by Garry Tan3/20/2025

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 thousands of founders, shaped how we work with startups, and played a big role in YC’s growth.

by Y Combinator3/13/2025

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.

by Harj Taggar2/17/2025

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.

by Garry Tan2/12/2025

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.

by Dalton Caldwell1/20/2025

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.

by Jared Friedman, Aaron Epstein11/5/2024

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.

by Y Combinator10/3/2024

Applications for Startup School Europe are now open!