Years ago, Y Combinator helped popularize the convertible note as a way for startups that go through its accelerator to easily raise seed money. That gave companies the flexibility to get cash quickly ...

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Calif., April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- 10x Science, which builds frontier AI for molecular-level protein characterization across the life sciences, today announced the closing ...

Tech accelerator Y Combinator has given birth to so many of the country’s most successful startups---reddit, Dropbox, and Airbnb, to name a few---that it’s sometimes tough to remember that Y ...

This week, a couple of hundred venture capitalists descended on the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, for Y Combinator's twice-annual Demo Day. The event showcases graduates of the ...

Up until this point, Harari had felt apprehensive. Cleanly is one of 114 startups working in the current class. While just getting into YC had been an accomplishment, at present, only one of every 100 ...

At the demo day for Y Combinator’s summer batch of startups, most of the companies are, unsurprisingly, focused on digital tech–like Bot M.D., an AI assistant for doctors working in developing ...

Y Combinator assigns a group partner or visiting group partner to founders in its cohorts. YC group partners are expert advisors from many fields like biotech, fintech, and data analytics. Here are 19 ...

In the latest sign of digital currencies going mainstream, Silicon Valley’s most prominent startup incubator will allow its spring cohort of entrepreneurs to receive their funding in stablecoins. Y ...

bnb were broke and selling cereal online to support themselves as they watched their credit-card bills pile up. They made one final pitch for their fledgling company — a website where travelers could ...

For over a year, Andreessen Horowitz has quietly piloted its own take on an accelerator for early-stage entrepreneurs, and today, the firm announced the program’s official debut. In exchange for an ...