Articles about Y Combinator

Seattle’s Soundry AI creates text-to-sample generator to help prompt enhanced music creation

The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI, a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is… Read More

Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator

Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch are tackling a wide range of problems — with plenty… Read More

Ex-Adobe and Facebook engineers raise $2M for Seattle software startup that helps small landlords

Marble, a Seattle startup building software-enabled rental management systems for smaller landlords, raised $2 million. The company was co-founded in… Read More

Seattle-area cybersecurity startup led by former Amazon principal engineer lands $3.5M

The news: Strac, a software startup building tech that plugs into a company’s website or mobile app to secure sensitive… Read More

Take note: Amazon vets raise $2M for Dendron, a tool to manage large amounts of information

New funding: Seattle-based startup Dendron has raised $2 million in seed funding for its open source note-taking tool that helps… Read More

Sam Altman joins Expedia Group board, bringing expertise from OpenAI and Y Combinator

Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who leads the OpenAI artificial intelligence company, is joining the Expedia Group… Read More

Y Combinator grad Preclusio automates how companies comply with tech privacy regulations

The scary truth about many technology companies is that for years they’ve been vacuuming up vast quantities of personal data… Read More

Here’s why two Y Combinator partners made a recruiting trip to the Univ. of Washington in Seattle

The University of Washington has one of the world’s best computer science programs. MBA recruiters recently ranked the UW’s business… Read More

Spiral Genetics re-launches, inks Microsoft deal to predict heart disease with the human genome

It’s Day 1 again for Seattle-based Spiral Genetics. The decade-old DNA analysis startup has left its parent company Fabric and… Read More

Y Combinator to open research lab in Seattle, hires former Microsoft exec Qi Lu for new China arm

Y Combinator is extending its reach in both Seattle and China. The famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator announced today that… Read More

‘Essential startup advice’ from top Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator

The folks at Y Combinator have seen a lot startups succeed and fail, so it’s probably worth listening to their… Read More

This Bay Area startup is arming retailers with the technology to take on Amazon Go

Amazon is still tinkering with the checkout-free technology behind its Amazon Go retailer concept, but Palo Alto, Calif. startup Standard… Read More

Tech titans Amazon, Reddit, Mozilla and others to protest net neutrality rollback July 12

The Federal Communications Commission voted last month to begin rolling back net neutrality rules, and some major names in tech… Read More

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman leads $30M investment in social petition site Change.org, joined by Bill Gates

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leading a $30 million investment round in the social petition site Change.org, and he is… Read More

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With $4.5M in new funding, Seattle-based wedding planning startup Joy prepares for ‘bittersweet’ move

Seattle-based wedding planning startup Joy began almost by accident, as a side project by then-Microsoft employees Vishal Joshi, Michael Bach and… Read More

Cheezburger founder Ben Huh has a new home and new job as he joins Y Combinator’s New Cities

Ben Huh, the Seattle entrepreneur who became famous with his Cheezburger Network of comedy websites, is now San Francisco based… Read More

This startup wants to give you a free personal wedding planner

Meet Joy: a stylish designer, a networking master, and wedding planner. She can coordinate the pattern on the invitations with the iced… Read More

Y Combinator grad Deako raises $1.8M for smart-home light switches

Seattle-based Deako has raised $1.8 million to help fuel growth of its smart-home light switch product. The 15-person company raised… Read More

Amazon rolls out ‘Launchpad’ for startups, partners with Y Combinator, Indiegogo, Techstars and others

Amazon is working with some of the top startup programs and investors in the country on a new initiative called Amazon… Read More

Rogue OrderAhead websites altered to look less like official restaurant sites

Rogue restaurant websites linked to the OrderAhead delivery service have been quietly getting makeovers, causing them to look considerably less like official restaurant sites… Read More

Microsoft offers $500k in Azure credit to woo Y Combinator startups

Startup accelerator Y Combinator is known for being the birthplace of startups that go on to do big things, like… Read More

Free startup lessons from Sam Altman, Marissa Mayer, Marc Andreessen, and more

Sam Altman has a pretty sweet deal for entrepreneurs that would like to take a class on startup lessons but don’t… Read More

Here are 4 tips for startup founders from Y Combinator’s Paul Graham

SAN FRANCISCO–When Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham took the stage at the Launch Festival in San Francisco, he had a… Read More

Bring out your dead: Startup offers $1M to ‘acqui-hire’ alums of TechStars, Y Combinator and 500 Startups

The hiring crunch for developers in the tech industry is a pain point we hear about nearly every day. Now,… Read More

FamilyLeaf’s 19-year-old founders branch out with a social network for the family

The last time I caught up with Wesley Zhao and Ajay Mehta, the 19-year-old entrepreneurs were working from the home… Read More

Sequoia Capital, angels invest in Seattle financial advice startup FutureAdvisor

FutureAdvisor co-founder Bo Lu could have built his startup company in Silicon Valley, and he certainly felt the pressure to… Read More

Book smarts vs. street smarts: Which makes the best startup entrepreneurs? (Infographic)

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to start their respective companies, relying on their enormous intellect and… Read More

Morning Radar: Paul Graham’s patent pledge; Super Mario in Seattle; etc.

Y Combinator’s Paul Graham asks companies to take the patent pledge. The concept? Big companies shouldn’t use patents to bully… Read More

Wired goes inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s hottest tech incubator

I just finished reading Wired’s in-depth piece on Y Combinator, the 6-year-old Silicon Valley incubator which in the words of… Read More