Browsing: Y Combinator
Lemon Slice raises $10.5 million from YC and Matrix to develop its digital avatar technology
Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they’ve been mostly limited to text. Digital avatar production company…
These 21-year-old school dropouts raise $2 million to launch Givefront, a fintech for nonprofits
The last decade is filled with examples of fintechs that have reshaped the way American businesses manage money. Brex simplified corporate cards. Automated ramp spend controls.…
Aircraft launch Boom Supersonic said on Tuesday that it will start selling a version of its turbine engine as a stationary power plant, and that its…
Teen founders raise $6 million to reinvent pesticides using artificial intelligence — and get Paul Graham on board
Two teenage founders walked into Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham’s backyard with an idea no one in agriculture seemed to want — an artificial intelligence model…
‘Chad: The Brainrot IDE’ Is A New Y Combinator-Backed Product So Wild, People Thought It Was Fake
When former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt, someone in the audience asked him if the HBO satire “Silicon Valley” would be revived. Costolo,…
Willow’s voice keyboard lets you type in all your iOS apps — and actually edit what you said
One of the most effective use cases that have emerged from modern AI models is their ability to better understand the human voice, which has led…
When Bowery Capital general partner Loren Straub started talking to a startup from the last batch of Y Combinator accelerators a few months ago, he thought…
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan supports some AI regulations, but warns against AI monopolies
Garry Tan, chairman and CEO of Y Combinator, told a crowd at The Economic Club in Washington this week that “regulation is probably necessary” for artificial…
If you’ve ever wanted to apply to Y Combinator, here’s some inside information on how the iconic accelerator selects companies from someone who knows best: Garry…
Stack AI co-founders Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno were PhD students at MIT completing their degrees in 2022, at a time when large language models were…