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Tyler Bosmeny built Clever into a $500M company–now he’s helping YC founders do the same as General Partner
We’re thrilled to welcome Tyler Bosmeny back to YC, this time as a General Partner.
Michael Seibel's Legacy Continues at YC: Transition to Partner Emeritus
If you’ve been around YC, you know Michael Seibel has been a huge part of it for over a decade. He’s done it all - YC Founder (w07, w12), Group...
East Coast College Tour 2025
YC is going on a college tour! We're visiting Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, Cornell, and Cornell Tech. If you're a current student at any of those schools and interested in...
Summer Fellows Grants
This summer, YC will be giving grants to college students to work on their own technical projects. We’re calling these the Summer Fellows Grants. We hope this will encourage the...
Join us at AI Startup School — June 16-17
We're gathering 2,000 of the top CS undergrads, masters, and PhD candidates in AI to hear from speakers including Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng, and...
Announcing the YC Spring 2025 batch
Y Combinator is now running four batches per year: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. We completed the first ever fall batch last year, F24, and are proud to announce the...
YC Winter 2025 batch applications due by Tuesday, November 12, 2024
To better serve founders given the rapid rate of technological change, YC recently switched from two to four batches per year. The winter 2025 batch will run from January to...
Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI
YC is at our best when backing founders with an ethos of building for others, including strong open source developers like the founders of Continue and many others. Earlier this...
Join us at Startup School Europe in London - November 23
Applications for Startup School Europe are now open!
YC Fall 2024 batch applications due by 8/27
In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.
Join us at Startup School 2024 in San Francisco - July 27
Applications for Startup School 2024 are now open!
Female Founders Conference applications are open now
We’re bringing the Female Founders Conference back in-person, and we’ll be hosting it on August 2 at our office in the Dogpatch in San Francisco.
Dissecting the past to predict the future: Tracy Young on building TigerEye
In 2018, Tracy Young and her co-founders sold PlanGrid for $875 million. By 2021, she was ready to jump back in and do it all over again with a brand...
Last chance to apply for YC’s S24 batch
If you were interested in applying for S24 but thought it was too late, it’s not. If you apply by June 13, we’ll still have time to look at your...
Humanloop CEO Raza Habib shares 5 common mistakes teams make when building with LLMs
After working with hundreds of teams to make better products with LLMs, Humanloop CEO Raza Habib shares some of the most common mistakes he's seen.
Why YC went to DC
A few weeks ago, I went to DC to start engaging policymakers and be the voice of little tech. Here's why.
The origins of RevenueCat
If you build something because you need it, chances are good others need it too. In this interview, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting shares how solving his own frustrations led to...
How AI will create more successful founders
When a major new technology comes out, huge new opportunities open up for founders that get in on the ground floor. In this episode of Dalton and Michael, we’ll talk...
Lessons on building hardware from the founders of Eight Sleep
The co-founders of Eight Sleep share some things they've learned about building hardware over the last 10 years
Congratulations to the 2024 YC Top Companies!
We’re excited to announce the 2024 YC Top Companies list! This list features the YC alumni with the highest revenue in 2023.