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@simonlu
Simon Lu
6 months
It’s time to share what we’ve been quietly building for the past two years: @firstharmonic First Harmonic is a new kind of program for early-stage founders. Since 2023, we’ve worked closely with nearly 50 teams across 6 cohorts on one of the most critical challenges in the
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@KobaltLabs
Kobalt Labs
5 days
Excited to announce our $11M Series A, led by @ROWGHANI from @firstharmonic. Our AI agents automate and strengthen compliance workflows for financial institutions, including @Chime , @BiltRewards , & @CelticBank. Thanks to our customers, team, & investors :)
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@jaltma
Jack Altman
2 months
I love the description of Pixar as a miracle factory. How do you create the conditions to make special outcomes more likely? @ROWGHANI helped build Pixar, working closely with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull in their golden era. He also worked closely with the Twitter founders and
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@Sammy_Sidhu
Sammy Sidhu
6 months
Today we're announcing that Eventual has raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding from @CRV and @felicis as well as @ycombinator, @M12vc and @Citi and others. The AI era needs data infrastructure built for AI, not retrofitted. 🧵
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@miamabanta
Mia Mabanta
6 months
👋 Sharing a great opportunity for anyone out there who loves to read, write, and learn. We're hiring a part-time writer at @firstharmonic to produce a series of research essays on topics that early-stage founders care about. Probably two pieces per month, each about 1,000–2,000
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@simonlu
Simon Lu
6 months
Learn more about how we think here: https://t.co/E1NPob92sQ
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Ali Rowghani
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@Sammy_Sidhu
Sammy Sidhu
3 years
🚀 Introducing Daft: A High-Performance Distributed Dataframe Library for Multimodal Data 📊🔥 https://t.co/97maBh8Woi 🧵 1/5
daft.ai
Discover how Daft accelerates multimodal data processing with a high-performance distributed dataframe engine built for modern AI and analytics tasks.
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@ycombinator
Y Combinator
3 years
Congrats to the team at Redbird on the round! Redbird (YC W22) is building an analytics operating system for the enterprise - empowering anyone within an organization to easily automate and unify their analytics work in minutes, without writing code:
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techcrunch.com
Redbird serves as an analytics operating system by connecting all of an organization’s data sources into a no-code environment.
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@ycombinator
Y Combinator
4 years
Congratulations @sytses, @dzaporozhets, and the entire @gitlab (YC W15) team on today’s IPO! Beyond building an enormously successful business, they have broken the mold of how startups themselves are built. Read about GitLab's story from YC to IPO 👇🏽 https://t.co/76z7eedMIn
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@frasergeorgew
George Fraser
4 years
The biggest news in Fivetran's history: we're bringing together the two best companies in the data pipeline business.
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@tiffanyk
Tiffany Kosolcharoen
4 years
👋We're hiring our first Research Associate at @YCombinator Continuity. This is an amazing role for somebody who loves data & startups to help us evaluate investment opportunities, lead market research & advise portfolio companies. Apply here & DMs open!
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@ycombinator
Y Combinator
5 years
YC's legal and software teams, and YC Continuity are hiring -- come work with us!
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@miamabanta
Mia Mabanta
5 years
We're hiring a program associate at @ycombinator to help run our programs for growth-stage founders. This is a great opportunity to get a crash course in startup scaling from some of the world's best founders. Please send folks my way!
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@ROWGHANI
Ali Rowghani
5 years
Congratulations to @reinpk @ivolo @calvinfo & the entire @segment team! It’s been an honor to work with you for the past 4 years. Everyone @ycombinator is incredibly proud of you.
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@ycombinator
Y Combinator
5 years
We're hiring an associate to partner with and invest in our growth-stage founders! Learn more about the role and the YC Continuity team here:
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