Nicolas Dessaigne @dessaigne
Co-founder of @algolia - Group partner at @ycombinator ycombinator.com San Francisco, CA Joined July 2009-
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YC is coming to Toronto! If you’re a student interested in starting a startup, or are in the early stages of building one, join us for founder stories & advice from YC partners @amiklas, @dessaigne, and @golda. events.ycombinator.com/canada-2025
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Nicolas Dessaigne retweeted
We raised $85M. It's taken 4 years to get to this moment. Exa began as a gnawing itch. What if Google was outdated? What if you could use transformers to build perfect search over all the world’s information? What if we were the ones who did it? In 2021, this sounded crazy to…
We raised $85M. It's taken 4 years to get to this moment. Exa began as a gnawing itch. What if Google was outdated? What if you could use transformers to build perfect search over all the world’s information? What if we were the ones who did it? In 2021, this sounded crazy to…
Nicolas Dessaigne retweeted
Exa is the truth - organizing the world's information but for AI agents everywhere is an *extreme* unlock for human knowledge
Exa is the truth - organizing the world's information but for AI agents everywhere is an *extreme* unlock for human knowledge
Nicolas Dessaigne retweeted
Believing that the more money a startup raises the faster it will move is like believing that the more calories a person eats the faster they will run. Diminishing returns at first, actively counterproductive at some point.
Wild. We’ve crossed the uncanny valley. Can't say when it's AI or not anymore!
Wild. We’ve crossed the uncanny valley. Can't say when it's AI or not anymore!
Nicolas Dessaigne retweeted
Don't take money from an investor you have moral qualms about because of valuable connections they claim to have. Being upstanding matters more in the long term than connections.
Nicolas Dessaigne retweeted
Before we mock “shrimp on treadmills” or “marbles in cats,” remember: we once studied Gila monster spit and it led a drug that’s now reshaping modern medicine. How many influencers & politicians perpetuating memes actually read the studies? Probably none. So I’ll do it for you.
Huge congrats to Firecrawl on their Series A! This is what happens when a team executes flawlessly: ✨ 50k stars 📈 15× revenue in a year 💰 Profitable all the way Incredible work @CalebPeffer @nickscamara_ @ericciarla! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Huge congrats to Firecrawl on their Series A! This is what happens when a team executes flawlessly: ✨ 50k stars 📈 15× revenue in a year 💰 Profitable all the way Incredible work @CalebPeffer @nickscamara_ @ericciarla! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Nicolas Dessaigne retweeted
The deadline to apply on-time is August 4 at 8pm PT Quite a few of the best billion-dollar startups at YC applied in the last 24 hours before the deadline! ycombinator.com/apply
Nicolas Dessaigne retweeted
In a world that’s changing fast, experience becomes less important and young founders gain an advantage.
In a world that’s changing fast, experience becomes less important and young founders gain an advantage.
Nicolas Dessaigne retweeted
@harjtaggar One of the best antidotes to this loneliness is to be friends with other CEOs. This is one of the subtler benefits of YC, and frankly one that we never anticipated when we started it, but I think it has been very useful for the CEOs of the most successful companies.
Offdeal (YC W24) is reinventing investment banking for SMBs and just closed an incredible Series A. Congrats @leveredvlad and @alstonthelin on the big milestone!!!
Offdeal (YC W24) is reinventing investment banking for SMBs and just closed an incredible Series A. Congrats @leveredvlad and @alstonthelin on the big milestone!!!
Nicolas Dessaigne retweeted
Applications for the YC Fall 2025 batch are now open! Apply by August 4: ycombinator.com/apply
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