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Fundraising
Ali Rowghani, who started Y Combinator’s growth arm, is raising a $250M seed fund
October 2, 2024Rowghani joins a flurry of senior partners at established firms who have left to raise seed funds.Article
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Market Analysis
Predicting AI’s future from Y Combinator’s new cohort
September 25, 2024The accelerator is the most active investor in companies using LLMs for multi-step tasks that require reasoning.Article
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VC Valuations
Paul Graham is right: Startups in ‘founder mode’ do have a competitive edge
September 5, 2024PitchBook data shows that startups with active founder-CEOs create value faster than companies led by experienced professional managers.Article
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AI
Generative AI seed funding drops 76% as investors take wait-and-see approach
May 30, 2024Investment at the earliest stages in generative AI is slowing as investors begin to rethink their strategy, PitchBook data shows.Article
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Venture Capital
YC demo day onslaught points to generative AI’s sweep
September 6, 2023More than 60% of this year’s Y Combinator cohort companies are building tools around AI and machine learning.Article
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Unicorns
Y Combinator leads accelerators in unicorn-creation rate
June 12, 2023Y Combinator made its name by backing companies such as Airbnb and Reddit early on, and it has ridden that wave to become the accelerator of choice for founders.Article
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Startups
YC’s demo day and SXSW make plans to go online, testing the value of a handshake
March 5, 2020Y Combinator’s annual demo day will take place online and the City of Austin has canceled South by Southwest, as concerns over the spread of coronavirus upend two of Silicon Valley’s marquee events.Article
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Venture Capital
The new Y Combinator: $1B fund represents fresh investment thesis
July 20, 2017Y Combinator is in the process of raising up to $1 billion for its newest VC fund. The massive vehicle represents YC’s expanded investment thesis.Article
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Venture Capital
Magna cum laude: 6 notable Y Combinator alumni
March 28, 2016We highlight some of the notable companies and founders to graduate from the Y Combinator accelerator, including Airbnb, Instacart and Dropbox.Article
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Venture Capital
Top Investor Tuesday — Y Combinator co-investors
March 24, 2016Although accelerators can be a hot topic these days, with question as to how much value they really provide, there are a handful of programs that seem to consistently pump out quality companies. One is Y Combinator, and we’ve ranked its top co-investors since 2010.Article
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Venture Capital
The most active investors in Y Combinator, 500 Startups and Techstars companies
January 17, 2016With so many accelerators to choose from nowadays, it can be hard to narrow down the field of where to apply. We’ve attempted to help by breaking down which VC firms invest in the most popular accelerators.Article
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