According to an email viewed by 404 Media, a private conference featuring prominent members of the Iranian diaspora, including venture capitalists, tech CEOs, and the son of Iran's former leader, will be held at Uber's h…
The IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) launched its Research Collaboration Pitch Session initiative to connect academic researchers with industry leaders from companies like Ericsson, Intel, and Nokia for funding and m…
A satirical "unethical guide" by Mo Bitar, suggesting employees bluff about using a fake AI technique called "Ralph Loops" to impress their CEO and secure promotions. It advises workers to request expensive API credits f…
In the mid-2010s, the startup Chartbeat developed a novel analytics feature that tracked real-time user activity on webpages down to the pixel level, primarily targeting major news sites. However, the feature ultimately …
Airlines are a consistently unprofitable industry, with the sector as a whole destroying investor value and failing to cover its cost of capital since U.S. deregulation in 1978. It uses the 2026 collapse of Spirit Airlin…
The article argues that "Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue" (CARR) is a misleading metric used by startups to inflate their financial figures, often reporting revenue from multi-year contracts with exit clauses as if i…
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 built a crypto app at 16…
The article argues that Product-Led Growth (PLG) is no longer sufficient, as AI shifts software consumption from human users to autonomous agents and workflows, necessitating a new model called AI-Led Growth (ALG). It ex…
Tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel do read the science fiction works they reference, but they misinterpret them by identifying with the authoritarian or dystopian factions rather than the prota…
YC has announced that it will again accept corporations incorporated in Canada, along with the US, Cayman Islands, and Singapore, for investment. The decision to previously remove Canada was based on the observation that…
Weekly roundup of the author's reading, covering three main topics: the challenges of using formal languages like Lean for AI-driven mathematical proofs, the history of the GLP-1 drug class and the biotech company Amylin…
EquipmentShare, a construction technology company founded by brothers from rural Missouri, went public after starting as a simple equipment marketplace to solve contractors' operational challenges. The company grew into …
Railway, a cloud computing platform, has raised $100 million in Series B funding to develop what it describes as the world's first intelligent cloud provider. The company aims to simplify software development by automati…
The Y Combinator (YC) AI Stack is a new initiative offering students who attend YC events a package of free credits for AI development tools, valued at over $25,000. The package includes cloud credits from Azure and AWS,…
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 resources like Launch YC, th…
Meesho, a leading Indian online retail and merchant tools company, has gone public, becoming the second Y Combinator-backed company to list in India. Founded by Vidit and Sanjeev, the company spent a decade methodically …
The article argues that early-stage marketing must begin with identifying a clear "enemy"—such as an outdated model or misconception—rather than waiting for funding or a marketing hire. It advises founders to create a ma…
Anthropic has acquired the company behind Bun, the high-performance JavaScript runtime, bundler, and package manager. Bun will remain open-source under the MIT license, will continue to be actively maintained by the same…
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 praised Groww for its or…
BillionToOne, a Y Combinator-backed biotech startup, went public today, becoming the fourth YC biotech company to do so. The company developed a non-invasive prenatal genetic test that analyzes fetal DNA from a mother's …