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Y Combinator has now confirmed that report. When the prestigious Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator launched a fellowship program in July, putting $12,000 grants up for grabs, founders were ...
Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, condemned a viral fake rejection letter as a sad attention-seeking attempt and urged social media to stop the anti-YC sentiment.
Amid the flood of big-tech layoffs, entry to Y Combinator has become the most competitive it’s ever been. Silicon Valley’s premier business incubator has received 44,000 applications so far ...
Storied startup accelerator Y Combinator is targeting at least $2 billion, sources told Forbes, in its first major fundraising effort under Garry Tan.
For comparison’s sake, Y Combinator received 17,000 applications and accepted 414 entrepreneurs for its latest batch for a 2.4% acceptance rate.
The famed startup accelerator Y Combinator is wading into the $100 billion psychedelics industry. Here's how 3 psychedelics firms got into the program.
Y Combinator called 2025 the "year of AI agents" and is looking for an array of AI-related startups in specific niches for its summer batch.
It's a missile.” With Ares announced, Y Combinator’s Friedman hopes the company will draw more interest from defense tech entrepreneurs.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by artificial intelligence models.
At Y Combinator's Startup School, it's not all tech cheerleading About 30,000 startups have enrolled in the accelerator's online program, as the iconic institution tries to overcome its insular image.
In its first few years, Y Combinator set a hard cap on the number of founders it accepted into each Startup School session. After acceptance letters were accidentally sent to the wrong teams in ...