Read the pitch deck a Y Combinator-backed startup used to raise $3.6 million to bring AI agents to the doctor's office

Tivara raised a $3.6 million seed round, backed by Mischief VC, Day One Ventures, and Y Combinator. The startup builds AI ...

Y Combinator-Backed Kontigo Suffers Second Cyberattack in Days, Pauses Platform Access

The startup Kontigo, backed by Y Combinator and which raised $22 million in 2025, was attacked again and has paused access to ...

Y Combinator veterans raise $15 million to build an AI money manager that thinks like a wealthy family office

Two Y Combinator veterans behind a nine-figure exit have now raised $15 million, led by YC CEO Garry Tan, to build an ...
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How Do Y Combinator Startups Get Such Incredible Valuations?

Seven years ago, Paul Graham and his now-wife Jessica Livingston founded a startup accelerator, Y Combinator. Since then, it has become the most competitive startup program in the world. It's ...
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Y Combinator startups are fastest growing, most profitable in fund history because of AI

Silicon Valley's earliest stage companies are getting a major boost from artificial intelligence. Startup accelerator Y Combinator -- known for backing Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe -- this week held its ...
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‘I have time on my hands’: Meet the 14-year-old founder building startups, applying to YC and bootstrapping everything

Alby Churven, a 14-year-old entrepreneur from Wollongong, Australia, has been building startups since the age of 12 and ...
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In 2024, many Y Combinator startups only want tiny seed rounds — but there’s a catch

When Bowery Capital general partner Loren Straub started talking to a startup from the latest Y Combinator accelerator batch a few months ago, she thought it was strange that the company didn't have a ...
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Y Combinator is looking for DOGE-related startups for its next cohort — and 5 other themes

Y Combinator is now accepting fall applications, with one theme focused on cutting government waste. "There is political pressure to cut wasteful consulting and spending," YC wrote on its website. YC ...