News

Has Y Combinator truly changed the early-stage startup investing game, perhaps in its own favor? Or did it merely provide more time to its portfolio companies to reach their next stage of maturity?
The new effort is aimed at Y Combinator founders or CEOs of companies that are past Series A stage, with 50 to 100 employees, and it may include non-YC companies.
The famed startups accelerator Y Combinator is dabbling in psychedelics. Over the past few years, the organization has accepted at least four startups into its program. We reached out to the ...
Renowned startup incubator Y Combinator and the Priceonomics Data Studio analyzed eight years of incubator applications to see what competitors and technologies startups mentioned in their apps.
Anu Hariharan is joining Y Combinator as a partner in its fund for investing in alumni companies, YC Continuity. She explains why she made the jump from top firm Andreessen Horowitz and how YC ...
Since the election, the ACLU's membership has quadrupled, from 400,000 people to 1.6 million. Y Combinator is helping the nonprofit adapt.
Y Combinator just cut its startup class size down from 84 to a little fewer than 50 — nearly halving the amount of accepted startups, just like it recently halved the funding each company ...
Y Combinator hasn’t tracked race or ethnicity previously, but it did give me the data on how many women founders have been in each batch. You can see the year-by-year breakdown in the chart above.
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 ...
But Y Combinator is also in the midst of a push to bring more women and all people of color into the fold. Women now account for more than 10% of entrepreneurs who graduate from Y Combinator, up ...