In Y Combinator's "Startup School," partner Diana Hu advocated for startups to begin tokenmaxxing. "Maximizing token usage, not head count, will be the critical shift," Hu said. Tokens measure ...

Global startup accelerator Y Combinator, which has previously found success backing Indian founders focused on the domestic market, is now shifting gears to support startups with global ambitions in ...

Every few months, a new group of startups arrives in San Francisco to go through the intensive accelerator program run by Y Combinator. Each company receives $500,000 in funding and spends three ...

Startup incubator Y Combinator said it will once again invest in Canada-incorporated companies, reversing course after Canadian entrepreneurs complained about its decision to spurn the country’s firms ...

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, Silicon Valley has been consumed by the rush to build billion-dollar AI startups. Nowhere is that more true than at Y Combinator, the blue-chip startup ...

A massive phishing campaign targeted GitHub users with cryptocurrency drainers, delivered via fake invitations to the Y Combinator (YC) W2026 program. Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that funds ...

Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley startup incubator behind Airbnb, Coinbase and Stripe, is collaborating with Base and Coinbase Ventures to create the next wave of so-called “Fintech 3.0” companies, ...

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 ...

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Big quote: The recently coined buzzword "vibe coding" is transforming the startup landscape, allowing companies to hit remarkable revenue targets with teams so small they're rewriting the rules of ...

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," ...

Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster. By Michael S ...