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Moments ago we unveiled Capital Markets to the world—the first venture debt marketplace for Silicon Valley. Through Arc, startups can apply for everything from Venture Debt to ABLs  from the world’s leading lenders in minutes and receive indicative terms at no cost. We’re so confident in our network of lenders, that qualified startups who apply but don’t receive indicative terms will receive $10,000 in their Arc account*. That’s what we call a win-win. 🤝 Links: 👉 Apply for funding: https://lnkd.in/gAgtuj-2 👉 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g8MRxD86 * Conditions apply.  Indicative terms are not a binding offer. See full terms at https://lnkd.in/gc23iJAv.

Arc Capital Markets has grown 9x since our January launch. We're targeting another 20x this year. To support this growth, we're expanding our Asset-Backed Finance team 📈 If you work in traditional finance & want to be part of its disruption, drop me a line. Bonus points if you're top bucket at a tier 1 private credit fund, investment bank, or PE fund.

Openmart (YC W24) is excited to co-host YC S24 Kickoff Event next Friday 07/19 in SF! 🎉 Come and spend a delightful night with us! We will chat about our biggest takeaways/mistake in fundraising, our key lessons from talking to customers, or how to reach some little inflection points. All seed-stage founders—YC, non-YC, or any YC alumni—are welcome to join us! We'll have beer🍺, pizza🍽️, and some drinks🍷. Register here -> https://lu.ma/ncl99gwf Wordware (YC S24) Arc Hamming AI OmniAI Erika Bricky Caitlin McCarthy Anna Pojawis Tyler Maran Sumanyu Sharma Robert Chandler Kathryn Wu

Come and spend a delightful night with us! We might chat about our biggest takeaways/mistake in fundraising, our key lessons from talking to customers, or how to reach some little inflection points. All seed-stage founders—YC, non-YC, or any YC alumni—are welcome to join us! We'll have beer🍺, pizza🍽️, and some drinks🍷. Register here -> https://lu.ma/ncl99gwf Thank you Arc for providing the space. Openmart (YC W24) is excited to partner with Wordware (YC S24)OmniAI Hamming AI. Erika Bricky Caitlin McCarthy Anna Pojawis Tyler Maran Sumanyu Sharma Robert Chandler Richard He

The Y Combinator S24 batch is officially underway! We're still riding high from last week's YC Welcome Brunch & Headshots at Arc HQ in SF. It was a special moment: bringing new YC founders together reminded us just how inspiring this chapter of the journey is. Arc's CEO and W22 alum, Don Muir, flew in from our NYC HQ specifically for the occasion. Something magical happens when YC founders are in one place. As Don shared stories from Arc’s early years, the room was alive with new connections and ideas. And S24 founders left with more than just alumni wisdom: they also snagged professional headshots on the official YC orange background to level up their future pitch decks. A big shoutout to Caitlin McCarthy, Erika Bricky, and the whole Arc SF team for hosting! If you couldn’t make this one, drop us a line to learn about all of the upcoming YC community events we’re hosting 👀

Our partner Vention is offering free custom software development service through their first-ever In:Vention Incubator program 🚀 US-based startups are invited to apply for a chance to get free custom software development services valued at $150K and the expert support of Vention's engineers and tech partners. Here’s how to apply before the final deadline (this Friday, June 28 at 5 PM ET!): https://lnkd.in/gCvEyWhC

If you're an NYC-based founder building in consumer tech... Come meet fellow founders and investors this Saturday while enjoying the views from our new NYC HQ! 🍾

Espresso AI is like having a team of DBAs optimizing your Snowflake spend 24/7. Recognizing how Gen AI could now fix software optimization issues much more comprehensively, Ben Lerner teamed up with previous co-workers Juri Ganitkevitch and Alex Kouzemtchenko to build Espresso AI. Different from other software optimization tools, Espresso AI utilizes advanced LLMs and machine learning to refactor queries and manage data warehouses more efficiently. With Espresso AI, customers reduce cloud compute costs by up to 80%. A recent big win 🏆: A year after founding, the co-founders announced an $11m seed round to continue building out exceptional products to accelerate cloud computing and further minimize data warehouse costs. 🙌 Today, Espresso AI's customers are saving up to 70% on their Snowflake bill. 👉 Get started with a free savings estimate at espresso.ai

This week Arc sponsored SF's Women Tech Meetup 🙌 We had the pleasure of hearing our very own Erika Bricky share her experience, tips, and scalable frameworks to succeed in the wild west that is early stage startup. A huge thank you to the other panel speakers for contributing to such a great event and sharing their amazing insights - Victoria (Vic) Woo, Ph.D., Anna Kohnen, Erika Bricky, and Elizabeth Dlha and of course Dasha Shunina 🙏 Talk about an absolute power house group! 🔥

Ellipsis (YC W24) will review your code (and do a good job!) After connecting on Y Combinator’s co-founder matching website, co-founders Hunter Brooks and Nick Bradford recognized their shared vision to revolutionize AI dev tools. As developers themselves, Hunter and Nick personally understand the everyday challenges that engineers face while reviewing and fixing bugs. By combining Nick’s machine learning expertise with Hunter’s infrastructure and enterprise knowledge, the team built Ellipsis (YC W24) to convert technical instructions into working, tested code. Today, Ellipsis is helping over 50 companies ship faster. Try it out for 7 days at www.ellipsis.dev.