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I’m a little late sharing this, but I couldn’t let it pass without writing it down. In April I attended YC Startup School India in Bengaluru, Y Combinator’s first-ever physical event in India. Out of 25,000 applicants (8% acceptance), 2,000 founders and builders were selected. I was one of the youngest attendees in the event. Highlights: - Received a $25K+ AI and cloud credits grant from YC, which I’m directing toward my financial-literacy initiatives. - Pitched my work (Edunomix, FinKid, TaxCity) directly to Jared Friedman, a rare chance to distill years of work into a few minutes with someone who’s reviewed thousands of startups. - Met founders and operators I admire, including Vidit Aatrey (Meesho). - Connected with a LOT of cool founders and builders :) If we connected at the event or you’re working on fintech / financial education / edtech, I’d love to keep the conversation going! #YCStartupSchool #YCombinator #YCIndia #StartupSchool

Dear UX Resarcher, Founders Mangarao UXDesigner Productdesign2 Productdesign2 saas.group Creators HQ | مقر المؤثرين AI can generate beautiful interfaces in seconds. But users still abandon products in seconds too. That’s the UX problem AI still hasn’t solved. The more I explore AI-native products, the more I realize something important: Most interfaces today are becoming visually smarter… while still feeling emotionally disconnected. Because users don’t struggle with “screens.” They struggle with: confusion, friction, too many decisions, unclear onboarding, and products that simply don’t feel human. Figma Notion Google OpenAI Y Combinator Framer Linear Stripe Anthropic Airbnb Dropbox Slack Webflow Canva Adobe Great UX has never been only about aesthetics. It’s about: understanding hesitation, reducing cognitive load, creating trust, and designing experiences people can navigate without anxiety. AI can generate: layouts, components, flows, and even entire dashboards. But AI still struggles with: • emotional clarity • onboarding psychology • behavioral nuance • trust-building moments • human intuition And honestly… that’s where real UX thinking becomes more valuable than ever. UXResearch Interactiondesign.nl Artificialintelligence.Market DigitalCreators Microsoft Apple Netflix Meta Vercel GitHub The future is not: “AI vs Designers.” The future is: people who deeply understand humans AI acceleration 🚀 The best AI products won’t feel robotic. They’ll feel: calm, invisible, intuitive, frictionless, and deeply human. That’s the real competitive advantage now. Will UX intuition become even more important in the AI era? #UXDesign #ArtificialIntelligence #ProductDesign #Figma #Notion #OpenAI #GoogleDesign #HumanCenteredDesign #UXResearch #SaaS #UIUX #DesignSystems #AIProducts #Startup #YCombinator #InteractionDesign #FutureOfDesign #CreativeTechnology

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙-𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛? 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀: 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗴'𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 Ryan Kellogg, Cofounder and CEO of RTHM, spent ten years watching clinicians shrug at symptoms they could not explain. Instead of surrendering, he rewired his career. He moved from electrical engineering into systems biology, earned a PhD in microfluidics and cell signaling from ETH Zurich, and joined Stanford's Snyder Lab to understand how cells make decisions under stress. That foundation became RTHM, a Y Combinator W22 company transforming care for complex conditions starting with Long COVID. Kellogg also developed multi-omic analysis technology for micro samples patients collect at home throughout the day. The goal is radical: capture the biological truth of what happens during a health crash, not after it passes. Stanford researchers now use this approach to study long COVID, VCFS, and chronic Lyme, while RTHM turns that same rich data into better patient outcomes. 🔬 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘗𝘩𝘋 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘌𝘛𝘏 𝘡𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 🏠 𝘈𝘵-𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭-𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪-𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 🧬 𝘖𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘖𝘝𝘐𝘋, 𝘔𝘌𝘊𝘍𝘚, 𝘝𝘊𝘍𝘚, 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘺𝘮𝘦 ⚡ 𝘠 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘞22 𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘪 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 🧠 𝘈 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯-𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲: 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀. #HealthTech #ChronicIllness #LongCOVID #MECFS #Autoimmune #HealthcareInnovation #BioTech #SystemsBiology #RTHM #YCombinator #HealthData #MedicalResearch #StanfordMedicine #PatientCare

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙-𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛? 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀: 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗴'𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 Ryan K., Cofounder and CEO of RTHM, spent ten years watching clinicians shrug at symptoms they could not explain. Instead of surrendering, he rewired his career. He moved from electrical engineering into systems biology, earned a PhD in microfluidics and cell signaling from ETH Zurich, and joined Stanford's Snyder Lab to understand how cells make decisions under stress. That foundation became RTHM, a Y Combinator W22 company transforming care for complex conditions starting with Long COVID. Kellogg also developed multi-omic analysis technology for micro samples patients collect at home throughout the day. The goal is radical: capture the biological truth of what happens during a health crash, not after it passes. Stanford researchers now use this approach to study long COVID, VCFS, and chronic Lyme, while RTHM turns that same rich data into better patient outcomes. 🔬 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘗𝘩𝘋 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘌𝘛𝘏 𝘡𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 🏠 𝘈𝘵-𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭-𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪-𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 🧬 𝘖𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘖𝘝𝘐𝘋, 𝘔𝘌𝘊𝘍𝘚, 𝘝𝘊𝘍𝘚, 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘺𝘮𝘦 ⚡ 𝘠 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘞22 𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘪 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 🧠 𝘈 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯-𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲: 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀. #HealthTech #ChronicIllness #LongCOVID #MECFS #Autoimmune #HealthcareInnovation #BioTech #SystemsBiology #RTHM #YCombinator #HealthData #MedicalResearch #StanfordMedicine #PatientCare

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙-𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛? 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀: 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗴'𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 Ryan Kellogg, Cofounder and CEO of RTHM, spent ten years watching clinicians shrug at symptoms they could not explain. Instead of surrendering, he rewired his career. He moved from electrical engineering into systems biology, earned a PhD in microfluidics and cell signaling from ETH Zurich, and joined Stanford's Snyder Lab to understand how cells make decisions under stress. That foundation became RTHM, a Y Combinator W22 company transforming care for complex conditions starting with Long COVID. Kellogg also developed multi-omic analysis technology for micro samples patients collect at home throughout the day. The goal is radical: capture the biological truth of what happens during a health crash, not after it passes. Stanford researchers now use this approach to study long COVID, VCFS, and chronic Lyme, while RTHM turns that same rich data into better patient outcomes. 🔬 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘗𝘩𝘋 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘌𝘛𝘏 𝘡𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 🏠 𝘈𝘵-𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭-𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪-𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 🧬 𝘖𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘖𝘝𝘐𝘋, 𝘔𝘌𝘊𝘍𝘚, 𝘝𝘊𝘍𝘚, 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘺𝘮𝘦 ⚡ 𝘠 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘞22 𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘪 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 🧠 𝘈 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯-𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲: 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀. #HealthTech #ChronicIllness #LongCOVID #MECFS #Autoimmune #HealthcareInnovation #BioTech #SystemsBiology #RTHM #YCombinator #HealthData #MedicalResearch #StanfordMedicine #PatientCare

‼️INDUSTRY ALERT: Sometimes the team is not the issue. 😬 Sometimes the process is too disconnected for good people to move well. 👀 I’ve seen this happen when: 1️⃣ the goal is unclear 2️⃣ the approval layers are too many, 3️⃣ and people are expected to perform inside a system that slows them down. 💩. ✅ What I’ve learned is that people do better work when the outcome is clear and they are trusted to solve toward it. 🥳 When the goal is undeniable, the team can start finding better ways to get there. {And that should be encouraged. Not punished.} A bloated process can make talented people look ineffective. But a clear goal can reveal how capable they really are. 💯. Curious if you’ve experienced this 🤔. Have you ever seen a process make a strong team look weaker than they actually were? #founders #designstudio #creativedirector #contentcreators #productdesigners #startups #branding #ycombinator Y Combinator

🚀 YC declared the "Company Brain" as one of its major themes for 2026. At UJJI AI ✨, we’ve been executing on this exact vision since 2021. In a recent thesis drop, Y Combinator's Tom Blomfield highlighted that the biggest blocker to AI automation isn't the models anymore, it's scattered domain knowledge. Companies need to extract human knowledge and turn it into a structured, machine-readable file that AI systems can use to safely execute complex tasks on behalf of the company. Reading this felt like the ultimate validation. We built our AI engine, Liz, to bridge this exact gap by turning raw, unstructured data into real corporate assets... We started with the following use cases... 1️⃣ Turning Chaos into SOPs: automatically ingests raw inputs to structure clear, consistent POPs, checklists, and glossaries. 2️⃣ Instant Microlearning: transform messy PDFs, call recordings, or quick WhatsApp notes into interactive training paths. But this still requires human input! So, we're now leveraging native integrations with Google Drive, Notion, SharePoint, etc. to capture knowledge passively as it's created. 📝 That then builds learning experiences, automatically, for subject matter experts to approve. But that's still learning for humans, right? Can we teach AI agents to do our job? ⚡ But here is the crazy idea we’re running with right now... We are taking the "Company Brain" concept to its absolute edge for technical teams. Our AI doesn't just search your docs. They plug directly into GitHub, Jira, and Confluence. They read live code, product updates, and business rules to automatically map out technical processes and generate structured learning experiences for developers. 🤖 And for themselves, AI agents! Because they watch your actual workflow, your onboarding curriculum stays perfectly synced with your live environment, heavily slashing engineering busywork and new-hire ramp-up times. The ultimate corporate brain shouldn't look backward. It needs to live right inside your production environment. 🏆 In this way, UJJI AI can automatically capture company knowledge and hand it over to AI agents to execute day-to-day procedures, autonomously. The company brain is here! #AI #Startups #YCombinator #CompanyBrain #DeveloperExperience #UJJI

Paystack’s $200 million acquisition by Stripe in 2020 became the benchmark for what YCombinator believed the continent could produce. A decade on, here’s what the data behind the portfolio suggests. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e2zdH6UT

I used to think experience was the one thing you couldn't get without already having it. 🔄 No internship → no experience. No experience → no internship. The loop felt impossible. Then I discovered Extern — and it completely changed my perspective. Extern is a Y Combinator-backed platform that gives students, career switchers, and professionals real, hands-on project experience with companies like: 🟡 Snapchat 🟠 Beats by Dre 🔵 Amazon 🟢 Wayfair ⚫ HP Tech Ventures ...and many more. You don't need connections. You don't need a perfect GPA. You just need the drive to show up. Here's what makes Extern different: ✅ 100% remote — work from anywhere ✅ Real projects for real companies (not busy work) ✅ Builds your resume AND your portfolio ✅ Open to students AND career changers ✅ Courses in AI, consulting, marketing, finance, product, and more I'm proud to be an Extern Global Ambassador — because I genuinely believe access to professional experience should not be a privilege. If you're a student or a professional ready to level up, this is your sign. 👇 🔗 Sign up using link: https://lnkd.in/dNsMFAcF Drop a 🙋 in the comments if you've ever felt stuck in the experience loop — let's talk about it. #Extern #ExternshipOpportunity #CareerGrowth #StudentOpportunities #RemoteWork #ProfessionalDevelopment #CareerAdvice #Networking #YCombinator #GetExperience

🤖 From accountant to founder: building an AI co-worker AI is no longer just transforming industries, it’s creating entirely new ones. The story of Tom Invernizzi (LBS MFA 2021), founder of Combinely, is a clear example of how real-world pain points can become AI-native businesses. After experiencing the repetitive, manual workload of accounting and investment banking firsthand, Tom built Combinely, an “AI co-worker” that automates end-to-end workflows for accounting teams, from client communication to deliverable generation. What stands out is not just the product, but the journey. With the support of the London Business School Incubator, Tom refined his idea, narrowed his focus to a clear beachhead market, and built rapidly through continuous feedback and iteration, principles that later carried into Y Combinator, where Combinely is now scaling. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eKtSETvc #AI #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #FutureOfWork #LondonBusinessSchool #YCombinator #DataScience

From School Dropout in Saharanpur to Y Combinator’s Youngest General Partner at Age 25! 🚀 Harshita Arora’s journey reads like a dream startup story, proving that real-world execution and persistence always beat conventional degrees. At just 25 years old, this Indian-origin entrepreneur from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, has made history by becoming the youngest General Partner (GP) at Y Combinator (YC)—Silicon Valley’s most influential startup accelerator. Here is the incredible timeline of her rise: 💻 The Early Start & Bold Decisions Age 13: Discovered her passion for technology and started coding. Age 15: Took a massive risk and dropped out of school to pursue tech full-time. Age 16: Built a cryptocurrency portfolio-tracking app. It got featured by Apple and was later acquired. 2020: Awarded the 'Bal Shakti Puraskar', one of India’s highest honours for young achievers. 🚛 The AtoB Turning Point ("Stripe for Trucking") She moved to San Francisco on an O-1 visa. She entered Y Combinator with an initial startup idea, but it was "killed by Covid." Instead of giving up, she and her co-founders (Vignan Velivela and Tushar Misra) spent weeks at truck stops across California, talking directly to drivers. This ground-level research led to the birth of AtoB in 2019—a fintech company revolutionizing fuel payments and financial tools for the trucking industry. Today, AtoB serves over 30,000 fleets in the US and is valued at approximately USD 700 million. 🦅 Why Y Combinator Chose Her: After making history as YC's youngest Visiting Partner for the Summer 2025 batch, her "deep fintech and infrastructure experience" led to her promotion as a General Partner. She will now work directly with founders to shape product, growth, and funding decisions. Harshita’s story is a powerful reminder to the global startup ecosystem: Execution, problem-solving, and pure founder instinct will always outweigh traditional resumes and elite college degrees. #StartupJourney #YCombinator #Fintech #Entrepreneurship #Inspiration #WomenInTech #SiliconValley #AtoB #HarshitaAroraYCombinator

Asana has acquired StackAI for $75M — a @Y Combinator-backed AI workflow automation company that raised just under $20M, including a $16M Series A backed by Gradient and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. Co-founders Tony Rosinol and Bernard Aceituno join Asana as the project management platform repositions itself as an operating system for human-agent teams. CEO Dan Rogers says the deal accelerates Asana's ability to automate complex end-to-end business processes — complementing existing Asana AI Studio and AI Teammates products, with StackAI integrating Salesforce, Slack, and Google Workspace. https://lnkd.in/eSsp6prN #Asana #StackAI #AIAcquisition #AgenticAI #WorkflowAutomation #AIAgents #HumanAgentTeams #YCombinator #FundingNews #EnterpriseAI #ProjectManagement #ArtificialIntelligence #AINews #TechNews #SaaS #AIWorkflow #Vercel #Salesforce

✅ Not because the AI isn't ready. Because your company's data is a mess. 🔴 Y Combinator just said something every founder needs to hear: "Every piece of information should be queryable." Every meeting. Every ticket. Every customer call. All of it is legible to an AI layer that actually learns from it. Most companies are the opposite of this. Knowledge lives in someone's head. Decisions get made, never documented. A key person leaves — and half the context walks out with them. YC calls this the difference between an open loop and a closed loop. Open loop → you make a decision, check results weeks later. Closed loop → the system monitors, compares, and adjusts in real time. YC has seen teams using this cut sprint time in half. But here's the honest part: Most companies can't do this yet. Not because the AI isn't ready. Because the data is a mess. Slack, Notion, GitHub, Linear, call recordings — all sitting in silos. No single layer that connects them. That's the real infrastructure problem of the next 5 years. The companies that solve it won't just move faster. They'll be able to onboard faster, hand off faster, and yes — make notice periods shorter. Is your company an open loop or a closed loop right now? #AI #FutureOfWork #Startups #YCombinator #Management

🏗️ We're Hiring: Account Executive/Client Onboarding & Success Manager 📍 Bangalore | Full-Time | On-Site We're building operational intelligence software for the construction industry helping trade contractors and manufacturers manage materials, labour, and project costs more efficiently. We're backed by Y Combinator and a growing team on a mission to modernize one of the world's oldest industries. 🔍 What You'll Own ✅ Lead end-to-end client onboarding from kickoff to go-live ✅ Configure and deploy the Merlin platform to fit each client's operational structure ✅ Train site managers, project leads, procurement heads & ops teams ✅ Own a portfolio of active accounts post go-live as the primary point of contact ✅ Conduct regular business reviews and platform health assessments ✅ Proactively monitor engagement and prevent churn before it happens ✅ Relay structured client feedback directly to our product team — your insights shape the roadmap 🎯 You're a Great Fit If You Have → 2+ years in implementation, onboarding, account management, or customer success → Experience in SaaS, construction, real estate, infrastructure, or ops-heavy industries (big plus) → Strong project management skills can juggle multiple clients without dropping the ball → A relationship-first mindset you build trust naturally at every level → Excellent communication, documentation & training skills → Comfortable with tools like HubSpot, Jira, Notion, or Asana → Flexibility for PST overlap when needed 🏆 What Success Looks Like → Clients go live on time with high adoption & minimal friction → Accounts are healthy, engaged & expanding → You're seen as a trusted operational partner — not just a vendor contact 🔹 Early-stage, Y Combinator-backed Construction Tech company 🔹 Your work directly impacts the product roadmap 🔹 Fast-growing team with real ownership and visibility 🔹 Clear path to senior roles — Customer Success Lead, Head of Onboarding, and beyond If you love turning complex workflows into smooth client experiences and want to do it at a company actually changing how construction works — we'd love to talk. 📩 Apply here - https://lnkd.in/dYspPSSd or DM us directly. Tag someone who'd be perfect for this role! 👇 #Hiring #CustomerSuccess #ClientOnboarding #ConstructionTech #SaaS #Bangalore #YCombinator #NowHiring #AccountManagement

Some evenings genuinely shift your perspective. 🔥 Two days ago I attended the STUHI Startup Carnival in Helsinki, an evening built around ideas, ambition, and real conversations with people who are actually building things. The panel featured Kristo Ovaska, founder of Smartly and Taito.ai, and Otso Veisterä, the youngest Finnish founder ever accepted into Y Combinator. What made it stand out was the honesty. No polished narratives, just firsthand lessons from two people who have navigated the startup world at the highest level. The highlight for me personally was an extended conversation with Otso. What he is building at The Token Company (YC W26) is genuinely fascinating. Every time an AI model processes a prompt, a significant portion of the tokens are redundant noise carrying no real meaning. Otso built an ML-powered compression layer that strips those useless tokens before they ever reach the model, making responses faster, cheaper, and actually more accurate. In benchmarks it delivers up to 37% faster latency and measurable accuracy gains, all without changing a single line of the underlying model. It is one of those ideas that is so fundamental it affects every single company building on top of LLMs. His clarity of thought, humility, and drive at such a young age were remarkable. That conversation alone reshaped how I think about what is achievable. Following the panel, the space opened into startup booths where you could engage directly with some of Finland's most exciting companies and connect with founders face to face. The depth of talent in that room was hard to ignore. The networking bingo added a creative dimension to the evening, sparking conversations that might not have happened otherwise. I left with new connections across different fields, each one bringing a unique perspective and a shared drive to build something meaningful. Thank you STUHI for curating an experience that genuinely adds value to Finland's next generation of builders. If you were there, let's connect. If not, the next one is worth your time. #STUHI #StartupCarnival #Helsinki #Entrepreneurship #YCombinator #TheTokenCompany #Finland #Startups #Networking #AI

You were rejected by Y Combinator once, then twice, then again? It does not automatically mean your #startup sucks. It does not mean there is no market. And it definitely does not mean the story is over. Replit is a great example. Amjad Masad and his team were rejected by #YC three times before finally getting in on the fourth try. At the time, a browser-based coding environment may not have looked like a massive venture-scale company to everyone. Today, #Replit is one of the most recognizable developer platforms in the world. #SendGrid is another one. YC passed, Techstars said yes, and the company later went public and was acquired by Twilio for around $2 billion. My opinion is simple. Accelerator rejection is useful feedback, but it is not the ultimate truth. Sometimes your pitch is weak. Sometimes the market is too early. Sometimes the person evaluating you simply does not see the opportunity yet. And yes, sometimes the rejection is a real signal that something in the business needs to change. The founder’s job is to know the difference. If customers are using the product, coming back, paying, giving feedback, and the business is getting stronger every month, then one “no” from an accelerator should not define you. Respect rejection. Study it. Use it. But do not confuse rejection with failure. Keep building - but build with brutal honesty. That is where real founders separate themselves from people who only liked the idea of being founders. #Startups #Founders #VentureCapital #YCombinator #Techstars #FounderMindset #DKStudios DK Studios | Twilio SendGrid Partner - Caddycode |

Most teams building voice agents today are renting them. You pay per minute, hand over call data, and depend on a closed platform that can change pricing or terms at any point. For startups and enterprises running high call volumes, that cost compounds fast. $14,400 a year for a single sales team is not unusual. A team of Y Combinator alumni just released an open-source alternative. Dograh is a self-hosted voice agent platform that runs entirely on your own infrastructure. One Docker command sets everything up. You drag and drop a workflow, name your agent, describe the use case, and have a working bot in under two minutes. The stack is fully swappable: Any LLM provider Any speech-to-text engine Any text-to-speech voice Inbound and outbound calls WebRTC and phone number support Built on Pipecat and FastAPI with a Next.js frontend. BSD-2 licensed. Already at 1,516 stars on GitHub and growing. For anyone building in sales automation, customer support, appointment scheduling, or any workflow that relies on voice, this is worth a serious look. The closed alternative costs $14,400 a year. Repository: https://lnkd.in/dJWn2k4r Try the cloud-version: https://app.dograh.com/ Credit to the Dograh team Sabiha Khan , Pritesh Kumar , Abhishek Kumar and Y Combinator alumni founders for open-sourcing this. Full credit for the repository screenshot to the Dograh team, sourced from their official GitHub page. #AI #VoiceAgents #OpenSource #AgenticAI #LLM #ConversationalAI #SalesAutomation #CustomerSupport #MLEngineering #YCombinator

I was invited as a judge to Demo Day at Polaris School of Technology - inspired by the culture of Y Combinator demo days. And honestly, I expected students presenting ideas through slides. But many teams came with actual working products. That instantly changed the energy in the room. We evaluated the teams on 5 important areas: • Technical depth • Product thinking • Uniqueness of the idea • Real-world problem solving • Presentation and pitching skills What stood out most for me was this: Some students had strong technical ideas. But the students who really stood out were the ones who could clearly explain their thinking, defend decisions under pressure, and communicate the value behind what they built. Because in the real world, building is one skill. Explaining and selling your vision is another. Thanks to Avinash Ramakanth and the organizing team, especially Rohit Sahni for this invite. Good to see colleges creating environments where students are encouraged not just to study for exams - but to build, pitch, iterate, and think independently. Happy to be part of the experience alongside my co-judges SIMRAN NIGAM and Arjun Dhawan. #DemoDay #PolarisSchoolOfTechnology #YCombinator #EngineeringStudents #StartupCulture #Innovation #ProductThinking #StudentBuilders #LearningInPublic #TechCommunity

🚀 Stop wasting hours scrolling through outdated job boards. The job market in 2026 is moving faster than ever. If you are still relying only on standard, cluttered platforms, you are competing with millions for the exact same scraps. To land a high-paying role this year, you need to use platforms that optimize your time, target the right niches, or even automate the boring stuff for you. Here are 5 game-changing hiring portals featured in my latest carousel that you cannot afford to miss: 1️⃣ Remote OK The Vibe: The ultimate hub for digital nomads and remote professionals. Best For: Top-tier remote Backend & Full-Stack engineering roles, marketing, and customer support. Bonus: It often highlights global perks (like nomad insurance) right on the listing. 2️⃣ SpeedyApply The Vibe: The ultimate job seeker's sidekick. Best For: High-volume but highly controlled applications. Bonus: It's a free Chrome extension that slashes manual input by 90% and automatically fills out tracking forms, saving you roughly 15 minutes per application. 3️⃣ Mployee (Mployee.me) The Vibe: Done-for-you targeted applications with a human touch. Best For: Job seekers looking for massive visibility in the US, UK, India, Australia, and Europe. Bonus: They apply to 15- 25 targeted jobs daily for you, provide crystal-clear job descriptions, and explicitly highlight your skill gaps so you know exactly how to improve. 4️⃣ Hiring.cafe The Vibe: The rebel job engine explicitly on a mission to "destroy Indeed and LinkedIn" by being 10x better. Best For: Finding fresh openings early with incredibly granular filters (funding stage, interview length, etc.). Bonus: Zero clutter. Just direct, highly relevant job data. 5️⃣ Y Combinator Jobs (Work at a Startup) The Vibe: Direct access to the world's most innovative tech ecosystems. Best For: Engineers, designers, and product managers who want hyper-growth startup exposure. Bonus: Apply to thousands of vetted, high-potential startups (the next Airbnb or Coinbase) with a single profile, or let founders reach out to you directly. 📌 Which of these are you going to try first? Let’s talk in the comments! 👉 SWIPE THROUGH THE CAROUSEL FOR THE FULL VISUAL BREAKDOWN! #JobSearch2026 #RemoteWork #CareerGrowth #HiringPortals #TechJobs #JobHunting #SoftwareEngineering #StartupLife #CareerAdvice #RemoteOK #YCombinator #JobAutomation #FutureOfWork

Erin Kim of Mesh (YC W25) makes a crucial point that a lot of AI workflow conversations miss: automation is only half the system. The other half is control. In finance and accounting, that means auditability, period locks, approvals, reversibility, and a clear way for humans to supervise when the “clever” version of the workflow starts drifting into risk. Huge shoutout to Erin Kim, Nandini Ramakrishnan, Mesh, Legacy Wealth Nerds, Y Combinator, and Network VC for backing a control-layer-first approach instead of pretending trust and governance will somehow appear later. Featured on the Legacy Wealth Nerds podcast: “Accounting Automation Isn’t a Tool Problem — It’s a Logic Problem” with Erin Kim. At Twill, the community loves conversations that show how AI systems get trusted: not by pretending they never fail, but by building the right guardrails around how they operate. 👉 https://luma.com/twill #AI #Accounting #Controls #FinanceOps #Mesh #YCombinator #NetworkVC #Twill