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This Week at YC

March 20, 2023

🧑🏽‍💻 Pre-launch startup goals

How do you build a minimum viable product (MVP) for your startup idea? Using examples from real YC companies, Michael walks through how to determine your initial feature set, build prototypes and demos for testing, and present your MVP to early customers and investors.

 

📆 Open Source Software startups meetup

We're hosting a small reception at our office in San Francisco, on April 11th, for people who are interested in the growing trend of Open Source Software startups. We've funded over 75 OSS companies to date and we’re especially excited about them.

If you’re interested in starting an OSS company someday, join us to connect and learn with other founders in the space.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Rosettic

Break down cloud costs by product and customer
San Francisco, California

Iliad

Creative tool for generating game assets
San Francisco, California

Teclada

The modern terminal for modern developers
Sunnyvale, California

PoloPay

Dynamic menus for LatAm restaurants and coffee shops
San Francisco, California

Neptyne

The spreadsheet reimagined for the AI era
New York, New York

Fastgen

Low-Code API and workflow builder

Rivet

Heroku for multiplayer games
San Francisco, California

Lightski

ChatGPT for Sales teams
San Francisco, California

Shyp

Marketplace for freight movement in India
Kolkata, India

Vaero

Fivetran for log data
San Francisco, California

Layup

Turn prompts into workflows across all of your company’s software
San Francisco, California
Find more YC companies and discover new products

Double

Internet-capable GPT bots to automate repetitive work
Redwood City, California

Shortloop

Automated API platform for fast-moving teams
San Francisco, California

Superteam

AI that manages Customer Service & Sales for you
New York, New York

Zenfetch

Predict which deals will close
San Francisco, California

Credal

Control how AI uses your data
New York, New York

Extend

Developer tool for building internal chrome extensions
San Francisco, California

Fairway Health

Process prior authorization faster
New York, New York

Dittofeed

Open-source customer engagement platform with developer tools
Los Angeles, California

Parsagon

Universal API for product data
San Francisco, California

Nango

Fast & secure access to OAuth APIs
San Francisco, California

Castled Data

Build audiences on your data warehouse without SQL
Bengaluru, India
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
Brian Chesky isn't running Airbnb--he's 'designing' it
Inc.
The company behind this bottle wants to upend the Earth-destroying, $60B palm oil business
Fast Company
The CEO of GM’s Cruise thinks driverless cars will rule the road in 5 years
Fortune
This Chicago startup is using AI to help people improve their credit
Built In Chicago

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. The Door Close Button (computer.rip)
  2. My startup banking story (mitchellh.com)
  3. Things I learned after getting users (basementcommunity.bearblog.dev)
  4. How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) (cs.princeton.edu)
  5. Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic (retool.com)
  6. Negativity drives online news consumption (nature.com)
  7. Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market (dagster.io)
  8. The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge (thomask.sdf.org)
  9. More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships (wsj.com)
  10. People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity (smithsonianmag.com)
Read more on Hacker News

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Stripe (YC S09)
$6.5B Series I
San Francisco, California

Axios: Payments giant Stripe raises $6.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation
Rippling (YC W17)
$500M Series E
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: How Rippling struck a deal as SVB was melting down
Awesomic (YC S21)
$800k seed extension
Kyiv, Ukraine

Tech.eu: Ukraine’s Awesomic sketches a fresh $800,000
Mayan (YC W21)
$5M Series A
Las Vegas, Nevada

MARTECHCUBE: Mayan raises $5M Series A funding
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