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Coast, a demo platform for ‘API-first’ companies, lands $2.1M

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After developers kept tapping them to help with API integrations, they set out to build a tool for “API-first” companies to offer simpler integration experiences. Certainly, there’s other software demoing platforms on the market — many with substantial VC backing. increase in their digital business growth.

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Y Combinator is back to bet on the Bay Area

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Y Combinator, the startup accelerator that has launched the likes of Instacart, Stripe and Airbnb, has broadened its investing lens in recent years, backing companies all over Africa and India, and beyond. Tan declined an interview request by TechCrunch. and we have so much work to do.”

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The week an Apple event and YC Demo Day collided

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This week saw two big events running in parallel: an Apple hardware announcement and Y Combinator’s Demo Day. But every YC batch has at least a handful of companies that seem a little extra hard — the moonshots, if you will. The week an Apple event and YC Demo Day collided by Greg Kumparak originally published on TechCrunch.

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Y Combinator announces Launch YC, a way for its portfolio to shout to the public

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The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invites users to vote for newly launched startups “to help them climb up the leaderboard, try out product demos, and learn about the founding team.”. 1,000 companies per Y Combinator batch? RIP Y Combinator.

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Zip lines up $43M at a $1.2B valuation for its growing ‘concierge for procurement’

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Notably, the San Francisco company was founded in 2020, so it has achieved this unicorn valuation in about 18 months (this deal actually closed earlier in 2022). Zip co-founder and CEO Rujul Zaparde previously co-founded another startup, a car-sharing company called FlightCar, which shuttered and sold its technology to Mercedes-Benz in 2016.

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Y Combinator cuts nearly 20% of staff, scales back growth stage investments

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Y Combinator will be writing fewer checks for late-stage companies, a scale back that also cost 17 team members — or roughly 20% of the accelerator’s employees — their jobs, according to a statement released on Monday. Anonymity requests will be respected.

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Multiplayer fintech, and the muddled world of startup data

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It aims to take away the money chores of a relationship, from splitting the bill at dinner to requesting rent through a payment app every month. Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. A triple-hitter Demo Day.

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