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 ...

Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator will expand the number of cohorts it runs each year from two to four starting in 2025, Bloomberg reported Thursday, and TechCrunch confirmed today. Y ...

London-based Artificial Societies, which was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch, has secured $5.35 million in seed funding. The startup, which launched in 2024, has developed a platform that ...

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has kicked up a storm on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, by alleging that a pitch he received via email was possibly written using OpenAI's ChatGPT. What ...

Y Combinator has opened applications for its fall cohort, and one of its startup themes focuses on cutting government waste. The theme — "Using LLMs Instead Of Government Consulting" — echoes the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in ...

Microsoft is enticing Y Combinator startups with more cloud credits that can be used to access technology needed to run artificial intelligence workloads. A Microsoft spokesperson said 58% of Y ...

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 ...

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," ...

Brazilian startup Salvy, a mobile carrier for businesses, was the only company based in Latin America in Y Combinator’s latest batch, the accelerator confirmed to TechCrunch. That’s a significant drop ...

Kristy Gao's work in San Francisco involves opening her laptop to a dashboard tracking thousands of medical referrals flowing through her startup's AI system. Just three years ago, she was writing ...