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Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 [1] which has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies. [2] The accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View , expanded to San Francisco in 2019, and was entirely online during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 3 ]
The following notable startups have completed the Y Combinator Accelerator program. Mike Isaac described Y Combinator as: "Y Combinator accepts batches of start-ups twice a year in a semester-like system and gives them money, advice and access to a vast network of start-up founders and technologists who can advise them." [1]
Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator.In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
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Y Combinator—the startup incubator that helped launch DoorDash, Airbnb, Reddit, and Instacart—is backing a weapons maker for the first time, betting that it could shake up the defense industry ...
Michael Seibel (born October 7, 1982) is a partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of two startups – Justin.tv/Twitch and Socialcam. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He first joined Y Combinator in 2013, advising hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders.
The accelerator’s Demo Day was all about A.I. startups—but a couple of other themes emerged.
His work has included the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, published essays, and the media webpage Hacker News. He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp, [4] ANSI Common Lisp, [5] and Hackers & Painters. [6]