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.

Y Combinator funds a lot of companies, but there's always more it could be doing, said its president, Sam Altman. Altman added that YC is "always slightly broken, because we're always trying to ...

Y Combinator startup Humanly helps companies screen job candidates at scale, with the help of AI. by Kurt Schlosser & Taylor Soper on February 18, 2020 at 2:00 pm February 17, 2020 at 3:55 pm.

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 ...

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 CEO Garry Tan told CNBC that this group is growing significantly faster than past cohorts and with actual revenue. The winter 2025 batch of YC companies in aggregate grew 10% per week ...

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.

Y Combinator received a record 24,000 applications for its latest cohort, and accepted just under 1% of those, Garry Tan, president and chief executive officer of the accelerator, ...

Amid the flood of big-tech layoffs, entry to Y Combinator has become the most competitive it’s ever been. Silicon Valley’s premier business incubator has received 44,000 applications so far ...