Huge congrats to @EXA_AI who just raised a crazy $85M Series B at a $700M valuation! I sat down with @WilliamBryk to discuss why Exa is building the search engine for AI, not humans.
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Nicolas Dessaigne
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Nicolas Dessaigne
@dessaigne
- I recently sat down with @mukundjha and @madhavjha, the founders of @emergentlabs, one of the fastest-growing AI startups I’ve seen! They hit $15M ARR just 3 months after launch. Here are some takeaways from our conversation 🧵
00:00 - After 12+ years, 25 batches, and the privilege of advising >1,000+ startups, I’m transitioning to Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator. YC changed my life. I’m grateful to the thousands of founders who trusted me with their journeys, my fellow YC partners and teammates, and to Paul,
- Still buzzing from the @ycombinator event we hosted in one of Paris’ most iconic venues. So many future founders in the room! Huge thanks to @solomonstre, @kiwicopple, and @t_blom for sharing their stories, and to @unaitefr for helping make it all happen! 📍La Sorbonne
- This is a very thoughtful response. I’ve been impressed by how the @continuedev team has handled this difficult situation. They are great builders who have been quietly focused on building the best product and are exactly the kind of founders we want to have in the YC community.
- One of the best parts of working at YC is witnessing insanely ambitious projects getting started. Lumen Orbit is a perfect example: they’re building Data Centers in Space! 🚀 Check them out:
- If you are not a designer and want to create beautiful react app, Polymet is your tool!YC S24's @polymetai helps non-designers create production-ready designs and frontend code with AI. Explain what you want to build, or provide an image, and Polymet designs and implements it. Congrats on the launch, @yushilmi and @frknksglu! ycombinator.com/launches/LfG-p…
00:00 - Huge congrats to the whole @algolia team! I'm so proud of the impact you all have on the world, one search at a time 🚀BREAKING NEWS: Algolia raises $150 Million in Series D funding to accelerate growth, meet increased demand for its search & discovery products + fuel expansion into adjacent & emerging markets & use-cases – bit.ly/3rI8wX4
- AI agents are taking over software. Let's make building them easy.Replying to @ycombinatorDevtools for AI Agents @dessaigne AI agents are the next wave: autonomous tools that reason, decide, and amplify human productivity. We’re funding startups building devtools for agents, whether you’re creating agent builders or building blocks to perform complex tasks.
00:00 - We still have a few slots available. Applying to YC may change your life like it changed mine. Deadline is tomorrow.If you're interested in applying for the YC S24 batch, the deadline for last-minute applications is tomorrow. Apply by June 13 and we’ll get back to you by June 20. ycombinator.com/blog/apply-ycs…
- Learn from Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng and Fei-Fei Li. They will all be at AI Startup School on June 16.I'm proud to announce YC's first AI Startup School— June 16 and 17th in San Francisco. It's a totally free conference bringing together the next top CS and AI minds in the world. Learn from top founders and AI researchers and meet your peers who will build the future. Apply now
- Excited to announce our new @algolia CEO and welcome @bvnixon in the team! blog.algolia.com/algolias-next-…
- YC has transformed my life in so many ways! In 2014, it changed Algolia’s trajectory, making us 10x better founders. Now, it’s doing it again, this time by helping me support a new generation of founders to be even better than we were. Happy 20th, YC!Y Combinator has helped create more than $800 billion in market value over 20 years. Thank you to Paul, Jessica, Trevor and Robert and Happy Birthday to the fixed point combinator that changed the world.
