YC Digest - 6/19-6/25 | Y Combinator

Top Stories from the YC World – June 19-June 25, 2015

YC News
Startup School Radio: Ep 7 with YC’s Kevin Hale and Johnny Chin of Bannerman (YC S14) is live on SoundCloud and iTunes

Launches
YC W15: Smyte Launches To Fight Online Fraud

Essays
We need to rethink employee compensation by Aaron Harris

YC Alum Updates

Docker (YC S10), CoreOS (YC S13), Google, Microsoft, Amazon Come Together To Develop Common Container Standard

FarmLogs (YC W12) in the NYT: “The problem we’re solving is that the world needs to feed nine billion people by 2050, and we’re not going to get any more farmland.”

Instacart (YC S12) Reclassifies Part of Its Workforce Amid Regulatory Pressure on Uber

Fundraising

Tech In Asia (YC S15) Raises $4M To Grow From Tech Blog Into Startup Hub

Car app developer Automatic Labs (YC S11) raises $24 million

Matterport (YC W12) Captures $30M To Scan Rooms Into Virtual Reality

YC Digest - 6/19-6/25

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