| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.11.2023 | FTC Chair Lina Khan on AI regulation, startup acquisitions, and more | As we've said before: you may not be interested in government, but the government is absolutely interested in you. For anyone working in startups and tech, this only gets more true by the day.
FTC Chair Lina Khan went on a whirlwind tour o... |
| 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 short end of the stick when starting a company.
In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we’ll discuss the questions and best practices that an... |
| 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, buy something, or even just care to learn more is a whole different challenge — and it’s one where good design is crucial.
For this episode ... |
| 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 on vs. time to double down?
It’s an especially pertinent question today; the late stage funding market is… slow and the IPO window is still ... |
| 11.10.2023 | YC’s Health & Bio Summit is coming to SF in December — apply now to attend | The last two batches at YC were some of the absolute strongest we've ever seen, in large part because of the healthcare and bio founders we had the privilege of working with.
YC has now funded over 500 bio and healthcare companies, and the... |
| 06.10.2023 | Office Hours: YC’s Group Partners share advice on actually getting things done | Founders are inherently busy people. A lot goes into making something people want.
For this episode of Office Hours, YC's Group Partners are talking about productivity — what works for the founders they help, and, perhaps more importantly,... |
| 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 stronger.
At the helm of YC are the Group Partners, a set of talented, optimistic, and deeply-experienced individuals — all of whom know w... |
| 29.09.2023 | ‘Backstory’ introduces you to YC’s Group Partners, starting with the unbeatable Surbhi Sarna | When Surbhi Sarna was just thirteen, a sudden and excruciating pain in her side changed her life. The pain led to weeks of testing and flimsy diagnoses that would ultimately boil down to “Ovarian cancer, maybe?”
At this already pivotal tim... |
| 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? How seriously should you take advice from famously successful people?
It’s hard not to give advice when you’re successful, but context matt... |
| 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 a room full of investors on what we’d been working so hard to build.
Fifteen years later, I’m here as YC’s president kicking off our 37th ... |
| 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 much. It should work well wherever your users really are — whether that’s lounging on the couch, or jostling down the tracks on a crowded trai... |
| 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.
Almost all of those companies raised their first rounds from investors that saw them debut at YC Demo Day. YC is undeniably an integral p... |
| 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, essays, and more that Y Combinator creates for startup founders.
It’s an easy way to keep up with our growing lineup of new video series — fr... |
| 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 interested.
Before any of us were Group Partners at YC, we were founders. We know how it feels to be in the hot seat when you’re raising money... |
| 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 of chance encounters that brought co-founders together. The happiness of landing the first customer; the sadness of realizing one idea migh... |
| 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! If you’re starting a company, does it need to be in San Francisco?
One rare aspect of this episode: it’s one where Michael and I disagree.... |
| 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 app for meeting new people over dinner. Instagram was a Foursquare competitor. Slack was a game. YouTube wanted to be a dating site.
It turn... |
| 13.07.2023 | Dalton & Michael on what AI means for the future of startups | AI and LLMs. Will the ever-evolving models grow to consume the idea of startups as we know it, or is this the beginning of a whole new era for startups — akin to the arrival of the iPhone?
On the latest episode of Dalton & Michael, YC ... |
| 06.07.2023 | The 3 newest companies on YC’s Top Revenue List and what they’re doing so right | Last week we published the first-ever list of Top YC Companies by Revenue, highlighting the 50 YC companies that achieved the highest net revenue in 2022.
Much of that list is made up of companies that have been up and running for a decade... |
| 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, you make what you measure. And in today's uncertain economic climate, when prudence around fundraising and valuations make sense, it’s espec... |
| 15.06.2023 | Design Review: Aaron Epstein and Garry Tan critique AI startup websites | What are you aiming to say with your startup’s website, and what’s actually coming through?
In this episode of Design Review, YC Group Partner Aaron Epstein is joined by YC President and CEO Garry Tan to take a closer look at what’s workin... |
| 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 good one? Do you need a co-founder? How do you get your first customers? How much should you charge? How (and when) do you launch?
All of thes... |
| 24.05.2023 | Tom Blomfield of GoCardless and Monzo is our newest Group Partner | To help you make a startup that matters, it helps to have people who have been in the idea maze — trying to get product-market fit, finding it, and holding on to it – to get you through that maze yourself. If you’ve been in there at all, yo... |
| 16.05.2023 | PlanGrid and TigerEye Co-Founder Tracy Young on immigration, representation, and “the most important decision” in her life | Where does your story begin? In Your Life: The Movie, what’s the opening scene?
For Tracy Young, it might start years before she co-founded PlanGrid — a company she’d later sell for $875 million. It might start years before she was born, e... |
| 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 bring valuable insights and recent operational experience to YC’s early-stage companies. Throughout the batch, they take on a variety of respo... |
| 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 help co-founders find each other. Even in early conversations, their fit as co-founders was clear to each of them. With both eager to build, ... |
| 27.04.2023 | 10 Questions to Discuss with a Potential Co-founder
Checklist of things to do when bringing on a co-founder | Y Combinator runs a website where we help people find potential co-founders.
While running that, we’ve had a lot of people ask for a set of questions to help figure out whether they’re a good match with a potential co-founder.
We’ve compi... |
| 12.04.2023 | Announcing the YC Summer Conference – for students interested in startups | On Saturday, June 17, 2023, we’re running our first YC Summer Conference, a one-day event in Mountain View, CA for undergraduate and graduate students interested in startups. If you've thought about starting a startup someday, this event is... |
| 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 funded 282. Smart founders know now is a great time to start a startup.
Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only... |
| 22.03.2023 | Building APIs for AI: An Interview with Zapier’s Bryan Helmig | Nearly ten years ago I wrote about the API-ization of everything. It seemed obvious then that software that talks to other software would be critical for building world-changing startups. What was less obvious then and more obvious now, is ... |
| 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 who are interested in the growing trend of Open Source Software startups. We've funded over 75 OSS companies to date and we’re especially ex... |
| 13.03.2023 | Changes at YC | YC is known primarily as a place where very early founders create something from nothing by simply applying online and joining the world’s best founder community. When they do, a shocking percentage of them will go on to make a startup wort... |
| 11.03.2023 | Urgent: Sign the petition now | Over 5,000 CEOs and founders representing over 400,000 employees have signed this petition: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0_0JOGdaXSDs-WaAXzzEy_tR7akOF7GBTfTb-r-Me0trNPQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
To the Honorable Secretary Janet Ye... |
| 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.
Without a Doubt tells the incredible story of Surbhi Sarna's company, nVision Medical, which started with a health scare when she was 13 an... |
| 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 Combinator's San Francisco office. This will be the first in-person hiring event we're hosting at YC in over two years, and we have 9 YC-backed sta... |
| 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 top private, public, and exited. Private companies and exits are sorted by the company's valuation from their latest funding round, and all a... |
| 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 joining a startup in this economy? We’re obviously biased, but we think it’s a great time to join a startup too. Here are three reasons to consi... |
| 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: There is less money in the system so selling and fundraising are harder; investors have less money to invest and companies have less money ... |
| 31.01.2023 | YC Career Coaching | Today, YC is launching Career Coaching for job seekers actively looking to work at a startup. At Work at a Startup, where job seekers create a single profile to apply to hundreds of top YC startups, we’ve been offering 1-1 career support fo... |
| 30.01.2023 | Learnings of a CEO: Snapdocs’ Aaron King on navigating market cycles | Welcome to the fourth edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here.
Snapdocs is the leading digital closing platform for the mortgage industry. Today, the company touches 25% of all US real estate transactions and is ... |
| 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'm excited to share that her book Without a Doubt drops on March 7 — and to celebrate, she's hosting a series of online founder firesides.
S... |
| 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 from all different backgrounds – each with a unique journey to entrepreneurship. Today, we are releasing a public YC Founder Directory, a compa... |
| 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 with inflation, and a war broke out in Europe. Here at YC we took things in stride and recruited our summer and winter batches as always. We... |
| 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.
These startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere. By doing this at speed and scale, we... |
| 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 looking for a job in tech, we want to help you.
To help you narrow down your search, here is a list of 75 Y Combinator companies hiring now... |
| 09.12.2022 | YC Generative AI Co-Founder Meetup | Attention aspiring entrepreneurs! Are you passionate about using generative AI to create innovative products and services? Do you have a great idea that you're looking to bring to life, but you're still missing the perfect co-founder to mak... |
| 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 investor, industry leader, or are interested in starting a bio or healthcare company, we’d love to see you there.
YC at JPM
January 10 from 2:30 ... |
| 02.11.2022 | Welcome Diana, Dave, Edrizio, and Umur | Every batch, we invite founders and executives to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. These advisors bring valuable insights and recent operational experience to YC’s early-stage companies. Throughout the batch, they take on a v... |
| 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 attention to make sure the pace of execution does not slow and cultural issues do not emerge as you scale.
We’ve learned a lot about pace o... |
| 24.10.2022 | YC Founder Firesides: Mutiny on AI and the next era of company growth | Mutiny (YC S18) uses AI and data to convert website visitors into customers. Today, the fastest growing B2B companies such as Notion and Snowflake use Mutiny to identify ideal customers, determine sections of websites that will increase con... |
| 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 companies plan, communicate, and benchmark employee compensation. Today, the company has 160 employees, more than 3,500 customers, and is v... |
| 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 on Saturday, October 29, 2022. This event is for anyone interested in meeting a potential co-founder in the ClimateTech space. Register to A... |
| 06.10.2022 | Exclusive access to software deals for employees at YC companies | We are thrilled to announce that employees at YC companies can now leverage one of the major benefits previously only available to YC founders – YC Deals. Through YC Deals, employees have access to more than 100 discounts and exclusive offe... |
| 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 other like-minded people across a wide variety of product categories. But, like every startup, the founders of Whatnot began with only an id... |
| 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 more women to consider working at high-growth startups.
Why?
At YC, most of us have worked at or started startups, and they’ve changed our ... |
| 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 on October 21, 2022.
The half day conference will feature bio and healthcare founders and investors who will tell their stories and share ad... |
| 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 kicked off with an in-person retreat followed by weekly meetups in San Francisco and around the world. And soon after Demo Day, we’re hosting an ... |
| 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 together a cohort of women engineers who are interested in finding roles at fast growing startups.
YC will host a 3-week-long series where ... |
| 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 CEO at the end of this year. I am leaving YC, but I’m not actually the retiring type and am looking forward to some to-be-discovered adventure... |
| 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 and acquired companies valued at $150M or more as of July 31, 2022, and is sorted by valuation (YC’s public companies are featured here).
We’... |
| 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. YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with the co-founder and CEO of PostHog James Hawkins to discuss hiring their first five employees:
A full-stac... |
| 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 than 200,000 businesses use Gusto for payroll, employee benefits, talent management, and more. And with the recent addition of Gusto Embedded... |
| 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 was founded in 2012 by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig, and Mike Knoop. The founders went through YC’s Summer 2012 batch and S18 Growth Program, and... |
| 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 startups have posted roles with equity, with some early engineering roles offering 2%.
At YC, we tell our founders to be generous with equity, an... |
| 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. This two day event will feature founders from 30 countries and startups in every sector — open source, ML/AI, dev tools, fintech, B2B SaaS... |
| 20.07.2022 | Learnings of a CEO: Max Rhodes, Faire | Every year, 200 YC companies go through our post-accelerator programs. These programs provide founders with the resources they need to build a company all the way through IPO. One area covered extensively is how to scale as a CEO of a growt... |
| 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 their first five hires, customers, and launches.
Learn how successful founders determined when and who to hire, found and onboarded their first... |
| 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. This is especially true after a startup graduates from YC, raises an early round and starts to hire their founding team.
Below are a few of... |
| 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 approach to fundraising. They flipped the equation of a typical startup founder: instead of raising money to enable a certain amount of gro... |
| 30.06.2022 | Get one-on-one career advice from YC, starting with Anu Hariharan (Managing Director) | Women have historically been underrepresented in tech, especially in technical roles like engineering and product. YC has run events to educate and support women in tech, and now we’re doubling down to offer tailored advice that’s specific ... |
| 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 — Launch YC. A version of Launch YC has existed for years on Bookface, our internal platform for YC founders. But now, we’re bringing “Laun... |
| 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 brings together two YC founders who will discuss a similar decision they made on their journey to building a growth-stage company. But like e... |
| 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 most recent YC applicants, where founders are moving, the economic downturn, and the impact of the new standard deal. |
| 17.05.2022 | Announcing Startup School 2022 | Today, we’re opening up registration for Startup School 2022, a live, online course where YC Group Partners and successful YC founders teach you how to build a billion dollar company. It will be the first Startup School course to feature in... |
| 11.05.2022 | Welcome S22 Visiting Group Partners | Every batch, we invite founders and executives to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. These advisors bring valuable insights and recent operational experience to YC’s early-stage companies. Throughout the batch, they take on a v... |
| 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 way to introduce engineers, PMs, and designers to the latest batch of YC startups (W22) that are looking to hire. Meet the Startups
We’ve ve... |
| 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.
Last week they announced the launch of Brex Empower, a software platform that helps scaling companies manage their spend and stay financiall... |
| 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 founders and startup employees are as committed as ever to using technology to solve problems with tangible impact.
Healthcare is a space full o... |
| 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. Of course, Tim was there. In fact, he was Yahoo!’s first employee and ran a group called “production” until he eventually became Chief Produ... |
| 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 414. Even more significant than the number of applications is the caliber of teams that applied. Today, these founders will present their c... |
| 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 into real projects and work with founders to solve mission-critical problems.
YC startups are actively looking for summer interns across eng... |
| 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 actually rather simple. It is a whole lot of switches (transistors built into the fabric of a semiconductor) organized to execute boolean algebrai... |
| 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 was invaded by Russia. YC has funded many founders from Ukraine and we want to send our support to all of them and, indeed, to all the people... |
| 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 launched the YC Breakthrough Companies list to highlight the fast-growing companies that have received between $15M-$300M from YC.
Both lis... |
| 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 day event will feature founders from 43 countries and startups in every sector —fintech, B2B SaaS, Web3, consumer, healthcare, hard tech, and... |
| 01.02.2022 | Discover Black-founded companies | Today, we updated the YC directory dedicated to highlighting Black-founded companies. The directory now includes more than 175 companies, and combined, these companies are valued at $6.7B and have raised $1.4B in funding — an increase of $1... |
| 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 future founders from cities and universities around the world. At each location, we will host talks with YC group partners and YC alumni, w... |
| 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 future founders from cities and universities around the world. At each location, we will host talks with YC group partners and YC alumni, w... |
| 26.01.2022 | YC @ HBCUs | We’re excited to announce that on February 9, we will be hosting an event for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). If you’re interested in starting or working at a startup, we hope to meet you there.
At this event, you’ll ... |
| 20.01.2022 | What startup hiring looks like in 2021 — and during a pandemic | When we first created Work at a Startup in 2018, our goal was to eliminate friction in finding a job at a startup. Our initial thesis was to build a common application to apply to many YC companies at once. It quickly became the most effici... |
| 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 the startup’s DNA, edit it, to include key alleles that make success more likely. In the end, however, the secret to success of any startup l... |
| 19.01.2022 | Black Engineers in Startups Seminar | In February, Michael Seibel (Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner at YC) and Aston Motes (Investor, Director of /dev/color and first employee at Dropbox) are bringing together a cohort of black engineers who are interested in le... |
| 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 a list of the questions they most frequently asked about startups, and created this Startups for Students Guide.
The guide is informed by h... |
| 18.01.2022 | YC @ HBCUs | We’re excited to announce that on February 9, we will be hosting an event for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). If you’re interested in starting or working at a startup, we hope to meet you there.
At this event, you’ll ... |
| 17.01.2022 | What startup hiring looks like in 2021 — and during a pandemic | When we first created Work at a Startup in 2018, our goal was to eliminate friction in finding a job at a startup. Our initial thesis was to build a common application to apply to many YC companies at once. It quickly became the most effici... |
| 12.01.2022 | Black Engineers in Startups Seminar | In February, Michael Seibel (Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner at YC) and Aston Motes (Investor, Director of /dev/color and first employee at Dropbox) are bringing together a cohort of black engineers who are interested in le... |
| 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 applications for Summer 2022. The summer batch will be remote with some optional in-person components depending on the pandemic. We will invest a tota... |
| 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, we now invest a total of $500,000. We still invest $125,000 for 7% and now also invest an additional $375,000 on an uncapped safe with an MFN... |
| 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 applications for Summer 2022. The summer batch will be remote with some optional in-person components depending on the pandemic. We will invest a tota... |
| 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, we now invest a total of $500,000. We still invest $125,000 for 7% and now also invest an additional $375,000 on an uncapped safe with an MFN... |
