Y Combinator Just Released Its Latest Startup Wishlist. Here’s Every Idea It Has for Founders

Y Combinator's new 'Requests for Startups' covers everything from AI hedge funds to metal mills. Here's every idea it has for ...
Forbes

Y Combinator Startups That Could Be The Next Tech Unicorns

Y Combinator has had a significant impact on the technology industry by helping launch and support many successful businesses, including Airbnb, Dropbox, DoorDash, Reddit and Stripe. Y Combinator is ...
Forbes

Y Combinator Is Raising Billions In New Funding

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 billion in new ...
TechCrunch

How Inversion Art is trying to become the Y Combinator of the arts world

For many startups, getting a spot in an accelerator program like Y Combinator or TechStars is like winning the golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Accelerators offer a wealth of ...
Futurism

Y Combinator Pulls Support for AI Startup After Video of Boss Barking at Human Worker, Calling Him “Number 17”

Scientific Management, sometimes called “Taylorism” after its founder, Frederick W. Taylor, is the idea that human workers can be fine-tuned to be more efficient. If a garment factory worker could ...
GeekWire

On a mission to ‘kill Google Chrome,’ UW students join Y Combinator to launch AI-powered browser

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Aug 13, 2025 at ...
CNBC

Y Combinator startups are fastest growing, most profitable in fund history because of AI

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by AI. "What that means for founders is that you don't need a team of 50 or 100 engineers," ...
Business Insider

Y Combinator founder says Sam Altman wasn't fired

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Bloomberg L.P.

Y Combinator’s Latest Batch Is 35% AI Startups

More than one-third of the famed startup accelerator Y Combinator’s latest batch of companies are focused specifically on artificial intelligence. Y Combinator received a record 24,000 applications ...
MacRumors

Y Combinator Files Brief Supporting Epic Games, Says App Store Fees Stifle Startups

Startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator (YC) today filed an amicus brief supporting Epic Games in Epic's continued legal fight with Apple. Y Combinator says that Apple's ...
Business Insider

Y Combinator CEO on leaving Palantir: 'I'm working like a dog for Peter Thiel... Who's the real chump?'

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan discussed his time at Palantir during its early days at the Axios BFD summit. Tan touched on his departure from the firm and how he learned ...