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David Sacks Urges Y Combinator To Open Austin Office, Predicts City To Replace Silicon Valley As Tech Capital

On Thursday, Sacks took to X to urge YC partner Garry Tan to reconsider the decision not to open a YC office in Austin. Sacks highlighted the rapid growth of the Austin startup scene and the potential ...
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There’s No Reason Not to Try It Yourself: Step-by-Step Scaffolding Tutorial

Watch Real Scaffold Work Done Solo — Skill, Efficiency, and Pure Determination. Step into a series of raw, unfiltered videos showing how I take on various scaffolding jobs completely on my own. From ...
Inc

How the AI Bubble Ate Y Combinator

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub notifications abused to impersonate Y Combinator for crypto theft

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 ...
CoinDesk

Y Combinator, Base and Coinbase Ventures Launch ‘Fintech 3.0’ as Finance Goes On-Chain

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, ...
AOL

This Y Combinator startup is using AI to simulate how people react to brands. See the pitch deck it used to raise $5.35 million.

Artificial Societies has secured $5.35 million, including a $3.35 million round led by Point72 Ventures. The startup creates AI personas for product testing and brand propositions. We got an exclusive ...
TechCrunch

Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth

Y Combinator has filed an amicus brief in the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games, arguing that the App Store has stifled startup innovation. We’ve reached out to legal reps for YC and ...
MacRumors

Y Combinator Files Brief Supporting Epic Games, Says App Store Fees Stifle Startups

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 ...
GeekWire

On a mission to ‘kill Google Chrome,’ UW students join Y Combinator to launch AI-powered browser

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Aug 13, 2025 at ...
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Another Startup Bites The Dust: Y-Combinator-Backed CodeParrot Shuts Down

The Y-Combinator backed startup failed to sustain business due to excessive burn as well as a lack of further investment interest from VCs Founded in 2022 by Vedant Agarwala and Royal Jain, CodeParrot ...
CNBC

Y Combinator Garry Tan on San Francisco’s reemergence as innovation hub

CNBC’s Morgan Brennan sits down with Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan at the Reagan National Economic Forum to discuss the resurgent tech scene in San Francisco and the importance of AI technologies in ...