Date | Title | Description |
07.11.2023 | FTC Chair Lina Khan on AI regulation, startup acquisitions, ... | As we've said before: you may not be interested in government, but the government is absolutely inte... |
01.11.2023 | Dalton and Michael's tips for technical founders | The stories are true: technical founders (and early technical employees!) often end up with the shor... |
26.10.2023 | Design Review: How to convert more visitors into customers | Getting people to visit your startup’s website is just step one. Getting them to actually sign up, b... |
19.10.2023 | Is it time to quit your job at a unicorn? | If you’re an employee of a late-stage company right now, how would you know when it’s time to move o... |
11.10.2023 | YC’s Health & Bio Summit is coming to SF in December — a... | The last two batches at YC were some of the absolute strongest we've ever seen, in large part becaus... |
06.10.2023 | Meet YC’s newest Group Partner and Visiting Group Partners | From left to right: Nate Smith, Pete Koomen, Tyler Bosmeny
The command center of YC is growing even... |
06.10.2023 | Office Hours: YC’s Group Partners share advice on actually g... | Founders are inherently busy people. A lot goes into making something people want.
For this episode... |
29.09.2023 | ‘Backstory’ introduces you to YC’s Group Partners, starting ... | When Surbhi Sarna was just thirteen, a sudden and excruciating pain in her side changed her life. Th... |
13.09.2023 | Why you shouldn't copy your tech idols | Is trying to live your life exactly like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, or Mark Zuckerberg a good strategy? ... |
06.09.2023 | Meet the YC Summer 2023 Batch | My first YC Demo Day was in Summer of 2008, where my startup and twenty-one others anxiously pitched... |
01.09.2023 | Design Review: Building a better mobile app | How do you build the perfect mobile app? It should do all the things your users want… but not too mu... |
23.08.2023 | Why investors (secretly) love YC | It's incredible how many very successful YC startups there are. Just look at the YC Top Revenue list... |
18.08.2023 | Check out the new YC Library | Today we’re excited to show you the reimagined YC Library — a new hub for the best videos, talks, es... |
17.08.2023 | YC’s Group Partners share their worst investor meetings | Mind games. Awkward power moves. Investors showing up hours late, only to make no effort to seem int... |
09.08.2023 | Peek into the latest YC batch in our new series, Founder FAQ | There are a thousand stories behind every startup — each a stepping stone to something more. Stories... |
01.08.2023 | Does your startup need to be in SF? Dalton & Michael say... | In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we discuss the hot button issue of… living in the Bay Area!... |
21.07.2023 | Introducing our newest video series: Office Hours | Brex’s co-founders originally wanted to build a VR headset. GOAT’s co-founders set out to build an a... |
13.07.2023 | Dalton & Michael on what AI means for the future of star... | AI and LLMs. Will the ever-evolving models grow to consume the idea of startups as we know it, or is... |
06.07.2023 | The 3 newest companies on YC’s Top Revenue List and what the... | Last week we published the first-ever list of Top YC Companies by Revenue, highlighting the 50 YC co... |
27.06.2023 | Inaugural YC Top Companies List by Revenue | A startup is designed to grow fast, and the best metric to gauge that growth is revenue. After all, ... |
15.06.2023 | Design Review: Aaron Epstein and Garry Tan critique AI start... | What are you aiming to say with your startup’s website, and what’s actually coming through?
In this... |
30.05.2023 | The latest Startup School talks are now available to all | When you’re building a startup, you’ve got a lot to figure out.
How do you know if an idea is a goo... |
24.05.2023 | Tom Blomfield of GoCardless and Monzo is our newest Group Pa... | To help you make a startup that matters, it helps to have people who have been in the idea maze — tr... |
16.05.2023 | PlanGrid and TigerEye Co-Founder Tracy Young on immigration,... | Where does your story begin? In Your Life: The Movie, what’s the opening scene?
For Tracy Young, it... |
11.05.2023 | Welcome back to YC, Emmett Shear and Wayne Crosby | Every batch, we invite founders to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. These advisors br... |
10.05.2023 | How to know if it’s a good Co-Founder Match | Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to h... |
27.04.2023 | 10 Questions to Discuss with a Potential Co-founder
Checkli... | Y Combinator runs a website where we help people find potential co-founders.
While running that, we... |
12.04.2023 | Announcing the YC Summer Conference – for students intereste... | On Saturday, June 17, 2023, we’re running our first YC Summer Conference, a one-day event in Mountai... |
05.04.2023 | Meet the YC Winter 2023 Batch | For the Winter 2023 batch, we received over 20,000 applications from founders around the world and f... |
22.03.2023 | Building APIs for AI: An Interview with Zapier’s Bryan Helmi... | Nearly ten years ago I wrote about the API-ization of everything. It seemed obvious then that softwa... |
16.03.2023 | YC Meetup on Building Open Source Software Startups | We're hosting a small reception at our office in San Francisco, on April 11th at 5pm PT, for people ... |
13.03.2023 | Changes at YC | YC is known primarily as a place where very early founders create something from nothing by simply a... |
11.03.2023 | Urgent: Sign the petition now | Over 5,000 CEOs and founders representing over 400,000 employees have signed this petition: https://... |
07.03.2023 | Surbhi Sarna's new book on entrepreneurship | YC Group Partner Surbhi Sarna has written a book called Without a Doubt, and today it goes on sale.
... |
28.02.2023 | Announcing Y Combinator's Spring 2022 Tech Hiring Event | We're excited to host an in-person tech hiring event on Wednesday, March 8th at 5:30 PM at Y Combina... |
27.02.2023 | Congratulations to the 2023 YC Top Companies! | We’re excited to present the 2023 YC Top Companies!
The startups are separated into 3 lists: YC’s t... |
23.02.2023 | Why would you work at a startup in an economic downturn? | Now is as good a time as any to start a startup – especially if you get into YC. But what about join... |
21.02.2023 | Why would you start a startup in an economic downturn? | There will likely be a recession in 2023, and the major downsides to starting a startup are obvious:... |
31.01.2023 | YC Career Coaching | Today, YC is launching Career Coaching for job seekers actively looking to work at a startup. At Wor... |
30.01.2023 | Learnings of a CEO: Snapdocs’ Aaron King on navigating marke... | Welcome to the fourth edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here.
Snapdocs ... |
26.01.2023 | YC Firesides and a new book by Surbhi Sarna | For those of you who haven’t met her yet, Surbhi Sarna is one of the newest group partners at YC. I'... |
05.01.2023 | The YC Founder Directory (+ New Company Content) | The YC community is approaching 10,000 founders. Looking at this powerful network, we see people fro... |
20.12.2022 | 2022 YC Year in Review | In 2022, most of the world freed itself from the shackles of the COVID pandemic, everyone struggled ... |
15.12.2022 | 75 YC Companies Hiring Now! | With the recent layoffs in tech, it is tough to know which companies are hiring. If you’re actively ... |
15.12.2022 | Request for Startups: Climate Tech | Y Combinator has funded well over 100 climate tech startups, and together they are worth over $10B.
... |
09.12.2022 | YC Generative AI Co-Founder Meetup | Attention aspiring entrepreneurs! Are you passionate about using generative AI to create innovative ... |
29.11.2022 | YC Happy Hour at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference | Join us for a happy hour during the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.
If you’re a YC alum, an invest... |
02.11.2022 | Welcome Diana, Dave, Edrizio, and Umur | Every batch, we invite founders and executives to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. Th... |
25.10.2022 | How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale | Engineering is typically the function that grows fastest at a scaling startup. It requires a lot of ... |
24.10.2022 | YC Founder Firesides: Mutiny on AI and the next era of compa... | Mutiny (YC S18) uses AI and data to convert website visitors into customers. Today, the fastest grow... |
17.10.2022 | Learnings of a CEO: Matt Schulman, Pave, on Hiring | Welcome to the third edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here.
Pave helps... |
14.10.2022 | YC ClimateTech Co-Founder Meetup | We’re excited to announce the first YC ClimateTech Co-Founder Meetup! It will take place at 11am PT ... |
06.10.2022 | Exclusive access to software deals for employees at YC compa... | We are thrilled to announce that employees at YC companies can now leverage one of the major benefit... |
29.09.2022 | Women Engineers in Startups: Tess's Story | Last year we launched the first *Women Engineers in Startups series, and our goal was to encourage m... |
29.09.2022 | First Five Launches with Whatnot | Today Whatnot (W20) is a lively platform where collectors can buy, sell, go live, and geek out with ... |
14.09.2022 | YC’s 1st Health and Bio Summit | We’re excited to announce the first YC Health and Bio Summit that will take place in San Francisco o... |
07.09.2022 | Meet the YC Summer 2022 Batch | For the first time since the Winter 2020 batch, the Summer 2022 batch was in person. The batch kicke... |
02.09.2022 | YC Jobs Series: Women Engineers in Startups | This fall, we are hosting our second annual Women Engineers in Startups program. The program brings ... |
29.08.2022 | Welcome Home, Garry Tan | Dear YC Community,
Today we announced that I am stepping down from my role as YC’s President and CE... |
23.08.2022 | Y Combinator Top Companies - August 2022 | Today we’re excited to release an update to the YC Top Companies list.
The list includes private an... |
16.08.2022 | First Five Hires with PostHog | PostHog (YC W20) is a suite of open source product analytic tools that companies can host themselves... |
15.08.2022 | YC Founder Firesides: Gusto on building for new verticals | Gusto (YC W12) provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team. Today, more t... |
09.08.2022 | Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier | Welcome to the second edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read the first edition here.
Zapier wa... |
03.08.2022 | New: Filter by equity – at the best YC startups | YC's job board now lets job seekers filter by equity offered on the job description. Over 380 startu... |
26.07.2022 | YC S22 Virtual Demo Day | On the morning of September 7th and September 8th, 2022, YC will host our 35th Demo Day live on Zoom... |
20.07.2022 | Learnings of a CEO: Max Rhodes, Faire | Every year, 200 YC companies go through our post-accelerator programs. These programs provide founde... |
13.07.2022 | New YC video series: First Five | We launched a new video series called the First Five, where growth stage companies look back on thei... |
12.07.2022 | 6 founding engineer roles at W22 YC startups | The YC job board has always been the best way to find early roles at funded and vetted YC startups. ... |
07.07.2022 | Same, Same but Different with Vanta and Zapier | Both Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo and Zapier CEO Wade Foster made the decision to take a disciplined... |
30.06.2022 | Get one-on-one career advice from YC, starting with Anu Hari... | Women have historically been underrepresented in tech, especially in technical roles like engineerin... |
29.06.2022 | Launch YC: The Launchpad for YC Startups | Today we launched a new way to discover recently-backed YC startups and product updates from YC alum... |
27.06.2022 | New YC audio series: Same, Same but Different | We’re launching a new audio series on Twitter Spaces called Same, Same but Different. Each episode b... |
08.06.2022 | YC is back in person | In this video, Dalton and I announce the S22 batch will be in person, talk about trends among the mo... |
17.05.2022 | Announcing Startup School 2022 | Today, we’re opening up registration for Startup School 2022, a live, online course where YC Group P... |
11.05.2022 | Welcome S22 Visiting Group Partners | Every batch, we invite founders and executives to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. Th... |
04.05.2022 | Y Combinator’s (Virtual) Summer Career Expo - June 8th | Y Combinator is hosting our Summer Career Expo online on Wednesday, June 8th, 4 pm PT. This is our w... |
21.04.2022 | YC Founder Firesides: Brex on spend and speed as a strategy | Brex went through YC in Winter 2017, and now serves over 50,000 companies, and 40% of US startups.
... |
20.04.2022 | Meet top founders at YC Tech Talks: Healthcare | Everyday life has changed drastically over the past couple of years with COVID-19. We see that found... |
19.04.2022 | Tim Brady is leaving YC | Tim Brady and I go back a long way. Tim was already at Yahoo! when my company was acquired in 1997. ... |
29.03.2022 | Meet the YC Winter 2022 Batch | For the Winter 2022 batch, we received 17,000 applications from founders around the world and funded... |
09.03.2022 | Join the YC Internship Program - Summer 2022 | There’s no better way to learn about startups than joining one yourself! At a startup, you’ll jump i... |
09.03.2022 | Congrats to Rigetti Computing (YC S14) on going public! | When you take a classical computer and break it down to its most fundamental components, it’s actual... |
08.03.2022 | More Ways to Support Ukraine | We have watched with the rest of the world in horror as the free and democratic country of Ukraine w... |
28.02.2022 | Y Combinator Top Companies - February 2022 | We’re excited to share the 2022 YC Top Companies. In addition to the list of top companies, we also ... |
11.02.2022 | YC W22 Virtual Demo Day | On the morning of March 29th and 30th, 2022, YC will host our 34th Demo Day live on Zoom. This two d... |
01.02.2022 | Discover Black-founded companies | Today, we updated the YC directory dedicated to highlighting Black-founded companies. The directory ... |
28.01.2022 | YC’s Spring Tour 2022 | We are excited to announce our 2022 Spring Outreach Tour. Our goal is to virtually meet founders and... |
28.01.2022 | YC's Spring Tour 2022 | We are excited to announce our 2022 Spring Outreach Tour. Our goal is to virtually meet founders and... |
26.01.2022 | YC @ HBCUs | We’re excited to announce that on February 9, we will be hosting an event for Historically Black Col... |
20.01.2022 | What startup hiring looks like in 2021 — and during a pandem... | When we first created Work at a Startup in 2018, our goal was to eliminate friction in finding a job... |
19.01.2022 | 2021 — YC Year in Review | In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. When a founder is accepted into YC, we modify t... |
19.01.2022 | Black Engineers in Startups Seminar | In February, Michael Seibel (Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner at YC) and Aston Motes... |
18.01.2022 | Startups For Students Guide | In the past two years, we’ve met over 6,000 students during our virtual outreach tours. We compiled ... |
18.01.2022 | YC @ HBCUs | We’re excited to announce that on February 9, we will be hosting an event for Historically Black Col... |
17.01.2022 | What startup hiring looks like in 2021 — and during a pandem... | When we first created Work at a Startup in 2018, our goal was to eliminate friction in finding a job... |
12.01.2022 | Now Accepting Applications for YC Summer 2022 | The Winter 2022 batch is underway, and we’re excited to announce that we’re now accepting applicatio... |
12.01.2022 | Black Engineers in Startups Seminar | In February, Michael Seibel (Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner at YC) and Aston Motes... |
11.01.2022 | YC’s $500,000 Standard Deal | We have a new standard deal at Y Combinator. When a company is accepted into the YC batch program, w... |
11.01.2022 | Now Accepting Applications for YC Summer 2022 | The Winter 2022 batch is underway, and we’re excited to announce that we’re now accepting applicatio... |
10.01.2022 | YC’s $500,000 Standard Deal | We have a new standard deal at Y Combinator. When a company is accepted into the YC batch program, w... |