Y Combinator Blog
Pioneering startup funding, Y Combinator invests in numerous startups bi-annually, molding the future's tech landscape.
April 1, 2025 16:00:00
We’re thrilled to welcome Tyler Bosmeny back to YC, this time as a General Partner.
March 20, 2025 00:00:00
If you’ve been around YC, you know Michael Seibel has been a huge part of it for over a decade. He’s done it all - YC Founder (w07, w12), Group Partner, and Managing Director/CEO of the YC accelerator. Along the way, he’s helped
March 13, 2025 21:26:20
YC is going on a college tour! We're visiting Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, Cornell, and Cornell Tech.
If you're a current student at any of those schools and interested in startups, we'd love to meet you.
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.