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Y Combinator: The Vault · Business

Y Combinator: The Vault

Welcome to The Vault, YC clips on startup life, founder interviews, live events and other odds and ends about YC startups. Same great content, but a bit more off-the-record. If you're looking for the main YC channel, check out: https://youtube.com/ycombinator

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Emergent: The AI App Builder for Everyone

16 Oct 2025
21m
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How To Design Products That Truly Stand Out

13 Oct 2025
35m
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RevenueCat: Powering Subscriptions for the App Economy

01 Oct 2025
26m
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Alex: Your AI Recruiting Partner

29 Sep 2025
21m
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Juicebox: AI Agents for the Hiring Process

25 Sep 2025
25m
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In this interview, David and Ishan, co-founders of Juicebox, discuss their AI recruiting platform, which helps companies find, engage, and evaluate talent using LLMs. They share their backgrounds, how they met, and the evolution of Juicebox through YC, including pivots from a music app to a freelancer marketplace befor...

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Greptile: AI That Actually Understands Codebases

23 Sep 2025
6m
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Numeral: Building the Global Tax Platform

15 Sep 2025
28m
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Recall.ai: Unlocking the World’s Conversations

10 Sep 2025
26m
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Motion: Redefining How Work Gets Done

09 Sep 2025
17m
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Exa: Organizing the World’s Knowledge

03 Sep 2025
18m
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HappyRobot: Automating the Work That Moves the World

03 Sep 2025
27m
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HappyRobot is revolutionizing physical operations by deploying AI agents that automate complex communications and workflows for industries like logistics and supply chain. After a strategic pivot during their Y Combinator batch, the founders transitioned from computer vision to building specialized AI agents that handl...

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Advanced Context Engineering for Agents

25 Aug 2025
14m
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Dexter Horthy, the founder of Human Layer, discusses context engineering for AI coding agents, emphasizing how to maximize the utility of today's AI models. He shares his experiences with spec-first development and introduces a workflow centered around context management, including research, planning, and implementatio...

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Using LongMemEval to Improve Agent Memory

25 Aug 2025
13m
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Sam Bhagwat, the co-founder and CEO of Mastra, discusses the LongMemEval benchmark for agent memory and the process of optimizing Mastra's memory layers. He defines memory as the compression of chat messages and the ability to search them effectively. Sam explains the subtasks within memory, including information extra...

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Context Engineering for Engineers

25 Aug 2025
11m
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Jeff Huber, the founder of Chroma, discusses context engineering for AI systems, arguing it's a more accurate term than prompt engineering or RAG. He emphasizes that AI is essentially software and the key is determining what information goes into the context window. Huber shares Chroma's research indicating that longer...

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Context Engineering: Lessons Learned from Scaling CoCounsel

25 Aug 2025
20m
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Jake Heller discusses lessons learned from building Co-Counsel, an AI legal assistant, emphasizing practical prompt engineering techniques. He details the three-step process: defining the customer experience, modeling the task after how the best lawyer would perform it, and breaking down the process into micro-steps th...

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Salient: The Fintech Startup Processing $1B+ in Loans with AI

28 Jul 2025
9m
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How Diode Is 10x-ing Hardware Design

23 Jul 2025
15m
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The Startup Powering Billions In Trades Every Day

30 Jun 2025
33m
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Infisical: The Open Source Security Stack

06 Jun 2025
10m
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David AI: Powering the Voice Era of AI

28 May 2025
9m
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