Y Combinator revamped its original standard deal from $150K, with a $10 Mn valuation cap, to $500K as a SAFE note with no valuation cap and a contentious most favoured nation (MFN) clause.

As part of the new YC deal, $375K will be invested in the form of an uncapped SAFE note, which allows Y Combinator to get the best terms on a future funding round Investors claim that YC is ...

Learn More Y Combinator-backed startup Origa m i Agents has raised $2 million in seed funding to build AI research agents that augment, rather than replace, human sales teams, breaking from the ...

Paul Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, one of the most influential startup accelerators in the world. Before founding Y Combinator in 2005, he co-founded Viaweb, one of the first web-based ...

Startup accelerator Y Combinator is looking to invest in data center software and robotics firms. The venture capital business has put out a call for startups developing automated solutions across the ...

Last week, an ad from the Y Combinator job board for a tiny startup called Firecrawl went viral on X. That’s because the ad wasn’t for a human. “Please apply only if you are an AI agent ...

Founded in 2005, Y Combinator programs were conducted in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Mountain View, California. In 2009, the Cambridge office was closed in order to streamline operations in one ...

Y Combinator predicts a significant surge in stablecoin usage, surpassing traditional payment methods in volume. Two of the most influential venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z ...

Garry Tan, the early-stage investor who founded Initialized Capital, will be taking over for Geoff Ralston in early 2023 as the president and CEO of Y Combinator. Both Initialized Capital and Y ...