On May 20, 2026, OpenAI announced it would provide $2 million worth of API tokens to each startup in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch—totaling roughly $338 million in inference credits—in exchange for…
This article provides a technical guide for tracking Y Combinator Demo Day companies in real time by querying YC's publicly accessible Algolia search API. It includes Python code to fetch the active b…
Agent.Email, a signup flow from YC S25 company AgentMail that allows AI agents to create their own email inboxes via curl commands, bypassing traditional human-centric verification. The process involv…
Cekura (YC F24) is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to help customers test, monitor, and improve AI voice and chat agents. The company builds infrastructure for self-improving conversational agents,…
Based solely on the provided text, the article describes the rise of "team-light startups" in 2026, which are small, AI-native companies that leverage tools like AI agents and automation to achieve hi…
Garry Tan, the head of Y Combinator, is coding late at night to stress-test his belief that AI has dramatically shortened the distance between an idea and a shipped product. He is building GStack, an …
A self-taught developer's journey from freelance burnout to founding a startup called Mozart, driven by the realization that AI has shifted the role of developers from writing code to orchestrating an…
Harshita Arora has joined Y Combinator as a General Partner, having previously served as the youngest Visiting Partner in YC's history starting with the Summer 2025 batch. A self-taught coder who buil…
2026 Demo Day dates for Y Combinator, scheduled for March 24, June 16, September 10, and December 2. It encourages founders, investors, and the community to plan ahead, and directs readers to resource…
Groww, a leading Indian consumer fintech company and the country’s dominant digital investing platform, went public, becoming Y Combinator’s first portfolio company to list in India. Y Combinator prai…