YC S20)
$6.2M Seed • New York, New York
Glimpse Raises $6.2 Million To Place Products In Short-Term Rentals

HackerRank (YC S11)
$60M Series D • Mountain View, California
HackerRank, a platform for recruiters to test coders and coders to hone skills, raises $60M at ~$500M valuation

CredPal (YC W19)
$15M Venture and Debt Round • Lagos, Nigeria
Nigeria’s CredPal secures $15M in debt and equity to scale its BNPL product across Africa

Modern Treasury (YC S18)
$50M Series C (2nd close) • San Francisco, California
Why Salesforce And Silicon Valley Bank Are Pouring $50 Million Into This Fintech Startup

Finary (YC 21)
€2.1M Community Round • Paris, France
Parisian fintech Finary picks up €2.1 million from its community in 21 minutes

Dagger (YC W19)
$20M Series A • San Francisco, California
Docker founder launches Dagger, a new DevOps platform

BillionToOne (YC S17)
$125M Series C • Menlo Park, CA
BillionToOne Closes $125M Series C Funding with Premier Global Investors

Docker (YC S10)
$105M Series C • Menlo Park, CA
As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
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