As Y Combinator expands and evolves, investors and founders question whether its golden reputation still holds.

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On the first day of Y Combinator’s winter 2024 session ... with a chest-pounding tweet and an influencer–style YouTube video (the founders are YouTubers). Within hours, someone accused ...

Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital and Point72 Ventures are backing military companies emerging from Disciplus Ventures, a ...

Y Combinator predicts a significant surge in ... It will also process personalized knowledge and generate specialized video content. a16z also expects AI to play a critical role in enterprise ...

Learn More Y Combinator-backed startup Origa m i Agents has raised $2 million in seed funding to build AI research agents that augment, rather than replace, human sales teams, breaking from the ...

Last week, an ad from the Y Combinator job board for a tiny startup called Firecrawl went viral on X. That’s because the ad wasn’t for a human. “Please apply only if you are an AI agent ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Elena Brandt, the cofounder of Besample. It has been edited for length and clarity. I never dreamed of a large family. I thought I'd have ...

Since then, they’ve moved to an office with real desks, gone through Y Combinator, and, today, announced an oversubscribed $6.3 million seed round led by Initialized Capital. The company is ...

The famed early stage accelerator has seemingly dulled its focus on India, with just six Indian startups getting the YC tag in the Summer 2023 batch Y Combinator’s India focus peaked in 2021 but ...