Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said that some college entrepreneurship programs were "teaching you to lie."Tan, who runs a startup incubator, said the "fake it till you make it" attitude wasn't necessary, ...

Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan publicly called on Meta Platforms Inc. employees to assist after journalist Stanley Roberts was banned from the platform despite identity verification ...

In early 2025, Cenote was accepted into Y Combinator's Winter batch, securing $500,000 in seed funding and joining the ranks of an accelerator that launched industry giants like Airbnb and Reddit.

Y Combinator called 2025 the "year of AI agents" and is looking for an array of AI-related startups in specific niches for its summer batch.

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Theya, a Bitcoin self-custody platform backed by Y Combinator, has launched Theya for Business, a new solution designed to help companies securely hold, manage, and operate on Bitcoin. The platform is ...

Big quote: The recently coined buzzword "vibe coding" is transforming the startup landscape, allowing companies to hit remarkable revenue targets with teams so small they're rewriting the rules of ...

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by artificial intelligence models.

Y Combinator Takes Heat for Helping Launch a Startup That Spies on Factory Workers Optifye.ai has been called a ‘sweatshop-as-a-service’ provider after its demo launch video left people stunned.

What is Y Combinator now? Critics say the famed accelerator is having an identity crisis As Y Combinator expands and evolves, investors and founders question whether its golden reputation still holds.

Y Combinator's fastest-growing startup Origami Agents raised $2M to build AI research tools that help sales teams find perfect customers.