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This Week at YC

January 23, 2023

🤝 The keys to successful co-founder relationships

How do you find a co-founder and build a great partnership? YC's Catheryn Li (who also built our Co-Founder Matching tool) and Visiting Partner Divya Bhat cover the importance of having co-founders, how to get & vet one, and the ways to build a successful working relationship with them.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Rollstack

Build stunning and fully automated slides & documents
San Francisco, California

EzDubs

Real-time AI dubbing with voice preservation
San Francisco, California

Viddy

Shoppable video experiences for e-commerce
New York, New York

Pier

AWS for embedded lending
San Francisco, California

Pynecone

The easiest way to build and deploy web apps, in pure Python
San Francisco, California

Proglix

One stop shop for industrial raw material
Tangerang, Indonesia

Stack AI

Supercharge your ML datasets
New York, New York

Magik Labs

Global fiat → crypto onramp aggregator
Singapore

Turntable

Transform data at warp speed
New York, New York

Noloco

Build internal tools for your team without code
Dublin, Ireland
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
"That Orange Logo that opens doors. Our Y Combinator experience."
Moonshot (YC S22)
This Miami startup enables employers to stay ‘Ontop’ of their international hiring
Refresh Miami
Nucleus wants to simplify the process of managing microservices
TechCrunch
Odiggo aims at success where Google failed
Benzinga

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. A cab ride I'll never forget (1999) (kentnerburn.com)
  2. The Pretty Good House (prettygoodhouse.org)
  3. Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Karpathy [video] (youtube.com)
  4. Why to start a startup in a bad economy (2008) (paulgraham.com)
  5. Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records (mkaic.substack.com)
  6. Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engineer (2021) (simplethread.com)
  7. Stock market charts you never saw (2021) (papers.ssrn.com)
  8. What not to write on your security clearance form (1988) (milk.com)
  9. Lisa Source Code Release (computerhistory.org)
  10. Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment (summer-afternoon.vlucendo.com)
Read more on Hacker News

👩🏼‍🚀 Jobs at YC startups

Early stage to later stage, these startups are hiring now

Sr. Library Developer

Enso (YC S21)
The most interactive ELT / data processing tool you've ever used

Remote • $80k - $100k

Software Engineer - Frontend

Kamion (YC S22)
Uber for Trucks for Turkey

Remote • $20k - $25k • 0.01% - 0.10%

Engineering Manager, Solutions

PolicyFly (YC W22)
Modernizing specialty insurance

Remote • $170k - $220k • 0.18% - 0.22%

iOS Lead

Fractional (YC W21)
Social platform for fractional ownership of investment properties

San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Remote • $180k - $250k
Browse more open roles

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Living Carbon (YC W20)
$21M Series A
Hayward, California

Reuters: Temasek, Toyota back climate biotech firm Living Carbon
Portão 3 (YC S21)
$3.6M Seed
Uberlândia, Brazil

Forbes Brazil: Fintech Portão 3 raises BRL 19 million in seed round
Alaan (YC W23)
$4.5M Pre-Series A
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Forbes Middle East: Spend management platform Alaan Raises $4.5M
Cypher (YC W22)
$4.3M Seed
Palo Alto, California

The Block: Y Combinator leads $4.3 million round for multichain wallet Cypher
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