Y Combinator's admissions director, Stephanie Simon, shares her best tips on how to stand out to the accelerator. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines.

Y Combinator's Demo Day is part of Silicon Valley lore. The twice-annual startup pitch event rivals suburban garages and nondescript hoodies as an icon of the Silicon Valley startup scene. But on ...

Y Combinator, the famed startup accelerator founded by Silicon Valley icon Paul Graham, will host its multi-day Demo Day in San Francisco on August 19 and 20. With this year's Demo Day, 150 ...

Sam Altman, former head of startup accelerator Y Combinator, is starting his own cryptocurrency called "worldcoin." For worldcoin to work, users must let the project scan their retinas, according ...

Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator, was Palantir's tenth employee, but decided to join Y Combinator and start Posterous.com. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines.

In return, Y-Combinator obtains a 7% stake in each company once it is launched. “Y-Combinator provides funding for startups at the very earliest stages,” Livingston said.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Y Combinator is launching a recruiting drive to get more black entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley's No. 1 boot camp for start-ups. Less than 1% of entrepreneurs who apply to Y ...

Y Combinator has announced Launch YC, a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products.The famed accelerator, which has seeded the ...