Y Combinator sees no shortage of startups that apply to be a part of their funding cycles. But they don't always see all the ideas they'd like to see come out of the classes. So starting with the ...

Y Combinator's initiative, bold and nascent though it may be, is just the latest in a long line of schemes to remake the city. “Ideas about new cities are not new,” says Nikhil Kaza, who ...

The project would eventually produce a prototype city. Initial applications are due July 30, and researchers may be hired this year. The firm is already thinking about possible locations, according to ...

Cities are so trendy right now that every big tech company wants to build its own. Zappos did it in Downtown Vegas. Amazon is kind of doing it in a ...

Since 2005, Y Combinator has been assisting entrepreneurs with the earliest stages of turning a raw idea into something useful. The Mountain View, California-based accelerator makes a modest seed ...

Y Combinator's Adora Cheung and Sam Altman posted a job listing on June 27 announcing plans for a research project ... The post urged people with "strong interests and bold ideas in ...

It's "good to see private capital support high risk but potentially high impact 'outside the box' ideas," said Noah Deich, executive director of Carbon180, an Oakland, California-based group ...

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Y Combinator. ... teams trade ideas while eating chili and ... and hearing that one of the team’s members hadn’t had a single day off from his project in ...

Which is why Y Combinator, a startup accelerator that’s invested in Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox and other wildly successful companies, is now looking to fund carbon capture companies working on some ...

Y Combinator is launching a research lab to fund and enable moonshot projects that focus on fundamental technologies that will be freely available.

Y Combinator, a startup accelerator and investment firm that helped produce Airbnb and Dropbox has turned its attention to urban planning. The firm plans to solicit proposals for research into ...