A startup accelerator that has launched more than 2,000 high-tech companies, including Airbnb and Dropbox. Founded in 2005, Y Combinator programs were conducted in Cambridge, Massachusetts and ...

That mission was apparent at Y Combinator’s most recent demo day, where, among the usual consumer web and mobile apps, were audacious companies like Helion Energy, a nuclear fusion startup ...

Y Combinator for high-school kids? It’s students only at this new startup incubator. by John Cook on March 29, 2012 at 4:45 pm March 29, 2012 at 5:37 pm. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.

Y Combinator is continually striving to do something about that disparity. Of their 2019 cadre of applicants for funding, 13% of the companies’ founders are individual women, and 6% of the founders ...

Y Combinator has increased the amount of money it invests in startups to $500,000 from $125,000. But investors told Insider its new investment terms had bumped up valuations to extremes.

As Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups prepare their pitches for the accelerator’s April Demo Day, CEO Garry Tan is busy pitching investors, too — but on YC itself. YC is raising $2 ...

Y Combinator: $627 million TechStars: $61 million. Total Rounds Raised. But in terms of how more typical startups do, the ability to raise rounds of funding shows they’re both doing about the same.

In fact, over the years, a16z has often led some of the buzziest rounds coming out of Y Combinator, including Tandem, Queenly and Contra — essentially sourcing deal flow from the accelerator.

Y Combinator, the high-profile Silicon Valley startup incubator, is officially getting into gov tech. The incubator has, in fact, already taken on several gov tech companies in the past.

Y Combinator Has Gone Supernova Under Sam Altman, the famed incubator is now trying to make the whole world think like a startup. Illustration by Laurent Hrybyk ...

In late September 2018, Y Combinator released new forms of Simple Agreements for Future Equity (“Safes”) containing significant changes to the original forms released in late 2013. In its ...