AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews
The Y Combinator startup raised a Series A led by Peak XV Partners.
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This French VC went from posting on YouTube to raising a $12M fund for Y Combinator startups
Gabriel Jarrosson, a French engineer-turned-YouTuber-turned-investor, has built his VC firm around a single filter: If it isn’t a Y Combinator company, he won’t invest in it.
These YC founders pivoted 5 times before building a social app that nabbed 300K users and over $1M ARR in 6 months
How these founders, while in YC, pivoted from a shopping app to build Candle, a consumer app that helps couples and friends grow closer.
Emergent raises $23M from Lightspeed to let consumers build apps
Emergent raises $23M for its vibe-coding software platform.
Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round
Blacksmith, a Y Combinator alum, raised $10M Series A led by Google Ventures to cut costs and speed up software builds.
Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI coworker for fintech
Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services will be the unglamorous tasks.
These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to study online behavior using vision AI
Founded by a 20-year-old and two 22-year-olds, Human Behavior uses vision AI to give companies a real understanding of how people use their products.
Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank for the Egyptian diaspora
Khalid Ashmawy found it hard to send money home while studying in Europe. Now, he’s launched a startup to help other Egyptians with the same problem.
Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth
Y Combinator is asking the court to deny Apple’s appeal.
YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized ‘Uber for freight’
The thousands of trucks zipping along U.S. highways are often only about half full — something Oway wants to change with its “ride-share for freight” software.