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 ...

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 ...

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Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an AI worth hiring. But it’s now placed three new ads ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in ...

Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services won’t be about flashy AI interfaces but rather the unglamorous back-office tasks like compliance. The ...

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Y Combinator‘s latest cohort offers a glimpse into the maturation of artificial intelligence. According to recent analysis by CB Insights‘ research team, the Fall 2025 batch underscores AI’s ...

Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is offering up to $1 million to hire three autonomous AI agents, one for blogging, one for customer support, and one for software development. According to ...

On Y Combinator Demo Day, the three-mile journey from downtown San Francisco to the Dogpatch headquarters of the startup accelerator seems to double as a tour through YC’s domination of the startup ...