YC Digest - 6/26-7/9

July 10, 2015·by Kat Mañalac

Top Stories from the YC World – June 26-July 9, 2015

YC News
Triplebyte (YC S15) publishes a comprehensive list of all YC startups that are hiring

Startup School Radio Ep. 8 with YC’s Kat Manalac and Urska Srsen from BellaBeat is live on iTunes and SoundCloud

Essays
Deprogramming corporatism by Garry Tan

Launches

YC S15: BlueCrew Provides On-Demand Staff With The Stability Of Full-Time Employment

YC S15: Transcend Makes Super Efficient LED Lights For The Indoor Farms Of The Future

YC S15: Roomblocker Makes Booking Hotels For Groups And Events A Snap

YC S15: Gemnote Launches To Give Corporate Gifts A Personal Touch

YC S15: Livecoding.tv Is Twitch For Coding

YC S15: Instant eSports Is ESPN for Competitive Gaming

YC S15: Cymmetria Uses Virtual Machines To Decoy And Detect Hackers

YC Alum Updates

Taco Bell Now Delivers in Almost 100 Cities, Courtesy of DoorDash (YC S13)

PipelineDB (YC W14) Releases Open Source Streaming SQL Database

Fundraising

Woman raised $1.2 million with a spirited 3-minute speech – featuring Cindy Wu from Experiment.com (YC W13)

Smartspot (YC W15), Which Brings Computer Vision To Gyms And Trainers, Raises $1.85M From Khosla, Signalfire

SimplyInsured (YC W13), A Health Insurance Platform For Small Companies, Scores $5.9M Series A

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Kat Mañalac

Kat is the Managing Outreach Officer at YC. She was Chief of Staff to Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of reddit, before joining YC as its Director of Outreach. Prior to that, Kat was at WIRED Magazine.

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