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 ...

Y Combinator has announced Launch YC, a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. The famed accelerator, which has seeded the ...

Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed. By raising its so-called “standard ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Y Combinator has hired its first black partner to aid in the drive to recruit more minority entrepreneurs. Prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Seibel is joining as a ...

Surbhi Sarna sold nVision Medical for $275 million. Now she’s Y Combinator’s first group partner in bio. Inspired by the pandemic and recent portfolio successes including several public companies and ...

If you are looking to raise a series A, then you’re in luck because Y Combinator has published a comprehensive guide to help founders better understand this type of financing and close a round. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Makinde Adeagbo has left his engineering job at Pinterest to work full-time on /dev/color, the nonprofit support network for black software engineers that he founded. Adeagbo's ...

In an inevitable development in the never-ending Epic vs Apple debacle, Y Combinator has weighed in to say the App Store costs startups too much money. This ongoing legal saga concerning Apple's App ...

Navigating a career in Silicon Valley can be hard without the right connections and advice. For women, often outnumbered in tech workplaces, it can be even harder. There aren’t as many other women to ...

Oriana Papin-Zoghbi is the CEO and cofounder of AOA Dx, a biotech startup that focuses on early-stage ovarian cancer detection. This summer she found that she would be giving birth six weeks before ...

The accelerator Y Combinator announced a new "standard deal" for startups that join its program. Startups are now set to get a $500,000 investment, up from $125,000, with some big caveats. Some ...

Investing in Y Combinator startups can lead to significant returns to investors. “If you look at the data: 6% of YC companies become unicorns, and of that 6% a quarter become decacorns,” Kulveer ...