Y Combinator Blog
Pioneering startup funding, Y Combinator invests in numerous startups bi-annually, molding the future's tech landscape.
February 17, 2025 16:58:00
This summer, YC will be giving grants to college students to work on their own technical projects. We’re calling these the Summer Fellows Grants.
We hope this will encourage the smartest students to indulge their intellectual curiosity and work on hard technical things.
February 12, 2025 20:45:26
We're gathering 2,000 of the top CS undergrads, masters, and PhD candidates in AI to hear from speakers including Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng, and many more — the world’s top AI experts and founders who will teach you how to build the future.
January 20, 2025 17:01:38
Y Combinator is now running four batches per year: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. We completed the first ever fall batch last year, F24, and are proud to announce the first ever spring batch. Applications are now open.
November 5, 2024 17:00:00
To better serve founders given the rapid rate of technological change, YC recently switched from two to four batches per year.
The winter 2025 batch will run from January to March, and applications are due on November 12.
October 4, 2024 02:49:44
YC is at our best when backing founders with an ethos of building for others, including strong open source developers like the founders of Continue and many others.
Earlier this week, a startup in the current batch, PearAI, was criticized online for an inappropriate approach to open source, particularly in
October 3, 2024 18:30:00
Applications for Startup School Europe are now open!
August 6, 2024 19:00:15
In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.
July 8, 2024 16:00:00
Applications for Startup School 2024 are now open!
June 18, 2024 15:59:00
We’re bringing the Female Founders Conference back in-person, and we’ll be hosting it on August 2 at our office in the Dogpatch in San Francisco.
June 12, 2024 18:00:00
In 2018, Tracy Young and her co-founders sold PlanGrid for $875 million. By 2021, she was ready to jump back in and do it all over again with a brand new startup. I chatted with Tracy about what drives her and some of what she's learned along the way.
June 5, 2024 15:00:00
If you were interested in applying for S24 but thought it was too late, it’s not. If you apply by June 13, we’ll still have time to look at your application.
June 4, 2024 18:57:49
After working with hundreds of teams to make better products with LLMs, Humanloop CEO Raza Habib shares some of the most common mistakes he's seen.
June 3, 2024 17:00:00
A few weeks ago, I went to DC to start engaging policymakers and be the voice of little tech. Here's why.
May 30, 2024 20:00:58
If you build something because you need it, chances are good others need it too. In this interview, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting shares how solving his own frustrations led to building a tool that helps power over 30,000 apps.
May 24, 2024 17:49:00
When a major new technology comes out, huge new opportunities open up for founders that get in on the ground floor. In this episode of Dalton and Michael, we’ll talk about why this is that moment for AI and who will find those opportunities.