Bay Area braces for ‘March for Billionaires’, which organizers promise is serious

A start-up founder is organizing a Saturday “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco in protest of a proposed one-time ...
9to5Mac

Y Combinator backs Epic in Apple appeal, calls App Store fee a ‘tax on innovation’

It’s been a busy news day for the Epic Games vs. Apple case. Startup accelerator Y Combinator filed an amicus brief today siding with Epic in the long-running antitrust case against Apple. Here are ...
MacRumors

Y Combinator Files Brief Supporting Epic Games, Says App Store Fees Stifle Startups

Startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator (YC) today filed an amicus brief supporting Epic Games in Epic's continued legal fight with Apple. Y Combinator says that Apple's ...
The Business Journals

Y Combinator wants more AI startups, but in these specific categories

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Y Combinator called 2025 the ...
The New York Times

Y Combinator

Investors are deciding within 15 minutes whether to shovel millions into A.I. start-ups and taking entrepreneurs weight lifting and rock climbing to get deals done. By Erin Griffith Some dropped out ...
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Document extraction startup Reducto raises $24.5 million in funding

Reducto, a Y Combinator backed startup that helps parse documents, has raised $24.5 million in a Series A funding on April 27. The startup makes use of a mix of traditional computer vision and new ...
TechCrunch

Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator

Michael Seibel announced late Wednesday on X that after more than 12 years at the famed accelerator Y Combinator, he is transitioning to a “partner emeritus” role. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan shared ...
CNBC

Y Combinator startups are fastest growing, most profitable in fund history because of AI

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by AI. "What that means for founders is that you don't need a team of 50 or 100 engineers," ...
Futurism

Y Combinator Pulls Support for AI Startup After Video of Boss Barking at Human Worker, Calling Him “Number 17”

Scientific Management, sometimes called “Taylorism” after its founder, Frederick W. Taylor, is the idea that human workers can be fine-tuned to be more efficient. If a garment factory worker could ...
Fast Company

What is Y Combinator now? Critics say the famed accelerator is having an identity crisis

In December, Y Combinator’s first-ever Fall batch got their own Demo Day. The Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator—which has produced big hits like Airbnb, Doordash, and Stripe—had doubled the ...
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Pulse plans to test and integrate Gemini 2.0 for document processing

Pulse cofounder Ritvik Pandey has stated his plans to integrate the Gemini 2.0 artificial intelligence model alongside other foundation models for document processing. He stated in a LinkedIn post ...