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This week in tech mafia news we're diving into one of crypto's biggest rockstars - Binance. Quick stats on Binance alumni: 📌 Number of companies founded: 11 📌 Money raised collectively: $130M Stay tuned for the full breakdown!

Attention founders - there's 2 days left to apply for Y Combinator S24! In the meantime, YC has already started announcing some of the startups that have been accepted into the S24 batch. We'll be doing a full highlight and deep dive soon, but we're excited to share 10 AI startups and founders to keep an eye on: 📌 1. Xylem AI - a multi-cloud software stack for fine-tuning and inferencing open-source LLMs ↳Founded by: Arko C, Enrique Ferrao, Pranav Reddy 📌 2. Distro (YC S24) - production-ready AI without the heavy lift ↳Founded by: Jason Sullivan 📌 3. FINNY AI - using ML to supercharge organic growth for financial advisors ↳Founded by: Theodore Janson, Eden Ovadia 📌 4. Manaflow - help non-technical teams automate technical business workflows ↳Founded by: Lawrence Chen, Wesley Tjangnaka, Austin Wang 📌 5. AminoAnalytica (YC S24) - AI for protein-based drug manufacturability ↳Founded by: Matteo Peluso, Abhi Rajendran, Adam Wu 📌 6. Wordware (YC S24) - IDE for Building AI Agents with Natural Language Programming ↳Founded by: Filip Kozera, Robert Chandler 📌 7. Unbound Security - secure Gen AI apps for the modern enterprise ↳Founded by: Rajaram (Raj) Srinivasan, Vignesh Subbiah 📌 8. Hamming AI - an experimentation platform that helps teams build reliable AI products. ↳Founded by: Marius Buleandra, Sumanyu Sharma 📌 9. Saphira AI (YC S24) - intelligent engineering design management for safety-critical products ↳Founded by: Oscar A., Akshay Chalana 📌 10. Maitai - production-ready AI without the heavy lift ↳Founded by: Christian DalSanto, Ian Hoegen Huge congrats to everyone who got in, and stay tuned for the full breakdown! #ycombinator #startups #founders #venturecapital

A Y Combinator alum at 18. A Thiel fellow. Previously co-founded Forge. Current founder of Destiny (D/XYZ). A serial entrepreneur. Raised a fund to invest in hot private technology companies like SpaceX and Stripe. Meet entrepreneur Sohail Prasad, along with his impressive startup investment portfolio: 🚀 Stripe ($65 billion valuation) 🚀 Rippling ($13.5B valuation) 🚀 Brex ($12B valuation) 🚀 Notion ($10B valuation) 🚀 Flexport ($5 billion valuation) 🚀 Retool ($3.2B valuation) 🚀 Mercury ($152.2M raised in funding) 🚀 Superhuman ($108M raised in funding) 🚀 Clearbit ($17M raised in funding) Those are some 🔥 investments.

Top 5 funding rounds of the week: 📌 1. Forge (YC W24)- developed a platform designed to help companies procure computer hardware and other electronic components. Founders: Emir Sahmanovic, Haris Sahmanovic Raised: $2.1 million seed round from Gradient Ventures and Y Combinator. 📌 2. Fizz - New York-based student debit card startup. Founders: Teddy Solomon and Ashton Cofer Raised: $14.4 million seed round from Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, Y Combinator, New Era Ventures, and others. 📌 3. Liminal - offers security and privacy tools for enterprises using generative AI. Founders: Steven Walchek Raised: $5 million seed round from Fin Capital, High Alpha, Matchstick Ventures, and Craft Ventures. 📌 4. Understory - provides climate-focused insurance, particularly for industries vulnerable to severe weather. Founders: Alex Kubicek Raised: $15 million Series A round from True Ventures and Prelude Ventures. 📌 5. WindBorne Systems - designs and operates atmospheric sensing balloons equipped with AI to improve weather forecasting. Founders: Kai Marshland Raised: $15 million Series A round from Khosla Ventures, Footwork VC, Pear VC, and Convective Capital. Well done to all these founders! 👏 #startups #fundraising #venturecapital

Ever wondered what ex-employees of Y Combinator went on to do? Found great companies of course. 👏 Quick stats on YC alumni: 📌 Total money raised: $27 billion 📌 Number of companies founded: 139 For context, YC is a renowned startup accelerator founded in March 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert tappan Morris, and Trevor Blackwell. Over the years, YC has funded and nurtured some of the most successful tech companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit. Here are 10 founders & startups founded by YC alumni, more in the full article in the comments: 📌 1. Elpha Founder: Cadran C. Y Combinator Role: Tech Lead 📌 2. Shelpful Founder: Sharon Pope Y Combinator Role: Head of Marketing Programs 📌 3. Mutiny Founder: Jaleh Rezaei Y Combinator Role: Advisor 📌 4. OpenPipe Founder: Kyle Corbitt Y Combinator Role: Director 📌 5. Shogun Founder: Finbarr Taylor Y Combinator Role: Software Engineer 📌 6. Guesty Founder: Koby Soto Y Combinator Role: Applications Reviewer Consultant 📌 7. Patreon Founder: Sam Yam Y Combinator Role: YCE 📌 8. Mercury Founder: Immad Akhund Y Combinator Role: Part-time Partner 📌 9. Reddit Founder: Alexis Ohanian Sr. Y Combinator Role: Partner 📌 10. PayGarden Founder: Aaron Iba Y Combinator Role: Partner Others: Kunal Shah from CRED, Qasar Younis from Applied Intuition, Kevin Patrick Mahaffey from Lookout, Ryan Junee from Parsable, Elizabeth Iorns from Science Exchange, Diego Rey from Endpoint Health, Denis Mars from Proxy, Anurup Ganguli, PhD from VedaBio, and more. If there's anyone we've missed, tag them below. 👇 ❗Quick plug: Are you a YC Mafia member interested in bringing your community together to invest in innovative ventures (and enjoy potential profits and other perks along the way)? Or perhaps you're part of another dynamic group that could be a fantastic source of startup investments? 😉 Then sign up to our waitlist. https://www.getpin.xyz/

This week we have the ultimate tech mafia group lined up for you - Y Combinator! Ever wondered what ex-employees of YC went on to do? Find out in this week's article dropping on Friday. Quick stats on YC alumni: 📌 Total money raised: $27 billion 📌 Number of companies founded: 139 Stay tuned!

Kyle Vogt, founder of Cruise, Twitch, and The Bot Company, is insanely underrated. He set a world record for running 7 marathons on 7 continents in less than 4 days. He also co-produced the Netflix documentary The Game Changers. In business, he sold Cruise to GM for $970M. Holds a board seat in UPSIDE Foods. And has made over 43 startup investments, some of which are: 🚀 Imbue (raised $232M in funding) 🚀 Eight Sleep (raised $162M in funding) 🚀 Superorder (raised $13M in funding) 🚀 Inversion (raised $10M in funding) He's also had 7 exits, including: 📌 SigOpt 📌 Triplebyte 📌 X1 That's some 🔥 stuff right there.

Monday VC insights 📌 Top 10 most active US VCs in the past 1 month: ► 1. General Catalyst - 10 deals ► 2. Khosla Ventures - 10 deals ► 3. Sequoia Capital - 10 deals ► 4. Founders Fund - 8 deals ► 5. Lux Capital - 8 deals ► 6. FJ Labs - 7 deals ► 7. Lightspeed Venture Partners - 7 deals ► 8. GV - 7 deals ► 9. 8VC - 7 deals ► 10. Arch Venture Partners - 3 deals

Top 5 funding rounds of the week: 📌 1. Authentic - enables SaaS platforms, associations, and other communities to create their own captive insurance programs for offering small business insurance. Founders: Cole Riccardi Raised: $11 million Series A round from FirstMark Capital, Slow Ventures, Altai Ventures, MGV, Upper90, and Commerce Ventures 📌 2. Faircado - offers a browser extension that aims to become the discovery layer for pre-owned goods. Founders: Evoléna de Wilde d'Estmael 🌱 d'Estmael and Ali Nezamolmaleki Raised: $3.2 million from Accel, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA, Northzone, BackBone Ventures, Earlybird, and Minc 📌 3. Transcend - helps businesses manage user data privacy and comply with regulations like GDPR and CCPA. Founders: Ben Brook Raised: $40 million Series B from StepStone Group, HighlandX, Accel, Index Ventures, 01 Advisors, Script Capital, and South Park Commons 📌 4. Rows.com - provides a spreadsheet platform that integrates various business applications and automates repetitive tasks. Founders: Torben Schulz and Humberto Ayres Pereira Raised: $8.7 million round led by Indico Capital Partners, Cherry Ventures, Accel, Lakestar, and Armilar Venture Partners 📌 5. Atropos Health - organizes medical data to generate quick, actionable insights for clinicians and researchers. Founders: Brigham Hyde Raised: $33 million Series B led from Valtruis, Breyer Capital, Emerson Collective, and Presidio Ventures Well done to all these founders! 👏 #fundraising #venturecapital #startups