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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 ]
YC or yC may refer to: Arts and entertainment ... a seed-stage startup funding ... (Y/C), a signaling standard for standard definition video; Yottacoulomb, an SI unit ...
His work includes the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, 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]
Twine, a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup ...
The company was founded in 2013 by David Kirtley, John Slough, Chris Pihl, and George Votroubek. [6] The management team won the 2013 National Cleantech Open Energy Generation competition and awards at the 2014 ARPA-E Future Energy Startup competition, [7] were members of the 2014 Y Combinator program, [8] and were awarded a 2015 ARPA-E ALPHA contract, "Staged Magnetic Compression of FRC ...
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."
Garry Tan (Chinese: 陳嘉興; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Ka-heng; born 1981) is an American venture capitalist and executive who is the CEO of Y Combinator [1] and a founder of Initialized Capital. [2]
Paystack was founded in 2015 by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, who met at Babcock University and worked in banking and IT before founding Paystack. [3] [4] In November 2015, it was accepted by the startup accelerator Y Combinator. [5]