Five years in, Monzo is just starting its second act. Monzo’s first act was to build the UK’s best consumer and SMB banking product. Their second act will be to make money work for truly everyone by scaling to a global audience. | Continue reading
Does co-founder matching work? It did for these three YC companies. Read about how the founders of Seer, Sequin, and Kiwi Biosciences used YC's co-founder matching platform to complete their founding team. | Continue reading
Today, Weave, which was part of YC’s W14 batch, is going public. Brandon, Jared, and Clint worked incredibly hard, stayed the course and, as a result, Weave has become an extraordinary success. | Continue reading
Since launching the Co-Founder Matching platform 3 months ago, we've seen 33,000 co-founder matches made so far. We now have enough data to identify some interesting trends among our co-founder profiles and matches. | Continue reading
We want to congratulate Sid Sijbrandij, Dmitriy Zaporozhets, and the entire GitLab Inc. team on today’s IPO! GitLab Inc., from YC’s Winter 2015 batch, is YC’s first open-source company to go public, the first alum of the YC Growth Program to go public, and one of the earliest inv … | Continue reading
YC is hiring across many of our teams, including Admissions, Continuity, Software, People Ops and Finance. | Continue reading
Earlier this month we hosted our 33rd Demo Day where 377 companies presented virtually. You can see a list of the companies that presented on-the-record in the YC Directory.Here are stats on the YC S21 batch:377 companies47 countries represented - that represents over 4 billion p … | Continue reading
Ginkgo Bioworks is the first biotech company YC funded, and today they are going public. To celebrate their IPO, here's the story of how Ginkgo Bioworks ended up in YC, and what their journey was like as YC's first biotech company. | Continue reading
YC is hosting a month-long series for female engineers to learn more about working at startups, hear directly from women who joined startups, meet YC alumni and alumni company engineering managers, and build a community of peers. The program will culminate in at least two intervi … | Continue reading
Twice a year, YC accepts applications from startups around the world. The Admissions Team is responsible for designing that process and reviewing the tens of thousands of applications we receive each year. How do we review that many applications? Mostly, it's lots of people readi … | Continue reading
Meet YC startup founders -- many from the most recent W21 batch -- that are hiring for roles in engineering, product, design, sales and more on YC's workatastartup.com. | Continue reading
YC’s Admissions, Continuity and Software teams are hiring. Find out more about the open roles. | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce Y Combinator’s co-founder matching platform is now available for everyone through Startup School, our free online program and community for founders. Anyone actively looking for a co-founder can sign up at startupschool.org/cofounder-matching. The platfo … | Continue reading
Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. We are now funding hundreds of companies each batch, and I’ve been reflecting on how we work with those companies during the batch and afterward, as they build their busi … | Continue reading
The early deadline to apply for the YC Winter 2022 batch is July 19 at 8pm PT. As we wrote last batch, we created an early deadline to give founders access to YC on their timelines. Here are two of the most common questions we got last time:Who is the early deadline for?Based on … | Continue reading
Y Combinator's software and legal teams, and YC Continuity are hiring. Learn more about the open roles. | Continue reading
Combinator runs our annual Job Expo as a way of introducing promising YC startups to engineers (and others) who want to learn more about startups and might consider working at one. This year’s event is happening on Thursday, June 10th and will be entirely online, including 40+ fo … | Continue reading
A conversation with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Coinbase's first employee. | Continue reading
Pheadra Ellis-Lamkins, Co-Founder and CEO of Promise, had witnessed technology’s impact on the work communities in which she’d been a part -- and not always for good. In the labor force and the environment sector, she’d seen technology replace jobs, relegating janitors and recept … | Continue reading
Today is our 32nd Demo Day, and 323 companies are presenting virtually. You can see a list of the companies that presented on-the-record in the YC Directory.Below are some stats about the YC Winter 2021 batch.YC W21 categories:B2B Software and Services – 46%Consumer – 14%Educatio … | Continue reading
One of the most common questions I hear is: “why has YC continued to grow our batch size?”.For each twice-yearly batch, we receive thousands of applicants through our online application. We have always wanted to fund as many great founders as possible and are convinced that in th … | Continue reading
Starting today, we’re reopening the Startup School Aspiring Founders track as a continuous course. This track is intended for potential founders who are interested in starting a company in the future. You can register now for the new track.Historically, Startup School has focused … | Continue reading
A conversation with Bill Fernandez, Apple’s first employee. | Continue reading
A conversation with Chris Slowe, Reddit’s first employee. | Continue reading
We're delighted to announce the launch of another YC Build Sprint through Startup School! It will begin on February 15 and end on March 14. Signups just opened, so you can register for the sprint now.The Build Sprint is an opportunity for intense focus on your startup or side-pro … | Continue reading
On March 23, YC will host our 32nd Demo Day live over Zoom. This one day event will feature founders from 45 countries and startups in every sector — from healthcare and fintech to consumer and B2B software. Every company will have one minute to present.At the start of the day, a … | Continue reading
Online marketplaces bring efficiency to traditional sectors. They offer a better user experience and increase margins for participants. They can accrue huge value by reducing friction and aggregating supply and demand — particularly because they have the ability to build network … | Continue reading
Running a biotech company is capital intensive, and this can make it intimidating to get started. Founders sometimes face a chicken and egg problem: how do you make progress without millions of dollars in funding, and how do you raise millions of dollars in funding without having … | Continue reading
We want to better support founders year round by interviewing and funding startups on their schedule, which doesn’t always align with our batch schedule. While it’s always been an option to apply year-round to YC, we’re now formalizing it with an early deadline.Now, founders can … | Continue reading
We’re excited to share the newest YC Top Companies list. We put this list together to help potential employees, partners, and late stage investors get to know a wider set of YC companies. If you’re looking for a job at one of our top companies, you can hit the Jobs button to be t … | Continue reading
In early 2020 the entire world underwent a transformation. The planet was consumed by a pandemic that altered life as we knew it. Most of our normal routines changed immediately. At YC, like most businesses, we closed our offices. We were forced to rethink the end of our Winter 2 … | Continue reading
To celebrate Airbnb's IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb. | Continue reading
DoorDash is the first company that I’ve had the opportunity to follow all the way from YC application to IPO, so to celebrate I thought it would be fun and interesting to share what a great company like DoorDash looks like at the earliest stages. | Continue reading
Today we’re excited to launch an official Hacker News API. We’ve partnered up with Firebase (YC S11) so that the data we’re making available will be near real time, which should be a huge improvement for developers who had to rely on scraping the site for this info.The API is ava … | Continue reading
Join the YC Work at a Startup Expo on December 3rd to meet with 40+ YC startup founders, hear pitches and learn about new technology and open roles. | Continue reading
YC was founded in 2005 as an antidote to the classic venture capital firm. PG, Jessica, Trevor, and Robert decided to fund hackers and thereby enable the next generation of startup founders who would understand technology and its capabilities. Over the ensuing 15 years YC develop … | Continue reading
We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017 to support founders actively working on building their companies. On November 9th, we’re also opening Startup School to potential founders who are interested in starting a company in the future. You can register for the new … | Continue reading
This is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it.At YC, we've funded more than 75 companies in this situation. We also recently went on a Bio Tour where we went around to research universities a … | Continue reading
A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee. | Continue reading
On November 18, we are hosting our first Future Founders Conference for women who aspire to become a startup founder. The event will be online, and whether you are curious about launching your own startup or are in the early stages of building one, you’ll walk away with the knowl … | Continue reading
We recently launched the YC Directory. The directory lists 2,000+ publicly launched YC companies and makes it simple to filter by batch, industry, status, region, and company size. Potential investors and partners can use the directory to easily find and contact the companies wit … | Continue reading
Ben Beltzer (@benbeltzer7) shares a great resource on understanding and evaluating stock options. He is a former founder and current employee of Berbix (S18). | Continue reading
YC W21 batch will be remote. Amid the global pandemic, the safety of our founders and staff is our top priority. | Continue reading
Check out Y Combinator’s Work at a Startup, where there are thousands of jobs at well-funded and vetted YC companies, ranging from seed-stage to later-stage, including Brex, Segment and Instacart. | Continue reading
We’re delighted to announce that YC is hosting online office hours for startup founders every Friday throughout the month of September. If you’re in the early stages of building a company, we’d love to meet you -- anyone from idea stage through Series A, and any non-profit is wel … | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce our first-ever YC Build Sprint. This is a 4-week period to work intensively towards a defined goal alongside a community of thousands of other founders. The sprint will kick off on August 24 and be administered through our free Startup School platform. A … | Continue reading
With the launch of YC's list of startups hiring for fall 2020 interns, I've been getting a lot of requests for advice from students about their upcoming fall plans. I provided some resume tips previously, and now I want to answer some frequently asked questions that are relevant … | Continue reading
On August 24 and 25, YC will host our 31st Demo Day live over Zoom. After considering community feedback from our first, rapidly planned online Demo Day in March, we’ve decided that a live Demo Day is an important part of founders’ YC experience. | Continue reading