Happy Tuesday!

As we send off the class of 2024 and welcome the warm summer months, the unistart team is hard at work to continue serving student and alum like you around the world.

Welcome to the latest edition of unistart, where we feature the hottest early-stage startups, job opportunities, and valuable resources, all in one newsletter.

Without further ado, let’s dive right into what’s on 🔥 this week.

Table of Contents

1. Meet James, our content lead

2. Startups of the Week

3. NEW job openings - Y Combinator Edition

4. Try out the unistart investor outreach tool

😀 Meet James!

Hi readers! I’m James Lai, a rising junior at USC with a major in business administration and a minor in legal studies with career aspirations in consulting, law, and building my own fitness and health business. As unistart broadens its reach domestically and internationally, its team continues to expand and has brought me on to work on content creation, campus expansion, and partnerships.

📍I’m currently traveling in Taiwan, if you are in the area or want to chat about startups, shoot me a reply here via this email!

🤟 What Your Classmates Are Building

AccoAI

What? - An all-in-one AI-driven workspace to help accounting firms automate tedious internal and client-facing tasks.

Why? - Accounting firms spend countless hours weekly sending emails, managing clients and employees, and organizing workflows. AccoAI centralizes these tasks into one platform, saving companies 11+ hours a week and allowing employees to focus on their core responsibilities.

Bonus - AccoAI is backed by EWOR, one of Europe’s premier venture accelerators (~0.1% of founders accepted and €2B+ in exits secured), and its cofounder Alex is committing a gap year after high school to building the business!

• 📍Industries: AI, Data, FinTech, SaaS, Software

• 🚀 Stage: Pre-Seed

• 😎 Founders: Lance Fuchia (University of Michigan), Alexander Loughry (Gap year)

Reform

What? - Universal API that automates time-consuming manual tasks and integrates customer information into one convenient platform for logistics companies.

Why? - Logistics businesses spend thousands of hours a month on manual data extraction, entry, and analysis as well as integrating information from their TMS systems. Reform aims to address these operational inefficiencies.

• 📍Industries: API, Logistics

• 🚀 Stage: Seed (backed by YC)

• 😎 Founders: Pradhit Gosula (Ohio State University), Omar Abuhashish (New York University), Saif Abuhashish (Northeastern University)

LinkedInHousing

What? - World’s first rental marketplace on LinkedIn that helps professionals find housing worldwide.

Why? - Rental marketplaces are often fraught with scammers, unreasonable broker, and 3rd party fees. LinkedInHousing is a free, invite-only group that caters to various housing needs (sublets, roommate searching, and room offerings). What a creative way to leverage the biggest professional social platform to solve a problem for professionals 👏

• 📍Industries: Community, Marketing, Marketplace, Real Estate, Service

• 🚀 Stage: Bootstrapped

• 😎 Founders: Eric Li (Babson College)

Interested in connecting with these startups or know of one that we should feature in this newsletter? Send us a reply!

 📃 New Job Openings - YC Edition

Y Combinator is one of the best, if not the best, startup accelerator in the world. We handpicked a dozen internships and entry level jobs at YC backed companies to launch your career at.

Engineering

• VectorShift (YC S23; no-code genAI automation platform) is hiring a Backend Engineer (new grads ok!)

• Lume, a no-code data integration startup (YC W23), is looking for a Software Engineer Intern (In-person; NY, NY)

• All-in-one data integration startup Whalesync (YC S21) is searching for a Founding Engineer (1 YOE; Remote)

• Arketa (YC S20; platform to help fitness professionals conduct classes and monetize on-demand content and courses) is hiring a Junior Software Engineer (1 YOE)

• AI capability evaluation startup Vectorview (YC W24) is hiring an Engineering Intern (Stockholm & San Francisco)

• Fixed-income investment startup Finvest (YC W23) is looking for a Founding Engineer (Frontend) (1 YOE)

Non-Engineering

• Hospitality management financial operating system provider Topkey (YC W21) is looking for a Founding Content Lead (1 YOE; Remote)

• Unriddle (YC S24; scientific research assistant tool) is hiring a Founding Growth Hacker (new grads ok!)

• Personal cybersecurity services startup Agency (YC W22) is hiring a Content Marketing Intern (NY, NY)

• Debt lawsuit resolution startup SoloSuit (YC W21) is looking for a Customer Experience Manager (new grads ok!)

• Wanderlog (YC W19; travel planning tool) is hiring a Full-time Product Designer (UX/Visual Design) (1 YOE)

• Envelope, a personal finance startup (YC S23), is looking for a Social Media Marketing Intern (In-person; San Francisco)

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As per usual, please let us know how we can best serve you as a student founder or investor at [email protected] Thanks so much ❤️