Y Combinator - This Week at YC: Growth Versus Profit?

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📺 Versus: Should You Focus on Growth or Profit?
Our new series, Versus, pits two competing concepts against each other. In this episode, YC Visiting Group Partner, Divya Bhat, explores the classic startup conundrum: growth vs profit.

📅 YC Tech Talks: Healthcare — May 4, 2022 at 4 PM PDT
Meet founders from top YC startups in the healthcare space! Founders, including Sid Viswanathan from Truepill and Mattan Griffel from Ophelia, will give 6-minute lighting talks on the complexities of the problems they're solving and technologies they're building.


🎧 YC Founder Fireside: Brex on spend and speed as a strategy
Brex co-founder Henrique Dubugras joined YC Continuity's Anu Hariharan on Twitter Spaces to discuss the launch of Brex Empower and their advice for founders and CEOs.

 

🚀 The Launchpad

Y Combinator companies that launched this week.

Roger
New York, New York
Typeform meets DocuSign - get your contracts signed in 24 hours.
Nourish
San Francisco, California
Telenutrition therapy from a registered dietitian, paid via insurance.


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💼 Jobs at YC Startups

Browse more open roles at workatastartup.com.
Argus (YC S21)
Unlocking the $5T of assets of employees with employer restrictions
HiringFull Stack Engineers
PropelAuth (YC W22)
Team-based authentication for B2B SaaS
Hiring: Head of Marketing, Senior Front End Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Developer Relations
Reframe (YC S21)
App to help people quit or cut back on alcohol use
Hiring: Graphic Designer, Media Manager, Recruiter, UI/UX, iOS Engineer and more
Fivetran (YC W13)
The global leader in modern data integration
Hiring: SWE Manager, Staff Technical Writer, Group Product Managers, Solutions Architects and more


🌎 From the YC Community



📈 The Bar

The latest raises and rounds from YC Companies.
Pylon (YC W16)
$19M Seed • Cairo, Egypt
Egypt’s Pylon gets $19M to scale software for water and electricity distribution companies
Observe.AI (YC W18)
$125M Series C • San Francisco, California
Observe.ai raises $125M, adding Zoom as an investor, to supercharge the contact center market
Raptor Maps (YC S16)
$200M Series D • San Francisco, California
Newfront announces $200 million investment to modernize insurance
Newfront (YC W18)
$200M Series D • San Francisco, California
Newfront announces $200 million investment to modernize insurance
Mesh (YC S20)
$11M Series A • San Jose, California
Mesh raises $11 million funding, plans to expand across US, Asia-Pacific
Slope (YC S21)
$24M Series A • San Francisco, California
Slope brings on new CFO, customers, capital as it rises to offer businesses buy now, pay later
Union54 (YC S21)
$12M Seed Extension • Lusaka, Zambia
Zambian card-issuing startup Union54 raises $12M led by Tiger Global
Clipboard Health (YC W17)
$80M Series B + C • San Francisco, California
Clipboard Health, which matches health workers with facilities, raises $80M
Koshex (YC S21)
$2.1M Seed • Bengaluru, India
Y Combinator leads $2.1m round of Indian fintech firm
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