Sitting through hundreds of startups on YC Demo Days, you’re not always sure whether you are actually perceiving patterns or if your brain, as coffee battles with monotony, is inventing […]
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Back to news homeOur favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 1
Comics software, meat-based plants and Tesla spun-out heat pumps, anyone? Here’s a crazy statistic: More than half of the companies in Y Combinator’s latest cohort were accepted to the accelerator […]
YC’s Michael Seibel clarifies some misconceptions about the accelerator
Michael Seibel is synonymous with Y Combinator’s growth over the past decade. He has opinions on bigger batch sizes, a growing standard deal, competition, the power of venture capital and […]
Has France cracked the YC recipe?
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Stanford moonshot promises near-term profitability with no-code magical mushrooms, ft. Plaid of X
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. As you can tell by the headline of […]
Our 10 favorite startups from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 2
And we’re back! Yes, today was the second day of pitches from Y Combinator, a U.S. startup accelerator with global outreach that conducts demo days twice a year. This year’s […]
Where is Y Combinator startup-hunting in 2022?
Digging into the latest accelerator with an asterisk cohort Like the startup ecosystem itself, accelerators change with time. Techstars has expanded to a network of programs, to pick one example. […]
Here’s where YC’s latest batch of founders are placing fintech bets
Y Combinator’s latest cohort of founders have opinions on the future of fintech. One-fifth of the accelerator’s Summer 2022 batch, which spans 240 companies, is working on solving issues in […]