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 ...

Meesho’s upcoming IPO is turning out to be a windfall event for its earliest backers, with several investors poised to unlock multi-fold returns as the company is set to hit the public market.

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, ...

Every great startup ecosystem has its Cinderella stories, whether in web3 or AI. In Web3, Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon, often recalls how he and his team built one of the world’s most ...

Egypt-based fintech Munify has raised a $3 million seed round led by Y Combinator, with participation from BYLD and Digital Currency Group. Founded in 2024 by Khalid Ashmawy, Munify enables instant, ...

In an inevitable development in the never-ending Epic vs Apple debacle, Y Combinator has weighed in to say the App Store costs startups too much money. This ongoing legal saga concerning Apple's App ...

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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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 ...

All six of the firm’s requests for startups are for companies built with AI at the core. They’re looking for organizations focused on everything from retraining employees so that their skills are more ...