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Harshita Arora Joins YC as General Partner We're thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner. She brings deep fintech and infrastructure experience, a founder's instinct for product, and the perspective of someone who's been building companies since she was a teenager.

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Adding Canada Back to Our List of Accepted Countries of Incorporation After hearing feedback from Canadian founders in our network, we are adding Canada back to our list of accepted countries of incorporation.

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Congratulations to EquipmentShare on Going Public Today, EquipmentShare (YC W15) goes public. From Missouri to 373 locations nationwide, they've built the operating system construction has been missing—built by contractors, for contractors. Congrats to Jabbok, Willy, and the EquipmentShare team on a huge milestone.

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Announcing the YC AI Student Starter Pack We've partnered with nearly two dozen companies to offer students who attend YC events a suite of over $25,000 in free credits for AI devtools.

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2026 Demo Day Dates We’re excited to share the Demo Day dates for 2026 so founders, investors, and our broader community can plan ahead.

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Meesho Goes Public Today, Meesho, one of India's leading online retail and merchant tools companies, goes public. It is the second YC company to be listed in India.

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Congratulations to Groww Today, Groww, India's leading digital investing platform, goes public. Tens of millions use Groww to invest simply and confidently in stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. As YC's first company to list in India, we couldn't be more proud.

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BillionToOne Goes Public — The Startup That Made Genetic Testing Universal Today, BillionToOne goes public, becoming YC's fourth publicly traded biotech company. More importantly, they have built one of the most important genetic tests in the U.S. Today, 1 in 11 babies born in the US are tested with BillionToOne's fetal genetic test.

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Meet YC's Newest Visiting Partners We're excited to announce that nine exceptional founders are joining us as Visiting Partners at YC: Matt Riley, Harshita Arora, Grey Baker, Christopher Golda, Raphael Schaad, Christina Gilbert, Francois Chaubard, Vivian Shen, and James Evans.

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YC x Coinbase RFS: Build Onchain We are entering the era of Fintech 3.0. Regulatory clarity, growing consumer adoption, and low-cost chains have paved the way for a golden age of building in crypto — and at YC, Base, and Coinbase, we want to fund builders to seize this moment.

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Welcoming Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas as YC’s Newest General Partners Over the last few batches, visiting partners Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas have become two of the most trusted voices in the YC community. They were both founders in YC’s Summer 2010 batch, and now, 15 years and two industry-shaping companies later, they’re back in a new role: General Partners at YC.

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Tyler Bosmeny built Clever into a $500M company–now he’s helping YC founders do the same as General Partner We’re thrilled to welcome Tyler Bosmeny back to YC, this time as a General Partner.

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Michael Seibel's Legacy Continues at YC: Transition to Partner Emeritus If you’ve been around YC, you know Michael Seibel has been a huge part of it for over a decade. He’s done it all - YC Founder (w07, w12), Group Partner, and Managing Director/CEO of the YC accelerator. Along the way, he’s helped

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East Coast College Tour 2025 YC is going on a college tour! We're visiting Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, Cornell, and Cornell Tech. If you're a current student at any of those schools and interested in startups, we'd love to meet you.

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Summer Fellows Grants This summer, YC will be giving grants to college students to work on their own technical projects. We’re calling these the Summer Fellows Grants. We hope this will encourage the smartest students to indulge their intellectual curiosity and work on hard technical things.

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Join us at AI Startup School — June 16-17 We're gathering 2,000 of the top CS undergrads, masters, and PhD candidates in AI to hear from speakers including Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng, and many more — the world’s top AI experts and founders who will teach you how to build the future.

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Announcing YC X25, the spring 2025 batch Y Combinator is now running four batches per year: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. We completed the first ever fall batch last year, F24, and are proud to announce the first ever spring batch. Applications are now open.

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YC Winter 2025 batch applications due by Tuesday, November 12, 2024 To better serve founders given the rapid rate of technological change, YC recently switched from two to four batches per year. The winter 2025 batch will run from January to March, and applications are due on November 12.

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Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI YC is at our best when backing founders with an ethos of building for others, including strong open source developers like the founders of Continue and many others. Earlier this week, a startup in the current batch, PearAI, was criticized online for an inappropriate approach to open source, particularly in

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Join us at Startup School Europe in London - November 23 Applications for Startup School Europe are now open!

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YC Fall 2024 batch applications due by 8/27 In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.

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Join us at Startup School 2024 in San Francisco - July 27 Applications for Startup School 2024 are now open!

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Female Founders Conference applications are open now We’re bringing the Female Founders Conference back in-person, and we’ll be hosting it on August 2 at our office in the Dogpatch in San Francisco.

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Dissecting the past to predict the future: Tracy Young on building TigerEye In 2018, Tracy Young and her co-founders sold PlanGrid for $875 million. By 2021, she was ready to jump back in and do it all over again with a brand new startup. I chatted with Tracy about what drives her and some of what she's learned along the way.

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Last chance to apply for YC’s S24 batch If you were interested in applying for S24 but thought it was too late, it’s not. If you apply by June 13, we’ll still have time to look at your application.

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Humanloop CEO Raza Habib shares 5 common mistakes teams make when building with LLMs After working with hundreds of teams to make better products with LLMs, Humanloop CEO Raza Habib shares some of the most common mistakes he's seen.

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Why YC went to DC A few weeks ago, I went to DC to start engaging policymakers and be the voice of little tech. Here's why.

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The origins of RevenueCat If you build something because you need it, chances are good others need it too. In this interview, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting shares how solving his own frustrations led to building a tool that helps power over 30,000 apps.

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